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THBRLLMAV GOIMIKK
W. S. COLEMAN,
Editor and Publisher.
BLUJAY. OA., KoVr'MBKU 5, I—7
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OFFICIAL OkIAN op UILMKR 00.
Official Organ of Pick 00.
WE MEAN THIS.
We mull have what each one
iadueus. Mr. KTby'a retirement
from the Courier renders it abso
lutely necessary that ail settle up
at once. We shall expect every
nan who comes to town during
Court week to call in and settle
kia account, no matter who you
are. No exceptions made. Some
kayo promptly paid up as asked,
others must. This will be our
LAST appeal throucb the Courier
—so settle up; we mean it.
The Canton Advance wants Sam
Jones to give its town a few of his
broad aides. The great evangelist
generally wakes up a town when
he lake bold of it.
Henry W. Grady was presented
last week, so says the Dalton Ar
gus, with a $1,200 silver service
by the people of Atlanta. Henry
la Atlanta's pet, and well does he
bear the distinction.
Governor Gordon has goue to
the State orOhio to speak for the
democracy of that State, and to
vindicate the South from the Han
derous attacks Demagogue Fora-
Eer of that Stale has made.
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The Senatorial race in this dis
trict will no doubt be a lively con
test, We sniff from the political
gales that tnoro than one or two
candidates will offer to immolate
themselves on the altar of their
country’s welfare. Let them
eotne, the more the merrier. The
Courier proposes to carry a free
lance in this fight, if it wants to.
The Dawsonville News says:
"The town of Blue Ridge, in Far.*
nin county, is ou a boom. The
boom is committed to paper am!
looks very nice.”
We refer Bro. Monroe to last
week’s Courier in which a state
ment of (he progressol Blue Ridge
was given. This section is on the
uprise, and so will D.iwson coun
ty when Bro. Monroe gets him a
railroad. Come over and see us,
and you will see a town not made
en paper, but of substantial houses
with energelio and pushing men.
THE GEORGIA WE EELY
PH ASS
The recent change ef editorial
management in the Macon T le
graph has resulted in great good
to that paper. Among the 1 girl*
of Georgia journalism no paper
•hows cleaner methods or a future
brighter with promise than this
daily, with Editor Richardson ai
its helm. It recently contained
the loltowing manly tribute to
the weekly press of Georgia :
“Among the visitors to the S'ale
Fair ara a number of the editors
of the weekly press of the S'ate.
We believe that without, excep
tion the weekly press of Georgia
re unsurpassed by that ot any
state in the Union, The smaller
cities and the towns of Georgia
should account themselves fortu
nate in haying such newspapers
as those which once a week visit
the homes of their citizens. A
mong these papers are many
which may be considered models.
In their high tone, in their dis
criminating intelligence, in their
lively spirit of enterprise, they
are ornaments to Georgia journal
ism. And we are thankful that
we still have the genuine country
editor in Georgia. A rare and
delightful character is he whose
native genius is untrammelled by
auy of the conventionalities of the
profession, and whose individual
ity asserts itsell on all occasions.
A fine fellow is the country edi
tor. When this figure fades away
journalism will lose some of its
keenest wit, some of its truest in
sight, much of its most incorrup
tible houor.
To the gentlemen or the week
ly press the Telegraph extends
the heartiest welcome. Whether
they be enterprisiug men who are
advancing metropolitan ideas and
supplying city papers to rural
constituencies; or whether they
be lbs genuine representatives ol
iiiicontamuia led country journal*
ism with its sweat fresh humor,
Bue native sense, its rugged hon
esty, ami its immaculate integrity
i wbatdvtr the clmc they may rop
reseat) or whatever the sphere
they may fill, the Telegraph wel
comes toils home oue and all ot
lb# representative ol the weekly
frsss of Georgia.''
FANNIN COUNTY ITEMS.
Ht Superior Court Meets and
Transacts a Large Amount of
Business.—Notes and
Observations, Etc.
The regular tail term of Finnic
i Superior Court lull session la-i
I week in Morgantou, Ilia Honor
Judge James H. Bro An presiding,
ami Solicitor General George F.
Gober representing the common
wealth.
An unusually large amount n(
business was dispatched by the
Court—more Ilian has been done
in years before in (he same length
of lime. M ist cases were small
and did not involve much, but
consumed the time of Court jusi
ihe same as important ones.
The Baugh Brick case, in which
the Masonic Lodge at E.hjay is a
party, was continued on account
of the absence of some main wit
nesses.
The case of the Stale against
John Stewart for assault with in
tent to murder was tried, and ac
quitted; as was the case of Jack
i'inson for a like offense, with ihe
same result. These were the most
important rases on the criminal
docket tried at this session. A
young man, Richardson, was tried
on a charge of seduction and was
found guilty of bastardy, and was
fined S2OO and cost, which was SBO,
ortwelve months in the chaingang.
A number of minor cases were
tried and otherwise disposed of so
that the docket was finished uu
Friday night. Saturday morning
was consumed in signing orders,
passing sentences, etc.
The rain poured down all week,
and the usual “court week and
rain” was had at this session, how
ever, the Courier man met many
of liis friends and acquaintances.
The town of Morganton where
court is held in that .county, is one
of the oldest towns in North Geor
gia. The place is high and dry—
in the summer—being about 2,-
000 feet above sea level, and is
situated on one ofjtlie healthiest
ridges in Georgia. Air fresh from
ihe top of the Blue Ridgo peaks
envelop this knoll in its lifegiving
buoyancy which, witli'its water,
nnk-s Morganton one of the heal
iliiesi summer resorls in all this
up country. Some ol Fa mins most
substantial citizens and leading
men reside in this old county
site, who have stood by and
watched every fluctuation of her
vicissitude and her fortune. The
Methodist church at Morganton
is the best church building in Ihe
county. Its modest spire shoots
up in the Southeastern portion of
lhe town, and the sonorous ring
of its bell-tonea echoes among its
surrounding hilltops. Hon Emo
ry Speer donated this bell, and
Captain Jim Slate hauled it from
Cleveland, White county, to Mor
gaulon. How suggestivi I The
doner a man of destiny, now grac
ing a Federal judicial bench, the
ol her following the quite way ol
an unpretentious citizen.
Tlia B.ibt'st chinch shows the
touch of decay and the gnaw of
the tooth of time. But the citi
zens will soon erect anew and ap
propriate church in place of Ihe
old one.
Morganton, among other feat
ures, lias a number of handsome
and lovely young ladies. With
out these, of course, it would be
no town hardly.
The Courier man was the re
cipient of many courtesies at (lie
hands of Cap. J. M. Slate. Alto
gether our trip was a very pleas
ant one, —the hilly country be
tween Blue Ridge and Morganton
jolting one just enough during
the drive in one of John Gray’s
nobby livery stable turnouts.
In regaid to how our efficient
and fearless Solicitor General,
Honorable George F. Gober,
is esteemed by the press of his
judicial district; we clip the fol
lowing from the Mineral Bluff
Gazette: “O.i* ol the most vigi
lant Solicitor General in the State
is the Hon. Geo. F. Goler, of the
Blue Ridge circuit. Forcible in
debate, but. alway 8 courteous to
opposing counsel, he with stolid
firmness insists that the law shall
be vindicated and society protec
ted. Though yet a young man,
Mr. Gober has already reached a
high standard in hia profession
and is much respected by ir's fel
lows and his constituent*,”
Rev. Sam Jones raised #30,000
in Birmingham, Ala., for (he Y.
M. 0. A. in two sermons. Sam
always gets there when lis talks.
He it now doing eflective work In
Atlanta for the prohibitionists.
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I lid ms i, plant a I'crsa glove, fur each
of ymir children. It wilt i ibe u*i hi
vu#inrin you eta tanks fur ibcrn.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
After resting a few days, to re
cuperate from the exhaustion ol
Ins great tour of nearly 5 030 miles,
through seventeen B'ates, lb
-I'residtul, with characteristic en
ergy and earnestness, has resumed
tiis public duties —being now
cheifly engaged in studying the
various annual reports ofthedil
lerent Federal D-pari meats, with
a view to preparing his message
lo Congress.
There are at least three impor
tant ( fleers to be appointed by
the Executive soou—Supreme
Court Judge, First Assistant Sec
retary of Slate, and Minister to
Mexico.
C -ngressmen are comiug into
the Cipital ou nearly every train,
and those not now en route will
probably be packing their bag
gage soon.
All of the Cabinet have return
ed from their vacation, and are
diligently at work, and the Su
preme Court lias been in session
severel weeks —the docket con
taining a remarkable number of
interesting cases.
In tact, I may say that the Na
tional Capital, please and at the pros
pect of all the wheels of the Gov
ernment resuming their revolu
tion, is throwing off the airof dul 1 -
ness that, to some extent, has en
compassed it since the close of
the short session of Congress, and
all Washington is delighted that
the long term, which will proba
bly continue far into next sum
mer, is near at hand, for you must
know that the presence of the Na
tional legislature is almost the
life of this beautiful city.
Recognizing the fact that Wash
ington has again become the great
centre of news and politics, the
newspaper correspondents are
flocking in and resuming their
work on the famous thoroughfare
which is fainiliuly known as
“newspaper row.”
One of Ihe Senate Committees
is already in session—that of which
Senator Cockrell is chairman,
which was appointed to investi
gate and report upon the method
of conducting business in the de
partment. Each bureau has made
a detached report of the class ol
work done by It, and fhe manner
of doing it —making altogether,
alter beirg carefully condensed
two volumes of convenient size.
One gratifying result of (his in
vestigation is the discovery that
all of the work is much nearer up
to date than when the Democrat
ic Administration came into
power.
The information thus gleaned,
if it serves no Other good purpose,
will be useful as a book of refer
ence to those not familiar with the
methods of conducting the public
business.
In Republican platforms and
newspapers one frequently sees
the brazon assertion that no ras
cals have been turned out, and no
government money found missing
under the Democratic regime,
for, as a matter of fact, as shown
by the records of the Postoffice
Department, former Republican
postmastnrs .are proved to have
defrauded the government of e
nough funds to more than pav
President Cleveland’s salary for
eigtit years—tlie amount purloin
ed being a lour.d half million.
These rascals have not only been
turned out. but they have been
compelled to turn in their ill got
ten gains, and the United Slates
is so much the richer for the rule
of reform Democracy.
Then, another considerable item
is the stealing of #30,000 by the
Repnblican financial clerk of the
Patent Office—the two together
footing up #530,000, and further
more, I doubt if the half has bem
told. Still, the dear good Repub
licans—immaculate souls that
they are—have stolen nothing
Irom Uncle Sam—that is, if we
accept their bold assertions as
facts.
Piesident Cleveland shows his
true Democracy and his earnest
desire for llie success of the Detn
ncratic candidates on (he New
York S ate ticket by contributing
his good wishes and five kundren
do.lars to the party compaign fund;
and Col. Laniout, the President’s
private Secretary, also sends a lib
eral contribution for the same pur
pose, accompanied bv a cheering
letter.
The third and fourth-class post
masters of the country want more
pay, and will meet in convention
fn this oily iu a lew weeks to urge
their wishes upon the attention of
Congress, with strong hopes ol
securing the desired results.
Yoaaf rnsii, ptsnt a Pecan grove. In a
fi’w years It *lll bes tortuue *ltuo*l wltb*
out labor oi expense.
ITCKLNB SHERI Ff~S SALES.
GEORGIA- PICKENS CUISTY.
will h* told before (a* Mart kMM
dovr <il mkl oust j la (batowa of Jasper
oa tbe Ini Tuaadajr la Dece*b*r l*T.
witb-a lb* legal hour* of sale, to lb* blfb
t binder fur ••ash, the following dcsenb
etl i.roporty to wit; Tb* undivided one
hair lium( in *a<l to part of lot of land
' No. It* in ibe I3tb dint, and 3d **etlon of
•aid i-ount)-, with conditional line* an
follow*: comment-in* at tbe north went
corner of anid lot of land, and tbence
running aouib along the original we*t
Hue of aaid lot ol ln<l to tbe public road,
known aathe Hood road, to a corner near
(be reaideneo af John Brock, tbenoe a
•outk easterly direction along aaid read
lo a rock comer made to Patterson Hood
by K. A kina, tbence a north easterly di
rection to a black oak tree an tbe original
east line of said lot, tbence north along
tbe original east line of said lot, to Ihe
original north east corner of aaid lot, and
thence weat along the original north line
of aaid lot to tbe commencing corner, tbe
said land containing one hundred and
twenty ive acreo more or lesa. Said land
levied on as tbe property of E. Akin*, hr
virtue of and to aatiary an execution is
sued from tbe Superior Court of taid
county in favor of H. D. McDaniel Gov.,
against Martha Rider, principal, sad K.
A kins surety. Tenant in possession no
tified in terms of the law. fee SB.IO.
Also at the time time and place and in
tbe manner ateresald, will be sold for
cash tbe following described property to
w it: Lot of land No. 131 lying in tbe 13th
dist. aud 3d section ot Pickens county,
said laud levied on as tbe property of W.
M. Davis aad Alfred VV. Davis by virtue
of and to satisfy two fi. fas issued from
Ibe Justice Court of tbe lOMtb dist G. M.
of said county, in favor of John Richards
against tbe aaid A. \T. Davis and \T. M.
Davis. Levy made aud returned to me
by We. A. McCoy L. C.. and tenant in
possession no’ified in terms of tbe law.
This the 28th day of Oct. 1887.
JOHN E. JOHNSON,
fee 35.50 Sheriff.
GEORGIA— GiImer County.
M.H. Spivey, administrator of Mary
C. Penland, late of said county deceased,
bas applied for leave to sell the following
lands belonging to tbe estate of said de
ceased: lots of land Nos. 290 and 291 in
tbe2slb dist. amt 2d section ot said coun
ty for tbe benefit of heirs and creditors.
All perssns concerned will show cause,
if any they can, why, at tbe November
term 1887 of ibis oourl, tbe said adminis
trator should not be allowed to sell as
applied for. Given under my hand and
official signature, th<g tbe 8J day of Octo
ber 1887, J.C. ALLEN.
Ordinary.
GEORGI A—Gilmer County.
Pursuant to an order from tbe court of
Urdinary of said county, granted at tbe
September term 1887 of said court. I will
sell in the manner governing administra
tor’s sales at the court bouse door in said
count; within the legal hours ef sale on
tbe first Tuesday in November 1887 the
following described property to wit: one
undivided half-interest in and to 40 acres
muie or less of parts of Ists of land Nos.
48 aud 81 in tbe 11th district and 2d sec
tion of said esuaty, the same being prop
erty of tbe estate of L. H. Smith, deceas
ed, it being tbe entire interest ol L. H.
Smith in the estate of L. P. Smith as set
foith in the terms and provisions of tbe
will of the said L. P. Smith. Fifteen acres
more or less of bottom land tberesn lying
by the Ellijuy Tiver and near the town-
Terras cash. This the 28th day of Sep
tember 1887. T. W. CRAIGO,
Adm’r of L. U. Smith, lateof said county
deceased.
GEORGlA—l’ickene County.
To all whom it may con-ern:
Thlrty(3o) days after this date all parties
interesl ed are hereby notifiied that* tbe
legal advertisements for tbe county ol
Pickens in said State will be changed
from the Elluaa Coukikk to the Pick
ens County Herald, a paper to be pub
lished at Jasper, Pickens county, Geor
gia. This the 2nd day of Nov, 1887.
E. Hood, Ordinary,
John E. Johnson, Sheriff.
S. K. JlcCutciikn, C. S. C.
fee 32.85. Of Said County.
State of Georgia, I
Pickens County. J
To all whom it may concern:
John M. Bwofford has in due form filed
and entered on record an appl.cation to the
undersigned for permanent letters of ad
ministration on Ihe estate of James ftwof
ford, late of said county deceased; and
this is, tlieiefore, to cite nil parties con
cerned to bliow cause, if any they can, why
on the first Monday in December 1887, I
should not pass upon said application and
grant letters ot administration to the said
applicant, John M.Swofford. Given un
der my band and official signature, this the
28th oay of October 1887 E. HOOD,
fee $3.95. Ordinary Pickens County.
IT WILL PAY YOU
If you propose going West or
North-West, to write to me. I
represent the Short Line.
Fked D. Bush, D. P. A.,
114 6m. Atlanta, Ga.
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MULLEIN.
The sweet rum, a* gathered from a tree of the
Ke name, growing along the imall streams in
Southern States, contains a stimulating ex*
recurrent principle that loosens the phlegm pro
nuctng the early morning cough, amT stimulates
the chi Id to throw off the false membrane in croup
end whooping-cough. When combined with the
healing mucilaginous principle In the mullein
plant of the old fields, present* in Taylor’s
(iteuoKEK Remedy or Sweet Gcm and Mcl-
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aSTsSiS
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MORGANTON. GEORGIA,
Will run from Morganton to Miner*.
Bluff, daily, to meet the trains. All
persons traveling can be accommodated
on his line. A ftill Livery Stable outfit
will be kept for order.
TO THE
Milling Public
fWIHE undersigned takes pleasure in in>
A forming all who contemplate building
or repairing Mills, in the best and bios
durable style, that it will be to tbeir bee
interest to consult him before employing
or closing contracts with others. Besides
being fully prepared, nfter years of study
and prictice, to do all kinds of Mill work
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French Burr Stones, Eureka Smutting
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SAW MILLS, MILL SWINDLES,
SHAFTING, GEAKING, ETC.
In short, anything in the line of Mi
Machinery.
Now, if you want anything in my line
I promise satisfaction in woikmansbip and
price. Call on or address
JW. DUCKETT
Mill Contractor,
Dee. 29-ly. ELLIAY, GA
J.W. GRAY’S
-AT
BLUE BISQE, GA.,
Is open st all hours for customers.
Persons transferred to and from Mor
gan ton at very Reasonable Rates.
Don't fail to call on the man who lias
line stork, elegant vehicles and atten
tive drivers. Sale and feed stall e
also ia connection with Livery S table.
oWkettlWii
ARK READY
To do any kind of CAR PEN! EU work
in best of style ami at onot, or LUMBER
on sboit notice is furnished by us. Wo
have two Saw Mills, Plaining Mill, etc.,
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on as short notice as any other carpenters
in the country. The personal attention of
J. W. Duckett given to such contracts.
Call on or address,
DUCKETT & BONN,
Ei.lijay, Ga.
Pomona Hill Nurseries.
POMONA, n. c.,
Two and a half miles west f Greens
boro, N. C. The main line of the R,
& D. R R. passes through the grounds
and within 100 feet of the office. Salem
trains make regular stops l twice daily
each way. Those interested in Fruit
and Frnit growing are eordially iavited
to inspect this, the largest nursery in
the State, and ene among the largest in
the South.
The proprietor has for many years
risked the leading Nnrseries North ai.d
West, and corresponded wiih these of
foreign countries gathrring every fruit
that was calculated to suit the Sooth,
both native and foreign. The reputa
tion cf Pomona Hill Nnrseries is such
that many agents going out from Greens
boro, representing other nurseries try
to leave the impression that they are
representing these nnrseries. Why do
they do it 1 Let the public answer.
1 have in stock, growing (and ear
show visitors the same) the largest sue
best stock ot trees, etc , ever shown oM|
see* ia a*y two nurseries in North
oltna, consisting of apple, peach, pear,
cherry, plum, grape, Japanese persim
mon, Japanese plum,apricots, nectarine,
Russian apricot, quinces.
Small bruit: Strawberry, raspberry,
currant, pecans. English walnuts, rhu
barb, asparagus, evergreens, shade trees
roses, ete.
Give your order to my authorised
agent or order direct from the
Correspondence solicited. Descripti.C 7
catalogues free to applicants.
Address,
J. Van. Lindlet,
6-® ly. Pomona,
Guilford county, N. C.
A ** mil
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wethers, absolutely rare. At pet
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