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VOL. V.
Forms for Drawing Soldier’s
Pay.
STATE OF GEORGIA, }
County of j
|>EFORE me an acting Justice of
I > the Peace, (or Notary Public,) in and
tor said county, personally came Mrs. ,
who being duly sworn, says she is the'inotb
er of , deceased, late a —=- in company
,of the Georgia Volunteers. She fur
thor declares that her said sou, , died
on the day of , 18G-, and that he
left neither wife, cldld, nor father surviving
him.
(Signed)
Sworn and subscribed to before me this
• day of- JBti J. P.
Also,-personally came ——, of coun
fj and State of Georgia, who, being duly I
•worn, says that the statements in the above
affidavit he she) personally knows to be
true,
(Signed) .
• Sworn and subscribed to before mo this
day of IS6-.
I, , an acting Justice of the Peace
(or Notary Public) in and for said county
of , do certify that the above named
witness is personally known to me to be of
good standing, and whose' affidavit is enti
tled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand, and official signa
ture, this day of , 186-.
Know ai.l Men by these Presents, That
I, Mrs. , of the county ot ——, and
State of Georgia, being the mother of ,
deceased, who died in the seavice of the
Confederate States on the day of ,
186-, do make, constitute and appoint ,
of county, and State ofiGeorgia, my true
and lawful attorney, in fact to receive and re
ceipt for all monies, goods and chatties that
may be due me as heir of my son, , dec'd,
by virtue of his military or other service to
the Confederate States: hereby ratifying
and confirming all lawful acts of my said
attorney in the premises.
(Signed) .
IV it ness: J. P.
_ I, , Clerk of court of coun
ty, State of Georgia, do certify that ,
whoso genuine signature appears above and
before whom the above affidavits and power
of attorney were made and executed, is an
acting .Justice, of the Peace, (or Notary
public) in and for the county of— State
of Georgia, duly commissioned at the time
of signing the same, and all his attestations
as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my lmuj and seal of office
this day of = , one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-
Clerk Court. ■ County, Georgia.
NOTE.—The affidavit may be made either
be lore a Justice of the Peace or Notary
Public, and the certificate of its legality
may he made either by a Clerk of the Supe
rior, Inferior, or Court of Ordinary, with
the seal attached.
All claims made out according to the
above instructions and forwarded to the
IV nr Department will bo attended to.
RAGS WANTED
AT THE
Early-County Sews Office.
THE Proprietor of the Parly County News
will pay TEN CENTS per lb. for all
CLEA N COt'l ON & LINEN It A GS
delivered at his office, in small or large quan
tities. As it is now impossible for us to
purchase paper unless we furnish rags, we
•hope *our friends in Clay, Calhoun, Miller
and Early Counties will each and all consti
tute themselves agents lor us for this pur
pose.
.Save your rags, and save your tags,
Save your good-for-nothing bags—
Bring them to this office, soon,
.Bring them morning, eve or noon.
From the mountain, from the vale,
"Where the lingering camp-fires pale,
Where, the morning tints the rose,
Where the parting sunset glows,
From the East and from the West,
Bring us. rags and do your best.
Bring us scraps of cotton thread,
Bring the night-caps from your, head,
firing the shirt upon your back,
Bring us pieces white or black,
Bring us rags and bring us tags,
Bring us your good-for-nothing bags—
Anything, just so ’tis clean,
White, or black, or blue or green,
Anything that paper makes,
Every editor now takes,
And will pay you for your rags,
And your good-for-nothiDg bags,
Bring them in, and bring them soon,
Morning, evening, and at noon.
Trices of Previsions in Early County.
Corn, per bushel $2,50
pork, on foot, gross weight legs than
200 lbs., per 1b...' 75
Pork, on foot, gross weight over 200
lbs., per lb ’ 80
Pork, slaughtered, phr lb 1,00
“ salted, 1,25
“ pickled, “ 1,25
Bacon, per lb ~... 1,50
Beef, on foot, grogs, per lb 25
“ butchered, “ 30
“ pickled, “ 40
“ dried, " f>o
Cubaßyrup, per gal. 6,00
BLAKELY, GrEO., MABCH 28, 18(>4.
Count!) Uctos.
Terms of Subscription:
For 1 Year ..7,00
For 6 Months.... 3,50
No subsciptionß received for le&s than six
months, and payment always required in ad
vance.
Rates of Advertising;
1 Square, (becupying the space of ten Bour
geois lines,*or less,) each insertion...s2,oo
CONSCRIPTED;
Oh weep not, conscript, weep not,
Old Jell'has called for theo,
A soldier Congress,mak«a you,
A soldier you must be.
Make up your mind
To stand in line,
And quake not at the Yanks,
To shoot your gun
And call it fun.
And for life return your thanks.
CHORUS.
Then weep not, conscript, weep not,
Old Jeff has called for theo,
A soldier Congress makes you,
A soldier you must be.
O weep not, conscript, weep not,
If rations should be scarce,
’Tis said an empty stiimic
Will make you doubly fierce.
Then eat your crust.
Your bav’net thrust
Through every Yankee heart,
And if unhurt,
Y'our gal will sit
At home and call you smart.
CHORUS,
O weep not, conscript, weep not,
When marching through the mud,
’Tis better far, I tell vou,
Than spilling your life’s blood.
Then march along
And sing this song,
And cuss the Yanks now and then,
And when vou camp
Just take a tramp
And steal a pig or hen.
CHORUS,
O weep not. conscript, weep not,
You’re battling for the right,
Now, conscript,’ let me tell you
Don’t scratch them when they bite ;
• • r
But jerk your shirt
Oft with a flirt
And catch them as they run,
Then with your nail
The boys assail
And mash them one Ly one.
CHORUS.
The following is a “ palpable hit” at pro
ducers who. ’‘wouldn’t acknowledge the
corn: ”
Some patriotic farmers in some counties of
this State,
Resolv’d they’d sell their produce at the Gov
ernment rate;
But when the people wished to buy, ’twas
found out, sad to tell,
That these “ patriotic farmers” hadn't any
thing to sell!
A Mr. Shott and a Mr. Willing fought a
duel, in which both were wounded. This
circumstance gave rise to the following lines:
Shott and Willing did engage,
In duel fierce and hot;
Shott shot Willing, willingly,
And Willing he shot Shott.
Tho shot Shott shot made Willing quite
A spectacle to sco,
While Willing’s willing shot went right
Through Shott’s anatomy.
" » ♦
The following is a late National Motto of
the Southern Confederacy :
Conscript all, and then we’ll go it,
Whip the Yankees ’fore they know it ;
Live on wind and fight barefooted,
’Till our rights are not disputed.
A young lady who would “die if she
v/alked a mile in the woods,” will trav
el in a waltz or ecottische a dozen
miles every night, without uttering a
sigh, and without any other support
than a coat sleeve.
“ Little boys should be seen and not
heard,” as young Precocity coolly re
marked to his teacher when he could
n’t say his lesson.
A man may be ever so poor, he may
be ever so unfortunate, but he need
never be hard up for candles so long
as he makes light ,of his sufferings.
♦
What vegetable medicine would
you give your sick dog ? Dog would
bark.
♦ ■■
Why is a scoundrel like meal ? Be
cause when you sift him, you find him
out.
A visit to Talbotton, Ga.
Iq the summer of 185—, I had occasion
to visit the beautiful little town of Talbot
ton, Georgia, which was at that time no
ted far any profession a man might choose
to embark in, and for tine schools, espe
cially. On my way to the little village, I
overtook a couple of young men, who, from
appearance, seemed to be genth k men, and
wheu I rode up by the side of them I
. said':
“ Good morning, gentlemen. Will you
be go kind as to show me the Courthouse
when we get to town ? ”
“ v i ciu I ” says one, “ do you want us
to teH you all we know ? ”
“Well,’J» says I, “gentlemen, T don’t
think it would take you long to do that.”
Well,” says the other, we are on our
way to Talbotton, to go to school, and we
don’t want to be troubled with you or
your nonsense; so you had better ride be
hind or we we ll draw a across your
breast.”
“ Well,” says I, “ gentlemen, talking’s
talking, and doing’s doing; and do you think
yea can do it.”
They found out they could not frigthen
me off the track. Then they tried to out
ride me, but they could not do that, for my
old horse could go seventeen miles in eigh
teen days, any time.
We all got into town about tho same
timo, only I was about half a mile behind ;
and it happened that we stopped at the
same hotel. After supper was over, and a
few yarns and cigars cast aside, bedtime
was close at band. The landlord put us in
adjoining rooms, and I heard one of them
say to the other :
“ Look here, Sam, we can play a trick
ou that fellow that overtook us to-day.”
“ Agreed,” says the other.
I then dropped to sleep, and slept as nat
, ural a3 any fellow you ever saw ; and when
1 awoke next morniug, I went down to the
fitable, and what do you think they had
done to my poor horse ? I)ad 4rat ”
my skin, if they hadn’t cut my poor horse’s
jaws up about fourteen inches on each side,
lie looked like lie was laughing all the
*" time.” I *'! took a second ttrougm, jerked out
my bowie-knife, walked up to their horses,
and cut each one’s tail short off up to tho
backbone; “ dad drat ” if I didn't.
1 wept back to the hotel, jumped up
and cracked my heels together two or three
times, and one of them says :
“ Why, my friend, what puts you in such
a good humor this morning ? ”
“Well,” says I, “inert, I don’t know,
but if you will just walk down to the stable
and sec, you will find that my poor horso
has hursted his mouth wide open laughing
at your two horse’s tails being out off.”
I had them good, for they had to ■whole
sale them, because they couldn’t re-tail
them.
- :
Rumor in the Pulpit.
Old Bishop Aylmer, seeing his cortgre
gation pretty generally asleep, took his He
brew Bible from his pocket and read a
chapter, which roused attention,' when
tbc old minister sharply rebuked them for
sleeping when they might have understood
him, and listening when they knew not a
word he said.
Os the witty Dr. South it is said that,
preaching before King Oharles, he saw
that potentate asleep : he stopped short,
and in a loud and altered tone of voice,
three times called out, “ Lord Lauder-*
dale.” Ilis Lordship stood up and looked
at the preacher, who addressed him with
great composure: “My Lord, lam sorry
to interrupt your repose, but I must beg
of you not to snore so joud, lest you should
wake the King.”
Andrew Fuller, one Sunday afternoon,
saw the people, duriqg the singing of the
hymn before the sermon, composing them
selves for a comfortable nap, and taking
the Bible he hit it against the.side of the
Eulpit, making a great noise. Attention
eiog excited, he said, “ I anl often afraid
that I preach you to sleep, but it can’t be
my fault to-day, for you are asleep before
1 begun.”
1 l—4-
A correspondent tells of a soldier wound
ed by a shell from Fort Wagner. He was
going to the rear with a mutilated arm.
“Wounded by a shell?” he was asked.
“ Yes,” he coolly answered, “ I was right
under the darned thing when the bottom
dropped out.”
♦
Why is the equestrian statue of
Jackson like flour ? Because it was
made by Mills.
Why is Richmond like a hunter’s
horn ? Because it has a Winder.
Wit and Humor.
The man who cpurted an investi
gation, says, it isn’t halt' as good as
courting an affectionate girl.
There is a firm in Elgin, Illinois,
known as “Gray hunt.'* Halt'
their letters come directed “ Lay &
Grunt.”
A cool stretch of imagination: writ
ing adiscriptiou of a snow-storm in the
dog-days. ■
A slanderer,,of the softer sex, under
takes to prove that. Satan was a wo>
man, whose na&ie was Lucy Fir.
Punch says women first resorted to,
tight lacing to prove to men how wcli
they could bear squeezing.
“Mussa,” said Sambo, “one of your
oxen is dead: ’toder too. ’Fraid to
tell you hod’ at once, for fear von
couldn’t bore it.”
A woman offering to sign a deed*
the Judge asked her if her husband
had compelled her to sign it. “He
compel!” said the lady: “No, not
twenty like him ! ” ,
A dealer in ready-made linen, adver
tises his shirts and chemises under the
mellifluous appellation of “ Male and
Female Envelopes ! ”
A lady was lately arrested in Cifl-%
cinnati for beating her husband with
a bunch of candles. What a
act.
The best capital for a young man
is a young wife- It is at least a sort
of capital that is productive.
Hans, who is a judge of morals as
of currency, says that being tender to
another man’s wife is not in any way
a legal tender! That i\\ay be 4 point
for the lawyers.
Happinesses a perfuipe that one
cannot shed on another without a few
drops falling on one’s se^f.
Why is a drunkard hesitating to
sign the pledge like a skeptical Hin»
doo ? Because he doubts whether to
give up worship of Jug^or-not.
The frost went to a flower to mar
ry, and said (o the flower, “ Wilt thou,”
and the flower wilted.
“ The cat has got 4 cold,” said a
friend to Jones, pointing to a domestic
favorite. “ Yes,” Jones replied, “ the
poor thing is subject to cat-errah.”
A new member rose to make his
speech, and in his embarrassment, be
gan to scratch his head. “ Well, re*,
ally,” exclaimed Sheridan, “he has got
something in his head after all.”
Thp fashion of affixing “ no cards ”
to marriage notices, is followed by
placing “ no carriages ” alter deaths.
We would suggest the words, “no
wonder ! ” after births.
What county in Virginia is like
most young people ? Greene.
Why is the water in James river
like a foolish person’s tongue ? Be
cause it is always running.
Why is Camp Lee like an air pump ?
Because it has a Receiver,
- - - ♦ ♦ ♦ •
A Wager.
Two young men from the “land of Pad
dies,” one of whom possesed a tolerable ed-*
ucation, were one day speaking abogt bad
writing.* Teddy thought that he could
read any writing that he ever saw.
“ Faith, an’ I’ll bet you a horse that 1
can write so that you can’t read it,” said
Pat.
Teddy g;avc him pen and paper find tol\i
him to write.
“ An’ what shall I write ? ” asked Pat
rick.
“ Oh, anything you wish,” answered
Teddy.
“ Shure an’ I wish ye’d tell me what to
write,” insisted Pat, scratching his head.
“ Well,” says Teddy, seeing old Tiger
walking before the door, “s’posin’ ye write,
“ The dog is walking in the yard ; ” and
I’ll give ye a horse if I can’t read it.”
« Pone ! But I don’t know whether its
meself that can spell it right at all, at all;”
apd Teddy spelled word after word while
Pat wrote.
When done, Pat, with a triumphant
flourish, handed him the paper, saying,
« Now, if ye read that, the pony’s yours,
for shure.”.
Teddy took the paper and read it right •
off, much to the surprise of Patrick, who
then acknowledged that the bet was fairly
won.
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