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VOL. I. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 15,1884. NO. 18. CARROLL FREE PRESS. PUBLISHED ETEBT FRIDAY. F.IIWIN It. SHARPE, Publisukk. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy one year, *1.25 One copy six months, One copy three months, 40 CLUB ltATKS : 1'en copies one year, *10.00 Twenty copies one year, *20.00 I ‘ PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS CARDS ■ ■ ' r09F.ru I- COBB. FELIX X. COBB. COBB & COBB, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. CARROLLTON, GEORGIA. I®* Prompt attention given to all bus iness intrusted to us. Collections a spe cialty. Office in court house. Dr. J. W. HALLUM, CARROLLTON .... GEORGIA. lias his office, in number 2, Mande- ville brick building. lie makes a specialty of OSTETRICS and DISEASES OF WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call on him. Consultation free. IXR,. J-. IF. COLE, CA RROLLTON, G A. Is devoting most of his time and atten tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and Is prepared for most any operation . His charges are reasonable. G. W. GUTHREY, Boot and Shoe Maker, < ARROLLTON, GEORGIA. Thanking the public for the liberal pat ronage winch they have bestowed upon him in the past, would solicit a continu ance of the same. Home made shoes for women and children always oij hand. jgp-Sliop in the back room of the post- office building. JOHN B. STEWART Wishes to say to the public that lie is still prepared to do all kinds of PH0T0GBAPHWG and FEBB0TYPING in the latest style and at reasonable pri ces. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc. Copying and enlarging a specialty— can make all sizes from locket to SxlO Indies. Remember that two dollars w ill buy a tine, large picture framed ready for your parlor, at my gallery, Newnan street, Carrollton. Ga. Evans, The Jeweler, Is now In the southeast corner of the public square, w here he w ill be glad to see his friends and the public generally. He keeps on hand a full line of goods, consisting of plated ware of all kinds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS a specialty. All kinds of repairing} in his line, done promptly ami in good style. To Those Interested. You have been Indulged twelve months, ind surely can pay wl.at you owe the old Inu of Stew art & Soil. I he estate mist tie settled. I greatly prefer settling ny own business, hut will hare to put he claims belonging to the estate of J. PV, Stew art A Son, in the hands of all at- ornev. if not settled soon. W. J. STEWART. TURNER and CHAMBERS CARROLLTON, GEORGIA —Dealers in— ^ Are stilt at their oi<* stand o.i 'Rome rtreet, ready to sell you goods as cheap •r cheaper than anybody If you w ant anything in their line, give them a trial and they think you will trade. Wr would »uy to those owing us WE MUST HAVE What is due us. We have indulged you as long as we can and we now want jno money. From the Marietta Journal. MISS LULA HURST. The Wonder-Working Girl. Miss Lula Hurst lias come anti gone, and our people are as much mystified as to the hidden, active force that the tips ofher fingers im parts to inanimate objects, as if they had never witnessed the man ifestation of such wonder working power. Her public exhibition at Nich ols’ Hall, last Monday night, in this place, deeply interested the large audience present. On the stage, she was accompanied by her father and mother. Miss Lula has dark hair, sparkling, black eyes fair complexion, and a well devel oped form for one in her sixteenth y^ar. She seems to be of the vital, nervous temperament, and has a thoughtful, pleasant face. The first demonstration of her singular power on this occasion was with a cane seat chair. She simply placed the palm of her hands on the chair, when it became restless and flew into mid air.— Messrs. W. A. McCrea, Jas. D. But- tolph and Henry Reynolds, three stout, able-bodied men, tried to hold the chair to the floor, and in a few minutes the chair began to crack, and come apart. Another chair was brought into requisition, and Mr. McCrea attempted to hold it fast by pressing Iris breast on the bottom of the chair and gripping it firmly, but despite his efforts the chair dragged him fiounderingly across the stage. Others tried it with no better success. Dr. \V. K. Root seated in a chair was soon spilled out on the floor. Mr. \V. P Stephens, weighing 240 pounds and of great strength, seated himself in the chair and held it in position for a while, but soon the chair began to move, splitting one ofdlie chair legs and separating the chair-back, and finally turned him over. Mr. Ste phens attempted to hold the chair in front of him with liis hands, but the wonderous touch of Miss Lu la’s hands turned and twisted the chair over about Mr. Stephens, head with undiminislied pre.si.sten- ey. Mr. Ben R. Legg, weighing ISO pounds, clinched the chair with a desperate determination to come off the victor, and nowithstanding he exhibited a great deal of endu rance and tenacity, yet the chair moved under his bodily weight and cut up its usual wild antics; in the meantime Mr. Legg was putting, perspiring, and his face was red as a beet; yet during all this time Miss Lula was serene and smiling, her face but little flushed aud she was not the least fatigued. One of the best evidences of this “odd force,” possessed by Miss Lu la, was an attempt by Mr. Legg to push the chair to the floor while holding it about three feet from the floor. Miss Lula simply placed her hands 011 the seat of the chair, yet the chair refused to go down but maintained its upward ten dency until Mr. Jas. Buttolph com bined his strength with that of Mr. Legg’s and pressed it to the floor. A stick one end hold firmly against the body of the young lady, promptly obeyed the unmanagea ble force that impelled it upward, and it took three men to press it back to its position on the floor.— An umbrella, held suspended in the air by four cords, held by four men under her vivacious touch, twisted, writhed and came to pieces. That her performance was a suc cess, was not disputed by any one. That the .force was not mus cular was quite evident, as there was no exertion or exhaustion on her part, while the several strong men grasped and tugged at the ob jects she touched, were physically outdone, and under such circum stances to attribute it to muscular power, would make the effortless display of a timid girl inexplicable and greater than the^ combined stieugtji of tlu'ee iiuhi, eitjierone of whom eoiVUV' t'Vorpower 1 ller 1: in a personal encounter. That It is not electricity, is not rationally proba ble, because this power of her’s is transmitted only to inanimate ob jects, thus destroying both the mus cular and electrical theories; be sides this she can take two glasj gnh|ets >oul pique one. 5 liq each chair posf ilinV h,Y grasping the gob, lets make the chair rave as vio lently as ever, and glass is well known to be a nonconductor of elec tricity. More, if it was electricity it wouid shock the animate objects she comes in contact with on the stage us wu|j n* tiie the the boiitraT’.v, she that this marvellous force comes to her aid only when she touches inanimate objects and concentrates her mind oil the thing she desires ac complished. If it be disembodied spirits infusing their untamed strength through her as a medium, then Samson must be the invisible giant that is hurling objects and men about, as it was with him in the i flesh, when his fettered limbs snap-! ped withes and ropes, at the excla- \ mation: “Samson, the Philistines be upon thee!” And if it be spirits of departed humanity, then spirits have but little to do to come back to this world and travel from town to town and carry out a certain pro gramme to gratify public curiosi ty. The young lady is certainly charged with some magnetic and electric powers, but as to the pre dominant force that repels so vio lently we have no knowledge and cannot conceive of an explanation that cannot be assaulted and over thrown. As to what this undefined pow er is, the question naturally recurs, “What is it? Certainly, “there is more in heaven and eartli than is dreampt of in our philosophy.” Judge H. D. 1). Twiggs was one of the counsel in the celebrated McBean murder case in which a verdict of not guilty was rendered, at Waynesboro, Saturday, as stated at length in the telegraphic col umns of Sunday’s News. During his argument an unusual incident occurred. One of the defendant’s witnesses—a lady—swore that she was not much frightened during the firing upon Tom Syms. Judge Twiggs gave an illustration of this idea of woman’s bravery narrating that at the battle of Gettysburg, Gen. Pickens, who had just made a gallant change upon the enemy, was applied when he saw almost at his side his young wife, to whom he had been married only a few months. The shot and shell were flying everywhere, ami he exclaim ed : “My God! my dear, go to the rear, and get oil of this danger!” Her reply was, “A woman,s place is by her husband’s side.” The aud ience applauded, and one gentle man, well known for his gallant service as a soldier, gave a most unearthly yell in approbation of the Judeg’s eloquent words. His Honor, Judge Rooney, called him forward and fined him $10 for con tempt of court. The next morning, however, it being made known to the Judge that no contempt was intended and that the gentleman’s heart was filled with the remembrance of the “lost cause,” His Honor revoked the fine. A merchant, after satisfying him self that a certain customer did not intend to pay his bill, sent him a re ceipt for the full amount. By return mail he received the foiling note: ‘‘Uster have my doubts about you bein’ a gentleman, but I am satis fied on that point. There is a great difference in men. One time I ow ed a fellow a bill, and after dunnin’ me nearly to death he sent me a receipt for half the amount, and blamed if he didn’t finally make me pay the other falf. Jlut you have done the square thing by me an’ I am much obleeged to you.” “Doctor,” said a lady, “I want you to prescribe for me.” “There’s nothing the matter madam,” said the doctor, after feeling her pulse; “you only need rest.”Now doctor, just look at my tongue,” she persis ted. “Just look at it!—look at it!— Now say, what does that need?” “I think that needs rest too,” repli ed the doctor. “Give me,” said the schoolmaster, “a sentence in which the words ‘a burning shame’are properly appli ed.” Immediately the brigt boy at the head of the class went to the blackboard and wrote: “Satan’s treatment of the wicked in a. burn ing shame.” “Etiqtette now admits of a second plate of soup.” This is all right, but if a ninn’s appetite will not fidmit of.a second fifnto’ of soup, etiquette is worth' nothing to him. A (’liicago editor asks: “Why do not juries convict?” Why, bless your innocent heart, because a Chi cago juror can make more money by a verdict of acquittal T asst. | A niuld%'irin<He.gs lias only one | seascqF—it is a beautiful spring, even i if it is backward. Spring in this euse Is always folowed by an early fall. A springfield man recently took a hath in the dark. He managed well pp<)qgilp puLY. |a>|d of a jYtfeUe of stove blacking instead of soap, with marked results. You can ponder and on the subject Of friendship, but go to work earn a dollar and then save it, and you will have hold of the best fuiernl possible in the world. Romantic Stories of the Legal Profession. FORTUNE FOUND IN A JAMPOT. How a Clerk Gained a Reward and a Wife at the Same Time. It often happens that the issue of great suits of law, particular in England, depends upon a single document which it is very dflicult to produce. That was the weak point in the case whicli Messrs. Sharpe & Floyd were managing for Mr. Mopeth. A certain deed was almost absolutely essential to success, and it was not to be found for love or money. An ad vertisement had been inserted in all the leading papers for months, offering a reward of £300 for the valuble parchment, but not a word had come in response. The law yers felt confident that it could not be in existence; an offer of £300 must have brought it to light, they argued if anybody had it in possess ion. But Morpeth insisted upon believing that it could be found. So he instructed Messrs. Sharpe A* Floyd to increase the sum to £500 and go on advertising; and accordingly Tom Halliday, a elerk in the office, was dispatched to the advertising agency with orders to contract for the necesary space in all the dailies for a fortnight. Tom had a sweetheart, naturally enough, and they were going to be married as soon as they could con trive to buy furniture for a couple of rooms. It was his habit of a Saturday to take a stroll with her, and accompany her home to tea; and as it was on a Saturday that he made his trip to the advertising agency, of course lie told her all about it and they amused theni- selvs by discussing what they would do with the reward, suppos ing they should chance to find the missing deed. They were talking in this ridiculous strain when they readied the girl’s home. The ta ble was spread, and among the daintiest of the occasion was a pot of home-made raspberry jam, brought out especially in honor of his visit, so Tom was informed. He had hardly taken the first mouthful, however, When he turned suddenly pale, his lower jaw drop ped, and he sat gazing fixedly at the jam-pot like one spellbound. The girl fancied he must be ill; the mother wondered if he had come upon a black beetle. “It’s nothing, Tom managed to gasp after a time; “Islialbeall right directly. It’s— it’s—the £500.” When he had recovered from his bewilderment lie began to com pare the names of tiie parties to the missing deed, as mentioned in the advertisement, with the piece of parchment which had covered the jam-pot, and that lay upside down upon the table before him. There they were, the very same. He had cer tainly found the missing deed, or at least a fragment.of it, “And now, if we can trace the rest,” lie ex claimed, “our fortune’s made.”— The mother threw open her cup board, and there were two dozen jam-pots, lacking one with a piece, of Hie parchment tied over it for a cover. It was an anixous moment. The pots were quickly uncovered, the circular bits fitted together, and at last the tiling took definite and symmetrical shape, and not a line was wanting. A few of the “and whereases” and “provided nl- sos” were a trifle sticky, but not the smallest part had been destroy ed. Tom did not stop to finish his din ner. He put the precious jam-pot cover itdo hi* pocket and ran at the top of his speed to Messrs. Sharpe A Floyd. They agreed with him at once that he had secur ed the long-lost deed; and then they recalled the fact that they had once had offices in tlie quart^ \\l\e,re the mother of.Tom's sVyeeUieart liv ed, ami that on'coming away they had swept a good many useless pa pers into a corner and left them tiiere, and this deed mtfst somehow have been among them, though they had never been able byfqre to surmise hp\v it qaye. sjipr ped from tjieir custody. They has tened to Mr- Morpeth with the good news, and he drew a check on the spot for £500, payable to Tom’s or der, and Mr. Morpeth won his suit, and Tom married the girl of his heart as soon as the wedding gown could be made—all because a nice fingered old la<|y V-VA-VV- V.ut of parchment Of her jam-pots in such a happy life. From the Savannah News. Blaine’s Programme. Whether Biaine will be a Presi dential candidate or not is the oc casion of a good deal of gossip.— There is an impression that he does not intend to be a candidate, but he proposes to dictate the nomination. His ambition, it is said, is to be the boss of the next administration, provided, of course, that it is Re publican. He wants to be the pow er behind the throne, as he was in the Garfield administration. If this is the programme he may come nearer carrying it out than if he should attempt to secure the nomi nation himself. Had Garfield lived it is probable that Blaine would have been recognized as the con trolling spirit of the administration. Garfield was intellectually Blaine’s equal, if not his superior, but he laeked Blaine’s courage. If Blaine is able to name the candidate of his party, and his party is successful, he will shape the administration, doubtless, and will exercise almost as much power as if he were Presi- Jent. The prospect that he will be able t to dictate the convention’s choice is good. He has a large fol lowing in every State, and it is pretty certain that a strong ma jority of the delegates will he his friends. It is asserted that he is quietly working to have as many of his friends in the convention as pos sible. The position of boss of the administration is almost as attrac tive as the position of President.— To a man like Blaine, wlntfikes to exercise power it must be very in viting. If he pursues the plan out lined and succeeds he will enjoy the credit of directing the adminis tration without having to bear its burdens and responsibilities. Who are Vagrants. The following law is upon our statute books, and, in view of the loud complaints which we hear . on every side against the growing ev il of vagrancy, the enforcement of this law letemfs imperative: “All persons wandering or stroll ing about in idleness, who are able to work and have no property to support them; all persons leading an idle, immoral or profligate life, who have no property to support them, aiuljwho are able to work and who do not work; all persons able to work and having no property to support them, and who have not some visible and known means of a fair honest and reputable liveli hood; all persons having a fixed abode, who have no visible proper ty to support them, and who live by stealing, or trading in' bartering for, or buying stolen property, and all professional gamblers living in idleness, shall be deemed and con sidered vagrants.” The Cumming Clarion says: “A subscriber at Canton, Texas, writes us that there is a widower in that town who has nineteen chil dren and is anxious to wed the Alabama widow with twenty-one children, mention of which was made in a recent issue of this pa per. The Alabama widow can take notice and govern herself ac cordingly.” “My son,” asked a school-teacher, “what do you know of the proverb regarding people who reside in glass houses ?” “I dont know noth in’,” was the response, “about the proverb, but 1 knew that people who live in glass houses ortent to lay abed in the mornin’ unless they pulldown the blinds.” It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have born if they had flourished. . , i ■■■■■ ■j.inmmiu A n\lcqgjq man shot at his wife, I bu,t l^er y.prset coused the ball to glance and save her life. And yet men whose names are enrolled high upon the scroll of fame assert that corsets are injurious to health. A Decided Answer. One more story in connection with Miss Sal lie \V 1 must re late. I will preface by remarking that rouging thirty years ago was much more uncommon than it has since become, and that there were straight-laced people who consider ed it a heinous offense. On this account it was that bets ran high at Saratoga one summer among Miss \Y ’s friends, that the lovely blush which mantled her cheek was of nature’s own bestowing. To end the controversy, which was becoming exciting, one gallant gen tleman, less timid than the rest, proposed to ask the beauty of a proof that would settle the dispute. Rash man! In an unfortunate moment, and perhaps trembling at his own temerity, he said: “Miss W—, do you paint?” and how much more freely he must have breathed when, instead of the box on the ear he expected to receive, the siren said sweetly: “Bring me a glass of water and you shall see?” The water was brought and she handed a spotless cambric hankercliief. “Now dip that in the water and rub it on her, she proceeded’ prsenting him a peachy cheek so temptingly near that his heart stood still as he gently and deprecatingly chafed it. “Now look at the handkerchief.” she said, somewhat sternly. It was as spotless as before. “Are you satisfied?” she demanded more sternly yet. “Yes.” quavered he, “I am satisfied.” “And so am I!” said the insulted beauty, as she dashed the water in his face. A writer familiar with the use of celery, says that he lias known sev eral men and women who, from va rious causes, had become so affect ed by nervousness that whenever they stretch out their hands, they shook like aspen leaves on windy days; and by a moderate daily use of the blanched footstalks of celery as a salad they became as strong and steady in limb as other people. He has known people cured of pal pitation of the heart by the use of celery. Everybody engaged in labor weakening to the nerves should use celery daily in its sea son, and onions in its stead when not in season. Senator Morgan, of Alabama had a hard struggle when he began the practice of law. His shingle hung unnoticed for many months. Becoming desperate one day, he packed up his few books and started for the depot, determined to aban don his profession and go to Texas. He had reached the foot of the stairs which led to his office when he was accosted by an elder ly man who inquired where John Morgan’s law office was. “Right here, sir; my name is Morgan.” “Going out?” “I am about to start for Texas on pressing business.” “Indeed! Then can you direct me to a good lawyer? I’ve a little case to dispose of.” “I decided,” said Air. Morgan afterward, in telling the story to a friend, “that my Texas trip was not so pressing after all. I took the old gentleman into my office and heard his case. I won it, and since that day fortune has fa vored me.” The fashionable window eurtu in Dakota is a snow bank ti back by a blizzard. Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. A four hundred and fifty pout black bear was recently sold Colorado City, Texas f° r $50. A FYench colony wihl settle in Richmond county, North Carolina, and engage in silk culture. Hxp^rience ought to be a head light which throws its rays on things to come; instead, it is'gener- ally a stern light wbwl\ rays on what we have already pass ed through. A happy fiyqllvq n* suppose,” link n\au in thcVasy]chairJ“that my wife and I are the most content ed couple you ever saw. We never quarrel about nothing. She is al ways willing to get up in the morn ing and build the fire, and I am al ways willing to let her.” Whether he is gre;\t W set that pqu\ fliVWU fW a fcwtf who boasts that hf' does not read the local pa pers. Good character is above all tilings else. Your character connot be sentially injured except hy your own actiops v In all things be economical with out meanness, and combine untilify with elegance. The man who is honest from policy needs aa much watching as a l\iye of bees just going to swarm. Eve ryboddy seems to consider himself a kind of moral half-bushe to measure the world’s frailties in. “I suppose you often want some thing to fill up your paper with?” said a man coming into a country newspaper office with a four col umn communication on a patent, duplex, back-action harrow of his own invention. “Oh, no,” said the man of the quill, “the paper is full enough. It is the editor who wants something to fill up with.— This will make four columns two sticks—forty-two dollars, please.” To think kindly of each othei good, to speak kindly of each ott is better, but to act kindly one ward another is best of all. COUNTY CHURCH DIRECTORY. MKTIIODIST EPISCOPAL. C'oriiith, 1st Sunday and Sunday night; Mt. Zion, 2nd Sunday and Saturday be fore ; Bethel, 3d Sunday and Saturday before—W E Tarpley, pastor. METHODIST EPISCOPAL, SOUTH, Carrollton, every Sunday in each month; —W. J. Scott, pastor. New Hope, 1st Sunday and Satiuday be fore ; Paul’s church 2nd Sunday and Sat urday before; Whitesbnrg, 3d Sunday and Saturday before; Alt. Carmel, 4th Sunday and Saturday before; Pierce’s Chapel, 1st Sunday, 3 p. m.; nutehinson, 2nd uSuday, 3 p. in.; Whitesburg, 3d Sunday night—W II Speer, pastor. Shiloli, 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore ; Bowdon, 2nd Sunday aud Saturday before; Mt. Zion, 3d Sunday and Satur day before: Old Camp Ground, 4th Sun day and Saturday before; Stripling's Chapel, 5th Sunday and Saturday before —M W Arnold, pastor. PRIMITIVE BAPTIST. Tallapoosa, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before; Poplar Springs, 3d Sunday and Saturday before—K Phillips, pastor. Bethel, 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore: Hopewell, 2nd Sunday and Satur day before; County Line, 4th Sunday anil Saturday before—J D Hamrick, pastor. MISSIONARY BAPTIST. New Lebanon, 1st Sunday and Satur day before; Oak Grove, 2qd Sunday and Saturday liefore—W N Carson, pastor. Carrollton, 1st and 3d Sundays—E B Barrett, pastor. Whitesburg, 1st Sunday and Saturday before; Bethesda, 2nd Sundav and Sat urday before; Eden, 3d Sunday and Sat- urdav before; Beulali, 4tn"Sunday and Saturday before—W VT Roop, pastor. Aberleen, 1st Sunday and Saturday, be fore: Bethel, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before—J M D Stallings,^pastor. Mt. Olive, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before; Providence, 4tli Sunday'and Sat urday before—J P Little, pastor. Bowdon, 3d Sunday and Saturday be fore—.Jno. A. Scott, pastor. Bowdon 1st Sunday; Pleasant View, 2nd Sunday and Saturday before—T A Higdon, pastor. Carrollton—Second Baptist. Fourth Sunday and Saturday before. J. B. S. Davis, pastor. METIIODLST PROTESTANT. Carrollton, 2nd Sunday in each month at the Presbyterian church—Dr. F H M Henderson, pastor. Antioch, 1st Sunday and Saturday be fore : New Hojie, 2nd Sunday and Satur day before; Smith’s Chajiet, 3d Sunday and Saturday liefore; Bowdon. 4th Sun day and Saturday liefore—Jno Thurman, J 31 M'Calnian, pastors. PRESBYTERIAN. Carrollton, 4th Sunday,Dr Jas. Stacy, pastor. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. New Bethel, 1st Sunday and Saturday liefore, supplied by J A Perdue, district evangelist. Bethany, 4th Sunday and Saturday liefore, supplied by J A Perdue,, dis trict evangelist. Elion, 3d Sumtay, Z Hardegree, pas tor. Beerslieba, 3d Sunday—1! J Miller, pastor. C0UBT CALENDAB. Carroll superior court, 1st Monday in April and October—S. W. Harris, judge, J M B Kelly, clerk, J M. Hewitt, sheriff. Court of ordinary, 1st Monday in each mouth: For county purposes, 1 st Tuesday in eaeli month—1». I>. Richards, ordinary. JUSTICE C0UBTS. CARROLLTON. 714th District, G. M., 2nd Wednesday in each mouth—E. B. Merrell, N. P., G H Sharp, J P. LAIRDS BORO. 713th District, G M. 2nd Friday in each month—W 1, Craven, N P., John K Roop, J P. BOWDON. 111th District, G M, 3d Friday in each month—W II Barrow, N P., Jahez Miles, J P. WHITESBURG. 682nd District, G M. 3d Friday in each month—Richard Benton, N P., John O’Rear, J P. WADDELL. 649tli District, O M, 3d Saturday in each month—J JI Cobb, N P..G T Bow- don, J I’. VILLA RICA. 642nd District, G 31; 2nd Saturday in each month—Marcus A Turner, N I’., J 1> Stone, J I’. MOUNT CARMEL. 729th District. G M; 1st Saturday i» each month—R B Jones, N P-, J 1 Nut- man, J P. COUNTY LINE. 1297th District, G 31; 2nd Sat unlay it» each month—L Holland, N l'.< W % Ricliants, JP, TURKEY CREEK. 1240th District. G 31:2nil Saturday in each month—J 31 Ellison, J P. KANSAS. 1152nd District, G 31:1st Saturday in each mouth—P II Cliandler, N P., Hiram Sjieuce, J P. SMITH FIELD. 1006th District, G 31: 1st Saturday in each mouth—Ransom Smith, J J M Thurman. N P. NEW MEXICO. 1310th District. G 31: 1st Friday in each month—J P Yates, N P.. J " Jones, J P. LOWELL. 1163rd District, G 31:3d Sat unlay in each month—IV A Timmons, N P.OM. Todd,J P. FAIR'PLAY. 1122nd District. G 31: 4tli Friday ip each month—.1 W Carroll, N P., J s Williamson, J P. OM papers for sale at this office’ at 50 cents per hundred.