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Blakely, Ga., June a, 1880.
I)r T. M. HOWARD,
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Blakely, - Georgia.
i:<L L. FRYER,
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‘September 3, 1885. ly.
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. J.H. BUTLER;
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also done. Prices very.low. A liberal shared the
public patronage solicited. Shop on west side of Cuth
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Road Notice.
GEORGIA— bAKLY COUNTY:
C’bSßfe’s Office, Commissioner's Ccurt.
ALL PERSONS interested are hereby
notified that, if no good cause be shown
to the contrary, an order will be granted
by said court, on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember next, establishing a new road, as
marked out by the road commissioners, com
mencing where the Columbia and Blakely
road crosses the east line of lot of land No.
348 in the 28th district of said county, and
running a due northerly direction to the res
idence of R. 11. Brooks, thence to the Blake
ly and Chancy mill road, thence east along
said road passing the plantation of B. Chan
cy, thence north to Washington Nobles’,
thence to the five mile post on the Fort
Gaines and Blakely road, thence to Cain’s
bridge, parsing the residences of John Hud
speth, 11. J. liayes and Dr. J. J. King.
By order of said court, this August 3d, 1886.
J. W. ALEXANDER, Clerk.
BLAKELY, GA., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1880.
SPEAK OF ME.
Do not iorget me! 1 would not my namo
As a strange language to your ears became,
But seldom uttered, only ’heard with sighs,
As harp string to the moaning wind replies.
Not so, not so.
Speak of me when the summer day is bright
With glorious Sunbeams, and the golden
' light
Streams through the lattice of my own green
bower,
"Let me be there in that rejoicing hour,
At least in name.
Speak of me when the twilight’s purple linze
Shuts each fair prospect from your ardent
gaze,
And turning to the quiet joys of home,
Sweet memories of departed dear ones come
To stir the heart.
Speak of me when in heaven’s blue arch afar
Shines forth in glory, each effulgent star,
Say how I loved their lustre, that my name
May ever dwell amid their hosts of flame
To meet your eyes.
Speak of me when my own sweet garden
rose
On silent stem, in moss-c Tad beauty blows.
I would be linked with all the flowers that
bloom,
Till ye might h: If forget the silent tomb
Where I shall lie.
Speak of me when around the winter’s
hearth
Young hearts are cheerful with the sea
son’s mirth,
And strike the soft guitarV loved so well,
And let its chords, in some old ballad, tell
A tale of me.
Speak of me met in sorrow, for you know
To w’hat calm skies and gentle streams I go;
To flowers that fade not, through eternal
spring,
All robed in’light, to wear an angel’s wing,
An angel’s crown.
I
Speak of me, then, with ’gladness, not with
tears,
For when love flitted bv a few short year?,
Ye, toe, will pass from earthly care and pain
And we shall meet in Paradise again,
No more to part.
--Karraynnsctt l.er.
MANAGIN’ THE FARM.
'ey heWy BARLOW.
It ain’t in natur for a woman to fee! very
merry when her enl'y husTiajnd is lyin’ a cold
corpse in the best room, with the best sheet,
that cost thirty cents a yard, spread over,
him. I felt mighty bad when John died,
and oven mother, who always said he was
the most pcstcrinest son-in-law she ever had,
cried some.
When mother and I stood a weepiu’ by
the bier, sho said to me, —
“Ilepsy, you think this is trouble. Wait
till you’ye buried four husbands, and air a
livin’ with one as ought to be buried alive,
like me. Then you’ll know what trouble is.
Ilepsy, there’s one comfort to cheer your
bereaved sperrit; John’s in heaven, an’ you
can raise geese now without disturbin’ bis
sainted rest;” and then she leant her head
on my arm and cried some more.
“Yes,” said I, through my tears, “and 1
can have a calf-paster fenced off now, under
my own Vine an’ fig tree, an’ no one to mo
lest or make me afraid.”
“What fig tree?” asked mother.
“That expression was figurative,” said
mother’s daughter.
We lay poor John to sleep in a fifteen-dol
lar coffin, with a willer-trce at his head —
weepin’ willcrs is chcaper’n monyments—
then I turned my grief-stricken brain to bus
iness.
John was alwaye a poor manager. Him
an’ I started in life with a fair prospect of
riches. 1 had twenty dollars that I aimed
in the factory, an’ be had three Irundred
dollars given him by his father, lhen my
father give me a cow and a feather bed. So
you see we ou'jHit to a been rich by that
time, with twelve year gone over our heads,
if he'd been anything of a manager. But
the fact was, we’d nothin’ but sixty acre o’
land, an’ owed two hundred dollars on that.
The house was rickety, an’ I’d been teas
in’ him for five year to Lorry money an’
bui'd a hew one. ite’tl always say, “Wait
till we’re clean out o’ debt, Ilepsy.”
I was impatient, for if he’d been anything
like a manager, we could a paid them two
hundred dollars long ago.
Then I always wanted to keep geese. I
could sell the feathers, and make something
that way. But no. lie said the geese
would destroy tnore in six months than the
feathers would be worth in six years. That
was just one o’ bis notions. lie was so no
tionate.
Then there was Merindy, the girl we took
from the poor house. I wanted to dress her
in choap clotties, and make her know her
place; but nothin’ would do Julitl but he
must buy her a. eashimere dress, and let her
go out to evenin’ mcetin’s, as big as life.
The girl had a ical stuck up look about
her, and w.as what some called handsome,
though I always thought she’d a been pret
tier if her cheeks had been redder, and her
face broad, lilto mine. I used to teil John
that her eashimere dress and jcllovv hair’d
bring beaux around, and a'gin I got her well
broke in to my, ways, so’s she could cook for
thrashers while I went a-visitin’, some young
feller’d walk off with her.
John jest laughed, an’ went on a buy in’
her fine bunnets an’ delaine dresses, an’ sho
had any number o’ beaux; But the ungrate
ful thing seemed to really feel herself above
boys that had a prospect o’ riches, jest ’cause
they didn’t have no loarnin’. Ye sec she
had managed to pick up right smart o’ learn
ing, what with readin’ books and one thing
and another. I wanted to make her quit
settin’ up till midnight to read them health
journals Robinson’s girls brought over, but
John said if I couldn’t give Her time to read
by day, she should read at night if she lik
ed. Just like a man! As if I had no car
pet rags to sew, or quilts to piece, or stock
ings to knit! ,
Well,'John died, and ! borryed money to
build the house, and got me some geese and
ducks, and took the calves away from the
cows, and fenced the paster lot for ’em to
stay in; and I told Merindy I’d have to econ
omise to save money to pay the debt, and
she’d has to wear her old hat another sum
mer, and go barefooted round home, to save
her shoes for winter. I told her a calico (
dress and a sun bonnet was plenty- good
enough for a girl that was took from the
poor-house to wear anywhere.
Merindy didn’t cry—she never did. But
sP.e straightened up and looked at me awful
hard, so’t I nearly dropped my eyes, and sho
sail}, —
“For the sake pf the kindness T have re
ceived here, I will stay and help you a while
longer; but u lien you consider that I have
discharged the,debt I owe yon, I will seek
another home.”
I was tickled to licnf her say that, for I
thought it would take her a long time to pay
the debt. You see I did want her to stay.
Merindy was a good vyorkcr. I taught her
myself, an’ she could beat all the Miss Col
sons a cookin’.
Things went wrong, somehow. The geese
did eat up nearly all of my garden and
truck patch, and sure enough, the ducks dug
up my early tatevs with their pesky flat
bills. One'ud think a duck hadn’t sense
enough to find a tater-hill. When fall come,'
the calves was. that lean, and looked that
scrawny-lookin’, I was glad to sell them at
half-price. The crops failed, and things
went on from bud to worse till I looked ev
ery day for the mortgage t i bo fore-closed.
Then Dr. Ryder moved to the farm jinin’
ourn.
lie was young, but being rich could do as
he liked; so he’d quit the practice to work
on a new medicine he’d fixed up, they said.
I soon made up my mind that I wouldn’t
go on grievin’ for John fore.Vcr, .so I got mo
a nice new gown that hadn’t a bit o’ black
in.it, had Merindy put things in good order,
an’ then 1 took an awlul pain in my arm.
It hurt me so bad I couldn’t wait for Merin
dy to go to town after a doctor, so I told her
to fetch Dr- ilyder.
When he come, I was leanin’ back in my
chair in a most becomin’ attitude, with a
little starch on, to make me look pale. I
told him I was dretlul sorry to disturb him,
but as we was near neighbors, mebby he
wouldn’t mind jest steppin’ over to per
scribe for me, and he said, looking all the
while at Merindy,—
“Not at all, madam!”
Well, he looked at my arm, and he looked
at me, an’ I see he was puzzled to know
what aileded me; but he finally decided it
was rheumatiz, and ordered Hot applications.
“I could have done that for her without
the aid of a doctor,” said Merindy, ruther
contemptuous like-
He smiled, and only said, —
“Very likely.'’
Then she went on to Eny,
“I think there, ih no necessity whatever
for doctors or medicine. Right living would
keep people, well the most of the time, and
when they do get sick, right living und a
sensible nurse would cure them if the case
was not hopeless.”
“Quite a strong-minded lassie, I should
think,” said the doctor.
Merindy’s face got burnin’ red. She was
lioppin’ mad, I guess, for she didn’t say an
other word while lie was there. When he
was gone, I give her a piece of my mind for
treatin’ the doctor so, and told her that iike
as not he wouldn’t come agin, bein’ as she'd
talked so big.
Rut I was half glad, after all. Sho
wouldn’t like the doctor now, I thought, and
lie would be sure not to notice her pretty
hair so much, sencc lie know there was a
self-willed girl under it. Men don’t nater-
ally take to these mind-o’-your own women \
—at least, I used to think so.
It was wonderful the way that pain in my
arm hung on. I had to send for the doctor
about twice a week, and he always seemed
glad to come, too, and l begun to feel real
epcouraged like about the mortgage.
One mornin’ Merindy an’ me was out a
milkin’, when suddenly the cow started for
mo full tiltj an’ knocked me off my milk
stool before I so much as knowed she was a
cornin'.
I jest thought Merindy was mighty care
less to be dvivin’ her cow right over a per
son, nn’T was a so mad I ups with the stool
and throwed it at her.
I hadn’t noticed nobody a-comin’, but jest
then I heerd Dr. Ryder’s voice sayiug,—
“Your aim is better, madam, is it not?”
Then lie turned to Merindy and boldly
put bis arm around her, and said to me, —
“Merindy and I have only been betrothed
two weeks, but, if she is willing, we jvill he
married to-day. I cannot bear to have her
made the victim of such insane freaks of
temper.” r
I couldn’t say a werd. They was married
that same day, and I’ve often thought sence
where the leak was in nry managin’: it was
in allowin’ Merindy tj walk back with the
doctor, when she went after him.
Men Who Never Forget.
CUamber’s Journal.
If “all great people have great memorks,”
as Sir Arthur Helps declares in his delight
ful hook entitled “Social pressure,” it by no
means follows that all those who are possess
ed of great memories are “great people.”!
Many an instance might le cited to show
that men ol very moderate intellectual ca
pacity may bo endowed with a power of
memory which is truly prodigious. In ad
dition to this therc-nre plenty of well au
thenticated examples of the extraordinary
power of memory displayed even by idiots.
In the Memoirs of Mrs. Somerville there is
a curious account of a most extraordinary'
verbal memory. “There was an idiot in
Edinburgh,” she tells us, “of a respectable*
family, who had a remarkable memory. He’
never failed to go to the kirk on Sunday,
and on returning home could repeat the
sermon, saying; ‘Here the minister cough-*
ed; here lie stopped to blow' his nose.’
“During the tour we made in the High
lands,” she adds, “we met with another idi
ot who knew the Biblo so perfectly that if
you asked him where such a verse was to
be found he could tell without hesitation,
and repeat the chapter.’ These examples
are sufficiently remarkable; but what shall
he said of the case cited by Archdeacon
Fearon in his valuable pamphlet on “Mental
Vigor”? “There was in my father’s parish,”
says the archdeacon, “a man who could re
member the day when every person had been ;
buried in the parish for tnirty-five years, and
could repeat with unvarying accuracy the
name and age of the deceased, with the,
mourners at the funeral. Rut he was n)
complete fool. Out of the line of burials
he had but one idea, and could not give an
intellig ble reply to a single question nor bei
trusted to feed himself.”
These phenomenal instances may be
matched by the Sussex farm laborer, George
Watson, as we find recorded in Hone’s ‘"Ta
ble Book.” Watson could neither read nor
write, vet he was Wont to perform wondrous
feats of mental calculation, and his memory
for events seemed to he almost faultless.
“But the most extraordinary circumstance,”
says Hone, “ia the power he possesses of
recollecting the events of every day from
an early period of his life. Upon being ask
ed what day of the week a given day of the
month occurred, ho immediately names it,
and also mentions where he was and what
was the state of the weather. A gentleman
who had kept a diary put many questions to
him, and his answers wore invariably cor
rect.”
Os a similar kind is the memory for which
Daniel McCartney has become famous in the
United States, The strange story of this
man’s achievements is to'd by Mr. Ilcnklc
in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.
McCartney , in 1809, declared that lie could
remember the day of the week for any date
from January, 1827, that is, from the time
when lie was 9 years and 4 months old—
forty-two and a half years. He has often
been tested, ntul, so far as Mr. llenkle’s ac
count goes, had not failed to tell his ques
tioner “what day it was,” uni to give some
information about the weather and about his
-own whereabouts and doings on any one of
the fifteen thousand or more dates that
might be named. With nil this singular
power of memory, however, he is not a man
whose general grasp of mind is at all note
worthy. , ,
The same may he said of scores of men
whose one rich gift of memory lias brought
them into prominence. No one has claimed
any high intellectual rank for the renowned
“Memory Corner Thompson,” who drew
from acta;! 1 , memory, in twenty-two hour?,
at two sittings, in tlio presence of two well
known gentlemen, a correct plan ot the par
ish of St. James, Westminister, with parts
of the parishes of St. Marylcbonc, St. Ant;
and St, Marton; who could tell the corner pi
nny great leading thoroughfare from Ilydc
Park corner or Oxford street to St. Paul’s,
who could “talfe an inventory of a gentle
man’s house from attic to ground floor and
write it out afterward. lie did this nt Lord
Nelson’s at Merton, nnd at the Duke of
Kent’s in the presence of two noblemen.”
Since the revival of learning in Europe,
there have been scores, yea, hundreds of
scholars who have known “thoir Ilomcr” by
heart nnd a thousand other things besides.
Bishop Saundcrson, old Isaac Walton tells
us, could repeat all the odes of Horace, ijll
Tully’s offices and the best part of Juveun!
and Perseus. Euler thejmathematician and
Licbnitz the philosopher could recite the
-®neid from beginning to end. In their day,
Person, Ehnsley, Parr and Wakefield held
the foremost place as scholars, and all, ol
course, had rare memories; hut the palm
must be given to Porson, of whom endless
stories are told. Bofure he went to Eton ho
was aide to repeat almost the whole of Hor
ace, Virgil, Ilomer, Cicero and Livy. When,
as a practical juke, a schoolfellow slipped
the wrong book intu Person’s hand, just ns
he was about to read and translate, the boy
was not disconcerted, but went on to rettd
from his memory, as if nothing had occur
red. In later life his performances approach
ed the miraculous. It would require ulf our
space to give any fair idea of them, for bo
not only knew.nlLtiie Greek poets and prose
writers pretty well by heart, but could re
cite whole plays of Shakespeare, or complete
books from ‘-Paradise Lost,” Pope’s “llapc
of the Lock,” Burrow’s sermons, scenes
from Foote, Edgeworth’s “Essny on Irish
Bulls,” scores of pages from Gibbon or Ra,-
pin. He is also said to have been able to
repeat tiic whole of the “Moral Tale of the
Dean of Bada ji z, and Smollett's “Roderick
Random” from the first page to the last, t
Gilbert Wakefield’s memory was also of
the gfgar-tic order, but it will not bear com
parison with Person's. There were lew pas
sages in Ilomcr or Pindar which he could
not recite at a moment’s notice; Virgil and
Horace he know perfectly, and he could re
cite entire books from the Old and New Tes
taments without halting or failing in a sin
gle verse. There was also John ’Uyudham
Bruce, whose leisure time was devoted to
classical studies. Ilia chief favorite wae
Aeschylus, the whole of whose plays he hud
learned by heart, including the twelve hun
dred lines of the “Agamemnon” collated by
Ruberte'lus. lie knew bis Horace in the
same way, and was quite content until onp
day be met with an old fellow student at
Bonn, who, when be made a quotation,
would mention book, ode and verse, remark?
ing that lie did not regard nny one as know
ing Horace properly unless lie could do that.
Mr. Bruce accordingly 6et to work at Hor
ace again, and was not long before Ire could
name the exact place occupied by a lino in
any of the famous odes.
Prof. Grotbe, Brooklyn Board ot Healthy
says lied Star Cough Cure is free from opi
ates, and highly efficacious. Twenty-five
cents.
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“Do you remember how you sworo or)
your bended knees the night you proposeu
to me, love?” “Oh, yes; that’s nothing.”
“Nothing!” “You ought to see me swear
on my knees when my collar button drops
and rolls under the bureau.”
Interesting Experiences.
Hiram Cameron, Furniture Dealer of Co
lumbus, On., tells .bis experience, thus:
“For three years have tried every remedy
on the market for Stomach and Kidney Dis
orders, but got no relief, until 1 used Elec
tric Bitters. Took five bottlesiaod am now
cured, and think Electric Bitters-the Best
Blood Purifier in the world.” — Major A.
B. Reed, of West Liberty, Ky., Used Elec
tric Bitters for an old standing Kidney af
fection and says: “Nothing has ever done
mo so much good as Electric Bitters.” r
Sold nt fifty cents a bottle at the Centra!
Drug Store.
In Borneo a girl sells for five cows. A
person might wonder why a man would give
five cows for a girl, but they are different
from the average girl in the metropolis, and
it don’t cost much to keep a girl in cftrrings
when she wears nothing else but a smile.
A Captain’s Fortunate Discovery.
Capt. Coleman, sebr. Weymouth, plying
between Atlantic City and N. Y., had been
troubled with a cough so that he was unable
to sleep, nnd was induced to try Dr. King’s
New Discotveiy for Consumption, It not
only gave him instant relief, but aliyed the
extreme soreness in ids breast, llis chil
dren were similarly nffected and a sing ;
dose had the same happy effect. Dr. King'c
Ne>v Discovery is now tiie standard remedy
in tire Coleman household and on board tire
schopner. Free Trial Bottles of this .Stand
ard Remedy at the Central Drug Store.
NO. 9.