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lodge directory.
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County Directory.
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“WHEN I‘M A MAN.“
Pm a boy ‘bout as high as a tabic;
My hair is the color of flax;
My name isn't Shakespeare, or Milton,
Or Byron, or Shelly, or Saxe.
By-and-by it, will bo “Mr. Daniel,”
They all call me now “Little Dan,”
I'll tell you in rhyme what I fancy
Will happen when I am a man.
I’ll have a big garden for peaches,
And cherries, and everything nice;
With the cutest of fixi» s for rabbits,
And pigeons, and dogs, and white mice-
I’ll have a big house, and a stable;
And of horses, the handsomest span
That ever you feasted your eyes on,
’Tis likely, when I am a man.
A cane I will twirl in my Angers,
A watch-guard shall garnish my vest,
No fear of expense shall deter me,
My raiment shall be of the best,
A on my finger shall glisten,
And the eunningest, sleek black-and-tan
Shall trot at my heels as I travel,
I’m thinking, when I am a man.
No pol.oi.ous MOP, I *
From foul smelling pipes I 11 be free
nogo wasn ! t made for a chimney,
No snuffing or chewing for me.
Now my soul I’ll possess with great pa-
tience,
And as well as a little toy ean
I will set them a better example;
Won’t I lecture tiiem when I m a man?
I’m a boy, so there’s no use in talking;
People snub me as much as they please;
For the tots of my shoes are of copper,
And my stockings come over my knees.
I’ve told you the whole of my story,
As I prom.sod to when I began;
I’m young, but I’m daily a-giowing, t
Look out for me Whem I’m a man.
—John S. Adams, in Youths Compan
ion.
An Unlucky Raid.
In the good old days of the Bow
Street runners, when highway as¬
saults were life, aud solitary post-
chaise travelers never journeyed with¬
out pistols in their pockets and tremor
at their hearts; when strange feats in
the shape of st.ivligbt robberies were
boasted of, and a ‘Knight of the Hoad,
aspirc-d to be called a gentleman, the
following incident occured.
One afternoon in early autumn,
close upon sunset, a couple of well
dressed men, driving a light gig in
which was a poor jaded looking horse
stopped at a wayside posting-inn not
a hundred miles from Bath, aud re¬
quested accommodation for the night.
They were fashionably attired, and
spoke iu condescending tones to the
landlord and servants, using a few
words nowand again of town slang, as
young bucks of the first water were
proud to do in that day.
Giving the horse and gig over to the
care of the ostler, they adjourned to
the public room and called for some
light refreshments iu the shape of
drink, ordering a supper to be served
later. The landlord himself brought
iu the brandy-and-water.
•What's this story about a great
highway robbery near here last night
landlord’‘questioned one. ‘We heard
of it on the road coming along. Is it
true? 1
‘Quite true, sir. Ah gentlemen! it
is a dreadful thing—though clever 1
must say. My Lady Centifere with
her two daughters was driving home
across the heath an hour or Uo after
midnight, having been to.a ball, when
their carriage was stopped by four
mounted horsemen with cocked pis¬
tols. The old lady screamed and
fainted; the young ones screamed and
kicked and the gentlemen, those au¬
dacious robbers, proceeded politely
to rifle the ladbs of every ornament
they wore.*
‘Scoundrels! 1 interjected one of the
‘Wore than that, your worships.
What should those bold blade, do but
inv it e the damsels to tread a measure
with them! It was a fine night, as
you tray perhaps remember sirs, the
»»» t— Oh tho
bare heath. Out of the coach they
handed them> aad footed it in a min •
ute, daneiug, it is said, to perfection
as though they wero used to lead out
°
the King's own daughters every night
G f their lives. The young ladies'
screams ended in laughter, the Ba-
roness woKe up nom i<uu& auu
them all, robbers and daughters to¬
gether. O, they are b rid,those gentle¬
men of the highway 1‘
The two gentlemen, listening to
this had gone into bursts of laughter.
‘But what of the men-servants?—what
ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1882.
were they doiug? 1 spluttered one.
‘Ouly two were in attendance, sits,
it seems; my lady's footman iu the
dickey,and the postilion ou the horses
aud while two of the robbers were
thus doing their dancing the other two
stood guard over the men, each with
Iiis postol cocked and his hand cn the
trigger, ready to fire at tho least move¬
ment. 4
‘And the upshot?'
The young ladies were bowed into
their coach again, all with stately cere
mony, aud the robbeis, after wishing
them a very courteous good night,
rode off at a canter, with every jewel
they had possessed, small or large,
costly or simple, and my lady's purse
iut.o the bargain. They may well
boast that they lead merry lives, those
men ! Fine commotion the news has
caused round about us to-day, as you
may imagine, gentlemen. Every¬
body's talking of it.‘
The landlord, being called for else¬
where, retired, the travelers sipped at
their glasses,laughing away, aud con¬
versing with one another in an uuder-
tone. Dusk came on, and the elder
and taller of the two addressed his
friend in a different tone.
'About time to see after the horse,
isn't it. Jim? It s dark enough. t
‘I was ju^t going to,' answered Jim
And draining his glas3, he went away
to the stable-yard.
Lookiug about him with the air of a
connoisseur, after watching his horse
eat up his oats he made himself ac¬
quainted with the arrangements of the
stabUs.’ Some five or si’s horses were
in them. In the box next to his own
stood a splendid animal evidently val¬
uable.
‘A better steed nor yonr'n sir!'
cried the ostler from beh nd,in a quiet
voice, aud the gentlemen gave a start
not thinking anybody was uear.
‘Ay, mine lias seen good service,
and he has been worked hard lately,'
answered the stranger, good humored-
ly. ‘A very fine animal this, as you
observe. And yet,' stepping back to
look critically at it, ‘were my horse iu
good condition it might not be much
inferior to this. They are not alto¬
gether, uulike about the same height
and much the same iu color—
brown. 4
With the last words, the stranger
went back to the house whistling.
The ostler peeied after him through
the dusk while he made his com.
ments.
‘Yon have got a cheek, master who¬
ever you may be, and a impudent
cheek it is. Going and preparing of
two horses like that!—this fifty guinea
beautiful animal,and that there wrech-
ed old hack o' tlieirn! What next?
I wonder who they be, when they be
at home?' And with that, he locked
the stable door.
‘Well* cried the elder traveler when
the other one returned. ‘Any chance?'
‘Never had a better chance in all
our lives,* was the answer, ‘In the
next box to ours stands one of the
grandest animals you ever saw—same
color, same size or about it; worth a
little fortune. And a set of silver-
mounted harness hanging up by him!'
•Silver mounted?'
‘Think so. Looks like it. We have
got a rich chance, I tell you, Wade.'*
Supper was announced in due time,
and the hungry men did justice to it.
Afterwards they sat over the fire
with pipes and grog, and retired to
their room about eleven o'clock.
The room, a double bedded one, was
not exactly on the ground floor, but it
was not much higher. A few steps
leading from the stair case conducted
to it. The travelers had chosen it in
preference to one at first assined them
on the second floor, one of them ob¬
serving that he liked to sleep near the
ground in case a fire broke out in the
night, of which he had a peculiar
dread.
The first thing they did on entering
the chamber was to double-lock the
door and put the candle out; the
second was to softly open the window,
to stretch their necks out of it as far
as they conveniently conld, and to
wish the moonlight was “hanged. “
“Nothing of a drop, that,'* observ¬
ed Wade, measuring with bi» eye the
space to the ground. “A child might
jump it. Shut down the window,
Jim, and let's have a pipe. Hang
that moon again! I thought you were
wrong in foretelling ic would he a
dark night."
Shutting the window as softly as ho
opened it, Jim and his friend, each
taking a short, well -worn pipe from
his pocket, sat down to smoko- From
another pocket came forth a finsk of
some kiud of liquor. Thus they
made themselves comfoitable, and
seemed to forget all about bed.
At auy rate,neither of (hem attempt¬
ed to go to it. They sat on, and
srncked, and drank at the flask oc¬
casionally, aud whispered together in
hushed tones. At last tho clock struck
two. Ouo of them rose, drew
aside the window cm tain and looked
out.
A suppressed shout of exultation
broke from him. “Wade, Wade! the
uight has changed. lt‘s raining,
aud the moon is gone. I knew rain
was coraming.“
“Man alive, dont make that ro\v.“
'retorted the other. “We don't want
the house woke up! '
Tutting away their pipes and flasks,
they opened the window witii crafty
gen tleness, aud dropped down on the
ground outside it, one after the other.
The night was very dark, no lighter
glimmer of it, was to be seen auy
where.
Making their way round cautiously
to the coach-house and stables, Jim pro¬
duced a master key which undid the
locks. The stable door he undid was
the one that had the valuable horse in
it; and lie was surprised to find what
an easy lock it was. TlieD, while the
other man kept vatch he hastily aud
noiselessly attached the horse to their
own gig, using the harness he had ad¬
mired so greatly. Tbs rain was dash¬
ing dowh smartly, which tended to
deaden other sounds. When all was
leady they cautiously led tho horse
and gig out of the yard, and to a dist¬
ance beyond it, got in and drove away
at a spanking pace.
So far they were well-satisfied with
their night’s work, and congratulated
themselves on the valuable prize they
bad captured in the horse and harness.
It’s true the horse appearedjto require
the whip pretty frequently, and Jim,
who was driving, did not fail to ad¬
minister it.
“Lazy beggar! he has stuffed him¬
self oat with corn,' 4 ciied he. “You
shall fast all this day, my gentleman,
and that will bring you into working
order. What a pelt it is!“ looking up
at the pouring rain. “Should say this
was the clearing shower."
“What'll the job bring us in, Jim?"
“Twenty pounds, clear, I reckon.
And an old hack thrown iu to complete
the bnrguiu.' 4
Oq the heath now,they began laugh¬
ing over the past night's adventure
there, as related to them by the land¬
lord. They had no fear of the high¬
waymen themselves, uot they, such
gentry do not prey upon one another.
‘‘Hang it, Jim! can’t you drive fast
er?“ cried Wade, suddenly.
Jim made no answer. Ho was begin¬
ning to feel somewhat puzzled, for,
unless he was greatly mistaken, the
beautiful horse betrayed uumistakable
signs of giving in. Their own wretched
animal could do as well as this. Pres¬
ently it stopped; stopped dead from
exhaustion. “What the deuce is the
matter with him?“ demanded Wade
4 -Be shot if I know- He Beems dead
beat. It's co dark one can see no.hing.
Wish that moon would come out!—the
rain has ceased.' 1
'Well,' this is a pretty go exclaim¬
ed the other, as the horse, in spite
of whip and word, refused to move,
‘JBrougnt up before one's half beyood
dauger, with a stolen horsel You
must have been mis uken in the worth
of the animal, .Jim, never knew you
mistake one before.'
‘It beats me hollow,'returned Jim,
his crestfallen tone betraying some
alarm. ‘As to being mistaken in
him I know I never was; there. Some¬
thing extraordinary must ail the horse.
He jumped out of the gig and be¬
gan feeling the animal with his
hands. At the same moment the coy
moon burst out from behind the clouds
and shone down in all her splendor.
Jim felt the horse,stared at it and star¬
ed again. The other one on the gig
was also gazing curiously. Sirnul-
taneouly a shout of dismay, followed
by an imprecation, burst from both
of them. They had Stolen their own
horse,
Some mutual recrimination ensued.
Wade accausing Jim of having made a
mistake and opened the wrong sta¬
ble; Jim vowing by all that’s blue
that be had opened the right one.
‘Anyway, \ve‘ve got tho harness,'
pleaded Jim.
2 he remark caused Wade to turn his
eyes ou ilqits siiver poiuts were glitter¬
ing in tho moonlight. A closer
glance, and tlieu another augry shout
broke from him.
‘Look here, you fool—here's a crest.
‘Hey—wbat?‘ cried Jim, turning
round.
Sure enough, tho silver-mounted
harness bore a family crest with its
Latin motto, aud conld no doubt be
identified anywhere. Certainly this
night's anticipated spoil was uot lucky
iu any way.
Next morning the landlord of the
inn was intensely surprised at the dis¬
appearance of the travelers, and at
the spiriting away of some harness
that belonged to tbo young Viscount
Dare. He stood iu the stable yard
talking with his ostler.
‘But for me his lordship's boss
would h‘ gone, too, cried the ostler
stolidly. ‘When I see oue o‘ the
two gents a poking and peering about
here last night under the cover of
the dusk, and see him gazing at the
fine animals with hungry eyes, and
next watched him a. fingering the sta¬
ble lock,it struck mo what he might bo
after—tho wanting to have a try at
changing their own sorry hacK for this
oue. So tile last thing at night,
before turning in,I changed the bosses;
putting thtir'n iu the host stable, and
t'other hero, and made him safe with
my bar and padlock which can't be
picked. And they've just been and
gone away with their own.'
•Why didn't you change the harness
as well?"
•Well I never tiiougt o'the harness. ‘
But in course of the day a messenger
brought the harness back—and did
not wait to ask for that of tho travel-
ers.
So the landlord, by tho bargain,
got a set of plain hnrnesss which
really was not bad, and he let the un¬
lucky thieves alone,— Tye Argusl.
Wanted t » Pool.
A New Yorker had business in one
of the mountain villages last week,
was followed to the depot, when ready
to take the train, by a native, who
confidentially inquired:
‘Arc you an undertaker ?‘
‘Oh no.‘
‘Didn't known but you was an un¬
dertaker looking for an opening hero,
and I'd like to pool with you. I own
tho grave yard here, aud we could run
the business to suit ourselves.
Are you a a doctor? 4
‘No.'
'Didn't know but you was. I've
got the best place in town for a drug
store,and l‘d furnish themedcines aud
you do tho doctoring, and we‘d pool.
Maybe you are a lawyer?'
‘No friend.'
‘I thought if you was we would fix
it all right, one of my brothers being
the Justice of the Peace and the other
Constable. I'd be the silent partner
and sue every man in town to make
business. Like enough you are a
preacher.*
‘Wrong again.'
'Well, I am sorry. I've got a mort
gage on the best church building
here and if you was only the right
kind of a preacher we'd pool in aud
iu less'n three mouths we‘d have (he
the dead wood on every soul worth
saving.
An elderly lady, who was very in¬
dignant at the conduct of a mau iu a
streetcar, who was smoking, punched
the driver in the back with her um¬
brella, and asked: ‘Driver, ain't it
agin the rules to smoke iu this car?*
‘You can smoke as much as you please
madam,if the gentlemen don't object,’
was the reply. Then she pulled the
strap and got oat.
-----
An ossoctatiou has been organized
in New York, one object of which is to
provide houses of reception for fe
male immigrants, where they will, not
be exposed, to help them to employ¬
ment and by correspondence between
societies here aud in Europe, to regu
late their coming by the conditions
of Supply and demand.— N, Y. Star.
Vol. III. No. 26
Here's Luck.
The man who stood at tho bar had
•set ’em up’ several times that evening,
and now he was treating the crowd
again.
The different parties had given their
orders for tho kind of ‘poison’ they
liked best. One man sa\d, ‘I’ll take
mine straight.’ another,‘shug in mine,’
another,‘a red and rosy sling, aud
don‘t you forget it,’ undone man said,
‘give me a Niagara Falls;’ and then
they clinked glasses and the ono who
wanted 'Niagara' Falls' said ‘here's
luck!' and tossed it off witii a shiver
of satisfaction or disgust, it was hard
to tell which.
When tho man who was treating
heard that hoarse voice say ‘here's
juck,‘ ho looked at the speaker ani
turned n deathly white; he knew tho
man; he had taught him to drink his
first glass; he had lured him from
home and the companionship of his
wife aud children, aud kept him out
night after night with the boys; they
were botii nobby fellows then, young
with all the world boforo them. It
was only ten years since, and now
they were poor, disreputable, aud
drunkards! The mau who said ‘here 1 *
luck,‘was in rags under his seedy
overcoat; the mau who had treated
had pawned his overcoat for enough to
pay for those drinks. The family of
the first had left him—the wife aud
children of the other man were starv¬
ing under a roof they owed for. So if
he had encompassed his friend‘s min,
ho had not prospered himself, but as
the man he had dragged down with
him uttered the careless 'hero‘s luck! *
it struck him like a blow, and for a
moment a panoramic view of what his
life might have been, flashed before
him; then he sat down with the com¬
pany to a game of cards. The wish of
his friend for luck seemed to work
good. It might be questionable if
that was luck which brought him
money to be expended iu drink, but
he won several small sums and was
still playing When his vis-a-vis drew his
pistol and held it cocked in his hand.
The men dropped their cards, but
tho man who hid his hand on tho trig-
ger was not looking at them; his eyes
were fixed on a section beyond the
screen, where a section Of counter
was visible with some tempting food
set out in platters. 'Maybe you think
I‘m drunk,' said the mau in a husky
voice. ‘Watch a moment aud see me
w-wing that ere k-kid.‘
Tho men followed the direction cf his
eyes and saw a small white hand and
arm stretched out from in front of the
scrcou. It secured a slice of meat
and drew quickly back.
‘I’ll learn th-ttie k-kid a lessen,
and ‘11 teach it not to steal and keep,
out of the penitentiary, if I break i f i
ar-ra. Can do it, too, what'll you
bet?’
‘Don-t fool with the child,’Dave, 4
he said quickly. ‘I ain't drunk, but I
wouldn't wan't to do any shooting
‘thout any provocation, tain‘t our biz,
anyhow. “
But as he Spoke, the pistol went off
in the hand of the drunken marksman
and the shrill, agonized cry of a child
rang through the miserable
place. God, I didn't it,’ cried
'Fore mean
the frightened wretch as he wa caught
by the collar; 'I only meant to
sea scare it.’
An hour later, the saloon was clear¬
ed of all but an officer in charge, and
in tho small room adjoining, the dy
mg child, for she was fatally shot, was
laid on a rickety couch, and tho doc¬
tor had told them nothing could be
done for her. Prone beside her, lay
the man who had treated, holding tho
wan white fingers already cold in
death. Tho child could not see; her
eyes were fast glazing, but she kept her
whispering to the man beside
from time to time:
‘Forgive mo papa; I did not mean
to steal 1*
•My God!‘ moaned the wreteked
father, ‘she asks me to forgive her
when I left her to steal or starve? 4
‘I was looking for you, 4 continued
the child, ‘but I was so huDgry! I
took the food—it looked so good.
Papa, it‘s beautiful here, all light and
warmth— there's no fire at home and
nothing to eat—we‘ll stay here won't
W6? fc dead. They
In as hour she was
took tier home, aud kind people cared
for the others till she was away and
tho tide of life weDt on without her.
Whether she died in vain time will
tell but her father is missed from the
haunts of sin, and he will never forget
the challenge of that fatal night
—‘Here's luck!'