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VOL. XXVII,
OBariii Comity Itciiis.
PUBLISHED EVfittY 'THURSDAY.
'OFFICE IX NEWS lIUILDINU,
BLAKELY, GEORGIA.
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County Directory:
Superior Court. —Hon. Jno. T. Clarke, Judge. J.
H. Guerry, Solicitor General. J. W. Alexander, Clerk.
L. E. Black, Sheriff. Regular term, Ist Monday in
April and OctobUb.
Court of Ordinary.—Thomas Henderson, Ordina
ry. Regular meeting, Ist Monday in each month.
County C6*J**ssionkrk.—H. C. Fryer, T. M. How
ard, W. C. Sheffield, R. H. Lanier, J. L. Harris. Reg
ular meeting Ist Tuesday in each months
OMW.iv Ttr&siirer* -fi. I*. BYrcUuaaXn.
Tax Collector—T. G. Johnson.
Tax Receiu*:—R. B. Taylor.
Coroner—James Butler.
TotVn Council of Blakely
Chairman—lt. H. P<>well.
Aldermen—H. C. Fryer, T. M. Howard, W. A. Mc-
Dowell, A. J. Singletary.
Clerk and Treasurer—J» J. Smith.
Marshal—J. C. Chancy,
' BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
S. 11. SHEFFIELD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND LLa'L ESTATE AGENT. All biminfsfl will
receive prompt attention. Office in northwest
room of Court House.
Blakely, Ga., June 3, 1880,
Dr. T. M HOYVARI),
Dentist & Physician,
Blakely, • Georgia.
Ed. L./itVKIL
PUOPjPETOR OV
TIVEIIY, SALE & if 'Y.b STABLES, northeast cor
_j nt-r of public endure. Best teams at lowest prices.
Ample, accommodctijm to lYaveliu* Saleemeu. Atten
tive hostlers. Giv«him a trial-.
Blakely, Ga., September 3, 1885./ ly.
B. H. ROBINSON,
DEAL Ell IN
GENERAL MEKCHANJpSE, comes to the frout
with one of the na/tt varied ami best assorted
Stocks of Dry Goods, /rceerios, Clothing, Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Hardwafi'/ttc,, to be found iu lllakely.
Htore one door north ojffNuWs office, lry him.
September 3, 1885.
“MrsTAT^I'IIOMPSON,
MM.LINER,
HAS JUST received Her Spring & Summer Stock of
Millinery Goods, ariß is now prepared to worn
iaodate her customers with latest styles of goons 111
her line, at prices that def\ competition. Store in the
Bass building, northwest turner of public square.
Blakely, Ga., September :i]UBBS. ly.
N3IITU Y JAJIES?
JDEALERS IN
DRY GOODS, Hardware, Notions, Cloth
ing, Boots, Hats and General Merchandise
of all sorts. StoeWEept np to the highest standard by
constant fresh goods. . Store on west side
Main Street. j/T
Blakely,
Dr. lL B. STANDIFER,
PiIYsHjAN fc APOTHECARY,
TENDER S r his prSfessimml services to the public.
Prescriptions carefully compounded, and calls at
tended promptly day or niiht. Office cast side of
Public Square, Blakely, Gln|fc
September 3, 1885. ly
J. H. BOTIER,
AGENT FpR THE
ORDER DEPARTMENT of John Wanamaker’s
Clothing House. Plidfiielphia. Spring A Summer
camples just received/and he ia no ' v rea(ly *° * .
orders. Suitß guaranteed to tit. Headquarters at
H. C. Fryer & Sou’i^tore.
Blakely, Ga., SclAmber 3,1885. ly.
~ Sk L. BUSH,
B^CKSMITH,
("N TIN-SMITH and Will do all work
X left with him iu flrsPglaßs style, Horse-slioeing
also done. Prices very lew, A liberal share of the
public patronage solicited. Sfflmon west Bide of Clllh
bert Street.
Blakely, Ga., Sept. 3, 1885. ly\
Win. X JORDAN, ~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WILL PRACTICE in all the courts of the Pataula
circuit. Collections made a specialty. Office in
the Court House.
Blakely, Ga,. April Bth, 1886. ly.
aNro-ti<?©.
Columdla, Ala., Aug. 2, 18R6.
All farmers living in early
and Miller counties can carry cotton
across the river at Columbia, Ala., and Store
it, at 25 cents per bale. Funnels paying .
only Ferriage, the merchants will pay the !
storage. R. A. SMITH. I
toll) Count]) setos.
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Land for Sale.
THE UNDERSIGNED is offering for
sale Lots of Land Nos. 255 and 2G6,
in the sth District of Early county, ettibttw
ing the plantation known as the Hutchftm,
or Barksdale place. There are on the place
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Boat! Notice.
GEORGIA—EARLY COUNTY:
CbEim’s OmtE, Cowmissioner’s Ccl'rt.
A LL PERSONS interested are hereby
notified that, if no good cause he Bhown
to the contrary, an order will he granted
by said court, on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember next, establishing ft new toad, as
marked out by the road commissioners, com
mencing where the Columbia and Blakely
road crosses the cast line of lot of land No.
348 in the 28th district of said county, ftnd
running a due northerly direction to the res-.
idence of R. 11. Brooks, thence to the Blake- ;
ly and Chancy mill road, thence cast along I
said road passing the plantation of B. Chan- i
cy, thence north tu Washington Nobles ,
thence to the five mile post oa the Fort
Gaines and Blakely food, thence to Cain s
bridge, passing the residences of John Hud
speth, 11. J. Hayes and Dr. J. J. King.
! By order of said court, this Aligust3d, 188 G.
I J. W. ALEXANDER, Clerk. I
THE DAISY CHAIN.
BY LE COUI'TE.
Close by the gleaming water’s edge,
4n the sultry noos of a frlotriods
Under the scented hawthorn hedge,
When the wind comes over browning hay,
A boy with a face that is bright fwit^
A girl with a tangle of golden hair;
They are making a daisy chain.
Under the trees in the autumn time,
Throwing the leaves from their languid feet,
Where 4410 tong sprays of the ivy climb
Over their heads in the wood's retreat,
A y<mh with « brow that is brave and fair;
A maid with brown leaves in her golden hair;
They are binding a daisy chain.
Under a poTfch vis a budding gray^
A mellow and languid cadence floats
Out on the air of a soft June day,
A dreamy organ’s wandering notes,
A man with ft happy and Stately air;
A bride with gay flowers in her wavy hair;
They have fastened the daisy elmin.
Utekfr tfte elms in a chwehyard dim,
A mound is coYcrcd with purest snow,
And the winds are piping a funeral hymn,
As over the storied stones they go—
A lonely woman with silvered hair
Stands mute, for her all is reposing there;
It is broken—-the daisy chain.
The Episcopal Oow.
We live in Ashford, about a mile from the
Village, and on account of a grove of chest
nut trees near the house, it is called ‘‘The
Chestnut Farm.” Aunt Ellen lives at the
other end.of the village, and when she went
away for a visit this summer, slue got father
to take her «ow and look after it for her,
til! site eftme back. As we have more than
a dosen of cows already, one more don’t
make much difference in the Work, except
that it nmkes thnt much mere milk to look
after, and ina said she’d more milk already
than she Wat* ted to bother with. You arc,
there is a fearful lot of work iri olte house
and we only hire one girl, while there are
six hired men to cook and wash for besides
the rest of the family.
Aunt Ellen told ma to give milk away if
she did not Want it, for thorn is a lot of poor
people in the village who Wonld he glad to
get the milk if they knew about it. So when
Aunt Ellen went away, ma told Jack to tell
any poor people that ho happened to sec,
that she had plenty of milk to spare them,
if they would Come after it.
“And be sure and tell them,” she added,
“to come for it early, before it sours.”
While she Was speaking about the milk,
she expressed a wish that she could sell
some ol the milk that she had to turn into
butter, as churning Was such bntd Work,
and the butter brought stich ft low price,
To distinguish Aunt Ellen’s cow from our
own, the hired men used to e«!l her the
Episcopal cow, ns Aunt Ellen went to the
Episcopal church, while we were all Presby
terians. I may as well tell you, also, thnt
Jack and I had to help weed the garden in
spare time, and it Was a Job that neither of
us liked, particularly when the sun was hot.
When we complained to mother about it she
said—
“ Well, if you like, you can pick and sell
some of the garden stuff now ready for use,
and keep the money yourselves. There is
three times as much in the garden as we
shall be able to use, and that will pay you
for the work you are doing for me, iu weed
ing the garden so nicely. lam sure Mrs.
Gibson would buy some of those nice peas
and cucumbers.
Well, that set Jack and me to thinking;
but I am not much of a hand at thinking out
any new plan that’s worth doing, but I’m
great to help Jack in carrying out the plans
he makes, so I feel good for something. I
am not so smart as Jack, but he’s a boy and
I’m a girl, and that makes a difference.
Neither cf us liked the idea of going
around to tell the people to come for the
milk, neither did we want to go round With
a basket on our arms selling peas, cucum
bers, and the. like. But We Foubd ft way out
of our difficulties. You see Jack was duWh
In the village one day and he eftW a man
posting up advertisements on fences and
barns; and when Jack asked him why he
Went to so much trouli'o, the man told him
it saved trouble; he did not have to go around
and tell the people What he had for sale;
they could read for themselves.
So Jack thoughtdie would advertise, tool
and it would save the trouble of going around
and telling about the milk and things. Bo
he hunted a big piece of Clean wrapping ptt
| per, and took it Up to the garret Where the
1 paint pots are kept, mid from a little help 1
fTotrt tne in wording it. Jack printed the Fol- j
lowing—
NoTis. i
If Any one wAuTs milk For noThinG,
They Can Get il' By coming To The chest
[ nuT farm for IT. if you DouT liKe To say
.yer poor, ax fur milk froM The episcopal
Cow. \Ve have also plen’l’Y of milk from
good presbyTerian eoWs, which anybody enn
geT by paying six cenTs ft Quart ftfr iY.
also plenty o-f buTTer, eGGs, and oTher
Garden sTuff aT The farm, which anybody
•Can igeT in QuanTiTies to suiT by paying
for Them.
Call 'early fore iT soWrs.
We had looked over several adyertlwe
nients in the newspapers, to see how they
Were Wotded, Yut lowed Wothieg to help us
much, except in one which had the words
■“in to swit;” that soefrded well,
so we adopted it. We forgot to Sfty “come
■early for the milk,” until it was nil done,
and it rends «s if it was the garden stuff that
WoWld sour; hut I guess everybody would
understand that we meant the milk-, espe
cially it they read it over more than once.
The letter's did trot look straight and even,
hut some capital letters are easier so nVfik'6
than the small ones, and that is why it looks
-so mixed up like.
After we got it all done, Jack made some
paste in an old Wftn, tend took it doYrtv to IhP
Village fl¥i\l pasted up his advertisement in
the lobby es the post office, where everybo
dy else pastes their papers, and it madt ft
big show, I eftn tell yon. I guess everybody
in the village saw it, sot most everybody
goes to the postoffice once a day for letters
and papers.
None of our folks saw the advertisement,
though, for several days, as everybody was
s > busy with the hay and ether things, thnt
either Jack or I Wfts sent down for our mail;
so when a little girl came to the bouse and
asked for some milk lYotn the Episcopal
cow, ma did not know what she mWant. Site
soon found out, though, when two little
boys came in and asked for the same thing;
for when ma Questioned them, tlte fntt of
the advertisement tftnte out.
Ma said she was shocked at Jack’s beha
vior; hut ns she kind of laughed, I guess
she was not shucked M hurt. We found
there were a lot of people W’hO thought a
drink of milk a luxury, and they were glad
to walk twice a day to the farm for a quart*
can full. Wo also found there were a lot of
children who were glad of the job of weed
ing the garden e' v CU When the srtn Was hot',
and they thought themselves well pftid When
ma gave them as much as they wanted to
eat, And you ought to have seen hoW pleas
ed they looked When urn gave them a basket
of eatable* to carry home With them.
One day ft girl taller than 1, bnt awful
thin, came for some FpiscUpr.l milk, and nm
talked to her for a While, and found out that
her mother was very poorly and her brother
could not walk much on account of a sore
foot.
Next day I drove with ma into the village
on lome errands, and we called to see the
poor woman. Ma had a basket of tilings for
her under the scat of the wagon, that I did
not see before, and I tell you she was sur
prised to Us, as Well as to get the basket.
They nil looked as if they were about starv
ed. Such a place to live in you never saw!
Why, it was worse than our old barnl
There was a pRo of straw in one corner,
covered With an old ragged quilt, and on it
lay the boy with the sore foot! Thu mother
sat on ft low stool, mending u coot, so ragged
that I don’t see how it held together at all.
She did not ask us te come in, and I thought
that strange at first.
“We have nothing for you to sit down Ott,
ma’am,” she said, “so 1 neod not ask you to
come in.”
Ma asked her hoW she osme to be so bad
and she told us her sad story.
4Ye lived at Barton, ma’am, in tho big
tenement bouse that was burned down; I
suppose you heard of it. My husband lost
his life trying to save two of the children.
They were all burnt as well as everything
else wo possessed in tho world. I thought
if I could live a summer in the country, I
might get work somewhere, nnd get strong
enough to bear antftbor Winter >3f oold and
starvation, but I iear we will hardly pull
through the summer stsolf. We haye got
leave to use this shed for the summer, but it
Won’t answer for cold weather; but it is not
likely we will be alive When the winter sete
in.”
She spoke in euoh a despairing tone that
it almost aiade me cry. looked distress
ed but told her not to fret.
"I’ll see that you don’t starve;” said she;
and there is no danger of frieiing for some
months, yet.”
After we went home I heard ma talking to
father about the poor womah, and the next
day one of the hired men duwn to the
village with a parcel of clothiffg nnd bro’t
the Wholo family homo with hiqi.
It was a marvel, the change days at ■
the farm made with them. The woman
1 turned out to be a wonderful worker. Such
I a hand to milk and churn! wash and
I scrub! She put our hired girl in the
shade. ]L
The boy could weel beets and carrots like
a machine, could peel potatoes, shell peas
■fend do lots of easy thingß without hurting
his sore foot, which soon hewled, end Hvc
grrl just deted on Yviushing up the pile of
dishes that used to give me the headache,
just to look at them. Then the "dishes ‘of
berries they picked atteV the work was done
“up! Really, nothing seemed to tire that
family.
And When Aunt Ellen came htfnte again,
site took the boy heme With her. He had
grown well aWd And he is to do the
choYCS around the house, and when school
begins again she intends to sCnd him to
school for tho winter. Ma Wiys the Episco
pal cow 'brought W6F ft treasure ill th’6 shape
’6t a good, strong, tswsty servants nnd a
smart little maid as well, nnd Aunt Ellen is
equally pleased with her chore boy.
So while the milk from the Episcopal cow
Was the ftveaVis of Winding comfort nnAbtea 1
sings in seVcrnl homes, a blessing also re
turned to the homes ol thoße who gave the
milk.
I must «t fidget to say that Mr. Holmes,
ft trader, drove up to the farm one day, ftnd ‘
after explaining that he had seen the adver
tisement in the office, he en*;a«;td to take till j
the Vegetables, Letter and 'eggs that we i
could spare. Throe times a week he drove ;
lftt» Garten, ft town three miles off, with a
load of conntry produce, and our farm con
tributed a large share of his load.
JftVk’s advertisement brought Rim nnd me
a snug little sum, (or mother allowed us to
keep the mortey for all the peas nnd beans
and other things thftt We picked and prepnr
ed flat Mr. Itolmes, and we are saving our
money until the Christmas holidays, when
father says he Witt take us to Boston to see
the big stores there. We are making up a
long list ol things that we want to buy with
our money. I hope it Will hold out to buy ■
the half of them.
Front the New Dictionary.
Hens’ Eggs. —A production of nature
with whieh to comps.re tho sire of western
hailstones.
. Billiard Balls. lmplements used as simi
les tor the hairless heads of the men who oc-‘
cupy the front se«ts when a dccollcttc ballet I
is on tlte Stage.
The Slimmer Seasovi.*—Three months of
the year when fashionable people cheerfully
put up with inconveniences at seaside hotels,
Which ftt heme would induce them to de
dare that lifts W as net WOtlh living.
Prohibition A laW compelling a man to
enter the bsck-door when he wants a bever
age for his “oft infirmities” and so forth—
especially the latter.
A Successful Alan.—One who by hard
WoVk and close economy, accumulates a mil
lion dollars, and dies, and leaves his money
to a couple of spendthrift sons who “see
morn ft'n” in twelve mohths than the “old
man'’ did in fifty years.
An A met Scan Beauty.—A woman Whose
alleged charms are unnoticed at home, and
1 who doer.c”, achieve fame ns a beauty until
She goes nbrond and seoiH'o3 All introduction
’ to the Prince of Wales.
American Humor—Any fnectlonn re
marks made about the mule, the mother-in
fnw; and the goat.
A Ueud-Ifend.—Tiie l'lirnl editor who
gives ten dollars’ worth of puffs for a fifty
cent circus ticket.
College Education.—A proficiency Ih boat
ing, base-ball, ahd sometimes in other
branches of learning.
; A Society Alan. youth Who devotes
more time to arranging his necktie than lo
, cultivating his mind,
Charity Bull.-—-A scheme tu enable the
Wealthy to spend several hundred thousand
dollars for diamonds and dresses in order to
rniso a few hundred dollars fur tho poor.-
Drake's Magaiine.
Ait Buterprising, Reliable House.
The Central Drug Store wan always be
relied upon, not only to carry ill stock the
I best of everything, but to secure the agency
; for such articles as have well known merit,
: und are popular with tho people, thereby
sustaining the reputation of being always
' enterprising, and ever reliable. Having se
| cured the agency for the celebrated Dr.
, King’s New Discovery lor .Consumption,
j will sell it on a positive guarantee. It will
! surely cure any and every affection of
Throat, litlngs, und Chest, and to show our
j confidence, we inyite you to call and get a
Trial Bottle Free.
"Pupa,” said a little sick girl whose fa
ther hud brought her a drink, “papa, can’t
you get sonic lrcsli water? This tastes witli-
I ered.”
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! guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or ■
; money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
1 l'or sab at Central Drug Store. J
NO. 12."
War MoAey Scarce.
A Tefr month's ago the firm of Dixon and
Murphy advertised in the Netrs for Confed"
erato m«niy, and offered two or three cent*
apiece for each bill. The appearance of the
advertisement gave many the idea that some
scheme frns'bn foot to convert tho old notes
Into good solid Bland dollars. There were
not a few chough tvlio, 'hating a considera
ble sum of the old currency on hand, were
glad to sell even at the enormous discount
of 98 per cent off.
So ever since the 'notice appeared the e'h•
ferprising firm lifts been receiving all sort*
o( inquiries. They have bought fri amount*
ranging Irom $5 to $5,000. All that the
firm wanted frith th'e bills Vas to uso thehl
for advettWlVig their coal business by dis
tributing “the promise to pay” all over the
i conn try. The largest denotninfttWn receiv
ed was SSCW bills t nd the smallest $5 bills-.
At first tlie notes came in rapidly, but of
late there have not been many offering-.
The market seems to bo pretty well bought
1 up. Rills fr'ti't pitted tit every point from
Virginia to Texas. Some WOCc tattered and
! showed wear, and some were os bright and
i crisp ns new. 'One package of $1,500 look/
. ed as if the notes were just from tho press-.
Altogether the firm has purchased 20,000
bills which once represented millions ts
■ Confederate dollars. On the back of each
bill the firm hfis bad printed the eight stanxa
poem beginning
“Representing frothing on Cod’s earth now*
And uadght in the waters below it.”
The distribution of the bills bonring tht
poem e.Vcircif Crtfrsiilcrnblo interest as to whft
was the author of the pretty Verses. Many
attributed them to Rather Ryan, and almost
all of the South’s singers of two de
cades ago frfrifr given ‘c-.-edit for the quaittt
lines by their several admireVS. Before go-
I ing to England in June last Mr. Dennis
Murpliv presented President Cleveland at
one of his receptions fr ith a SSOO interest
i bearing n'Offt, Which hiid the verses on its
back. The president smiled at tho promise
! to pay 2c. per day interest, pnd the incident
. and the poem freVC published in some Us the
j Washington papers. There happened to he
in Washington aboUt that time, a Mr. S. A.
•Jonas, who is editor ul tho Aberdeen'(Miss.)
Examiner. The poem was passing around
•is an anonymous production when Mr. Jo
nas reeogniftod it as an effort of his own,
written at Richmond in May, 1865, at tho
request of some old fiiends and veterans,
Although the verses are pecultafly Appro
priate and beautiful they perhaps never be
foro had anything likt the circulation thej'
have had within the past yCah They had
lain enPoticcd so long that tho public lind
forgotten the writer. During the laHt
twelvemonth they had scattered all over the
country. Mr, Murphy took 1,500 hills to
England, and when he returned had given
them ail afray. In Cardiff, Wales, where
an American is something of a curiosity-,
Mr. Murphy gave a number of bills to the
miners ami left them Under the impression
' that he was a benevolent Croesus or Count
1 of Monte Cristo, for the minors considered
the bills genuine currency worth par.
A few days before the first advertisement
was published a Savannah gentleman burp
ed a Imrrel full ol old Confederate notes,
the whole representing over $1,000,000.
That has probably been the fate of many a
barrel of the pledges that Were once issuod
so freely that $1,200 of them was required
to buy a pair of boots, and course boots ut
that.— Hav. News. r .
Wonderful Cures.
W. D. Iloyt & Co., Wholesale and. Retail
Druggists of Rome, Ga., -viv; Wc have bcett
selling Dr. King’s New Discovery, Electric
Bitters and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for two
years. Have never handled remedies that
sell as well, or give such uhlVersal satisfac
tion. There - have been some wonderful
cures effected by these medicines in this
city. Seyeral cases of pronounced Con
sumption have been entirely cured by uso of
a few buttles of Dr. King’s New Discovery,
taken in connection with. Electric Bitters.
Wc guarantee them alwfiys. Sold at the
Central Drffg Store.
Tommy (who has just received a severe
sttolditig): “Am I really so bad, mamma?”
Mamma: Yes, Tuinnty, you aro a very had
boy.” Tommy (reflectively): “Well, any
| way, mamma, I think you, ought to bo real
p glad I ain’t twins.”
It Has Stood tlic Test
Os the severest trials for more than d
quarter of a century, ittld ie a certain curd
for all diseases peculiar to a woman, regu
lating tho monthlies thoroughly. Write
The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Gai
“What makes you grow up to be men?’*
a teacher in a primary school in Melrose,
1 near Boston, asked of her class of boys the
' other day.
I “1 know,” said the Smallest boy Id the
; class.
“What is it?”
“Birthdays!”