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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
TOWN COUNCIL...,
M. G. Bates, J. W. Hipp, G. H. Ran
dell. M. J. Wears, TANARUS, J. Long. M. G.
Bates, President: J. W. Hipp, Secreta
ry; il. J. Means, Treasurer: G. 11. Uan
deil, Marshal.
COUNTY OFFICERS
J. C. Allen, Ordinary.
T. w. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court,
jfcjfc Branuett, Sheriff.
STC Sharp, Tax Receiver.
G. W. Oates, Tax Collector.
James A, Carnes, Surveyor.
G. W: Mice, Coroner,
W. F. Hill, School Commissioner.
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RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Baptist Church—Every second Satur
day-and Sunday, by Rev. N. L. Osborn.
Methodist Exiscopai. Church—Eveiy
first Sunday and Saturday before, by Rev.
*-ii D. Ellington.
Mrtuouist Episcopal Church, South—
Every tourtb Sunday and Saturday before,
by Rev. W. T. Hamby.
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W. W. Roberts, I'ylor.
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arietta & North Ga. Uuilrond will
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* J. B. Glover,
Dr. J. E Johnson,
- . Tenders his professional service to the
of Gilmer and adjacent co unties
eir |(iiciEe and Surgery.
AU calls' promptly filled—day or night
Office east side of Public Square. 5-3-ly
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C. M„ QUILLIAN,
Attorney at Law,
ELLIJAY GA.
Will practice in the Superior onrts of
the B&e Ridge and the Northeastern
Circuits, ilnuaediate -attention given to
busiS. nov, 23—ly.
ALLEN,
AUof i ney at ft Law,
f| ELLIJAY, GA.
WILL practice in the Superior Courts
of tbc'Blue Ridge Circuit. Prompt at
•< fentfon given to all business cutrusted to
ELLIJAY, GA
Wiki, practice in the Superior Courts of
the Bm lhfige and Cherokee Circuits, and
,IB Ito itlifirnnir Court of Georgia. Also,
in the United States Couits iu Atlanta.
Will give special attention to the purchase
and sale of all kinds of real estate land
‘ Bad litigation.
BUFE fiLDO mOSHTOK D. M.
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pfe CALHOUN, GEORGIA.
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THE NEW PATENT
DUST - PR OOF
Stem Winding Open Face C*se,
MANUFACTURED BY THE
American Watch Cos.
WALTHAM, MASS.
This case is formed in one solid piece
without joint or seam, opening in from
only, thus avoiding the usual Cap. and
securing greater strength and durability.
These' watches are all open face. The
bezel, into which the extra strong crys
tal is fitted with an especially prepared
water-proof cement, is attached to tin
case by screwing it thereon, and thus
forms an air-tight junction with the body
of the case, which is proof against dust
and moisture.
To 'railroad men, travelers, miners,
lumbermen and others who are almost
constantly exposed and who have to
make frequent reference to the watch,
these qualities are of the utmost Impor
tance.
The following letters tell their
own story..
“Valdosta, Georgia, July 20, 1882.
“1 sold one of your Patent Dust Proof
Cases about ten mouths ago. and the
other day it came hack to me with the
request to make it wind easier. On ex
amination I found that the stem was
rusty, and I inquired into the cause of it
The gentleman stated to me that lie.was
starting some saw-logs that had lodged
in the bend of the river, when his chain
caught in a bush and threw his watch
into about twelve feet ol water, and lie
was about two hours finding it. When
he got it out it was running and he
thought all right. In about three months
be found that the stem was hard to turn
and sent it to me.
I can say that the watch la all that the
company claims for it and recommend it
to all railroad and mill men.
a B. IV. BENTLY.”
“Clinton, lowa, April 29,1581.
“I wish you would send me a spring for
the Wm. Ellery Watch * * * By the
way this Ellery is a watch 1 sold iu your
Screw Bezel Case to a fanner last fall
The first of January he lost the watch in
the woods, and found il this week in
about one toot of water. It had lain three
mouths and over in snow and water,with
but slight injury to the watch—only a
hair-spring. C. 5. RAYMOND.”
The above were very severe tests, and
demonstrate beyond a doubt, that tot
ally reasonable length ot time during
which a watch might be under water it
weuid receive no injury whatever.
We make these cases in both gold and
silver, and hb a Perfectly Dust Proof
stem Winding' Watch Case, Challenge
the World to Produce its Equal,
For Sale liy all First-class Jewelers.
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Proprietor/, Atlanta, oa.
Tour 3Dr-u.6rgl.st for It.TEB
For all injuricsin man or beast nothing equals
Hamburg Liniment.
Foi Sale by Keown & Johnson, Ellijay,
Oa.
USE THE BEST.
Dr. Jack’s Magic Liniment is a relia
ble family medicine for internal and ex
ternal use. Cures rheumatism, neural
gic, headache, toothache, lame back,
pains in the side, inflamed breast, colic
and cramps, burns, sprains, besides
eqally good for all diseases incident to
stock.
USE THE BEST.
Dr. Jack’s Vegetable Liver Tills for
the cure of liver complaint, dyspepia.
sick headache, foul stomach, etc. They
are the best substitute tor mercury now
in existence.
Dr. Jack’s Remedies can be bad at
Drs. Keown A Johnson’s Drug Store,
Ellijay, Ga.
max 17—3 m.
■ffiff—neople are always on the
WW*wl fip>okout fbf:bWhhhes to in
-Mmai ' r earu - I^,," ni !
opportunities remain
la poverty. Wo offer a
great chapoc to ffiake meney. We want
inarty men, women, beys and girls to
woric for us right in their own localities.
Any one can tk>. the work properly from
the first start. The business will pay
more than tea times ordinary wages.
Expensive outfit furnished free. No one
who engages fails to make money rapid
ly.. .Fetbeangtevoteyotn- whole time to
thwvffoskvtrt twv voV*r <#paifw*wa<Hrtins.
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Portland, Maine.
“A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 188.1
Do the Meek Inherit the Earth ?
The eagle plucks the raven,
And the raven plucks the jay,
To whose voracious craying
T he cricket falls a prey.
The big fish dines at leisure
Upon the smaller toy.
And the minnow eats with pleasure
The poor unconscious fly.
The miser skins his neighbor,
The neighbor skins the poor ;
And the poor man doomed to labor
Spurns the beggar from his door.
And thus the world is preying—
The strong upon the weak,
Despite the precious saying,
“The earth is for the meek.”
THE FERRYMAN OF LOCH
LYNN.
A GHOST STORY.
Was I eyer married ? No,
ma’am ; never. I’ve lived a sin
gle life Tor sixty years, and I’ve
been ihe ferryman for forty years
There’ll be a steamer here next
year, they say, and then maybe
my work is done. I’ve enough
to live on, though, and it’s not all
for the bit of pay that I row the
boat, i’ye bad a hope all these
long years that would have made
some folks fear to let me row
them over the ferry, but I think
I’ll teil you about it, for you’ve a
look in your eyes as though you
could understand.
When I was twenty I had a
sweetheart. Her name was Jes
sie. We had been betrothed a
wee while, and the banns were to
be put up in the kirk in a month’s
time, when suddenly her mother
took a dislike to me, and said it
should not be. It was only an old
woman’s freak. An-ill-tempered
body she was, and not quite rigkV
in her mind, 1 think. But Jes
sie would not marry against her
mother’s will. She cried like a
baby, and vowed to me to be
truei, and to meet me every Sat
urday at least. And the hoped
to soften her mother iu time.
What could I do ? Nothiug but
fret and fume, and piake her un
happier than she was. You know
man’s nature well enough to
know that 1 did that, I’ve no
doubt, ma’am.
But Saturday afternoons I al
ways rowed about, the edge of
the loch here, waiting for Jessie.
She’d come to the bank—l can
see her still, in her little straw
bonuet, with a pink rose in it —
and wave her handkerchief. Then
I’d go lo her; and we’d row about
until sunset, keeping well out of
sight, as it was easy to do.
Not many people wanted to
cross, but if they came at that
time they had to go back again.
1 never answered them. And
though 1 worried and fretted
enough in all conscience, those
were very happy afternoons.
We met so for a year. The old
mother never grew any more
willing that I should court Jes
sie, and never guessed that she
met me on the lake. She wanted
Jessie to marrv a rich old man,
and the poor girl had a bard
time of it at home. At last, be
tween them, the old inan follow
ing her about, the mother always
pleading his cause, she was half
distracted. I urged hereto run
away with me, and vowed that 1
could make a fortune iu Edin
burgh if she was my wife. And
she was almost worn out. And
when the old woman declared
that she should marry at Christ
mas whether she would or uo,
she promised me to leave home.
“It would be a crime to marry
Mr. McQreggor,” she said, “with
nothing but dislike to give him;
but I fear it ia a sin to deceive
my mother.”
Then she wept in my arms, and
promised to meet me the next
Saturday at the same hour and
go to Edinburgh with me. I was
to take her across the lake, and
after that away townward in the
stage coach.
It was hard to wait for Salur
dav but it came j everything was
ready. I rowed the boat out up
on the lake and sat wailing.
I waited long. The evening
was drawing on, and there was
no sign of her. I grew anxious.
I grew despairing. I could not
believe she would willingly
break a promise to me. I feared
Iter mother had discovered every
thing.
At last, as (lie twilight fell and
I was in despair, I saw her stand
ing on Ihe shore. She was dress
ed all in white, and 1 remember
thinking that it was not like my
sensible Jessie to deck herself
like a bride for a dusty journey
to the dirty town, when we were
anxious to hide from any who
might follow. But when f had
taken the boat across 1 saw (hat
she had no bag or parcel with
her. What she wore was a sort
of robe loosely hanging on her
figure, and her feel were bare.
“The mother has locked her
up r ” I said to myself, “and she’s
escaped just this way,brave lass. - '
Aud I took off my plaid and
made ready to hap it around her
when she got in.
When I got close to her so that
I could see her face it was as pale
as a lilly. 1 was frightened at it,
and I called out : “What have
they been doing to you, my las
sie ? n She made no answer, but
came into my boat.
“Don't touch me yet,” she
said ; but she took my plaid and
laid it about her, and looked at
me sad and strange and woeful.
“I 6aid I would coiue, and 1
came,” she whispered. “Oh,
Jamie, lad, we might have bten
so happy.”
“We will,” I said. “Come to
me, Jessie.”
“Oh, Jamie,” she said again,
don’t touch me yet. Lengthen
the moments as long as you can,
for when you touch me I must
go. I’ll be yours in heaven, Ja
mie, remember that.”
“Bui here first, Jessie,” I said.
“You shall nevei go baik to those
who have used you ill.”
“No, I shall never go back,”
she said.
The voice was not Jessie’s, it
was so sad and faint. The face
was whiter than barbie. The eves
seemed to look at me through a
mist; and, indeed, a mist was all
about her.
1 drew my oars into ihe boat.
“Come close. Jessie,” I said.
“Tell me all. Let me make you
warm in my *nns.”
I stretched them out. She
shrank away.
“Oh, Jamie ! Jamie!” she sigh
ed, “the cold mound must hap
me, not your arms. Death is my
bridegroom. Good-by 1 Good
by ! Good -by !”
I caugiit her in my arms, it was
as if 1 had plunged into the heart
of a cold mist. 1 saw her, but I
could not hold her as she faded
away.
An hour after, someone found
me drifting in the boat. 1 was
out of my head, and I was
ill along while.
When 1 came to myself, they
told me that as I waited for my
love in my boat on the great loch,
she lay shrouded in her mother’s
home. She died suddenly of heart
disease after a terrible scene with
the. old woman.
I’ve never lelt the loch since.
I’ve been the ferryman ever
since, but it is not for the money.
1 hope always that some day 1
may see Jessie on the bank again,
that, at least, once more her spirit
will sail with me over the blue
water —perhaps at the moment
when I am ready to go away with
her lo the heaven where sbe has
been so many years.
Thinffs, Things, Things.
The coldest thing in the world—
The kitchen oil cloth to yonr feel
in a winter’s night.
The hottest thing—A raisin ly
ing in ambush in a mouthful of
hot plum pudding,
The dullest thing—A funny
newspaper.
The longest thing—Your friend’s
favorite story.
The shortest thing—The mem
ory of the perpetual borrower.
I'he biggest tiling—The for*
tune which you do make.
Ihe toughest thing—The young
wife’s pie crust.
The softest thing—The conver
sation carried on between a duck
and a deary.
The highest thing—The mer* \
curv in the thermometer, about
tins time.
The easiest thing—Lj ing.
The tightest thing—The mar
riage tie ; that 18 to 6ay, it used
to be, but now it is the loosest.
The prettiest Ihiiig—Look into
the mirror, and you will see it.
The brightest thiug—The sun’s
light shot into your eyes as it
comes reflected from Lbe piece of
looking glass held in the hand ol
the mischievous small boy.
l’he silliest thing—Thinking
that wealth produces happiness.
(Wouldn’t you like to be knock
ed silly, provided the money
came ?)
The freshest thing—You know
him; he is everywhere. How
ever, he will get salted in tinie.
The stalest Hung—Comn
sense.
The quickest tlung—The flea.
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The heaviest thing—A long
sermon on a hot Sunday after
uoou.
The lightest thing—A lover’s
vow.
The thickest thin g—Y our
tongue when coming home from
the “iodge.”
The ihinest thing—The story
you tell your wile next morning.
The wettest thing—The foot of
tiie small boy with anew pair of
rubber boots.
The driest thing—You have
just been reading it.
No '‘Parlor”Beaux.
A society girl, who evidently
had a head for business as well as
beaux, says: “No ‘parlor beau’
need ever propose with any hope
of success, for after a girl is com
pelled to bend her whole ener
gies lo the task of entertaining
him ‘quietly at home’ for six
months she would be appalled at
the proposition of spending the
balance of her life ‘quietly at
home.’” She explains lhat a
“parlor,beau” is lhat selfish, ego
tistical individual who, being a
man, lias as much variety and
change as lie wants, and thinks
himself sufficiently interesting to
entertain a girl without any as
sistance iu the way of theaters,
parties and drives* but leaves the
other fellows to amuse, her in
that way.
A remarkably iulelligeat old
darkey in Alabama, while watch
ing the monkeys in a menagrie,
spoke thusly : “Dem children got
too much sense to cum oulien dat
cage; white folks cut deir tails
off, and. set ’em votin’ and makiu’
Constetushnus.
A man out West, who offered
bail for his friend, was asked by
the judge if he had any .iu ciim
brance on his farm, “Oh, yes*”
said he, “mv old w naan.”
VOL VIII. .no. 25
The Old Folks.
Not long since we were at a
club house where duck shooters
wt-rs silting around the stove
during the evening, smoking and
talking, and the subject of the
treatment of sons toward parents
came up. Speaking of some per
son who had been unkind to his
father and mother, a young man
who was present, who has one of
the grandest fathers that a young
.nan ever had, smoked a moment
in silence, his eyes flashing fire,
and then said, “I’ll tell you boys,
there ought to be a hanging in
this country. _ A young man who
illlreals his parents by word or
deed, ought to be hung until he
u dead/’ Our young friend may
have expressed himself strongly,
but his remark wilt find and echo
in many an honest heart. The
1 man who can treat his old father
and mother in any manner that
will cause their hearts lo feel
tired, has got something wrong
aboot him. Old people should
constantly be made to feel that
liiey are distinguished guests
and every care that is possible to
lilt from them by a son should be
lifted willingly, and with a feel
ihg Lhat he is doing it as he
would play when he was a child.
It should be a pleasure. When
Ihe fathers and mothers become
•o old that they cannot take as
active a part in the affairs of life
as they once could, they should
feel that their children are not
anxious for them to die, but aux
1011s to have them live long with
out pain or care aud be happy ail
the time. The spectacle of ail
ojd man or woman, even with no
reiealive oa earth, in a poor
he#sw, ia sad ewsgh, but to see
an od father and mother in Israel,
who have-worked hard during a
long life, iu a poor house, when
soi and daughters are living in
luxury, is enough to make one
thmk of a vigilance committee
Peck's Svh.
Lovers Bores,
One well known belle and
1 beauty says lhat she had so many
make love to her that she hardly
knows what is the best a::d most
successful method. 6he was
more occupied in studying how to
prevent an approach to the sub
ject than in facilitating it. Beaux
were all loyeiy until they become
lovers, then they become bores,
lor they moved, thought aud
talked constantly of themselves
and their happiness, while she
wished to be thinking of her owu
happiness. Marriages is quite
another thing, is easily settled
when one finds a suitable part*
ner.
The best way to procure chest
nut trees is to plant the nuts
where the trees are to stand,
Flant them when fresh in the
fall three inches deep, cover the
ground with a board and then
with straw, and remove these in
the spring. The ground should be
hoed, as with coru. The trees
will make a rapid growth. Chest
nut trees are grown for sale by
all nurserymen, and are easily
transplanted in the spring.
A remedy for a good mauy
troubles with fruit trees would
be to enrich the soil. A tree
that gets nil it needs from the
soil will usaally show good health
and vigor, aud in this condition
tt is, aa well as men and animals,
better ablf to withetaod disease
or accidents than if subsisting on
a hail-starved diet.
—.-wa■
A mother cau call “Johnnie it’s
lime to get up,” for threo hours
without making any impression,
but when the old man steps to
tke foot ot the stairs and shouts
“Johu!” Johnnie takes his break
last with the_rest of the family.