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TH E E LLIJ A Y CO URI ER, L. B. (IREEU, Editors and/ T. B.KIRBY, Publishers. \ ELLIJAY COURIER. Pulished Every Thursday, —by— GREER & KIRBY, , Office in tlio Court-house. tan'he following rates ami rules are universal mui imperative, mill admit of ““uTTKS^SUBSCTirTIOX ONE YEAH, CASH sl-50 SIX MONTHS 75 TIIUKE MONTHS, 40 BATES OF AI)VKIITISIN(i . One square one insertion - - - - SI.OO F.at-h subsequent iuserlion -- - .51 One square one rear ------ 10.(m Twe square? one year .... - 20.00 Quarter eoTfi • none year - - - - ‘ia.UO llulfcolumn one year ----- 15.00 One column one year ----- 80.00 Ten liuea.one inoh.c-onstiuirer a square. Notices among local reading nintter.2o centst>er linn for first insertion, and 15 cents tor each subsequent insertoin. Local notices following reading matter, 10 cents per line for the first insertion, and 5 cents per line for each subequent insertion. ..... Cards written in the interest of individ uals will tie charged for at the rate of 6 cents per line. Yearly advertisers will be allowed oue change without extra charge. GENERAL DIRECTORY- T'JWK COUNCIL. M. G. Bates, J. W. Itipp, O. 11. Ran dell. M. J. Jiears, TANARUS, J. I .one.. M. G. Batts, President; J. ff. Itipp, Secreta ry: M. J. Ileum, Treasurer: (i. 11. Ran il'ell, Mamba). O COUNTY OFFICERS. J. C. Allen, Ordinary. I. 11. Oreer, Clerk Superior Court. 11. M. Bramiett, Sheriff. 11. 1.. Cox. Deputy Sheriff. T. IV.Crttlgo, Tax Receiver. 0. W. Oates, Tax Collector. 1 James A. t al lies. Surveyor. (1. K. Smith, Coroner, W. F. Ilill, School Commissioner. • ’ 0 RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Bactist Onrticit —Every second Satur* day sud Sunday# by Rev. W. A.Ellia. Methodist Extscoyai. CmntCn —Evety first Sunday and Saturday before, by Rev. ti. P. Brokaw. / M Methodist Ericeoi'A!. Citniteit, South — Every fourth Sunday and Saturday before, by Rev. England. . O FRATERNAL RECORD. Oak Bowkhv Lodge,No. 81, F.\A. \M, —Meets first Friday iu each nionth. N L. Os' orn, \Y Af. J. F. ' bastain, S. W. A. A. Bradley, J. W. J. P. Oobh, Treasurer. W. W. Roberts, Tylor. D. Garren, Secretary'. J. C. ALLEN, Attorney at Laiv, ELLIJAY, GA. WILL practice in the Superior ouits of the Blue Ridge Circuit. Prompt at tention given to all business entrusted to his care. THOMAS F- GREER. Attorney at Law, ELLIJAY, GA. WILL practice in the Superior Courts of the Blue Ridge and Cherokee Circuits, and in the Supreme Couit of Georgia. Also, in the United States Couits in Atlanta. Will give special attention to the purchase and Bale of all kinds of real estate and and litigation. RUFE WALDO THORHTON, D. fc S. den fiSpP^ r risrjr. CALHOUN, GEORGIA. WILL visit Ellijay and Morganton at both the Spring ami Fall term ot the Su perior Court and oftener by special con tract when sufficient work is guaranteed to justify me ia making the visit. Ad dress as above. may 21-ly. Jno, S. Young, WITH SANFORD, CHAMBERLAIN & ALBERS, WIIOLESALB AND MANUFACTUIiINU druggists, Knoxville, Tenn. July 21-3 m. EXCHANGE HOTEL B&hrejft w., (J. W. RADCLIFF, Proprietor. Kates of Board $2.00 per day: single meal 50 cents. Table always supplied with the best the market affords. THE FAMOUS rjDISON Musical Telephone. Y'ou can Laugh, Talk. Sing an l Play Tunes through it at a long distance. Chil dren that can read figures can play tunes at once. Tlie tone is equal to any Flute or Clarionet. No knowledge of music re quired to play it. To enable any one, without the slightest knowledge of In strumental Music, to perforin at once on the Instrument, we have prepared a se ries of tunes embracing all the popular Airs, printed in simple figures on cards to suit the Instrument, at a convenient distance from the mcuth-pieee, so that it can he easily read.and by means of which any one,'without the least musical knowl edge, can perform on this Instrument and play tunes at sight. Persons a little fa miliar -with airs* can" play hundreds of nines without any cards whatever. Toe Musical Telephone -is more wonderful than the Speaking Telephone as it does all that it will do besides instructing per sons who do not. undervtaml notes to to nla.v times. “N.Y.Sun.” The Mu sical Telephone is recognized as one of tlie most novel inventions of the aje. “N •Y, Herald.” Price s2.">o Price by mail postage paid and registered $3.00. No instrument sent liv mail without be ing registered. Send money by i’. O. order or registered letter. “PECi AL NOTICE,—The Musi sal Tel ephone can only be purchased of the manufacturers. "The EDISON MUSIC Co;,v2ir> and 217 Walnut Street, Philadel phi4,,Pn., or through their several branch houses throughout the United Slates. II IIS HOUR YOU CAN PLAY ON THE Piano , Organ or Melodian, with EDISON’S INSTANTANEOUS' MtriC. Tdaiiy child who can read numbers (Torn 110 100 it is plain as daylight. No teacher required. All the popular tunes. Millions of our pieces now In use. Never fails to give satisfaction and amusement. Complete in instructions, with seven pieces of mfisie sent jby* mail for ONE DOLLAR. S#nd .stamp foV catalogue of tunes. To tliose who live in the country away from teachers they are a neTer-faii'. ing source of comfort., Agents w . nted. ■For SJ.#O we will inail you “Ea-ison's Ukvjkw” ‘for one year ana seven of Edison’-s Instintianeous Music- with yhstructions, or for $3.00 will send you “Edison’s Kiev new” for one yoar anti muf of Edison’s Musical Telepoone’s register ed.'>y mail. When ordering please men tion the paper you saw this adaertise tnent in. T x * Edison Music Cos., 215 & 217 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 'BRANCH OFFICES—2BO West Balti more St.., Baltimore. Mil., 808 N. fith st., St. Louis, Mo . 25G:li avenue, Pittsburg 1 Pa., 357 Washington st., Boston, Mass.. BS. Queen st., Lancaster, I’. ~ Cor. 9tb and Walnut, Camden, N. J, 20fH YEARLr4"S favorite and national family paper, The Star Spangled Banner, begins its 20tb year, Jan. 1882. Estatdiehed 1863. The Banner is the oldest and most popular pa per of its class. Every number contains 8 large pages, 40 long columns, with many Comic, Humorous and Attractive Engravings. It is crowded full of the lies) Stories, Poetry, Wit, Humor, Fun, —mak- ing a paper to amuse and instruct old and young. It exposes Frauds, Swindlers and Cheats and evety line is amusing, instruc tive, or entertaining. Everybody needs it, 50,000 now read it, and at only 50 cts. a year it is by far the cheapest, most pop ular paper printed. For 75 cts. six fine silver teaspoons are sent with the Banner one year. Fifty other superb premiums. Send 10 cents for three months trial trip, with full prospectus, or 50 cts. for Ban ner a whole year. Specimen free Send now. Address, BANNER PUB’G CO.. Hinsdale. N. H. JT. IN. McCurdy, DALTON GA, DEALER IN FAMILY GR)C FRIES AND Confectione rie s. SiTCash paid or goods exchanged for Country Produce. oct. 6‘3tn. 1\ V. Clowdis 42 Broad Street, I Retail dealer iu WHISKEY, BRANDY, Wine, Ac., all the purest and best and at as reasonable prices as they can lie bought in the city. tSTHigliest cash price paid for Country Corn Whiskey. Call on me when you come to Home. oct 6-2 m. WHOLESALE DRUG STORE IN DALTON * DR. J- F. WOOTEN & CO-, Will duplicate prices in Atlanta, Knox ville, or Chattanooga. Merchants, Druists & Physicians. sept. 1, sm. “A Map of Busy Life-~lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.” ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1882. GOOD ADVIOE. BY PARMEXAB MIX. ‘‘You wisli to be a lawyer, John—well, I’d not say a word Unless I felt quite certain that your long ings are absurd; ! don’t wish to discourage you, but then I can’t consent, To board you as I'd hev to do, and pay your office rent. “You’ve got a lusty set o’ limbs, and or dinary bead, And you were meant by common toil to earn your daily Urea* ; But a thriving farm and pleasaut home where man and wife agree Beat any onohorse lawyer’s luck as far as you can see. “If you’d been bom with taleut, John, you'd long ago hev shown That you liad gifts by stealing off to study books alone; Now, if you’ve ever read a book, I r’ally don’t know when, Though, come to think, I b’lieve you sling a somewhat legal pen. Be wise, my boy, the legal ranks are more than crowded now, And half of them who starve therein was cut out for the plow, But they mistook pure iazinc6S for taleut, understand, And helped to till a big supply where there was no demand. “Are they not educated ? Yes, but here let me explain, That seed that’s grown in shady soil brings forth but little grain ; And this higher education to nn ordinary mind Is like a pair of big gold spec’s upon a man that’s blind. “There is do prouder place than ’twixt the handles of the plow (Though stumpy laud has humbled me at times, I must ailov.) And as for huinau greatness, 1 should think I had my share If I could take the prize for hog3 at our next county fair. “•Hist emulate your sire, my son, and just as sure as fate, You’ll live to he respected, though per i haps you won’t be great; Hut enter law and five short years will clean you out so bad Y’ou'll hev no recollection of the last square meal you had.” Margery’s Secret. Ilertry Fleet, the blacksmith, had a cozy lit Lie house in Is’ew berg, which he called his bird’s nest. It, with ten good acres at tached, had been in the Fleet family lor three generations. The one so.n had always followed the occupation of the sire, as though they were born to the business. Harry had a pride in his work, and to those friends who had a laegee ambition for him he was wont to sajq “I was born a blacksmith; I like it, and will remain one.” In his, bird’s ne3t nestled his wile Margery and his little son. They were the joy and light of his work day life. For a number of years Harry had been a very happy man, but a cloud had gathered in the sky, and at last it moved along just over his cottage, and there it ob stinately stood. He had stood as bail for an old friend who was in danger of losing his liberty in consideration of certain liabili-j ties. The friend had lurched’ him. Margery knew something had gone wrong. He tried to keep the whole trouble to himself, but the shrewd little woman manag ed to ascertain his secret trouble. “You see, Margery, I don’t mind. I can work for you and the boy well euough, but the homestead, there is no help for it; that must go; and it has been in the Fleet family ever since it was a wilderness.” Harry told her the responsibil ity. Said he, “Did Squire Mitch ell has paid it, and I have mort gaged the place. He has given me several months in which to redeem it, but he might as well take it now, Margery ; I shall be no better prepared to pay it then.’’ Hurry went lo work, anil Mar gery to ruminating. 6he had al ways been able to adapt means to ends, and supply the means, too. il"necessary ; for a wise little thinking cap she was in posses s:on 01. Hut this time she was sorely puzzled. Site spent the afternoon in endeavoring to plan a method of relief, but it crept away, and sbe fell tired and de feated. Ii was supper-time. She heard her husband’s foot strike the graveled walk, at the same time she was struck with an idea She put his supper on the table with out a word, and instead of sit ting down with him as usual, said : ‘Do you mind looking at" ter the baby awhile ? i want lo run out.” A neighbor came in soon alter and inquired tor Mrs. Fleet. “Sue lias gone out,” he replied. “It must been her I saw going into Lawyer Knowles’ oliice a moment ago,” said the neighbor. Harry did not reply, but lie did not like it. Young Knowles had once been a suitor of Mar gery’s.. A lit!le wavering at first in his attentions, for he was a shrewd young feliow, acute in i his profession, and in personal matters looking always to tin main chance, and Margery had no fortune but her face ; though there was a rumor about the • time of her marriage that an un cle in a distant part of the country hail lott her property, more or less, and her relatives there had made it appear that she died in childhood, and had laken possession of it themselves. Hut Knowles had lost his heart to her so effectually, before this report, that he had proposed, and hait been unhesitatingly rejected greatly to the astonishment ol himself and Jlarry Fleet. Margery was an orphan, and had been reared by Harry’s kind parent, and Irurn continued asso ciation with him had learned to read his-big heart so well that she knew who reigned quetyt in it long before he had courage to tell her. He really never could see why she had preferred a plain man like himself to one whom lie considered so finished in worldly graces as yo u n g Knowles. So Harry did not like what transpired, and though too sensible a man to get jealous at a trifle, he was not a little per-! plexed when his wife made no mention of her business out on returning. As the weeks weal by he came lo know o! her call ing there at other times, and once, on coming home earlier than usual, he met Knowles ai his gale coming out. At heart l.e had perfect ftith in his wile, but fortune had begun to rack him on her wheel, and a matter that he would have thought little of a few weeks before, now had the power to torture him. lie was grieved to see that Ins wile’s manner toward him was changed. It was not (ruble ; she never spoke of their approaching loss, and he often lound her sing ing, merry as a lark, but there was no longer perfect confidence between them. There was some thing she was keeping hid, he thought. And Margery did have a secret, and kept it —the old ad age to the contrary notwirhstand iug. Fiualiy the day arrived on which the date of the mortgage expired. Harry’s face had a set iook. Always in t h e way, he thought, when around the house, watching Margerv while deftly clearing uu things. Everything she touched yielded like magic. This morning she was unusually skillful, and not a trace of regret WHS there in that sparkling face of hers. Harrv was wofullv cast down. f ll.s clouded (ace seemed a re- I proach to her. lie had not raised the money, aid could not,- he said, lhe squ re offered him an extension of time; lie would not have it. “It is of no use,” said ho, “and we may as well be over with it at once. Ine linlo niaco is not worth more than the nionev you loaned me. 1 will make you deed of it, and you may write dial the mortgage is satisfied.” He produced pen and in k. looking all the time like a man about to sign his own death warrant. Then baby was buss led unceremoniously back inio his cradle, and Margery unlocked a little drawer in her husband's desk, producing a package, and placing il before the squire, ask ed him to count its contents. !i was Sound lo cover lhe whole amount, tor which her husband had given the mortgage. “it was left me by my Uncle Helh,” explained Margaret “Lawyer Knowles was in need oi all his shrewdness to straighten the matter out, but I paid him a round sum for bis services.” Harry called himself a sywrw man. and it did take him some time to get the belter of ins amazement, iie bad barely suc ceeded in comprehending t li e whole, as his wile turned .rom the door from whence the squire had made his exit. Then, for the first time, the little woman broke down. 6he threw herself inio the strong arms that were ready to receive her. “Oil, Harry ! how could you— how couid you be jealous of un He answered not at all, but held her as in one oi lus own iron vises. Presently lie fell to kiss ing -her hair, forehead, cheeks, bps, and looking tip, she saw what she had never seen before— or. the cheeks of her Vulcan were two round, big tears. Harry did not go to the shop that day, ami baby got sadly neglected. It was several years ago that this event occurred, and Harry’s bird's nest is now called “Thu Dove-cot” by the observing neighbors. Brain Development- It is not surprising to find the unlearned in things medical ti is— i able to understand the brain de ' velopmeiif, which of course i> generally a alter of heredity, determines character. Snc h. however, is, and must needs be, the fact. Whether the mind is something outside matter which acts through or by the brain, as a musician may use a musical in strument, or whether, as some think, what we call mint! is sim ply brain function, it should Le manifested that upon the quality and conformation of a man's brain must depend ins mental capacity; and, consequently, also ins char acteristics both intellectual and moral. We are not disposed to urge specialties of development as excuses for conduct because, given an average degree of intel ligence and fairly strong will power, the individual is clearly responsible for his actions; but it must not be forgotten that his instincts of right or wrong, and the facility of judgment with which lie distinguished between good and evil, will be acute or dull hi proportion as his brain is developed. The mind is in a large sense the character of a man, and a ; di rectly dependent on the physical growth of his brain as the speed of a race horse is dependent oni its muscular development. Tins is not sufficiently recognized,\nd because in is not we every now and then find silly remarks in print such as the following : “The convolutions of the brain may VOL Vii. .V). J ! something to do with the difference between mediocrity . and geniii 4, hu at are not rccogtfzed ,; ie j.,* : cot.ru, ar.q ii is difficult to see l.ow, they can be;” will, such we3b •"' ,l vvi,i <’ nnl reflections as that • U would be scarcely sai isfactorv lo a pickpocket to l.avft ills brains (*, c ) examined, in or der to prove to those he left be hind that he ready couid not help being a thief And yet the lac’s are sufficiently plain and simple, so plain and simple that any one should be able to urnler ! “laud them. Lancet. Covering Strawberries, | Often there i- much -rd-i. In d j especially at Un? season of lhe yenr.abou; covet;?--: - , iwb wries and in any per--u.< ai ; j • • i what they re a I to a3 I() I heaithy reg r e t ii when the J -Spring cones V We have known i- eo ■ < • , | gesl.o.'i, aa i Cover . ;t - r.uv | ben it-?.1r.-.1 < wit. ; „::i;. and j find the wm.ie comjilei-iv rotten jin the Spring. And • ; a little covering will, 'the right kin ! -f j material is no; i l, : , j *f the plan's are entbviv un* • |ed the leaves are brown- 1 : - ; ye: : . .. have been noted I- eve; ~h-servant servant gmden r j , : - fruit comes !i -m - lhat have 1 managed • kee-. du-h- 1--> V es SdffV-'f : turners appear. And tins is wny il of SiiO’.Y t lit* wliolo Winter is so goo 1 f- r .he straw ber; v crop. •' ed, when the lea-.-. - a; V :,r ■ v>n { die crop is sni.di: but when in * sn-'w covers tlie ? !ai, s all thb -winter long the;. me out in the Spring in die jv >-jb!e con ; di!ior..— (den'iiau ".t Tl- , >, h. • ibe Non-Advertiser, Tiie Waco (tex.) Li:c . .ter llKilvt*? flit* S.‘ 11 ► r 4 imuks about tha man wh sets no virtue in adverlising and . think- people can*! read tho p.i : ' ’ r,i si lot (lie e i.' rin a Iwo : line uni ice say something about him that grates on his feelings lhe least bit or he thinks that it does lip; show h:s business up in the nifs; complimentary terms, and what a muss you w:!i have ion hand, lie wiii rush down to ihe office au l insist that he has been injin ed beyond recovery. Lie is ruined financially and so cially, and in a few seconds i-e win show you where these two or three lines caused him '..im ages ranging all lhe way ;n several hundred lo several thous and dollars, and ri• .t! some man, just the uay before, you tried hard to make a Con tract with for a column cr half-coin;:' i_ m •er tisement at stai valjon . and iie had the modesty to tell you that it was worth nothing, people never read the papers and it would be just Lke throwing so much money away. These con sistent men are numerous. Yon wiH always find too that the man who never patronizes a paper is the man who criticises the mo t. severely and is always able to give the proprietor advice as how he should conduct his pap It is indeed amusing wheft you do not compliment certain par ties on all occasions to see the expression on their faces. ‘They insist when not mentioned i a flatteries way, that they have been injured but they are never ready to admit what is admitted in ail cases except that of a newspaper, that everything that is capable of doing some good—• even a rattlesnake.