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LODGE DIRECTORY.
ARLINGTON LODGE, NO. 249, Saturdays
.Meets 1st Tuesdays ami 3rd
11 each month. Officers:
W. T. Murchison, W. M.
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\V. IT. Davis. J. W.
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Thus. James, See’y. Tyler.
Geo. V. Pace,
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County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Hon. L. P. D. Warren, Judge; J. W. Wal¬
ters, Solictor General; J, II. Coram, Clerk.
Spring term convenes on second Monday in
March ;Fall term on second Monday in 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. Cart lege, Judge. Quarterly ses-
eioners, 4th Mondays in February, May,
August and November. Monthly sessions,
every 4th Monday.
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
J. J. Becii
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
Jesse E. Mercer.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
John Colley, J. J. Monroe and J. T. B.
Fain. Courts held 1st Tuesday iu each
month.
ROAD COMMISS1NERS.
574thDistrict— Sol. G. Deckom, A. J.
Sanders and Irwin Douglass. —Ti H. Rogers, W. J.
1316th District
Godwin aud Wesley /risk .
1123d District —L. G. Cartledge, M.
W. Re 11 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 AND
NOTARIES PUCLIC.
574th District. —Sol. G. Beckcom, J.
p.; Chas. F. miocker, N. P. and Ex-offieio
J. P. Courts held third Wednesday in each
jnonth. 1123d District —J. I. Wilkerson, J. P.,
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 District — C. J. McDaniel, J. P.
A. Cordray, N. P. Courts held 1st
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gturday in each month.
1316th District— T W P, Holloway, J.
p. Kenhon Striekland,N,
To Ben HiU. peo^el; j |
Great in himself, great in a
love, 1 r ’
Great in a life well * filled, a work
d OB e, w
At Another last has soul set has another sought mighty tho sun realms* *
i^ovo; jfk *
tanftrovO, itfifcbe crown for which the mors
CjMnplete ttfe wor^in**rly life won*
Oh, give the fame so truly, nobly
And thus the woihs of his pure life
Tbus^bovW^outff gggjpwa 0 f
liow nobleness of
heart?
Bes t wi ns such recompense as we*
Showliera jMKrill _ jtpvn; ijidflUy M
to emulate his
And re ereata^is justly renown;
Show how ar** steadfast in* soul yet free
of ^ %
He climbed tlA tower of Fame—aud
climbed alone.
i — Fan TINE.
“BONNIE; BESSIE.”
«a
BY EMMA <4RES.
“Bonnie Bessie 44 every one called half
and right enough; for of all the Higfi -1
land lassies who gathered at the little
kirk Sabbath mornings not one
was half so pretty and winning as Bes-
sic.
‘Squire Renfrew, of the Red Pass,
was desperately in love with Bessiei
and sought to make her his wife in
spite of difference in rank. The herds
at the Red Pass were the finest aud
largest in the neighborhood; tlie barn,
and storehouse were always well
filled. He was a bachejor, some¬
thing over two score years old. And
he wanted “Bonnie Bessie' 4 for his
wife.
“If t helassie thinks she can fancy
me,’ 41 he said, addressing Bessie's
grand mother, as he stood under ti e
[ ow brow,, rafters of the h| jh ' Bhrg’s
Lyun cottage, a hot flush mounting to
the shining crown of liis bald head,
“if the lasse thinKs she can fancy me,
the bargain's made. I(m ready and
willing to lead her to the ki.k to mor¬
row; and if a good, true husband, and
some gold and silver will make her
happy, she'll he as lmppy as a queen
of the Red Pass
Bessie listened, with wide, startled
eyes, burning cheeks and quivering
lips. She held her peace, standing,
tall and slim, in a sort of stunned sis
lence, uutil her grey Laired lover
had taken his leave. Then she
burst forth into vehement passionate
protest.
The old grandmother suffered her
to storm until her passion was
spent.
“Well, ‘tis o'er now, and ye ‘11 sim¬
mer down and keep quiet, mebbe,—
I've let ye have your say, and now I
will have mine. We're poor folks,
me and you. I found it hard to get
bread when 1 had but my Own mouth
to feed; and siuce I've been burdened
wi‘ you I've gone to bed many a night
fit to cry with hunger. But I've
borne it all an' done my best, an 4 al-,
ways been willing to gi' you a share
o 4 my last. “
“But dearest grandma-“
“Now lookee here my lass 4 ' inter
-
rupted the old woman, lifting her bony
finger ,and glowering fiercely upon
Bessie; ‘‘if ye‘re fule enou' to refuse
this good fortin 4 that ends it ‘twixt 11s
two. You pack out o' my house, and
ne’er cross the threshold agin.“
Bessie was silent. The great world
beyond the Highland peaks seemed so
dim and far away, and the old home
scene so familiar.
The autumo days drifted on, and in
the spring time she was going to the
kirk with'Squrie Renfrew and be made
bis wife.
The Spring time came and the wed¬
ding day was close at hand, one even¬
ing, just before tho loamiug, Bessie
went to fill her pitcher, as usual, at
the rocky spring near by. She had
accomplished her task, had lifted the
pitcher to her shoulder, and had start¬
ed for the cottage, her white, shape-
ly feet twinkling prettily below the
.*«* .*• •* *«•
stone to stone in crossing the little
brawling stream, when suddenly she
uttered a stifled cry, and staggering to
LEARY, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20,1882.
a mossginvn bowlder, sat down and
P'U the pitcher hastily ou the ground,
her hand on her heart and
all over.
“It's his ghaist, it‘s his ghaist, 44 she
cried. “And o,h how sail - ho looked
ft t me!' 1
Whatever she had seen, or fancied
$ke bad seen there wa- nothing in
when she next looked up;Kuoth-
except the overhanging rocks of
t’ue.glen; t^p brooK shimmeiing in the
q^nh'g 1 'g'ht and tho white birch
trees swaying spectrally against the
^7 •
“He has come from his grave,she
cubed, glancing fearfully around ‘ I
dare na, dare na do it. Oh! forgive
>»e. Jamie, that I ever thougqt o,
it; '“
- ilho^Sfem a silken cord, which en¬
circled her throat from her bosom, as
she i^fver spfeke, and kissed the slender hoop
of which depended from it. “I'll
iievgr ha* peace if I marry the Squire. 1
said' she. and I ought no to ha‘ it;
I shall fee! I m a trator. And, oh!
Jaime, Saime, after all I love ho one
blit you, aud never can.“
Suddenly she rose, resolution stamp
ed on every feautnre.
■' “I must give the ‘Squire his ring
again, “ she-said, brushing the last
tears from her eye. “It's hard for
him; but there is no other way. Then
Jamie, theu, perhaps, you ‘11 forgive
me, dear. 4
Leaving her pitcher there, she toss¬
ed back her abundant locks, as she
finished this adjuration, and went
speeding away, through the falling
darKness with the light foot of a cham-
ois.
When she reached the Read Pass
the bright glow of the warm ingleside
lit the windows. She approached the
nearest one, anu pressed her sad, tired
face the glass.
A minute and she tapped lightly
against the glass. The ‘Squire turn¬
ed quickly, stared, and then started
to his feet.
now, whafs
meaning o' this ?’ he cried, rushing
across tho room aud throwing up Hie
window. ‘Bessie, my lassie, what's
happened ?’
‘feomething that never should o'
happened, 4 she answered, looking at
him with a sort of desperate defiance,
and drawing the gold from her finger,
as she spoke. ‘I'vo come to give this
back to you, 'Squire .Renfrew. I was
wrong ever to let you put it on.
‘Why, child, what do you mean?'
'Take your ring,'she said. ‘You
have heard of ‘Auld Robiu Grey, may
be, haven't you?'
‘Yes, I have. Rut 1 what then?'
‘Well, I had a ”mie once, 1 she
went on, clutching at the little silver
ring suspended from her neck, a great
throb of pain shaking her; ‘lie gave
me this, aud I can't ever wear any
other riug. lie —he—went off to seek
his fortune,' with another repressed
sob’ ‘and ho was lost at sea. I tried
to forget him, but I cannot. I can't
keep my promise to you, ‘Squire
Renfrew—I—I couldn't feel like she
did to ‘Auld Robin Grey'—I should
hate you—I should-,' And here
she broice down completely.
He took the ring she offered, and
paused for a rnomeut. A look uuut-
terablo pain aud regret came iuto his
kind eyes.
'So,'he said, slowly, ‘you have come
to teil me this, and to ask for your
freedom? and you really thing, too,
you have scon Jamie's ghaist? 1
‘Yes. Audi shall never relurn to
grandmother again. I dare not Ho I
am going away. 4
‘Bessie, my darling,' cried a voice
as his strong arm clasped her. The
next moment she was on the breast of
her lover, who had come back alive
and safe.
A few days after, there was a haps
py marriage at the kirk, ‘Squire Ren¬
frew himself giving away the bride,
our ‘Bonnie Bessie, 4
Toe family were felting riddles one
evening, and tho five-year-old told
this one:
“Fonr little hopper-toads sat on a
tree; off, then there
Two hopped and
were three. 44
Abbody could guess it. “Well, 4 'she
explained, “one of them hopped right
bac/,' again."
Beecher‘s Break. /
From The Association of Congrega¬
te naliss.
HF. ANNOUNCES HIS RELIEF IN REGARD
to Hell and infant baptism
TO BE STUMBLING BLOCKS IN
1IJS WAY—THE ACTION OF
THE Association
THEREON—RES
quested to
C Oil!
HACK
Yew York, October 13 *— Brooklyn,
and especially the members of Ply¬
mouth church are in a fever of excite¬
ment over the new phase of their
church relationship. On Tuesday
morning, when the autumn session of
the New York and Brooklyn churches
met, Mr? Beecher made an address on
certain differences with the church;
which ho closed by announcing his
withdrawal from the association.—
He said that as a Christian gentleman,
he could not afford to lay on anybody
the responsibility of his’ views. Ho
could not afford, especially, to put the
association in such a position that they
were obliged to defend him. He
could not make them responsible in
any way, and, therefore, be now here
iu the greatest love and sympathy,
laid down his membership, and should
go forth, uot to be separated from
them, but really to be nearer them.—
He should do anything for them.—
He never was in warmer personal
sympathy with them than he now was;
but lie laid down the responsibility
that they had borne—he took it off
them and put it ou himself. Mr.
Beecher explained that he made this
exposition in order to meet the loose
general representations and misreps
resentatious in respect to what he be¬
lieved aud taught. He hell that view
that had been presented by the Pagan
Greek barbariaus— one of the most
barbaric, that is, infatile, ignorant,
conceptions— w as
THE IMPASSIVITY OF GOD
A conceptiMi tluw .........
character required that a bejng should
not pg susceptible (0 pain of any kind
—( 0 sorrow or to suffering. The di
vine heroism must stand on the pow-
ei . 0 f God to suffer, and it is the very
root an<1 {ovCQ 0 ( the atoning life and
death of Christ. Right over on the
wa3 another element spring
j n g f rorn a barbaric nation, and not
f rom esthetics, namely, that God is
clothed with human passions. Terms
0 f that kind were not Wanting in the
old Testament, but men had construe
ted ttl( q r conception of God from the
example of their animal inclination
and appetites, not from the example
0 j (i,eir reason and their moral sense,
;vn j s0 we bad a barbarous conception
alld t]ia t was spiritual barbarism. The
w bole view of God which was laid
down in the confession of faith of the
Westminister school in relation lo tho
(i eCree> an d in relation to tiro whole
process and operation of Divine grace
Mr. Beecher held this view of God's
character to stand over against the
representation of God, as made bv the
^ 0l . d j esus Christ, as a frightful gor-
goa s t o0 d over against the head of an
Apoile in the heathen mythology. He
held it to be a monster in the
piece of a loving Master and master
0 f i ove n 0 rejected it with an iin-
,
pe tus that touched the very fonnda
bj on 0 f his soul. Then, tho doctrine
0 f man's moral and physical inability
t 0 obey the laws of God I10 rejected,
He also rejected tho representations
of future punishmeut, which wer
gross and physical, and that were
made from tho sensuous Roman school
He believed in future punishment,
He believed that a wholesome aud
restraining influence of that doctrine
had been very largely destroyed by
substituting a slaughter house notion
a gross carnal, corrupting and dia^-
bodical representation of hell and the
sufferings of those subjected to it.
Suffering, he held, would not be bodi¬
ly but mental, according to tho laws
of moral sensibility and all the affec
tions not a deluge of devils, and all
manner of annoyance epitomilzed and
represented in the art of Angelos's
Last Judgment,' and represented more
abominably and inexcusably by Corn¬
elius and the Orman school. That
was barbaric. He regarded also the
whole doctrine of original sin as found
in the fall of Adam as barbaric, that
s the conception of in m ai yet i.'notV
ant uneducated on this subject. Tfe
was not used a single time in
whole scope of tlte instructions of all
the ages of the Old Testament. You
could not find it in the Old Testament
You cannot look through all the teach
ings of the four gospels and find a
single passage that except by wide
Inference and misconstruction can be
applied to it. You can find it only
in tho Pauline writing*. He accep¬
ted without analysis tho trinity. Any
attempt to divine the function was
futil. IIo t olieved in a Providence
who overrules human life by and
through natural laws. Christ was
infinite within finite limits, and in
takeing his place ns a man ho became
subject to the laws of time, space and
matter. Mr. Beecher believed fully
enthusiastically, without a break or a
single lino of tremulous aberration in
tho divinity of Christ. Christ was
God manifest in the flesh.
now IT WAS RECEIVED.
The announcement, so unespooted,
fell like a bomb among tho assembled
brethren' At first many were iuclius
cd to censnro M r . Beecher, but the
prudence of taking lirno to consider
tho situation was suggested by several
of the more cousei vatjve, and ou Wed¬
nesday the association camo to tho
conclusion that Mr. Beecher had said
nothing which was not already ho ■
lieved by tho body. In accordance
with this finding, it was resolved to
request Mr. Beecher to reconsider his
withdrawal, as they were all of one
mind. Mr. Beecher lias tho matter
now under advisement.
Blooming Prosperity.
A few days ago a drummer of one
of our wholesale houses was
traveling in a buggy along a country
road in Arkansas, when he came upon
a tall roughly dressed man sitting upon
a i ail fence whittling. With a socia¬
ble ‘good morning’ the traveler drew
*’» s'.&SfR. .
*Is that your Add of corn over
there? 4
‘Will, I calkilate I‘ll freeze onto a
smart sheer of it. I‘m working tho
piece on sheers. 4
‘Looks like a fine crop.’
‘It does. 4
‘I presume you are figuring on great
prosperity in future, such immense
indicating plenty for all. 4
crops
Prosperity? Stranger, that haint
no name fur the cyclono that's ngoin,
io hit this settlement atween the eyes
this season. A tornado moot come
jist now an' land every darned hit o 4
grain in the country over into Tennes¬
see, and yit the smiles of contentment
would never shift off'n our faces! 1
‘Some unexpected good luck has be¬
fallen you, 1 the tourist replied.
‘That'.s the play to a t-y ty.
gettin' our slice o 4 the millennium
away ahead o‘ tho 'advertised date.
Fust - oT Zack Bolton up an 4 died last
month, ‘an tbar‘ hasn't been a ear
o 4 corn or a side o‘ bacon mis¬
sed in the community since we turns
bled the dirt on top o 4 him. Then
Wash Tompkins, the boss ol 4 sledge
player, got sent to prison for horse
stealin, thus given us poor players a
show for our pile; then Bnaky, the
saloon keeper up at the forks o‘ the
road, dropped down to ten cents a
drink fur whisky, and said he'd take
corn same as cash; then my old woman
ran off with a Yankee sewin'smachine
peddler, an‘ my darter Sal got religion
an' joined Mt. Zion cbu.cb, and if
bloomin' prosperity ain’t a bangin'
over the neighborhood I'm a giltedg
ed liar from the Red river swamps.
(jot any sweet tobacco about 7011?’
---
What is tho difference betwe&uu
truth aud eggs? Truth crushed to
earth will rise again; but eggs won't
P. S. If thoy happen to be (00 ripe
they will.
A wag, noted for his brevity, writes
to friend to be careful iu the selection
of his diet. Ho says, “Don't eat
Q-cnmbers; they'll W-up.“
‘‘Sir, I will maid: you feel the arrows
of my resentment.' 4 “Ah, miss, why
should I fear arrows when you never
had a beau?"
What net is most likely to cateli a
handsome but vain woman? A coros
neb
Vol. I. No. 13
Manners of Children.
N.y Vf^]/)°moriin<r. hiivo
J Toting children who to wn
till ol ilfcr people have eaten all there is
i|T tho wons'ysliould not hung on tho
di during tho meal and
nMf tjfe In *if ho is going to cat all day.
it yiuki s the qpmpauy fool ill at easy
and lav#/ up wrath in the parents
ImiuWT mjt
Do close out tho last of your
soup by UfkiufiAtlio plate in your mouth
childishjjeok. and pouringjfito yjtU liquid might down spill your it
on
your u-nd it enlarges and dis¬
torts tlijjMofith nnhdcessarily.
IVll/i a Jed what part of thofowdl
yon prefer, do not suy you will take
the part tlnytf goe.^ovor tho fence last.
This remark is veiy humj^ous but tho .
rising generation ought to originate
soino new fable'jokps that will bo
worthy of tho age^in * ✓Which we
live. /
Children should early learn the uso
of the fork and how to lnyrtllo it. This
knowledge can be acquired bjallowing
them to pvv up the carpet' tacks with
this instrument, and other little exer_
vises such as tho parent/mind may
suggest.
The child should be taught at once
uot to wave his bred around^ver the
table while in conversation, .aurto fill
his month full of potatoes nv^fthftn
converse in a rich touo of voiefl^witb
some one out in the yard. Ho might
get Ids dinner down his treat and
cause his great anxiety.
Iu picking up a plato or saucer tilled
with soup or moist food, tho child
should be taught not to parboil hi«
thumb in tho contents of the <}mh and
to avoid swallowing soup houes or
other indigestible dqbrcs.
Toothpicks aro generally tho last
course aud tho child should uot he per¬
mitted to pick their teeth aud kick the
table through tho other, exercises.—
While grace is being said at table,
children should know that it Jgf, %T
orvnelT dr god ! cediUf,, ! to soronge
fruit caKe just because Lluir pironts*
In ads aro bowed down and their at 4 *
tention for the moment turned in an¬
other direction. Children ought not
to bo permitted to find fault with the
dinner or fool with the cat while eat¬
ing. Boys should, before going to tho
table, empty all the frogs and grass ¬
hoppers out of their pockets or thoso
insects might crawl out during the
festivities and jump into the gravy.
If a fly wades into your jelly up to
Ills gambrels, do not mash him with
your spoon before all tho guests, aa
death is at all times depressing to
those who are at dinner and retards
digestion. Taicc the fly out carefully
with what naturally adheres to his pce-
sou anil wipe him on tho table cloth.
It will demonstrate your perfect com->
taand of yourself and afford much
amusement for tho company. Do
not stand up iu your chair and try to
spear a roll with your fork. It is not
good manners to do so, and you might
slip and burst your crust by so doing.
Say “thank 44 and (‘muchobliged' 4 and
,‘beg pardon 14 wherever you can work
these remarks, as it throws people off
and you uu opportu¬
nity to get in your work on the pastry
and other brieva- brae near you at the
time.
--
Notwithstanding tho hostile legisla¬
tion of Congress, Mormons continue
to flock to this country. Six hundred
and forty arrived at New York recent¬
ly from Liverpool.
The imprudent man reflects on
what he has said, the wise man on
what ho is going to say.
The best adhesive label yon can put
on luggage is to sticK to it your¬
self.
Leaves that are least becoming to a
warrior's brows—leaves of absence.
What is becoming is honest, and
whatever is honest mast always be be¬
coming.
When are gloves unsaleable? When
they aro kept on hand,
o,
The man who took everybody's eye
must have a lot of them.
Many a man worth a million is uL
terly worthless.