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Any person who receives a newspaper arid makes use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber. (i If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound to give notice if they to the publisher wisli to at the end of their time, do not con¬ tinue taking the paper, otherwise tiic pub¬ lisher is authorized to send it on, and the xulwer’bor will be responsible until express notice, with payment of all art ears is sent to the publisher. Railroad Schedule. BLAKELY EXTENSION. Leaves Blakely daily at 7:30 a.m.; Leary arrives 9:39 at Arlington at 8:30 a m.; arrives at at a m.; arrives at Albany at 11:30 a.m. at Leary Leaves Albany at 4:20 p m.; arrives at 5:58 p m.; arrives at Arlington at 0:57 p in-; arrives at Blakely at 8:12 p.m. Lodge Directory. CONCORD LODGE, No. 42, meets at Leary ou 2a Saturday in each montn at l o’clock p.m. N. W. Face, W. M. J. E. M. C. Helms,.) Taylor, S. W. 'A. A. G. Janes, Secretary. P. 8. Barbra, Tyler. Arden Hutto, Treasurer. County Directory. SUPERIOR COURT. Hon. B. B. Bower, Judge; J. W. Walters, So¬ licitor Genera!; J. H. Coram, Clerk. Spring term convenes on second Monday in M-rcti. Fall term on second Monday In September. COUNTY OFFICERS. A; I. Monroe, Ordinary; W. W. Gladden, Sheriff; John A, Gladden, Tax Receiver; Tax Collector; Z.ick Thomas F. Cordray, Lang, col., Coroner. COUNTY COURT. L. G. Cartlege, Judge. Quarterly session* 4th Mondays in February, May, August aud November. Monthly sessions, every 4th Monday. COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. J. J. Beck. COUNTY SURVEYOR. Jesse.E. Mercer. COMMISSIONERS R. R. (it- John Colley. J. J. Monroe and J. T. B. Fain- Courts held 1st Tuesday in each month. ROAI) COMMISSIONERS. 57411> District—Sol. G. Beekom, A. J. Sanders and Irwin Douglass. 1316th District—T. H. F.ogere, W. J. Godwin and Wesley Rish. 1123-1 District—L. G. Cartledge, M. W. Bell and J. W. Brown. 1283d District—B. M. Hodge, C. J. McDaniel and O. J. Davis. 626t,h District—P. E. Boyd, B. F. Bray and J. T. P. Daniel. 1305th District—J. A. Cordray, W. H. Hod- r 2 t! and Morgan Bunch. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NOTARIES PUBLIC. 574th District-Sol. G. Beekom, J. P.; Cb-is. F. Blocker, N. P. and Ex officio J. P. Courts held third Wednesday in each month, 1123d District—J. L. Wilkerson, J. P., John Harty, N P. Courts held second Thursday In each month. 626th District—J. C. Price, J. P ; N W. Pare, N\ P. Courts held third Saturday in each month. 1283d District—C. J. McDaniei, J. P. Courts held first Saturday in each month. ^^my^pl^o^fheWflrntsmuriiy each month. to nedyslncklancLN- P.' Hollowa J ' P ” Ken ' FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1883. SOUTHERN NEWS. Ex Gov. B. G. Humphreys of Mississippi is dead. Incendiariitnism prevails in Mobile to an alarming extent. Small-pox is reported in the neighbor¬ hood of Perry, Ga. The Georgia Pacific railroad has com¬ pleted its 80th miles. Lord Houghton has purchased 00,000 acres of Florida land. Join Thompson Robertson, the oldest editor in Virginia, is dead. Eight colored men have been appointed policemen in Chattanooga. All of the aldermen of Calera, Ala., weigh over 200 pounds each. The new Methodist Episcopal University will be located at Chattanooga. Allen Main, of Bulloch county, Alabama, committed suicide on tlie 24th. The crops of South Carolina are worth $8,000,000 over those of last year. A silver mine valued at $10,000,000 has bf en discovered near Gaylesville, Ala. Oconee county, Ga„ has a family of white negroes with yellow kinky hair. Bainbridge, Ga., claims more habitual night drunkards than any city of its size. On the 22d Mr. John Reid was accident¬ ally shot while hunting near Gainesville. Rome, Ga , will have her new cotton fac tory in running order in three weeks time. F. L. Jones, the murderer of Thomas Jones, was hanged at Louisville, Miss., on the 224. It. W. Swann, an engineer, was killed by a railroad accident near Ashville N. C., on the 22d. The Brownsville, Tenn., cotton factory was drsti'oyed by fire on the 22d. Loss $75,000. A colored man was lynched near Millen, Ga., last week, for attempting to outrage a white girl. At Newton, N. C., on the 22d, Jonas Hefner killed Alfred Signman in a dispute over one cent. The United States authorities decline to take part in the celebration of Savahnah’s sesqui-centennial. Unknown rowdies fired into the house of B. H. Kiser, editor of the Opelika Times on the night of the 19th. It is rumored that.Pleasants and Pledger, two colored Georgia Federal office holders will soon be removed- In a difficulty fifteen miles east of Mont¬ gomery, Ala., on the 19th, Wm, Knox shot and killed Irby Lide. Jefferson Davis has given $100 dollars to¬ wards the erection a monument to General Alber Sidney Johnston. E. V. Hawley and W. J. Sessions were killed at Fayetteville, N. C., on the 23d, by the capsizing of a boat. TI. M. Riggs, a Chattanooga telegraph operator, has absconded owing $125 to va¬ rious parties in the city. The Planters’ House and adjoining buildings in Chattanooga were destroyed by fire on the 23d. Loss $6,000. Senator Brown will offer the South Caro- lina University the $50,000 which was re¬ fused by the Georgia Legislature. Geo. Manuel, Supt., of the A. C. S. shop at Chattanooga, was seriously wounded by a discharged employee on the 20th. Twenty-five Sisters of Mercy, who went from New Orleans to Pensacola during the yellow fever plague, returned unharmed. The statement is made in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that Gov. Stephens is now considering the pardon of thirty-two con¬ victs. Col. 11. E. Thornton, of the Atlanta Ga., Post-Appeal has retained a lawyer to bring suit against the Atlanta Constitution for libel. South Carolina has passed a Railroad Commission law, and Ex-Gov. M. L. Bon- hour is chairman of the Board of Commis¬ sioner*. A. H. Howell, a notorious bank forger, was arrested at Fort Worth, Texas, ou the 19th. He has swindled several banks in the Sbuthwest. Unknown incendiaries attempted to burn the store of Capt. J. W. Holtzclaw in Spar¬ tanburg, S. C., on the 21st. A guard has been stationed on the streets. At Covington, Ga„ on the 23d, Will Smith, of Jasper county, shot and killed James Banks and a negro named Alex. Hendrix. The murderer was jailed. On the 23d fifteen ears ran off the tres 'e on the E. T„ Va. aud Ga. railroad, near i Rockmart, killing J. N. Bishop, brakeman, ! and breaking one leg of Conductor Arbero. Mrs. Labouchere, the companion of Mrs. j Langtry, has filed a petition in Richmond, j Va., for divorce from her former husband, i Mr. Pigeon, of London, England.; THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER. BY ANNIE MARIA BAKNKS. Over the corn tlelds waving bright, And ripe Death the glowing skies of June, Tripping along, with her burden light, Comes the farmer’s daughter at noon. What minds she though the sands are hoi, And scorching the tender naked foot ? What does she care, whether or not, Arms lie bare to the noon day beat 7 Or what thinks she of the faded dress Its patches hiding many a tare 7— Why was It not made with mother’s best, And don’t the patches show mother’s c ire? And thus she came stripping along, Now over the corn rows see tier pass! Carolling snatches of quaint old song, A blithesome winsome, farmer's lass ! Through t he corn she’s making her way To a shaded nook at the end of the Held, • Where resting from the work of the day, Father’s awaiting his noon-day meal. How her eyes brighten as she nears the place, Peering ahead through the grain the while, Yes, there he is now, the dear old face Lighted up with its sunniest smile 1 And now she has placed the pail at his side, And is turning to go, hut all 1 what’s tills 7 With parted lips—arms open wide— “Stop, my iass, the pay is a kiss!’’ HOW AUNT SARAH WAS CURED. BY TURQUOISE. Nobody could findont wlat was the matter with Aunt Sarah.She was notsiekand yetshe was not well, and she thought she was dying. The doctor suggested a change of air and cheerful society. "!u fact,” he said to me, “she is well; she just needs to believe it and to bo kept cheerful.” As there is plenty of the best kind of air where we live, we had brought her to our home in triumph, and wo had been cheer¬ ful at all.times end under all circumstances; but Aunt Sarah resented our cheerfulness and was dying worse than ever. We had given her a sunny room on the ground floor, but she discovered that she was afraid of robbera. She took a room up stairs, but she did not see how in the world she could get out in case of fire. “Better be murdered than burnt up,” she said, as she traveled down stairs again. She took a ride every day, but did not enjoy it. She didn’t see why people raved so about mountains. For her part she was dreadfully tired of them. The air ? Oh, yes, there was a deal of air, and dust too; nothing so uncommon about that; people couldn’t breathe without air, could they ? And as for the sky being blue, why, she had never heard of a brown sky. She utterly refused to admire anything. Worst of all, she refused to admire the baby I She said he was like old Uncle Hi¬ ram, a grumpy old bachelor who was so stingy h 3 couldn’t get anybody to have him. And as the dear child seldom cried, she suggested that he was probably deaf and dumb; she had known a great many case*. And he looked kind of puny, she thought. “But then it was a mercy to die young, and not live to be an ol 1 woman that no¬ body cared for." This was such a really bad.'state of affairs that I gave up cheerfulness and symathiz- ed with her. But she declined to be sym¬ pathized with. “Don’t trouble about me," she said; “I am all right, and don’t want to be both¬ ered. All I want iB to die in peace.” At this juncture Aunt Dorcaa came to pay us a visit. She was Aunt Sarah’s sis¬ ter and an excellent woman ; but as she was also a natural groaner, I clearly explained to her the abso ute necessity of cheerful¬ ness. "Yes, I understand,” she answered; “I suppose she is as good as dead, poor thing; but I’ll do the best I can for her." Then bristling with cheerfulness and good will she entered her sister’s room and exclaim¬ ed— "Why, Sarah ! you do look amazing well. You are well, ain’t you ?” "Oh, yes, perfectly,” said Aunt Sarah, with a sad and wilted expression : "corpses are always well; they have got through you know.” “You don’t look like a corpse, aad you shouldn’t talk so.” "1 won't; I never talk. What* the use of talking?” But they went on talking, and their con¬ versation was like a liyely competition for the crown of martyrdom. If Aunt Sarah complained of a bad headache, Aunt Dorcas would say,— “Oh, there's no danger about headaches. I have had them for years day and night, and I have raised ten chiidren-sevenof them boys, while you have never had but one, and a girl at that; yet here I am most sixty, and as strong and hearty as *an be.” Or if Aunt Sarah had a pain in her side and described her symptoms, Aunt Dorcas immediately replied,— "Why, that don’t come from the heart at all,nor from the lungs,it's only nervousness. I have it always on baking day’s. Oh, did you say that it was in your right side? That's too bad ! But it ain’t dangerous a bit, for I’ve always had it. What with meat and potatoes and pie to work on so long, our livers get worn out, don’t you see? 1 suppose I have hardly any liver left by this time; but I don’t mind it. 1 get along nice¬ ly without; and so will you when you get used to it." Thus the cheerfulness went on, till poor Aunt Sarah, defeattd at every point, meek¬ ly suggested,— "Don’t you want to go up stairs to read the papers ? It will rest you.” This invitation was repeated so often that Aunt Dorcas decided to go home and read the papers. “I ain’t doing her no good, she told me. She gets kind of cross with me. 1 won't try to cheerful any more.” The day of her departure had come. Aunt Sarah looked really sick, and was lying on the lounge apparently hall' dead, when Aunt Dorcas came in for a parting talk. "I’m sorry to see you looking so weak and ghastly,” she said, "and if you want me to stay—’’ "No, 1 don’t!’’ remarked Aunt Sarah, with surprising energy. “What I said about your being well was because I thought it would help you. But I know you ain’t well, nor likely to be. Many a dying woman 1 have seen, and none of them looked worse than you do now. You remind me of old Mrs, Brown, the day she died. You have the same blue shade around the mouth, and the same pinched look about —" “You had better go and get ready ; you will miss the train.” “No, I won’t miss it, Sarah, but J am sorry about you, for I shall never see yon again in this world. I am going to stop at sister Priscilla’s on my way back—you re¬ member her, don’t you ?—and if you ha' e any—any last message—” Aunt Sarah suddenly sat up with a jerk. "Look here, Dorcas, that's enough and to spare. I wouldn’t talk quite so much like a foo! if I was you. There, now! Good by.” Seeing that Aunt Sarah had revived suffi¬ ciently to insult her relatives, 1 accompan¬ ied Aunt Dorcas to the depot and did my best to comfort her. Ou my return I found Aunt Sarah seat¬ ed in the rocking chair on the piazza, play¬ ing with the baby; and as I could hardly believe my eyes she looked up at me and smiled. "I don’t wonder you stare,” she said. “I might as well own up at last. I hare been a fool and a goose and a bear; hut I have got well and I am going to keep well.” And she did. Bald-Headed. A member of the Hartford county bar, in relating some reminisence of the court times gone by, told of a ease wherein one of the famous advocates of that time had badger¬ ed and crowded a witness until he lost his temper. The witness incidentally said something about a cat, and the chatty'law¬ yer seized upon this as the means of still further worrying the witness. “How old was the cat ?’’ asked the attor- ney, “I don’t know,” was the reply. "How old do yon think she was?” “It was a Tom cat.” “I didn’t ask about the sex of the cat. I asked how old it was.’ “You asked how old she wa«.” “Well, how old was that cat?” "I told you that, I didn't know.” “Well, how old do you think ?” “Oh, I can't tell.” "You can tell bow old you think she was." ‘ I tell you I don’t know." “Now,” said the attorney, “I want a plain answer to a plain question. How old do yon think that cat was ?” The witness looked straight at the attor¬ ney, whose shining bald bead was the most prominent feature of his figure, and calmly said,— “Ob, I can't guess how old that cat was, but she was old enough to be bald-headed.” The lawyer’s ruddy face assumed a deep¬ er hue, and the spectators and members of bar titered, and even the stren features of the court relaxed into a smile at the answer which ended that line of crossed-queation" ing. Temper. An unbridled temper soon renders its pos¬ sessor unlovely in face as well as character. Being a growing and vigorous power, it gradually overcomes every obstacle which stands in the way of its observations It wrinkles the brow, lowers the eyebrows, bends the curve of the mouth, and pouts the lips whenever it is of a disagreeable and selfish nature. Cultivate beauty of the soul, for the course of feeling engendered by a kind and generous character will always give life and permanent animation to all the ' lines of the face. Retorts Matrimonial. In arguing with their wives, men are apt to "receive as good as they send.” “Really, my dear,” said a friend of ours to his better half, "you have sadly disappointed me. I once considered you a jewel of a woman; but you have, turned out only a bit of mat¬ rimonial paste." "Then my love,” was the reply, "console yourself with the idea that paste is very adhesive and in this case will stick to you as long as you live.” "See here,” said a fault-finding husband, "we must have things arranged in this house so that we shall know where everything is kept.” "With all my heart,” sweetly an swered his wife, “and let us begin with your late hours, my love. I should dearly love to know where they are kept." He let things run on as usual. It is not often, however, that one comes across such a crushing retort as that which a Sheffield husband received from his wife the other day, through the medium ^>f the public press. lie advertised in one of the local journals that, he, Thomas A--, would no longer be answerable for the debts incurred by his wife, who seems to have bsen a truly admirable creature, if one. may jud„e from the advertisement which she published next day in reply ; “This is to notify that I, Elizabeth A-, am able to pay all my own debts now that I have got shut ot Tom¬ my.’.’ There are some other wives living who can sympathize with Elizabeth, possi¬ bly. Some husbands would be obliged to 1 confess, if they told the plain unvarnished truth, that when they led their wives to the altar their leadership coins to an end. "Your future husband seems very exacting; he has been stipulating for all sorts of things,” said a mother to her daughter, who was on the point of being married “Never mind, mamma,” said the affectionate girl, who was already dressed for the wedding, “these are his last wishes ” This is a com- plete reversal of the ancient creed, In many instances, the state of the case is rather something like the following: "HI am not at home from the party by ten o’clock," says the husband to his better half “don’t wait for me." “That I won't," re¬ plies the lady, significantly; “1 won't wait, but 1 11 come for you." He is home at ten o’clock precisely. Beware of the Cloak. A scientist, in the interest iff married men and the oppressed of t*ll nations, has advanced a new idea that will fill a want long felt, and afford all men wTio take ad¬ vantage of it immediate relief in this hour of their affliction. He says these new fur- lined circulars are unhealthy and should be abolished. It appears that the fur-lined cloak has the same effect on a woman da a diamond pin on a man’s shirt bosom has on the man who wears it. A man with a diamond pin on cannot have his coal but¬ toned up, for fear the pin will not show, and in nine cases out of ten, unless he is careful to wear a sheepskin protector, Re catches an awful cold and is liable to die. More has been written by scientists medical men upon the folly of wearing diamond pins on the shirt front than *pon any other of the modern fashions Jo wlueii mortal man is addicted. And it seems the fur-lined cloak is also a worm that fs gnaw¬ ing at the bud of oqr beautiful types of wo¬ manhood, and making consumptives out of them. The trouble is a woman is bound t© have about five or six buttons of her fur- lined cloak unbuttoned at the bottom so the cloak will blow back and expose the fur. But women seem determined, in the face of all this testimony, to stick to the fur-lined cloak and brave death in one of its most horrid form* They have eithfr got to button up the fur-lined cloak or wear a sheepskin chest protector.—[Peck’s Sun. Laziness. Laziness, always offensive, is particular¬ ly so in a young person. To learn to work, and work cheerfully, is the central lesson of life. Begin to learn it early—eschew ness as the most disgusting of alliiults, and one that will surely end in hopeless misery; for, depend upon it, none cau bs so insen¬ sible through laziness as to be, in the ent^ incapable of suffering. Nature, in the of a non-payment of her demands, h and merciless creditor. Therefore; boys, off wiih your jackets and keep square your ac¬ count with her, Here is a story for temperance orators: A party of six camped out in Wisconsin on a cold night. After supper two drank liquor moderately, two freely, and two let it alone. In the morning the temperance men arose refreshed, the light drinkers were stiff with cold and hardly able to.rise, and the two who drank freely were frozen to death The accomplished prevaricator who tells the story forgets to state which party be belonged to, 1 here were 197 business failures in the L nited States last week. I. No. 23. GENERAL NEWS. Bandits are robbing railway trains in Italy. The Pope has given 12,000 frarcs to the poor. Silver dollars will bo retired from circu¬ lation. Arnbi Bey will receive an annual pension of $2,600. Gambetta is suffering from inflammation of the bowels. Cincinnati will soon have a new one cent morning paper. The New York Herald made a profit of $850,000 last year. Guatemala desires to be admitted into. the American Union. Both Russia and Prussia are making military preparations. The trial of S. W. Dorsey,[the Star Route cheif, will end this week. Rev. Ur. Talmage charges other preach¬ ers with stealing his sermons. De Lesseps announces that the Panama canal will be completed in 1888. Henry .lames, Sr., father of Henry James, Jr., the novelist, is dead. The worst storm in a hundred years is predicted for the middle of March. Another Nihilistic plot has been descov- ed iuvoling near relatives of the Czar. Mrs. Seovillo will not be tried for insan ity. She and her husband are re united. Mrs. Langtry pronounces the Philadel¬ phia ladies prettier thus the Boston belles. The Liverpool cotton market took a holi¬ day from the 23d, including the 20th inst. Mr. Acklen is vigorously contesting the seat of Congressman Kellogg, of Louisiana. It is thought that Senator Pendleton’s civil service reform bill will not become a law. President Arthur will move from the Soldiers' Home to the White House in January. W. C. Anderson, a telegraph operator at La Clente, Canada, has just fallen heir to $750,000. I'.'-a.dwbt Anhui: aeikdowlcuges that me Independent movement in the South was not a success. Dr. Forbes, of the Jefferson Medical Col¬ lege in Philadelphia has been indicted for grave robbery. The ,W. C. T. U. request all the churches to pray for the temperance cause ou the 9th of January- , Forty five socialists have been convicted at fragile and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Gen. Stone, late chief of staff .of the Ugyptidh ai*fnpr,'has resigned, and will re¬ turn to i’ftiittjca. . The question of seducing the tobooco tax bUB engaged t^e'gfttention of Congress dur¬ ing the 1 past week. . • U is announced that the Iveelej motor is a suepess, and that a large engine will soon operated by it; ’ bo ' •< . ‘ Mrs. I.angstTy was jSollowed to Philadel¬ phia by Mr. Fred Geljhast. The two at¬ tract great attention. Concord, Dover and other towns in New Hampshire were badly shaken up by an earthquitke on the 19th, * _ Hie emancipated negroes in Cuba are very troublesome. They lead it vagrant Ifft and refuse to work. An old Woman in Vermont has been sentenced 1 to fifty yeats' imprisonment for the Illicit-sale qf liquor. t. John Most, thW German socialist, arrived in Chicago on the 14th. He will visit all 'the large Western cities. • The qjll roduejng letter postage to two <.ents per half ounce wilt probably pass the present session <»f ^ongn$ss. ' Ledh and "Armond deltzer have been convictgd at Brussels of- the murder of M. Bemdys, arid sentenced to death. - The Bqjpr£ss Eugenia has donated to Jjarsefliei the chateau and parji recently deqyeei by the cjjurt to bp Kor property, -Several New-Ydrk nlillianaires nowwalk to and fro between their homes and places of buHiJices'with an escort of-armed men. • Tbh new city of Pullman, near Chicago, iffspoken of as a mqdel town.* It has been built under thfc direction of Mr. H. I. K5m- ball. * « JW * • 5* A'faminp exists in parts of -frilanfi, and in sewdrai towns the laborers liave Recently rflade demonstrations,' demanding I'bread or work.” , » - Teresp fttuSa, tile Chicago murderess, who was last Week sentenced to a year's imprisonment, Says she will go on the stage when she 1s-Iterated. < . Mr. Biggos, an Irish member of Parlia¬ ment, will biffprosecuted for-denouneing, in a recent speech, Ea*l Spencer, [Lord’Lieu¬ tenant of Irqjaud, as “a blood-ttirsty Eug- lish peqp- w *. '* •' ■ • •