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Ron! B. B. Bower Walters,
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, , COUXTY Judes,;,.Quarterly COURT,, ,
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JUSTICE!) NOTARIES OF- .TUB* PUBLIC. PEACti ASD
( C.
, 574th DiBtricf, — R. J. avd ThtgPV*»v,J,F-;. ^j0fPp»Oj,J- P
r. Blocker, N. P. each '
Courts held third Wednesday in
lliotith. , v\;- ?m rj-*‘’ . *.'* T ,
112:3d District—J/L.- W.ilkerson, J. I •
John Hilsis,.N. jP.,'. Courts held second
Thursday Dlstrict^Jf.L. iu each ipontri ^ J. P-vNi',^.'
826th Price, Saturday
Pace, N. P. Courts' held third
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In each month. / ,. , .’ v.
,1283d District—C. _ 4, McDattli',), montlu $.,„K
Courts held first Saturday in J.Y. eacii C. L
1316—Thos. \V., Holloway; 2nd Saturday : y
gmlth* N: P. Courts held
in each month. . 4'riffln> p A'iV^r A.-'
,1304— 1304—Tho*. 7’hos. II. II. griffin, J J..P , K K AfiB9v
Cordray, lordrav. . N. N. P. P. Courts held 1st Saturday
in each mouth. -—rcrFTS',- .wx
Baker Count/ Dlrectary,
SUPERIOR COURT.
Judge; ‘ TFalters, dj J’ 8% 1
B. B. Bower, F, ,pUfllpetti„,Gl,qrk^
Heitor General; B«
Spring term convenes ©JR ti Monday bif,. ASopd^y in No¬ Jy,
May. Fall term on first
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COUXTY COURT. ^ )( . s^.-
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coe.vTr on rceis
Tki Receiver, J. M. Odom;,Treasurer, L.
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jbsTlbES OF THE PUBLIC. PEACE ASt) A
TARISS i
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97 1st District—8. J. Livingston, :
if , C.fMpm.N. P.: Courts held 1st Sat-
tmlay'in each month.
9 Wth District^ T. Galloway J. P
3^?ffi'LhVnth. COUrt9
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957th District—G. D, Lamar, J. P., H
|ayia nidnlli.
OSL? A LEAF OF GERAXIuk.
Only a leaf of gerimuiHi
Hidden away in a book:
But memories tender and painful
Crowd on my heart us I look,
What influences, subtle and dreamy,
May hide in the breath of a flower!
Aud this, though faded and scentless,
Recalls to me Love’s golden hour
Only a leaf of geranium—
Dead as dream it recalls;
But over its poor crumpled ashes
The dream of remembrance still
falls.
The spell of the moonlight and twilight
The spell of the voice soft apd low
;
Still clings round the leaf tbs*, was
broken
And given to mo long ago.
Only a leaf of gt-renium,
Only one beautiful hour:
Its memory still clings to thy spirit
As perfume is wed t» a flower.
Ali the r< pt of my life 1 have missed him
Our lives path' have never more
crossed;
But the joys vve have missed grieve us
Even more than the joys we have lost
Only a leaf of geranium—
Somebody gave it to me.
Somebody who shall be nameless,
One I shall ne\e more see,
Gave it to me as we parted,
Not to remember him by;
Long ago.be has forgotten it,
1 shall be true till I die.
Only a leaf of geranium—
When I am dead, on my grave,
(When o’er my heart lying lowly
Summer-time grasses shall wave.)
Wreathe ms t’o bright bloomiiig”gnr-
lands,
But plant on the mound if you will,
Only a leaf o/ geranium,
To show I lemembcr him still.
What The Boys Foun^ the
Rock-
“I’m gniu^to try ’em,” twinkled. said Graud- Grand¬
pa Gray; Gray’s aud his eyes
pa were always twinkling.
He meant his three small grand-
sous, Hal and Herbie nod Had.
So at dinner grandpa said to grand-
ma: .....
“I wish r had time to take that
rock out of the yard theie. It’s* a
real eyesore to me.” asked _
“Can’t' we, grandpa?” the
Boys.
“Well—yes, If you want to,” said
-he;'“and I’ll be tniicliobliged to you.”
So diiectly after dinner the? set to
work. It rtidu’t look'like a very large
rock. But it was a good deal larger
than it looked, really.
“Pooh!” falii Herbert;'“I’ll take it
out in no time!” aud he got a stout
stick and tried to pry up the rock.
But life stick” broke and Herbie got £2
fall from whicli' Ue jUmp'ed up' re C-*
aud angry, .
r He: and he
“Mi an old thing!'’ said
put* his hands in his jlocketo and
watched Hal 8ud Had tug at it until'
their faces were red too. '
Then the three of them lifted togeth-
er; hut if wasn’t a mite of use.
“Let’s pet tiie,hoe!” crowbar!” said Had. said Hal.
“And the little
“Aud tile Shovel!” said Herbie.
So Had hoed around it and Herbie
shoveled and Hal pushid the crowbar
xihdlt the rock, aud bore down on it
with idl/his might, and the three little
dcarlet faces needed a great deal of
*FA'' »“ lb ° ^
looking out through the vines.
shout ^
But'just then a great an-
BiUcBd WU done: aid
four silver dime»jo.,e a»i--oe and
one for lock. -
.
" H “ rr 1 b fu ; •T a * r
boys; and .at that veiy minute - grand-
walie'd °nt of the floase. , ,
“Pretty well done!” said he, giving
each little head a pat as he came to it
“Prettv—Well—done!” t . , , ,
AdA now the boys aid anxious to
d'g out ...___„ anoRier „„•___„,,, rock, but n i nn
dimis ( wont
thinks may be silver grow
the next one.
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LEARY, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 2 i 1883 .
- - v-r-.- “g %—— w~
The Other Sort of Swindler.
There Were sij or eight of us in the
qmokiiig cur as the train was running
down to * est Point from Atlanta,
and everything was Lvely Until the
seventh man got on at a small station.
He had no sooner entered the car than
he looked fixedly at the mau who liad
been telling us snake stories, and di¬
rectly be walked up to him aud called
out:
“Hu! you infernal swindler, I’ve
found you at lust!”
“Who’s a swindler?”
“Yon are!”
“I neVer saw you before!”
‘.You’re a liar, and I’m going dish to
pound eighteen dollars worth of
out of you!”
It was presently discovered that be
recognized the snake story, fnau as a
fruit-tree agent who had sold him some
grape vines, which did not show up,
and he was spitting on Iiis hands and
m iking ready to do .the pounding,
when the other remarked:
, “My dear fellow, I insist tipon it
that you are mistaken. I was never
in the fruit-tree business, and I never
swindled you onf of eighteen dollars.”
“I say you did.”
“Never! Instead of swindling you
out of eiglitem dollars in grape vines,
I am the man who churgad you six¬
teen dollars too much for a sewing
machine, and Iitr ’s your money.”
“Well 1 now, come to look mme
closely at you, I believe you’re right,”
said the seventh man.
“Of course I’m right,” growled the
other, as he ci nnted out the ,mone.v,
“and I warn you to be a little more
carcirl in the future. I liave a repu¬
tation to sustain, and grape vine
swindles are not iu my line. lime's
. -1 s . j : t * *
your fixfeea dollars’ and now I think
von ought to apologze !”—Detroit
Free l‘re,<s,
$lie Was Satisfied.
“Ten cents for sich a little mite of
paregi.iip as t.LfvVj” she growled, as
slie ! ekf up the phial
“Yes’m.”
“Has paregoric riz?”
“No.”
“But-I’ve ofien got double this
amount for ten cents. You must
Rave made seven ceuts clear profit.”
“I made exactly eight, my dam.”
“Why, that’s clear r./bbe y!*’
“Madam,” replied the druggist, ns
he pasted on the label! “if I should
accidentally poison your husband
to-Qiorrow you would waut &00 in'
ca8 |,i”
“Yes, all/oi that” ,,
“Well, I haven’t got but- §450, and
am j n ft b urr y to make up the re-
mil iuder, so 1 bat I can put the cash
y0 ^ r ' }, ai)( Js without wait
jg_ j>m nbt the mull to cheat a
[)0or w jq e V 0 ut of @50 in these hard
tj ffle3 .»
“OJi, that’s it, is’ it? Well you
fulfe hke an honorable man, and I’m
gj a d yon explained!” *
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One of the remarkable characters in
Washington is Dr. Mary Walker. It
seems a good many years since the
Doctor began to attract attention, yet
she has a rather you bful look Stian-
ger s who meet’ her on the street n'ljecoud seh
f i otn f.,n to turn about to get
lo()k at her . She is slender apd short
alul fn , g n e looking. She .
j 10W ever, the weak woman she appears
S.U, Her longue Ji.u lhe vi^r nii.,1
|py is threatened with trouble With !
' ^ i clerk in the Pension
Jfo, , s a 8 ,,„ te ..!
oftimt «oll-l.ea.-te.l cl.il.l • Mlio far
Aat.SiiireWj «W»*- Teller, of *** Hie * Ijiterior
) Dr - “sr
v iCiltioD a W oek or so ago, and^
General Dudley seized the opportnniiy,
t0 "drop her a note, informing her that
per Services weie do lo/iggr requiiad.
Gen/ Dudley received gn immediate
e ’ ly H? Dr. Mary “V 3 K gave him " to under-
stan(1 -“T that he doesn t , know ' what , T' , be
.
wnts aud she will make him
having writ en Imr a note as noon
Mien turns o as nn 0 on. i l
Iffusqiutoes in Mississippi.
“7 -
•‘Now, s'.ijr, aiipWer, me truthful v.
Do yon believeJfclffit six of your big¬
gest tuusquitoeS could kill a mule if
lie was tit a up out tlieivY”
Ho hulked at me in amazement for
a minute ami then went, to the door
and beckoned in a man sitting on a
box and watching the horses. When
the man c one in the native said;
■‘William, you remember that air
roan mule of you is?’’
“I j reckon/,’
1 u perfect uealth, wasn’t lie?”
“?F9,5P-” Goilltl like , , flier , aud , kick
‘ run a
like a saw log?” |( i ,,,
, “And he wyis all u’.cnie in a ten acre
lot, William?”
•‘He was.” ,, ,,,
....
t < Aud two of them mufl-sWatnp
skeete.-sfcot arter him olio morning
anil run him doWu aud killed him
and devoured both hams and sucked
every drop of blood in his body.
William speak up."
“Stranger, if they didn’t, tl/eu, j
hope to .be chawed! to rags,” said
William, end lie said it exactly like
a man who. wouldn’t have allowed
there were two skeeters if ho hadn’t
been earnestly convinced of tlie fact
Ho walked out doors, and a deep si¬
lence toll upon us two, br. kou only
aft-r a long inteival by the native
I
saying.
I’vg all ns kinder suspected that dem
two skeeters b.fcl a-sistauce from a ho-s
fly, but I can’t prove if. I kinder
think the ho-s fly held Hmf dowti
while the murder Was committed.
.llfiSv. FK-coes. - S
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. i publishes the
The Loudon Baptise
following from the ” Walls of a church
in Lnbeck.” It is just such tin np-
ajipeal as we may all ‘ read, mark,
ledru and inwardly digest:” ,.
You call mo Master—aud you do
not ask my will. , ,,
You call me light—bht you see tne
not. 'trie ltoad— and follow
Yon call you
me not. ,
You call me Life—and you desire
me not. ;
You call me Wise—and imitate me
not. I. .
You call mo Good—anil you love
me not.
You call me Rich—and from me a>k
nothing. do not
You call meEt rual—and yet
seek me. .
You cal! me Merciful—but do not
trft't in me.
You call me Noble—ard do not
serve me.
T’o,!! call me All-Powerful -and do
not honor.me. : I <
Ypuciil! mo Just—afid yet do cot
feat me, „ .. ,, therefore
When I condemn you,
blame me not.
Jamefi arid the Fear
-
a,me „ /• 9
( < es, s.i. „
. t y .
. cuDboard Six’of them are
’ ri'. * J vim kndw anything about
lt ’, A
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Yn » wh-kcl ^ had bov S^och how-often
h an
tioim oomes mu' ^ let us
at ™ you'
.u Mtl ' ’ How dare
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Wl «,JJ* “‘V “
“"I 6 Nnd-aiul— . j soid ,
” S, n J thdt 1 r d urt we'
mie ute .
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^ tfgo’to ^
man W a 3 advised a ;
' ’ ^ imp-
. . advice The i,' doefur
d , very tblt CpBr p man,'
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1 whep » the invalid ■ , if i saw. w i,j inn n .lie be re r.e
n —
so him,
^^ ftny advic9 from
femam “Why you look to .be-a
confounded sight worse than I am.”
fcock'l Bad Boy.
“They don’t catch me on any of
their silver mines, as they did your
father,” said the grocery map (to the
bad boy. “But I hope this will have
some influence on you, and teach you
to respect your pa’s feelings, and not
play any jokes on hqp, while he is
feeling so had over l.'is being swin¬
dled as lie has been by the silver mine
frauds.”
“Oh, I don’t kpow abpnt tjiab • ,1
think when a man,is in ti'Opble, i( lie
lias a good little hoy, to ,pike Ida mind
from his troubles) atid get him mad ijt
something ( cjse, it resin hjm. Lust
nigiij; we i „!iiti 1 l, )iot .nuipje nyvhp and
biseqitfpr supper, uild.pa had a sancet
ijull iii front of him just a sterling.
I could .see, he,, was tlifukiiig
too much about his mining stock, ami
1 aii.vfching I
cou1,1 do to ^ Ilis mmd off of lfc ’
aud place it on something else, I
Would be doing a Uindgess that would
he app.eciatod. I sat On the right of
pa and when lie wasn’t looking I pul¬
led the table cloth so, t,|ie saucer of red
hot maple syrup dropped off, in his
lap. Well, you’d a dido to, see how
quick iiis thoughts turned fr< m his
fi nancial troubles to his physieial mis-
fortunes.
“There was about a pint pf jipj
i.jr ip, mid it went all over tyq lap,
and know how hot lyelted maple.su-
gar i«, andlioWjit flort of clings to
anything.,, Pa jumped up anfj grab, T
bed, hold qfhis pajits lcg^ to quill them
away, froth himself, ah^, !:e ^anced
around and (j tnjld me to p.irn .tlpvhose
Cjti him, and tlu-n, he tmo^,a, pj^Ciler of
Iceqvaler and poill'ed It ilowii Ids pants
and hssajd. the condi miic^ old t^ble
wti8,gi ttipg so liekety that, a siyieer
that a saucer wouldn’t stay oil if and I
told pa if he wqtild p'd sprite-tar on
hir; leg-, the same kind tl.'iit he told
me topiit on my lip to, make my
mopstaclio grow, the syrup wouldn’t
b,urn sp, ; and ,then lie culled me,
.
and. t tivik, lifi felt bittei> l^is ft
tSiWfy,-*'' ■ ff
trotiblps, |v.u where a man lia-p't got
any mind, like you, for iiistanciy”
At this, point tl^e groceryinrn pick¬
ed up a fire poker, aijd rlie hoy went
out iu *i hurry anc| hung up a sign in
fi.pilt of the grocery, “Ca-h paid for
fat Dogs.
Looking L i i the Bright Side.
on
i v
Tlie dispositions pf Kime to look on
the bright side of eviqytjiing was il-
I list rated on a far yves'eni. road the
oilier day. Ap old gpntlpnmn had
been an attentive li«tener to the some-
wluit remarkable expedenpe of iiis
fji(ow travelers b-caking into tjlie cul¬
mination of ^nch g.ne,cdote. witji ^ pi¬
ous ejaculation of p;;aise for comg^re¬
deeming incident in the subject under
discussion. Finally they g?t to set¬
ting it up on the old man and R iling
stories in which it was hard for him
iy find anything to be grateful for.
fyit jie managed to get there eaph, trip,,
until the boys wdie m ally ftttheir wits
ends.
“But one, of the worst I ever heard
of,” compieneed.one, winking ,»t .his
cympunipqs to took out for a seller
Really the yfqrst was on tj|ie Savapnah
and Pensopoh road in 1862. \Yp mu
into a coal train, and not g soul e« r
“‘P* 1 - Not a ““l 1 Ev, ' r ^ 8001 ***
«»»««” ■ -
There was a rnoipents , pause,.,and , ,
-3, Ic.kM old man to
u*~
vently “Thank Qpdl”
“What for?” demanded t.l.ie, re)»tor
MJOrnfm. .“W Lat'r, vou tbankios
“To tliiaH j,;tl,tvere iHlled, oo tl#
Wsl" t!le ol<1 ®
=»“-*.«* T -»* IV>“ “ ***
spared.-d^ wh i,t a l,u;; you ;v,.ul J.l.ave
been bf ^re you ,reac|ij;d t your present
«ge- vhapkGo-1 ^ tfiat dj-asterT ■
,A n f) nfier that t.ic.v, 'i-'g him ;dpUf„
fofbevr^ an oW./imu aud they knew
mea, t i"> list t.i. ..
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, q esS girJ mn8t ,, e the flour
rif remarked Urn yoireg
ivln> liud I pen waltzing widi her
No. 52*
The Jury.
Prom Dili'..
Wlmtja tbi*j? r ,
An inteiligetit jury, daf'.ing, . .
But (hose me)), who look like igno¬
rant vicious loafers?
They,are jurors, dear. , (
EApfl that wall-eyed bhuckle-heud in
the tniddlq?
Ohl he ir, the foreman.
Why is,lie niaije foreman? *i M
Because ho knows 1 as than tho
others, j.
MyJ Rut. .vhat is a jury for? ,,
A jury, my precious is a holy of
toon good and true, who decide ques¬
tion", of justice for the people.
How is the questions submitted?
Why, the lawyers talk and cliow
tobacco aud abuse vitnesses, while
the judge and jurors take a nap and
then the judge is waked up by the
©leiyk, and gives liis,charge.
Aud what is thatV
As intelligent a summary of the
laws..bod ing on the question as he can
improvise. t i
Well, aftyr ihe poor judge has de¬
livered hi? yhstge?
Why then,the jurqis wake up, and
goqff.t ) decide t(ie. qase, , ,
But, they heard nothing of the evi¬
dence?
No. I;.
Nor of the law?
No. o )
But is net that awful?, ,.
No, it makes no difference
Gpj/ciojts! why? :
,Recallnq (hey conjfl understand noi*
ther,,if (i tj;e^ djtj.lietii*. , „ f .
Then What do they do when they go
off? I
play poker.;, ,,
Myl but Is that not a wickoi
game?,
Very. 1 » r
Howiopgdq they,pi<y? poker?,
If.no, pne has fly id |l>em, they play
until one map, is fractured.
How; fractured ?
Brpkq.
Apd then? • . , .
He^tpnses tiimwh oy woriug*
n verdict ,
Aujl the rest?
Biguit. i r v
Tlien this is the way tho law is ad¬
ministered!
Every time. , t , ,
But you, said this was the way the
jury did if no one had “fixed” them
Yes, Sweet.
How is a jury “fixed?”
That is a secret. , , , ,
XVell, w,fijPti n jury is “fixed,” how
is tile vftl'dict?
Immensely satisfactoiv.
Always?
Always.
To whom? .
To the side that did the fixing. ,
If I want auy further information
on this spliject to whom can I go?
To Mr. Ingersnll.-my dear.
i. e vF
Sh* Watched and Waited for Him-
I: t
Tiiey wire qn old couple; coming,
Ea.-t by, the Michigan Central. Wlren j
the ljrakemap q|inounced, “Marshall
—twenty minutes for dinner!” they
bofh left i he car.and./entered the eat¬
ing Indise,—Tiiey. had; scarce y seated .
tlmmselvep at fhe, talkie when the hns-
biind.tpok out his eld-fasliioncd buli’s
eye watch, squinted nt the time and
pa.-si d,)t to lqs wife with the remark;
“Now, I’ll eat and ypu {sold the.,
wntch, And if we git lefts’ll all t©
your faulty,, Siug out at the end of
eighteen fpiijutes.” r i
And the gyyid-mflUrejfi old wife sat;
there wjtliouA eating a ipiouChfnl and,
timmed ; hitn yvliilo he pitchforked
•«***» ?*"-"** ■ “*
, Never let your ze^l opt run youf
cliurity.,, Y’lie former is but bureau,
the latter is divine.
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,He who is tlip mpst slpw pi making
p^pnij^e is the most faithful iu the
performance V of it
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