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THE HERALD. ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM. We want brief, newsy letters from all part* of the county upon live topics. Commuujcations having for their object the personal advancement of an individu- al charged for at regular adv. rates. General Directory. Superior Court moots 4th Monday in April and September. COUNTY OFFICERS. !'• Hood, Ordinary. ' K. McCutchen, C. S. C. & Treasurer. John E. Johnson, Sheriff. Geo.‘ W. Fields, Tax Collector. K. J. Allred, Tax Receiver. Thomas Honea, Surveyor. J. It. Dorsey, Coroner, i ourt of Ordinary meets 1st Monday in Jell month. TOWN COUNCIL. Isaac Gl-ant, Intendant. F. C. Richards, L. J. Darnell, J P. Dougherty, ■ Commissioners. V. W. McHan, N. C. McClain, RELIGIOUS SERVICES. M. E. Church, South—Every 3d Sunday and Sunday night.—Rev. M. 8. Williams. Baptist Church—Every 2nd Sunday and Saturday before.—Rev. Joseph B.Parham. FKATEBNAI. HEC'OKT). Pickens Star Lodge, No. 220, T. A. M., meets lirst Saturday in each month. W. XI. Simmons, W. M. \\ r . B. Chambers, 8. W. Wm. Westbrooks, .1 ,W. S. L. Mosley, Treasurer, M. C. McClain, Secretary, J. L. Mann, S. D, Isaac Grant, J. I). W. A, Reeves, Tyler. Jasper Lodge, No. 31, I. O, 0. F., meets 1st and 3rd Saturdays in each month. M. C, McClain, N. G. Isaac Grant, V. G. E. J. Prather, Treasurer. A. W. McHan, Rec. Sec. S. K. McCutchen, Per. Sec. Rev. A. M. Johnson, Chap, ll. L. Colley, Con. Mi Stoner, W. •J. L. Mann, R. S. to N. G. J. E. Johnson, L. S. to N. G. F, C. Richards, li. S. to V. G. J. S. Burdette, L. S. to V. G. A. J. Sliaryer, I. G. IV. A. Reeves, O. G. Peter Cagle, II. S. S. W. H. Elliott, L. S. S. Knights of Labor— Jasper Local, No. 0700, meets 2d & 4th Saturday nights and Friday nights before the 1st & 3rd. MILITIA DISTRICTS. Town—No. 1098. 1st Friday. Isaac Grant, J. P. — -—N. Pi Jownsend—No. 1129. 2nd Saturday. Ji W. Harbin, J. P. David A, Payne. N. P. Dug Road—No. 899. 4th Saturday. Josiah Bagwell, J. P. J. Soseby, N. P. Grassy Knob —No. 1099. 1st Saturday. Geo.W. Fitts, J. P. II. L. Coffey, N. P. Sharp Top—No. 1182, 1st Saturday. John M. Gaddis, J. P. Andy Cowart, N. P, Truckwlieel—No. 1036. 2d Saturday. Jas. Sliaryer, J. P. E. P. Watson, N, F. Talking Rock—No. 794, 3rd Saturday. A. C; Jones, J. P, B. B. Bradley, N. P. Cross Roads—No. 1287. 1st Saturday. 0, W. Holmes, J. P. R. F. Ellis, N. P, Ludville,—No. 1370. 3rd Saturday. J. D. Neal, J. P. S, Hamrick, N. P. Jerusalem—No 110L 4th, Saturday. A. V. P. Jones, J. P, Edley Holt. N. P. Persimmon Tree—No, 1020. 4th Saturday. Wm. Bearden, J. P. W, B, Chambers, N. P. 13 WEEKS. Tile POLICE GAZETTE will be mailed securely wrapped, to any address in the United States for three months oh receipt of ONE DOLLAR. Liberal discount allowed to postmas¬ ters, agents and clubs. Sample copies mailed free. Address all orders to RICHARD K. FOX, Franklin Square, N, Y. j ^t BSCRIBEFOR j The Herald. Act at Once. We are striving with all our might to make a first-class news- paper, and we think it is the duty of all our citizens to help us. If you are already a subscriber you should get b your J neig h hbor to sub- scrike - A good many have alrea- dy done this and we are thankful for it. Let every one of our sub¬ scribers,who have not’already done so, get us one or more names be¬ tween now and Court week. You can do it without loss of time or money, and it would be a great help to the paper. Wc have wait¬ ed patiently for you to see whether or not the paper woifld live. Our next issue will end the first six months of the paper’s existence and it is now firmly fixed on a good solid financial basis. It has a good circulation and new names are be¬ ing added to the list almost every day. Come up Court week and give us what encouragement you honestly think we deserve. Local News. Fishing season is here. Marble playing has broken out afresh in town. Sheriff Burt, of Dawson county, was in Jasper this week. The forests are clothing them¬ selves in their robes of green. Destructive storms and exceedingly heavy rains are reported from all over the country. Farmers are progressing very slowly with their work, owing to the heavy rains. Rev. Joseph Parham filled his regular appointment at the Baptist church here last Sunday. All our exchanges are telling “Gentle Annie” that spring has come, and we guess It’s so Mrs. A. W. Davis bought, while in Atlanta last week, a fine assort¬ ment of ladies hats. All the ladies should call at Davis’ store and see them. Mrs. Ella Asbury of Atlanta, ac¬ companied by Miss Hattie Hack¬ ney of Ball Ground, visited Mrs. Dr. Pickett of this place, this week. “Women can not be satirical,” ays a writer, “any more than they can be humorous.” indeed! How is it, then, that when a man, after courting a girl for seven ye£trs,pro- poses, she says: “Oh, George, this this is so sudden!" The Republicans of this county will hold a mass meeting in Jasper on .Saturday next, 14th inst.to elect delegates to State and Congression¬ al District Conventions in Atlanta on the 18th inst., and for the pur¬ pose of reorganization. G. H. McGuire, Jeweler, Will be in Jasper during Court week with a large stock of new material,feady to do repairing Upon Watches, Clocks, Sewing Machines, etc. He guarantees his Work. We learn that two of Mf. Josiah Johnson’s children are sick With pneumonia, one of them danger¬ ously so. Mr. Johnson lost his wife last Sunday. We sympathize with this afflicted family. Dental Notice. Dr. R. W. 7'horntofl will be at Jaspef during court week prepared to do all kind of dehtal work. He has a Wide reputation as a flrst-clasS dentist, and ail who need his services should call Upon him during his stay here. The contract for building our new Courthouse was let out last Monday. Mr. Oxford, or Dalton, Ga., got the contract, having put in his bid at $13,000. He will be¬ gin work as soon as ^possible and push the work from the start. We understand that he will make his brick here and employ his laborers from among our Rome people. This will give employment to our peo- P le and v;ili kee P Emon S us a portion of the money expended in the work “1 wish to know how to prevent my hair from falling out,” said a wife, one day, to her husband. “Well, I wish you could prevent it from falling in,” said the husband, as he drew one about a foot long out of the buckwheat cake he was eating. DIFD.—Mrs. Jane Johnson, wife of Josiah Johnson, was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia on the first day of April and died on the 8th, having lived a pious mem¬ ber of the Baptist church for 19 years. She leaves a husband and nine children who have our heart¬ felt sympathy together with that of that of their many friends - and neighbors. W. H. Reece. A case of murder by poisoning is reported from Dawson county. It seems that Miss Sarah Redden, whose father recently moved from Dawson to this county, and who had been living with Andrew Hul¬ sey a few miles south of Dawson- ville, was poisoned in some way, not dying however until after be¬ ing brought to her father’s house near Long Swamp in this county where she died on last Thursday night. Sheriff Johnson of this county went over to Dawson and arrested two or three persons but as nothing could be done with the case here they were taken back to Dawsonville yesterday. It seems that over in Dawson the suspicion rests upon others than those ar¬ rested. The girl’s stomach was taken out by Dr. Pickett and was pronounced by all the doctors pres¬ ent to contain poison. NO SHAM OR HUMBUG We have a silver mine two miles south of Jasper, Pickens county Ga., which is said by the best of judges toj.be very rich. We are satisfied that we have the richest vein (supposed by some to be a bed of silver) in the South, and probably in the United States. We have melted out pure silver from the top rock in a blacksmith shop. We have a pretty vein of quartz and silver ore: also a very large deposit of black silver ore. This mine is for sale, and is a good place for a man or company with money to make a fortune. We are willing to take a fair price now for this mine: For further particulars address, W. C, Rochester 8i Co., Jasper, Ga. Jasper as a Summer Resort. With two excellent mineral springs within two miles of Jasper, good roads, pure air, fine mountain scenery, and a hospitable people there is nothing wanting except a little effort, to make this a place of rest and comfort for those who de¬ sire to escape from the mosquitoes, sand flies, the heat and depression of summer in lower Georgia, Flori¬ da and other places unfit for a res¬ idence in the hot months. Jasper is 1600 feet above the sea, on an elevated ridge or plat¬ eau, commanding an enchanting view of monntains, for beauty of scenery and variety Of landscape unsurpassed, and only six miles away. The nights here in summer are cool and fefreshitig; the days are not oppressively hot, with in¬ vigorating breezes from the moun¬ tains, in plain view in a sweep of fifteen miles. The water is free¬ stone and as pure as any on earth. Springs abound, from which water flows in summer at a temperature of 60 degrees, The mountain streams possess rare and romantic beauty, and the valleys are fertile. The far-famed marble fields ■ begin at a point, only 1 1-2 miles east of town and extend more than eight miles. The great quarries And plants of the marble companies are all within two hours’ drive of Jas¬ per, and would well repay a visit to this place, if we had no other attraction. Board) as good as the best, can be had for $20 per month, and in good private houses for less. Conveyances are furnished at rea ■ sonable rates, and visitors will be kindly and well cared for. We could entertain fifty people during the summer- Correspondent • A I 1 Ludville Notes. Our farmers have gone to work with greater energy than has'been displayed this year, Thc' wet weathtr has put them badly be¬ hind with their work. Mr. Wm. Thompson is his mills repaired from the damage they received from the high waters last week. He will soon be ready to make meal and flour. Our merchants report trade pretty lively for the season; chick¬ ens and eggs plentiful at. prices. Mr. G. W. Hamrick plates bringing up a good stock dry goods to add to his stock groceries, We predict a good trade for George for he is energet¬ ic and clever and has scores of friends who will patronize him. One certain young Dr. was call¬ ed the other night near the hour of midnight to see a patient, and behold, in the hurry and excite¬ ment of the moment he forgot his shoes and pill bags, and he found on arriving at his destiny that all was well. One more human being was ushered into this sin-cursed world of ours and the glory is due to the Dr. We hope he may al¬ ways be successful in his chosen profession. The place for holding our Sun¬ day school has been changed from the school house to the Christian church where we have better room. Our school is still growing in in¬ terest and numbers. We are glad to see that the Herald is becom- ing a first-class weekly. Let every¬ body lend a helping hand. Ron Roy. FROM PlNE LOG. The winds and rains have clriven the farmers from their plantations and there is a probability of some¬ body taking the blues, Some of our farmers planted some cotton seed last week; those who used a wheat drill and guano last fall are now wearing a smile for a fine crop of wheat. Mr. C. C. Sorrels, Of Ac worth, passed through our village this week hunting sheep and fat cattle. We had an interesting sermon delivered last Sunday night at Olive Vine by Rev. D. M. Turner. The congregation all left for their homes but Memory Childers, a lit¬ tle boy about nine years old who was left in the church house asleep and remained there all night and next morning when he went home he looked like, he had been disappointed about something. His parents thought he had gone to his grandfather’s. Mr. J. H. Cowart is unable to attend to his farming affairs on ac¬ count of a severe cold, but is get¬ ting better. Mrs. Dr. R. A. Rich¬ ey of this place, is very ill. We hope she will recover soon. We have had a flourishing school at this place since the first of Jan¬ uary, but on account of so much rain and a few cases of milmps and some of the boys quitting off te work, it is diminishing. Bartow 1 . For Neat JOB WORK GO TO THE E-IJblii.t AL.J) Oflice* O Wc are now prepared td print Circulars, Abetter* liieaxlr*?. Envelops, Blank Notes, Justice Court Summonses, ---ETC., ETC., ETC.-- Ail Work done promptly and neatly. THE LAST HYMN. (By mjtust.) The Sabbath day was ending in a village by tbo son, The uttered benediction touched the peo¬ ple tenderly. And they rose to face the sunset in the glowing, lighted west, And then hastened to their dwellings for God’s blessed day of rest. But they looked across the waters, and a storm was raging there, A fierce spirit moved above them—the wild spirit, of the air, And it lashed, and shook, and tore them, till they thundered,groaned and boom’d, And alas for any vessel in their yawning gulfs entombed! V ery anxious were the people on that rocky coast of Wales Lest the dawn of coming morrows should be telling woful tales, When the sea bad spent its passion, and should cast upon the shore, Bits of wreck and swelled victim*, as it had done heretofore. With rough winds blowing round her, a brave woman strained her eyes, And she saw along the billow's a large vessel fall and rise. Oh, it diil not need a prophet to tell what the end would bo, For no ship could ride in safety near that shore, on such a sea. Then the pitying people hurried from their homes and thronged the beach, Oil! for the power to cross tile water, and t.ie perishing to reach! Helpless hands were wi'ung for sorrow, tender hearts grew cold with dread. And the ship, urged by the tempest, to the fatal rock-shore sped. She has parted in the middle! Ohl the half of her goes down! God have mercy! Is heaven far to seek for those who drown? Lo, when next the white shocked faces looked with terror on the sea, Only one last clinging iigure on the spar was seen to he! Nearer the trembling watchers came the wreck tossed by the wa ve, And the man still clung and floated tho’ no power on earth could save* “Could wc send him a short message? Here’s a trumpet. Shout away.” ’Twas a preacher’s hand that took it, and he wondered what to say. Any memory of his sermon? Firstly? Secondly? Ah, no! There was but one thing to utter in that awful hour of woe; Lo, lie shouted through the trumpet, “Look to Jesus! Can you hear?” And, “ay/ay, sir!” rung the answer o’er the water, loud aud clear. Then they listened. He is singing, “Je¬ sus lover of my soul,” And the wind brought hack the echo, “While the nearer waters roll,” Strange, indeed, it was to hear him, “Till the storm of life is past,” Singing bravely o’er the waters, “Oil, re¬ ceive my soul at last,” He could have no other refuge, “Hangs my helpless sold 011 thee.” “Leave, ah, leave me not—” The singer dropped into the sea. And the watchers, looking homeward, through their eyes by tears made dim, Said, “He passed to be with Jesus, in the singing of that hymn.” HO! FOR YOUR T. W. Beshers is in Jasper with his traveling Picture Gallery and will remain until the latter part of Court week. He has first-class in¬ struments, etc., and is prepared to take all kinds of Pictures in City style. Reasonable satisfaction guaranteed. Call and see his work. NOTICE. All persons having taxable prop¬ erty within the corporate limits of the town of Jasper are hereby no¬ tified to give the same in by May xst, 1888. L. J. Darnell, Clerk of Council. LAtTNl>UY. 1 have opened up a laundry at Jasper and am prepared to do good work. The patronage of the peo¬ ple is solicited, and all work guar¬ anteed to be done in first>class style W. P. PattoN. O *T PEERLESS DYES at J>o Your Own DyelflJt, at Home. Th y will uye everythin?! ajacka,:#. They They ore sold evi rv. where. Price iGc. have tic equal for Strength, Brightness, Amount in Fackiveii or for Fastness of Color. 'it Or non-faditie Qualities. fov they do not croc* or mi ] 40 colors. For said all deabrs. TAKk YOUR COUNTY PAPER. Professional Cards. •o W. H. SIMMONS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. JASPER, - - GEORGIA. Prompt attention given to all business intrusted to him. Li—ly. C. PICKETT, M.D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Jasper Ga. 1.1—ly. JJR. F. C. RICHARDS, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, JASPER )0(—)0( GEORGIA. 1.1—ly. L. NFAVMAN, Jasper, Ga„ House Painting, Paper Hanging, Calsominino — and— Glazing. All Work Guaranteed. 1.1—lyr. S. A. DARNELL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, JASPER, < - — GEORGIA. Will practice in State and Federal Courts. Prompt attention to business. 1 . 1 —ly. F. C. TATE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Jasper, • - - • Georgia. Prompt attention to all business, i -5 FL RNITI: If E ! Bureaus, Ward-Robes, Side-Boards, Bed Steads, Safes, Cupboards, Tables, Desks, Book-Cases, and anything in that line, built of best material and finely fin¬ ished. All kinds and styles built to order oil short notice and at low prices. Call on or address, J. W. MAULDEN, General Furniture Manufacturer. Talking Rock, Ga,, "Let every man read, ponder and tail comfort, for we are all prisoners of hopt." M BILL ARP’S” JOY UPON READING MILLENNIAL DAWN, THE “ PLAN OF THE AGES/' fuOU AHD eOMI'OET F02 ALL THINKERS. READ HIS COMMENTS. [From Atlanta Constitution.] A kind lady has sent me a book of 35** pages called “Millennial Dawn,” published by the Tower Publishing Co., in Pittsburg, Pa., which will, I believe, awaken the think¬ ing world. I see that its sale is already over twenty live thousand. It is impossible and td read this book without loving the writer pondering his wonderful solution of the great mysteries that have troubled us all our lives. There is hardly a family to be found that ha* not lost some loved one who died outside the church—outside the plan of salvation and if Calvinism be true outside of all hope and in¬ side of eternal torment and despair. We smother our feelings and turn away from the horrible picture. We dare not deny the faith of oar fathers, and yet can it be possible that the good mother and her wandering child art forever separated—forever and forever ? I believe it is tire rigidity of these teaching* that makes atheists and infidels and skeptics— makes Christians unhappy and brings their gray hairs down in sorrow to the grave— a lost child, a lost soul 1 Let us sec how many lost souls. The geog¬ raphers give the world a present population of fourteen hundred million, of whom only on* hundred aud sixteen million are Christians,—* Of that is, who live in Christian countries. these, only sixteen million are adult member* of the church; and of these, about one million walk not alter the flesh but after the spirit. That is a beautiful picture.—Only one million of truly good, pious Christian people in all thd world, and thirteen hundred and ninety-nin* millions who are elected to be eternally damned. Add to these figures one hundred and forly-two billions, who have already lived and died in the ages past, and if all these ar 6 damned, it dues look like God’s plan of salva* soul tion was a miserable failure. He gets one for glory while Satan captures thousands. This wonderful book teaches that trial is yet to come—that all are to rise from the dead when Christ comes, that He will offer His sal¬ vation to all people ; not only to the living, but to those who rise from the dead. Hi* kingdom will be supported by the saints and by good people everywhere, and the mothe# will have another chance to reclaim her wan¬ dering child and bring him unto the kingdom - This wonderful book makes no assertions that ire not weil sustained by the Scriptures. If is built up stone by stone, and upon every itone is the text, and it becomes a pyramid oi God’s love, and inercy, and wisdom. I herd is nothing in the Bible that the author denies ar doubts, but there are many texts that he throws a flood of light upon that seems to un¬ cover its daik and gloomy meaning. I sed that editors of leading journals, and many orthodox ministers of different denominations! have indorsed it and have confessed to thi* new and comforting light that ha3 dawned upon the interpretation of God’s book. Theif let every man read and ponder and take coni' fort, for*we are all prisoners of hope. Tbi-i s an age of advanced thought and mor*i thinking is done than ever before,—men dar4 to think now. Light—more light, is th4 watchword. Bill Arp. Wc will solid the above book “TH$ MILLENNIAL DAWN,” and T Hi- HERALD for one year to any address ur- on receipt of $1.25. Or, if you are already takilig THf! IiEUALl), we wiU send yob tlie Injok tdt 25 cts; Address TilG HERALD, jaspfeif) G’Ai