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THE ELLIJAY COURIERS Tj. B. GREER, Editors and/ T. B.KIKBY, Publishers. \ ELLIJAY COURIER. Pulished Every Thursday ,2 —BY— GEE ER & KIRBY, Office in the Court-house. tS T lie following rates and rules are universal and Imperative, and no exception : sfl HATES m' SUBSCTIPTIOX ONE YEAR, CASH $1.50 SIX MONTHS, 75 THREE MONTHS, 40 hates of advertising. One square one insertion - ... $ 1.00 Each subsequent insertion - - - .50 - One square one rear ...... 10.00 Tw* squares one year .... - 20.00 Quarter colu in one year .... 25.00 Half column one year ----- 45.00 One column one year ----- SO.OO Ten lines one inoh.eonstituteru square. Jioticcs among local reading niatter.2o cents per line for first insertion, anti 15 cents lor each subsequent insertoin. Local notices following reading matter, 10 cents )>er line for the first insertion, and 5 cents per line for each suhequent insertion. Cards written in the interest of individ uals will be charged for at the rate of & cents per line. Yenrlv advertisers will he allowed one change without extra charge. GENERAL DIRECTOR!* TOWN COUNCIL. M. G. Bates, J \V. llipp, G. 11. Bu -dell. M. J. Xcars, TANARUS, J. Long. M. G. Bates, President: J. W. Ulpp, Seoteta ry; AJ. J. Jlears, Treasurer: G. 11. ltan d'ell, Marshal. COUNTY OFFICERS. J.C. Allen, Ordinary. L.il. Greer, Clerk superior Court. 11. M. Braniiett, Sberitf. 31. L. Cox. Deputy Sheriff. T. W.Craigo, Tax Receiver. G. W. Gates, Tax Collector. James A. Carnes, Surveyor. G. F. Smith, Coroner, W. F. Hill, School Commissioner. O RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Baptist Oihjkch—Every Satur day and Sunday, by Uev. W. A. Ellis. Methodist Exiscopal Chukoh —Evety first Sunday and Saturday before, l>y Kev. S. P. Brokaw. Methodist Episoobai. QTtCton, BqjDln— Every tourth Sunday and SattirUay kmlorc, by Kev. England. O FRATERNAL.RECORD. Oak Boweky Lodoe,No. Si, F.‘.A.’.M, —Meets first Friday in each mouth. N L. Os orn, W M. J. F. e liasiam, S. W. A. A. Bradley,..). " . J. P. obd, Treasurer. „ . W.. Roberts, lylor. D. Garnii, Sccrctaiy. J. C. ALLEN, Attorney at Law , ELLIJAY, GA. WILL practice in the Superior Court# ot the U.ue Ridge Circuit. Prompt at tiutiou given to all business entrusleil to his care. THOMAS F- GREER. Attorney at Law, ELLIJAY, GA. YV ILL practice in the Superior Courts ot the blue iudgo and Chtrokee Circuits, and in the Supreme Couit of Georgia. Also, in the United States Gouts in Atlanta. Will give special attention to the purchase and sale of ail kinds of real estate and and litigatiou. RUFE WALDO TdORKTON D. D S. DEi\ & 3& r JL?X&rir. CALHOUN, GEORGIA. WILL visit Ellijay and Morgan ton at both the Spring and Fall term ot the Su perior Court airJ ofteuer by special eou tract when sutHcfvnt work is guaranteed to justify me iu making the visit. Ad dress as above. may 2t-ly. Jno, S. Young, WllH la CHAKBBELAIN & ALBERS, WUOLBSAI.E AND SIANUFACTCKINO DRUG GISTS, Knoxville, Tenn. July 21-3 in. EXCHANGE HOTEL. mtiTott, eat., Q. W. RADOLIFF, Proprietor. ltntes of Board #2.00 per day; single meiil 50 cents. Table always supplied with the best tlic market affords. THE FAMOUS EDISON ■■ 'Musical Telephone. You can Laugh, Talk, Sing an.l I’lay Tunes threugh it at a long distance. Chil dren that can read figures can play tunes at once. The tone is equal to any Flute or Clarionet. No knowledge of music re qttired to play it. To enable any one, without the slightest knowledg. of In strumental Music, to perform at once on the Instrument, we have < repared a se ries of tunes embracing all the popular Aira. printed in simple figures on cards to suit the Instrument, at a convenient distance from the mouth-piece, so that it can be easily read,and by means of which any one, without the least musical knowl edge, can perlorm on this Instrument and play tunes at sight. Persons a little fa miliar with airs can play hundreds of tunes without any cards whatever. The Musical Telephone is more wonderful than the Speaking Telephone as it does all that it will do besides instructing per song who do not under ;tand notes to to nlay tunes. “N.Y.Bun.” The Mu sical Telephone is recognized as one of the most novel inventions of the age. “N-Y, Herald.” Price $2.50 Price by mail postage paid and registered $3.00. No instrument sent by mail without be ing registered. Send money by P. O. order or registered letter. SPECIAL NOTICE,-The Musi ml Tel ephone can only be purchased of the manufacturers. The EDISON MUSIC CO., 215 and 217 Walnut Street, Philadel phia, l’a., or through their several branch houses throughout the United States. IS ONE lOUI YOU CaN PLAY' OV THE Piano. Organ or Melodian.with EDISON’S INSTANTANEOUS MUSIC. To airy child who can read numbers from Ito 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 music sent by mail for ONE DOLLA R. Send stamp for catalogue of tunes. To those who live in the country away from teacher* I hey are a never-faii in? source of comlort. Agents wanted. Forsl.oo we will mail you “Edison’s Review” for one year and seven pieces of Edison’s Instantaneous Music with instructions, or for SB.OO will send you “Edison’s Review” for one yoar and one of Edison’s Musical Telcponiic’s register ed i>y mail. When ordering please tnen tirn the paper you saw this adxertise meut in. Edison Music Cos., 215 A 217 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. BRANCH OFFICES— 2BO West Balti more St., Baltimore, Md., 308 N. oth Rt., St. Louis, Mo., 25 6th avenue, Pittsburg' Pa., 857 Washington st., Boston, 31ass.. 8 S. Queen st,, Lancaster, Pa., Cor. 9th and Walnut, Camden, N. J, . i)A.ft II Vl/ 4 l> Th e original iwU 111 I iVA l. an ,i only, the favorite and national family paper, The Star Spangler! Banner, begins its 20th year, Jan. 1882. Established 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 A<tractive Engravings. It is crowded full of the l>esi Stories, Poetry, Wit, tlumor. Fun, —mak- ing a paper io amuse and instruct old and young. It exposes Frauds, Swindlers and Cheats and eveiy line is amusing, instruc tive, or entertaining. Everybody needs it, 50,000 now icad 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. •J. - TV. M cCurdy, DALTON GA, DEALER IN FAMILY GIUC FRIES AND Confectioneries. SiTCasli paid or goods exchanged for Country Produce. oct. 6* 8 in. T. V. Clowdis, 42 Broad Street, WLqme, Retail dealer iu WHISKEY, BRANDY, Wine, Ac,, all the purest and best and at as reasonable prices as they can be bought in tlie city. iSTHighest cash price paid for Country Corn V\ hiskey. tall on me when you come to Rome. oct 6-2 m. WHOLESALE DIOJG STORE IN DALTON. DR- J- F. WOOTEN & CO-, Will duplicate prices in Atlanta, Knox ville, or Chattanooga. Merchants. Druggists & Physicians. sept. 1, sm. “A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns." KLLUAY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE I, 1882. PARTED. [W’averley Magazie.] Once we were friends. This life’s weird song Was fumed alike unto each mind ; To all good gift* our eyes were oped, To all strange things out eyes were blind. We walked adown the world’s highway Hand clasping hand, heart meeting heart And little thought the day would come When hands would loosen, hearts would part You spoke the first unpleasant words Which struck like arrows to my soul ; Y<mr careless fingers rent in twain Wiiat I had fondly dteamed a whole. And when we came to that strange place Where mauy earthly roads divide, Vou made your choice: and when I turned, Vou wete no longer at my side. Oh, preciou- friend, still loved, though false, My heart will hunger after you : And plead that if I’d been more kind, Perhaps you would have been more true. Aud when I think of all the years Which have slipped by like some fair dream, Of all we’ve hoped and planned and wrought, The harder docs this parting seem. You chose your way,and plead your cause in your most tender, touching tone, Then tuned your voice to other lyres, And left me to sing alone. And I still sing. We cannot pause Right in the middle of life's song ; The measure we must carry out, Be its sad cadence short or long. And I am getting used tj pain ; We do, you know, after a while ; And learn to bathe our blending wounds With the soft oiutment of a smile. And tiiougb 1 will not cast one shade Of blame on womanhood's estate. I feei the space betwixt us two, Has grown immeasurably great! And' I have learned to pity you. Yes, pity is the word to use ; Aud you can sheer at it or not, Accept or slight it, as you choose. I pity you for your hard heart, I pity you for your false ways, I pity you for your untruths, 1 pity you for haunted days. But if the time should ever c..me When you will loug to see my face, Aud claim within my loving arms The old, familiar, oft sought place, You need not fear to meet a frown, Or find my tender words untrue ; You shall be welcome for the sake Of what once passed between us two. And now farewell, dearly beloved, Our ways are sep’rate, but our plans Are folded closely as of old Within the hollow of God’s hands. And if we Dever meet again Throughout this world of shame and sin, There’ll stand between your soul aud mine, The inem’ry of “what might have been. THE STOLEN WATCH. CHAPTER V ( Conclusion .) A slight young man stood in the Jargest saloon of which the mining camp could boast and slowly finished his story. “Three years ago, and more since he left home, and we have never traced him to a certainty. The man who was killed three years ago to-night, when resist ing the robbers a half-dozen miles east of your camp, may have been my father. The de scription is fairly accurate. But I never expect to know certainly whether it were he or not.” Every newcomer was expected to tell something of his story, and young Johnson had told bis with simple directness, ending as stated above. An old man, with sad look and snow white hair, but straight and strong yet, entered the room, walked to the bar, drank, took a large old-fashioned watch from his pocket, looked at the time, and walked over to the stove, “Any errands over to the sta tion this afternoou ?” he asked. “1 am going over on horseback for some light supplies.” The saloon man answered in the negative, and the old man walked out. Johnson turned towards the barkeeper with a face like mar- b!e ami eyes like fire, but asked a couple of very simple questions nevertheless. ‘Was that (lie Miguel Gordon I’ve heard so much about f’ “ Y es.” “Is there any stage in or out to-night “Yes; the stage from Ihe East should be in at nine o’clock.” A half-hour later Miguel Gor don rode away towards the south A half-hour after that young Johnson stood in the centre oi the saloon with an excited crowc around him. One man said: “We’ve tried to caleh Ihe3e robbers often enough, and have failed. If the youngster is wrong it is only* one failure more. The stages have been s'opped about once a month for tne last three years. There is one chance in thirty by the theory of probabilities.” It had been suspected that this man iiad once been a scholar and a leacher. He was called “the Professor” yet. Another man objected : “We don’t know ibis boy. It would be lucky if it. all ended in only failure. How do we know it isn’t all a trap lor us ?” “Likely lo be that, isn’t it, with the boy along ? He’d scarcely try that,” said a third. “We’ve never gone without Gordon before,” said mother; “whatever will he think of us if we go now without him?” “It can't be helped this time,” said the barkeeper, “and 1 vole we go.” And it was so decided. Johnson’s proposition had been a strange one. It was that, starting at three o’clock, they should ride hard and meet the stage from the East as far as to the east as possible ; that the women and children should be left behind, together with any male passengers who might show a lack of pluck; and that as many of them as tiie stage would hold, fully armed and ready for the at tack, should ride into the little mining town that night. He ot tered no reason, but simply said that there would be an atlempl ed robbery. The moon had been up an hour. The night was silent and calm, and would have seemed lonely enough to the driver of the stage but for the strange load he car ried that night. The stage was crowded with mem armed with heavy navy revolvers —and men who knew how lo use them. The “Professor” was half-doz ing in his corner, and muttering something about infinity and ze ro ; the man who had distrusted the boy Johnson, was so lar asleep that he might have been trapped or betrayed. The stage turned a curve in the road and slopped just where it had three years before. “Hold up your hands, gentle men, and be lively ; we have no time to lose,” came the quick, nervous command. The driver’s heart might al most have been heard to beat in the silence for one long moment, and the next there was a volley Iron) the well aimed arms of those within the stage, and with a cheer that might have been heard for miles, the miners sprang down to meet the robbers who had puzzled and defied them for years. The wild shot? of the astonish ed outlaws did uo harm but they went down under Ihe fierce on slaught of the miners like grain before the reaper. In five minutes the avengers were in a position to solve the mystery fully. Of the half dozen dead men only one was known to the miners ; the rest were strangers. The puzzle was un solved still. But, no, a dozen rods away young Johnson, stood revolver in hand, over the robber chief who had fallen over when the last ball had been fired. In bis har.d was a watch which he had taken from the dying bandit. “It wa3 my lather’s,” said John son, with a sob. “It has been an everlasting curse to me,” groaned the pros trate mao with his last breath. The watch would never run again, for the ball that carried death to the one who stole it had lestroyed the watch as well. A miner snatched a mask from ihe robber’s lace, and the reason why the attempts to capture the • lie villains had always failed was no longer a mystery. For framed in with the well known face, and the dead eyes which stared up at him glared from be neath the ashen brow of Miguel Gordon. Green Manuring, After all lhat may be done in the way of saving and utilizing stable manure, codon seed and oilier similar fertilizing materials —supulenieuted bv the purchase of acid nhosphale and potash, we must reply upou the lar cheaper process of green manuring to bring up oui soils and keep them up lo a high degree of fertility. The proper saving and applica tion of the home manure above alluded to is nothing more than an act of simple justice to the otherwise overworked soil. We may as reasonably expect our work animals to do lull work without supplying them with necessary food, as lo expect the soil to yield abundant annual • rops without manure. Even the very richest soils will in liiu.efail to remunerate the labor of til lage if denied the benefit of ma nure of some k nd. We do not meau to say that turning under green crops will ot itself restore to the soil atl the elements of fertility that are an nually abstracted from it by the crops, and that tiiis process may be made independent of oilier efforts at improvement. The ab sohile quantity of phosphoric acid, lime, potash and other inorganic elements of the soil are not one whit increased by turning under a crop grown on the soil. But Ilia proportion of these valuable elements avail able for the want of a succeed ing crop is greatly increased by growing a crop of clover or pea vines. The quantity of the inor ganic elements just mentioned, is sufficient; in a fertile soil, to produce thirty, forty or one hundred crops of corn, cotton, etc., if these elements were in a soluble, available form. But such is not the case, and it is the business of the scientific farmer to render them soluble. This is done by deep plowing, liming and green manuring. But there are other elements just as im portant to good crops as those mentioned, and which may be supplied entirely by lurmng un der green crops. There are am monia and carbonic acid, which are abstracted from the air and stored up in the roots, stems and leaves of the renovating plants, and by the decay of the latter are left just where wauted by the succeeding crop of grain or cotton. Ammonia and carbonic acid not only serve as food for the next crop, bat also assist greatly in reducing the insoluble phosphates, and silicates of the soil to soluble forms by chemical reactions which occur during de com potion. When we add stable manure, superphosphates, cotton seed and other more or less concentrated matters to the soil, we supply the soil with food elements in a state almost ready for absorptiou ; and usually the quantity applied is VOL VII. 80. 16. too small to generate any exten sive changes in the soil by de composition and chemical action. But when a heavy crop of peas, [ clover or other similar plant is grown and turned under, adding tons of fermenting material to each acre, the mass acts as a most efficient leaven—so to speak’ —not onlv adding large quanti-* ties of ammonia] and carbonic acid gathered from the air, bat breaking up insoluble forms of plant food and making Ihetn available to t!ie next crop. The natural laboiatory of the soil is thus supplied with more abun dant re agents and fuel, to do the work of preparing food for fu lure crops.— Southern Cultiva tor. A Word of Adrice to Young Men. Gov. Jervis, of North Carolina, gives the following excellent ad vice to young men which they would do well to consider. Says he: “There is too great a tendency I fear, among our young men to leave the farms and work-shops of the country ; some for employ ment in what they think the more honorable vocations in cit ies and towns ; others, more am bitious, for ihe supposed ease and glory of professional life. Public opinion is not altogether blameless for this mistake, and should hasten to correct it for it often leads these young men in to failures, and laiiures into vices. The successful farmer or mechanic is none the less honor able and useful than the success ful lawyer or doctor; and how incomparably greater is he in either than he who fails in ihe profession. I cannot forbear, in this connection, to refer to the example of a young friend of mine as worthy of imitatiou, aud to ask young men to study it. Although a son of a distinguish ed ex Supreme Court Judge and a nephew of oue of the State’s most susefnl Governor, he weut into a work-shop as a boy, work* ed at his trade, and is now the master machinist of a railroad company. The example of such men :s valable in any communi ty, and will give to labor the dignity and respect it deserves.” Warts on Horses. These fungous growths appear iu the horse most frequently about the mouth, nose and lips, but they are occasionally found upon other parts of the body. They are sometimes found in large numbers about the lips of colts, and are generally rubbed off, or drop off. If, however, they grow large and become deeply rooted, they may be cut off by passing a needle through the cen ter, armed with double thread and tied tightly around the neck on each side. This prevents the possibility of the ligatures being rubbed off. Or they may be painted over with the perman ganate of potash, a fe w applica tions of which will entirely de stroy warts of a large size, or they may be removed with a knife.— Jennings. - -a< ■ ■■ *• ** Value of Milk. Every gallon of milk has a food value equal to two and a half pounds of boneless beef, aud it is the poorest economy can practice to sell a gallon of milk for 10 or 15 cents, and buy the same amount of nutrition in the form of beef, at a cost of 35 or 50 cents. If our American people had any just conception of the value of milk as an article of food, the quantity used would be doubled within the next five years, aud the health of our fami lies would be largely increased