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S <» i i/ 0mm it m Vol. I. The Courier. PUBLISHED FAERY FRll)AY: SUB SCRIPT Ion' AM TE$. One one year. ci 5 0 copy, 75 One copy, six month*.! One copy, three monthis.' 50 (sTUl'CTLT IX ADVANCE.) ADVF.RTIS1XO RA TES. FPAOB. 1 w 1 m 3 in m | l y 1 Sqanre * 1 00 $ 2501$ 500 * 8 00 *12 00 3 “ 1 75 4 001 8 00 12 00: 18 00 9 2 50 5 00 12 00 1* 00 25 00 U CoPn 4 00 8 00 10 00 25 00 35 00 , u 0 00 10 (Ml 25 00: 35 00 00 00 10 00 15 00 35 00 00 00 100 00 One inch constitues a square, aud there ore twenty squares hi u column. Special notices in the Ifteal column!., ten cents per line for each insertion. 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MERGER, JESSE Editor and Publisher. jives Leaves tflalMf daily 8:30 it 7:30 a. arrives m.; ar- at at Arlington at a. m.; Leary at 9:39 a. m ; arrives at Albany at, it:30a. m. 4:20 arrives at Leaves Albany at arrives p. m.; Arlington Leary at 5:58 p. m.; at at 8:57 p.m.; arrives at Blakely at 8:12 p. m. GftBBty Hiroellry, . fi UPERJOR .^ulge; (/OURt. j.W. Ron! B. B. Bower Walters, PoHcttor flcne^J,,; H„ Ooram, Clerk. Spring term colivepea, on second Momlay lb March. Fall term on sceoni Afouday c ouxty officers': t.V t, , r :- Sheriff, W. # W. . Ordinary, A. I. Monroe; Tax Gladden; fax Collector, E.. .Treasurer, 8. .£oncs; C. Receiver, Thos. F. School Conlray,^ Coinsrti&s{\:lier, J.J. H. Gee; County C. P. Norton; Cor- Beck; County Surveyor, ouer, A. G. Gadson. , , COUXTY Judes,;,.Quarterly COURT,, , L.G. Cartlcdirc, ,1 cbrgf.ry, Miiy. Au¬ *ion» 4tlj jl/onday In Manthly tessions, gust and November. Every 4th Monday/ . . CQMXISSIQXERS It. fC- "9SAv 5 :" month. 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 . 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 vember. COUXTY COURT. ^ )( . s^.- John O. Perry. Mondays—Quarterly Judere. Alohtlpy, stens sions. held first r-es- _ . wmidApaPm. CoWyAsSlONEikn.R. , „ *. 1 — 7 coe.vTr on rceis Tki Receiver, J. M. Odom;,Treasurer, L. ^«« ey ° r ’ C D - ^ COr °' --* . b- jbsTlbES OF THE PUBLIC. PEACE ASt) A TARISS i 4 . L 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 . 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. . , a - } . 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!” * ..... “ — 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 q j ■ i I ■ * . 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 -. “ * ' onp ' , T- m ‘ • ' s'- % 9 el . ' j & ( ’ ‘ 1 „ " Yn » wh-kcl ^ had bov S^och how-often h an tioim oomes mu' ^ let us at ™ you' .u Mtl ' ’ How dare ' 1 k . , JT* , Wl «,JJ* “‘V “ “"I 6 Nnd-aiul— . j soid , ” S, n J thdt 1 r d urt we' mie ute . 1>J 1 ■ | ^ tfgo’to ^ man W a 3 advised a ; ' ’ ^ imp- . . advice The i,' doefur d , very tblt CpBr p man,' ’ ' 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. .. . ----— , , 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. ■ - r » VT ; ,He who is tlip mpst slpw pi making p^pnij^e is the most faithful iu the performance V of it ____ * j. 1 l .... , ' As there is . nothing iu . the ., , world, wn *i,i great but man, there is uotbing truly great but character. A l" legroom was so happy that h© *. ■\ f