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THE iil(i COAT IN THE CLOSET. ,Y. E. Freemason. The lodge of Freemasons nt Woodstown. finding their Lodge-room growing more and more dingy and dusty, determined that it should be cleaned and renovated as fur as soap and water could do it. The job must, of course, be put into feminine hands, and it was voted to employ Mrs. K., the village charwoman. The door-keeper, well aware that Mrs. K. was one of the independent investiga tors. who like to see ana judge for them selves, went early the next morning, bor rowed without leave a neighbor's billy goat, and notwithstanding some vigorous protests on the part of the animal, convey ed him up stairs, placed him in a closet opening out of the Lodge-room, and secured him by turning the button, but without locking the door, put the key in his pocket. Then, with a face as serious as if lie had just heard of the robbery of a bank where bis aunt, of whom he had groat expecta tions. kept her trunk, he wended his wav to the dwelling of Mrs. K., and requested her to come to the Lodge-room immediate ly after breakfast, that he might give her the necessary directions. An hour later the woman put in an ap pearance, “armed and equipped” with broom, brushes, pail, tub, etc. She found the custodian of the premises awaiting her arrival. “ Now ma’am,” said he, “ T'll tell you what we want done, and how we came to employ you, The Brethren said it was difficult to get anybody to do the job and not meddle with the secrets in that little closet; wo have lost the key, and so can not lock the door. But 1 assured them that you could be depended on.” “ Depended on? I guess I can. My poor, dear, dead-aiul-gone husband belonged to the Freemasons, or Anti-Masons, 1 don't know which, lie let me into all secrets of the concern, and showed me all the marks the heated gridiron made when he joined, and told 1110 how they fixed poor Morgan; and sure as 1 live I never mentioned a word about it to a single soul to this day. If nobody troubles your closet to find out your secrets till I do, they'll lay there and rot—they will.” “ Yes, I thought we couldn't do better than give you the job. Now I want you to commence in the corner, and give the whole room a thorough cleaning, and re member, I have pledged my word and hon or for your fidelity. Don't go into that closet .” With this parting injunction em phatically uttered, lie left Mrs. K. to her task. The village of Woodstown was small, and centered about the post-office, store and meeting-house. Mrs. K. did not see that the sober-faced door-keeper just stepped into the post-office on the first floor of the same building, and awaited the result. She only listened till she was suro he had descended the last stair, then turn ed to gaze at the prohibited door. “Don'tgointo that closet!” she repeat ed, in p utitpc whisper ; “ 1’" thorp is a gridiron there, or some nonsense just like the Anti-Masons. '1 will just take one peep ; who’ll bo fhe wiser? 1 can keep a se cret. Besides teat loset will be on my mind till l see what’s in it, and I never could work worth a cent when there’s any thing on my mind.” Stealthily on tip-toc, she approached the closet, turned the button, the door swung open, and—bah! Billy, aroused from his nap by the sudden flood of light, making a spring to regain his liberty, almost upset her ladyship. Both started for the door, which alas was barricaded with house cleaning paraphernalia. The momentum of the charging party was not to be retard ed bv such slight obstacles and all went down the stairs in one avalanche. The crash brought to the spot half the people of the village, headed by the sad eyed door-keeper. He released the goat first, a cripple for life; then he assisted the charwoman to arise from under a pile of tubs, pails, brooms, brushes, etc. No bones were broken, and strangely enough, she was but slightly bruised externally; lier injuries were nearly all internal, her feelings were terribly lacerated. " Have you been taking degrees ma'am?" inquired the sympathetic custodian of Free masons' secrets. “ Taking degrees ! If you call tumbling from the top to the bottom of the stairs, with the devil after ye, taking things by degrees, l have; and if ye frighten folks as ye have me, and hurt them to boot, I'll warrant they’ll make as much noise as I have." There hadn't been a more wrathy wo man in Woodstown for many a day. “ I hope you did not open the closet ?’’ said the imperturbable door-keeper. "Open the closet? Eve ate the npple when she was told not to. If you want a woman to do anything, tell he not to, and she’ll do it certain ! Open thecloset ? You said the secrets were there, and of course 1 wanted to know 'em. 1 just unfastened the door, and out popped the critter right in mv face. I thought the devil had me, and 1 made for the stairs the devil butting me at every jump. 1 guess I’ll go home,” she added ; "you may get somebody else to clean up your old room.” “ Hut ma'am you are in possession of the great secret of the Order, and must go up and be initiated and sworn in, in thcreg ufar way,” remonstrated the door-keeper. " Regular way? Regular way, indeed! You don't suppose I am going near that place again, to ride that critter without a saddle or bridle? No, never ! No ! never! I’ll never go nigh that place again nor your hall neither ; and if I can prevent it, no lady shall ever join the Freemasons. Why, I’d sooner be a Maltesian, and be broiled on a gridiron as long as a tire could be kept under it, and be pulled from garret to cel lar, with a halter around my neck, just as my poor, dear husband was. He lived through it, but l never could live through Such another ride as 1 took to-day.” We would remind our lady readers that the "Brother” to whom Mrs. K. owed her sad experience is not to be taken as a representative Mason. A good Mason is always the champion of the fair sex “gen tle or simple.” MlnrcllnneoitN linns. Tn a western town, in answer to a call for a speech, as the train was moving off from a dinner station, Grant said : “ I like your gravy.” “Oh, I’ve loved before?” said a Detroit woman to her fourth husband, as she took handfuls of hair from his head because he objected to hang out the week's washing. Revenue Agent Clark sent a squad of deputy collectors to Rockdale countv. in the First district, and captured six illicit distilleries and four hundred gallons of crooked whiskey. The blackberry crop in Whitfield county will tie almost an entire failure, much to the disgust of tramps and lazy freedmen who have placed their hopes of getting safely through the summer on that crop. “ I say, Paddy, that is the worst-looking horse you drive 1 ever saw. Why don’t you fatten him up?” “ Fat him up, is it? Faix. the poor beast can hardly carry the little mate that’s on him now,” replied Paddy. The twenty-seventh Senatorial District has made the following nominations for the Constitutional Convention: Clarke, Rope Barrow ; Oconee, Andrew Jackson; Wal ton, T. A. Gibbs ; Newton. S. M.Tace and 0. S. Porter; Rockdale, E. B. Rosser. An Irishman newly arrived and a mem ber of the O’Regan family, was heard to exclaim ns the steamer Oregon was pass ing : “ ()-r-e-g-o-n ! O’Regan—he jahers ! only four weeks in Amcriky and a steam boat called by my name.” “If I was a horse now,” mused a big boy as he struggled up a Detroit street, “ T’d be stabled, rubbed down and fed; but I’m a boy and I’ve got to go home, clean off snow, bring in wood, tote water and rock the confounded old baby for an hour or two.” Creditor. —Didn’t you promise to nay me that bill when you got back from Bos ton?” Debtor—“ Well, you promised to wait till I got back from there didn’t you !” Creditor —“ Yes, I did.” Debtor —“ Well, that’s where I’ve got you, for 1 han’t been to Boston yet.” “ Father.” said a boy, w r ho got kicked in the face by a mule that he was annoy ing, “will I ever be as good looking as I was?” “ No, my son,” answered the pa rent, “ T don’t think you'll be as handsome as you were, but you’ll know a great deal more.” A fashionable young mail lately present ed his sweetheart with a string of pearls. As she hung them joyonsly on her neck a cloud came over her brow, and she cried, * Beloved, do not pearls betoken tears?’ ‘ Nary a tear,’ w r as the response ; them’s imitation.’ An Englishwoman, who was bornwith out arms, has just had twins. She wears her wedding ring on her toe, and does all the housework with her feet with a dex terity that is .surprising. How she will imvnnvo to nurse her twin babies is a prob lem yet to- be...solved. A little girl asked ftvuvwmAer f What kind of a bear is a consecrated cross eyed bear?” The mother replied that she had never heard of such an animal. The child insisted that they sang about it at the Sun day school. “No,” said the mother, “it is “A consecrated cross T bear.” A Milwaukee girl, while out walking lately, lost one of her shoes on the railroad track. Half an hour later a freight train ran into it and wrecked sixteen of the cars, knocked the end out of the engine boilers and killed two hundred head of cattle. And of such is the kingdom of heaven. The vote on the legislative amendment to the constitution respecting the fraudu lent bonds, as far as the counties have been officially heard from, stands : For ratifica tion 18,469; against ratification, 170. There are yet to be heard from twenty-eight counties. According to this proportion, the whole vote will not probably exceed twenty-five thousand. Mr. lla) r es, in an interview with an Ohio editor, which has been given to the public, thinks that the Republicans will lose Ohio this fall, and that w ithin two years they will gain South Carolina, with Wade Hamp ton as the Republican candidate for Gov ernor, and that Louisiana will also w r heel in line. Mr Hayes can see as far into a millstone as any other man. We are pained to learn tliat while Rev. E. F. Anderson and wife, of Oconee county, were in this city on Saturday last, a little son, whom they had left at home, while playing, was attacked by a ram goat, which butted him in the temple, from the effects of which he died in a short time. We deeply sympathize with the afflicted parents in this sad bereavement. —Athens Watchman. 1 nth inst. A Parisian manufacturer has received an order, from Turkey for a large number of white shirts upon which extracts from the Koran arc to oe printed in sky blue letters. Upon a number of white woolen under shirts is to be stamped the signature of Mohammed. The articles are intended for distribution to Turkish soldiers when upon especially dangerous duty, to stimulate their courage under the impression that they are talismans. “ The baby has got anew tooth, but the old lady is laid up with a cold in the head,” remarked a gentleman yesterday afternoon to a defeated candidate. “ What the —do I care ?” was the reply. “ Well,” said the gentleman slowly, before the election, you used to take me to one side and ask me how my family was coming on. and 1 have been hunting you all over town to tell you, and that's the way you talk to me. But it don’t make any difference, I voted for the other candidate anyhow. DISSOLUTION. TIIE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing be tween the undersigned, under the tirni name and style of PEEK, STEPHENSON & CO., wan dis solved, hy mutual consent, on the 2d day of April, 1877. The books are in the hands of \V. It. Stephen son, and all persons indebted to the late firm are re quested to make settlement at once, either by cash or note. JOHN PEEK. WM. R. STEPHENSON. 36 39 THOS. H. ROBERTS. CHEAPEST ANU BEST STOVES & TINWARE : IN THE SOUTH. AT A. K. CHILDS t CO’S., ATHENS, GEORGIA. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla For Scrofula, and all scrofulous diseases, Erysi- A pel as. Rose, or St. Antho ny's Fire, Eruptions and Eruptive diseases of the skin, Ulcerations of the M Liver, Stomach, Kidneys, Lungs, Pimples, Pustules, Byl Is V Boils, Blotches, Tumors, Tetter, Salt Rheum. Scald Head. Ringworm, Ulcers. Sores, Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Pain in the Bones, Side and Head, Female Weakness, Sterility, Leucorrhoea, arising from internal ulceration, and Uteri in disease, Syphilitic and Mercurial dis eases, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, Emaciation. General Debility, and for Purifying 'ie Blood. This Sarsaparilla is a combination of vegetable alteratives Stillingia, Man drake, Yellow Dock —with the lodides of Potassium and Iron, and is the most efficacious medicine yet known for the diseases it is intended to cure. Its ingredients are so skilfully com bined, that the full alterative effect of each is assured, and while it is so mild as to be harmless even to children, it is still so effectual as to purge out from the system those impurities and corruptions which develop into loathsome disease. The reputation it enjoys is derived from its cures, and the confidence which prominent physicians all over the coun try repose in it, prove their experience of its usefulness. Certificates attesting its virtues have accumulated, and are constantly being received, and as many of these cases are petißAßy Amr.aA xruHW&AwAig' evidence of the superiority of this Sar saparilla over every other alterative medicine. So generally is its superi ority to any other medicine known, that we need do no more than to assure the public that the best qualities it has ever possessed are strictly maintained. PREPARED BV Dr, J. C. AYER & CO., Lowell, Mass., Practical and Analytical Chemists. SOLO JIY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE E. B. BENSON & CO., Agents, Hartwell, Ga. STOMACH AND EOWELS. A MATCHLESS FAMILY MEDICINE com pounded from vegetable ingredients which are re garded as standard remedies of the Materia; Mediea actual experience confirm and has established this compound as far superior to others claiming like character. SIMMON’S HEPATIC COMPOUND has nothing in its composition that can possibly in jure the most delicate. Its taste is not unpleasant, does not nauseate or gripo, and yet it acts on the Liver and Bowels just as effectually as Calomel or any of the preparations of mercury, without injuring the constitution or debilitating the system. Many people suffer witli Torpid Liver and Constipated Bowels and require something to stimulate these or gans. From some peculiarity of constitution, they cannot take calomel or blue mass. To such Simmon’s Hepatic Compound will lie invaluable. It does not produce large watery actions that weaken and de press. but acts mildly, producing no depression. It simply stimulates nature to act. Hence how invalu able to the sufferer. Try it and you will be satisfied. For sale by Druggists and Dealers. DOW IE & MOISE. Wholesale Druggists, 36-39 Charleston, S. C. XiCSt’iil Advertising Rates. For the benefit of legal advertisers we give our rates. They correspond with our contiguous cotemporaries, except in two cases, where our charges are SI.OO and $2.00 less, respectively : Citation for Letters of Guardianship, • - - $5 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, ... 500 Application for Letters of Dismission, ... 600 Application for leave to sell Lands, 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 5 00 Sale of lands, Ac., (per inch), 6.70 Sale of perishable property, ten days (per inch), 1 50 Estray Notice, - - - - ’ 500 Exemption Notice, 2 50 Citation on Probate of Will (per inch! - • . -fi 00 Libel for Divorce, per inch, each Insertion, - -150 Foreclosure of Mortgage (per inch) each time, - 100 Sheriff’s sales, per levy, 5 00 Sheriff Mortgage Fi. Pa. Sales, 9 00 Tax Collector’s Sales, (per inch), 5 00 All other advertisements will be charged according to the space and number of in sertions. A. K. CHILDS. R. NICKERSON. Y. H. WYNN. CHILDS, NICKERSON & C 0„ No. 15 Franklin House Biiikling, Alliens, On., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN HARD WARE, IRON, STEEL, NAILS, HORSE and MULE SHOES, HORSE SHOE NAILS, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Leads, Oils, Glass and Varnish, Harness Leather, MILBURN WAGONS, COTTON , MANILLA AND JUTE HOPE, Carriage and Saddlery Hardware, Felloes, Hubs, Spokes, Buggy Wheels, Axles, Springs, etc.. Rubber and Leather Belting, Mill Saws, Mill Findings, Anvils, Bellows, Vices, Hollow' Ware, etc. Manufacturer’s agents for the sale of FAIRBANK S STANDARD SCALES, WINSHIP AND SAWYER’S CEL BRATED COTTON GINS, Cider Mills, Syrup Mills and Evaporators, Watt Plows, Farmers’ Friend Plow, Pumps, Circular Saw's, etc. Bny* Am/ article in our line not in stock , will he ordered when desired , with the least possible delay. CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK AND PRICES. 11 Hart County Directory. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary —Fred. 0. Stephen Hon. Clerk Superior Court —C. A. Webb. Sheriff- —J. Robert Myers, Tax Receiver —J. M. Thornton. Tax Collector —James L. Johnson, Treasurer —J. O. Bobo. Surveyor —Allen S. Turner, Coroner —K. Phillips. School Commissioner —Clias. W. Seidel. TOWN OFFICERS. ' .Rsak .. ... Secretary and Treasurer —W. R. Stephenson. Councilmen —E. B. Benson. James W. Williams. W. 11. Stephenson, E. H. Sanders. W. R. Stephenson Hart County Religious Directory. METHODIST. Rev. XV. P. Smith, Pastor. Bethesda —lst Sabbath and Saturday before. Hartwell —2nd “ “ “ •' Mt. Zion —2nd “ at 4 p. m. Gokesbury —3rd Sabbath, and Saturday before, Providence —4th “ “ “ “ Rev. John Quii.uan. Pastor. Fellowship —lst Saturday and Sunday. Center —2nd “ ‘ “ “ Redwine —3d “ “ “ Macedonia —4th “ “ “ Pennington's Chapel —2d Sunday at 3 p. m. Newtown —3d Sunday at 3 1-2 p. m. Samuel Gilliland's —4tli Sunday at 3 1-2 p. m. BAPTIST. Rev. H. M. Barton, raster. Hartwell —4th Sabbath and Saturday before. Shoal Creek —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, mo’ly. Rev. J. T. AY. Vernon, Pastor. Milltoicn —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly. Rev. L. W. Stephens, Pastor. Hendry's —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly. Rev. James H. McMullen, Pastor. Line. —3rd Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly. Reed Creek —4th “ “ “ “ Sardis —lst “ “ “ “ Rev. I. H. Goss, Pastor. Cross Roads —4th Sabbath anil Saturday before. Rev. John D. Adams, Pastor. Cannon's —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly. Rev. J. R. Earle, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. John B. Morton. Pastor. Pleasant Hill —-3rd Sabbath in each month. W. It. SATTERFIELD. W. A. HOLLAND. “ REDTOP’^SALOON. FINE WINES, WHISKIES , BRANDIES, CIGARS , and TOBACCOS. E VERYTHING done up in the little brown jug. 3 SATTERFIELD & HOLLAND. W. Y. HOLLAND. WITH J. W. GOLDSMITH. (Sucessorto W. M. & R. J. LOWRY, who remain as Spe cial Partners), Grocer, Commission Merchants, and Agents for the sale of Standard Brands of Domestic Cotton Goods, Hazard Powder and Fairbanks’Scales, 55 East Alabama Street, Atlanta. Ga. Solicit con signments of Cotton, Produce, etc. Make liberal ad vancements on same and prompt return of Sales. We have a Fire Proof Warehouse for the storage of Cotton. All orders addressed as above, will receive prompt attention. 31 DISSOLUTION^ THE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing be tween the undersigned, under the firm name of THE HARTWELL STEAM SAW MILL COM PANY, is hereby dissolved by mutual consent by the withdrawal of I). C. Alford, having disposed of his interest to Dr. W. A. Skelton. The business will be conducted as heretofore. R. P. BRADLEY, L. O. WILLIFORD, May 1, 1877 D. C. ALFORD. The undersigned regrets the circumstances that severs his connection with the above gentlemen, which has been of the most pleasant and harmonious nature. D. C. ALFORD. 6 New pieces sheet music, retails for® 1.75, sent for 10 cts A stamp, Cheap Music Cos., Middleboro, Mass. ACIiMIU AYl' CAR SIS all styles with name. 10 C He. post paid. J B Hlisted, Nassau, Reus Co.,N.Y Drum If TD ITDITCSeveii Shot Revolver nL ¥ ULf tnr ntt with box Cartridges. Jas. Brown & Son, 136 <fc 138 Wood St., Pittsburg, Pa. ■■■ J aj 1 package comic Envelopes,pk.eoniic Cards, 3Hi Iw l’ acl ' BCr °H cards,24 p.book of Fun, all for 10 ■ ■■<:. & stamp. Novelty Cos., Middleboro, Mass. : s- • 11/ W 1 [ r See this. Only $1.50 capital required k| II | |4 to start canvassing for MARK I I 111 t |\ T W A I BUS X E W SCRAP * ’ V' 1 'BOOK. Apply, with stamp, to ~^CANVASSERS OI T will agree to distribute gome of ourcircu j la™, wo will send youaCHROMOin Gilt Frame and a 16 page, 64 column illustrated paper, free for 3 months. Inclose 10 cents to pay postage. Agents wanted. KENDALL & CO., Boston, Mass. EIIM 1 pack acquaintance cards,l pack hkf. flirta | |jgw I ion, 1 ]iack scroll, all sorts, for only 10 cents " stamp. Fun Card Cos., Middleboro, Mass. TRIFLING AYITH A COLD IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS. WELL’S CARBOLIC TABLETS, a sure remedy for COCO US. and all diseases of the THROAT. MINGS, CHEST anl UCCOCS MEM mu m;. PIT CP ONLY IN BOCK BOXES. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. C. N. CRITTENTON, 7 Sixth A venue, New York. V*|| [| 1 c °P,v curious love letter, 1 pk. comic cards, rllav pack popping question cards; all for 10 cts. ■ v & stamp. Fun Card Cos., Middleboro, Mass. f I lTTA’l’lic Tip Top Package is the largest and 111 /best selling out. READ ANl> SEE. IS Sheets Note Paper, IS Envelopes, Pencil, Pen-holder, Golden Pen, Set of -*- Elegant Gold Stone Sleeve Buttons, Gents’ l ake George Diamond Pin, Ame thyst Stone Ring inlaid with gold, Amethyst Stone Scant Pin, Gold-plated Wedding Ring, Set Rosebud Ear Drops, Ladies’ Flowered and Silvered llat Pin, Ladies’ Fancy Set Pin and Drops, Gold-nlate Collar Button, Gents’ Gold-plated Watch nh F\ 1 \ Chain and Set of Three Gold-plated' | '/ I | I Studs. The entire Lot sent post paid for 111 I * 50 cents. EXTRAORDINARY | V V | IXDC CEMENTS TO AGENTS. lUI J. BRIBE, Clinton Place. New York. ■ ■ m 1 comic oil chromo ,7xll, mounted, worth 25c, UA I l>k love cards, Ipk comic envelopes, Ipk 11 rt' oniic cards, Ipk scroll, 1 24p book Fun, all sent for only 5 3c.st’ps, Novelty Cos. Middleboro.Mass contains 1 pair gold-plated engraved sleeve buttons, 1 set (3) spiral shirt studs, one Gents' Ini. coral pin, 1 improved shape collar stud, one Gents’ fine link watch chain, and one Ladies' Heavy wedding ring ; price of 1 casket complete, 50 cents; 3 for $1.25; 6 for $2.00, and 12 for $3.50. all sent postpaid by mail. Six dozen and a solid silver watch for S2O. Agents can make money selling these caskets. Send 50 cents for Sample and Catalogues. "We have all kinds of Jewelry at low prices. IV. CORES A CO., 735 Broadway. X. Y. We, are the Originals in this business, and have no “ Milton Gold ” or ‘ brass” jewelry. ‘‘ This Jewelry Casket is vemarkpbly attractive, and COLES &. CO., are reliable dealers.” 7fr, r Globe. 38- 4 l TODES; HIDES. XTTE will from this date barter, Boots, Shoes, W Leather, &c., for Hides, and allow a very reasonable price for the same. 30 . 41 J. AY. AYERS & SON A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY MADE. We will send The Sin— usual price sl.sll—and the Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, Weekly edition—usual price s2.oo—onstage prepaid on both papers, one year, for $2.85.