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County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Hon. B. B. Bower, Judge; J. W. Walters, So¬
licitor General; J. H. Coram, Clerk. Spring
term Fall eonvenee on second Monday September. in March.
term on second Monday in
COUNTY OFFICERS
I. A. Monroe. Ordinary; W. W. Gladden. F.
Sheriff; Coriraj, E. 8. Jones, Tax Collector; Tlios.
G. Godson, Tax Receiver; Coroner. C. H, Gee, Treasurer;
A.
COUNTY COURT.
L Mondays G. Cartl*dge, February, Judge. Quarterly sessions
4t,ti in May, August and
Monday. November. Monthly sessions, every 4th
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
J. J. B«ek.
COUNTY SURTBYOX
6. P. Norton.
COMMISSIONERS R. B.
John Colley, J. J. Monroe and J. T. B. Fain
@ourt« held 1st Tuesday in eaoh month.
JUSTICES or THE PEACE AND NOTARIES
PUBLIC.
574th District—R. J. Thigpin, J P ; Chae. F.
Blocker, N. P. and Ex-officio J. I’. Courts
held third Wednesday in each month.
UMd District—J. L. Wilkewon. J. P„ John
Hasty, N P. Court* held second Thursday la
«a«n month.
«Bfch District—J. C. Prloe, J. P.; N. W. Pace,
V. P. Court* held third Saturday In each
month.
hdd UfBd flr*t Dletrlct—O. Saturday J. In McDaniel, eaoh month. J. F. Courts
1284th District—Morgan Bunch, J. P.t J. A.
OSraray, N. P. Court* held flr»t Saturday In
each month.
nedy 1910th District—T. If, W. Holloway, J. P.| Ken
Strickland, . P.
Baker County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
General; B. B. Bower. B. F. Judge; Hudspeth, J. W. Walters, Solicitor
Clerk. Spring
term convene* on first, Monday in May. Fall
term on fiist Monday in November.
COUNTY COURT.
Jno. O. Perry, Judge. Monthly sessions
held first Mondays—Quarterly sessions.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
W. Vf. Williams, T. H. Caskie, J. H. Boddi-
ford, H. T. Pullen. Courts held on first Tues¬
days in each month.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary, W. T. Livingston; Sheriff, J. B.
George; Tax i ollector. R. B. Odom: Tax Re¬
ceiver, J. M. Odom ; Treasurer. L. G. Rowell;
Surveyor, C. D. Brown, Coroner, B. D. Hall.
JUSTICES or THE PEACE aKD NOTARIES
PUBLIC.
971«t District—S. J. Livingston, J. P.; W. C.
Odom.N. P. t ourts held 1st haturdayin each
mouth.
900t.h District—G. T. Galloway, J. P.; T. H.
Caskie, N. P. Courtsbeij 2d Saturday m each
month.
957th District—G. D. Lamar, J. P.; H. 8.
Johnson, N. P. Courts held 3d Saturday In
each mouth.
11831 District —Ij- J. Mathis, J. P., R E. Mc-
Culluu, N. P. Courts held 4th Saturday in
each month.
& Daring Hid j. 4
The mosi conspicuous act of' rectless
courage I ever saw displayed on any battle¬
field during our great civil war occurred at
the second battle of Manassas on the 30th
of August, 1862, It was performed by a
Federal artillerist in the presence of both
armies, and was witnessed by at least 1,000
men, many of whom are still living aud can
readily r< call the incident wheu reminded
of the circumstances. Just as Hood’s men
charged down the hill near the Henry
House upon the first Federal line, and it
became evident he would capture the bat¬
tery stationed there, a Federal artilleryman
determined to save one of the cannon, if
possible, and to do so he had to take it up
the side of the ditch in front ot the Confed
erates for half a mile. The ditch was foui
feet wide and as many deep, and could not
be crossed with the eai non. How he pot
his horses hi ched or whether they had re¬
ally ever been taken from the piece I never
have known but the first 1 saw of him he
was coming up our front in a sweeping gal¬
lop from the cloud of pmoke and Hc.od’s
men were filing at him. As soon as he es¬
caped liora that volley he crane in front of
ourbrigi.de and under range,of our muskets
on the left aud as he swept on up the lice a
file fire was opened up on him. Our line
was approaching the ditch at a double-quick
and the lane between us and the ditch was
getting narrower each second, but the artil¬
leryman seemed determined to save his gun
from capture and he flew a'ong his coursi
at a tremeudous speed. He had [four large
gray or white horses to the cannon and they
came up the valley in splendid style. The
man sat erect and kept his team well in
hand, while his whip seemed to play uyon
the flanks of the leaders and all four horses
appeared to leap together iu regular time.
The ground was very dry and a cloud of
dust rolled out from under the horses’ feet
and from the wheels of the cannon as they
came thundering along.
Three regiments of our brigade had al¬
ready fired at him as he rushed along their
front and as he approached the left of
another I rau down the rear rank shouting
to the men: “Shoot at the horses I Let the
man alone and shoot at the horses! You
are firing too higtil” At this I saw a noted
marksman in Company F drop upon one
knee and sight along the barrel of his mus¬
ket and fire, but on came the man and the
gallop of his team unbroken. Ramming in
nother cartridge the marksman was ready
again in a minute and just as the cannonier
swept across his front within 100 yards, he
kneeled down and taking deliberate aim at
the foremost horse fired again, but on went
the team as before. Thus he passed along
he whole front of our regiment and then
along another on our right and escaped
around the head of the ditch and across the
field and up the hill beyond. As far off as
we could see him his team was still going in
a gal'op, but when out of range ou the hil
beyond the ditch he turned in his saddle,
and taking off his hat, waved it around his
head several times and some of the Con¬
federates cheered him
At least 500 men fired at that Yankee
gunner, and I have often wondered if he
escaped death in the subsequent battle of
the war and lives to tell of the fearful gaunt¬
let he ran along the front of a whole brigade
of Confederates firing at him,—[Capt. H. T.
Owen in Philadelphia Times.
A Simple Me Heine.
A young man who was supposed to be
breaking down with consumption, and for
years(batt!ed for life with very little prospect
of recovery, was encountered recently in a
city restaurant. “I see,” he said, “that you
seemed surprised at my improved appear¬
ance. No doubt you wonder what could
have caused such a change. Well, it was a
very simple remedy—nothing but hot water.
As a last resort I consulted a physician who
had paid special attention to this hot-water
cure, and was using it with many patients
He said: “There is nothing, you know, that
i3 more difficult than to introduce a new
remedy into medical practice, particularly
if it is a very simple one, and strikes at the
root of erroneous views and prejudices that
have long been entertained. Now the only
rational explanation of consumption is that
it results fxom defective nutrition. It is al
ways accompanied by mal-assimilation of
food. In nearly every case the stomach is
the seat of a fermentation that necessarily
prevents proper digestion. The first thing
to do is to remove that fermentat on, and
put the stomach into a condition to receive
food and dispose of it properly. Th : s is ef
fected by taking water into the stomach as
hot as it can be borne, an hour before each
meal. This leaves the stomach clean and
pure, like a boiler that ha3 been washed out.
Then put into the stomach food that is in
the highest degree nutritious and the least
disposed to fermentation. No food answers
this description better than tender beef. A
little stale bread may be eaten with it. Drink
LEARY, GEORG I fv Y, MAY 11, 1883.
t.Oth? ng but \t 4^ liifie of that
at mea's as possible. Vegetables, paitiv,
tweets, tea, coffee and alcoholic
should be avoided. Put tender beef a lorn t
into a clean and pure stomach three times
a day, and the system will be fortified and
built up uutil the wasting away, that is the
chief feature of consumption, ceases, and
recuperation sets in. So impressed was 1
by this reasoning that I resolved to try 'this
simple remedy at once. 1 began by taking
one cup of hot water an hour before each
meal, and gradually increased to three cups,
At first it was unpleasant to take, but now 1
drink it with a relish. I gained grouii
rapidly, and now feel that I am on the sure,
road to recovery. I am convinced, from
my own experience and what I have gleaned
from others, that almost any disturbance
the human system that results from disor-
ders of the stoma h can be alleviated, and,
in most instances, cured iu the same wa .”
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Forms of Lightning.
_
A flash of bghtning is a very large spark
of electriey, just the same thing that one
sees given by an electric machine
in a lecture on natural pbiloso-
phy, the on'y difference being that
the best machine will not give a spark
more than a yard long, while some flashes
of lightning have been estimated to be
several miles in length. According to their
appearance various names have been given
these sparks’ iD the sky, though in reality
all the several kinds are one and the same
thing, On a warm summer evening one
often sees the clouds on the horizon lit up
with brilliant glows of lightning, unaccom¬
panied by any sound of thunder. To this
appearance the name of “heat lightning”
kas been given, and the warm weather is
often assigned as it cause. Iu point pf fact,
the heat lightning is only that of a thunder
shower so far off that, that while the ob¬
server can see the flash, no sound pf the
thunder reaches him, and the enterveuing
clouds veil and reflect the flash until it be¬
comes a glow, instead of the sharp streak
usually seen. Where the flash, starting
from one point, branches out and divides
into severalpairts, it has received tha. J name
of ‘ forked lightning.” This is usually
seen
when the dischwite.i*. tv>,g observer
Single flashes bearing a zigzag or crinkled
aspect are denominated “chain lightning,"
probably from their resemblance to a chain
thrown loosely on the ground. Again,
when several discharges occur from about
the same pt°oe at the same time, and are
screened by rain or clouds so as to light up
the heavens with a broad, bright glow, the
title of “sheet lightning” is applied. These
four comprise all the common forms, There
is, however, one manifestation called “ball
lightning.” In this phonomena a small
globe or ball of apparent fire rolls slowly
along the ground, and alter a time suddenly
explodes, scattering destruction around.
These are few instances of this on record,
and no very satisfactory explanation has
ever acecounted for the curious appear¬
ance.
A Three-Cent Stamp Worth $00.
In 1816, while awaiting supplies from the
department at Washington, the postmasters
of certain cities were authorized to issue
stamps temporarily. Among othei'3 so is¬
suing was the Postmaster of Brattleboro.
Eight hundred stamps were printed, and of
these one-half were burned. .Collectors have
been in search of some of these stamps, and
it was considered a hopeless matter to pro¬
cure one of them One collector, however,
who was shrewder than the rest, instituted
a Eeareh for the engraver, whom he found
residing in Springfield, and he had still re¬
maining seven of the precious squares,
which he disposed of to the collector for
seventy five cents each, besides furnishing
indubitable proof of the genuineness
the issue, the very existence of which was
doubted, The fact of the purchase leaked
out, and a dealer offered $1 apiece . for six .
of the seven. This wa3 refined b/
original purchaser, who demanded five times
that sum, and before the money reached
him, although it was sent with promptitude,
he had an offer of $10 apiece. Being an
honest man, he stuck to his first offer, and
parted with six for $30. The mo3t precious
of the lot, which bore the engraver’s name,
he retained possession of, and this is the
one he has now sold for $100—Boston,
Traveler.
Where the Lawyer Comes in.
“I settled with the dissatisfied heirs
the estate and received their receipts for
$1,200 and a release for all further claim,”
said a Brooklyn lawyer the other day to a
reporter in reference to a family contested
will in which about $45,000 worth of prop
erty was involved.
“Was that all the contestants received ?’
“That all 1 Don’t you want to leave any*
thing for the lawyer ?” and the colloquy
terminated. The residue of the estate
bequeathed to the widow and two
of the deceased.—N. Y. Herald.
The New South at Work.
® I . land and Pennsylvania were well
s;;fji J cl with the division of work in this
c<>u k, when to thesonth was assigned the
mi bof cotton and the buying from other
sec , h of nearly everything else ; but now
win [the south proposes to make pig iron
frofifrsr rich and inexhaustible ores, and
coi goods from her great staple, the
g<v n at the north does not hang near so
flharc is trouble both in New Eng-
lat $ Pennsylvania. The cotton mans’
fa. and pig iron dealers alike
4.hat a change is impending. The
, % urers of cotton confessed that the
t . r. the sou h are changing the current
!e, when they asked the railroad
11 ', tnies to act tariff bill by giving
us a
1 wer rates of transportation on their
p >Mct-> than similar goods bear. The
r i®ads refused to put upon their stock-
’ Mrs such a burden and now New Eng-
Uni" must fight it out in open rivalry at no
h 1 < l4< ’’advantage A bale of cotton costs
Lin the cotton belt $7 less than a bale
1 •a manufacturer in Massachusetts or
N^Hampshire. ti.“ Besides this handsome
n for profit, manufatucred goods are
car ■- cl from southern mills to the great
tradr centres of the northwest for about one
half less than similar goods are carred from
Boston or New York, Such differences as
these are bringing about natural results, and
the dpi ire country begius to understand that
the longer Manufacture and sale of cotton goods is
no to be monopolized by^New Eng-
land tf How far or how fast the revolution
will go on no one can tell; but all can see
thatjt has begun,
Iikilie iron trade a very similar revolution
hasJbeen started. The price of iron is
goi* down. “As regards the future of the
irommarket,” says the well informed Boston
Hemld, “it appears certain now that no
permanent improvement is to be expected
untifcthe extent of the threatened revolution
caused Tenpessee by cheaper and Virginia production in Alabama,
can at least be
counted.” This is the whole story in a nut
she?!. Pittsburgh has struck a snag, and
^ rnaces that draw their ore from Lake
S ior or other distant localities, are
tt face to face with furnances that can
0 re, coal and lime witnin sight of'their
stacks.
In a word, the cotton mills are coming to
the cotton fields, and the iron furnaces are
seeking the best beds of raw material.
These changes will bring trouble to some
localities, and joy to others, but in trade as
in all life the rule is, the survival of the
fittest. If the south can make cheaper
cottons or pig iron, she need not trouble
herself about the schemes of her rivals, no
matter how rich or strongly entrenched they
may be Horace Greely’s advice is begin¬
ning to be heeded—“Build your shops and
factories where the raw material is proluc
ed.”—Atlanta Constitution.
Books in Plenty the Death oi Conversation.
We are deluged with books that are born
and fret their hour upon the counter and
then are heard no more. Books—not
account books, but books of no account.
Books catalogued in the commonplace.
Every one takes his turn at a novel or a
drama, and society is the loser by it; for
wbat might pass current in a spontaneous
way for cleverness, when saved up and
dealt out ill book formula, looses ground
and proves itself not worth saving. People
are niggardly of being bright, clever and
witty in society because they are saving up
for the'eoming book that shall surely yet
be written, and that every one is supposed
to be writing. AU the bon mots are care-
carefully tucked away, nothing is given out
of itself. Every story has a price in the
book market, and the vapid consequence of
al i thi3 ia that in general 80ciety conversa-
{Jqh has ceased to exist, People no longer
meet to converse. Life is too absorbing,
groups in pleasant parlors have pass-
^way. A larger scale of entertainment
interrup ts all this. Parties are of the past
—"receptions” are the only wear—very
cr ushy, very vapid, very, very much all
alike, unless a deliberate stand is taken by
gome wearied soul and a form of entertain-
ment is fixed upon, and in such case one is
invited to be privileged guests at the unfold-
ing of the statue of—i. e., Mr._’s M S
twenty foolscap pages, read by the author •
or, it may be, Mrs. -’s blank verse, or
somebody will strain forth Browning. So¬
ciety has littlsrfpontaneitv since the whole
world turned author, and publishers have
taken from it what they cannot pay back.
—Boston Transcript.
Too Hot a Trail.
One of our fox hunters gave a Journal
scribe the following account of an adventu-
rous : One morning recently,
* was cross ihg < lots with
aB my hound I
aw an re ^ * ox run into a thicket. I
u l the dog on his track and concealed
mjse if ; n the thicket, knowing that a fox
will often circle and pick up his own track.
I could hear the hound baying away off
toward New Gloucester. Then it changed,
aud grew more and more distinct, and 1
knew the fox was returning. I must have
waited some half hour, when'I saw the fox
dart into a hollow log a little distance to
my left. But as he went out the other end,
1 remained in my hiding place, supposing
it was a trick of the fox to throw the dog off
his track. The dog was puzzled only au
instant, and followed the fox on a long
circuit this time, but in the course of an
hour I saw it again enter one end of the log
and come out at the other. Thinks I, ‘My
chap, i’ll show you a Yankee trick by
stopping up the further end of the log.
This I did, aud sgaiu hid myself, hoping for
a third returnj I was hidden about the
same length of time, when, by the voice of
my dog, I knew the fox was returning. A
few minutes later I saw the fox enter the
log. I ran up to the open end aud Boon had
it secured. This being done, I awaited the
coming up of the dog, which i tied to a
sapling while 1 went out to get au ax. I
soon got back, and opened the log suffici¬
ently to see four foxes instead of one. 'How
was that ?' It is plain enough. One fox
would run until tired, then it would enter
the log, and another would take his place.
‘But why didn’t the hound bay the three in
the log ?’ ‘Because the trail was too hot.' "
—Lewistown (Me.) Journal.
Some Big Bank Notes,
The largest amount of bank notes in cir¬
culation in 1827 was £1,000. It is said
that two notes for £100,000 each, and two
for £50,000 each, were once engraved and
issued, A butcher, who had amassed au
immense fortune in the war times, went one
day with one of these £50,000 notes to a
private banker,"asking for the loan of £5,-
000, and wished to deposit the big note as
security in the banker’s hands, saying he
had kept it for years. The £5,000 was at
once handed over, but the banker hinted,
at the same time, to the butcher the felly of
hoarding such a sum and losing the inter¬
est. “Werry true, sir,’’ replied the butcher,
‘‘but I likes the looks on’t so werry well
that I have t'other one of the same kind at
An eccentric gentleman of London
framed 8 bank post-bill for £30,000, and
exhibited it for five years in one ol his
sitting rooms. The fifth year he died,
when the “picture” was at once taken down
and cashed by his heirs.
Some years ago, at a nobleman’s house
near Hyde Park, a dispute arose about a
certain passage in Scripture, and a dean
who was present denying that there was
any such text at all, a Bible was called for.
When it was opened a marker was found in
it, which, on examination, proved (o be a
bank post-bill for £40,000. It might pcs
aibly have been placed there* as a reproach
to the son, who, perhaps, did not consult
the Bible a3 often as his mother could have
wished.—London Titbits.
How Perfume is Extracted.
One of the best methods of obtaining per¬
fumes is by the use of grease. The process
is called maceration. The best fat employ
ed is marrow, which is melted in a water
bath and strained. While it is still warm
tbe flowers are thrown in and left to digest
for several hours. They are then taken out
and fresh ones are placed in the grease.
This is continued for several days. The
grease and perfume are then separated by
tbe use of alcohol. Beef marrow is not the
only substance used in extracting the odor
from the flowers. Inordorus oils are slso
used, especially refined olive oil, which is
more extensively employed in the south of
Europe. The process used for delicate
plants, such as jessamine, tuberose and cas¬
sia, which will not allow the us3 of heat, is
on the principle of absorption. A layer of
purified lard and such mixture is spread on
the glass bottom of a square wooden box,
and upon this freshly gathered flowers are
spread every morning as long as the flower
is in bloom. The boxes are kept shut, and
the grease soon acquires a very strong odor.
In saturating oil, instead of glass bottoms
to the boxes wire ones are used, upon which
cloths soaked inoil are laid, and the boxes
or frames are piled upon each other to keep
them close. After the oil-soaked cloths are
sufficiently charged with the perfume, they
are placee in a press and the oil is squeezed
out.—New York Sun.
TfcXNYso.v is one of the finest looking men
in thejworld. A great shock of rough,
dusty, dark hair, bright, laughing, hazel
eyes, massive aqueline face, most massive
yet most delicate, of sallow-brown complex¬
ion, almost Indian-looking, clothes cynical¬
ly loose—free and easy; smokes infinite
tobacco. His voice is musical, metallic, fit
for loud laughter, piercing wail, and all
that may lie between; speech and specula¬
tion free and plenteous; I do not meet, in
these late decades, such company over a
pipe.—Letter of Carlyle in 1844.
Vol. I. No. 41.
ALL SORTS.
A firBt-class affair—Graduation.—Balti¬
more Sun.
Reserved seats—patches for a small boy’s
trousers.—New York News.
An awkward boy is a chip of the old
stumbling block.—New York News.
Quick sales and small prophets—The
wea-her prognosticators.—Harlem Times.
1 be donkey never suffers from softening
of the brayin.—New Orleans Piacyune,
It is at the quilting “bee” where you
hear the stinging remark.—New York News.
An organ grinder is not the architect of
his own four tunes—New York Advertiser.
There will be a bull movement as soon
ns fly time sets in.-Boston Commercial
Bulletiu.
irpitaph for a dead oarsman : "This was
the noblest row man of them all.”—Balti¬
more Sun.
Off on a tear -The tail of a coat-Out
at the elbow—A disconnected stove-pipe.
—Harlem Times.
Osculation is the art of bitting the popu¬
lar taste, and it is mostly hit with a Miss.
—New York News.
Some people are like a well- used rocking-
chair ; they are always ou the go, but never
get ahead.—Boston Transcript,
It is said that history repeats itself, In
this respect a man at the telephone resem¬
bles history.—New York Advertiser.
If a ship-owner wants to auction off his
vessel he should not put to sea in a storm.
He might lo3e the sail,—New York News.
Isn t it a little paradoxical to speak of a
man as a crank when he is so set in his
mind that you can’t turn him?—Boston
T-anscript.
The leather dealer does not insist upon
harmony of opinion among his customers.
He likes to have them take sides.—Boston
Transcript.
Worth her weight in gold” is not the most
complimentary thing that can be said about
a woman, as she would Lave to weigh 300.
—Pittsburgh Dispatch. < .
Ihe latest story is that of a man who can
heat a bucket of water in ten minutes by
just sticking his nose into it, That’s easily
accounted for—his nose has got a boil on it.
—Burlington Free Press,
A lady friend won’t allow the saleswoman
to try ou her gloves for her, not because it
is hard work on the saleswoman, but because
our lady friend will have nothing to do with
counter fits.—Boston Transcript.
No, I won’t take your combings and
have them, made into bangs,” growled Mr,
Oldhusband to his wife, this morning. “Why
sir." “Because I’d be arrested for tress-
passing.”—Pittsburgh Telegraph.
Anna Eliza writes to ask why a poor man
invariably keeps dogs. We have not given
the question much consideration, but we
have concluded that a poor man supports a
dog to keep “the wolf from tbe door.”
—Youkers Statesman.
On the street; “I understand that you
own a great many houses and small farms
in tbe suburbs.” "Yes.” “Do you live ou
any of them?” “No.” “Then you don’t
raise anything?” "Oh, yes; every spring
I raise rents.”—Philadelphia News.
‘ I’m going to masquerade ball
a nex
week,” said a baldheaded man to his f riend
“and I would like to have you advise me in
regard to choosing a costume.” Glancing
at the shinning pate before him, the adviser
observed: “You want something simple,
yet appropriate, I suppose ?”‘ ‘Yes, that’s i
exactly. What would you suggest?’’ “Well
all you need is a green dress and a wel
varnished head, and you'll be a perfect egg
plant ”—New York Advertiser,
Regal Trappings.
The maguificent mantle which the
Czarina will wear at the coming coronation
is made of cloth of gold, bordered with
armorial bearings embroidered in silk and
gems. The crown placed on her'head will
be the one used at the coronation of the
Empress Catherine II, and Elizabeth. Its
value is estimated at three million of rou¬
bles, and it is composed of diamonds, rubies,
and a large number of pearls. In her
sceptre will blaze the great Orloff diamond,
which is said to weigh eight carats more
than the Koh i-noor. The procession will
consist of thirty-three carriages. That of
the Czarina was made at Berlin by the or¬
ders of Frederick the great, and presented
by him to the Empress Elizabeth. It is a
kind of double throne without springs,‘.but
hung on four bands of red velvet, A single
window, framed in white satin, forms the
front, and the imperial eagles and the crown
set in brilliants adorn the panels. It will
be drawn by eight white horses, caparisoned
with red velvet, and flashing with gold and
precious stones.—New York Sun,