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COPY s "• or. r ■ / f jy ex <» A V £ V A- a a |! tf k# /<#■ •/ % Sk 7 . % 7 ' iC ’ .»• ■: m .■ -ill# i *1 m /Zi .1 It. DON. McLEOD Editor aad Proprietor. $Ksiattal partis. s—( If. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLAVILLE GEORGIA. Office in Court House. v. H. JIcCHOHY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLAVILLE GEORGIA. Office in Ilrick building Broad Street. —. (i. CHENEY, DENTIST. ELLAVILLE GEORGIA, VVill give prompt at tention to all work, when notified by letter or personally. c. It. leCKORY, ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR at LAW, And General Real Estate Agent. Collections a Specialty. Office on Main Street in llrick building North of Court House, Eli.avilIjE Ga. w. 11. 11 VHP, M. I). PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. ELI AVI LLE, GA. Prompt attention given to calls for the sur romulina country, eithernight or day. BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR ELLAVILLE GA. Estimates Furnished. Building done in a work manship manner and satisfaction guaranteed, jay A share of the public patronage is solcite.d ia ii B.ru.. . aKsascasanz'-si GEORGE W. DAVIS BABBIT E2 Shop east side court lionse square. Hair cut 20 cents. Shave 10 cents. Shampoo 25 cents.Sat isfaction guaranteed. - 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. DOCK WESTON ^ V V KfiT ; – fh. >p fouth side public square, Eliaville, Ga. Ciciin ewcl?, sharp razors, and prompt atten tion guarani ceil. Give me a call. 2 tf. 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ThfiBoston Giobo 6«ys: Webster is the ac - jha knowledgedstamiard AtlantaCoustitution in lexicography. says: Webster has Zr*°^U®erRhestamlard^uthority Intor Ocean in our office. says: Webster’s _ Tho 11 New al>riijgodT7u™lVay Orleans "l”en the standard. •, Timas Democrat say*; The New v bs ia SUndard ftUthorit y ourofeco. « York Tribnne it is recognited says = as tbe ,, hie English most useful existing “word-book" of M by language all over the world. _ -’ 0 all Booksellers. Pamphlet free. ••AC, MEKRIAM A CO., Pub’rs, Springfield, Mm*. DEVOTED TO GIVING THE NEWS, ENCOURAGING THE PROGRESS AND AIDING THE PROSPERITY OF SCHLEY COUNTY. 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. ^ -—~ -----— 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. ____ _ 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;.