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BUI* are due after the first Insertion, and the money will be called for wheu needed. 11* ShartymmiuurC Interest rind Item* cations on matters r«sp«ctlully of pub- solicited of news from every source. officers All adverttsemeuts. emanating from public will be charged lor in accordance wiih an act passed by the late General Assenably of each Georgia—75 of cents per insertions, hundred words for the first tour and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words ; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. JESSE E. MERCER, Editor and Proprietor. Ballroad Schedule. BLAKELY IXTEWSIOX. Leave* Blakely daily at 7:30 a.m.; arrives at Arlington at 8:80 a.in.; arrives at Leary at 8:80 am.; Leaves arrives at Albany at at 11:30 arrives a m. at Leary Albany 4:80 p m.; 6iE>7 at 6i58 pm: arrive! at Arlington at p.m.; arrives at Blakely at 8:12 pm. 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 .” ---- 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,