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?! / r o^ri M I 4 . “ WITH A if, H ST PURPOSE. WE SHALL BRING TO BEAR ENERGY AND A DETERMINED EFFORT TO PLEASE." VOL. Slacfesbcar flews. Published Kvery Thursday — at — BLACKSHEAR, CA •» — BY — E. Z. BYRD, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Safes «/ Subscription .* On# oopjr, one year (post-paid), in advance.....Jl.uo One copy, six months “ r “ .60 One • • copy, three mouths “ .29 One copy, one month “ 10 Advertising Rates : Transient Advertisements, first insertion, fl.ro paraquat-sand 50 cents for each suhse<iiu>ui inser¬ tion. Legal Advertising Rates: Sheriff’s Sale per levy......................... S'v.oo Mortgage Sales (not exceeding two squares)... 8.00 Ai plication for Letters of Administration...... 4.00 Application Letters Ouardiauship.............. 4 oo Application ship......................................... Distniaaiuu from Administrator Application Dismission 5.00 Homestead Notice............................. Qusrdianship.......... 6.oo Notice to Deb'ors 4.00 and Creditors............... 6.00 Application for Leave to Sell................. 4.00 Administration Sale (not exceeding two squares)..................................... 6.00 COUNTY DIRECTORY. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. 8heriff—E. Z. Byrd. Clerk of Court—A. M. Moore. County * D. tom. Session* first Monday* In March and September. i. L. Hurts, Judge, and Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor General. o Oct. 31,1878. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. This office will be open every day (Sundays ex¬ cepted), from 8 a. m. to fi p. m. On Sundays from 9 a. m. to 10 a. m. Mceey Order aud Register business from H a. m. to 4 p. M. Mails daily from each way—East and Wtat. Eastern mail arrives 7.80 p. At. Western mall arrives 4.20 a. m. oct31-ly T. J. FULLER, PoRtniaster. Professional Cards. _ DR. W. E. FRASER mTTrnTCT PH TiNMAN - xy A^n I ITT! rtTTYY RITR 14^0 r. ty l iii.ULUJ.ail muj UUltUliuil, Blacksliear, Go. Prom pt attention to calls day or ni«lit. nr Diseases of Women and Children a speci-.Jir. oct31-ly DR. A. M. MOORE, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN ’ 13 lack shear. Ga. oct31-ly . s. w. HITCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW i Bloekshear, Gu. Practice regular in the Brunswick Circuit. oct31-ly “ J. C. NICHOLLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rlaekshear. Ga. Practice regular in tbe Counties of Appling.ciiocb, Camden. Chariton, o ffee, Echols, a<ynn. Libertv, Pierce, Ware, and Wayne. octsi-ij W. R. PHILLIPS, Hi ATTHPNFY ivmici mi AT I L. A A til Wf 0Ct31-l7 Rlaekshear, Ga. LACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY h. istb. The two Roses. Two roses once in my garden grew. The one was brilliant and rich of hue ; Proud of her beauty and perfume rare, She spread her sweets to each passing air : The other, timid and chaste of mind, V Shrank from the kiss of the fickle wind ; \ Proud in the pride of her virtue meek, She veiled the blnsh on her modest cheek. Dazed with tho glare of her gaudy bloom, Drunk with the breath of her rich perfume. I tended the one with ceaseless care ; I marked the groaUh of each beauty rare, And dreamed thaB'll on some A i ure day Would own the power of htr pejp less sway. At length my flower that I loved the beat l sought to take and wear on my breast, * That won from her parent stem to part, She might rest a while on my loving heart. But flowu was tho lure of her witching spell » As fluttering to earth her petals felt; Her heart was rotten and dead at the core, And I knew that my foolish dream was o’er. I saw how poor was the full-blown blaze That had charmed my senses aud wen my praise ; Aud I thought at last of tho timid flower Which had pined unheeded for oooling shower; But drought unslaked had her life-spring dried, So, fading and faded, she drooped and died. I saw too, now, with awakening eyes, How near I had been to my longed-for prize ; One-balf of the care I had sp«nt in vain— Care that had brought me but grief and pain— If spent on th that had pined away, Wonld have jojJ n i E flower go chastely gay That the buntloEo charms untold My care h&<9 i thousandfold. mmmm By slight neglect in time of need We kill t'#T flower, and we rear the weed ; Then wflfn we see it, and know too late, We blame not onrselvee, bnt curse our fate, For no solace have we on which to lean, When we know what we long for might have been. How it Spider Captured a Potato Rug. A communication from U. B. Tuller, in the Scientific American, reads as follows: I wish to place on record with you au incident which came under my observation; and which almost equals the account of a spider raising a snake in its web, which you published some time ago. I was siltiug on my back porch one day this summer, when T oh served a potato bug slowly approach ing along the floor. Anxious to annihi lato » 8 m » D y aH possible of these pests, I ! kept my eye on him until he should come m reach, when I could put my foot on him. While watching in this way I noticed a pretty good-sized spider ap proaching the bng. At a little distance he stopped to survey his contemplated victim, aud then, with a mind seemingly determined as to what course to pursue, ran around on the opposite side of the bug, and with an apparent “nip” at him turned the bug from his course, and toward a corner where I noticed the spider had a web some four or more inches from the floor. The bng had no inclination to go in that direction, but i h l-T a8 cl 2 6el 7. driven b y tbe fipide /» which ran first to one side ., and 4u then the other, exactly like a shepherd dog driv ing a sheep; hurraing his victim up with an occasional “ mp” or bite at his side, : All this was something new to me in the habits and ways of the spider, and I watched with intense interest to see what the result would be. When the bug ha 1 been driven into the c J1 ? er at a P 0111 1 dll ’ e <* 1 y under the web, , the spider changed , tactics, and made a series of circles rapidly around the bug, first iu one direction and then in another, occasionally taking a run up ! hito the web. While I was unable to see the delicate thread spun by the spider, I saw that the bug’s legs soon became so entangled that he could not make any headway, hot could only struggle Sj* around in a limited latitude, «« booam, more ami more Emit his ©a as the Binder untmngly continued work. Being compelled to leave at this moment, I returned again in about half an hour. I then found the bug turned on his back and his feet ap quite firmly bound. I He was motionless, and thought whs lmt he soon showed signs of life w vigorous kicking, which nearly re Imstvl him. wbc spider had been running up aud dpwn »t different points, but qnickly left that work, aud sliding down to the bug seemed to attack his throat, and in Biub a manner that the bng gave a few •paamodteSjekft tteghoat. me »pider and seemeS then returned to giveup to hw and work otmeehiug TluBwere lines to the bug web. soon so nnmerons that I could morlfcvorablo. seemem. besides the light had become liVformed The regu funnel, laiity of diyergin the M a sort of from to*9T they did from the the hug Mm outer parts of the web above. lines After enough a time f^ftpidor hod, and seemed began to have the new work of slu^Pning each Hue, as it appeared. He passed from line to line many times over, stoppiug an iustauk at each. I was again called away at this juncture, and did not see the curiosity again until the next day. The bng was then elevated over au inch above the floor, ami the third day he was safely lodged in the center of the web, some ttte inches from the floor, aud all the tuck Io employed in hoisting completely efe*red away. In the web were the cor fttwes of two other potato bugs, which I hr re no doubt were oanght in like man mJt’i |& wall though thoy may have crawled up ffeto into the web. 1 cannot name variety of the spider, but it is a very common one, rather good size taken altogether, but small as compared with the bug. The spider could not have weighed one-eighth as much as the bug; but his body was long and slender, with long slender legs, u very ordinary spe¬ cies of house spider (of brown color) aud called a largo spider on account of their long legs. This may be a very common habit of the spider, running out and driving in game and to a place where it can be secured hoisted, but I never heard of the like before. ^ . ** Mown Three-Onarters of Mile. „ r a A. correspondent, writing from Col umbus. Neb., says: A peculiar incident occurred here a few months since, the particulars of which I have just learned. It was on tho day the memorable cyclone passed over Lone Tree and Clark’s. The sky vivid was flashes streaked in the northwest wjth of light, and a terrible rambling sound made known that a dreadful storm was imminent. A massive black cloud was extending a whirliug finger toward the earth and sweeping with great fnry whatever came before it. Jefinie-a girl who was working at a certain hotel here—was busy at the stove preparing for tho next meal, Hearing a rattle at the shle door, Jennie went to the door aud opened it As she did so she was caught from the door wa y b y the whirling wind and carried over the house, turning round and round in the air as she went; and after ap preaching the ground on the other side she again arose and was taken by the whirling wind over stores and dwellings a distauce oi three-fourths of a mile, be ingjowered so that her feet could touch the ground as many as eight times dor ing the trip. Exhausted, but in au erect position, she was at last lowered to the earth havrig as lightly as a feather would fall, received no material injury, 1 thot^b almost frantic with frebt. The storm proceeded on its way leaving her iu sigh 1 , of the town, and in half an honr she agaii put in an appearance at the hotel, where anxious friends were bewailing hex Hidden and mysterious departure. no. 34. Detroit Free Press Currency. tli if ho^fo tak#»« ^SSLkS^ i-innnnon fl.v * J ___ wb . . . . mind t ^ *® d V U ?« l,s tbe L Hwa OTT l , ^ tirst , 6 on the road “ No tonio like this bracing air,” says an ox °hange. Yes, aud yon get it for no ™®(fi which isn’t the case with stom hitters. The Phila lelphia Chronicle laments the fact that there is only one brass as sooiation in the United * that large States. Isn’t ? enough to give your cheeks room f,„ Begin a bridge on a road fifty milea guarded, m anywhere, leave an opening nn and someone is certain to oome along and break a leg * aud sue the county. \vi’ «, *n u~ be the last i man on earth? n ? ,, d is "‘Vj # *" mqu, 7 by “ BoHko ? P*P«* ”ll?V, wl " «•' 1 mt , y° u P r °haby SCO * When Edison brings that new electric, .. b b ^ inb> the fellow K 111,0 who goes to a P ttr ty with a patch on the kuee of bin P ailtH roust come out of that dark corner Rud ox P°s®fi ’* A Brave Heart is Waiting,” is the title of a new song. We twig : waiting for the old lady to come down and open the hall door. He’ll eatch it, though, brave or no brave, These defalcations bring out the tri fling natures of men. Some of the de¬ faulters will wait to grasp for ten cents more after packing away a clear hundred thousand dollars, Illusions Tho natural world is full of illusion*. The apparent rising and setting of the sun, the gorgeous clouds that prove to be only a dreary mist when yon get caught in them, tho mirage, that reveals tilings lying below the horizon, and shows us ships sailing keel up in tho air, tho full moon, which, as it emerges from the horizon, apjrears to be twice as large as it does when it is over our heads, while, if looked at through a tube or measured by an instrument, is found to be of precisely the same diameter, the coming together to a point of two right lines when seen in perspective, the mis¬ take of supposing tho train in which we are seated to be in motion when another train at our side begins to start, the de¬ ceptive idea that we have of distauce, as iu the instance of a lofty mountain, which may seem to be close at baud, when, iu fact, it is scores of miles away; these are illusions of sight that are familiar to us all. There are other forms of optical illusion, which depend upon the princi¬ ple that motion may be quicker than sight, such as the extraordinary tricks of the juggler, or prestidigitator, which is now the favorite title of the professors of this science, the continuous circle ol iu fire the pro<lneed air, and by the whirling fantastic a movomentVr~ lightedstjf ? nain^l Ft _ , "^° * . WD velous ill Min™ L r,!,v^i 1 the / ^ eftuU if-# of mar- an excited L<1 ° D0 B P ecU?r . " hobi/obHna K _ T A Jones county young man *ot liht- nn to close his window just as a bolt of ning struck the house. He was thrown backward upon the bed and snDDoaine a pistol hail been fired ’asked his com¬ panion what he was sh<»otinj?at At the same time the lightning set fire to a bed in a lower room npon which the voanc man’s father ami mother were sleeDuu? Mrs. Richmond, the mother, lost as trio of skin an inch wide from head to foot and the father had his shoulder homed to a blister. AU wdl recover bnt ton”a thev can flatter theuselves that thevH " —Sioux City ' * (f a ) Journal ---— ABoston girl at the circus seeing one elephant of those three-tined shovel’s in the fork section, asked the keeper if it a *o feed the animal with.
