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EXTENSION.
Leaves Arlington on Tuesdays, H'ednes-
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
ARLINGTON LODGE, NO. 249,
Meets 1st Tuesdays and 3rd Saturdays
■>ln each month. Officers:
W. T. Murchison, W. M.
y. M. Calhoun, S. W.
’no. W. Nutton, J. W.
II. K. Taylor, J. S. Q. D,
AV. H. Davis.
H. M. Goode. Tyler.
E. C. Ellington, Treasurer.
Geo. V. Pace, Sec’y.
County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Hon. W. O. Fleming, Judge; J. W. Wal¬
ters,Solictor £7eneral; J. H. Coram, Clerk.
Spring term convenes ou second Monday in
March ;Fall term on second Monday iu Sep¬
tember .
COUNTY OFFICERS.
A. I. Monroe,Ordinary;W. W.Gladden,
Sheriff; John A. Gladden, Tax Collector;
Thomas F. Cordray, Tax Receiver; Zack
Lang, col., Coroner.
COUNTY COURT.
L. G. Cartlege, Judge. Quarterly May, ses-
alouers, 4th Mondays in February,
August and November. Monthly sessions,
every 4th Monday.
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
J. J. BecK
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
Jesse E. Mercer.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
John Colley, C. M. Davie, and J. T. B.
Fain. Courts held 1st Tuesday In each
month.
ROAD COMMISS1NERS. J.
574th District— 8ol. G. Ueckom, A.
Sanders and Irwin Douglass. H. Rogers, W. J.
1316th District —T.
Godwin and Wesley iiish.
112"d District— L. G. Cartledge. M.
W. Sell and J. W. Brown.
1283d District —B. M. Hodge, C. J.
McDaniel and J.G. Collier.
626th Distbict-~P. E. Boyd, B. F. Bray
.and J. T. P. Daniel.
1305th District —J. A. Cordray, W. H.
Hodnett and Morgan Bunch.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND
NOTARIES PUCLIC.
574th District.— Sol. O. Beckcom, J.
P.; Chas. F. blocker, N. P. and Ex-officio
J. P. Courts held second Saturday in each
month. J.
1123d District— P. J. L. Wllkerson, P.,
John Harty, N. Courts held 2nd Thurs¬
day in each month.
626th District— J. C. Price, J. P.; N.
W. Pace, N. P. Courts held 3rd Satur¬
day in each month.
1283d District— C. 3. McDaniel, J. P.
Courts held 1st Saturday in each month.
1304th District —Morgan Bunch, J. P.;
J. A. Cordray, N- P. Courts held 1st
Saturday in each month. —D. H. Holloway, J.
1316th District
P.; Henson Strickland, N. P.
Marriage ’Squire Ceremony Gabrel. as Bead by
Yon bromisb now, you goot man dare,
Vat stands upon de floor.
To hab dish roman for your vife,
And lab her ebermore;
To feed ber well mit soar crout,
Peuns, puttermilk, aud sheese,
And in all dings to lend your aid,
Dat will bromote her ease.
Yes, and you voman standing dare,
Do bledge your word, disb tay,
Dat yon vill dake for your husband,
Dish man, aud him opey;
Dat you vill ped aud poard mit him,
Vash, iron, aud meut his clothes,
Laf ven he smiles, veep ven he sighs,
Dus share his shows aud voes.
Yell, den, I now, widin dese vails,
Mit cboy, aud not mit krief,
BroDounce you both to be one mint,
Von name, von man, von peef;
I pooblish now, dese sacred pands,
Dese matrimouial ties,
’Fore mine vife, Got Kate, aud Poll,
And all dese gazen eyes.
And, as the sacred Skriptures shay,
Vot Got unites togedder,
Let no man dare nshuuder put,
Let no man dare dem sever;
And you bridekroom tare, you slitop,
I’ll not let go your kollar,
Before you answer me dish ting,
Dat is—vare ish mine tollar?
A Confederate Story.
At a recent political gathering in
Tuscumbia, Ala., Gen. Cullen A. Bat¬
tle related tbe following story in the
course of bis speech:
During the winter of 1863.64 it was
my fortune to be president of one of
the court-martial of the Army of
Northern Virginia One bleak De¬
cember morning, while the snow
covered the ground and the wiuds
howled around our camp. I left my
bivouac fire to attend tbe session of
the court. Winding aloDg for miles,
uncertain paths, I aft length arrived at
tiie court at Round Oak church.
Day by day it had been our duty to
try the gallant soldiers of that army,
charged with violations of military
law; but never bad on any previous
occasion been greeted by such anxious
spectators as on that morning awaited
the opening of the court. Case after
case was disposed of, and at length the
case of ‘The Confederate States vs.
Edward Cooper’ was called—charge,
desertion. A low murmur rose spon¬
taneously from the battle-scarred
spectators as a young artilleryman rose
from tbe prisoner’s bench, and in re¬
sponse to the question, ‘Guilty or not
guilty?’ answered ‘Not guilty.’
The Judge Advocate was proceeding
to open the prosecution, when the
court, observing that the prisoner was
unattended by counsel, interposed and
inquired of the accused, ‘Who is your
counsel?’ He replied: ‘I have no
counsel.’ Supposing that it was his
purpose to represent himself before
the court, the Jadge Advocate was in¬
structed to proceed. Every charge
and specification against the prisoner
was sustained. The prisoner was then
told to introduce his witnesses. He
replied: 'I have no witnesses.’ As¬
tonished at tbe calmness with which
he seemed submitting to what he re¬
garded as inevitable fate, I said to
him: ‘Have you no defence? Is it
possible that you abandoned your
comrades and deserted your colors
without any reason?’ He replied:
‘There is a reason but it will avail me
nothing in a military court.’ I said:
‘Perhaps you are mistaken; you are
charged with the highest crime known
to military law, and it is your dnty to
make known the cause that influenced
your actions. ’ For tbe first time his
manly form trembled, and his blue
eyes swam in tears. Approaching the
president of the court he presented
a letter, saying as he did so, ‘There,
General, is what did it.’ I opened
the letter and in a moment my eyes
filled with tears. It passed from one
to the other of the court until at last
all had seen it, and those stern war¬
riors who had passed with Stonewall
Jackson through a hundred battles
wept like little children. Boon as I
sufficiently recovered my self-posses¬
sion, I read tbe letter as the defence
of tbe prisoner. It was in these words;
‘My Dear Edward:—I have always
been proud of you, and since your con¬
nection with the Confederate army I
ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1881.
have been prouder of you than ' ever
before. I would not have yon do any¬
thing wrong for the world, but before
God, Edward, unless you come home
we must die ! Last night I was arous-
ed by little Eddie crying. I called and
said: ‘What's the matter, Eddie?’
and he said; ‘Oh, mama. I’m so hun¬
gry.’ And Lucy, Edward—your darl¬
ing Lucy—she never complains, but
she is growing thinner and thinner
every day. And before God, Edward,
unless you come home we must die.
Youit Mary.’
Turning to the prisoner I asked:
‘What did you do when you received
this?’ ‘I made application for a fur¬
lough..and it was rejected; again 1
made application and it was rejected;
a third time I made application, and it
was rejected, and that night as I wan¬
dered backward and forward tbinkiug
of my home, with the mild eyes of Lu¬
cy looking up to me, and the burning
words of 3/ary sinking in my brain, I
was no longer the Confederate soldier,
but I was the father of Lucy and the
husband of Mary, and I would have
passed those lines if every gun in the
battery had fired at me. I went
home. Mary ran out to meet me, her
angel arms embraced me and she whis¬
pered: Oh! Edward, Edward, go back!
go back! Let me and my children go
down to the grave, but oh, for heaven’s
sake, save the honor of thy Dame! And
here I am, gentlemen, not brought
here by military power, but in obedi¬
ence to Mary, to abide the sentence
of tbv court.’
Every officer of that court martial
felt the force of the prisoner’s words.
Before them stood, in a beatific vision,
the eloquent pleader for a hus¬
bands and a father's wrongs; but they
had beeu trained by their great leader,
Robert E. Lee, to tread the path of
dnty, though the lightnings flash
scorched the ground beneath their feet,
and each in bis tarn pronounced the
verdict—guilty. Fortunately for hu¬
manity, fortunately for the confeder¬
acy, the proceedings of the court were
reviewed by the Commanding
General, and upon the record was
written:
HfUnQTTABTEBS A. N. V.
The finding is of pardoned the court and is approved. will
The prisoner re -
port to his company.
ll. E Lhe, Gen.
During the second battle of Cold
Harbor, when shot and shell were fall¬
ing ‘like torrents from the mountain
cloud,’ my attention was directed to
the fact that one of our batteries was
being silenced by the concentrated
fire of the enemy. When I reached
the battery every gun but one had
been dismantled, and by it stood a
solitary Confederate soldier, with
blood streaming from his side. As he
recognized me he elevated his voice
above the roar of the battle aud said :
‘General, I have one shell left. Tell
me, have I saved the honor of Mary
and Lucy?’ 1 raised my hat. Once
more a Confederate shell went crash¬
ing through tbe ranks of the enemy,
and the hero sank to rise no more.
Does Her Own Work
Does her own work; does she? What
of it? Is it any disgrace? Is she any
less a true woman, less worthy of res¬
pect than she who sits in silks and sat¬
ins, and is vain of fingers that Dever
labor? We listened to a person of the
day, who, speaking of a newly-wedded
wife, said, sneeringly: ‘Oh, she does
her owu work.’ The words and the
tone of contempt in which they were
uttered, betokened a narrow, ignoble
mind, better fitted for any place than
a country whose institutions rest upon
honored labor as one of the chief cor
ners tones. They evinced a false idea of
th 6 true basis of society, of tbe true
womanhood of genuine nobility. They
showed the detestable spirit of caste
or rank, which a certain class are try-
ing to establish—a caste whose whole
fonndation is money, which is the
weakest kind of rank known to civili.
ization. Mind, manners, morals all
that enters into a good character, are
of no account with these social snobs.
Position in their stilted ranks is bought
with gold, and every additional dollar
is another round in the ladder by which
elevation is gained in their esteem and
society.
The Savannah News say the total
loss of life in that city and vicinity by
the cyclone on the 27th ult„ must have
been over 200 , and the loss of property
was more than $ 1 , 000 , 000 .
The Garfield Family.
Speaking of the poverty and oarly
struggles of the family of which our
President was a member, a biographer
says:
‘Thomas, the older boy, who now
was ten, hired a horse, and ploughed
and sowed the small plat of cleared
land, and the mother split the rails and
fenced in the little house-lot. The
maul was so I'CaVy that she could oily
jast lift it to her shoulder, and with
about every blow' she herself came
down to the ground; but < he struggled
on with her work, and soon the lot was
fenced, and the little farm in tolerable
order.
‘But the corn was running low in the
bin, and it was a long time till harvest.
So the mother measured out the cora,
reckoned how much her children would
eat, and went to bod without her snp-
per. For weeks she did this. Bat
the children young and growing, their
little mouths were larger than she had
measured, and after awhile she omited
to eat her dinner also. One meal a
day, aud she a weak and fragile womatl
It is not to bo woudered at that she
is loved and revered by her children ?
‘But the harvest came at last and
then want was driven away, and it
never again looked in with gaunt jaws
upon the lonely widow. Neighbors,
too soon gathered around the little log
cottago in the wilderness. The near¬
est was a mile away; in a new country
it is not near so fur as a mile in the old
one, and they came often to visit
the lonely household. They bad sew¬
ing to do and the widow did it. plonh-
ing to do, and Thomas did that;
and after a time one of them hired
the boy to work on the farm, paying
him $12 a month for fourteen hours
daily labor. Thomas worked away
like a man, and—while I do not state
it as a historical fact—I verily believe
no man ever felt himself so much of a
man as he did when he came home aud
counted out into his mother’s lap his
first fortnight’s wages—nil in silver
half dollars.
‘Now, mother,’he said, ‘the shoe-
maker can come andmake James some
rho. \, James was our future Presi¬
dent; and though the earth made four
revolutions since he first set foot upon
it, he had never yet known the
embrace of shoe leather.
‘A school had been started in a
neighboring district, andThomns wan¬
ted the children to attend it; so he
worked away with a will to earn mon¬
ey enough to keep the family through
the winter. The shoemaker came at
last and made the shoes, boarding out
part of his pay; aud then Mehetablo,
the older girl, took James upon her
back and they all trudged off to school
together—all but Thomas. He stayed
at home to finish the barn, thresh the
wheat, shell the corn and help his
mother force a scanty living for them
all from the little farm of thirty acres.
And here my pen pauses with a half
regret that it is not the life of this boy,
Thomas that I am writing. I doubt
if so much manliness, unselfishness
and singlehearted devotion was ever
shown by a lad of thirteen-’
What is an Inch of Eain.
The quantity of rainfall is often
stated at so many inches. What an
inch of rain is, is explained as follows:
An inch of rain is that quantity
which, falling upon a level surface and
not absorbed or allowed to run off,
would stand one inch in depth. The
amount of water falling upon an acre
of land when the rainfall is one inch
would astonish any one who has given
no thought to the subject. On each
square foot of surface there would be
144 cabic inches, and on one acre,
which contains 43,500 square feet,
would be 6,272,640 cubic inches, which
reduced to imperial gallons, each con¬
taining 10 pounds Avoirdupois, would
be 22,623 gallons, weighing 226,230
pouod 3 , something more than 113 tons
weighi to the acre. The annual aver¬
age rainfall in this locality approxi¬
mates 50 inches, consequently each
acre receives about 5,655j tons weight
of water in a year. This amount of
water would require a train of 565
freight cars to carry it. If one bad to
water a 640 acre farm at this rate it
would require figures like those of
the distance to the nearest fixed star.
A Narrow Escape
‘I tell you, sah, dis partnership biz—
ness am powerful resky,’ said the old
man as lie nibbled a green onion at the
Central Market. ‘Las’ month I went
iuto partnership wid Ctesar White in
de peanut business. He furnished de
roaster an’ I bought de peanuts, an’
we was to whack up on profits. Cie-
sar am a bad man, an’ doan youforgit
it. If I bhu'i; ou de watch for him I’d
bin cleaned out high-sky. What sort
of a game d’yo ’spose he tried to play
on me?’
No oue could gum, and, finishing
the rest of his onion, the old man con¬
tinued:
‘Well, sah, when we come to roas’
dem peanuts dat Ctesar wanted rue to
believe dat de shrinkage offsot all my
sheer in de laziness, an’ he ordered me
to get a way from dat roaster an’ go
home.’
‘An’ yon went to law?’
‘No, sail! I got inspirashun’ bout
dat time, an’ I poured de whole bushel
into a barrel o’ water. In five minits
dem peanuts had swelled all my capi¬
tal back an’gin me a 6 -sliillin’ claim on
de roaster beside, an’ do way Ciesar gin
me $3 to dissolve partnership an’ git
out beat any hoss race you eber saw!’
—Deeroit Free Press.
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The North Pole.
, As it is possible, perhaps probable,
that Lieut. DeLong, of tiie steamer
Jeannette, may be passing the summer
of 1881 on the North Pole of the earth,
it may be interesting if we anticipate
some of the physical aspects which lie
•will be likely to report when he once
more communicates (with the civilized
world. Capt. Byrnes) some years ago
published a little illustrated book in
which he demonstrated lo his own sat¬
isfaction that there is a hollow sphere,
and that it vessels could reach a latitude
of 82 degrees North, it would then sail
over the edge of an immense ‘hole’
and might continue its course m the
surface of the icterual water of the
earth and finally come out of a similar
‘hole’ at the South Pole. Capt. Symes
has inherited his father’s idiosyncracy
and is still contending that Lieut. De-
Long has gone into ‘Byrnes’ Hole,
and will be next heard from in tjju.
South J’actilc Ocean.
Wonders of Broom Corn.
Broom corn is likely at no distant
day to revolutionize the bread stuff
supply of the world. A process has
been discovered by which the finest
and most delicious flour can be. made
from the seed |to the extent of one
-half its weight, and leave the other
half a valuable food for milk. The
average yield per acre is three hundred
bushels, aud in many instances five
hundred bushels, or thirty thousand
pounds, have been secured. Nordoes
it exaust the soil as Indian corn, from
the fact that it feeds from the deeper
soil, and assimilates food from a cruder
state. It belongs to the genus as the
sweet cane, commonly known as sor-
ghum,which an article of food is grow¬
ing rapidly in the public esteem, and
from the seed of which a most nutri-
ous flour can be obtaned.
An Austin boy came home from
school very much excited aud told his
father that he believed all human ly¬
ings were descended from apes, which
made the old man so made that he re¬
plied angrily:
‘That may be .the case with you, but
it aint with me; I can tell you that,
now .”—Texas Siftings.
Cocoanut growing is becoming an
important industry in Florida. Charles
Maloney has a plantation of several
thousand trees on Stock Island, J. V.
Harris, of Key West, has about 7,000
trees, E. G. Lock about 10,000, and
Lieutenant-Governor Bethel is hav¬
ing an extensive grove of cocoanut
trees planted.
A Bible and a newspaper in every
house, a good school in every district
—all studied and appreciated as they
merit—are the principal support of
virtue, morality aud civil liberty.—
Franklin.
A merchant died suddenly just after
finishing a letter. His clerk added, in
postscript. ‘Since writing the above I
have died. Tuesday evening, 7th in¬
stant.’
Vol. II. No. 43
“Let us Pray."
A certain young ministor, not far
away, was in the parlor with his
swoetheart a few nights since, and chis
was the tale told next morning, (with
a change of names): ‘Oh,’ said Daisy
lo her mama, ‘I wuz in the parlor last
night behind the sofy, when theyoung
preacher came in to see sister Kate,
and they did set too close np for any¬
thing ; aud the preacher said ‘Katie,
dear, I love you;’ an’ Kate said ‘Oo,
oo;’ an’ (hen the preacher kissed her
right smack in the mouth, and said",
‘Dear Katie, how good the Lord is to
us poor Sinners;’ an’ Kate said ‘Oo,
oeff an then—an’ then—
‘Well,’ said her mama, ‘you wicked
child what did you do?’
‘Why, mama, I felt so good, I blurt¬
ed out, ‘let us pray,’ an’ you ought to
seen them two people, how they jump¬
ed up, an’ I looked at Kate all soruched
up in a corner. It wuz just too awful,
mama, for any use. ’
Daisy was not slippered that time.
Mon leztmia Weekly .
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Old Uncle Moso went into Leyi
Schaunburg’s store onJAnstin avenue,
to buy a silk handkerchief, but was
almost paralyzed ou learning the price.
Levi exclaimed that the high price of
silk goods was caused by some disease
atnoug the silk worms. ‘How muoh
does yer ask for dis heah piece
ob tape?’ asked the old man. ‘Tea
cents,’ was the reply. ‘Ten cental Je-
whilikins! so de tape has rlz, too—I
spose de cause ob dat am, because
dar’s sumfin de matta wid de
tape wums. Dis seems to be gwine
ter be a mighty tough year on wums,
any how .—.Texas Sifting.
The lion who declined to fight the
jackal or to even notice him, gave a
pretty good reason for the course be
thought best to adopt. ‘It I flgbt
him,’ said old leo, ‘I shall kill him of
course, but he will gain more than I
shall from the fight. He will have
the honor of being killed by a lion,
while I shall suffer the disgrace of
having fought with a jackal.’ The
fight never came off. The jaokal did,
it is true, persist In repeating that tbe
lion was a cowurd,-,jggfifi* 0 sfiofir b^ted
«
Alluding to the drouth now prevail
in the West, the Cincinati Times Star
says: ‘Banting flocks stand upon tbe
sun scorched hills, hungering for pas¬
tures giueu, and the parched corn
fields stretch their yellow blades toward
tbe skies in silent appeal for rain.
The whole country is a land of burning
sunshine and glare and clouds of dust
like the deserts of the East.
--
The United States sells to other
countries about three million dollars
worth of vegetables and manufacturing
products. Over a fourth of this is cot¬
ton, a seventh wheut, an eighth provis¬
ions, a ninth corn, Hour one-eighteenth,
and tobacco one-iifteeutb.
The New York Commercial tells of
an editor who was able to exclaim, as
bo looked gratefully toward heaven:
‘At last, after thirty years of indefa¬
tigable toil and strict economy, I have
realized sufficiency to boy myself a lot
in Greenwood Cemetery I’
“There goes the celebrated Mr. 0.,
the lame lawyer.’’ remarked a lady to
her companion, as he passed them in
the street. ‘Excuse me, madam,' said
he, turning sharply, ‘you are mistak¬
en; lame man, not a lame lawyer.’
It is said that Moses used to have
trouble with his wife. If that great
law-giver couldn’t manage the female
sex, what is a poor uninspired taxpayer
of the Nineteeth century to do with
the last best gift?’
It is said that since he hanged Mont-
ford at New Orleans for pulling down
tbe United States flag from the cupola
of the court house Gen. Butler baa
cared for Montford’s widow as though
she was a relative.
‘Kissing your sweet heart,’ says a
trifling young man, ‘is like eating soap
with a fork; it takes a long time to get
enough.’
It is now believed that the olemar
garine factories put hair in their goods,
thus rendering it more diffioult of de-
tection than ever,