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COLEMAN A KIRBY. Editors and Proprietors. VOL. XI. ellijay courier PUBIISHED EVERY THURSDAY ‘ BY— COLEMAN * KIRBY. Office in. the Court House JkA GEN£RAIJD]rECTORY. ~ Superior. Court meet* 8d MondTay in Mny and 21 Monday in October, Hon. James R Brown, Judge. Gecrge F. .Oder, Solicitor General. COUNTY COURT.. Hon. Thomas F. Greer, Judge. Moultrie M. fcfssirns,County Solicitor. Meets 3d Monday i* **eh month Court of Ordinaly ingots first Monday in each month. TOWN COUNCIL. J P. Terry, lutendent. M. McKinney, i. H Tabor, I n J. Huuaicutt, J.R. Johnson,) drn W. H. *ater, Toti\ Marshal X COUNTY OFFICERS. J. C. Allen, Ordinary, T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court, H. M. JBranitelt, J. H. Sharp Tax Receiver* O. W.Xiaisp, Tux t'ollector, ia~: W. F. llili. Ct mimss’oncr. The C ounty Beard of I ducation meets st Ellijay ihe Ist Tmsday in January April, July and October. RB6JGIOUB SERVICBS. Methodist Episcopal Church, South.— Every 4th Sunday and Saturday before, by Itcv. C. M. Ledbetter. Baptist Church—*Every 2nd Fg’urdav and Sunday, by Rev. N. 'L Osboro. Methodist Ep’scipsl Church—Ever Ist Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. R H. Robb. TRATBRNAb RECORD. Oak Bowery Lodge, No 81, F. A. M., meet* first Friday id each month. W. A. jDox, W. JL L. B. Greer, S. W. W. F. Hipp, J. -W.V R. 7, Ro&, Trefi, | T. W. Cnrigo, Sec. ** IV. W. Robert?, Tyler. T. B. KfYby, g. D. lb M. BramleU, J. D. l, " J. W. HENLEY, |, rORNEY AT LAW:, 1 ] 11 . JASPER. GEORGIA * , Via i hti Superior Court of the Blue pi . cm*. Prompt attention to a 1 busi ..iied to Ills care. KM. Sessions. E. W. Coleman. SESSIONS & COLEMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA. Will practice in E'us Ridge Circnit, Conntv Court Justice Court of Gilmer County. Legal business solicited. •Tromptneas’' is our motto. DR. J. S. TANKERSLEY. Physician and Surgeon, Tend- r bis profess onal services to the cit i zees of E lijay, G:lm->r and urrnu iding cum tics. All calls promptly aticnd <1 to. Odice np3tairs over the firm of Cobb A Son. rtl FE WALDO THORNTON, O.D.S. DENi'IST, Calhoun, Ga. Will vifit Ellijay and Morgnnton at both the Soring and Fall term of the Superior Court—and oftoner by special contract, when sufficient woik is guar anteed to justify me in making tko vis't. Address as above. fmav2i lv DR. W. L. HARPER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 1 \ ELLIJAY, GEORGIA, Offers his professional services to the citi zens of Gilm r and cdj cent connticß All cal s prim ly fi led ny or night. Oflli L-np- Kta IS in Cent, a II >le), s'ore rismi. 4-2--ly Young men W.iowitilia Ihorouoh prepaiation 101 Busines will find tmperior advantages at MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY. ALLANTA, GA. T.is largest and best Practical Business Schoo in the South. can en*f" V any time. .ygj-Send for circulars. y f , T -THE-: JiMKENGE PURE LINSEED OIL n MIXED CLINTS READY FOR USE. IT The Best Paint Made. Guaranteed to oontain no water, bansina, barytaa, chemical*, rubber, a*ba*toa, roam, gloaa oil, or otiler similar adulterattona. A full guarantee on every package and directions for uaa, so that any one not a practical painter can use ti. Handaoma sample cards, shewing •0 beautiful shades, mailsd fra* on application. If not kept by your dealer, write to ua. tS* l*TSfiw laid is M'll |**4st W. W. LAWRENCE I C 0 riTT*BIIIOH, PA. THE ELLIJAY COURIER TRY IT. j Could I write, with ink unfading. One brief code for youths sod men; Could I show its all-pervading Power in progress, I would pen,— Try it Magic words these, born in fceaven; Dows by thoughtful angels hurled ; Blighted, man to doom is driven; Heeded, they give man the world;— Try it | Luck judgment wed to Labor; Pluck, the handmaid of Boceess, Toil to Truth should be aMgfabor; Honor brings her own redress ; Try it ” * .. Starry orbs yet call the absent ; Earth’s past age is still unread; Nations seek the wise, thejrudeat; Thi armies nv V be led;— How did Watt to steam give motion? Locke, trace purports of mind? How Columbus cross the ocean? How did Luther change mankind?— They tried it How Did Homer write his epic? How did Scott compose his layff How did Mendelssohn,Jiis music?. Bow did Sh*fcpg* rewrite his plays!— They'tried it IP** it was, will be forever: M “To be” man has an view, Man must live with firm endeavor Well to think, then plan, then do;— Try it- • \ * — T. C. Judkins, in'the Current. BY THE WAVES. “And why we numed hA Muriel, is a mystery to me,” said good Mrs. Doyle, toldiD" up her mending. '■'Mary Jane or Hunnnh Marin would have been jest as good and a sight more suitable; but I read novels when I was young, and I sec that name somewhere, and it kinder pleased me—so I must gd and call her Muriel.” And, indeed, Muriel Doyle was little like her sweet, ethereal name. A strong, lithe, healthy fisherman’s daughter, with brown eyes, brown hair, brown cheeks, brown hnndsjhands that could wield an car or trim a sail as weH as her father’s own. A veritable child Of J nature, wild and free as the place she loved so well; apd, yet, not ignorant and uncultured. Muriel Doyle was well veracd in the lore of books, and nature had given to her the ease and grace of dignity that others get bv culture. -My sea tUMfier father called her; and the name was like the wild glad young thing. When tt~* r—u -1---i her i.bjut the house, tb.v always sou'ri'j her by the sea, and they, always found her, strolliug idly down nur*- • -v-jr ■tpndgras ftuveT ~, . f tees, and,??, -big the surges ¥. , Slr.'" "j J ttc waAf, ywld in gufle-' loss livual sriand ftrom art; but’ in maunTty of brain and heart she was a woman at seventeen, t * Half a mile from iottage of the Doyles, a grand new', hotel was being buUt; another season would see their quiet home turned into a seaside resort, and Muriel was not pleased at the thought of the coming change. She loved her wild rocks and lonely beach as they were, and she did not want to see them changed to fashionable promenades. But Muriel’s dissatisfaction could not change the as pect of affairs; she knew that the fash ionables were surely coming. She was thinking, rather sorrowfully, and perhaps a little unamiably of that, as she wandered down the sands one day, thinking how she was soon to be driven from her favorite haunts, and a bright flame came into her eyes and checks, and she stamped her foot upon the sand and exclaimed aloud: “They shall not drive me away! I will not exile myself from the sea because they come!” And then she stopped sud denly and caught her breath ; for turn ing around a point of jagged rocks, Mu riel was upon the vanguard of. the in vaders. Two young men—one of them a com monplace, handsomish young fellow —sat upon a stone, and held a portfolio upon his knee—a skctcher. The other stood leaning against a rock beside him, and looking down indifferently upon the half-finished sketch on his companion’s i knee. A tall, grave man, of twenty- j seven, perhaps, with a magnificent head, \ from which he had removed his hat; dark, half-curling short hair; eyes blue, and dark and splendid; a face that was perfect in beauty, and a commanding, stately figure, half-covered by a loose cloak flung over one shoulder; a very handsome man, but grave to sadness; a man who had suffered, and not lightly. ; Muriel hesitated for a moment whether j to go back or to pass them; then a proud impulse bade her to go on. Both looked up as her light step crossed the sands, { and both bowed when she slightly : glanced at them. They were gentlemen. She inclined her head a little as she passed. The next moment she heard the young er of the two whisper; “Wliat a striking face! Wonder if ' she would let me sketch her?” “Hush! She will hear you,” warned the other; and Muriel, turning, saw the half contemptuous curl of his lip. “I have heard,” she said, quietly, com ing back. “You may sketch my face, if you choose.” "May I? A thousand thanks. “Noneat all, if you please,” returned Muriel, composedly seating herself, and drawing her shawl about her. “I am curious to see a picture of myself. Shall I take off my hat?” “If yon will be so good,” and Muriel lifted the broad hat from her brown curls, and quietly proceeded to sit for her protrait. The young man sketched busily away, making no effort to conceal Ms admira , tion of his “subject;” an admiration to which Muriel was quite indifferent. Meanwhile the second gentleman, who had not spoken, atood silently studying the <ace that his companion sketched. It was well worth studying; no ordi nary face, though not wonderfully beau tiful. The brown evea and graceful features, and smiling, red Ups were pretty and attractive, but there was a certain power and attraction in Muriel’s face which Vt did not owe to its pretties**, which would have been there still, bad the grown plain. It vu an enpreMion not easily trass “A MAP OF BUST LIFE—ITS FLCCTCATIOXS AXD ITS FAST COXCEHXS. '• ferred to paper, and the tall gentleman looked somewhat contemptuously upon the finished sketch, when it was handed to him for judgment; then he remarked; “The lady is' a better judge,” and passed it to Muriel. She glanced at, shook her head and smiled, and returned it to the aketchor. He colored a little, as he asked: “Well, do you hke it ? is it goodP’ “It will do; but I could make a bet ter,” said Muriel briefly. “Do you sketch?” he asked, wonder ingly; and he did not think she saw or understood nis glance at her dress, and from that to the cottage, which he guessed was her home. But she did, and smiled slightly, ss she answered: “Sometimes.” “Will you—” he hesitated, then of fered her his portfolio, “will you show me a specimen?” “Your face?” queried Muriel, as she quietly received the materials. He assented, and bending over the paper, she shortly returned to him an outline sketch of his face; not a finished sketch at all, but so like that it was wonderful. He looked from the picture to her, then laughed and said: “Upon my word, I shall take care how I display my amateur attempts again,lest I flourish them in the fsce of a genius 1” Muriel smiled carelessly, and rising from her rocky seat, was about to go, when the silent gentleman spoke: “Pardon me, would you sketch me?” For answer, Muriel resumed her seat and took up her pencil again. Now and then, as she worked, she glanced at the grave stranger, and her own face seemed to catch the shadow from it, growing, almost as grave as his. She gave more finish and completeness to this picture than she had bestowed upon the first. As she was about to hand it to the “original,” a sudden impulse caused her to withhold it, an arch smile took the Elace of her gravity, and bending low er head, till the curls fell over and con cealed her work, she added a few strokes about the mouth and on the brow ; then, with a laugh dancing in her eyes, she placed it in his hand. It was his face, as real; a* vivid almost as its reflection in a glass; but his face transfigured. The cloud of sadness was replaced by a smile: supba warm, trank,- glowing smile as gladdens the heart to see it; “the,real sunshine of feeling,” . At first he looked at it in a puazled way, as if wondering what she had-done f to his face, until his companion, lookiqg over his shoulder, uttered au exclamation, of surprise, and then burst out: ‘ n 4 ‘Owen, I believe she has second tight! She has drawn you as you looked si* years ago, in the college days. Old fel low, if youkne: v >wmnYny Y>rrßm.““ ■ WHLJWWf’s dark-blue eyes brightened for a moment with something akin to the smile that gkiriP-^ythfh l in the picture; then he sighec ~ grew sud ytgaiu. ~ "v'bJ, {b; cv*?"* b' wJfc * “You are asi brancher ing curiously at " . ' 'Tlo you know what I would give to feel again as you have made me look?” “You are rich, I suppose,” answered Muriel, simply; “and you would give your whole fortune —at least, I would, in your place.” A look of perfect agony swept across his handsome face, and he cried, passion ately : “I would! girl, I am very rich, and I would give ten times as great wealth, if I had it, to bring back ”he stopped, abruptly, and turned away. He came back immediately, and again addressing Muriel, thanked her for the picture; and then, aS she was turning away, he hesi tatingly asked her name. “Muriel Doyle,” she quietly replied. “And mine is Egbert Owen,” he said. “Will you remember my name and me?” She bowed, smiled, and walked lightly away, never glancing back, though she knew they watched her till the rocks hid her from their sight. “What a handsome man he was,” she soliloquized, walking up the beach toward her home. “But how sad and grave, and how sorrowfully he spoke. I wonder what his trouble, is perhaps he is in love and she won’t have him. She must he a perfect idiot 1” Muriel did remember Egbert Owen. That was her first adventure, and he was its hero (for she scarcely thought of the others): but she never thought to meet him again. The winter passed away and the sum mer came again, and with it came the crowd of visitors to the new hotel. Muriel's quiet haunts were made to i ling with gayety, and since their seclusiou was gone their chiefest charm was lost for her. Yet still she sometimes sought them, at times when she was not likely to meet the fashionables. On one of these occasions she was sitting among the rocks when two women came and rat down, nearer her, but out of sight, and talked. Muriel scarcely heard them, until one ! mentioned a familiar name; then she listened intently. “Yes,” one of them had remarked, 1 ‘she was married yesterday so the banker from Chicago. “I expected it loqg ago,” sagely ob served lady number two. “By the way, i did you ever hear of the affairs between | her and Egbert Owen?” “No, indeed; what about it?” “She was engaged to him,” said the other. ‘ ‘lt was some years ago, before he went to California. He just about wor shiped her, they say, and she pretended ,to be very devoted to him; it is likely she wanted his money. Well, one day, she got hold of that trumped-up story about insanity in his family, and she broke off the engagement, all in a flash. “The poor fellow was half crazy, but she would not listen to one word from . him. She treated him shamefully,called him an imposter, and accused him of de ceiving her, and sent him away, half maddened. My cousin, Dr. Thorne, says if there had been a particle of in ! sanity in his veira, it would have shown itself then. But that is all a story. The only instance of insanity in the family was a sort of cousin by marriage; but that was enough to make a rumor, of | coarse.” “An that explain* Egbert Owen's mel ancnoly ways, I suppose?'* queried ths otbft. “Yes; he has never been the tame man since. He went off to California, 1 and only came back last year. He is so eheagad, poor fellow. Was thet the I luoch belli Dear me’ we shall be leu!* j and the two up to the hotel. ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY l>, 1886. And Muriel went home, and thought more than ever of Egbert Owen. The summer and the early autumn waned, and the guests, one’ by one, went home from f the great hotel by the sea, till Only two or three were left; and Muriel took to walking on the sands and chasing the surges again. She was standing on the beach, one glor ious autuma day, watching the sea-gulls at their phty, when a fcep came to her ride. “Muriel Doyle'” - She turned quickly;knowing the voice. It was Egbert Owen. A smile, that she was quick tc see, can* into his face, and he said, jgeutly: “You five remembered me, then?” “I have remembered you, Mr. Owen.” “Am I changed?”fi<3 asked. replie4*lowly, looking into his face, {Mid wiling into eyes that would emiie back now. “Yes, you are happier.” “I am hap XoFid DoylPj ho re aponded. Then he tufted a little, of the sea-view and the birds', and went away. But he came again Jhe next day, and the next, and Muriel learned that he was staying up'at the lonely hotel. Every day, now, he came-to meet her on the shore and she walked with’ him up and down the long, even stretch of sand; and the hour when they met ettme to be brightest of the long, bright twenty-four to Muriel. She loved Egbert Owen; she did not seek to believe otherwise. ’ “Muriel,” he said to her one day, when they sat together by the aea; “Muriel, I am going away next Week.” 4 ‘Going away!” Her cheeks grew pale, and her hand grasped tightly the hit of stick she wa? twirling. “Yes; will you gu'with me, Muriel?” Tlie'dolor came baek to her cheek, and she looked into his eyes with a shy, soft light in the brown depths of her own, but she did not speak. “Listen, Muriel, while I tell you my story,” he said. ■' And he held her little brown hand in his while he told her the story that she -had fiewd before. The story of his un happy love for a wwnan who had been so false to him, and made his Hfe so sad. ‘‘Sheik married he added. “I presume she will be happy with licr hus band ; I hope she wl0? I have ceased to care for h*f.” * Muriel did not telf h?m then that h had heard the story before. ? “Yes,” Answered Muriel. Doyle, who will not go to live in there, insists that the reason she knows Muriels husband is* a little conceited about his handsome face, is because the . only mcturc.in his * ocn °Lj W o * 4 1 300 - if 7° u ’ believe told Mr. Doyle. ' J t i* Cos agree*. Of mss i the roughest dia ntoQi jWI lh ttitrmjasirof - RepA sared in the cabin of his fat-.. .itionary soldier, who j was a pettier in Tennessee, he be came notedas a marksman, a bear ! hunter and An Indian fighter. In due time he was sent to the legislature, and in 1827 he came to Congress. Wearing a homespun suit, with a waistcoat made from the skin of a panther which he had shot, he attracted some attention, and the most absurd stories were told of his prowess. He told some good stories, but the greater part of his remarks were coarse and vulgar. It so happened, how ever, that he became arrayed against General Jackson on an Indian bill, and , when the President sent a friend to him j to tell him that he must support the bill if he desired re-election he replied, “I believe the measure is unjust and wicked, j and I shall fight it, let the consequences be what they may. I am willing to go with General Jackson in everything I be lieve right and honest, but beyond this I wont go for any man in creation. I would sooner be honest and politically blanked than hypocritically immortal ized.” The Whigs took him up, and he visited Philadelpma, New York and Bos ton, receiving marked attention and many presents in each city. When he re turned to Tennessee and went into the canvnss he found that President Jackson was too much for him, and he was beaten by about 300 votes. He went to Texas, where he fought gallantly, and was killed when the Alamo was taken and its garrison was slaughtered. His sou, John W., served as a whig in Congress from 1837 to 1841. He then removed to | New Orleans, where he edited a paper ■ for a while, and then returned to Ten nessee, where he died ih 1852. Several lives of Crockett were pi it dished, written by others. Of the many sayings credited to him the most popular one waq “Be sure you're, right; then go ahead.”—Bos ton Budget. TJie Liquor Traffic. Some statistics.as to the retail liquor trade of the United States are interesting and instructive. There are in ail the States 201,435 persons selling ardent spirits at retail under United Btute3 licenses. The proportion of saloons to inhabitants in some of the States forms a curious study. In California there is a saloon to each seventy inhabitants, or to each seventeen voters. In Illinois there is a saloon to each 280 persons, or about one to each sixty voters. In New York the proportion is one to 150, in Ohio, one to 204. in Pennsylvania one to 205. The prohibition States show the following re sults : Inhab -Btat.es, (Saloons, itants. Voters. Maine 1 585 100 lowa I 406 83 ' Kansas 1 448 66 Illinois stands ahead in whiskey pro duction, with 30,488,338 gallon iof ar dent spirits annually. Its annual malt liquor prodtfM is 37.330,273 gallons. In wiiisky, Kentucky. Indiana and Ohio follow next after Illinois. New York is the Empire State in l>ecr as in other things, except whisky, with the enormous production of 200,000.000 gallons a year. The revenue derived by the govern ment from the manufaetdre of apirits and malt liquors is $85,742,052 a year, of which about seventy eight per rent, i* from spirit* and twentv-two per rent, from mult liquor*. Illinois pay* one quarter of this total t* x.—Chicago Jour nal. The valu* of the consent* of a barrel of crude petroleum r mto. from eighty *i< rent* io sl. while Vb* value of the barrel itself u $1.50. | MIRTHFFL YARNS. niMonors sketches from % VARIOUS SOURCES. Why He Went Away Left All Around—No Chance ftor the Presidency—^Wonder ful Machine. Cho’.ly (trying to bo funny; time, 11 p. M.j—“l say, Aurelia, tell me what is the difference between that clock and me.” Aurelia (artlessly)—“You tell me.” Cholly—“Because it is not fast and I —hal ha! See the point?" Aurelia (as before) —“Oh! yes; but ; there’s another difference. The clock is j not going and you—he! he! See the point?”—Oft. Left nil Around. “Well,” observed the bank president to the leading director, “the cashier seems to have cleaned out things pretty thoroughly.” “Where is he?” “Gone to Canada.” i “Then the bank is left,” replied the director, ruefully. iT Ye.\" responded the president with a sigh,” and that is about nil he did leave.” —New York Graphic. No Chance for the Presidency. “Mamma,” mid a little Fifth ward boy lugubriously the other day, as he laid down a volume of biographical sketches of tlye Presidents, “I don’t believe 111 be a President. I ain’t got the chance, I wasn’t haling up right.” , “Why, child, you have the same chance that other little boys have.” “N°f I ain’t; I wasn’t born in a log cabin, nov I ain’t drove a team on the canal, nor had to rqad the spellin’ book by the light of a pine, knot, nor had to split rails, nor nothin’ like the rest of the boy* who got there. I tell you, mother. I’m handicapped on this Presidential question. " Gazette. The Sewing Circle's Noble Work. Hobbs— envy you ladies the pleasures'of tb* sewing circle. Just think, too, of tb* vast good accomplished j Vy your nimble fingers, for the poor." Mr* Fogg—“Yts, wo are all so inter evtiKl in the Work. I don’t believe you could keep any of us away from the meet ings.” Hobbs -“What is the result of t)mse%- signs of sm,'/ 1 ticcTu cd minister’s wife i* a lazy, good f or-nothing woman; that unless young Spriggs proposes to Miss Brown soon, old Brown will be justified in using stern measures ; that Mrs. Bangle is a deceitful woman in.telling around that her bonnet oost $23 When it didn’t Coß t any such as good for $5; that Miss Barnes iB the homljest woman in town,and a few other things of minor importance. Then, beside this, we’ve about resolved to de vote two weeks of next winter to sewing for the poor of the village.— Tid-Bite. A Wonderful Machine. “A wonderful machine” is thus de scribed by a writer in Mechanical Pro gress-. When I was laying the founda tion of my mechanical fame and fortune n few years ago, I boarded in a house filled with locomotive engineers and fire men. A practice prevailed there of en livening the supper table with social con versation, and, the locomotive party being in the majority, the leading tneme of talk was stupendous feats performed iti railway runs, varied by minor inci dents and records of narrow escapes. George Dewhirst, who ran a lathe in the shop, sat opposite to me at the table, and he got tired of being excluded from the conversation. He became ambitious to hear himself talk in that crowd. One evening, catching on a lull in the con versation, he called out loudly to me. “Well, I went over and saw that, ma chine to-day, and it is astonishing the fine work it does j” “How does it work?” I inquired. “Well,” said he, “by means of a pedal attachment a fulcrumed lever converts a vertical reciprocating motion into circu lar movement. The principal part of the machine is a dise which revolves rap idly on a vertical plane. Power is ap-| plied through the axis of the dise, and, ; when the speed of the driving arbor is ] moderate, the periphery of the machine is traveling at great velocity. Work is i done on this periphery. Pieces of the ; hardest steel are by mere impact reduced to any shape the skillful operator desires.” “What on earth is the machine?” do- j mantled a listener. “Oh! it is anew grindstone,” replied George; and a silence that rould be felt passed round the supper table. He Had Been Invited. “Good morning. Mr. Johnson,” said a young man 1o an elderly and near-sighted passenger, who had come off without his glasses; “going up to town?” “Yes; got to do a lotof trading at the stores an’ i don’t know how on airth I’ll get along without my glasses.” “Getting ready for the wedding, I suppose.” i “Yes; my darter Emmer is goin’to git i married. She an’ that good-for-nothin’ Hank Williams hev made a match of it at last. I thought that young man would never get down to business. He’s as slow as sorghum molasses in January, and as shiftless as an Injun. I don’t believe he can earn his salt, an’ I s'pose I’ll have to f support him.” i "But, Mr. Johnson—” “Oh. he’s good enough for Emmer. That’s the worst giri I ever raised. She hain't a bit like her mother, nor like inc, nuthcr. A fine |>onr man's wife she'll make. Beside, she he/, bunions her feet as big as early rose potaters, an' she kin eat morc'n a hoss. An’ that ain't the worst on't. If twan't for her mother that girl wouldn’t keep herself dean, and she never thinks o’ slickin’ up her h*ir nor puttin’ on somethin’ nice 'cept when company'* expected. She’s a reg'lar slouch, Emmer is, an' he kin wear out seven pair of shoes a year. But she’* good enough for that Hank Williams, an' if he only support* her I'll be glad to git her off my band*, fi'pote you’ve got an invite to the weddiaT’ •*Ye*. I’m invited. You don't teem to know me. Mr. Johnson?" "Yfi ( (\t* t Hut | juU n||/'C toy* Le me see -1 haven t gotMygieiSM with me—but I know you. Your name is— is—” flank Williams, Chicago Her- TBE ROME DOCTOR. New Treatment of Spratna. The Therapeutic Gazette calls attention to anew method of treating sprains, recommended by a Canadian surgeon. Dr. J. L. Bcherer. Every one whose practice throws him in the way of treat* mg sprains is frequently annoyed by the slowness with which the injured part re covers. The practitioner we have just named, being quite dissatisfied with the usual plans of treatment, was led to em ploy clay as an external dressing. He uses the ordinary brick clay, free from gravel, dry and finely pulverized in a mortar, then mixed with just sufficient water to form a thick paste. This is spread upon muslin to the thickness of a quarter of an inch, applied to the part, and over this a rubber roller baudage is placed just tightly enough to keep the dressing from shifting, and also to retain the moisture. At the expiration of twenty-four or thirty-six hours the dress ing must be renewed. The writer re ports a number of eases of sprain in which this treatment was used with great satisfaction, the cure of what were considered very severe sprains being ef fected in eight to ten days, while the pain subsided in eleven cases after the twenty-four hours’ application of the cool clay dressing. Various Remedies for tlie Toot hache. The ordinary nervous toothache, which Is caused by the nervous system being out of order or by excessive fatigue, a hot bath will so soothe the nerves that sleep will natuarlly follow, and, upon getting up, the patient will feel very much re freshed and the toothache will be gone. For what is known as “jumping" tooth ache, hot, dry flannel applied to the face and neck is very effective. For common toothache, which is caused by indiges tion, or by strong sweet acid or anything very hot or cold in a decayed tooth, a little piece of cotton, steeped In strong camphor or oil of cloves, is a good rem edy. Care in the diet, especially when the bowols are disordered, is helpful to mitigate tho toothache. If the tooth is muon decayed, nothing is better than its extraction. —Phrenological Journal. Headache. Tve fiucj tba.Joll®"’.*— ” “We desire to call attention to a simple, and at the same time wonderfully efficient, treatment for headache. We lay no claim to originality, nor do we know who the originator was, but having used it for a year or more, and in mauy cases with re markable results, we feel disposed to give cur ihdOTemnt, and desire to make it mom genwiptilv known. The remedy is nothing more or less than a solution hi the bisulphide of carbon. A wide mouth glass-stoppered bottle is half filled with cotton or fine sponge, and upon this two or three drachma of the solution are poured. When occasiou for its uso occurs, the.mouth of the bottle is to bo applied to the temple or as near as pos sible to the seat of pain, so closely that none of tho volatile vapor may escape, and retained there four or five minutes or longer. For a minute or so nothing is felt, then comes a sense of tingling, which in a few minutes—three or four usually— becomes rather severe, but which sub sides almost immediately if the bottle be removed, and any redness of the skin that may occur will also subside. It may bo reapplied if necessary, several times in the day, apd it generally act* UWurogic, gives immediate relief. Wo behove this was the basis of a once popular nostrum. The class of headaches to which it seems especially adapted is that which may be grouped under the broad term of “nervous.” Thus neuralgic, periodic and hysterical headaches are almost in variably relieved by it. True, the re lief of a mere sympton is quite another thing from the removal of the cause, yet no one who has had the distress, and even agony, caused by severe and frequent recurring headaches (and who has not seen it?) but will rejoice to be able to afford relief in so prompt and simple a manner; beside, it secures the hearty gratitude of the patient if he has suffered long. As to the modus operandi, we have nothing more definite than a theory to offer, and that the vapor being absorbed through the skin produces a sedatjve effect upon the superficial nerves of the parts to which it is applied. Wc know by ex periment that its influence is not due to its power as a counter-irritant. We, however, know that it does act, and if we do not clearly see in what way it acts, that is no more than can be said of sev eral other remedies which are firmly es tablished in professional favor and con fidence. A Southwestern Dinner Bill of Fare 8. G. Bayne, who has returned from n trip to the southwest, gives us the style of “a ten-minif’ dinner in Indian Terri tory, as called out by a lady of Juno esque stature at a railroad depot: MEM’. “Superfish. Bing! “Stakcrlivcr.” Bang! “Pieorpud.” Bung! “Tcareough.” Sling! 'Chccscercraekcrs. ” Slang! “Nutscrapples.” Slung! All out! Fifty cents! Awlaboard! Pli—wiz! —Bradford Era. Kentucky ha* 14,000 square mile* ol i coal field*; Pennsylvania 12,0H0 mile*; i Great Britain, entire, 11,850 miles, and England alone, 6,050 mile*. The wealth I of Pennsylvania i* largely due to the de ve'opuient of the coal in that State, and the importance of England in the Indus trial world is due to a similar came. In New York it Is becoming customary to use umbrella* os a shield against the glare of the electric light* on clear j tights. OWE DOLLAR Per Annum. In Advaaes. THE MISSISSIPPI. Great Wanderer' Unknown the past When with Prong band the rod of Nature smote The rock that gave thee birth. At laat 1 The tiny lakelets of the North o’orflowd And pascent streamlets blu’bling free, United in one mighty band and swept, W ith flow majestic to the sea. In Vain Wyoming’s Tetons tower! Their glacii-1 peaks by Titans Ugh upreeraii Dissolve, and thy rwfetfem power O’er peaceful valleys scatters then-domains Or bears them to the Gulf to aid ( The coral rear foundations for new- toads, With the magnolia’s bloom arrayed. The Ice King only curbs thy might, Till biasing suns on wings of Spring His reign o’erthrow. Then gorges hltgfat The mighty forests, and before their walls ' The works of man are crushed like she Is Tumultuous floods tboir awful vengeance sate On the show victims of thy dells. Thy branches like the elm outspread; From out the pinelauds of the distant North, From the far Western watershed, Aud from the Alleghenies’ wilds remote Incessant tributes flow to thee; Nor pause thy currents in the Gulf, but warmed. Sween onward to the Arctic aea. William HoteaßaUou, in Graphic. PITH AND POINT Transported for life. Thd man WtuT marries happily. Last summer the Tories gave Ireland an inch, and now they have got to take a Parn-cll. —Lowell Courier. It is worth noting that Ajax defied the lightning before the Jersey, brand was discovered.— Nett Haven 'Nett*. „ “Kerosene oil is going up,” says'an exchange. Undoubtedly; so is” the stove, so is tho hired girl.— Nett Haven Netcs. A student, of human nature says anyS thing can be sharpened. Put a lead pencil in a woman’s hands and see.— Binghamton Republican. There arc one hundred different kinds of cheese made in France. Bat thggftjc one made in Germany that c*V : them all.— Eratuville ‘sSaEh 2£a!S2 blazes to get something to eat.—Bant tille Breeze. “Will you carve?” ssked the landlady of young Sawbones, who is in college. “Certainly; where is the body?—l mean, bring on the meat,” correcting himself as best he could. — Tid-Bitt. We often feel peculiar, * As through this world wa rang*; But of all our funny feelings Perhaps the one most strange .hoi"we know when with vigor A'e shoot one foot in the air To break tho ribs of the boll-dog That jumps and isn’t there. You enn accomplish almost anything with a man if you will take the precau tion to give him a good dinner. A man, it will bo observed, resembles a horse in this regard. A horse is ungovernable until you put a bit in his mouth.— Boston Transcript. Ills LITTLE SCEHME. The man with six daughters he wished were all wed Worked gleefully early and late, • At time; when be ought to have been in his bed, Constructing a patent front gate. “This now ought catch ’em,' 1 soUlcx l ” 1 —* ho.'ctbo ito a precious old dunce; A great scheme for trimming the family . tree! Six couples can swing here at once.” — Tid-Bit*. Fifty Tears Ago. A stray copy of the Christian A''V(/cato and Journal and Zion's Herald gives a strange glirupse of the world in 1839. It is dated August 10. Cholera raged hi New York, and carried off one hundred Eersons a day. A subscriber in Edin urgh, Scotland, complains of the postal authorities, who to detained his papers that seven copies came to him at once, for which he was charged £1 11s. lOd. postage. A little colony had daringly departed for “the remote river of Ore gon,” by way of Vera Cruz and Acapulco, the report or a fight in Texas stands un der the heading “Foreign Intelligence.” The paper has several allusions to “the cnterjrise of modern times;” and con denses a report roently published by Congress “ou the use of steam-carriages on common roads.” Anew vehicle is described, in the use of which accidents from explosion are impossible; a’'d the report doses with the .statement that “railroads, except in very peculiar situa tions, are behind the age,” and the “de cided opiuios” that “those who embark capital in constructing them will l>e great losers.” But the changes indicated are not all secular. The contributions re ceived by the treasurer of the missionary society during the preceding week were $58.27(1), and among other articles pre pared for the edification of the devout is ; one entitled “To Pious Dealers in Ardent 1 Spirits.”— Christian, Adeocate. Origin of Social flames. The city of Salem, Mass., is celebrated for her witches, and their persecutors, and her East Indian commerce in the past; and for the Indian museum and “oldest church” at the present day, and to these wc may add the honor of pub lishing ihe first modern social games t hit achieved any considerable popularity in ( this country. Iu 'IB4B Miss Annie W. Abbott, of Beverly, a clergyman's daughter, offered tor publication to Mr. 8. B. Ives of Sakm, anew game of cards | which she called “Dr. Busby.” Although I the price asked was very low, there wa* no recognized demand for such merchan ! disc and the manuscript was declined, ; but later Mr. Ives decided to undertake 1 it* publication, which proved an immense ! and unexpected success. Tale game will i bo remembered by many of the parents of the present diy as among the earliest ! ever learned and |>o eibly played at first ' on the sly, fearful of a reprimand should ! the report reach h*idq out tort that they ' were “playing cards. "—Good Hovsoktty One of Usclc Bam'# nail tags at Ora** Valley, Cal., was destroyed by the gnaw ing of some rata, which baa a strong •cant for wedding cake. NO. 8.