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fiERd-LL* *S*’ baTBB! $1.50 - ' . 75 ' . - 50 ggffib. auooutm- V£»iH“ ENTS har #cterwillbech*« fi‘i'“Tu-«rtiou, ami 50c * nr „. insertion. boM 1111 . H intended for lie cnarged for rates. eommumea •"iriof in* ~ul,nty 80 (11 1 * il ■ aOVKBJiMKNT- W:„, Judge Sup. Court. Klerk Sup. Court, K Ordinary. Kit, Sheriff. H,n Treasurer. K ffj . I'ai Receiver. K, Tax Collectorr K, .Surveyor. Coroner. Kkouuissionkiu!. V chairman and Clerk, IS Kkrad, J. K Hopai.lo, An- By) or EDUCATION. sebool Commissioner, J. K T . Oatillo. J. Webb ■Y k. Winn. ■ atsieiPAi.. ■Smith, Mayor. ■ COUNCIL. ■ E I) Herrin 8 1 ownley IpD departure- or t rain Kq Suwannee, 5.50 p. m ■ s»*annee, 7 »' na. ■ ,10 DEPARTURE or MAII.S.- ■-Arrives 12 m. da parts K, and Thursday. ■wRE.-DepartS C » m ar ■Monday and Thursday. Arrives 10 a m, de ■.-Daily. s„j ß ._-Arrives 12 m., de- B Weinesday and Saturday W.H. HARVKY, P. M churches •Bev L R Barrett, pastor e( j Sunday. jT -Rev M I> Turner Pastor the Ist and 2nd Sundays. School A T Puttillo, Supt iday at 3 p in nus-Rev F McClelland, wices on 2nd uddtb Sundays lit, School. —T‘ R Powell. Supt ,day at 0.30 a FRATERNAL. csviu.l Masonic I.OlXlk. —J V M., S A llagood, S W, W. Meets on Tuesday before full moon in each ion Chapter, No 39, R A Spence, II P, A T Pattillo Is Friday night before the in each mouth. n Superior Court.—N. L. iidge. Convenes on the Ist March and September. hr M. Johnson ORNEYAT LAW, AINEBVILLE, GA. dice in this and adjoining ithe Supreme Court of the lines intrusted to hia care (prompt attention. a V. BUI ANT, rrOBKEY AT LAW, Logansville, a. mean eutruated to hia receive prompt attention. ii a specially. lj AS OF MON-ffY ited oy improved farm ett and Dalton Counties ears time at eight per rest. to 1884. Wm. E. Simmons. L m, ~ f hitehal> Street, ATLANTA, A. ir, Throat and Nose Disease • july7-tf u, mm, FORNEY AT LAW, lORCBOSS, OA. Ml *-in tlie* Superior Courts h«I Ordinary of the ooun nuiuett and Milton, and iu irs' court of both counties ud prompt allentiou given Pf MllUu. BURNHAM'S IMPROVED « STAND’D TURBINE •» the best constri ited and finished, give? bet ter percentage, u ore Power and is so I for less money per horse 0 power, than ano other Turbine in the world phlet sent free by ii* BROS., York, P FACIAL NOTICE. 8 toe ub either by note for Guano or Merchan 8 Oct., 15, re notified fment must be made by or else we will be com -3 8 »e. We have carried through the dull ®ow immediate payment E made—we can’t carry longer. A. J, Veal & Son. Stone Mountain, Ga. ew Firm. Ber oby given that I have *®ot‘ate<3 with as partoeis in Jr business in Lawrenceville " H Robinson and N S. •Ju business will here '-‘odncted under the firm name A SONS Jfeep in stock a full line ol iandise and have added to j ponfectlons and Fancy »„ 'i a general barter bus . (, “ cr our stock clieap for 5* «w us a trial. " ROBINSON & SONS. Lawrenceville U» TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprietor. VOL XV. EDITORIAL BREVITIES. Atlauta is infested with pick a pockets. W W Dunbar baa been elected Recorder of Augusta. The Cochran Messenger will sus pend publication after the issue o f Nov, 29. F E Crist, Georgia, won the fir-it tight in the main between Georgia and Alabama. Col. Baum, of Atlunti fame, is to bore an artesian well for the chemical works At Augusta. The Superior Court of Troup county is in session, Thera are bu< two criminals in jail for trial. The Augusta bar paid a memo rial tribute to Louis A Dtrgos, late Solicitor of the City Court, Mon day. James Snog, a negro convict, in Smith’s camp, in Ogletbrope county, was killed by a falling tree a day or two ago. a grocer in a certain town of aI aohua county; Fla. splits a grain of coffee in order to give accurate measure and weight. At Maoon, Monday, Deputy Clerk L. M. Erwin adjourned the United States Court until the first Mondby in December. J R Carlton, celebrated his 90th birthday Monday by giving a din ner to his children and friends. Mr. Hubbard, the tax collector, says collections have been shorter in Polk county than at the same time for several pre vious, Cedartewn merchants say trade is picking up rather slowly, and that collections have so far been very light. All seem to be san guine, however, of better times just a little ahead. Judge Roney is conducting u quiet term of Superior Court at Augusta, with no o murder or manslaughter case on the docket AugUbta is improving in morals, .the criminal lawyers are all idle. There will be a decrease in the colored populslion of Dodge coun ty in the next tax returns. A great many negroes have lately gone to Florida to work on the railroads being built in that stafe, and others will leave before the end of the year. ' The barn of T N Lester, a mile or two out of Granfville, was burn ed on Saturday night last with 9 bales of seed cotton. 148 bushels of corn, fodddr and other products and valuables. The fire is sup posed to have been the work of an incendiary. The store of Capt. J. W. Sey mour. at Dowdy, was burglarious ly entered on Nunday night by some of tie ‘lightfingered gentry’ who stole therefrom » watch worth 30 or S4O, a bolt of flannel and several other articles’ A coloied woman who went to the association at Quitman last Sunday with her child forgot that she had taken the young one, and was taken some distance from town by the train before she remember ed that her baby had been left be hind. si Prof. <i W Cheves, who is new confined in the Fulton county jail on a cuarge of muider, committed at Dawson, is in a very dangerous condition. For more than two weeks past he ha- not partaken food, and his death at any moment would be no surprise- O. W. Featherston, of Cedar town, had a mule so badly injured Tuesday night that the animal had to be killed, Kicking a plank from its stable it got a leg through the aperture, and in its struggles to extricate it, the hmb was broben in three or four places a< a church in Georgetown net long ago the congregation sang the hymn commencing, “Must- Jesus bear the cross alone 1" Some of the wicked people in the congregation paraphiased the line “The consecrated cross 111 bear’ in the second vers# and sang out “The consecrated cross eyed bear,’ ♦ “PAPA IS DRIVING.” I arrived at the station at the appointed hour. I entered or rather was thrown by ait attendant into the car nearest to me- The door was quickly shut. The whistle was and we were off. Curiously enough, the car was crowded. I formed the fifth pas senger, Two corners were occu pied, one by an officer and the other by a civilian. Facing me was a woman, about tnirty old, neatly and modestly dressed, and beside her sal the most beautiful little child I ever saw—a little girl about sir years old, with a flood of blonde curls waving uni der her immense straw has. Now and then the child would look through /he window in the direc tion of the engine, and then her eyes seemed to wander in the in finite space tlial was unrolling it self before her. We came to a station. The train stopped. The li/tle girl put her face to the win dow. “I don’t Ree him,” she said to the lady beside her. “I don’t see Li oi.” Tnen suddenly her face brightened and her eyes lit with golden hues, shining with indes cribable joy, while her lips came down upon two hands that came from the exierior and were placed upon the frame of the open win dow. “Ah, papa!” Here is pa>> pa !” exclaimed my little neighbor with the exhuberant and innocent joy of her six years. It was the ergineer of our train who had come to speak to his lit • tie daughter and his wife, who wete seated in front of me, •‘We are going very fast said the womab, “We must make up for lost time,” replied the man. • “Were yoii afraid Jeanne ?” “No,” said the c did, “because I kuew you were driving ’ “Well, hy-by,” said the man as he left. “Byi by papa,” said tue child throwing herself into his arms. The train started and gradually reached an extraordinary speed. I worship children, and I began to examine the little one in front of me. She was full of life and good humor. She amused herself witn everything and nothing, ca joling with her mother, inquisitive with the window, severe with her doll. She was carrying on a tnou sand different conversations all at once, aud with a noise that was almost deafuing; when the gentle man in the other corner exclaim ed; •‘Decidedly, we are going too fast. The tram will sorely run off the track.” “Oh, don’t be afraid,” said the child seriously, “papa is driving.” The officer was reading. He looked out of the window, and then resumed his reading without ma king any observation. The other gentleman again bes gan to talk, “This is certainly madness,’ said he. “Yes madam,” he con tinued. addressing’the lady, your husband is eitler drunk or crazy.” “Oh, sir,” said the lady, “my husband never gets drunk. You saw him a uttle while ago. Cer tainly, the train is going at a fu rious raie. I dou’t quite under stand it.” The officer closed his book and stretched himself along the seat. ‘•I wonld advise you to do the same,” said he. with the greatest coolness. “If you keep seated, your legs will be smashed. Re member the Versailles accident ’ Certainly the train was running at a terrifying rate. What in the world could the engineer mean by such driving, “I am afraid!” said the citizen, white with terror. Then the officer took me aside. ‘Here is my name and address,’ said he. “If lam killed or mor tally wounded in the accident to which we are running, an a you es cape, promise me now that you will carry these dispatches without a moment’s delay te the General whose name you will find by ope ning this envelope.” I promised. The woman took the child in her arms and covered her little faje with tears and kisses. She seemed to wish to make a rampart Our Oum Section—We Labor For Its Advancement. LA WHENCE VILLE, GA. November 10 1885 of herself to protect the little one against the frightful smash up {hat was momentaiily expected. “I am not afraid,” said the cAild, smiling, “papa is driving.” And she alone among the passengers of the car. and doubtless she alone among all on board the train, had faith and confidence. We could hear in the other cars cri sos ter ror and wailings of despair, and, in spite of /he mother, the child leaned out of the window in the back door and shouted out with all the force of its lit/le lungs : “Don’t be afraid ; papa is driving.” Aa ! that sweet little girl, In the general terror, was a tower of BtreDgth wi/h that sacred love of a child for a father—an affecfion that nothing can break down. Gradually the train si owed a td then came to a standstill. We were at a station. The engineer came to t<-e door. “We have Iseen guing very fast,” said he, “ tut a' all hazzards we must go to .Reims before the Prussians. That we must do at the risk of being blown up or smashed to pieces on the way. I’m told that we arc carrying important dispatches,' and he looked at his little girl with tears in his eyes. “<7ive me your haad,” said the officer. “You are a brave fellow. It is I who have the dispatches.” “Enroule !” then said the man,aDd be gave a parting glance at the fair form of his child ks if to bid her farewell. But Jeanne was not afraid ; and moreover, nobody in our compartment was afraid any longer. We knew that we were risking our lives for our country, and that satisfied us. As for the /rain, it lecommenced its furious race. This was the month of Septems ber, 1870, on the eastern line.— Courier des Etats Unis. HOW TO BUILD UP A TOWN. Talk about it. Write about it. Help to improve it. well about it. Beautify the streets. Patronize its merchants. Advert'se in its newspapers. Elect good men to all the offi ces. Speak well of its public spirted enterprising citizens. If you are rich, invest in some thing, employ somebody, be a hustler, If yod don’t think of any good word to say, dont’t say anything bad about it Remember that every dollar yon invest in permanent improve ment is that much on interest. Be courteous to strangers that come among yon, so that they may go away with good impressions. Always cheer on the men who go in for improvements; .vour por tion of the cost will be nothing od ly whal is just. Don't kick at any proposed nec essary improvements because it is not at your own door, or fear that your taxes will be raised fifteen cents. Don't throw stumbling blocks An tLe way of your town officers; they are generally public spirited men and spend lots of time in the public interest for whioh they re ceive no remuneration, Dou’t use rabber stamps on your letter heads, that is a dead give away on your own business, on the town and the newspaper publiseed in it. Get your letter heads, envelops, business cards, etc., printed in the local printing office. Never condemn the local paper unless it has unfaitly used you If it has dealt with you unjustly write to it or go ip to the office and tell the editor about your case; if he was wrong he will lose no time in telling the public about it. Don’t let politics get mixed op wi.h your business; if you are a business man don’t lose the help that a newspaper can give you be cause its politics are not your pol itics, and by all means don’t ad vertise to help the printer along: advertise to help business and tn« town. A woman may be as true as steel, but then yen know some steel is high tempered. BY AND BY. He was but a child, when one night, after he had been ill for many days, an angel appeared at his bedside and looked a* kindly iuto his face that be held up his thiu hands and whispered ; “I am r eady—let me go with you.” “Some time—not now," whisper ed the angel, and she soothed him to gent'e slumber. Again when manhood had come he fell asleep one day and in his dreams the angel returned. It bad been years since he saw her, but her face wore the same radiant smile and age passed her by. “It is time—l will go with you, he said as he started up. but the angel waved him back and said. “Wait—it is not time." Years passed away. Tbs gray hairs were thicker than the black —the face was furrowed with many lines—man’s prime had pass ed and man's decline had come. The bright dream came once more, and with it the angel. “ Surely you will take me now,’’ he said as be felt her soft pres ence. “I have accomplished my work on earth and long for rest.” •‘Wait—l will come once m ore,” she Answered. Other years were numbered with the dead. A f eble old man had wep/ bitter tears over the loss oi wife and sons and daughters. One by one they had been gather ed to earth while he waited. One by one the friends of his youth and of his manhood had passed in to the dark valley beyond sight and sound of mortal man. One night when the summer sun sank to rest in a sky of purest gold— when the great world seem ed almost neiseless—when the rob in sang softly and flew to his nest to quiet ‘.he fears of his mate, the ears of the poor old man heard the sounds of sweet music afar off It came nearer and nearer, and the darkness lighted up with such a glorious light that his old eyes saw a procession marching past him, As he looked and wondered and doubted, his angel turned aside and stood before him “Who are they r ' he asked. “Friends who have gone before. Watch closely.” By and by he saw the faces of the friends of his youth. Then a glad shout reached his ears, and bands were waved from afar off. People broke away from the pro. cession and g athered around him and rejoiced. There was his wife —there were his sons and daught ers. He held out bis trembling hands to the angel and pleaded ; “You promised me !” “And the by and by has come 1” the angel answered. When the men and women of earth came tc look npon him in his coffin they whispered tc eao h other: “He must have died as a child falls asleep. See the glad smile on his face.” WISE WORDS Every path has a puddle. An idle brain is satan's work-, stop. i: ‘ The" best friend is an old mir ror. Opportunity is the cream of time. A man of words, and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. Regret is the water with whioh we sprinkle the plants of our fol h- Virtue is a flower which blooms only in the garden of righteous ness. Bublicity is the barn door upon which fools love to chalk their names. Revelation is the sunshine that dispels the shadows of mystery and doubt, Cvstles without housekeeping are but bricks and stones—cold and forbidding. Hutnor is the clear, sparkling water that bubbles from the spring of good nature. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial tire called conscience. If there be any truer measure of « man than by what he does, it must be what he gives All other knowledge is hurtsu 1 to one who has not the science of honesty and good nature. He who has a suspicions that he has enemies, will do Woll to eon. aider how it came about that he has enemies. A man might as well expect to grow stronger by always ea/ing as wiser by always reading. Too much surcharges nature, and turns more iu to disease than nourishment, Too rose has its thorns, and beauty is never found without one or more. They may be blunted at the end, but cannot be extracted without killing the tree. LETTING A CAT »| The other day a Rcckjojid hold was made proud and happy by '.be introduction of a- cabinet organ. The mother could play a tittle, and as there was a “popu lar collection of music” included in the purchase she loat no lime in getting every note and stop in to practice. The organ groaned and wheezed and complained with the most astonishing music, night and day, day and night, for a week Than oue morning there was u knock at the door, and a little girl from the next house shrilly said ; “Please, maim, mother wants to know if you won’t lend her your music book ?” This was a surprising request, iu as much ms the woman next door wa« known to be organises. After gasping once or twice the amateur organist asked , “What does she want of it 1" The child hadn’t been loaded for this question, so she straight for wardly replied ; “1 don’t know, m sure, only 1 beard mother tell father that if she bad hold of /be book for a day or two mebbe somebody could get a res/.” The woman softly shut the door iu the little girls face and went and oar*fully locked the cabins organ with a brass key.—Rocklaud Courier Gazette. TIRED OF SASHAYING AROUND. Togetner they strolled by tnoon light—he and she. They talked of poetry, of pigs feet and pictures. They communed with the stars, and felt that heaven was drawing nearer to earth day by day. tier hands were on his arm, nestling there in fullest confi dence. Her carriage was erect, his step firm hod buoyant. Happy man ! blissful maiden' lie told her of his day dreams in a voice that to her wos.melted gold. With a weeping face he tore away the curtains of reserve and showed her castles of the bright est splendor- -in th« air. Then he talked of Shakespear, high rents and the price of pork. Her heart gave a flutter, for she felt that the turning point of her destiny was near. Fixing bis piercing eye full up on her, he told her of his battles with the cruel, heartless world. xihe wondered why he didn’t pop and be done with it. Then he dropped into poetry again, and wandered, oh, so ta r away from the thoughts that filled her teeth, and begun tv hum, “Home, Sweet Hornß.” Again he made her Leertgu bounding high in hope, as he re. marked with a sigh, that carpets were cotniDg down fearfully in price, for he toiled daily iu a mart wherein they were sold. With a tremor like the flutter of an eagle’s wug, she softly pressed his atm, and had a great mind to faint and drop on the lire plug. But the divsrson might distract him, and she withheld. He wandered to religion, pan cakes aud sophistry, when she dropped his arm like a cold pota to. He told her he loved— She turned pale and clinched hie arm. JOHN T. WILSON, Ja., Publisher Hot pancakes aud plenty syrup. Bhe felt that her lime was draw iug near, aud her head began to seek his shoulder. Dowu went the head. The milleuium was coming. But uot just then. He spoke of the monsa£tc or-, dors and the peaceful serouity of a permit’s life. >' She marched on alone with both bauds at her side. But that sort of an existence couldn't do for him he said. With a bound she hau grappled him wi.h bcth bauds and yearned for more melody. What he wanted was a fireside .of his own, 1 Ohy testacy ! The dear man!, v ' With a nice li/ile wife—and he looked iuto hfr face with tender* tp*S/ $\ c> > \ “All tight,! Take me! V’ui is!” she almost shrieked wW.h the delirium of joy. “Aud now let’s go right borne aud tell /he old folks, and figure up how soon wo oau gc to housekeeping. Pui tired of this sashaying around. I want to Buttle down aud begiu ou a crazy quilt.” She was uuru iu Ghiougo aud business wan bred iu her boue. INFORMATION. A fathom is six feet. A league is three mileH. A .Sabbath day’s journey is 1,155 yards, ibis is 18 yards less than two thirds of a mile. A day’s jouruey is miles. A cubit is too feet. A hand (horse measure) is four inches. A palm is three inches, A space is three feet. A barrel of flour weighs 19C pounds- A barrel of pork 900 pounds. A barrel of rice 600, A keg of powder 25 pounds. A firkin of butter 56 pounds. A tub of butter 84 pounds. The rollowing are sold by weight per bußhel. Wheal, beans and clover seed 50 pounds to the bushel. Corn, rye and flax seed 57 pounds. Buckwheat. 58. Barley, 43 pounds. Oats, 32 pounds, Bran, 20 pounds. Coarse salt 85 pounds. A comtnerical bale of cotton is 400 pounds. A pack of wool, 240 pounds A section of government land is 640 acres, or one mile square. A liquid ton is 525 gallons. A box 16 by 104 inches and 8 inches deep, contains a bushel, A box of lemons will average about 230 in number; a box of or uDges from 200 to 250. A case of preserved ginger cox tains 9 jars. A frail of dates weighs from 150 to 200 pounds. A drum of figs, 2,5, and 8 pounds each. A cask of primes, 1,309 to 1,» 810 pounds, sverageiuy about 1. 500 pounds. Currants come in casks of from 275 to 300. Citrion comes in small boxes of aoout 25 pounds each; tare, 2to 2£ pounds, Beanuts are usually sent to mar ket in sacks, coDtaioiDg about 2 bushels. Dried apples and peaches come m barrels, generall j from 150 to 225 pounds. Blackberries come in barrels, A quintal of fish is 112 pounds. Virginia peanuts weigh 22 pounds to the bushel, Wiimings ton do, 26 to 28 pounds, Africa do 32 pounds. < 1 1 0m “You look sick. tFhat’s the matter with you, anyhow?” said Gus ilc Smith, on meeting Oil— hooly. “My stomach is in an awfnl fix. I’ve lost my appetite for w hiekey —can’t drink a drop.’’ “Lost your appetite for whiskey, have yen ? Well, I pity the poor devil who finds it unless he has credit at the soloons.” The police jury at Sabiue par ish, La., limits the amount of whis key to be | rescrioed by phvsician to patients to four ounces. GWINNETT IIEILJLJ). A WIDK-AWAKK county nkwstatek. JOB PRINTING A SPECILFEATU I E Book work, legal blanks, letter ads, note heads, bill heads, poe» s, cards, euvelops—everything job printing line doae in n«a d tasty style and on short, no* e. Pricts low aud work guar- . anteed: Call on us. * Entered ai the Poat Office at Law* renceville, us second tiituu mail uiat-‘ ter. NO 36 GEMS OF HUMOR. A great hardship—an iren steam ship. Breeches of contract—those which shrink, > Opeuing the season—uncovers mg a mustard pot. Beef tough and oxtail BOap mak mg both ends meet. A morrally conducted family should have an ‘upwright’ piano- A pamting is called a rare work sometimes because it is not well done. ii l •> An obediet I farmer a wife is called a good yacht because she obeys the tillel. When a man sees double, it is evident that his glasses ate too strong for him. w “One swallow aoes uot make a spring*'' That depends upon how hot the coffee is. Why is a thief it. the garret like an honest man ! Becaure he is above doing wrong. “Before a man settles down be should settle up,” and before a man settles i p lie must settle dowu. Some people ere willing to he : good if they are well paid for it, Others pref*r to be goou for noth • tug. “Time is money,” as the man remarked when be paid the pawn* broker the anuual interest on his watch A Cynical bachelor says woman is a good deal like accordion- You can draw her out, but she -‘makes music’ if you attempt to shui her up. Hungry guest—‘How is this? 1 ordered a steak and a porched *gg. I see the egg bu/ where is the steak 1” Table attendant—‘Date all right, sah. De steak utn uudah de egg.” “ , John Bright tbiuks that Europe is “marching towards some great catastrophe." It eonjeotured that Mr. Bright haß a presentiment/hat Oscar Wilde ie goitg to begin an other series of aesthetic lec/ures Way is Africa like a greased poll? Because it isau unhealthy clime. The Mohammedans freely ac kuowled the Koran. The school ma’am who married a tanner had evidently a glimmer ing of the fitness of tnings. An old citizen, just from a fish ing tour with two bass, says he can Bing double bass to any fish lyre of them all Mrs. Coyne has sued a man in Youngtown fur damages for breach of promise. He didn’t want Coyne, but she d*es “You can’/ ride too horses at once” is an old saying, but it is a poor pokdr player who cannot stand on four Jac ks. < Mamie - How can Lucille marry that old fossil, Cloaefist T What if he is rich ! Sadie—/fid you know that he has heart-disease so bad'y that the slightest shock is liable to prove fatal ? Mamie Ah, that'a ii. Sadie—l’es, and Luoille thinks she will be able to shock 1 im. Mr-. Flatte (who once lived on the water side of Beacon street)— By the way, Dr Phlogiston says sealskin saoques arc real un healthy. They bring on consunap tion and also hysterics, like tb6 at la. k you had last year- Mrs Beacon—He only meant the imitation sacques such as I sow you pricing the other day at the Closing out sale. Genuine seal uevi r hut ta anybody, Mrs Flatte—Were those imita tion ? What an eye you have for such things. Do you remember thoie imitation diamonds you had after Mr Beacon got his first street cleaning contract ? Most every body thought they were genuine diamonds. Mrs Beacon—Hows Mr Flatten deafness now? Does it grow on him ? Mrs Flatte—Thanks ; it is a great deal better since he left that damp Back Bay bouse. (Kisses and farewells.) —Boston Record. “ The Harvard class of ’B9 num bers 268 men, the largest fresh man class ever admitted to the college;