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APPLICATION FOR DICHARGE.
C.KunoiA. Scm.BT Coir^TT: Whereas, ,T. J.
Wall, administrator on the estate of Mrs. 8.
tViiil. tleceased, represents to the court in his
pcPtiun. duty file d and entered on record, that
he has lully administered the estate of Mrs. S.
M ail, deceased. This is to cite ail pcsons con
cerned, heirs-inti creditors, to show cause, it
any .‘hey can, why said administrator should
not tie discharged from his administration,
and i-oeive letters of dismission on the first
Monday in October, 1889.
. 13in T. B. Myers, Ordinary.
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ELLAVILLE, GA. THURSDAY AUGUST 1 18S9.
REST.
Let us rest ourselves a bit.
Worry? wave your hand to it—
Kiss your finger tips; and smile
It farewell a little whila
Weary of the weary way
We have come from yesterday.
Let us fret us not. instead.
Of the weary way ahead.
Let us pause and catch our breath
On the hither side of death,
While we see the tender shoots
Of the grasses—no£ the roots.
While we yet look down—not up—
To seek out the buttercup
nd the daisy, where they wave
O'er the green home of the grave.
Let us launch us smoothly on
Listless billows of the lawn.
And drift out across the main
Of our childish dreams again.
Voyage off, beneatl) the trees,
O'er the field's enchanted seas
Where the lilies are our sails
And our seagulls, nightingales.
Where no wilder storm shall beat
Than the wind that waves the wheat.
And no tempests burst above
The old laughs we used to love.
Lose all troubles—gain release
Languor and exceeding peace.
Cruising mid-ocean idly o'er the vast.
Calm of the past.
Let us rest ourselves a bit,
Worry?—wave your hand to it—
Kiss your finger tips and smile
It farewell a little while.
—James Whitcomb Riley in N. O. Picayune.
Daguerreotypes.
Daguerreotypes were costly things at
first. In England, where the process
had been patented by an enterprising
person who stole it from France, the
charge was 2.\ guineas ($12.C0) for a da
gurreotype only Sixain., and 4 guineas
(§20.16) for one twice that big. In this
country the prices for the two sizes were
at first $5 and $10. but eventually, when
other processes invaded the field, daguer
reotypes came down to 25 and 60 cents,
at which there surely could have been
no profit in them. The daguerreotype
had to be very-carefully protected from
the atmosphere, and even then was pop
ularly believed to lade out ere long. It
is however affirmed by Mr. A. Bogardas
—and surely nobody has a better right
to speak authoritatively—that a prop
erly made daguerreotype would not
fade out. It would become covered by a
film of tarnish that would render the
picture quite invisible, but that could
be by chemical means so cleaned off that
the picture would stand out as clearly
as when first made. This he had ef
fected in pictures that had vanished
from sight fifteen years before they were
put in his hands for treatment.
Imperfect and limited in its uses as
the daguerreotype was, it was the parent
of the almost divine art of photography
and the countless variations upon and
applications of it known today, and
high among the deathless names upon
fame’s roll of the immortals, deserves
to stand that of Louis Jacques Maude
Daguerre.—J. II. Connelly.
Never Smiled in Life.
a TnAst remark.-’hie case was brought during
to ’ffilff by the coroner recently
an incuest on the body of an 18-year-old
eirt who died Thursday night in a one
room shanty which served as a home for
a widow and her six children. Josephine
Grabski. the dead girl, who was the
est of ttfa family, had never walked a
lx l^Hf^never h. of day, i e heard°the \ sound of
voices, never uttered an intelligible . sy 11a- ,,
b lo since the day of her birth and was
She ate what was given her, rejecting
-’thing, and never making a sign that
L.,0 desired more. The only feeling that
thi3 semi-mammato creature ever be
^ X'S/aSSIhu
that
of an ordinary 10-year-old child. All
her Umbswero in proportion, but her
k nee 8 were drawn up so that she had
never been able to walk. What sur
prised the
gid Her countenance looked like that
of i beautiful angel in sweet repose, and
the u wwe parte d in a heavenly smile,
though she had never smiled in her life.
—Chicago ; Herald.
RoZl (iit0P tumlsh his subscribers
with->v sheets as a. large . a-s the News for
one dollar, pay cash foi h.s LI *
posta „. e aa d wait the end of the year for
his dollar, failure will follow every at
tenu ,t 0 f this sort. As the News was
B i.„rt.pd hereto succeed we begin on bind
lir i ncip les—pay cash and demand
he same. ^ -—~
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To any young lady oi gen ‘ 111
Schley county who will send us three
good English words to rhyme with
silver we will send the SCHLEY COUNTY
News one year free,
EBENEZER SUB-ALLIANCE NO. 21.
Ed. Schley County News; —Ebenezer
Alliance is moving along slowly, but I
think safely. We have adopted cotton
bagging as a covering for our cotton this
season. I think the Exchange, and
adoption of cotton bagging two of the
grandest moves made by the Farmers'
Alliance. We can not do any thing till
we put down monopolies, so down with
all trusts and the Felton bill for higher
education. Give us more money in our
common schools where the farmer’s chil
dren can be benefitted by it. We also
rigidly oppose the McCarty bill in regard
to school books.
Our Alliance is located in the vicinity
of Ebenezer church, where we have
good health and average land, Our
members are composed of sturdy and in
telligent farmers whose occupation is the
sinew and back bone of the world. Our
crops are all we could expect of them up*
to the present. I am with much respect
S. M. C
Sell Effs;* by Weight.
Here is a scene in a grocery: Two
farmers brought in some eggs to sell.
The one was evidently proud of his eggs
and proud of the birds that laid them.
He had a flock of fine Plymouth Rocks,
and the eggs they laid were beauties. A
dozen of them weighed thirty-nine
ounces, an average of three and a quarter
ounces each. The other fanner brought
in his eggs without saying a word, had
1 nothing to say of them or the fowls tint
1 Hid them. A dozen of his eggs weighed
twenty-one ounces, an average of one
and three-quarter ounces each. Both
lots of eggs were carried to the rear cf
the’store' Tjv a clerk, counted and" each
man got a cent apiece for his eggs. As
he of the small eggs passed a bystander
in going out he winked knowingly and
said; “That man with the big eggs is a
fool; his hens eat a heap more than
mine, make no more eggs—though they
are bigger—but he gets no more for
them.”—New York Mail and Express.
A Remedy for Prickly Heat.
I have just discovered that if any tier
son subject to prickly heat in summer
will bathe the places in a weak solution
of saleratus water and dry them with a
soft cloth, and afterwards powder them
with a powder made of equal parts of
fuller’s earth and rice flour, they will
have perfect ease. It should be done
night and morning in the hot weather,
and if a musquito bites you, don't try
any heroic remedy, but simply apply a
little cold cream, which somehow over
comes the poison and irritation when
nothing else will. I have seen children
that were nearly wild with the irritation
of many musquito bites calmed in a mo
ment by the application of cold cream.—
Olive Harper.
„ T . '° r>-t a ciai ta ,, r c.s . nn,, . . on, t\o
Hancocks rT and a Gen. Grant, is the way
a local sport announces his possession of
§19 in small bills by the vignettes on
their faces.—Washington Post.
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on top Received'The ag un
‘ – Bradley ’ First Shipment
Vottou Bagging. •
Messrs Carter – Bradley are friends
of the t he farmers farmers.
They feel that what helps the farmers
helps them, and consequently they are
re ..j y to adopt any measure to aid the
'
nob] e gons ' of t j, e so jh On yesterday
^ rt , cei ve(1 a large shipment of the
C()tton bagging, the rimt ever
brought to this city, and proposes to
... h»„a n* «ti«
season. Having brought this bagging in
a very large quanity for the cash, they
secured a good disc mat. and propose to
gj ve farmers t!to benefit of the same.
This bagging is.made in the interest of
tim farmer, from his own product and
the little that breaks the back of the jute
trust. Messrs. Carter – Bradley showed
so me of the goods to a reporter
( p, v a nd in conversation remarked that
in S pm>a«»y ”'ith any
movement that would aid the farmer,
Rooo niizing the justice the farmers
doing . ”, tnemsehes . l by adopting , n Hnir thp the
were
use of cotton m place ol j ite or f cn< >
ing their crops, tliey at once determined
to supply it and place theiroideis, tin
first shipment of which arrived yester
Jay, The farmers will appreciate the
enterprise of this energetic firm of young
gentlemen____ jr e ntlenien—Columbus Enquirer-Sun, H
Mra ^ j Hixson has our thanks for a
basket full of most excclent poaches.
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent.]
Washington, D. C. July. 26th, 1839
The appointment by Secretary Noble
of aconnnission of three to inquire into
the conduct of the Pension Bureau du
ring the last year, confirms what I wrote
you just after Commissioner Tanner’s
appointment of the bitter feeling between
himself and the Secretary. The princi
pal objection urged upon the President
against the Corporal’s appointment was
that he would be “too liberal.” It ap
pears now, however, that he had devel
oped a great talent for simple blunder
ing. When he appointed George B.
Squires, who was removed in disgrace at
the end of eight weeks, his secretary, he
followed the error by the scarcely better
mistake of appointing his daughter, an
inexperienced school girl, hi3 private sec
retary. Another personal appointment
of his was that of Harry Phillips, a
Brooklyn man, as chief of a division.
Phillips’ appointment was objected to by
Secretary Noble on the ground that he
seined without endorsers except the
Ootnmis3foner himself. At last the ap
pointment was made and charged to the
Commissioner. That is only a little
over two months ago, and Phillips is al
ready implicated in the re-rating frauds
that are the principal subject of the pres
ent investigation and are among the most
daring swindles ever perpetrated. About
a dozen Pension office clerks that have
been drawing pensions for years, got to
getlier for mutual benefit, and agreed to
apply for re-rating from the date of dis
charge. The combine invited prominent
Grand Army men to join them, but for
some reason, only reached a half dozen
men and they were in government em
plov.
Re-rating is authorized by law only
“when manifest error” i-found to have
occurred. These men were old and ex
perienced clerks in the Pension Bureau,
and had never before discovered that
there was any error, under the law, in
their ratings. Stili by the combination,
and by literally pressing in the merits of
e icli others claims, this combination
managed, every man of it, to secure from
$2,500 to $4,000 each. No claim was
jected and while in several instances,
six months or a year passes before claims
are reached for consideration after they
are filed in the Pension Bureau, these
claims were all rushed through in two
weeks from the time they were filed.
The champagne suppers of the victcie
could not be kept quiet, and the press
soon got possession of the facts. The ex
posure followed.
Foi some reason Commissioner Tan
ner paid no attention to the matter, and
r remained for the Secretary J to recog
. ...... discharging three
mze L ie scaiU l
member of the Medical branch of the
Bureau, and by the appointment of this
commission. Nobody dare accuse Com
miss-oner banner of dishonesty, or of a
Ruilty knowledge of these frauds, but
his opposition to the appointment of the
commission places him in a most
tunate light. ° The Secretary J is also
aged m . the opinion . . of many by
breach between him and the com
sioner. Some look up »n it as an attempt
restrict the liberal policy towards the
soMiers. Such is the substance of Gov.
Fomker's dispatch to Corporal Tanner
"’eek. Tlie newspapets that dare
over-zealous Republican papers of the
mustyorderfailingtorocognizetheim
portance of the trouble.
The census work is shaping itself and
Mr. Porter's desire to have the work
hunted to what r- legitiun’tely included
in the b.l! to piovide for the work,
comes evident. In many branches f lie
experts have already begun work. The
most ditficnltschediile to arrange appears
;«W t. f or -autactur™. A tabic „
this suoject will tie presented to Super
intendent Porter next week, and by him
will he submitted to various fre“ trade
authorities, as well at, to manufacturers
with protective tendencies. The other
divisions will shortly present their defi
nite plans for work, and by October
progress may be expected.
The secret service, that branch of the
government that the small hoy who
faithfully reads his bloody bones nickel
novels, is given to admiring, is about to
have a pew chief, It is probable that
Vol. 1. No. 6.
Price One Dollar a Year.
the new man will be Thomas Furlong, a
I St. Louis railroad detective. Russell
Harrison is actively supporting him.
His appointment has been delayed thus
far by petitions sent in against it by va
rious labor organizations, including a
letter from Grand Master Powderly. pro
: testing against his appointment, on ac
! count of His work during the St. Louis
strikes. It is stated to-day, however,
that Mr. Powderly has formally with
drawn all opposition, and the protests
are cancelled Schley.
PIEDMONT EXPOSITION.
Events of the day admonish us that the
Piedmont Exposition of 1889 will attract
the largest number of capitalists, invest
ors, agriculturists, manufacturers, and
practical men generally, that ever a ttend
ed a Southern Exposition, who will vis
it Atlanta during October of the present
year. For this reason it behooves every
county and county alliance to be repre
sented at this great Exposition, which
will be a material factor in adding to the
prosperity of the South. It is the earn
est request and desire of the Exposition
Company, that the material resources of
your section he advantageously display
ed at our Exposition. We appeal to yon
on the ground of local pride, State fealty
and Southern prosperity, to gather the
best samples of your products, and pre
sent them here in creditable form. Wo
know it will require time and money,
but the results will more than competi
sate you for your trouble,
What we offer to county or county
farmers’ alliance and Individual displays;
To the county or county fanners’ alli
ance making the largest and best display
of products, grown or produced by resi
dents of the county, $1200.
To the county or county farmers’ alii
ance making the second best display as.
above, $700.
To the county or county farmers’ nl!i~
ance making the third best display as.
above, $300.
'To the individual making the largest;
ancPbest display of products grown or
produced by him or her, or under his or
her direction, $500.
To the individual making the second
best display as above, $250.
To the individual making the third
best display as above, $150.
Single exhibits contesting for prem
iums in any of the other groups may be
included in either of the displays of this
group, and individual displays may al so
form a part of county or county farmers’
alliance displays,
The whole of this department is limit
cd to articles produced in States of the
Piedmont section, viz: Virginia, North
Carolina. Georgia, South Carolina, ’ Ala
bama and Tennessee, and , a*l articles ex
hibited must be grown or made by tho
exhibitor.
For information, see page 26. premium
list.
The management of the Piedmont Ex
position will extend every facility to
Alliances or counties desiring to make
exhibits,
Trusting that we will receive vour ap
plication for space at an early date, we
desire to call your attention to the fact
that this is not a State, county, or local
exposition, but will be national in its aim
and results. Yours respectfully,
Piedmont Exposition Co.
Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. Spivey dropped in yesterday to.
bid nv adieu as he left for ais homo
in Asabamma. lie says that he hiw ex -
aminod closely the cotton crops of thi*
sec ti.m and is satisfied that at least em>
t hi r d a f the early crop has been cut off
bv tbt! excessive heat that proceeded cur
present rainy sea 80 ii. Co'loti that wt.,
planted late, he says, is fruiting well an I
promises a better yield than the early
planting .
A COMI’E'ri'lTVE EXAMINATION
Will he held in this county on the last
Saturday in August by the bounty
School Commissioner, to determine who
shall lie entitled to the scholarship in tho
Georgia School of Technology. Each
county is entitled to as many scholar
ship* as it has representatives. For par
ticulars apply to C. H. Smith, Count y
School Commissionei;.