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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—\V. IT. Whaley.
Counoilmen—T. P. Littlefield, 11. Vf.
Whaley, Bryant George* O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield,
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Uopps.
.Suerifi—John N. Goodbread. m ,
Jerk tinti\ >r Hmirt f. Middfelon 1
Tax Receiver—.l. O. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. K. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner—D. MoDitha.
County Commissioners —J. F. King, G.
\Y. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board,
1. Wednesday in .January, April, July and
October. Jas. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superiot Court, Wayne County—J no. L. j
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- :
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
BMstear, Fiores Comity tenia.
TOWS DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. 0. Riggins.
Oouncilinen—D. P. Patterson,,!. M. Down?,
J. if. Lee, B. D. Hrantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Pnrdom.
Town Treasurer—B. I). BrantJy.
Marshal —E.Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary— A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew Ji. Moore.
Sheri!!—E. /.. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tar P.eceiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
dora.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, O. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 = 0 Dis
trist, G. M., George T. Moody; 584 District,
O. M., Charles S. Youinanns; 590 District,
G. M.. D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Blackshear Precinct. 584 district.G.M.,
Notary Public,.!, G. S. Patterson; Justice
of the Peace, 11. P,. James; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z. Byrd.
Dickson’s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peace, Geb. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
SehlaUerville Precinct, 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, I). B. McKinnon; Justice o
,1.. TA' .uftjt, Const l • ifl, uo'.n \\
Booth.
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at 9
o’clock.
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€ULI I: EN T 1 * All AG LI Al IIS.
Soiitlicrn Nows.
The whole amount of stock, $150,000,
has been subscribed for cotton
mill in Augusta, Ga.
A meteor so brilliant as to bo seen in
broad daylight went streaming over
North Carolina Tuesday.
Sumpter county, Florida, will prob
ably ship one and a half million oranges
the present year.
The people of North Louisiana got
live days cotton-picking last week the
best show they have had for a mouth.
All horts.
A Massachusetts woman has hoarded
800 silver half-dimes.
11 is not generally known that there is
an extensive salt lake on the top of the
Tehacher.i mountain in California, ahaut
six miles southwest of the point where
the southern Pacific railroad crosses the
mountains. The lake is somewhat diffi
cult of access, but salt is gathered from
the bottom of the lake, where, it lies in
layers from one to six inches thick, and
shipped to San Francisco.
During the year ending September
89th, 185 new granges have been or
ganized and located in thirty-one states;
as follows: Alabama, 3; Arkansas, 1;
California, 10; Florida, 3; Georgia, 2;
Illinois. 7: Indiana, 1; Kansas, 2; Louisi
ana, 3; Maine, 7; Maryland. 3; Massa
ehussetts, 1; Michigan, 5; Minnesota, 2;
Mi.-souri. S; Nebraska, 2; New Hamp
shire, and; New York, 7: North Carolina,
5; Ohio. 16; Oregon 1; Pennsylvania, 20;
South Carolina, 2: Tennessee, 6; Texas,
11; Vermont, 5; Virginia, 15; West Vir
ginia, 8; Idaho, 1; Arizona, 1.
Foreign Intelligence.
In Sweden primary education is com
pulsory on all.
Adelina Patti has received £2,000.000
for singing since her debut.
A favorite mode of introduction in
Brazil is said to be, “ This is my friend ;
if he steals anything from you, I am re
sponsible/’
Kaiser William celebrates his golden
wedding at Berlin with great festivity
next spring, and Queen Victoria, as well
as many ether potentates, is expected to
be present.
The king of Burmah is erecting ma
chinery at Rangoon to utilize the abun
dant supply of mineral oil found in
Burmah. if the works are successful,
the wh eof India will he supplied with
p -.ratine from this new source
VOL. 11.
A China paper states that during an
outbreak of cholera on board the customs
cruiser Fei Hoo. one of the crew was
saved, while in a dying state, by the
novel experiment of placing him between
| the boiiers of that vessel. This extem
! porized Turkish bath completely cured
i the patient.
Sweden has consented to give up to
France her only colony, the island of St.
| Barthelemy, one ot the Antilles. The
; island has already belonged to France,
; and Sweden now finds it to her interest
| to cede it at the price of 270,000 francs.
The Westminster aquarium may be
i said to possess the largest plate-glass tank
in the world, one having been lately
, erected one hundred and fifty feet, long,
' twenty' feet wide, and proportionately
j high. It will permit the display of fish
! of the largest size procurable in the
British waters.
The French wheat crop of this year is
below the average yield. Straw is plen
tiful, ears are many, but the grain is
small and scanty, especially in theplains,
valleys, and rich soils. France will have
to import breadstuff) largely this year,
and its supplies from the Levant will be
I greatly curtailed.
The French chemist is said to have suc
ee?ded in producing a paint with which
to illuminate the numbers on street doors
at night. Figures traced with it, are so
lustrous as to be read even on a dark
j night, and the preparation of the com
pound is said to be simple, inexpensive,
and not injurious.
The Cossacks are remarkably fond of
tea, and they carry it on the march made
into bricks, or rather tiles, which, before
hardening, are soaked in sheeps’ blood
boiled in milk, to which flour, butter and
salt have been added. A kind of soup is
made out of the mixture. Tea is fre
quently carried on the inarch in a copper
can and drunk cold. The tea cauldron,
suspended from a tripod, is the first thing
set up during a halt.
The khedive of Egypt has the first
choice of all the slaves that still are sold
freely in his dominions, and has no pre
ference for any particular hue, from Cir
cassian to Nubian. The war has ruined
the slave trade this year, and eight hun
dred Circassians were sold at two hun
dred dollars, and pretty Somali girls at
sixty dollars, at the great Tanta fair,
their owners preferring to realize on them
at any twice rather than hold them for
future delivery at a possible advance.
The United States’ minister at the
Hague says there has not been a hank
failure in Holland for the las, forty years,
while there is no such thing on record as
the failure of a fire insurance company.
The railroads grant no free passes, and
pilfering officials are scarcely even heard
of. Dishonesty of any kind or failure in
business means public dishonor. Four
millions of people live within an area of
£0,86!) equatemiits, a fact'unprecedented
in any other country, and all appear to
be. prosperous and happy.
The Chinese ambassador in London,
who has greatly interested himself in the
suppression of the opium traffic between
India and China, has said, in reply to an
address made to him by the Friends;
“The total import duties collected on
op : um in China amount to but £1,000,-
000. The sum is not great,and its collection
cannot have much effecton foreign trade.
The Chinese government now contemplate
taking measures to prohibit opiurn
srnokiug in China, and thus it may he
hoped that the use of the drug may
gradually diminish.” This heathen am
bassador thinks, also, that it the cultiva-
tion of grain in India were substituted
for the raising of the poppy, India would
bo more likely to have au available sur
plus of food in time of famine.
The London correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Enquirer makes the following
statement: “ English capital and Eng
lish people are going to Alabama, induced
by the large English interests in the rail
ways of that state. Avery comprehen
sive programme looking to the transport
of families hence to the railway lands of
Alabama is being publicly presented
here. Already many persons well to do
in the world are leaving unprofitable
ventures in England, where stagnation,
strikes and prejudice are doing most dan
gerous work, and are on their way to the
rich lands, both mineral and agricultural,
of Alabama. This is hut the initial step
in a grand revived march of emigration
to America which the coming year will
witness. As of American manufacturers,
so I say of American lands—let honesty
prevail and profits will follow.”
Music of the Oyster.
Ail through the night I heard a short,
snapping sound coming from the twigs
of the busbe3, but in the darkness I was
unable to ascertain the cause. It was
not confined to any one bush, but ex
tended along the whole distance. There
was no regularity about it, but it fell
upon the ear at intervals, like the patter
ing of the first large rain drops fhat
precede a heavy shower; but no rain
drops ever made so loud a noise, even
when falling upon the shingle roof of a
country bam. 1 fell asleep trying to
make out the cause, and was awakened
by the continued snap, snap, which dis
turbed my slumbers. I knew it could
not.be the day breaking, because it was
not near the morning hour. But when
morning did come, and the sound had
not ceased, I discovered that it arose
from the oysters that were actually
growing on the bushes, every twig of
which held along its length a cluster of
from ten to twenty oysters about two
inches long by an inch and a half wide.
I thought it was a strange country where
the bushes bore such fruit as that. The
branches or the bushes were submerged
at high water, and the young oysters
, grew upon them until their weight broke
■ off the branches and they fell into the
solt, muddy bottom. It was the sudden
closing of thin shells which produced the
sound. Some naturalists have said the
oyster can be educated ; but this was the
fir-t timed was ever an auditor of an
oyster concert. —Mexican I Alter.
Gray hair? seem like the light of a soft
morn, silvering over the evening of life.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1877.
UREAniSIti AT roi'RSI’OKK.
She sits in the gathering twilight
In her well-worn roc-king-chair,
With the snow of life's lone winter
Iu the meshes of her hair:
She dream■* of the little children
Who left her long ugo,
And listens for their footsteps
With the longing mother s know.
She hears th (m coming, coming!
And her htart is all elate
At the patter of little footsteps,
Down by the garden gate,
The clatter of children’s voices
Comes merrily to her ears.
Ami she trie*, inli<rquivering treble,
“ You arel*!e, my little dears!'*
And then, are here beside her
As the hadtthem long ago—
busie. and l >*, and Mary,
/ lid br.t-. ifc, .;nd little Joo.
A fid her l ■ rt 1 hrobs high with rapture
/ -v A* ~ jfe fcj. Vfl yv n,
And th* sight is filled with music
Sweet as her dreams of Hoaven.
Such wonderful things they tell her !
A nest in the apple-tree ;
And the robin gave them a scolding
For climbing up to see!
A wee white lamb in the pasture—
A wild rose on the hill--
And such a great ripe strawberry
As Sue found by the mill!
She listens to all their prattle,
Her heart abrim with r.'st.
She’s queen in a little kingdom,
Each child a royal guest.
Queen? ’Tisan empty title!
More than a queen is she :
Mother of vqung immortals
Who gather at her knee.
She brings their welcome supper,
And they sit down at her feet
Tired, and hungry, and happy,
And she laughs to see them eat.
Then she smooths the yellow tangles
With a mother's patient hand,
While she tells some wonderful story
Of the children's fairy-land.
Then the little knotted shoe-strings
Are patiently untied,
Ami the children in tteii night-gowns
Kneel at their mother’s side.
Their voices are low and sleepy
Ere their simple prayers are said,
And the good-night kiss is given
By each waiting little bed.
Then a quiet comes about her,
Solemn and still and deep,
And she says in her dreamy fancies,
'• The children are fast asleep;”
Yes, last asleep, poor mother,
In their beds so low and green,
D dsies and clover blossom
Each face and sky between,
—JSben K. Hex ford , in Christian Union .
The Burnt Letter.
It was a gossiping neighbor who had
been spending an hour with Airs. Webb,
and just before she went she had let fly
the arrow she had kept in her quivor.
“ Your son Graritley goes over the hill
to the Burdock’s pretty often, Mrs.
Webb,” said she.
“ I don’t know it if he does,” replied
the old lady.
“ Naturally he wouldn’t tell you until
the last, after old Burdock’s quarrel with
his dead father,” Haid the neighbor—
" Dot ev'/y ' ,uy ciso knows. It’s said
to lie a Mettled th>ng. Why, Keziah saw
him kiss her at the gale one Sunday
night, and even Ann Burdock would
hardly go so far as that unless it was so,
eh?
Well, good-bye.”
She hurried off, leaving her hostess
dumb and motionless at the door.
It was some moments before she even
thought of going in and casting herself
into her chair, but she did it at last, and
fell to talking to herself in this wise:
“ Oh, it’s worse than anything that
ever happened to me. I’ve had trouble,
heaven knows, but it was the kind I had
to bear if God sent it, but this doesn’t
seem right. My Grantley to marry
Steven Burdock’s daughter, the child of
the very worst enemy his father ever had,
a girl brought up by a woman I despise !
Sarah Burdock never had the ways I
liked, nor did the things I thought right
for a woman to do. Everything is so
different with the Burdocks, so strange.
Like ought to marry like, or there’ll
never Ire a happy home. But that’s the
way with men! a pretty face strikes them
and away they go, and Grantley is like
the rest. Why should lie choose Sarah
Burdock’s daughter?”
She rocked to and fro as she spoke,
letting her neglected knitting drop into
her lap.
“ There’s Fanny White,” she mur
mered, “ a nice, thrifty girl ; and Minnie
Holm. AVby, her mother is the best
friend I have. There are plenty of girls
1 could have made up my mind to;
though I don’t know why Grantley
should marry any one yet. But Ann
Burdock, with her showy ways, and her
airs and graces, I never can welcome her,
never, never. I must go away and live
by myself if she comes here to lord it
over the house; and her mother, no
doubt, will come and sit and talk in her
foolish, flighty way ; and the sisters will
sit in the parlor windows, and take up
the table. They’ll bs here half the time,
and make nobody of me. I know them.
Oh ! if my Grantley does marry Ann
Burdock. But it can’t be ’ It can’t!”
Just then a foot struck the floor of the
porch, the window raised a little, and
through the aperture came flying two
letters. One a yellow, vulgar-looking
missive, the other a little white envelope
with a monogram ujwn it.
The old lady looked up.
The postman, who had thus easiiy de
livered his letters, looked over his
shoulder, and laughed and nodded at
her as he hurried away with his leather
bag upon his arm, and she put on her
spectacles to read the superscriptions.
The yellow envelope held only one of
those circulars with which tradesmen of
all sorts are in the habit of flooding the
country. The white one was not ad
dressed to her, but to her son. and the
monogram was a very pretty silver and
blue A. B.
“ Ann Burdock,” said the old iady
“ It’s a note from her. Now, 1 wondf r
what she has written to my ix>y ? I'd
like to know. It’s very cosy opening
these envelopes. ’Tisn’t as if they were
sealed ; and what harin ' would it bo for
a mother to read a letter to her son?
I’ve half a mind to doit. Only he’d be
angry, maybe. Well, then, I’m angry
too, and with more reason. Yes—l
will.”
A little old-fashioned copper kettle
simmered and bubbled upon the stove.
A little spirt of steam arose from its
spout.
The old lady looked at it. Then,
rising, she crept across the floor in a
guilty sort of fashion, and held the
envelope with its flaps down ..ard,
to the mouth of the spout.
She held it for a few moments, and
then softly touched it with her thumb
and finger.
It was quite damp, and one fold peeled
away from the other very easily, and
there lay the little note in her hand.
She might have read it if she chose;
if there were secrets in it, Miss Ann
Burdock should have secured them
better than she could with the little
touch of mucilage the maker of those
envelopes had bestowed on encli one.
Mrs. Webb took off her glasses, wiped
them from the steam that had gathered
upon them, and, still standing, opened
the sheet of paper adorned with a mono
gram like that upon the envelope, and
read as follows;
“ Dear Grantley—You went away
angry with me on Sunday evening, and
said that if I would not take hack what
I had said you would never come to see
me again. And I was too proud and too
angry to say a word to keep you. But,
Grantley, dear, I’m sorry lor it now.
You were in the right, mid 1 was to
blame, and I take it all hack—every
word. I never meant it. You are so
downright you think one must mean all
one says, but indeed I never meant it.
And so forgive me and come again next
Sunday light. 1 find that life would he
a very sad thing for me if wc reallv
quarrelled. Yours forever, Ann.”
“So !” muttered Mrs. Webb, between
her teeth. “It has gone so far, then
and she has been showing her temper
and angering Grantley. Well, if he has
spirit enough to stay away one week,
he’ll have spirit enough to stay away al
together, perhaps.”
Then she gave au angry stamp.
“ Why do I comfort myself with that?”
she said. “ I know this letter will call
him back to her, and lie”! be more in
love with her than ever. Oh,
if she had not written ! I know my boy
well enough to know that he would not
go hack to her without that. Well, he
hasn’t seen it yet; and if J choose he
never need. It is for his good, 1 know.
Arm Burdock is rot the girl for him.
I’ll keep him from her.”
She dropped Ann Burdock’s letter
upon the fire. There it lay, a black and
shrivelled fold of tinder, as her son’s step
sounded in the hall, and she covered it
from sight with the kettle.
In come Grantley, his face bright with
the outer cold.
“Settingyourself on fire, mother ?” he
asked. “I smell something scorching.”
“It’s not my dress,” she answered, and
busied herself with the teapot, and rang
the hell for the tea things.
In came the girl with the tray, and
again Mrs. Webb had a little fright.
“Any letter for me?” asked her son,
with an eager look in his face.
“No,” she answered faintly. “Did
you expect one ?”
“Not I,” said he, his brows contract
ing. “But T met the postman on the
hill, and he called out to me to hurry
home and get my love-letter. 11 is joke,
] suppose.”
“It was impudent of him,” said Mrs.
Webb, not daring to meet her son’s eye.
“That’s a love-letter, is it?”
Blie tossed him the tradesman’s circu
lar. He glanced at it and put it down.
How sad he looked ! What gray tints
there were about his eyes and temples!
How much thinner he seemed than he
did a week or so ago !
Was it all that quarrel with the Bur
dock girl ? Would it have been lietter
that he should have had that mono
gram med note?
The mother put the thought from her.
She spread the little store of dainties Ire
fore her son and tried to make him eat;
and though she had been so frightened
by his questions, she could not help ap
proaching the dangerous subject herself.
“Are you going out to-night!” she
asked.
“ No,” he answered ; “ I think not.”
“The neigh I nrs were telling me you
went over the hill to the Burdock’s
rather often,” she went on.
“ Well, if I have, mother,” he answer
ed, “ that is no sign I shall go again ”
“ Well, there are better places than
the Burdock’s,” said Mrs. Webb, “arid I
thought you’d never think of a girl
whose father quarreled with yours, arid
may have the evil temper of her mother.
She’s a flirt, too, they say.”
Then she bounced out of the room.
When she came back Grantely had gone
upstairs.
She heard the boards of his bed-roem
floor creek as he walked up and down for
hours, but she did not see him again that
night.
“ Well, well,” she said to herself, “ he’ll
get over it.”
But. whatever the feeling was, love,
anger, or grief, it did not agree with
Grautley Webb. He took loss interest in
that which went on around him. He
avoided all the other young people of the
place, and seemed to have neither youth
nor spirit left.
Could it be all about that girl Ann,
old Mrs. Webb asked herself, trying to
cheat herself into the idea that the boy
was only ill.
But in vain she made him warm pos
sets and bowls of herb tea. Even if lie
had drunk them, which he did not, for
they all went to water the grass of the
old orchard—even if he had drunk them,
they would have done him no good.
< >nlv one thing Could help him—the
only thing that seemed to him impossible
as he sat at his window, staring through
the starlight midnight at the roof of the
Burdock dwelling, never guessing that
under its eaves Ann Burdock sat, atonce
angry and sorry, thinking of him and
none other.
Ho had not answered her note ; he was
unforgiving; hut she had vexed him.
She was partly to blame.
The old lady in ttie ruffled night-cap
—who often started from her sleep in
the big front bedroom of the Webb home
with a dream of letters that curled up
into tinder over the red coal—had more
on her conscience than she knew.
For though Ann grieved, she did not
wear her heart upon her sleeve, but was
outwardly gayer than ever, and flirted as
she never had before, until at last the
same neighbor who had brought tin* news
of Grantley’s love affair to his mother,
dropping into tea, gave Mrs. Webb and
her son a bit of gossip as they sat at the
table together.
“ Ann Burdock is going to lie married
at last. It’s that young man from Lon
don, Mr. Millet.
“ I believe weddings when I see them
now,” said Mrs, Wohb.
“ But Mrs. Burdock herself told me
this,” said the guest.
When she wan gone, Grantley', who sat
before the tohle still, with his elbows
on it, dropped his head upon his arms,
and there was a sound of ouick breath
ing-
For a little while his mother watched
him. Then she went close.
“flranlley,” she said, in a trembling
voice, “what is it? What ails you?
Tell mol”
“ It’s only that I’m a fool, mother,” he
answered.
“ But—Grantley, what about ?”
He lifted up his young, worn face then,
and answered :
“ Mother, don’t you know ? It’s about
Ann Burdock. It’s been very hard to
hear, hut if she does marry any or e else
—l—shall kill myself, 1 think. Life
doesn’t seem worth having.”
“Life doesn’t seem wortli having, if
you can’t have Ann 1” the mother said,
ina puzzled sort of way. “But why,
what is there in her ?”
“ What there never is in more than
one woman to any man, mother,” said
Grantley.
Somehow, from the far-away years of
youth, a memory came back to his mother
that helped her to understand him.
She felt that she had done very ill, and
if confession could do any good, she
would even confess. At,least, if she could
not quite do that, she would let him
know the truth about Ann.
“ Grantley, dear,” she faltered, “ you
—you had a quarrel ?”
“ Yes,” he answered.
“ But if she had written to lieg your
pardon you’d have forgiven her?”
She almost hoped that ho would say
“ No”—that she need not go on.
But he answered:
“ Yes—hut she never wrote.”
“ I think she did, Grantley,” said the
mother. I—l know she did. I—l—an
accident happened to the letter. It—it
got burnt; but I’m sure it was an apology.
Indeed, I saw a few words, but 1 didn't
think you cared so. You see it—it fell
into the fire.”
“ Why did you not tell me before?”
cried Grantley.
“ Well, I somehow didn’t like,” was
all the mother could say. “ Ami why
don’t you go and ask her about it, and
see what it was ?’’
Boor Mrs. Webb, when her son, after
many questions, had taken her advice,
cried bitterly. She might have felt
even worse had she heard what Ann was
saying.
The story had been told, a reconcilia
tion effected, a declaration made to the
effect that Mr. Millet had never been
oved. And then Ann Burdock said,
with a laugh—
“But, Grantley, your mother burnt
that letter on purpose. Gnly a man
could believe the story you’ve told me.
Brie did not want me for a daughter-in
law. I owe her no grudge—remember
that, and don’t tell her what I say.”
Grantley never did. And old Mrs.
Webb has often been heard to say that
Ann Burdock lias turned out better than
could have been expected.
.Look at that crowd,”said a gentle
man to a clergyman be was showing
through the state department the other
day. “.1 ust look at that crowd going up
in the elevator to Mr. Evarts’ room.”
“Yes,” replied the divine, “ that’s the
largest ‘ collection on foreign missions '
I’ve teeu taken up in many a day.”
THE MOFFET REGISTER.
An Abridgement of (lie I.ntv l’lisseil
b.v me Virginia l.eglslntnre In
Kofereneo Thereto,
The law as enacted provides for the
taking out of a wholesale license, a retail
license and a bar-room liccnso, such ns
may be desired by the applicant upon
the conditions set forth in the act. A
license to sell by wholesale fixes the min
imum at five gallons wholesale and retail
at one gallon. A retail license fixes the
maximum at five gallons to be delivered
in vessels. A bar room covers only what
Arnold to be drunken the premises. The
penalty for violation of any of the above
regulations is a fine ot not less than
twenty nor over five hundred dollars and
imprisonment from ono month to twelve.
To obtain a bar-room or retail license,
application is to be made la the court of
the county or corporation in which the
applicant resides, and if the court iH
satisfied from the testimony that he is a
fit person and the locality suitable, upon
filing a bond with security of not less
than one hundred nor mere than one
thousand dollars, conditioned to comply
with the law, a license shall be granted.
If for any cause a license is refused, an
appeal may lie taken to the circuit court.
The auditor of public accounts is to
provide a bar-room register as hereafter
sped fled, and furnish instructions for its
use, the same to be placed in tbo hands
of the revenue commissioners for distri
bution. Separate registers are to be pro
vided for malt liquors and alcoholic
liquors. The commissioners place the
registers and it is made their duty to ex
amine them from time to time. Every
register is to be locked after inspection,
and the key retained by the commis
sioners. It is made the duty of the re
tail denier, upon the sulo of every half
pint, fraction or multiple of spirits, wines
or malt liquors, in the presence of the
purchaser, to turn the crank of the
priqier register until the bell lias struck
once and the dial indicator has moved
one point until the amount sold reaches
ono gallon.
In tho case of a bar-room keeper, upon l
the side of each drink, in presence of the
customer, he is to turn the crank until
the bell strikes one and the indicator
moves one point on the dial, or in other
words, the half pint or fraction thereof
is the unit of taxation on the retail dealer,
and the drink for the bar-room dealer.
The following is the table of rates for
taxing dealers:
—• **
•QUANTITY "i I.IQUOR. i- a rt 2
6® o o * -
(I ct.
I.ohh thnii half pint I 2'f ’ •
!I..ir pint 1 ;.L, '
Moro than liti 1 r pint hikl Ichm tliiui I (it 2| I
Onopiui. 2 ft l
Mora than a pint amt h’HH Ilian i'>> pl> .*!( ?'
Olio Mini a half pinth .T Wi
Mnrothan I't mid lohh than 2 pint*... 41 10 |
Two pi 11 1 h 4 10 I
Hall OIIIIO n ; H 2 1
Oin> uallon pij in j
There is also a specific tax, one-half to
bo paid when license is granted and the
other at the end of six months, the
amount of which m regulated by the
amount realized from the liquor register.
It is fixed for the first year in towns of
2,000 and less, at fifty dollars and over
at one hundred dollars; after that it
will he determined by the register. It is
made the duty of the revenue commis
sioners to visit each establishment,
monthly and examine the register and sec
if same is in order, and also to make
a record of the number of drinks of
wine, alcoholic and malt liquors regis
tered as sold during the month also the
amount sold by retail dealers according
to the manner specified, and certify the
same to the auditor of accounts, and the
treasurer of the county or corporation
for the purpose of collecting the lax.
Druggists are required to take out a re
tail dealer’s license and subjected to all
the duties and penalties of other retail
dealers.
The penalties affixed for ail violations
of the act are very severe, extending in
nearly all cases to imprisonment in addi
tion to heavy fines. The Moffett register
is the one adopted for use in Virginia
and accomplishes the desired pursue.
The law has proved very successful,
yielding to the slate a heavy revenue,
and keeps theentire business of distilling,
manufacturing or selling any kind of
liquors, under the control of the courts,
in a systematic mariner.
Keep Pegging Away.
A farmer friend had occasion to write
the local editor of this paper a note the
Other day. In closing his note he asked,
“ Urb, can you tell me the way out ol
the present hard times?"
Of course, we can. Keep pegging
awa y—)ive within your income, and save
a little for a ramy day—sell your surplus
stock and grain—if you can’t get your
price take what you can get; take the
money and pay your honest debts;
and if you owe no debts, put the money
at interest and don’t go on credit any
more; work steadily and I* economical
—make no bad or fool trades, and the
first thing you know you will be
sitting up cross-legged, with peace and
plenty. Xow, we’ve told you the way
out, and if you don’t go, it is vour own
fault. — lice" ion (On ) Journal.
GRAVE AND GAY.
. . Little minds rejoice over the errors
of men of genius, as the owl rejoices at
an eclipse.
..“ No, ma’am,” saida grocer to an
applicant for credit, “ l wouldn’t even
trust my own feelings.”
. The only safety from apothecary
poisoning lies in employing no doctor
who writes Latin prescriptions.
.. Fancy ruleß over two-thirds of the
universe, the past and the future, while
reality is confined in the present.
. Some there are who gaze intently
into the well of truth, but only in hope
of seeing their own image reflected there.
..It has been remarked of a Cnicago
j couple, “ Two souls with but a single
thought—how to get rid of each other.”
.. Some connoisseurs would give a hun
dred pounds for the head of a beggar, in
painting, who would threaten the living
mendicant with the prison.
..According to Rev. Joseph Cook,
j every man’s face is phosphorescent in its
I glow in proportion as lie is good. But
i there is a glow which comes not of good
' ness, and neither of phosphorous.
.. Good sense is_lhe bod jof poetic ge-
I uius; fancy, its drapery; motion, its life
and magnetism, the soul that is every
| where, forming all into one graceful and
j intelligent whole.
NO. 15.
..“Bay, missus, won’t you come and
teach us? AVe’re going to bounce our
teacher ; he’s too slow.” Thus did some
Brooklyn Sunday-school scholars request
a lady to take charge of them.
.. English is the court language of
Germany. It is a proud moment when
a Briton or American, visiting the palace
is saluted witli “ Got was a pooty
schplentit morning, ain’t it?”
.. Falstaff answered by the New York
Commercial Advertiser. “What’s honor?”
asks Falstaff. That’s easy. Any woman
who sits behind another woman in church
can tell whats on her in two minutes.
.. Anew York jeweler has a splendid
opal ring which has been sold nine times
as an engagement ring, and as many
times exchanged, on account of the
general belief that the opal is unlucky.
..“Are these soaps all one scent?”
inquired a lady of a juvenile salesman.
“ No, ma’am, they are all ten cents,”
replied the innocent youngster.
.. An exchange wants to know how
the Turks happened to learn to fight so
well. Why man, most of the Turkish
officers have over half a dozen wives.
.. One of the Kentucky minstrels is
Hitting for his care in character. Opera
tor—“ Now, sir, look pleasant—smile a
little.” Minstrel smiles. “O i that will
never do. It’s too wide for the instru
ment.”
. The heart of a great man surrounded
by pioverty and trammeled by depend
ence, is like an egg in a nest built among
briars. It must either curdle into bit
terness, or il it take li e and mount
struggle through thorns for the ascent.
. It is far easier to feign respect when
we do not feel it, than to express it when
we actually do; for which reason frank,
straightforward people appear hyoperiti
cal to suspicious ones. The very fear of
seeming deceitful makes us seem so.
The Water We Drink.
There is very little pure water used.
That which comes from the clouds has
the lieHt claim to lie so regarded, but that
is contaminated by impurities in the air
hh it descends. Clear water is not neces
sarily pure water. All water from springs
and wells contains minerals in solution ;
the latter having but a meager supply
and outgo is usually more strongly im
pregnated than natural fountains with
flowing inlets and outlets. The purest
water is found where solid rock, as ol
granite, forms the bed over which it runs.
But waters of springs and transparent
rivers, even when filtered, are never
pure. Waters of average purity em
ployed for domestic purposes are said, on
anthority of Johnson, to hold in solution
from twenty to thirty grains of solid
matter. The water of the river Jordan
contains seventy-three grains, ami
that supplied by the various
companies of the city of laindon
low from nineteen and one-half to forty
grains. The impurities that make water
injurious to health are organic matters,
such as are abundantly supplied by
barnyards, drains and cemeteries, where
the decay of animal and vegetable sub
stances is going on. Some families who
live on farms, and who fancy they are
drinking the best of water, are, in fact,
cons antly imbibing poison that will
appear perhaps in the dreaded farm of
diphtheria or typhoid fever. Toe char
acter of the impurities is important. It
is claimed that a certain degree of har
ness of lime, improves the water for all
domestic uses, except washing, and
water from the chalk districts in Eure fie
is preferred to softer water. It is also
stated that conscripts for the French
army who were reared in hard water
districts wero taller and stronger in fame
than those who were reared in places
where there was no lime in the water. —
Scientific. American.
The Cornet Liver.
Borne medical students in one of the
colleges, dissecting a female subject a
few days ago, found what is called in the
doctors’ parlance a "corset liver.’’ When
tight lacing has been practised through
several years, a |>ermanei)t dent or hollow
is produced in the liver, which may be
seen very plainly after the woman is
dead and her liver dissected sut. This
kind of liver occurs so frequently in
women that the physicians have given
it the name of “corset liver.” In the
subject mentioned the hollow in the
liver was large enough lor the wrist of a
grown man to be laid in it. Young
ladies who don’t want their livers put
into the newsj>aptrs and made an awlnl
example of after they are dead, would
better take waiuiDg, '
