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SI )t CftUjmm Counts Conrief, Vol, 2. The Courier. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. A’ VBSCR1PTION RA TES. One copy, one year................. $1 50 One copy, six months............... 75 One copy, three months............. 50 (STRICTLT IN ADVANCE.) ADVERTISING RATES. BRACE. 1w Ik 3m 6m 1 y 1 Sqaure $ S 2 50 * 500 $ 8 00 $12 00 2 “ 75 4 00 8 00 12 00 18 00 S a 50 5 00 12 00 IS 00 25 00 Col’n 00 8 00 16 00 25 00 85 00 ¥ 00 10 00 25 00 35 00 60 00 ‘‘ 10 00 15 00 35 00 60 00 100 00 One Inch eonstitucs a square, and there are twenty squares in a column. 8pedal notices in the local columnt, ten cents per line for each insertion. Professional cards inserted 88.00 a year The aboAc rates will not be diviated from as they have not becu made .with a view to reduction Advertisements must take the run of the paper, as we do not contract to keep them iu any particular place. Bills are due after the first, insertion,- and the money will be called for when needed. Ahort communications on matters of public interest and items of news respect¬ fully solicited from every source. All advertisements emanating from pub. lie officers will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—75 cents per hun dred words for each of the first four inser¬ tions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hun¬ dred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and sig¬ nature, is counted as a word. JESSE E. MERCER, Editor aud Publisher. Railroad Schedule, IU.AKELY EXTENSION. Leaves Blakely daily at 7:30 a. m.; ar¬ rives at Arlington at 8:30 a. m.; arrives at Leary at 9:89 a. m.; arrives at Albany at 11:30 a. ra. arrives at Leaves Albany at 4:20 p. m.; Leary at 5:58 p. m.; arrives at Arlington at 6:57 p.m.; arrives at Blakely at 8:12 p. m. Gouaif, Directory. SUPERIOR COURT. lion. B. B. Bower. Judge; J. W. Watters, BulUUor General; J. II. Coram, Clerk. 1 ■'• ring term convenes on second Monday MS *£. Fall term on second Monday COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary, A. I. Monroe: Sheriff, W. W. Gladden; fax Collector, E. S. Jones; Tax Receiver, Thos. E. Cordray; Treasurer, C. II. Gee; County School Commissioner, J.J. Beck; County Surveyor, C. 1*. Norton; Cor¬ oner, A. G. Gadson. COUNTY COURT. L. G. Unitledge, Judge. Quarterly ses¬ sions 4th J/ouday in February, May. Au¬ gust and November. Monthly sessions, every 4th Monday. COMMISSIONERS R. R. John Colley, J. G. Collier and J. T. B. Fain. Courts held 1st Tuesday in each month. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NO T A It IES P UBEIC. 574th District—R. J. Thigpen, J. P.; C. F. Blocker. N. P. and Ex-officio J. P. Courts held third Wednesday in each month. U23d District—J. L. Wilkerson, J. P. John Hasty, N. P. Courts held second Thursday in each month. 626th District—J. C. Price, J. P.; N. W. Pace, N. P. Courts held third Saturday in each raonth. • 1283d District—C. J. McDaniel, J. P. Courts held first Saturday in each month. 1316—Thos. W. Holloway; J.P. C. L. Smith' N: P. Courts held 2nd Saturday In each month. 1304—Thos. H. Griffin, J. P. John A. Cordray, N. P. Courts held 1st Saturday each mouth. Baker Gsuaty Directory. SUPERIOR COURT. B. B. Bower, Judge; J. IU. Walters, So¬ licitor General; B- F. Hudspeth, Clerk, Spring term convenes on first Monday in May. Fall terra on first Monday in No¬ vember. COUNTY COURT. John O. Perry. Judge. Monthly ses¬ sions held first Mondays—Quarterly ses¬ sions. COMMISSIONERS R. R. W. W. Williams. T. H. Caskie, J. II. Boddiford, H. T. Pullen. Courts held on first Tuesdays in eacli month. county Officers. Ordinary, W. T. Livingston; Sheriff, Odom J. B. George; Tax Collector, R. B. Tax Receiver, J. M. Odom: Treasurer, L. G. Rowell; Surveyor, C. D. Brown; Coro- nar, B. D. Hall. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NO¬ TARIES PUBLIC. 97Ut District—S. J. Livingston, J. P,; W. C. Odom. N. P.: Courts held 1st Sat¬ urday in each month. 900th District—G. T. Galloway J. P.; T. It. Caskie, N. P-; Courts held 2nd Saturday in each month. 957th District—G. D. Lamar, J. P., II S. Johnson, N. P. Courts held 3d Satur¬ day in eacli month. 1123 District—L. J. Mathis. J. P.:R. E. McCullun, N. B,. Courts held 4tk Aatur- sav in month. WAY OYER THE GOLDEN SEA. BY a. W. DUKE El!. Way over the golden sea Bright forms of loved ones I see, As they stand on the shore I behold them them once more, And gently they beckon to me. Way over the golden sea A mother stands waiting for me, And a halo of light, Makes her glorgiously brigli; As gently she beckons to ms. Way over the golden sea A father stands waiting for me, And hie voice I can hear, Gome this way—“do not fear,” As ho beckons me over the soa. Way over the golden sea A sister stands waiting for me, As resting iu love In the West home above, She lovingly beckons to me. Way over the golden sea Is a land from sorrow set free, And no storms assail, Though my bark it be frail, While the loved ones still beckon to me. Sistings. The Small Boy on Errands. Where is the small boy going? The small boy is going on an er¬ rand: How do you know that the small boy is going on an errand? Because t be small boy is in such a hurry. How can you tell that the small boy is in a hurry? I can tell you by the thoroughness with which he examines everything about him. Is this exercise veiy exhausting? Exceedingly; you see that he has to sit down and rest before he h is half completed his survey. But what jis the small boy doing now? In order to get to his destination the quicker, he ha-s jumped upon a passiug wagon. But the wagou is going in the direc¬ tion from which he came. It makes no difference. All roads lead to Rome, yon know, and all the directions are the same to the small boy. The only directions ho is care¬ less of are those which were given him when he started on his errand. Wbat is the small boy doing now? The small boy is now playing mar¬ bles with another small boy. Then he has forgotten his errand? Ob, no; he is only exercising his memory. He is trying to see bow long be can remember his errand amidst distracting circumstances. Will the small boy ever get to his destination? He will if he keeps on in the direc - tion he is now crawling. How soon do you think? I cannot say; but I once heard of a man who went around the world in 80 days.— Boston Transcript. The Deadly Parasol. Why does the young lady hag her sunshade so affectionately? She is in the employ of a surgeOD. In the employ of a surgeon? What do you mean? Do you not see the crutch of her sunshade now protruding from her left shoulder? Ob, yes, I see that quite plainly. There, did you see her gouge out that gentleman’s eye? It was neatly done. Very; that is probably the twentieth eye she has obliterated during her walk. Tiie surgeon will pav her for * her kindness to him. • Does she confine her operations to optics? No; sometimes she destroys a nose, and occasionally slashes a cheek. She is very versatile. She is more terrible than au army with banners. But do not the gentlemen bate her? Ob, no, they love aud admire her, but they detest and despise her para sol. Great is he who enjoys his earthen¬ ware as if it were plate, aud not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.—Leigh¬ ton. LEARY, GA m FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1883. How Mark Twain Secured a Sec¬ tion in a Sleeper. My dignity was in a state now which cannot be described. I was so ruffled that—well, I said to my com¬ panion, “If these people know who I am they—” but my companion cut me short there and said, “don’t talk such folly. If they diet know who you are, do you suppose it would help your high mightiness to a vacancy in a train wliicl^lias no vacancies iu it?” This did not improve my condition any to speak of, but just then I ob¬ served that the colored potter of a sleeping ear had his eyet on me. I saw his dark countenance light up. He whispered to the uniformed con¬ ductor, punctuating with nods aud jerks towards me, and straightway this conductor came forward, oozing politeness at every pore, and said: “(Jan I be of any service? Will you have a place iu the sleeper?” “Yes,’’ I said, “aud much obliged too. Give me anything, anything will answer.” He said: “We have nothing left but the big family stateroom with two berths and a couple of arm chairs in it, but is entirely at your disposal. Here, Tom, take those satchels aboard.” He touched his hat and wo aud the colored boy moved along. I was just bursting to drop ono word to my com¬ panion, but I held in and 'waited. Tom made us comfortable iu that sumptuous great apartment aud then said, with many bows aud a perfect affluence of smiles, “Now is dey any¬ thing you want, sail? don’t make no difference what it is.” I said, ‘Can I have some hot water and a tumbler at 6 to-night, blazing hot? You know about the right temperature for a hot scotch punch.” “Yes, sail, dat you kiujjou can pend on it. I’ll get it “Good! now that lamp is hung too high. Can I have a big coach candle fixed up jnst at the head of my bed so I can read comfortably?” “Yes, sah, you kin; I’ll fix it up my¬ self, an’ I’ll fix her so she’ll burn all uight. Yes, sah, an’ you can jes call for anything you wants, an’ dis yer whole railroad’ll be turned wroDg end up an, inside out for to git it for you. Dat’s so.” And he disappeared. Well, I tilted my head back; hooked my thumbs in my arm-hole, smiled a smile on my companion, and said gen¬ tly, “Well, wbai do you say now?” My companion was not in the humor to respond, aud didn't. The next moment that smiling black face was thrust in at the erack of the door and this speech followed: “Laws bless you, sah, I kuowed you in a minute. I told de conductah so. Laws! I kuowed you de n>.innte I sot eyes on you.” “Is that so, my boy? (Hand¬ ing him a quadruple fee.) Who am I?” “Junnel Modeller),” and he disap¬ peared again. My companion said vinegarishly. “Well, well! what do you say now?” Eight there comes in the marvelous co-incident I mention¬ ed a while ago, vix, I was— speechless and that is my couditioo new. Per¬ ceive it. Once More the Boy is Ahead- Among the guest of a New York ho¬ tel was a maiden lady from the rural districts. The landlord roticed that about 9 o’clock every night she would come down stairs, get a pitcher of ice- water and return to her room. “One night.” lie said, “I made bold to speak to her, aud asked why she did not ring the bell for a hall-boy to bring the ice-water to her. “But ihere is no bell in my room.” “No bell in your room, madam! let me show you, and with that I took the p.teller of ice water in my hand and escorted her to her apart- ment. Then I pointed ont to her the knob of the electric bell. She gazed a* it with a sort of horror, and then ex- claimed.- “Dear me! Is that a bell? Why, tiro kail t>oy told me that was the fire- alarm signal, and that I must never touch it, except in oaseof fire!’ “And that is how the hall boy saved himself the trouble of goi^g for water.”— New York Star. A tornado is very much like the quack doctor who strikes a new town. It comes with a big blow, and dessolation follows. Prepared for the Cholera- be laboring under considerable excite¬ ment, halted a policeman oa Lamed street yesterday, and asked: “Say, boss, what ’bout dat ’Gyp- slinu cholera de papers am mukin’ sich a fins ober?” “Why, they have the cholera over there,” was the reply. “An’ she’s gwine to spread to dis feentry?” “It may.” “An’ dey say it’s powerful hard on de cull’d populashun. . Man up Wood¬ ward avenue told dat it jumped right ober white folks to get at a black one.” “I believe that’s so.” “Wall,-Ize gittin’ ready fur it. Ize carryin’ an onion in each breeches pocket. Woman on de market tole mo dat was a suro stand-off.” “I shouldn’t wonder." “An’ Ize dunkin' a cup full o' vine¬ gar wid kyann pepper sprinkled in. Hardware man tole me dat was boss thing.” “Yes.” “An’ Ize soakin’ my feet in sour milk freb nights in a week an’ rubbin’ my spins wid keaosino ilo. “"'clier up Michigan avenue tole mo dat was asartin preventitive.” “I should think it was.” “An’Ize got tarred papea an’ cut soles to wear in my butes. Ouo of do aldermen tole mo dat do cholery alius strikes de feet fust thing. I reckon it won,t git frew dat tarred paper. An’ Ize been chewin’ a gum made of bees¬ wax aik’ taller, wid a leetle camphor- gum rolled in, An’ Ize been bled twice in de lust month, an’ bad a tootli pulled, an’ my ba’r cut, an’ my photo¬ graph taken, an’ I reckon if de cholera comes friskin’ around Detroit I needn’t bo oneasy .”—Detroit Free Press. Topnoody. When Topnoody came home from his office, his wife was in a particular disturbed frame of mine. •‘What is the matter, my dear?” he kindly inquired. “Don’t ask me that kind of a ques¬ tion, Topnoody. when you know how much work I have to do about this house to keep you comfortable,” she answered. “Why don’t you get a hired girl, my dear, to help you?” “Because I don’t want any hired girls arouud the house as long as you live here.” “You are not joalous, I hope, my dear? ’ “Oh, no, I’m not jealous, Topnoody. I flatter my sex that I am the- only one in the whole category who conld be susceptible to the blandishments of a Topnoody.” “Then why not get the hired girl, my dear?” “For the simple reason, Topnoody, that I don’t want you to be wearing yoifrself to a physical bankruptcy try¬ ing to make a mash on the girl, when there ain’t no more show for you than there is for a politician to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. One total wreck in the family is enough, and as I’m playing the total wreck act at present, and don’t want to have extra bother iu patching you up with liver pads and mustard plasters. Not any of that, thank you, in mine, until after sroat. You men think you are always mighty sharp, but tha women ain’t fools, if they do have to work hard and be sabmissive. Jealous, in¬ deed! Why, a hired girl who would let you smile at her wouldn’t have sense enough to carry slops to a pig. Now skip around and bring in some water and some coal, and fix up the fire so I cart get your sripper ready.’, Topnoody skipped.— Drummer. The Oil City Blizzard tells the fol¬ story: “An Oil City man, who a limb in the war, has never ap for a pennon. When asked why nevor made application, he explain¬ ed that lie felt amply compensated for the loss, because his wife eloped with another man while he was in the “I was so mad at George last night, said a girl of her sweotheart. “Yes,” said the ill-natured brother, “I noticed when I looked in the parlor, that in arms. *3 were up • Kiss Quick, Nobody is Looking. One evening last week, while coming from Long Brunch on a boat, a maid¬ en fair to see sat with her lover in the corner. The writer sat outside, near tho window. “Do you remember wlion we first met, darlipg?" he asked. “Yes, pet., sbo auswered, in oleom¬ argarine accents. “Do we love <ach other as well and truly as we did then?” “Yes, sweet.” “Will we always love each other as we do now?” “Yes, dove; I trust and pray that we may!” “One kiss, then. Quick! Nobody is looking” With eyes uplifted, looking love, she pursed her cherry lips, and just as the critical moment arrived a cruel, horrid man with a humpback nose aud saw- buck eyes poked his head through the window and remarked: “You didn’t see any thing ov my terbaoker did yer? I was siltin’ in tha^ corner. O, no! Here it is! Beg par¬ don!” and as be fished a paper of to¬ bacco from his coat tail pocket his head disappeared. She resembled a Roman motile 1 ’ pleading for her babes, and if she had had a guttling gun with her there would have been murder,— N. Y. World. A Disgusted Practical Joker. A member of the Wyndham Come¬ dy Troupe has a penchant for suakes and has put all his leisure time hunt¬ ing in Marin county for a rattle¬ snake. A friend of the gentlemanly snake-hunter fixed a little plant for him the other day. He procured from a natumlist a large specimou of the grass snake and bought r» rattle at a toy shop. The snake was placed on one aide of a large bush and the practical joker took tho other with his rattle. The actor was then steered to tho plant by the suggestion that the bush was a favorite resting plaoe for those reptiles but he was warned of the vicious manner iu which the true California rattlesnake attacked strangers. The actor, nothing daunt¬ ed, armed himself with a club and advanced on the bush. The joker pulled the string, jerked the snake into eight nnd sprung Ilia rattle. The actor launched his club at the mon¬ ster, missed him, hut fetched the man in ambush a fearful whaok on the head, which brought him to grass. Result—a disgusted aud sorely wound¬ ed joker and an actor who thinks California rattlesnake hunting a delu¬ sion .—San Francisco Examiner. A young man in Washington, who writes exquisite verses but is almost starving for lack of renuraerative em¬ ployment, and who for ahmg time has been trying in vain to get a place iu a Government bureau, the otlier day got friend to write to “Gail Hamilton,” invoking her supposed influence in his behalf. Some of the young man’s ver¬ ses were inclosed in the letter, as a sam¬ ple of his literary ability. Mi is Dodge, disclaiming the possession of any “in¬ fluence,” rep I sod in a serio-comic vein, iu part as follows: “I have ordered two departments to send me a first- class office in fifteen minutes. If both come I shall be embarrassed. If your young gentleman oould only take care of a horse and a garden as well as he writes verses, I could employ him my¬ self for the summer, and pay him bet ter than poetry, alas! But no! I shall have to eat bard corn und wilted Jet- luce all summer for want of a garden¬ er, while your young man will have nothing to eat for want of work.” “Hobson,’* said Muggins, “they tell me you’ve taken your boy away from the graded school. What’s that for?” “Cause.” said Hobson, “the master aint fit to teach ’im.” “Oh,” said Muggins, “I’ve heard he’s a very good master.” “Well,’’replied Hob¬ son, apologetically, “all I know is he wanted to teach my boy to spell ’taters with a ‘p’ ” Times of general calamity nnd con¬ fusion have ever beeu productive of the gieatest minds. The purest ore is produced frem the l>ott< st furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt U elici¬ ted from the dorktst sloim.—Colton. No. j; Chaff. Thera is a hog in Nashville with his ears so far back that he eon not hear himeelf squeal. The reason ‘ the boy stool on the burning deck,” was because it was too’ hot to sit down. New York women dress to natch their dogs; whine color; we suppose; is the popular shade. The favorite perfume of the Empress Josephine was musk. People who blamo Napoleon for divorcing h£r should stop to consider this. The high school girls Bays the ex¬ pression “gof the bulge” will soon be superseded by “obtained convexity,” and so we hasten to remark tlirt mud¬ stones have “obtained couvexity” over other summer fables. All the best needloworkers in New York nro engaged on a gorgeous screen! for the Vanderbilt mansion. It ik be¬ ing made at Mr. John Li Fargo’s stu¬ dio, under the snpeivision of Mrs, Til- linghurst. The gold thread alone used in its embruidery cost $30,000. A young gentleman writing from Long Branch asks whether it is “goodf form” to hold a bird with oue’s finger* while eating it. There are dexterous people who can easily dissect ft snipe or a woodcock with the aid of only their knife and folk. At the same time thvre is an adage that a bird in’ the hand is worth two in the bush,’. A Natural Mistake- ‘Squire McGill had occasion to gof to Cortland, and while there he went into a grocery and purchased a dozen lemons, making the remark to the la¬ dy clerk that he guessed it <’d hairs' some lemonade when ho got home. “Don’t you want a squeeawr?" she asked 1 . “Marm?” “Won’t you have a squeeze, stfW “Well, marm, of I was m young man I would. But I’ve been married nigh onto thirty years, andf the’ oM la¬ dy is dreffle sut agin huggiu* out o' thr family.’’ An explanation was made, and the squire bought a squeezer to settle it.—^Ex. Mr. John Randolph once had occa¬ sion to stay a night at a country inn The landlord tried several times to as¬ certain the destination cf^hfs guest hat without success. Mr. Randolph turned upon him, and in a very decid¬ ed tone said: “Landlord, do I owe yon anything?” “Nothing, sir/* was the reply. “Well, then I am going where I please.” Tho road! forked not far faom the taverd and it so happened that Mr. Rmdolph was at a loss which road to take, and sent a servant back to inquire which of these roads led to the village of . The landlord, standing in front of the tav- ern, cried at the top of his ^oice? “Mr Randolph, yon don’t owe me anything! Takfc just which road yon please.” The new law in Arkansaw fixes 6401 rods as the legal distance .betwoeu a church and a saloon. Some man make this lap in marvelous quick time .—Peoria 1’ranscript. The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth; the former least he be dispised, the latter least he be plundered. A mine of gold discovered in Green¬ ville county, South Carolina, is yield¬ ing ore that is estimated to- bo worth seventy dollars per ton. ‘*Go west, young man”—and take enough with you to help yon back agaiu. -- He was brought up before the record¬ er on the charge of drunkenness. “Do you plead guilty or not?” “I don’t plead at all.” ‘You don’t deny havmgbeed drunk?’ “Yes I do—I deny everything.” “You certaiuly don’t deny having been here before?” “I should smile? Why, Jndge, I deny being here right now. I deny everything. I’m on the deny, I am,” “You are? Well, there is nothing like self-denial, aud the best place to practice it is in the county jail fdr,- say, thirty days,”