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If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound to give notice to the publisher wish at the end of their time,if they do not to ■continue taking tbe paper, otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it on and ■ the subscriber will be responsible until ex¬ press notice with payment of all arrears is ?’ to the publisher. RAIL ROAD SCHEli —: ’ EXTENSION. Leaves Arlington on Tuesdays, H'ednes- -davs, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 a. m. Arrives at Albany on same days at 11:05 a. m. Tuesdays, Leaves Albany on Mondays, Ar¬ Thursdays and Fridays at 4:23 p. m. rives at Arlington on same days at 7:10 p. in. 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. ----- ..... ....... 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 . -- - - 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,