Newspaper Page Text
1 W ‘V.
k
r
....
HE ■ 1
A
m Fn ®i i
a c
/
t
By Jones & Lehman.
THE ADVANCE.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One copy, one year................ $1 50
One copy, six months,............ 75
One copy, three months,.......... 50
(strictly In advance.)
ADVERTISING RATES.
Apace | 1 w 1 in | 3 m | 6 m j 1 yr.
1 sq'r 1.00 2.50 5.00 8.00 12.00
2 “ 1.75 4.00 8.00 12.00 18.00
S “ 2.50 5.00 12.00 18.00 25.00
col 4.00 8.00 16.00 25.00 85.00
l 4 col 6.00 10.00 25.00 35.00 00.00
i col 10.00 15.00 35.00 60.00 100.00
One inch constitutes a square, and there
are twenty squares in a column.
Special notices iu the local columD, ten
cents per line, for each insertion.
Professional cards inserted for $8 a year.
The above rates will not be deviated
from as they have not been made with a
view to reduction.
Advertisements must take the run of the
paper, as we do not contract to keep them
in any particular after place. the first insertion, and
Bills are due
the money will be called for when needed.
Short communications on matters of pub¬
lic interest, and items of news respectfully
solicited from every source. LEHMAN,
JONES &
Editors and Prop’rs.
Laws Relating to Newspapers.
The following are laws passed for the
protection of publishers: give
1. Subscribers who do not express
notice to the contrary, are considered as
wishing to continue their subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discontinu¬
ance of their periodicals, the publisher may
continue to send them until all arrearages
are paid. neglect refuse to take
3. If subscribers or
their periodicals from the oflice to which
they are directed, they are responsible ordered un¬
til they have settled their bills and
them discontinued.
4 . If subscribers move to other places,
without informing the publisher and the
papers are sent to the former address, they
are held responsible. receives
5. .4nv person who a newspaper
and makes use of it. whether he has or¬
dered it or not, is held in law to be a sub¬
scriber. they
6. If subscribers pay in advance,
are bound to give notice to the publisher wish at
the end of their time,if they do not to
continue taking the 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
sent to the publisher.
KOh> icrJEPr IjF-A ROSOTON
Leaves Blakely daily, except Sundays,at
6:ioa. m. Arrives at Arlington at 7:10
to . Arrives at Albany 10:14 a. m.
Leaves Albany at 4:20 p. m. Arrives at
Arlington at 6:51 p. m. Arrives at Blake¬
ly at S:I7 p. m.__
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ARLINGTON LODGE, NO. 249,
Jfeets 1st Tuesdays and 3rd Saturdays
in each month. Officers:
W. T. Murchison, W. M.
if. M. Calhoun, 8- W.
’no. W. Button, .T. IV.
H. K. Taylor, S. D.
W. H. Davis. J. D.
11. M. Goode. Tyler.
E. C. Ellington, Treasurer.
Geo. V. Face, Sec’y.
_
County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Hon. W. O. Fleming, Judge; J. W. Wal¬
ters, Solictor General; J. H. C’oram, Clerk.
Spring term convenes on second Monday in
*Mareh;Fall term on second Monday in Sep¬
tember.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
A. I. Monroe, Ordinary; W. W. Gladden,
Sheriff; John A. Gladden, Tax Collector;
ThomasF. Cordray, Tax Receiver; Zack
Laug, col., Coroner.
COUNTY COURT.
L. G. Cartlege, Judge. Quarterly May, ses-
Bioners, 4th Mondays in February,
August and November. Monthly sessions,
every 4th Monday.
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
J, J. Becw
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
Jesse E. Mercer.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
John Colley, J. J. Monroe aud J. T. B.
Fain. Courts held 1st Tuesday In each
month.
ROAR COMMISS1NERS.
574th District— Sol. G. iteckom, A. J.
Sanders and Irwin Douglass. H. Rogers, W. J.
1316th District— T.
Godwin and Wesley R ish.
1123d District— L. G. Cartledge, M.
IF. Bell 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.
Hodnett and Morgan Bunch.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ANR
NOTARIES PUCLIV.
5 4th District.— Sol. G. Beckcom, J.
P.; Chas. F. Blocker, N. P. and Ex-officio
j.’p. Courts held second Saturday in each
month. Wilkerson, J. P.,
1123d District — J. L.
John Harty, N. P. 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 Distbict — C. J. 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.
1316th District —D. H. Holloway, J.
r. Sen bob SwitklaiKt, N. P.
A. Texas Mother-in law.
Searching for a Spindle Shanked,
G^ ggled-Eyed Son.
A tall woman wearing a sun-bon¬
net. came into the office of the
of Police, aud sitting down hard on
the end of a bench, wiped her nose,
snapped her eyes at the Chief, and
asked, in a voice that reminded one
the sharpening of a saw:
“Be you the galoot what locks folks
up?”
‘I regret to cay that I am occasion¬
ally obliged to resort to such extreme
measures with refractory person-..’
‘I know all that; but be you the ga¬
loot?’
‘Yes, madam’.
‘Why didn’fyou say go when I ask¬
ed you?’
‘I did.’
‘You didn’t, sir; and if you don’t
treat me like a lady. I’ll fol 1 yon up
and set’down on you, and she snap¬
ped her eyes some more like a Ter¬
rier.
‘What do yon want? asked the of¬
ficial looking as if he needed rein¬
forcements right away, and plenty of
them.
‘I want that dirty little whelp what
married ray darter, I want to talk to
him on business, but he evades me.—
If I could only get a chance to caress
him once more !‘ and she breathed
hard and gritted her teeth, until the
official felt In hi* pocket for’ a police
whistle.
‘What did he do?
‘He told my darter that he would
give 320 acres of land, with a gold
mine on it to anybody who would am-
pertate my jaw with a boot-jack. He
said mv mouth was like the gate at
the Fair Grounds.
‘He meant. I suppose, it was never
shut. I don'l see how he ever came
to make such a ridiculous comparison
as that. Did you ever "’remonstrate
with him? 1
ty.ri Lei I did. • J d rawed Efim
across the kifeher table by the hair
with one hand, while I basted bim
with a long handled skillet, and you
should have Jbeard him calling me
‘mother darling* and ‘pet,* but Fvov-
rlienre was agin me. His hair gave
way, and he lit, out before T could
reason with any more. Just as likoly
as not we will never meet again, and
she sighed heavily.
‘Be calm, ^madaro; do not excite
yourself too much. 1
‘I am calm. I like to talk about
these family secrets. It calls tip sac¬
red recollections. 11 makes me think
of mv darters fust "husband, It was
real fun (o remonstrate with him.—
His hair didnH give. He was game,
lie sassed back but Lord! what a time
they bad bolding the inquest. That
was at Arkansas before I moved to
Galveston. There was some of his
remains in one corner of the yard,
and a few more remains hanging on
the fence, and there was right smart
of him wraped around the ax handle.
The jury knew me, so they brought
in a verdict of justifiable suicide, or
homicide, or something like that.—
And now to think of this pesky little,
worthless, spindle-shanked, goggle-
eyed whelp getting clear off. I want
you to fiod him for me. You can
know him by the brands I made on
him with the hot skillet. Wanted to
am pertate my jaw, the little brassy
whelp! Said my mouth was like a gate,
did be?‘
The official said he would hunt for
him, and let her know. As she went
out, she snapped her eyes significant¬
ly at the official, and remarked.
‘You had better find that prodi-
gal son, or (har’l be music at these
headquarters .—Galveston News.
A New York court has tb.ci l«l that
if a man baeaks open a door under the
belief that there is a fibre in the room,
and it shall prove that there was no
public necessity for his doing so, he
will be liable for damages; but, if
there is a public necessity in order to
prevent the fire from spreading, he
may even demolish a building. How
a man is to judge of the public necess¬
ity through a locked door, unless he
has, according to Sam Weller, “a pair
of double-barreled gas microcope of
h'extra power, “ the learned Judge
does not explam.
ARLINGTON, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1882.
Law and Public Opinion.
The dishonesty of society iu the
matter of law making is one of the
crying evils of our modern civiliza-
tian. The statute books of every
State are full of enactments proclaim¬
ing a morality to which the lawmakers
and their fellow citizens are utterly
unequal, aud imposing penalties for
offenses which they have no expecta¬
tion of preventing.
On the other hand, there are num¬
berless eases of failure to embody in
the laws the full severity of public
sentiment.
Take the whole class of offenses
against domestic peace, for example-
The man who breaks up a happy
household and separates husband and
wife by dishonorable means is scarcely
punishable by the law at all. Yet if
theinjmed husband kills him the ver¬
dict of ttie community is “served
him right,” aud the jury sworn to act
in accordance with the law and uot
with public opinion almost invariably
affirms the verdict either openly or
under the proteuse of finding the ac¬
cused insane.
If such offeuses are properly pun¬
ishable with death—if that is the de¬
liberate judgment of tlie community,
as it seems to be—why should not the
law of the land be brought into banno
uy with that judgement?
Why should it uot be so brought
in case of burglary? If a burglar
breaks and enters a house at night,
startliug the inmates and terrfying
them, and is shot dead, the communi¬
ty and the jury regard the shooting
as entirely proper and right. But if
death is the proper punishment for
burglary, why not have it so nominat¬
ed iu the iaw?
Again, in certain sections of the
country, death is regarded as the ap¬
propriate penalty for horse stealing
and the robbery by b mlc officers of
the banks in their care. Scarcely a
week passes that some horse thief is
not banged in a Western State or
Territory; aud the people of- Kansas
have not yet decided to refrain from
hanging a cashier who loaned out the
funds iu hi-, bank on defective securi¬
ty. Yet these same people have made
the laws of their State aud never
dj/ med of providing the death penal
tj for the olfeuse of swindling depos¬
itors.
There is an inconsistency here and
it should.be done away with. Either
the laws should bo so amended as to
impose the death penalty for every
offense which the community in prac¬
tice regards a s punishable with death;
or the infliction of that penalty by in¬
dividuals in defiance of the law should
be frowned upon and punished. — De¬
troit Free Press.
-»-«>■» .......—
‘Stonewali’ Jackson.
The story of the killing of Genera]
Jackson has been told over and over
again, but never seems to be wanting
in dramatic interest, and is read as
often by those.whom the history of
the struggle for for freedom never
fails to attract. It was at Chancell-
orsville, iu May, 1863, when he turned
Hooker’s right, upon which he turned
by surprise. The illfated Jackson
rode out with his staff and escort.
That was 9 or 10 o'clock of the night
of May 2. He was riding on his well
known “Old Sorrell 11 towards his own
men. The little body of horsemen
were mistaken for Federal cavalry
charging, and the Rebel regiments on
the right and left of the road fired a
sudden volley into them. General
Jackson received one ball in his left
arm, two inches below the shoulder
joint, shattering the bone, and sever-
ing the chief artery; a second passed
through the same arm, between the el-
bow and wrist, coming out through
the palm of the hand, a third entered
palm ot the right band, about the mid-
die, and passed through, breaking two
of the bones. He fell from his horse,
and was caught by an officer at hand.
Later he was found, placed upon a
litter, and conveyed to the rear. On
bis way to a place of safety,one of the
litter-bearers was shot and Jackson
fell from the shoulders of the men
receiving a severe contusion,adding to
(be injury of the arm, and injuring the
side considerably. He died eight
days afterwards at Guinea’s Station,
some five miles from the place where
he fell.
Animal Instinct-
The neighing of the horse and the
the sounds made by other animals are
to be accounted for by their beiug
pleasureable to the ears of the partic¬
ular animal’s companions. It is
supposed that in many sounds, as the
crowing of a cock the individual that
utters the music enjoys the result of
its own performances.
•Two ants,’ says Buchner, 1 when
they are talking together, stand with
heir heads opposite each other, work¬
ing their sensitve feelers in the live¬
liest manner, and tapping each other’s
heads. 1 Numerous examples prove
that they are able in this way to make
mutual communications,aud no Certain
definite subjects.*
‘I have often,’says the English nat¬
ural ist, Jesse, ‘placed a small green
caterpillar in the neigborhood of au
ant‘s nest. It is immediately seized
by an ant,which calls in the assistance
of a friend after the ineffectual efforts
to drag the caterpillar into the nest.
It can be immediately seen that the
little creatures hold a conversation by
means of their feelers, and, this being
ended, they repair together to the cat¬
erpillar in Older to drag it into the
nest by their united strength, Father
I have observed the meeting of ants on
the way to and from their nest. They
stop, touch each other with their feel¬
ers, and appear to hold a conversation
tion, which I have goodreasou to sup¬
pose relates to the best ground for ob«-
taiuiug food.*
Hague writes, in a letter to Darwin,
that lieone day killed with his finger
a number of ants who came every day
from a hole in the wall to some plants
standing on the chimney piece. He
had tried the effect of brushing them
away, but it was of no use, and the
consequence was that the ants who
were on the way turned back aud tried
to persuade their companions, who
were not aware of dauger to turn hack
also. A short conversation ensued be¬
tween the ants, which, however, did
nof result in an immediate return, for
those who had just left the nest first
convinced themselves of the truth of
the report.
Pearls of Thought.
Too much talk on trifles is Social
evil.
Nothing circulates so rapidly as a
secret. -
Ou slippery places take short steps
and slow.
No one is ever fatigued after the
exercise of forbearance.
We can do more good by being
good than in any other way.
Make not thy friend too cheap to
thee, nor thyself to thy friend.
We carry all our neigbors, crimes in
sight and throw all our own on our
shoulder.
An artesiaD well has been sunk at
Victoria to the depth of 11,020 feet.
It cost $30,000.
Youth is the tassel and silken flow
er of life, age is the full corn, ripe
and solid in the ear.
Education begins the gentleman,but
reading, good company and reflection
must finish him.
No life can be utterly miserable that
is heightened by the laughter and love
of one little child.
Bashhilness may sometimes exclude
pleasure,but seldom opens any aveneu
to sorrow or remorse.
The praises of others may bejof use
for teaching us, not what we are, but
what we ought to be.
A great many people's lives are like
the blunderbuss that had a rusted load
in it. At the discharge the owner is
himself kicKed over.
The lates bit of New York gossip con¬
cerning millionaires is that young Mr.
Astor, who ran forCongress and failed
to receive the Irish vote after having
danced at a ball with a cigar factory
girl named Lizzie Linch, owes his de¬
feat to the money and exertions of
Vanderbilt, this being the latter’s
method of revenging himself for the
non-admittance of the Vanderbilt fam¬
ily to the social circles in which the
Astors move. As the original Astor
traded six-bladed jack-kuive to the In¬
dians for furs, aud the origonal Van¬
derbilt sculled people across the East
river for 5 cents, the claims of both
families to a place among the aristoc¬
racy of this country seems to bo equal¬
ly elia.
A Soft Place.
‘I was down to see the widow yes-
terday,* said Tim's uncle ‘and she
gave me backbones for dinner. I
went down rather early in the morn¬
ing; we talked, aud laughed, aud chat¬
tered, aud run on, she going in and
out occasionally to see to things till
dinner was ready, when she helped
me graciously to buck-bones. Now, 1
thought that, Tim, rather favorable.
I took it as a symptom of personal ap¬
probation, because everybody knows
I love backbones, and I flattered my¬
self she had cooked them on purpose
fur me. So I grew particularly cheer¬
ful, and I thought I could see it in
her, too. So after dinner, while sit¬
ting close beside the widow, I fanci¬
ed wo both felt sorter comfortable
like— I know I did. I felt that I had
fallen over head and ears in love with
her, and I imagined from the way she
looked, she fell teeth and toe nails in
love with me. She appeared juso for
all the world like she thought it was
coming, that I was coming, that I
was going to court her. Presently, J
couldn't help if, I laid my hand on her
beautiful shoulder; and I remarked,
when I had placed it there, in my
blandest tones. Tim, for I tried to
throw my whole soul into the expres¬
sion, I remarked then, with my eyes
pouring love, truth, and fidelity right
into her, ‘Widow, this is the nicest,
softest place I ever had my hand in
my life.
‘Looking benevolently at me,and, at
the same time flashing a little, she
said, in melting and winning tones:
“Doctor, give me your hand, and I'll
put it on a much softer place.'
‘In a moment, in rapture, I con¬
sented, and, taking my hand, she
gently, very gently, Tim, and quietly
laid it on my head—and burst into a
laugh that's ringing in my ears yet.
‘JVow, Tim, I haven't told this to a
living soul but you, and by jinks! you
mu8n‘t; but I could*‘t hold it any
longer, ao I telf, you-; but *ufWi At
musn’t go any further. ‘
‘Rock of Ages Cleft for Me.’
In the pleasant oounty of Devon, in
one of the sequestered passes, with a
a few cottages sprinkled over it,
mused and sang Augustus Toplady.
When a lad of sixteeu and on visit to
/reland, hal strolled into a barn in
which an illiterate layman was preach¬
ing, but preaching reconciliation to
God through the death of His Son.
The homely sermon took effect, and
from that moment the gospel yield¬
ed all the powers of his brilliant and
uctive mind. During his last illness
Austus Toplady seemed to lie in the
vestibule of glory. To a friend's in*.
quiry he answered with a sparkling
eye:
‘Oh my dear sir, I cannot tell the
comforts I feel in ray soul—they are
passed expression. The consolations of
God are so abundant that his leaves me
nothing to pray for. My prayers are
all converted into praise. I enjoy
a heaven already within my soul.'
And within an hour of dying he
called his friends and asked if they
could give him np; and when they
replied in the affirmative, tears of joy
rau down his cheeks as he added:
‘Oh, what a blessing that you made
willing to give me over to the hands
of my Redeemer and part with me,
uo mortal can live after having seen
the glories which God has manif¬
ested to mysoull'
Thus died the writer of the hymn,
‘Rock of Ages Cleft for me. ‘— Augusta
News.
A new process of gold mining bas
recently been very satisfactorily tied
in the Chestatee River, by means call
ed a vacum dredging boat. It is de¬
signed to raise the gravel from beds of
rivers, washing the sand and separat
ing the gold from it. At a recent
trial the boat raised the sand by the
vacum system at the rate ot from two
to four tons every five minutes. The
sand was Tapidly wasbad automatical¬
ly in sluice boxes and the gold collect¬
ed in quicksilver, as the result of
three hours' work $200 worth of gold
was secured. The expense was not
more than twelve dollars. The sand
was found to be very rich, and it is
said there is enough in the rivers in
Georgia to keep fllty boats busy for
many years.
Vol. III. No. 11
What She Saw in Church.
He staid at home and she went to
church. After dinner lie asked her:
‘What Was the text, wife?'
'O, sometlnug, somewhere in Gen¬
erations; I,ve forgotten the chapter
and verse. Mrs. Hugh sat right be¬
fore mo with a Mother Hubbard bon¬
net on. How could I hear anything
when I could not even see the minis¬
ter? I wouldn't have worn such a look*
ing thing to cliureh if I'd bad to have
gone bare headed. 1
‘How did you like the new minis¬
ter?'
‘O, he's splendid! and Kate Darin
was there in a Spanish lace cape that
never cost a cent less than fifty dol¬
lars; and they can t pay their butcher
bills, and I'll wear cotton keo or go
without any first.*
“Did lie say anything about the new
mission fund?'
‘No; and the Jones girls all riggsd
Out in their yellow silks made over;
you would have-died laughing to have
seen them. Suoh taste as'those girls
have; and tho Minister gave out that
the Dorcas Society will meet at Sister
Jones's residence—that old poky
place. ‘
‘It seems that you didn'thear much
of the sermon.*
‘Well, I‘m sure it‘s better to go to
church, if yo i don‘t hear the sermon
than to stay at home and read the pa¬
per; and oh Harryl the new minister
has a lovely voice; nearly put me to
sleep. And I didn't tell you that tho
Riches are home from Europe, and
Mrs. Rich bad a real camel's hair
shawl on and it didn't look like any¬
thing on her? ‘
A long silence, during which Harry
thought of several thing*, and hia wife
was busy contemplating the a’**’ ar
view, when she suddenly exclaimed:
“There! I knew I'd forgot to tell
you somthing. Wpuld you beleivs it,
Harry, the fringe on Mrs. Jones's
parasol is an inch deeper than mine,
and twice as heavyl O, dear what a
world of trouble this is.— Detroit Post
andTribune.
The Mistakes of Life.
Somebody has condensed the mis¬
takes of life and arrived at the conclu¬
sion that there are fourteen of them.
Most people would say (if they told
the trufch$ that there was no limit to
the mistakes of life, that they were
like the drops in the ocean or the
sands of the shore iu number, but it is
well to be accurate. Here, then, are
fourteen great mistakes: ‘It is a great
mistake to set np our own standard of
right and wrong and judge people ac¬
cordingly; to measure the enjoyment
of others by our own; toexpeot uni¬
formity of opinion in this world; to
look for judgement and experience in
youth; to endeavor to mould all dispo¬
sitions alike; not to yield to immaterial
trifles; to look for perfection in our
own actions; to worry ourselves and
others with what cannot be remedied;
not to alleviate all that needs allevia¬
tion as far as lies in our power; not to
make allowances for the infirmities of
others, to consider everything impos¬
sible that we cannot perfornp; to be¬
lieve only what Our finite minds can
grasp; to expect to be able to under¬
stand everything. The greatest of
mistakes is to live oniv for time when
auy moment may launch us into eter¬
nity.—Ex.
Children-
No other class touch the chords of
so tender a concern as to the children.
What issues bang an a child* life I In
the palm of the tender little band is
carried a mother 1 # heart, a father's
hopes.
If the child misses the path of honor
aDd falls into evil ways, and grows
up to an evil youth, a mother's heart
will be broken, a father,s gray hair
will go down to the gravo with sorrow
What a path the chide tender feet
has to tread! Through what snares,
through what experiences of evil,
through what perilous companionship
it 3 life must lun? Who that reflects
on the hopes, sud fears bound up with
every child's life, the possibles, alike
dread and splendid, that overshadow
it, but has his heart stirred with a
deep and pathetic longiug to do som¬
thing to rescue these tender ones from
the touoh of harm,-