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If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound to give notice to the publisher wish at the end of their t ime,if they do not ise the to continue taking the paper, otherw publisher is authorized to send it on aud the subscriber will be responsible until ex¬ press notice with payment of all arrears is gent to the publisher. KAIL ROAD SCHEDULE—ARLINGTON VVTFVW.OV r-**. Leave* Arlington on Tuesdays, Wednes¬ days, Fridays and Saturdays at 8.-00 a. in. Arrives at Albany on same days at 11:05 a. m Leaves Albany on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 4:23 p. in. Ar¬ rives at Arlington on same days at 7:10 p. III. 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. W. H. Davis, J. D. ,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.