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THE ELLf JA Y COUR JE R. L. B. GREER, Editors and i T. B. KIUBY, Publishers. \ ELLIJAY COURIER. Polished EveHry Thursday —IiV— GREER & KIRBY, Office in the Court-house. iar*f he followmjr rates ana riles are universal aiul imperative, and admit ot no exception BATES OF SUBSCTIPTIOX ONE YEAR, CASH, sl-50 SIX MONTHS, 75 THREE MONTHS i .40 BATES OF ADVEKTISI.NO. One square one insertion - - - - #I.OO Each subsequent insertion - - - .50 One square one year 10. no Two squares one year ----- 20.00 Quarter coin , none year - - - - 25.00 Jlaireoliiinii one year ----- 45.00 One col mu none year ----- 80.00 Ten lines one inoh.eonsttUUer a square. Notices among local reading matter JO cents per line for firt insertion, and 15 cents lor each subsequent insertoin. Local notices following reading matter, 10cents per line for the first insertion, and 5 cents per line for each subequent insertion.. .. Cards written in the interest of individ uals will be cliarged'for at the rate of b cents per line. , Yearly adveitisers will be allowed one change without extra charge. GENERAL DIRECTOR!• TOWN COUNCIL. M. G. Bates, J. W. llipp, G. H. Baa dell. Jl. J. Years, T. Cong. -M. G. Bates, President; J. W. Bipp, ‘ eolet |*' ry; M. J. >1 curs, Treasurer: G. 11. Ban detl, Marsliul. COUNTY OFFICERS. J.C. Allen, Ordinary. L. M. Greer, Clerk superior Court. 11. M. Braniiett, Sberilf. 31. L. Cox. Deputy Slienll. T. W.Craigo, fax Bieciver. G. W. Gates, Tax Collector. J allies A. Gnnies, Purveyor. G. F. Sn.ltt*, Coroner, AV. F. Hill, School Commissioner. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Baptist Gmiuou— Every so out! Satur day and Sunday* by Kcv. W. A. Ellis. Methodist Exiscovai. CnnioH—Evciy first Sunday and Saturday before, by Rev. S. P. Brokaw. Methodist Episcopai. Cuuboii, Sotiin Every tourtli Sunday and Saturday before, by itev. Englimd. O FRATERNAL.RECORD. Oak Bowkkv Lodge,No. 81, F. \A.\M, Meets first Friday m each inoiilb. N L. Os orn, W M. J. F. t baslaiu, S. W. A. A. Bradley, •). " • J p. obb, Trea urcr. v.. W. Rolicrts, lylor. D. Garrcti, Secretory. ,L C. ALLEN, Attorney at Law, ELLIJAY, GA. WILL practice in tlic Superior Courts ot the Biuc. Bulge Circuit. Prompt at- Itution given to nli business cnti listed to bio cure. THOMAS F- GREER. Attorney at Law, ELLIJAY, GA. WILL practice in the Superior Courts ot the Blue Ridge and.CinTokee Circuits, and in the Supreme Corn tof Georgia. Also, in the United States Uouits in Atlanta. Will give special attention to the purchase and sale of all kinds of real estate and and litigation. RUFE WALDO TITON D. D< S. - CALHOUN, GEORGIA. WILL visit Ellijay and Morganton at both the Spring and Fall term ot the Su perior Court and oiteuer by special con. tract when sufficient work is guaranteed to justify me iu making the visit. Ad dress as above. may 2H>* JnOs S. Young, WIIH SAHFORD CHAMBERLAIN & ALBERS, WHOLESALE AND MAXHPACTfRING DR IT O G I ss T JS, Knoxville, Tenn* July 21-3 in. EXCHANGE HOTEL, Brnrajp, ew. Q. W. RADGLIFF, Proprietor. Kates of Board $2.00 per day: single meal 50 cents. Table always supplied with the best the market affords. THE FAMOUS JDISON ™ [Musical Telephone. You can Laugh, Talk, Sing and Play Tunes through it at a long distance. Chil dren that can rea-l figures can play tunes at once. The tone is equal to any Flute or Clarionet. No knowledge of music re qitired to play it. To enable any one. without the slightest knowledge of In strumental Music, to perform at once on the Instrument, we have i repared 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 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 Teieidibne is more wonderful than the Speaking Telephone as it does all that it will do besides instructing per sons who do not under itand notes to to olay tunes. “N.Y.Sun.” The Mu sical Telephone is recognized as one of Hie most novel inventions of the age. “X- Y. Herald.” Price $2.50 Price bv mail postage paid and registered $3.00. Xo instrument sent bv mail without be in registered. Send money bv P. O. order or registered letter -PECIAL NOTICE,-The Musi sal Tel ephone can onlv lie purchased of The manufacturers. The EDISON MUSIC CO., 215 and 217 Walnut Street, Philadel phia, Pa., or through their several branch houses throughout the United Slates. II 011 I HI YOU CaN PLAY ON THE Piano , Organ or with EDISON’S INSTANTANEOUS MU'UG. To any chiid who can read numbers from Ito 100 it is plain as daviight. Xo teacher required. Ail 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 DOLLAR. Send stamp for catalogue of tunes. To those who live in the country away from teachers they are a never-fail ing source of comfort. Agents w mted. For SI.OO we will mail you “Edison’s Review” for one rear ami seven pieces of Edison’s Instantaneous -Music with instructions, or for $3.00 will send you “Edison’s Review” for one yoar and one of Edison’s Musical Teiepoone’s register eu >y mail. When ordering please men tif n the paper you saw this ad.vertise mcut iu. Edisim Music Cos., 215 & 217 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. BRANCH OFFIOES-280 West Balti more St., Baltimore, Md., 308 N. fitb st., St. Louis, Mo , 25 6th avenue. Pittsburg’ I’a., 357 Washington st., Boston, Mass.. 8 S. Queen st., Lancaster, Pa., Cor. 9th and Walnut, Camden, N. J, 20TH Y EAR,L!r,S'“ favorite and national family paper, The Star ."pangled Banner, begins its 20th year, Jan. JBB2. 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 Attractive Engravings. It is crowded full of the besj Stories, Foetry, Wit, Humor, Fun, —mak- ing a paper to amuse and instruct old and young. It exposes Frauds, Swindlers and CliVats 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. IV. McCurdy, DALTON- GA. DEALER IN FAMILY GR)C FRIES AND Confectioneri pn. C-STCash paid or goods exchanged for Couutrv Produce. oct. 6‘3m. T. V. Clowdis, 42 Broad Street, Retail dealer iu WHISKEY, BRANDY, Wine, Ac., all the purest and best and at as reasonable prices as they can be bought iu the city. CSTHighest casli price paid for Country Corn VYrtt-key. vail on me when you come to Rome. oct tt-2ui. WHOLESALE I>RUG STORE IN DALTON. DR- J- F. WOOTEN & CO-, W ill duplicate prices in Atlanta, Knox ville, or Chattanooga. Merchants. Druggists' & Physicians. sept. 1, Out. “A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.’* ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882. KIND WORDS ARE BEST. BY EBEN E. KKXFOKD. Oil, speak kind words, my I>oy and girl, As through the world you go, Let kindly deeds beside your path Like flo>v crs of beauty grow. The fragrance of a loving word Will linger in the heart, As sweetness haunts the flowers \vc prize When summer days depart. Yes, speak kind words, my boy and girl, Perhaps we may not know The good our loving words may do To those who need them so. But God will know, ami I urely He, Iu His good time and way, The giver of a hopeful word Will royally repay. So, speak kind words, my boy and girl, Too brief is human life To was'u the hours as they go by In discord and in strife, Give one and ail q Joying word, dust put them to the test, And you will fiod, in every place, Kind words are surely btsi. The Afysterious jßox. BY DAVID KEK. We noticed him, I remember, from the very first ; and we had three good reasons lor doing so In the first placejie was the very lasi passenger to come on board, arriving, indeed, just when the bell was ringing as a signal to clear the ship. In the second place, he was rather a remarkable-looking fel low altogether—tall, gaunt, sal low and stern, with a long, lean face and a cold, gray eye, and, as we all declared, a manifest air of mystery about him, even from the beginning. Last but by no means leas!, of our grounds of suspicion, was Ihe fact that oui mysterious fel low-passenger brought on board with him an oblong wooden box, very much like an overgrown pistol case, of which lie seemed lar more careful than of the well worn leather portmanteau, which was the only other article of bag gage that he seemed to possess. It was evidently not very heavy,.for one sailor shouldered it with ease. It could not be called inconveniently large, for when its master begged to be allowed to keep it in his state room instead of st rowing it in the hold, neither cautain nor uurser made the slightest objection. It was not tabled “Glass, with Care,’’ or anything of that sort, as we could all see for ourselves; and yet its master’s nervous anixely lest it should be damag ed, or even bumped against any thing hard, was so marked that every one began to have dismal suspicions as to its possible con tents. But just at first we had some thing else to think about, for the first tfiree days of our voyage were a perfect chapter of acci dents. To begin with, we were thrown late at starting, by having to wait more than an hour for the mail. Then, when we were just outside the Narrows, on came a fog as thick as buckwheat por ridge, which forced us to lie-to till late in tlie afternoon, keeping up all the while a chorus of bells and fog horns worthy of a Chi nese wedding. And as soon as the fog cleared it wis succeeded by a pour ot rain which inspired a facetious saloon-passenger to ask the cap tain, at dinner time, whether fish ing was allowed on the aller deck. At lengili the tain went off in its turn, and now we begau to hope that this was the end of our troubles ; but we soon found it to be only the beginning of them. The red and angry ?unsel on the second night, the ghostiy haze around the full moon when it rose, the short, uneasy panting j of the wind, all forebodded tnr ther mischief; and the older ‘•salts'’ looked meaningly to I lie wind ward and prophesied “dirty wt ather.” Hie prophesv was not long in fill fi 11 in g itself. About midnight ij was awakened by a crash as it twenty cart-loads of bricks had tumbled through the roofs of as many glass-houses, and found myseli standing bolt-upright in my berth, like a soldier in a sen try-box The mxt moment I had a fine perspective view of tny toes high overhead, while a kind of waterfall of cushions, blankets, pillow, soap, towels, boots, and what not, went poui ing through every part of the room. Then burst forth a deaf ening chorus of shouts, groans screaming women, crying chil dren, the rallle of dishes, the crash and jingle of broken glass, and we were fairly “in for it” at last. For the next twenty-four hours in the graphic words of our old boatswain, “everything blessed on board was inside-out and up side-down.” Plates and cups, knives, torks and spoons, eddied ceaselessly from side to side o the table. nasty feeders .-t tek their forks i:iio themselves in place of their meat ; tlie Soup meant for the months of the guests emtied itself into their laps instead ; and just as one dignified old gentleman was raising his coffee-cup to his lips as solemnly as if he were taking poison, the ship gave a sudden lurch, and ihe boiling coffee flew like a fountain-jet in to his spotless shirt-lront, mak ing him wiggle like a speared eel. But by the morning of the lourtli day- the gale seemed to have spent its force, and we were at liberty to turn our attention once more to the mysterious pas senger and his equally mysteri ous box. i’be former seemed quite as anx ions to preserve lumself from contact with anything on board as lie bad been to preserve his package, for iie never spoke to any one, and always answered as shortly as possitile (when he an swered at all) whenever any one spoke to him. As lor the box itself, it was a greater puzzle than ever. The slewarts reported that he had warned them so earnestly against touching it, or even going near it, as to impiv that the contents, whatever they might be, were something very dangerous in deed. But, as if he had his doubts whether even the fear of some unknown peril would be strong enough to keep them from med dling with the precious package, if they got the chance, he spent most ol his lime below, and as he had taken a whole state room for himself (or, rather, for himsell and his box), there was no risk ol any one disturbing him there. “I think he’s a Fenian carrying over one of those dynamite tor pedoes to Liverpool.” said a young British officer, homeward bound from Canada. “More likely a bank-clerk ab sconding with specie,” grunted a big, red-faced cotton spinner from Lancashire. “Box ain't heavy enough for that,” objected a lanky New s’ orker. “Perhaps, after all, it’s nothing more wonderful than a rare slat ue or picture for some museum.” Every one looked disappointed, for this last idea,which had some how never occurred to us, now Becmed natural and likely enough, and it was a sad come down after all our romantic im aginings. Bui just then anew turn was given to the discussion by a long, wiry, keen eyed Cape Codder, who had hillierio beeii perfectly silent. Taking his short pipe out of his mouth, he said, slowly and emphatically : “’rain’t that, boys ; but I reck on I could tel! you what it is!’’ “What ? What ?” cried every ' one, eagerly’. “A baby,” answered the Yan kee, with lhe solemnity of per fect conviction. At tliis fheie was a shout of laughter so uproarious that a passing steward peered amnzedly into the smoking room to see what all the fun could be about Bit ihe gentleman from Cape Cod was not a whit abashed. “Laugh as much as you like, boys ; but what 1 say 1 stick to. Every day, reg’lar, at breakfast and at tea, I've seen that air crit ter, after he’d had liis share, start for his stateroom with a cup ol milk and a hunk o’ bread, and if that didn’t mean a baby some whar roun’. I’m a Mexikin 1” There was a general start, for we now remembered to have seen the stranger do this, and wondered that we had not no ticed it before. For a few moments every one was in high glee at.the apparent] solution of the riddle; but the! temorseless New-Yorkr speedily blighted our new-born happiness. “Guess you’re cousil’able ou! there, stranger,” objected he. “For the baby that could be four days aboard ship, or anywhere else, either, without raising one >quall, has got to be discovered yet. I’ve got three of ’em myself, and I guess I ought to know.” This uuansweiable argument threw us ail back to where we were before, and a sullen silence followed, broken at lengik by a dashing young sophomore from Harvard—one of the briskest and boldest spirits of our company. “Baby or no baby,” said he, firmly, “I’m bound to get at the ms and outs of this job, somehow. Eittier I'il know what’s inside that box before it goes ashore, or I’ll never wear tlie crimson of old Harvard again !'' But this valient pledge seemed likely to go unredeemed, after all; for, as if the man ol mystery nad known of the plot hatching against him, he seemed to be. it possible, more vigilant than ever. Day followed day, until at length we came in sightof Queen stown, where the stranger was to land, and the secret of the box was a secret still. But the time came at last. Breakfast was hardly over that morning, w hen aslewart (sent on purpose by the ingenous soplio more) lapped at the door of the stranger—who had retired as usu al with his milk and bread —an- nouncing that the captaiu want ed him. Scarcely had he disap peared when the Harvard youth uopped into his room. The next moment, a terrible cry startled us all, and, rushing to the spot, and the sophomore struggling iti the coils of a huge black- and-w’hite snake 1 For a moment all was confus ion, but the stranger, who had just returned, sprang like light ening to the breakfast table, fill ed a cud with milk and set it in front of the snake. Instantly tlie latter unwound itself from its captive, who reeled helplessly against the wall. “You’re more frightened than hurt, young fellow,” said his res cuer, coolly, “for this snake’s quite a harmless sort,am' as lame as a pet cat into the bargain. I kept him dark while 1 could, for I didn’t wan t him hurt, after stumpin’ all Louisiana to get him for the London Zoological, but you’d best not touch him ag’in, for ids breed’s mighty fond of a fool, and 1 guess that’s why lie was so spry jo hold of veu !” VOL. VII. NO. 16. HUMOROUS. “No star ever rose and set without influence somewhere, ' 1 says a Dhilosopher. The same remark is applieabi to a hen. The man who stood in front of his glass for two hours getting the right eolor on his mustache, said be was just “dyeing to see his girl.” froth, like consistency* is a jewel. This is why some people are to penurous in the use of that virtue; they think that jewels are too precious to be used lav islilv. An aesthetic Philadelphia young woman, who is iu deep mourning, conplains of the bril liant line of the postage stamps which she is obliged to put upon her heavily-bordered envelopes. The story is told of an Amer ican visitieg Montreal, who gave a waiter a silver dollar as a fee Said the waiter; ’ Sir, did you intend to giye me a dollar “I did,” “Weil, sir, this coin is at a dis count. I can only take it for n nety cents. Ten cents more, please. “Ziphaniaii, asked a country ! school-master, as he was interro gating a scholar concerning the ! names of the sovereigns of the j various kingdoms throughout the world, “can you tell me who is ihe Emperor of Russia T’ “Wig toria,” was the reply. “And who is the Dev of Algiers ?” “Tiiun . Jer and .Mars,” cred the aston ished boy, “I’ve heard tel! of the Day of Judgment, the Thaksgiv ' ing Day and the Day of Penticost. i but I'm darne l if 1 ever heard of Hie Day of Algiers before. i A Jersy mother was much dis tressed one afternoon last week b\ the mysterious disappearance of her two younger sous. When j the father returned in the eve mng. a caretu! search was insti ll uted.and the absentees were dis covered Wing concealed beneath ; the woodshed. They were liior | oughly armed, each carrying two ! table forks, a carving knife and a soup spoon. It took a hickory rod well laid oti to extract from them the hideous confession that i they were en route out West to i avenge the death of Jesse James. When girls midway in their teens throw oil their natural j girlish habits and attire, don long siiirts, shoot up their hair, and affect the airs and dress ol young women, they would often be surprised to know wliat their ! eiders really think of the im , provements. One such young miss went to the depot recently to meet an aged friend of the family, and was surprised to find herself not recognized upon greeting the visitor as she step ed from the car. “Don’t you know me, antieP 5 “Why, this is Maria, isn’t fit ” “Certainly ! Don’t you think I look better than I did last sum mer f’ “No,’’ replied Hie honest soul, looking at the girl; “to tell the truth, J don’t 1 Go home and let down your bangs, and be young while you can, for it will not be many years before you will be glad to have people take you for a girl.” One ot the best agents to assist us in the endeavor to prevent our soils from baking is lime. Lime not only makes sandy soil heav ier,but lightens hevy soil. It ex erts an influence chemically that does much to overcome this diffi culty. It causes certain changes to occur by forcing into existence new com pounds,and itseffects are lasting.