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LODGE DIRECTORY.
ARLINGTON LODGE/NO. 249,
J/eets 1st Tuesdays and 3rd Saturdays
in each Murchison, month. Officers:
W. T. IV. M.
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T no. IV. Nutton, J. IV.
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W. If. Davis, J. D.
II. M. Goode. Tyler.
El. C. Ellington, Treasurer.
Geo. V. Pace, See’y.
County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
flon. W. O. Fleming, Judge; J. W. Wal¬
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Spring term convenes on second Monday ta
March ;Fall term on second Monday in Sep¬
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
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Sheriff; John A. Gladden, Tax Collector;
Thomas F. Gordray, Tax Receiver; Zack
Lang, col., Coroner.
COUNTY COURT.
L. G. Cartlege, Judge. Quarterly ses-
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August and November. Monthly sessions,
every 4th Monday .
BOUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
J. J. Been
CO UNTYSUR VEYOR.
Jesse E. Mercer.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
John Colley, J. J. Monroe aud J. T, B.
Fain. Courts held 1st Tuesday in each
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ROAD COMMISSINERS.
574th DrsTRicT—Sol. G, Neckom, A. J.
Sanders and Irwin Douglass.
1316th District— T, H. Rogers, IV. J.
Godwin and Wesley L, Rish.
1123d District— G. Cartledge. M.
IF. Bell and J. W. Brown.
1283d District —B. M. Hodge, C. J.
McDaniel aBd J. G. Collier.
626th District— 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.
5 4th District.—S ol. C. Beckcom. J.
P.; Chas. F. idocker, N. P. and Ex-officio
J. P. Courts held second (Saturday in each
month.
1123 > District— J. L . WilRcrson, J. P.,
John Hart.y, N. P. Courts held 2nd Thurs-
iu each month.
086th District— J. C. Price, J. P.; N.
W. Pace, N.P. Courts held 3rd (Satur¬
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1283d District— C. J. McDaniel, J. P.
Courts held 1st Saturday in each Bunch, month.
1304th District —Morgan J. P.;
J. A. Cordray, N. P. Courts held 1st
Saturday in each month.
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P. Kmnwn Strickland, X. P.
THE GUAGE OE PE AY EE.
As Satan passed through heaven
From it walk on earth one day,
The Lord looked up and questioned
him—
‘Didst thou hear my creatures pray ?’
‘Ay, Loid 11 heard their prayers re-
sound
Where’er I listening stood;
But. by my soul ! not one of them
Prayed for his brother's good !’
Then looked Jehovah fire and flame,
Aud spake this fierce decree:
‘Who makes a selflsh'pTayer is thine;
The others come to me !’
Then all that night on heaven’s walls
The Lord and Satan stood
To see how many sons of men
Would pray for a brother’s good.
Alas ! they watched there many an
hour,
And yet there came no sounds;
The poor they prayed for pennies,and
The rich they prayer for pounds;
The ugly prayed for beauty, and
And the awkward prayed for grace,
The old ones prayed for youthful looks
To hide a wrinkled face,
The limping prayed for healthy joints;
The red-haired prayed for brown;
The short ones prayed for longer legs,
The long to be cut down;
The brown-eyed prayed for blue ones;
The cross-eyed prayed for straight;
The fat ones prayed for melting down,
The lean ones prayed for weight;
The doctor prayed for sickness, and
The undertaker, death;
The captives prayed for sunshine, and
The phthystic for breath ;
The maiden prayed for lovers’ vows;
The soldier prayed for war;
TJie beggar praypd for horse to ride;
The drunkard prayed for ‘more;’
The sick man prayed for break of day,
The thief for longer night;
The miser prayed for mor-e of gold;
The blind man prayed for sight.
At last there came a tearful voice
Up to the starlit sky;
‘Oh, may my uncle's soul this night
Rest with the lord on high?'
‘There's one for me!‘ Jehovah cries,
‘Not sol* the devil said;
He‘s heir to all his uncle's wealth.
Hence wants the old man dead!'
Just then there came another voice,
In supplicating tones;
‘Oh! may the grave be late to close
O'er neighbor David's bones!'
‘Tbere-s surely one for me at last!*
But Satan cried, ‘Not yet!
He merely wants the man to live
Until he pays a debt!'
And so they waited till the stars
Went out at dawn of day,
Then Satan seized his bags of souls
And sped his homeward way.
Upon high heaven's glittering wall
Long had they listening stood,
But not a mortal all that night
Prayed for his brother's good!
The Oldest Man in the World
Spain may well boast of the oldest
man in the world. 7n the oldest city
of Bogota resides a man who, accor¬
ding to his own acconnt, is one hun¬
dred and eighty years old. Ilis neigh¬
bors assert, on what they believe the
best authority, that he is even older.
The oldest inhabitants, some of whom
are about ninety, declare that lie was
a very old man when they were chil¬
dren. His signature has been discov
ered on a subscription paper drawn
up in 1712,for the erection of new con¬
vent. A very aged Spanish physician
vouches for the age of this wonderful
whom he found,one-day, engaged
in his favorite occupation of garden¬
ing. His skin had Decome of the con¬
of parchment and hishair was
white as snow and bushy as a turban.
He freely discusses the subject of bis
age, and attributes it to very
and correct habits. He eats
but once a day, and then takes a half
an hour for it, asserting that a man
ought to eat enough in that time
to last him 24 hours. He fasts on the
and the fifteenth of each month,
devoting these days to drinking
water freely. He chooses the most
nourishing food, and always eats it
It is well known that the Span -
can boast of large numbers of
Iongc.ity,which they attribute
to a large consumption of onions, of
which tbe claim to raise they finest in
the world.
ARLINGTON, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1882.
The Bachelor’s Confes¬
sion.
BY HEKNEN NORERT GRAVES.
I live in a French flat. Of coarse
there are objections to .French flats.
So there are to most things. I can’t
afford a hotel, and I detest a boarding¬
house, A bachelor of 30 odd, who
has been at the mercy of boarding¬
house keepers all his days, can easily
understand that.
So, when I engaged a suite of rooms
—third floor in a French flat edifice—
and arranged my household goods
therein, with a fine lookout over a
green dot of a park in frout, and the
glimmer of a palisade far in the rear
above a forest of shipping, I consider ¬
ed myself well off.
What is my piofession? I haven't
any particular. I'm an artist, and
draw a little, daily, in front of my
easel, I contribute to the press, aud
write when the divine afflatus seizes
me. I read the law when I feel like
it, and draw a little iucomo from a
snug little property left me by an uncle
in India. Consequently I was able to
decorate my new quarters very pretti¬
ly with Bagdad rugs, old China drag¬
ons, black and gold Japanese screens,
and pictures I had picked up at a bar¬
gain.
And when the fire was burning
cheerfully in the grate, the first rainy
May evening, the student lamp shin¬
ing softly on the red, carved table, and
the waiter from a neighboring restau¬
rant had brought in my frugal dinner
of a broiled bird, a mold of currant
jelly, a slice of roast beef, and a rasp¬
berry dumpling, I considered myself
pretty comfortable.
‘Upon the whole, 1 says I to myself,
‘I rather approve of French flats. ‘
I rang the bell. The janitor—a re¬
spectful, decent sort of a fellow, in a
round jacket aud carpet slippers—an¬
swered the summons,
‘Janitor, ‘ said I, ‘who occupies the
floor above?'
‘Nobody, sir/ tho man answered —
‘Last party moved out yesterday. New
party moves in to morrow/
‘A large family?* said I, rather du¬
biously .
‘Bless your heart, sir/ said the
man, mo family at all—single lady,
sir! 1
At this I congratulated myself more
and more.
‘I shall have prospect of a little
peace now, I think/ said I; and I ate
my dinner in a fool's paradise of hap¬
piness.
The single lady moved in on the
morrow. She must have moved iu
when I was down town selecting some
new mill-boards and color-tubes for
the summer sketches I intended to
make, for when I returned, fondly ex¬
pecting once more to enter into my
kingdom of peace and serenity, every¬
thing was changed.
There v?as a banging and pounding
over head, a thumping and hammer¬
ing—a sound as if some middle-aged
giantess in hob-nailed shoes was enjoy¬
ing herself in a promenade. I sent
for the janitor in a rage.
‘Is the house coming down?' said I.
‘It's the new tenant a movin' in,
sir/said be, apologetically.
‘Does her furniture consist entirely
of Herring's safes and square pianos?'
said I.
‘There is two pianos, sir, ‘ said he.—
‘She's musical/
“The deuce she is/ roared I. ‘Two
pianos! And does she play on ‘em
both?*
‘Don't know, sir, I'm sure/ said
the man, with a distressed expression
of countenance.
I endurad the noise until midnight,
and then I sent up the janitor's wife.
‘The third floor's compliments to
the fourth floor, and would like to
know if this sort Of tiling is to go on
all night? 1
Down came the woman again.
‘Fourth floor’s compliments to the
third floor, and wishes to know if he
expects people to get settled without
a noise? 1
The next day the piano—only one,
however—commenced. I was
ating a skeleton for a scientific essay,
and it disturbed me seriously. I en-
dured it as long as I possibly could,
and then I had recourse once more to
the janitor's wife.
‘Third floor’s compliments to
fourth floor, and will feel obliged ifshe
will favor me with a little peace and
quietness long enough to do some nec¬
essary writing.*
There was no reply, and tho musio
ceased abruptly. But that evening,
when I was beginning to solace my¬
self with a little violin practice in the
twilight, tap, top, tap, came the jan¬
itor's wife at my door.
‘Fourth floor’s compliments to tho
third floor, and will feel obliged if ho
will favor her with a little peace and
quietness long enough to write a let¬
ter. ‘
How I hated that woman! So wo
lived for a mouth, exchanging con¬
stant missiles os warfare. I could
cheerfully have given up that miser¬
able French flat and gone back to
boarding, only unluckily I had engag¬
ed it for the year. Tho fourth floor
elocutionized, and had friends to se¬
lect private readings, whoso voices
were deeper than Hamlet's and more
sonorous than that of Charlotte Cush
man. She was charitable and bad
classes of heavy-booted girls twice a
week to sing hymns and learn to sew.
A single lady, indeed! If she had been
a quadruple lady she could not have
made more noise, nor enjoyed tho
making of it more.
At the close of the month, however,
an incident happened Which turned
the current of my whole life. I went
on a picnic. I don't often go to any¬
thing of that kind; but this was an
especially select affair gotten up by
my friend Harold Webster. I went,
and there I met Barbara Willis, and
fell straightway in love with her. She
wasn't exactly young, but neither am
I, and to my taste a full-blown rose is
sweeter than a bud, wherever you find
it growing. She was dark-eyed, with
full cherry lips, satin-brown hair, and
a complexion as fresh as roses and
ivory. We talked; our ideas coincided
exactly. It seemed as if our souls
were two looking-glasses, to mirror
each other's.
‘Miss Willis,’ cried, I ’why is it that
we have never met before? I feel as
if we were old, friends.’
as I spoke I gently pressed her hand
aud she smiled hack unutterable
things. 1 went to my friend Webster,
who was making up quadrilles on the
upper deck. We were accompauied
by an excellent brass band.
‘Oil, Harold!’ exclaimed I, ‘I can
never thank you enough for introduc¬
ing me to that angle!’
‘Do you mean Barbara Willis?* said
he. ‘Well I do think she is rather a
fine girl/
Wo grew confidential as we sat to
gether on tho promenade deck aud
watched the moonlight ripple over
the surface of the tides.
‘A bachelor’s life is Jbut half a life
Miss Wilis/ said I.
‘I can readily imagine that/ she
said softly.
‘I live in a flat, confessed 1.
‘Do you/ said Barbara(the sweet old
English name was just like her).
‘Isn't it dreadful!’ said I.
‘Horrid!' said she, closing her lips
as though she meant it.
‘And there's a female dragon occu¬
pies tho floor above me, aud torments
me out of my life/
‘Well, if this isn't a remarkable co¬
incidence,' replied Barbara. ‘There's
a detestable old crab of a bachelor un¬
der me, who takes all tho pleasure out
of my existance!'
‘Should two lives be thus blighted?'
said I.
‘7—1 don't think so‘ replied Bar¬
bara, looking intently at the bouquet
of pansies she held iu hei hand.
It was past midnight when the boat
landed. Harold Webster came up.
‘I promised to see you home, Miss
Willis/ said he rubbing his bands
briskly.
'You need not trouble yourself,Web¬
ster,' Slid I. ‘I shall be most happy/
I called a hack, helped the divine
Barbara in, feeling more and more as
if I were walking in cloudlaud.
‘Where shall I drive to,’ said the
man.
‘No. 69 Bavenal street/ said she
i
‘fourth floor.’
‘What!' cried 1 —‘ not tho Fernan-
flats?*
‘Exactly/ said she.
‘ Hhy that's where I live/
‘Are you the third floor?' she cried
out breathlessly.
‘Are you tho fourth 1" I counter-
questioned .
‘But you’re not a crab at all!'
‘Nor are you a dragon. On the con¬
trary—‘
But wlmt matters it what was said.
Thing were altered from the very be¬
ginning. I„took my violin up stairs
the next day, and helped my diviue
Barbara out with a sonata of Beetho-
v9u‘s. I suggested a uow education
theory for tho hob-nailed classes. I
listened enchanted to her recitation
of Tennyson s Brookjat the end of the
quarter we are to be married—Bar¬
bara and I.
--•—
Shall We Meet Again.
Tho following is one of tho most
brillirnt paragraphs ever written
by the lamented George D. Pren¬
tice :—
The fiat of his death is inexorable.
There is no appeal for reliof from the
great law which dooms us to death.
We flourish and fade as tho leaves of
tho forest and the flowers that bloom,
wither aud fade in a day,have no frail¬
er hold upon life than the mightiest
monarch that ever shook the earth
with his footsteps.
Generations of men will appear and
disappear as the grass, aud the mul¬
titude that throng the world to-day
will disappear as footsteps on the
shore. Men seldom thinks of the
great event of death, until the shadow
falls across their own pathway, biding
(rom their eyes tho faces of loved
ones, whose-smiles were tho suulight
of their existence. Death is the anta¬
gonist of life, and the thought of the
tomb is the skeleton of all feasts.
We do not want to go through the
dark valley, although the dark pass¬
age may lead to paradise; we do not
want to go down into damp grave,
even with princes as bed-fellow.
In the beautiful dream of ‘Iron* tho
hope of immortality, so eloquently ut
tered by the death-devoted Greek,finds
reponse in every thoughtful soul.'When
about to yield his life a sacrifice to
fate.Clemanthe asks if they shall meet
again:—‘I have asked dreadful ques¬
tion of the hills that look eternal, of
the clear streams that flow forever,
of stars among whose fields of azure
many raised spirits liavo walked in
glory. All aro^dumb. But as I gaze
upon tby living face, I feel that there
is something that mantles through its
beauty that cannot wholly perish.
We shall meet again, Olemanthe.’
A writer in an exchange. ‘I dis¬
covered many years ago that wood
could be made to last longer than
iron in the ground, but thought the
process so simple that it was not well
to make a stir about it. I would as
soon have poplar, basswood or ash as
any other kind of timber for posts.
I have taken out basswood posts af¬
ter having been set seven years which
were as sound when taken out as when
first in the ground. Time and weath¬
er seemed to have no effect on them.
The post can bo prepared for les- than
two cents apiece. This is the recipe:
‘Tako boiled linseel oil and stir in
pulverized charcoal to the consistency
of paint. 1’ut a coat of this over the
timber, and there is not a man that
will live to see it rot.’
An old darkey who was asked if, in
his experience, prayer was answered,
replied: Well, sah, some pra'ers is
ansud an' some ain't—‘pends on w‘at
you axes fo‘. Jest alter de wah, w'en
was mighty hard scratchin* fo' de
breddern, I ‘bsarved dat w'en-
I pray de Lord to send one o‘
Marse Peyton's fat turkeys fo‘de ole
roan, dere was no notice took of de
partition; but we'en I pray dat be
would sen' de olo mau fo de turkey,
de matter was tended to befo, sun-up
next mornin*/
A Stock raiser of Texas narraies
that his Chinese cook came into the
house in a perturbed condition and
with an odar of serious trouble about
him. ‘What in the world have you
been doing John? exclaimed the mas-
ter, as bo made for the door. ‘Me
catchee labbit, but me let him glo agin.
Meilican labbit smellee like hellee.—
Ob, my glacious!' He had surprised
a pole-cat and tried to capture it.
Sewing machine needles and attach-
menta at Esvcll'a drug store. tf
Vol. III. No. 10
Some New Georgraphy.
Don .People Wire Have not Cut
Theik Eye Teeth.
‘Of what is the -surface of tho earth
composed?’
‘Of corner lots, mighty poor roads,
railroad tracks, base ball grounds,
cricket fields, and skatiug rinks.’
‘Whut portion of the globe is
water?’
‘About, three fourths. Sometimes
they add a little giu aud nutmeg ts
it.’
‘What is a town?’
‘A town is a considerable collection
of houses and inhabitants, with four
or fivo men who ‘run the party’ and
lend money at 15 percent, interest/
‘What is a city*’
‘A city is an incorporated town with
a mayor who believes that (ha whole
world shakes when he happens to fall
flat on a crosswalk.'
‘What is commerce?’
‘Borrowing $5 for a day or two and
dodging tho lender for a year ot
two/
‘Name the different races . 1
‘Horse race, boat race, bicicle race
and racing around to find a man to in¬
dorse your note/
‘Into how many clases is mankind
divided?'
•Six; being enlightened, civilized,
half-civilized, savage, too utter, not
worth-a cent and Indian agents/
‘What nations are called enlighten¬
ed? 1
‘ Those which have tiad the moat
wars, the worst laws and produced the
worst criminals/
‘IIow many motions Las the oartb?‘
‘That according to how you mix
your drinks and which way you go
home/
‘What is the earth's axis?'
‘The lines passing between Now
York and Chicago/
‘What causes day and uight?'
‘Day is caused by night getting tir¬
ed out. Night is caused by everbody
taking tflie street car and going home
to supper. *
‘What is a map?'
‘A map is a drawing to show the
jury where Smith stood when Jones
gave him a lift under the eye/
‘What is a mariner's compass?'
‘A jog holding fonr gallons. 1
How to Build up a Town.
1. Sell your building lots at reason¬
able prices.
2. If you can afford to, donate a
building lot for some large business
enterprise, and thereby enhance the
value of town property.
3 Induco business men, to locate
in your own town.
4 Patronize the business men of
your town.
5 Always sum up your expenses
when you visit places outside of your
own town to buy goods.
6 Speak well of worthy public en¬
terprise.
7 If anything should be undertak¬
en that may be of benefit to our town
not speak ill of it to others because
happen to be prejudiced against
it.
8 Speak well to strangers of your
town and people.
9 If you have surplus money, do
not invest in far off speculation, but
give yourself and your town tbe bene¬
fit of it by establishing some profitable
factory.
10 Encourage your local newspaper
by subscribing for, and advertising iu
and paying for it.
‘A family about to remove from a
town, having a hard day’s drive ahead
the men. who were loading in a great
' iuir yi gathered up bed clothes with
^eds, U P aDl ^ loaded on wagons,
no * DOt * c * n £ that they contained the
baby, just one month old. The moth¬
er came in directly, and lo! her babe,
where was he? She took in the situa-
tion—immediately had the wagon un¬
loaded, untied the bedding, and out
came her precious babe, almost suffe-
cated, and it was only by the greatest
efforts that it could be resuscitated. It
had already turned black in the face/
Tbe commission of internal reven¬
ue reports that the quantity of apirits
iu distillery warehouse on January 1st
was 73, 806, 914 taxable gallons, which
is about forty millions in excess of last
year.