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LU1)G£ DIRECTORY.
ARLINGTON LODGE, NO. 249,
J/eets 1 st Tuesdays and 3rd Saturdays
each month. Officers:
W. T. Murchison, W. M.
.S’. M. Calhoun, S. W.
’no. \V. /Sutton, J. \V.
H. K. Taylor, S. D.
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,A .Vi. Goode. Tyler.
E. C. Ellington, Treasurer.
Geo. V. P ace, See’y. __________
County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Ifon. W. O. Fleming, Judge; J. W. Wal¬
ters,Solictor General; J. H. C'orarn, Clerk.
Spring term convenes ou second Monday ij
March; Fall term on first Monday iu Sep¬
tember.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
A. I. Mouroc,Ordinary;W. W.Gladden,
Sheriffi; John A. Gladden, Tax Collector;
Thomas F. Cord ray, Tax Receiver; /.aek
I.ang, col., Coroner.
COUNTY COURT.
L. G. Cart lege, Judge. Quarterly ses-
eioners, 4th Mondays in February, May,
August and November. Monthly sessions,
every 4th Monday.
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
J. J. Been
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
Jesse E. Mercer.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
John Colley, C. M. Davtf, and J. T. B.
Fain. Court* held 1st Tuesday in each
month.
ROAD COMMISSINERS.
574th District— Sol. G. Reckons, A. J.
Sanders and Irwin Douglass. T. H. Rogers, W. J.
1316th District—
Godwin and Wesley L. Risk. G. Cartledge. M.
1123d District—
IF. Hell and J. W. Brown.
1283d District —B. M. Hodge, C. J.
McDaniel and J. G. Collier.
626th District— P. E. Boyd, B. F. Bray
and J. T. P. Daniel.
1305th District —J. A. Cordray, W. H.
Hoduett and Morgan Bunch.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND
NOTARIES PUCI.IC.
574th District. —Sol. G. Beckeom, J.
P.; Chas. F. /'locker, N. P. and Ex-officio
J. P. Court* held second /Saturday in each
month. J. P.,
1123d District— J. L. Wilkerson,
John Harty, N. P. Court* held 2nd Thurs¬
day in each month.
626th District— J. C. Price, J. P.; N.
IF. Pace, N.P. Court* held 3rd Satur¬
day in each month.
1283d District — C. J. McDaniel, J. P.
Courts held lstSoturday in each month.
1304th District —Morgan Bunch, J. P.;
J. A. Cordray, N. P. Courts held 1st
Saturday 1316th in each month. D. H. Holloway, J.
District—
P.; Kennon Strickland, N. P.
A MOTHER'S DIARY.
Morniug! Baby on the floor,
Making for the fender;
Sun light seems to make itsneize;
Baby ‘on a bender?’
All the spools upset and gone,
Chairs drawn into file,
Harnessed strings all strung acrooss,
Ought to make one smile.
Apron clean, curie smooth, eyes blue
(How these charms will dwindle),
For I think—don’t you—
Baby ‘is a swindle?’
Noon! A toughd, silken floss
Getting iu blue eyes;
Apron that will not keep clean
If a baby fries!
One blue shoe untied, and one
Underneath the table;
Chairs gone mud, and blocks and
toys
Well they are able;
Baby in a high chair, too,
Yelling for his dinner,
Spoon in month; I think—don’t you
Baby ‘is a sinner?’
Night! Chairs all set back agaiu.
Block and spools-in order;
One blue shoe beneath the mat
Tells of a marauder;
Apron folded on a chair,
Plaid dress torn and wrinkled;
Two pink feet kicked pretty bare.
Little fat knees krinkled;
In his crib, aud conquered, too,
By sleep, bleared evangel.
Now I surely think—don,t you—
Baby ‘is an angel?,
ROOM AT THE TOP.
Never you mind the crowd, lad,
Or fancy your life won’t tell;
-The work is the Work for a’ that;
To him that doeth it welt.
Fancy the world a hill, lad;
Look where the millions stop;
Yen’ll find a crowd at the base, lad,
There’s plenty of room at the top.
Courage, Faith and Patience I
There’s space in this world yet;
The The furl <Jmnf^ya'L*tAlxd,'W*' ^n,
iter vktmg jw
Keep yonr eye on the goal, lad,
Never despair or drop,
Be sure your path leads upwards;
There’s always room at the top.
B
He Learned too Late.
The summer was like no other sum¬
mer the woil/1 bud ever known. Nev¬
er was time so sweet; never were morn¬
ings so josy and radiant; never were
lights so tender.
A ;oung and beautiful girl stood
1 oking at the sunset as the last fare¬
well glow bathed the blue waves iu
golden radiance. To look at her face
one would never dream that her posi¬
tion in life was among the proudest;
but a glance at her simple dress would
dispel the illusion. Flossy Thayer
had been brought up by, her grand¬
father in a quiet secluded country
neighborhood. The old gentleman
was wealthy. Flossy was the darling
of liis heart, and great pains were lav¬
ished upon her education. The grand¬
father’s health was not good, and they
traveled a great deal, often spending
the winter in the South. They bad
been there when the crash came; Mr.
Thayer lost bis money. He was tbe
most honorable man alive; he returned
home, paid his liabilities to tbe last
farthing, sold the beautiful country
seat where Flossy had spent her child¬
hood and established himself in an old
farm house by tbe sea, with hardly
enough money left to live on.
So for four years Mr. Thayer and
his grandaugbter had lived quietly
enough in their retreat. So far as the
old gentleman knew, Flossy had been
happy, but in truth she was al¬
ways waiting for some wonderfol
change that was to free her from the
humdrum life in which her life was
parsing. But it was nevertheless true
that no paiace ever sheltered a maiden
more royally fair than she. And so
thought some one else as he drew near
her witli quick, light footsteps. Tall
and straight, fith dark laughing eyes
and mouth shadowed by a mustache,
Mark Norton was just fitted to ran
away with the fancy of a young in¬
experienced girl.
‘So you have been waiting for me?
Happy man to have won the Jove of
one so fair and sweet.’
A glow of crimson tinged the girl’s
face as the eye3, uplifted to meet her
ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1881.
| lover’s, told plainly what was iu her
heart. While the young people con¬
versed Murk took Flossy's band in his
and told her something which made
the tear drops quickly start
‘Do not grieve, dear Flossy. I shall
only be gone a short time, and you
know that if it were not necessary
nothing could take me from you. You
are not afraid that absence could alter
my love? Flossy, you do not doubt
me?’
She was young and unused to the
world, and it is no wonder that she
trusted Murk Norton, who, to her,
was the noblest and grandest of men.
They parted. Mark Norton following
his physician’s advice, had come to the
quiet country towu to reguia his
health, which had long been delicate.
Iu one of his ramLles he bad met Flos¬
sy, and being shy and shrinking, it
had been the work of a long time to
establish himself upon friendly terms
with the girl, whose beauty surpassed
any he had ever seen. It was not
long before, with a thrill of vanity,
Mark could see the hold he had gained
in her innocent heart. One day, in
answer to his whispered question,
Flossy acknowledged that her heart
was his, and he placed a gold band of
betrothal upon her slender finger.
For a time after his departure let¬
ters from her lover came regularly
to Flossy; but after a while letters
came It ss fr< quently, and then when
time months had passed the looked-
for letter came. It read oh, how coldly
and contained his farewell:
‘I am going abroad. I shall probu
bly be abseut several yearB. Our im¬
mediate marriage is now, of epurse,
an Impossibility. I could not ask you,
nor do I feel it right to hold you,
through an indefinite time, to your
pledge, therefore I free you.’
Once, twice, she read the letter
through; then, with white face and
tearless eyes, held it to the mutah with
a steady hand, nor Jet it -fall until the
flame cseut so close that jt blackened
« iak i: mi aou w*j <e*tcer lay
singed and chaired under her feet.
That day she went into her grand¬
father's rroom and laid her head on
his shoulder. ‘Don’t talk to me grand¬
pa,’ she said, ‘and don’t ask me any
questions, but we will keep house alone
you and I, and we’ll forget that we in¬
tended to let anybody else in.’
‘The sconndiel! If you had been
rich, my child, this sorrow would not
have come upon you. But, mark my
words, sometime you will huve your
revenge. ’
Four years have swiftly passed.
/Seated iu a room in one of the popular
hotels of New York were two young
men. Suddenly one cf them, looking
out of the window, exclamed:
‘Look, Aubre! See if you know
who that lady is. What a lovely wo¬
man. Do you know her?’
‘I should think that I did, and think
myself honored that I do. She is the
most beautiful girl I have ever known.’
A smile curled Mark Norton’s lips
as be turned from the window.
‘You speak warmly, Aubre,’ he
said.
‘You would not blame me for speak¬
ing warmly if you knew her,’ be an¬
swered. ‘Her history is a romantic
one. If you like I will tell it to you.’
‘Her name is Miss Flossy Thayer.
When I first met her she was not
wealthy, though in my eyes, even
then, her beauty surpassed anything
I had ever seen. It was not long after
you went to yonr travels that an uncle
of mine who had purchased a place by
the sea, invited me to spend the sum¬
mer with him. It was a very quiet,
secluded village, and I soon became
acquainted with Flossy. Not long af¬
ter that the old grandfather died, and
my kind annt took the sorrowing girl
into her house. My nncle had tbe pa¬
pers in his posession of some mining
shares the old gentleman had long
deemed worthless, which saddenly
arose, first to par, then so widely
above as to enable Flossyto regain her
footing in the world. As before, all
that tbe grandfather had crumbled
into powder now all that he had left
was converted into gold.’
As Mark Norton listened varied ex¬
pressions flitted across his face. He
knew that the maiden whose heart he
had won and cast aside for his own
amusement aud this beautiful heiress
must l>e one and the same person.
Might it not be Unit if lie exerted his
art of fascination to the utmost ho
could soon regain {he love he liudonce
held? A
‘Aubery,’ he said, should like tq
meet this Miss Thayer. Could you
maunge to present mo to her?’
That night the two friouds entered the
drawing room, in which a brilliant
crowed was assembled A little lator
Mark Norton stood beside Flossy. Sho
had never looked more 1 bountiful than
she did then with her creamy costume
of sutlio and fleecy lace, looped with
diamond stars.
‘Allow me to present you to Mr.
Norton.’ '
Flossy bowed ns to an utter slrauger
An Instant her lip curled, and then she
hid it in an alluring smile.
‘As he made me suffer, so shall his
suffering be.’
‘She loves me still, ’ thought Mark
Norton, proudly, as, later, he went out
in to the starlight night. ‘1 feard I had
lost her, but I shall wiu her, yet. How
lovely she is, I believe this time my
heart will be the stake!'
With proud confidence Mark but
wasted his best tiinq fitted for him to
speak the fatal words. At last the op*
portnnity was liis. She smiled, as ho
thought, with joy as he asked her now
to give him his reward. Thou the
smile turned into iCey scorn, the look
he had interpreted for love had altered
into one of contempt, the sweet tones
grew harsh as iu a few cutting phras
es she spoke the words that doomed
him.
'I Jove you K Flossy—believe me I
lore you for your self,' he replied, and
for once the man was sincere.
A look of scorn flashed from Flossy's
eyes as she withdrew her arm from hU.
‘Jfr, Norton,' she raid, ‘your repen¬
tance has come too late. A a I once
loved, I now despise,.you.’
Mark N orton's face flushes befor^
the contempt in ly r voice. He felt
that slid tfad his r«ud aright '* Not long
motive of > ( hear’-
after Mr. Nortoi&eceivcd a letter and
a small packet containing two cards
tied together by a knot of bridle rib¬
bon. Upon one Was the name of
Flossy Thayer;’ upon the otner, ‘Mr.
and Mrs. Aubrey Merritt.’
The First American Newspaper.
Boston came to the front, in 1704,
with the News Letter. This paper wai
8x12 inches in siz*. One column of
the title-sheet was devoted to foreign
news. The news from Fiance was
nearly five months old, yet it was eag¬
erly devoured by the people of Boston.
The Indians theu skulking in thovicin
ity of Hartford were as murderous as
the Uces and some of the other tribes
on our Western frontiers. Yet it took
two weeks for the news to reach tho
city of Boston that Hartford was rais¬
ing fifty men to send out to protect
the frontier settlement of Dover, in
New Hampshire. Even Bostonians,
in those days, didn’t feeldisposed to bug
the ‘noble red man’ in their bosoms
as a ‘fond delusion,’ for the editor fa¬
vored a law offering a premium of
from £10 to £50 for every male Indian
above 12 years old taken, according to
the service at the time performed by
the captor. The News Letter was the
only paper published in this country
in 1720. In that year James Franklin
proposed to bring out another-the New
England Vourant —in the town. The
undertaking was considered hazardous.
The paper was started, but short-lived,
as the publisher was guilty of the un¬
pardonable offense of Bpenking too
plainly of political measures then be¬
fore the public. He was forced to
abandon his enterprise and leave ‘free
-speech’ loving Boston.
One night last week beyond Brooks-
ville a farmer, whose name we have
not learned, while riding in his buggy
along the public road, wss baited by
two negro men and demanded to give
up bis purse and other valuables. The
farmer instead of him drawing his
purse drew his pistol and shot one of
the negroes dead while the other made
bis escape. The negio killed was un¬
known to any person in the settlement.
Served him right.— CuthLert Appeal.
It is calculated that sixty tons of
steel are annually consumed in the
manufacture of steel pens.
Your Wife Begs It.
It is related that in the early days of
her wedded life, Queen Victoria had
one of those squablea with her hus¬
band, of the sort which will come
about sometimes even between the
most loving couples. Chagrined and
vexed the Prince retired to his room
and locked the door. Tbo Queen took
the matter quietly for a while, hut after
the lapse of an hour she wcut to his
door und rapped.
‘Albert,’ she said, ‘come out.’
‘No, 1 will not,’ answered tho Prince
withiu. ‘Come, go awuy; leave me
alone.’
The royul temper waxed hot at this.
She cried, ‘come out nt once. The
Queen, whose subject you are, com¬
mands you.’
He obeyed immediately. Entering
the room she designated, he sat nothing dowu
,n silence. For a long time
was said. The Queen was first to break
the silence.
‘Albert,’ she raid, ‘speak to mo.’
‘Does the Queen command it?’ he
asked.
‘No,’ she answered, throwing her
arms about his neok, ‘your wife bogs
it.’
Flirtation.
Tho Augusta Evening News talks to
the point in the following plain and
sensible editorial: ‘Can there be such a
tiling as innocent flirtation? Is not
itself essentially wanton and prouo to
evil? where is tho young woman who
call indiscriminately pick up a beau
ou (be public- highway without degra¬
ding herself and proclaiming a reck¬
less disregard in the rules in society,
which is the hirst step to ruin. (Jims
tity is the jewel iu a woman’s charac¬
ter whiob is essential to all other fe¬
male virtues and she can only retain it
by chastity of action and thought.
The very moment she advertises to
'the public that her acquaintance is
public property she becomes apijicti
puMc* r-'jVr*r ’*''**• I
., and
from the strict part of propriety
decorum is dangerous. I'eople do not
generally go to crimes by leaps; they
go gradually and by imperceptuhle,
and to them, harmless divergencies.—
Young ladies should remember that uo
worthy young man will encourage flir¬
tation, and even uuworthy have no res¬
pect for the foolish young woman who
recklessly throws herself away.
—--—-
A Reminiscence of Judge Warner.
The death of Judge Hiram Warner
presents an incident in his life while
superior court Judge of this circuit.
It was in the sarly settlement of Meri-
( tin, when a log cabin iu the middle of
the square answered for a court house
and no jail lmd ever been built. Dur¬
ing a session of court a noisy, rude
fellow kept disturbing tbo court, when
Judge Warner ordered the .sheriff to
arrest him an put him in jail. Tim
sheriff answered: *'Ve have no jail.'
The Judge replied: ‘Take him out to
the fence and pnt his neck under two
rails for three hours. ’ The. sheriff did
as ordered, put the prisoner’s neck
under two rails, and then got up and
sat on the fence. After some time the
Judge inquired for tho sheriff. lie
was told that he was out gardipg the
prisoner. The Judge smiled, byt never
interfered, and the prisoner for three
hours remained yoked by fence rails.
Two babies were born in tho same
house at Oakland, Tenn. The mothers
were sisters, closely resembling each
other, and the infants were both girls.
In the excitement of the occasion the
little ones got mixed, and this happen¬
ed before they had baen dressed, or in
any other way markedfor identification.
There seems to be no way out of the
uncertainty, for three months Lave
passed without developing any resem¬
blance to tho father in either case;
and if the children grow up, ns they
seem likely to, with the physical char¬
acteristics of their mothers, no body
will ever know their exact parentage.
The present month by agreement is to
decide the question by lot.
Jefferson Davis’ idea of journalism
is that the people want news and in¬
formation, and want it in paragraphs,
They will hardly stand much more
than a paragraph of editorial, and 're-
bel against auy thing like an essay,
adds the ex-confederate President*
Vol. II. No. 37
FACTS AND FANCIES.
When I think of what I is,
And what I used to was,
I think I’ve throwed myself away,
Without sufficient cos.
—Roscoe (Jonkling.
Why is a much-admired young lady
like tho hub of a wheel? Because she
is a I way» surrounded by fellows.
An American editor acknowledges
the receipt of a bottle of brandy forty
eight years old, aud says: ‘Thisbrandy
is so old that we fear it cannot live
iquch longer.’
In the ladies’ cubins of the Hoboken
the following notice has re-?
eently been posted: ‘The seats in this
cabin are reserved for ladies Gen-'
tlemen will please not occupy them
until Hie ladies are seated.’
Never marry for wealth, but remem¬
ber that it is just as easy to love a girl
who has a brick house with a Mansard
roof aud a silver plated door-hell as
one who hasn’t anything but an au¬
burn head und an amiable disposition.
‘Sam, you are not honest. Why do
yon put all the gpod peaches on the
top of the measures, and the little
oues below?’ Same reason, sail, dat
makes do front oh your house marble
an’ do back gate chiefly slop bar’i, sab.’
Mury lwd a vaccine scab upon her
snow-while arm. She warned* her
beau to this effect for fear he’d do her
harm. But when they oame (o part
that night, she gave him a mighty
grab, and whispered ‘Hug me awfuj
tight and never mind the scab. ’
A French newspaper relates Out a
tnillloniare lost his entire fortuno, ex¬
cept 100,000 fiances, and died of grief
within twenty-four hours. His brother
who was his sole heir, had long strugs
gled in poverty, and now, on that sud¬
den receipt of what he regarded as a
large fortune, has just ’ of joy.
A gentleman the it up
►''Hi .../onsolate, ■ anfl seeing — r»r
very nmou.
ing Land on his hat, remarked, ‘I see
have lost a friend.’ ‘Yes sir,’ wn«
the reply. ‘Was it a near or a distant
relation.’ ‘Well, purty distant,’ said
old man, ‘bout twenty-feur miles.*
She was a young lady fresh from
school, and she went into the
to learu how to iron a shirt.
(Id not succeed very well, and she
‘Oh, Katy, I shall never be able
get any polish on this bosom.’
miss,’ was the answer, ‘you
to put a little elbow grease on it.’
‘Please get some for me right
Katy,’ was tho innocent re¬
North Carolina has 1,756 baikoepors
and 1,270 preachers.
The eost of tho United States Son-
ate is about 86000,000 a year, nearly
$400,000 going for salaries and mileage.
There are said to be only 200,000
regular attendants on tho places of
worship in London in u population of
The men of Nebraska will vote next
a constitutional amendment allow¬
ing women to vote, and a systematic
agitation of the woman suffrage ques¬
tion has already been commenced
there.
The Montnzuma Weekly says tlmt
one of the citizens of Macon county is
carefully canvassing the county to as¬
certain which is the strongest, prohi¬
bition or anti-prohibition. As soon
as he learns he will run for the Legis¬
lature on the popular side.
The new comet discovered by Mr.
Schaebere, of Ann Arbor, Michigan
will on Augnst tbe 20th be 52,000,000
miles to the naked eye ou that date.
It is app’oaching the earth at the rate
of 3,000,000 miles daily—it will ap¬
proach no nearer than tho distance
specified—52,000,000 miles.
Mrs. Garfield, according to the Cou¬
rier Journal of the 27th, is reported to
be ill aguio. This estimable lady lias
gone through the trying ordeal of her
husband’s misfortune with fine and
womanly courage. She herself was
just convalescing at LoDg Branch
when the shooting occurred, and her
return to the impure atmosphere was
uesessarily injurious to her. We hope
she may be spared another severe ill-
ness.