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Arrives at Albany 10:14 a. m. Leaves Albany at 4:20 p. m. Arrives at Arlington at p.^L 6:5>1 p, m. % ff Ardvcf.at Ql|ke- 11 f-J at 8 :17 j | ~4- LOlHiE DIltKCTOKY. ‘WSSSw In each month. Officers: W. T. Murchison, IV. M. Juo. A. Timmons, S. W. W. H. Davis. J. W. —- , 8. D. II. M. Goode. J. D. E. C. Ellington, \ Stsw ard* J. D. Douglass, Thus. James, 8ee*y. Tyler. Geo. V. Pace, 8 r /. JJplller, Treasurer. County Directory. SUKERIOR COURT, Hon. L. teraber. • ' • w te COUNTY OFFICERS. A. I. Mouroe, Ordinary;W. W.Gladden, Collector; Sheriff; John A. Gladden, Tax Thomas F. Cordray, Tax Receiver; Zack Lang, cm., Coroner, COUNTY COURT. L. G. Cartlege, Judge. Quarterly May, ses- sioners, 4th Mondays in February, August and November. Monthly every 4th Monday . T? r L2“ roo * COM#™*,.™. COMMISSIONERS R. R. Jpha Colley, i. i. Monroe and J. T. B. Fain. Courts held 1st Tuesday In each ^npntk. ROAD COVMISSINERS. 574th Distbic*-£o 1: G- iteckom, .4. J. ganders anfl Irwin Dotiglass. H. Rogers, W. J. 1316th District— T. r Godwin and Wesley .Risk. G. Cartledge, M. 1123d District — L. W. Be 11 and J. W. Brown. 1283n District— B. M. Hodge, C. 3. McDaniel and J. G. Collier. £■ 626th District—FI 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 PUCINC. 574th District.—S ol. G . Beckcorn, J. p.; Chas.y, ^looker, N. P. and Ex-officio ^ourts held third Wednesday tesach ’ 1123d B l*(M District—J. , S'»taui. C0Wrt8 L. Willtenion^J. held * 41: * P., day . J. P.; N, • 626th District-J. C. Price, W. Face, N.r. Courts held 8rd Aatur- day to each month . Mriftaniel, ia83p DiSTRicT-C. J. J. P. j. A. Cordray, N. P. Court! held 1st ^rftknmd.N. HoUowsy, J. P Cwuea T. PBj|S$VER AN CE. One step and then another, And the longest walk is ended; OiMVtflah and then another, And the largest rent Is mended; One brick upon another, And the highest wall is made; One flake upon another, And the deepest snow Is laid. .Vo the flttle coral woik*r®i By their tfiow apd constant motion, Have built those pretty intends In the distant dark-blue ocean; And the noblest undertakings Jfan’s wisdom hath conceived, By oft-repeated effort Jlave ibeejp patiently>ot-ieved. Then do not look dUhearteasB. On the work "you have to do, And say that such a mighty task You never can get through; .But just endeavor, day by day, Another point to gain, Aral soon the mountain which you feared mil prove to be a ‘ piaipl “Rome was not bnlltfo,# d The ancieqt proverb And nature, by her trees and flowers, The same sweet sermon preaebes. Th ink not of far-off duties, But of duties which are near, And having once begun to work Besoive to persevere. ONLY A BRAKEMAN. 4i^ CCIDKNTi — a.u extra freight tra,n ° n the B. & C. R. B. was wrecked last night by a'broken bridge i”«>.v»na Curljle. A «. .1 the Hon. Cariton Ballou was on the train, but fortunately escaped injury. A bi»kea»#n by the name of Marshall was the only person killed." 7t was only a short dispatch, cast iuto oue corner of the morning paper, timid a score or two of others, but it inteTegted mof for I knew tfie whole -«"•••'» <s<« »•? teart almost a iiatred for tile writer who lij*d done such injustice to a no- ble’iife and s <©$erlo©ked so grand a deed. I«« on ty ' m i ^ Htf i t tp‘ «S5Mib..«f*s rator at Carlyle—not a very exalted position, perhaps, but one of consider able r«sponsible and trust. From seven in the evening until the same hour in^lhe. m^ morning I held in the hollow of wind the life of almost every man passing over our division of the ro ach • . - ' | I remember one night, when I was sating alone in my little, cnnsp^-np office^ and listening, from mere forge ofhabit, to the varied rne>sages as Ihey wt ut cliekiogby to the other sta- tious on the road, The l^sf truig for several hours the freight aceomodas turn from Brighton-had teen in for some time, and I had nothing to dis- turb ine but my thoughts. ‘‘Well, Billy, how’s No. 5“ a voice suadetnj 1 asked, *• the.f||Bi4e door wa^jwsned Gae hourjate, ,*&r. r ~i (replied, hast- by, and then, looking up, I saw Tom Mihail, a brakeman on the last 'CMOnOte n d tav, my oaestioner •Onl, torn moment tn-nUbf h. amnerea me, m he «.t down itibg at my invitation,'His lantern n between his teet on the floor T have » call to make this evening, and must wash »p a.little first * * Where away tosnight Tom’ Not up on the hill again sorely?' He shook his head In the nffirma- tive bis eyes fixed upon my table where the instrument was ticking B a ‘Of course it‘s none of mv Imsiness goTo my boy, but it seems to me yoq the great white house too often ’til of Igte Ballou might object, end said they are engaged, you know.' Ard I looked n P at his stroug Saxon face frog, where I la, stretched on a bench by the wall. •I think they are Mistaken about that, Billy; but Ballon ha. more op- pbt< i very sfowly. *1 only ^/knew get in but I do the test I can.* ‘Theniti*eettonifii for I liked this bTWrd fair- nalr . o . *V . «-lln» " ,,ow tbrnsah he » «t was. 4 , ( ’ - A ■ '“» id " <* *he replied, huaernbet^tanbL bis eyes gaping steadfaKly at the good night; I must go; vriil 1 jon ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 19, i88«. again as I come in. * And the heavy door closed behind him. As I sat there alone io the office after be bad gone, I thought of all these things—thought them oyer again and again. 1 had known Tom for v two yean, and I liked the boy. I knew, or thought I knew, Kate Carr, up the big white house on the hill. A proud girl enough in her way—proud of her father's riches, her own beauty, aDd the dozen suitors who had knelt at her feet. Ever since Tom first sought her society I won* deredai his welcome. It seemed so strange a thing to me that one so proud of hey position, so thoroughly a slave of society £s Bate Carr appear¬ ed to be, should so openly encourage the attentions of a mere freight-brake* muu—,a mau of whose.family connec¬ tions we knew nothing, and whose only wealth was his monthly pay. Still Tom was ayoungand good-Iook- fellow enough, and, perhaps, after all, she was a little vain at having so handsome a snitor, even though so poor, to add to her lengthy string of victims. I never could I e- lieve that she hud the heart to return his great, honest love, and be willing, in exchange to sacrifice ail her hopes and pride for his suke; and tnen, be¬ sides, rumor had it that George Bal lou, the son of u rich banker of a neigboring town, had already gained her promise, and from many little things which had fallen under mv notice, I began to believe that rumor for once was right. And Tom loved her, and I ttaought it over all night when I was not busy, and wondered in my own heait how it could end. Tom never came back to the depot that night, tln ugh I looked for him, and liis train left eastward while I was taking my breakfast at the only hotel the place afforded, and I caught but a jib nips of him sm they swung round the curve. I afterwards heayd the* whole story from his lips, out I can tell it best fpj; myself. From his car we jaisseU up rne alfrg hill to wterO the lights of the Carr mansion were twinkling among the trees, determin¬ ed to learn his fate from Kate's own lips that very night. The parlor- windows were dark when he assended tile stone steps and rang the bell, and the servant who answered it, rec- Ognizing bis face, told him bp would fintl M iss Kate iu.tbe garden, Iu the mooD Dreaming the ever-new ar,Hm of Jove, he passed with quick rtep ( , OWQ ihe grrtvel piUU by the we il_t ri mmed flower-beds to where rbe summer housg, thickly shaded bv elinj?ing vln , 8 . 9to „ d at the further en<1 Thi , tier f avor He resting p , H( * and many B p )^ ant „ ( , U r came flooding.his mind, passed there with her—his queen. As he. approached noW he was surprised to hear, borne on the still ni^fit air, the tone of vo j Ce8 j n earne st conversation. In all <p om < a nature there was nothing cows 8rd i y , nothing base, but his own name tar £* *2*2 ^ ’Sf kn< “ ” , ““ ,,,g 1 ,ie ” d ' ‘I n«or.llr «nppo«4 from .111 keard that jonoonfd for Mnr- ' ' l!bwas almost . question, .. and . the „ a silent listener outside in the moon- light bent forward to catch the low tones of the repiy ‘ "Oh. George, how could yon? Why, be,Snothing but a freight-brakeman. What would papa say if he heard It was the soft, tender voice of Kate. ‘And yon tf»ly only cared for roe, darling!* */ only loved you, George.* That was all; and the strong man who listened, turned bank quietly in .be dartmess-tarned back throngh the fow hedge and oot in to the moonlit road, with psle^a* and heavy heart, He had loved her with all tbe giant strength if iris e#w»ng,manly naturejhe never knew how moch before, as he ing words, *’Ho's only a freight-brake- mau," ringing in bis ears With every heavy steo he took He was poor nothing bet a brakeman, had neb ther weklth nor lineage of which to boailwbwWAfter all be was a man, and like one bp goffered his lQBt> 1 ik *nff( J fcd through the Iona, still nigbl, patiently and silently. As long summer days faded in - to Uie.#4ortft| onea.ftf early fall, nnd his tram paftpd back and forth by the station on its daily trips, / watched Tom, and knowing so much as I did, I could ready's sufferings, though he tried so bruToly to hide it ull a up ap- pear outwardly as cteerfnl aud light hearted as ever. JPoor Tom! the blow wtisa hard one struck by her little band, and the strong man bent be- neath it, whether he would at no. it was pearly winter when the end fiually curoe, nnd that ending was in- deed terrible. For several weeks heavy storms had beeu rajjiugaloiig the entire line of the road, and many fears were expre»- sed by railway offioiais about the safe- an<f ty of tbe rpadsbed between Carlyle Farmeiaville, the next station east. AH aking these few miles there were heavy grades and numerous SDUtll loosened bridges .by previous nnd culverts already That storms. night wbeq,, bard—a I weDt on duty it wifs raining cold, bjtter raifi, hirtf sleet, blown here and thert In gusts of heavy wind. The night itself was intensely black from swiftly scudding clouds, broken now nnd then- by vivid glares of f-oHfeff lightning that seemed almost to fear them in twain. Jify instruments were almost nnmanagea- ble, owing to the electricity In the air but about UJidoight a message came through in jerks from the dtoisjou superintendent at Boston : ’ * ‘Opr., (hrtyle. ‘Send Bobd with extra east, tore- port track at Furmersgiite .for j^o. 2 Move cautiously. : W. B. (J.“ Bond was Tom's *>ndoctor, and I •handed-tb^rdar An engilte was teaily to ^ at immediately. hand, and they soon had the short train of ££2 %,ge •ml enW <T, 0 Ballon, muffled up to his chin, nnfl holding a small leather valise in' his hand, came hurriedly around the edge of the depot building r%°xSm Jte who ftood iheie.with his lantern ruis- ed forgive the sjgnj^ for starting. I want to go down frith; |pu. I must be hoQte to night.' Bond looked «#>uud r#thrr surpri#-, ed at ftfie request. ‘We’re more Uiauiikely td be wreck¬ ed bqforn ever pre get there. Mr. jP#ll)»U,’ lie" said quickly. ‘But if you must go, take^6ur* own risk and get on. I dollt care.* •Bi.llou, aUm‘t go!'—it was Tom's voice, sptiiliing very low. ‘Take my advice, fur therein not one chance iu ten of ouj Jh'hfi through to-night without jtrynhle. 1 ‘But 1 most go. Came the answer •My mother lias teen taken ill—a tele¬ gram just received/ Wait for No. 2 then—that will be nearer daylight.’ ‘Yes and it might be top late. No, I must g* itoffiigbt, danger or uot. Surely I may risk it if you cunl‘ no on. to think .1 hot «»•' ‘Th, «.n ‘he wind, Too have Kate, a» l it is a*, top. A„J , to i.rakoman mgretfoliy turned aw.;. Only a moment aid Ballou gaze after ()Ig i a „tt-ru, as it went flickering down tb* wet platform, and tnen as lbe train started te stepped tuto the caboose, and I leaped from my seat to watch Tom swing up on the little iron ladder and mount to the top. Just exactly how ft fill happened today I do not know, lattat the b»t- tom of the second grade the earth had teen washed away from beneath the rails and they hung almost nnsuppor- ted just below the surface of the ^ ter. Thundering down the grade in tbe rain and night, every brakeman at his post on the top, the gfeat height engine plunged into the water and went crushing down. Car after was piled up there and buried to one side down into the ravine wringing to a wre nched clear by the shock, Tom was hurled outward into the air, The crash stunned him, but. the cold water into which be fell revived him again, and ho crawled oot fromtbedebris onto the bank am} worker! bis way back toward* should be the rear end of the train- When the first terrible crash W»e, the caboose had been pitched TjoUutjy forward and then Hung down,and uow hung trembling suspended upon a sin- gta limber of tha culvert, which trem bled and threatened, each moment to part and let the buttered car full onto the ragged rocks below, Ta there any one hurt, Cal ?‘Tom asked, auxiously, as he finally found the conductor standing alone in the raiu beside the track, ‘No; all out safe. I think—clo-ie call,though, Tom; awful wreck. I nev* er saw a worse in thirty years!’ ‘Help me! help! 1 The cry raug out shrill and agoniz- iug from the suspended caboose below ‘Helpl I’m wedged in! Quick! 1 It was Balou's voice, beyond a doubt. ‘Give me the ax!* and, seizing the weapon^T ooa sprung out into the tottering car and dropped down through a shattered win- dow. He knew the slender, trembling timber could not sustain that weight to»ff. Ho knew lie was going to al- most certain death, He knew a mo- moot 1 # delay might rid * him of one who bad won from him the woman be loved. It was a moment for vengeance but be forgot it all. lie knew n morao't delay and all of George Ballou Would be a dead, mangled body. But he never hesitated, never doubted what to do. He was only a brakemun, hut be was willing to sacrifice Iris own Ipe, xjruek his qwu happiness, to save the man Kate Carr Ioverl. A martyr, y<msuy—a hero. No;boff could he bp? you iorgrt he was bst a flight- brgkenMHI< . H ^ liclll . bo crlecli ns wUb a ^ he cut aside Am hfifci n 8eat wb i' cb pinu ed hi* rival totlte fibpr ■ o{ W t , )0 ^ I » * “ «• M-»w ^Ing way •« gasped by .strong hands, Ballou was ,lm " n * U P " ,rou e h lhtJ brt)keu window to the groped ubojtre, and then, with a lurch a"d '-Hum Of bwwdrt«g timbers, th* heavy car plunged downward on to the rocks splintered on their sharp points and dashed to piaees. j 4 Just ns the morning came,they found Tom lying there, crushed out of all shape, between two groat timbers. ‘She loved him—she loved him!‘ was all he said, and as the jsun c»tne up over the high bank, he breathed his last sobbing breath in Cal Bond's arms. They brought him up to the depot and laid him reverently in tho great ladies* wailing room, and as the rail¬ road men bore 1 im by fojr wiudow, one in th' crowd said: ‘How lucky that only a brakeman wm killed,* Some way it. se»ms to me that great hearted Tom Marshall has gone home to a Father who never looks to the greasy clothes and the weather-beaten faces of his children, but rewards them necordiog to their deeds. If so, his must ba an exceedingly great reward. n.«rtWMfU» A pntlemnn from eandekrl. io- f orrus that the smallest baby m the world was born in that camp at noon on the 3d instant 2T)e father is a miner in the employ of the jVbrth- i-rn Belle mine and weighs 190 pounds The mother is a stout, healthy wvitoan. Weighing lierhap* 160 pounds, The child is a male a* perfectly formed es any human baing can be, but upon its birth it only weighed eight ounc «. Its face is ateut the the siz i of a horse ehesnnt. and the flee of limbs caA be imagined when we say that a ring wota on tbe UJte finger of its mother waa easily slipped over its foot nearly up to the knee Oar informant tate. that >*w*h tbeopm- of thaaffindfog^hytctan U.at child wnold live and prosper in good health. notwithsUndig its dimlmit.ve seek ia segar bo*. This is believod to be. tbe smallest ever born.-Ex. -j—•-»-- Frienfl of the family (to the boy twins.) *I‘m afraid y-1> little fellows don't always agyee. You fight each other sometimes, don't you?' Twins ‘Yeth thlr, tbomthimth.' Friend o! the family ‘Ah, I tbottgM so. Well, who whips? 1 Twins-'Mamma whips. Vol. III. mo. 33 A Menagerie. The most foolish predicament a man cun get into is to get drunk. Ip drunkenness a man shows his strongs cst side and most ardent passions. There are six,winds of drunkards, and if yon go into a city drlnkingshous*, where a good number of men are uns der the influence of liquor, yon will be sure to find these six different char¬ acters representing six different ani ¬ mals. The fiirst ia the ape drunk; ha leaps and rings and yells and dances, mak¬ ing all sorts of grimances, and cuttiug u Pj aJl sort8 of ‘‘monkey shines,“ to win tho applause of the hoys; but a drunken clown is^ry silly. Next we have tho tiger drunk. He breaks the bottles, chairs etc., and is full of blood and thunder. His eye. are red as fire, and his heart is full of veugeknee. After breaking every thing in reach, he oftentimes winds tip with a broken neck. Of this sort are those who abuse their families. The third is the hog drunk. Ha roils in the dirt, on the floor, and w»1- lows in the mud, in the gutters. Ho is heavy lumpish and soggy, and grunts his acquiesoeut reply wiieo asked to taken driuk. He never misses a or pays one cent. Fourthly, we have the puppy drunk. He will weep for kindness and w(li)ine his love; hug you iu his arms, (and pick yijnr pocket if he has half a chance) and proclaim how much hu loves you. He Swears ‘’you’re the best fellow in the world,** ‘‘Don’t you forget it. “ The fifth is owl drunk, He is wise in his own dfcceipt, No man must differ from him, for he "will get a head put on him. •* Generally spenk- iug, when fined by the recorder, an oily toting pleads in a begging off stylo, and lie sneaks off then just like a whipped spaniel. The sixth and last of the show is the fox druuk. He is a crafty sort of a cuss; ready for any sort of a trade in which be i* certain to come out best IE* is sly as a fox, sneaking as a wolf and, in fact, the meanest druuknrd of them all. The mm who travels on the rails Diud sits down by the side of lode for males, and tolls tliom that he recog¬ nizes a likeness in their faces to his wife's sister, met his deserts on one of the roads in this viointy lutely. He sat down in the half of* seat, the other half of which was occupied by a pleasaut faced young laday. He looked at her, as such fellows will, and then said:. "Pardon me, M\*p, but is your name James? I have a cousin of that name, whom you greatly resemble.’ ‘No sir,* was the reply, ‘thy name is not James. But, I tbluk I Is muss ask you to pardon me if I ask your name Zinc or Copper?* ‘Zinc or Copper? No, ma’am, * said the man. ‘What led you to suppose l had snch names?* ‘Pray excuse me,* was the quiet reply ‘but I thought you must be first cou¬ sin to a brass foundry.* The man knocked over a bird-cage in his haste to get into the atnokiugs car, while the young lady quietly smiled behind her handkerchief. The Narrowest N urrew Gauge in the WorW. , One of the most curious rail-toads in the world is a ten-inch guage road running from North Billerica, Mhhb., to Bedford. It was first hooted at by the people, but was completed, making a tong*, o* aboot eight md ono-h.lf miles. 1 here are eleven bridges^ The yard ** ^ One grade .a one hundred £ and twenty five feet. The cars udNrogros are^constructed sog.ito be w’»« the ground, giving 1 bera safety The^B have ana.de with vrnmi on each , «□ he same h.* » half tons, ordinary oars wet^hing, on an run at tlie rate ot twea ^7 m, * e * * a hour is piaced bqbin^I the ** greater adhebion to the traek. They weigh eight tons, a “d , ' aw ™ P“~ mu get and two freight cars. Tb* cost of the road wgs about H. 500 per mile-