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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.
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Professional Cards.
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DR. W. E. FRASER
mTTrnTCT PH TiNMAN - xy A^n I ITT! rtTTYY RITR 14^0 r. ty
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nr Diseases of Women and Children a speci-.Jir.
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DR. A. M. MOORE,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN ’
13 lack shear. Ga.
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s. w. HITCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW i
Bloekshear, Gu.
Practice regular in the Brunswick Circuit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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«*
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1 mt , y° u P r °haby SCO
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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 ?
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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
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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
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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.