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(Torres; mid nts. alone, are responsible through these lor opinions expressed by them oohirrs addressed to Conunimicnt’ons should he V. L. Mathews, Jr., or Telephone, Isyt.vania, Georgia. TOWN DIRECTORY. (9 A you —W. I.. M stiiews, .Tr. Recorder—J ohn IT, Hull, Jr. foi'Nrii.vv.N—John '. Dell, H.CAVeUs. 1 . M. Huziehnrst. John F. Lovett, Jr., and Ib K. C. Nunnally. .'1 A us it AT, —B. K. Scott, Jr.. Djsputy Marshall—h. R. Kemp. FOUST Y DIRECTORY. Tax Collector—T l. Cl. Edenfield. Tax Receiver— U. J. Arnett. Survkyou— J. II. Moore. COUNTY Treasurer —Abram llurke. Fherifk— R. T. Mills. Deputy, E. C. Davis. . Coroner— 1 Them as T’arVer. ordinary- M.M. Totter; Court second Monday in each month. clerk superior Court—T h B. C. Nun nnilv; Snpcrior Court 1st Monday in May and November. county Board—M. M. Potter,Ordinary: JTenrv Far .»r -nd *• lb Mil’s, Commission A -s. ’Court fourth Momlav n each month, Hoard oe Education— '’oi Georze II. Black, Pr-sident. w. Hobby. R. p. Sharpe F ir Raoklv r Hr. W. L. Mathews. See . Commissioner ret.v-v O.nd County School No Meetings 1st Tuesdays In Mag, August, vember and February. JUSTICES COURTS. DtAii'^Be—'5 (ms. yt*r '' H/t'-b ■'■ C: w‘. ,1. Gross. S.P., Kx.offi. J. P.', Court Sc! tm-dav in each month. T' h tlistvict- S. S. Andrews J. P; J. C JlolPu.zsworth X. J’., Ex. Offi. J- V. Courts 4th Saturday in each month. SCth District—W. L. Falligant, J. P.; J. <J \V. Conner, V. P.. Kx. Offi. J. P. Courts 2nd Saturday in each month. RTth District-—P. R. Kittles, X. P.. Ex. Offi. J. P. Courts 4th Saturday in each month. 3Sth District—TV. H. Meals X. P., Ex. Ot!'. J. P. Court first Saturday in each month. 80th District—H. V, Lester J. P.: J. F. Murpliey X. P. Ex. Offi. J.P. Courts 2nd Saturday in each month. 219th District— George B. Conner, J. P.: E. J. Sheppard. X. P., Ex.Offi. J.P. Courts 1st Saturdays In each month. 2<>0th District—W. H. Hankerson, J. P. Court 2 nd Saturday in eaeli month. 1289th District—TV, S. Tavlor, J. P.t John IL Perkins. N i’.. Ex. (iffi. j. P. Courts Sr Saturday in each month. TT- F. -WJ^IDJS, AT ORNEY A LAW, SYLVANIA, GEORGIA. Jan 30- 1 f J.E. SIXGKEETON. E. I*. SING KEETON. S1MCELLTON – SON, Attorneys at Law, Office Rooms— | Jan R0-‘f W. Ii.lt 1!BY, W L. Mathews, Jr. | HOBBY – MA BE¥, Attorneys at Law, S YLYAH IA GA T. W. Oliver, Jr. J. Ji Humphries. OLIVER – HUMPHRIES ATTOHNEYS AT LA IF SYLVANIA. GA. (1KOUGE R. BLACK. JOHN c. DEI.I.. BLAOY' – DELL, Attorneys at Law, SYLVANIA, G E O It G 1 A. July 2D—tl. PATENTS ootainecl, and all business in tne I T . S. Pat ent Office, or in the Courts attended to for moderate are' fees. We opposite IheU. S. Patent Office, engaged in Patent Busiuessexelusively, and can obtain patents in less time tliun those remote When from model Washington. patentability or drawing is sent we advise as to free of charge; and we make no chatgeunless we obtain patent. We refer, here, to the Post Master, the Supt, of the Money Order Div. and to officials of the U, S, Patent Office, For circular, ad vice, terms and reference to actual clients n your own state or countv, address— O, A, SNOW – CO. O ppcsite.Patcnt Office, Washington. D, C, JNO. B. WALSH, Practica i Car pen ter, SYVANIA, CEORCIA j Will work either by the day, or by the job. All communications bv Mail promptly answered. aug. 8-tf SYLVANIA, GEO RSI A, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1882. UlHt'ATMWAL. I.etter of School I'oniniissieiier «. .5. Orr. Onr State School Commissioner, Prof. Orr. has written a letter to the Christian Index in regal'd to the, late education al convention, held in Washington city, from which we make the following extracts : At the date meeting in Washington twenty-one States were represented, mainlyisy –taf:e superintendents. Af ter a general discussion of the subject if national ai l, a committee, consisting of one from each State represented, was appointed to formulate the principles which ought to enter into any law up on the subject which Congress may pass. The following were the princi ples agreed upon. 1. A direct appropriation from the Treasury of an adequate sum, say not im less than $15,000,000 annually, the propriation to be continued, from year to year, for ten years. 2. The money thus raised to be ap plied to the support of the common schools, teachers' institutes and normal schools. 3. The fund to be distributed among the States on the basis of illiteracy, a determined by the census of 1880. 4. The application of the. fund to be made under'tlie State laws and by tli local State authorities. 5. The eoutiuance of the gift to any State, from year to year, of at least one third ot the amount received from th national Government, and upon tin faithful application of the fund to the ob ject contemplated by the act. These propositions h ere considered separately in committee, and were sep arately voted npor, and were each I adopted by a unanimous vote—a nioc. ictmu . uaote „|,| e .mu. ...p A word or two now as to the reason w ),j c )j influenced their adoption, a brought out by . the discussions. Tli. p , j y 0 f going dire t to h treasur j for the money was adopted on th. ; U'OhkG tk".t the mvid -O'Cs 8”'vh r.' pi ixsiug, that the whole country is im periled by illiterate suffrage, and that the stun given should be adequate, uni form and definitely ascertained. The distribution upon the basis of tl literacy was looked upon as a uieasur of justice to the South. The act of tli United States Government, in freeing and enfranchising the slaves, placed a great burden upon the impoverished South-ru States, audit was invoked to relieve, as far as possible, from the pressure of that burden. It was further felt that iu order to be efficient, sm eessful and satisfactory in the administration of the education; 1 affairs of a State, local self-control was indisnensabie. These reasons all came out fully and distinctly in our discussions; and after calm consideration, as lias already been ■stated, all the propositions were adopt ed by a unanimous vote. By authority of the department this committee went before the committees on education, of both houses of Con gres.s, in joint session, presented thoi i views in the form substantially of tin propositions above enunciated, and were heard at length in their support through gentlemen of their own mini her, selected to make the argument. I: is impossible to tell what will be the result. Tiie effect of so much unity among gentlemen coining from ill! parts of the country—men supposed to iiave made the great subject which convened them a matter of special stu dy, cannot fail to bo very considerable. The members of our body mingled free ly with the Senators and Rcpi'cscnta lives in Congress from their respective States during our stay in Washington ami the general testimony was to the effect that that there seems to bean almost universal desire, on the part of both Senat irs and Representatives, to do something upon the great question of popular education. To give you an idea of what such an appropriation as that for which we asked would do for the South, 1 may state that the share of Georgia would be over a million of dollars. With tli is sum, increased by the State appropri ation, we could keep the schools in op eration all over the State, eight or nine months of the year, hold teachers’ in stitution in every county of the State for the eetter instruction of teachers now in the field, and establish normal schools for the !r Filing, from year to year, of an adequate number of young men and women, who have determin ed to devote themselves to teaching as a life work. If my brethren of the different churches could only see, as I think I see it, that the common school is tiie only agency that oau give to our youth, generally, both white and col ored, such a degree o' intelligence and ■ulture as shall prepare them for un-! lerstandiug She great truths of the j gospel and fov becoming thoroughly 1 efficient and useful as church members surely they would place themselves in j die front ranks of those who are seek ing to fully establish and perfect that agency. I hope all your readers will ponder the thought contained in the last sentence. Emerson’s Tribuute to Farmers The following worthy tribute to the farmer is from the pen of Ralph Wal do Emerson : The glory of the farmer is, that in i lie division of labor, it is his part to create; all trade at last rests on his primitive activity. He stands close to nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and meat; the food which was not lie causes to be. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic no oility rests on possession and use of and. The farmer’s office is precise and important, but you must not try to paint him in rose colors. You C; "... .™Ko prs.tr cooiplimciits ,» r.t. and gravitation, whose minister lie js. He represents the necessities. It is the eaulv of the great economy of th... world that makes bis comeliness. Uc bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soil, and crops, as tin* sails of the ship bend to the wind. He , , 'X , , 1 ’Z takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries ' ul atom ... , by atom, litbo hv by little, Kill., s m,,. achieves her work. The fanner lie in mself to Nature, and acquires that :i vcloiic patience which belongs to her; he must wait for bis crop to grow His entertainments, his liberties mid his spending must be on a farmer’s scale, not a merchant’s. It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense as for States to use Uai'U-kte evo.’SAUiy.. — - - - ■ \le has great"trusts confided to him. In the great household of Nature the f irmer stands at the door of the bread iMotn and weighs each loaf. It is for h m to say if men shall marry or not E rly marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with an abundance of food. The farmer is a hoarded capital of health, as the farm i is of wealth, and it is from him that j | the health and power, moral and in tellcctual, of the cities come. The city | is always recruited from the country, j 'The men in cities, who are centres of j eiiergv, tlic driving wheels of trade, and the women ofbeautv and genius —are Hie children and grandchildron of the fanner, and are spending the energies which their fathers’ hardy silent life accumulated in frosty fur row-. lie is a continuous benefactor. He who digs a well, constructs a stone foundation, plants an oi chard, builds a double house, reclaims a swamp, or so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far lovely and desirable, makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him, but which is uinfill to his country long af terward. Who ar ■ the farmers servants? Ge ology and chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, tlie light ning of the cloud,. the casting of llie worms, the plow of the frost. Long before lie was born the sun of ages de composed the rocks, mellowed his land, soaked it with light and heat, covered it with vegetable film.then with forest, and accumulated the sphagrum whose, decays made the peat of his meadow. •----------------- a selul»c»s at.<? Siurtfirinemr oi Co flee. Since coffee possesses the quality of stimulating the nervous system, it is a i matter of course that in many cases its j effect is rather injurious. Phlegmatic people, especially, need coffee and (hey are fon l of drinking it; for a similar reason it is a favorite beverage in the Orient, where its consumption is im mense. Bui to persons of an excitable temperament the enjoyment of coffee is ^urtful; they ought only to take it very weak. With lively children it does not agree at all, and it is very wrong to force them to drink it, as is often done; while elderly people, who are in need of a stimulant for the de creasing activity of their neives, arc right iu taking as much of it as they choose. In households of limited means it is often necessary to use succory with coffee. We do not pretend to pro nouee this, if taken in moderate quan tity, hurtful; but we do say that it is a poor substitute for coffee, and that there is nothing in it to recommend its use. A fur better mixture is milk and sn gar; and there is good reason for it; both milk and sugar are articles of food. Milk contains the same ingre dlents as blood ; and sugar is changed in the body into fat, which is indispen sable to us, especially in the process of breathing. Having taken no food through ., . the ,, night, • i , the i loss our blood iii has suffered during sleep by perspira tion and the fat which has been lost by respiration must be compensated for in the morning. For this milk and su gar in colf.-e are excellent. It is good for children to have a taste for sweetened milk or milk-eoffcc in ........i*. ...............* *-> them if they like it. Nature very wise ly gave them a liking for sugar; they need it because their nuise must be quicker, • , their ,, . respiration • stronger, , to , „ facilitate the assimilation of food in their bodies, and also to promote growth. Not that adults need no su s „„......... is formm from the starch contained in the!r food. For this purpose the di V(i ‘ I - • 1 ( ' as< ‘• ,li ‘'idoiv. they are given . sugar. instead of the starch to make it from, Manv diseases, particularly rickets, prevailing mostly among the children of the poor, are the consequence ot feeding the child with bread and po t–toes • these contain starch, it is tr - ' M 'ing v < J too week to < uauge than in to fat - the result 5s that the. flesh falls awav and the bones grow ° soft and ; *»ut „ . . he who, , to ptomote di„ slum, takes coffee immediately after dinner does best not to use sugar or milk—for both, so far from helping ‘ “ digestion, ” are an auditionnl , bidden , , to , the full „ Mom- , , acli, and disturbs its labor more than coffee eon facilitate it.—Popular Sci ence Monthly. — , Some boys and girls have an idea that money can do almost anything, but this is a mistake. Money, it is true, can do a great deal, but it cannot everything. I could name you a tlious and tilings it cannot buy. It was for good, and it is a good thing to have, nut ail this depends on how it is used, if used wrongly, it is an injury rather than a benefit. Beyond all doubt, how ever, there are many tilings better Ilian it is. and winch it cannot purchase, no matter how much we may iiave of it. If a man has not a good education. all his monev cannot buy it for him. He can scarcely ever make up his early waste of opportunities. He may say, as l have heard men say: "I would give all I have if I ouly bail a good ed ucation and a well-trained mind but he will say it in vain. His money alone cannot obtain it. Neither will wealth itself give a man ora woman good manners. Nothing, next to good health, is of more import ance tlian easy, graceful, self-possessed manners. But they can’t be had for mere money. A man who is what is called ‘•shod dy.’' who lias no taste and correct man ners. will never buy them, though he would, no doubt, like them. They are not to be had in tiie market. They are nowhere for sale. You might as well try to buy the sky, or clouds, or sun beams. Money can’t purchase a good eon science. If a poor man, or a boy, or a girl—any one—lifts a clear conscicnci that gives off a tone like a sound beli when touched with the hammer, thou *»o sure he is vastly richer than the millionaire, who does not possess such a conscience. Good principles lire better than gold. All the gold of Golconda couldn’t buy them for a mail who hasn't them ai readv.—Christian Union, E.HOKV NI“i;Ittt'S Atlanta Constitution. We print elsewhere from the. Macon Telegraph the reply of its editor. Col Albert R. Lamar, jo the recent letter Mr. Emory Speer. As the letter ap peared in our news columns, it is fair that the reply t hereto should occupy a similar position. The remarks of the editor of the Telegruyh are in pleasing contrast to the personalities which de stroyed the force and effect of Mr. Speer’s letter, and we mention this for (he purpose of calling the attention all concerned to the fact that the day is past in Georgia when persona! abuse or attacks upon private character can be substituted for arguments. The time has been when a discussion riablv ended in the bitterestporsonali- ties, but that time, we trust, lms pass ed. It is greatly to be feared that the spirit of office-seeking, which chooses to call itself independentism. has not taken into account the credulity of one of the classes to which it is compelled to appeal for support; it is greatly to he feared, indeed, that this greed for office cannot be brought to appreciate the delicate nature of the problem ivlli(:k casts its direfu! shadow over the | an d. Mr. Speer’s position is one httjM of great responsibility, but when Macon to abu-mg the d lor ot the Stdmr^.lhhn with lakes 'llie murder wholly of young Rountree. he a superficial view of the matter. Beiiiml vecything that may be said, is thede (}11 i ufr attitude of the negroes. Mr. Speer is no more responsible for this than the people ot Athens themselves, who lutve winked at aud tolerated and pv ..... the s , )h . it 0 f so-called hulependentism. the first result o< which was to teach the worst elements of an unfortunate race that they were g| a( ii v give Mr. Speer and his friends credit for the best intentions. to deal, they failed to take into eoifsid er it ion the ideas which naturally impression upon ignorant minds. '™l tleariv interest )d iu keeping the peace in Athens siv that it is one of the direct results of in dene , ndeutisui, , and , cinmmstatiecscOiu . people who make it possible are ta: more responsible for independent ism so-called, than Mr. Speer, and upon their shoulders must finally rest the re spniisibiiity of the deplorable event w i,i c .), w-ill have the efiectof crippling the usefulness of our most cherished institutions of lenrnin*r. I he real ques lion, therefore, isi.ot whetlierM:'. Speer is personally or individually 1)io foI . t | le murder of young Rountree. but whether it is one ot the results ot of that spirit of independentism leader and oi which Mr. Speer is the rop resentative. Upon this point via* as - V y s g»t.'n r '. ' y -r V i,. ; I - U.ii - -. cnee of opinion among the thoughtful people of Georgia. A Seeou .1 'SJcsic-M. A few days ago the ferryman ai Neal’s ferry on the Chattahoochee rivet while putting some passengers over in his flat, discovered a box floating down the river. As soon as the box wasdis covered, and after the flat-hail landed its passengers, the ferryman seized a batteau and made way to the box, which he soon overhauled. On reaeh ing out his hand to grasp it lie was as tounded to find that it contained a sweet little babe, which raisi d its head and smiled at its rescuer. It was a white child, well dressed, with plenty of good clothing besides. Some old people who live in the neighborhood havetaken the little Moses to raise.— Augusta News. fiie SMaDC* JJImS (lie HipciiM'. ‘•Fourteen dollars for a little lunch for two!” exclaimed a prosperous looking customer to the proprietor of a restau rant. “Why, what llie devil do you take me for?” ‘•I know it’s a little steep,” said the steak stretcher, “but you’re the only soul that’s been in to-clav, and my rem falls due to-morrow.” “I’m blamed if 1 don’t really admire a man with a nerve like yours, and I’ll pay (lie swindle,” and with an amused smile the blooded stranger tossed the hash pirate a $50 note, flipped a doi lar out of the change to the waiter and walked out. ‘‘What a pity we can only have one chance at a man like that,” murmured the dyspepsia dispenser, regretfully. But, when the next day the rent collec tor threw out the note as a counterfeit his despair was such that it was all four waiters and the cook could do to prevent his swallowing a bottle of his own alleged wi io, and thus putting an end to himself. A PKESMCTtO.Y, The Sait Lake Tribune predicts that within one year’s time the people who for years in Utah have waited in si lence, their lips being sealed by fear, and faith, and pride, will begin toteil their stories, and that what they will relate will have everything of pathos and of sorrow within it. It will be a revelation which will make the men of this nation wonder tha; they were in different so long, while here, within the domain of this republic hearts were breaking by tens of thousands, and human sacrifices were ns plentv. if not as conspicuous, as those which, in history, give to the Aztec temple of Uudzuop-rtitli ^ sinister »• memory, $1.50 A YEAR The truth is that a few men have held iOO.O()f)*subjeets under bondage; tlu v have gathered to themselves all the net profits of their earning; they have kept them in ignorance; they have made a mockery of home, and brand 'd with disgr!U'e’„defe useless women and innocent children. To do this 'hey have invoked perdition in the life to come upon all who disobeyed, and made this life so uncomfortable fo" them that perdition has been looked for ward to as a olace of comparative rest. Two H orn- v Work. There lives near in;, two ladies, who since the wan. startedjto fanning with me old blind horse. Mow they own a good plantation well slocked, all paid for, and have eighteen or twenty bales of cotton on band. They managed for themselves, one attending to the farm while the other managed the house hold nff’irs; and yet men will whittle' t e go, ds boxes and discuss hard times. —Gree„ esboro 11 erald. Permit no Substitution. Insist upon obtaining Floreston Col ogne. It is pre-eminently superior fra- iu permanence and rich delicacy of grance. 4-15 lm. Farmers’ Wives. It is an evident fact that fa rulers’ •vive.s are afflicted with many diseases wliioh are the result ot overwork. L'iiey are constantly on one ceaseless routine of toil from daylight at morn ing until late at night. No change, no relaxation, no rest! Farmers should note this f; et, and be forewarned before it is too late. It is astonishing what in amount of Iadov the wives of farro ws nerfonn. Many of them get up .ml have breakfast readv before ther* msbands are outof bed'. Then it is work. work, work until near mtdnwh: t .heir minds during the time beingcou-' 4 autly occupied with their duties, and with thinking of how the food is to bo implied, l when the washing and iron : n ; s to be done, when time can be spared to scrub the floor, how the children are to be clothed and kept ti j j i r , and innumerable mention, other all things of.irh: not h necessary to oivalf UlU . , -j,. K ifltd ii"lw'lf * the strongest women in the land. In no ease is it safe to be continuously thinking upon any; one tiling, and in eases whee the brain bus been vveak •ned by too great a strain upon i', thereby pro!uring insanity, epilepsy, vertigo, debility, hysterics, and female multitude weakness, general a of other diseases, the remedy is Rest and >i few bottles of Dr. S. A. Richmond – Go's. Samaritan Nervine, It acts di rectly upon llie nervous centres and invigorates and strengthens the whole system. Many ladies have Refrained from using Samaritan Nervine on ac count of an existing prejudice a-gfiinsC advertised medicines. Let us ask a question : Are you prejudiced against sewing machines because you have seen them advertised, or can you doubt the ingenuity and skill required iu their invention '< Again, would yoff refuse to insure your house because die company advertised that it hast paid millions of dollars in losses and vet had a capital of several millions left? Do such advertisements shake your confi leiice, and credit create prejudice? riien why refuse to the testimo ny of those who have found Samaritan Nervine tube all that is claimed for it iu overcoming those ailments peculiar to your sex ? The following statement speaks for itself: Fairfield, Lenawee Co., Mich.. 1 Richmond—Dear April Sir: 25,1881. This is Dr. to certify that my wife had fits tor tliirtv five years. They would hist her for about one hour and sometimes longer. 1 happened to hear of your medioitie, and sent for some of it. She had no more fits after she took the first dose. She is now permanently cured, and her health is a great deal better I linn it has been for twenty years or more. You are entirely at liberty louse ner pic ture and this testimonial in any man ner which. you please, and may sign my name to it. We owe you this much at least for what you have done for her. Yours trulv, IIENKY CLARK. Have You Ever Known any person to be seriously iD without a weak stomach or inactive liver or kidneys? And when these organs are in good condition do you not find the possessor enjoying good health ? Parker’s Ginger Tonic regu lates these important organs, makes the blood rich and pure, and strength ens every part of the system. See oi li er column. 4-15-1n . Mrs, James thinks that if Jesse had been let alone be would have become an honor'tot ins country. This confirms the general sus picion that tiie Republicans were about to nominate him for some important office. The Patent Office has issued patents on 531 different styles of spring-beds and yet the number of men who come in at midnight and pull off their boots w tli the screen is ou the increase. The pay of the German soldier bus ! 5een r “ i ^ d ‘°?^r ,its Tad' *",<! he oumff joint in Ids ambition to Iwuro a i military gait.