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Railroad Schedule.
Dt. VKF.l.V EXTENSION.
Leave* Blakely daily at, 7:50 a. m.; ar-
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t County Directory,
srVKKlOti COT’JtT, M W alters,
non. if. H. How er. Judtre; J. .
Solicitor Itcneral; J. H. Coram, Clerk.
Spring term convenes on second Monday
March. Fall term on second Monday
in September.
corxrr ovftckhs.
Ordinr.rv. A. I. Monroe; Sheriff, W. W.
(JJadden; Tax Collector. E. S. Jones; Tax
Receiver, Tlios. F. Cordray; Treasurer, C.
IT. lice; County School Commissioner, J.J.
Reek; County Surveyor, C. P. Norton; Cor-
ouur, A. (j. ii ml so ii.
rorxrv ror/rr.
b.tt. Curt ledge. Judge, tjuarterty A»~ *es-
,M»>* 4 th Monday in February, May.
jr«»t al'd November. Monthly sessions,
every 4 th Mouday.
comnssroxEiis n. n.
John Colivv. J. G. Collier and J. T. B.
Fain. Courts held 1st Tuesday in cavil
mouth.
JUSTICES r,E THE PEACE AXI)
XOTARIES PUliUC.
574th District—U. J. Thigpen, J. V.; f '.
T. Blocker. N. I*, and Ex-officio I. 1*.
4‘ourt* held third Wednesday in each
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Thursday iu each month.
626th District—J. C. Price. J. P.; N. XV.
Pate, N.P. Courts held third Saturday
in c*cli month.
1283d District—C.J. McDaniel, J. P.
Courts held lirst. Saturday in each month.
1316—Titos. W. Holloway; J. P. C. h.
Smith’ X: P. Courts held 2nd Saturday
in cncli month. John A.
1301—Titos. If. Criflln, J. P.
Conlray. N.P. Courts held 1st Satunlay
in each mouth.
Baker County Directory,
SUPERIOR COURT.
B. R. Bower. Judge: J. IP. Mb Iters, So-
r. Oud.p.,,..
*» ™ “ »« - V> -
reader.
■co uxrr court.
Ferry Judge. Monthly *«-
^ ftrst • ,Jay8 ^ y
•stone.
coyturssioXERs r. r.
_ „ f . .. . „
Courts'iieM on
flraVTuc.sdays in each month.
corxrr OFFICERS.
Ordinary. W. T. Livingston; Sheriff. J.
B. George: Tux Collector, R. R. Odom
nar, B?D. ; h 5 .
H 7 lrtiM.tH.-t-s. J Livln^tmi.
w c. Odom. N. p.: -Courts held 1 st Sat-
urday In each month.
Lj 8 Johnson. N. P. Courts held 3 d Satur-
i« cacti............ E.
1 ftjtDI.trtrt--l..-T. Matta,,.. ..... l.;B.
McCutlun, N‘, V. (■■«.» hchl W
gav in innnili.
SHOOTING AT SIGHT.
The Law? Against Dueling in the
South—A Wholesome Change of
Public Sentiment Against
the So-Called Code of
Honor.
jamf.s jacksox, chief-J vsTK'it of OF.OR-
GIA, IN THE north amkrk'an re-
view for kkftehbkR.
_
Or. at men have at last ceased to
%»*t du,-U. Such men as General
Charles Lee and Colonel Laurens
Generals Cadwallader and Conway,
General Mclnt-wli and Button Gwin-
nett, of Revolutionary fame, have re-
tired from the lists. No Alexander
- **
H. Crawford now sacrifices or risks a
]jf e tt);U b e l, )ngs t0 the country on the
ill,ar ° f a Rtriln « e god-^ange to the
very breath of true Christianity and
to the civilization which that breath
everywhere into peaceful
and beautiful life. No i llustrious
naval officer like Decatur is likely
again to f,!I before tile fire of a duel-
pistol in the hands of a brother
officer or a stranger in the service. No
n,.,,la., g . in
live to regret, when crowned with all
the honors of a great country, that ui lie
had . encouraged a practice which duty
to that comdry and justice to its ser-
vice required him to 1-epr.ulUte and
forbid. Never more shall patriotic
statesman anil orators like Clay, Ran-
doipli and Benton make the walls of
the eapitol ring with eloquence, and
yet risk the brain that conceived and
the tongue that uttered sueh power
on the chance of a shot. It should be
remembered in behalf of our dueling
fathers, that in the absence of tho>c
stringent laws which now, in most of
the states of the American Union,
make felonies and disqualify for office
all directly indivo.at« ----- ’
or th.it tacit
Uiereiii, pave t u m u ense
to follow the example of many ihns-
..... similar •
set by law of adjuiheatmg . iu a
m > e tin tit e o .no , t i« pm o
committing certain clas-es ot crime,
and the violation of the eliquetti and
discipline essential to the efficiency of
military service. Hid public senti
m nf, mo <t in o aw, >eui ei1
,
now, it is nasona > e o snp]> >s >a
they would not have (blibeiately vio-
| aws „f that country which
they loved so much and served so
faihfuUv.
It may,loo, be jns ly svid that the
field was 'open and the tight- in a ce.-
CTTi-Z tain sense was fair “i« N, mean alva.i-
eoneenleil c ■' uistol * was ‘ stiddenlw drawn
;
0 ! Mr*
Benton woll .‘OrtHinly. dUfliuK
is bad, and has been put down, but
not quite so bad as its substitute-
revolvers bowie „»„„siont'ion knives
ing »n<I sto.ot S ," undor
lejoice wi i am a °
down, .
been pu m et us see m
what he turned its substitute be n«-
i«d iu a deeper grave. The grog shop
and the concealed pistol are the roots
of ..11 this evil,
It is generally bcliev.d. lo only
that the settlement of p. r.sonid dillieul-
'ZZZ ttSTirt Z
!“*"*“ «“<“• M
mrut Htiyrovcs the |.ractloe on
eru soil. It may be conceded that
li* *ettlemeut ofdifficuIt.es by the
‘ lnbJ 1,rtS Wa n,or * co ®* n,on Mwe*
us than with our Northern brethren,
HHl that at the Close of the lafe civil
*«*,*, riot and bloodshed Were
of very frequent occurence, but if all
f T
minded taeu w i lire led to he concbi-
sion that is highly creditable to the
be commended m those who live
: - ■
Iurtspict t to'the t, i reasons ■ which
made the duel more resorted to iu the
w r e infused into ea :h by the Wood
,
,vl„ch the lather, aha *«M ,t.e».
J . | t “m ttte water,
9 ia top.-
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LEARY, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 i, 1883.
measure from tlio Puri tuna. Study,
courageous, energetic they were,
those who jollowed Cromwell to vic¬
tory mid the Protectorate; yet through
all their character flowed veins . of ..
piety, which at limes run wild
superstitions fanaticism, lint
force moved them as a community
rather than individuals. New Hug-
organizes b foro sho moves,
M lion she moves, the individuas is
in ^ P«wer. 0<>rptvr*te
l ™™: comb.natron^these
h ”V« b»n the pillarsi of her idrength,
T t '‘ ey ,f’ een tl,e ,mblt of N, ‘ w E "«‘
,iu,d impaited 11 ^ to : ‘» the d "“xieli broad of territories that 1,f< nb»ve \
in bio to the 1 acthc.
On t ie other hand, tlic dominant
population of the South 1ml more Cav-
ali r than Puritan blood in its veins.
I here was in its character more indi-
vidnality and less capacity for combi-
nation: more dash aud Jess delibera-
*’'' n \ n ‘ ts action. It, too, had its
* n Hod and its reliance on Him
b>r ^ ie but its zeal Was not al-
^ys according to knowledge. Its in-
Want, ‘f nliancc on relf giew fe ' cffit tt
>» r oompany^oi fan law, a
" <m , nn '* , a > ,nv werc '"stenttuieous;
and ' if tlio ' blmv f..ll fmm tlio
^ ^ong the heart was uneonauered
« nd P'»oted for equal ai ms. Its faith,
Ilowev «' erionmis, gave rts reliance OH
r« ,u ’ ctl<li: il,,d assistance from God iu
'' hi,t ,l tleemetl a righteous cause,
He,,c T ® {ll,e mo,e J re( P*»'nt sing]le com-
1,at - ,be prepared givund, the equal
arm *T t 16 '
'
Reliance upon God for intervention
OM tl,e ‘ 1uelin S ground wa.s as much
^ u ‘^ ru ^ uncontrolled, by
r ‘‘ ftso,1 > > u *he South, as the passage of
'’| l,e * ,lWH itnd burning of .vitebes in
X ' w E »«;»nd^ With the Southern
extent*'of*dWuiing it dishonorable and
, )ri;sun:) p^ wol j s to.practice or prepare
fur Uje wn )f battl(1 Knowing that
**«- k *- «>**
liears. Inal figured largely in the jioli-
^ wf ( , ft|ld of tho Union,
the cD-se of tho Revolntioiitiry
war to tlio y< ar 1806, when lie died
in the Semite of the United States,
and had fought duels more than once
during that period, the writer has
recently read again the biography of
^ nnce8 | 0r( ailt ] n , n y fr.iuscrilres
the following paragraph:
‘ In March, 1780 , lie was unhappily
the antagonist of Lieutenant Governor
Mells, in a duel whjili teiiniiiatul
^‘tally to the latter gentlen.ar. He
was himself shot through both knees.
Co„ U „ e ,l l„ M. ......... for
refusing amputations, and ahandoiied
. Zm . i IS nn< t, a , vas ‘mLy nreve ited
r.« i« tho «,»-
otiems of Ike »|>ri»g of 17 » 0 . J. 4 W
»o him require. Iho declaration that,
l.# w nS forced into this diffi.
cultv by a fgyoss indignity, winch Ins
ho»... U .» offloor ...d the spirit of
'ssxrct n:
w i Pr ,.niti> 1 to retwoach hinself, yet he
1
aftenvaid deeply mieiitei f 1 the ^ dread-
«1 He w. no du
r Q :u principle lm ; ^ho.i .Alto
tico. It was tok on e e
sious ly involve.!{bat in subdue»t be U*jto went be^ku to
!tn S .1 ™..Tte,rrc. UL
c.»v ...,4 U.aUat, . .i t tohaaount, » ct It V .le
manded the ex^rc of his pers i •
to hke maiimw. rtxmy ’a
bo; r f w,at be mt Z°Zu
but deeply lamented a result It f fatal xt -1 to t >
lus advereary. Another ^“‘V; friend-'
A g of
•
ZTJcl fir0 . ide of
> g < g of
,
hm host f m , (lishouored hi8
in the deatl of the M
! 1 ). *l.ep ‘ at night, he walked l.is chamber
in the anguish of ft conscience • that .. ,
.
■ the close of tlie- w.*r r rendeied
H.mU. mnr„ In,-*,,. <W 4
ona co.idaot alxl hhaaly rw.ater
thf WVto *to. to
nutted to a eandid public judgment,
Southern soil was the fotir year’s bni-
tlefidd of the war. It was practically
>1 foreign w«r to the North. Barely
was a hostile foot on Northern ground.
With the exception of Gettysburg, no
battlefield bears a Northern name.
President Lincoln; whose hea.t was
big enough to forgive and forget, and
whore hand would have restrained re-
venge, was slain by an us-ussin, who
cried: -The South ia avenged!” Alas!
poor Honth! how often has the folly o,.
fanasicism of some eui. g ehild soiled
lIie garment and stained the liouor of
the innocent and spotless motherhood,
After the war there was a reign of
bedlam in the S mill, and it seems al-
most miraculous that It did not be-
come a r. ign of universal bloodshed,
Of course, every man who could pro-
cure a pistol carried it, and, lest it be
taken from him by force, lie carried if
concealed. DespiieJ the penalty of
law and its enforcement in'Jlie courts,
too much of this habit lingers yet.
With no such palliating circumstances
the same habit exists largely at the
f'“if badly afflicted with the wM awful ° C0UU,I plague, 'J r U
»**«*••**.«...........
inanity by one man, or a great seoiion
i>v one little community theieiu, or by
,l 1 oition of its luhubitaiits. ihe
mass of the Southern population are
as honest and.earnest for a Cbristmu
civilization as the mass of the North,
The echo of public sentiments of a
free people rovibr.d s from Ihe - laws
m ike and the men iu
office to expound, and euforce them.
Tlu; st.-ito of (isovgia, at least, may
invite comparison of her laws oil the
subject of dueling and dairying con-
cealed wiapous with those of any
othfch Arty person who iiartieipates
as principal or second in a duel in this
g^js (Itoftr'jfetfujJ, it is murder
cliargdble on all who participates; if
any one sends or accepts a challenge,
it is a misdemeanor punished bv fine,
l-d lalior in the
penitentiary; if any one consents to be
a a second while in the state, no mat-
ter where the duel is to be fought, the
crime and penalty are the same; if a
due] be fought and it does not result
fatally, the principals and seconds are
nil guilty of a high misdemeanor, and
are punishable by imprisonment and
hard labor In the peiiiten'iury; if any
one publishes another as a cbwnrd or
uses other opprobious epithets toward
him, for declining t > fight a duel, he
shall be lieltl guilty of misditnetuior,
and p.midied . . by hue .
a or imprisou-
ment or the elutm gang, or all of these
CTiinbhio.l. if Ml. l-. rf
lication refuses to giro tho mum "f
the author, he stands in Ins shoes and
» l**M * *. — ».*; if
®y ponoc oftc, n»,lrotin* (o fill .
stop to any contemplated duel <>r
winch he knows m- has notice, he .«
dismissed fipm office.
So. «he »< t of mrylng, oi-eoly m
ground, election precinct, or any
otlicr public giftboriiig. is a iniatle-
m , ini or, ^^ and „uni-hable with tine and
Jt , |d en vying such
^ ^ coucealed ^ ^
P ^ ^ misdemeanor and is
^ ^ ^ ^ In , llllJOI ,
«««• i'™ » ™» *» *»
leqniieil *„ g ir« tho..- laws hi *«iW
a f djl , ri , 8 M term
of the C()U t T | l6 judiciary iff Geor-
•„ ^jy,. to enforce these W.*, pnd
day by day the evil It ssens and or hue
ventures to subjoin the
concluding paragraph of the opinion
of the Supreme hi Court of Georgia, de-
livered hintself iu the ease of the
State vs Hill, repbrt< d in Sixty -fourth
Georgia reports, page 15 :’,. In 1879 ,
^ luIt< ^ his
iU of a , , ry
SJai*Jt=ys u.cl bn- hie and lie
he be im, i‘ts.
had a<ii,eale « M 1 f"r a »e>v trial.
•
1 .
of tin ir «'" u cas s, am 11
ah.-.M to ««■„» «- ”h- «»f
' them-wlve. t.taaoa.ica. itiay mnst
««a;»- - h«. <M S -ditola.- ««, « « «
cording to law a ft 1 execute tlio 8011-
fence which that law pronmmcos, or
they must under the consequences of
'heir mistake of tlio law. Homicide
for revenge of past offenses, however
heinous, deliberately planned and pre-
meditated, and carried into execution
after reason lias had time to assert
her supremacy over passion, is
der; nnd he who judges iliatin hisown
case it is not, and executes sentence
in such a case on a fellow being, must
suffer the penalty which the law im-
poses on a murderer.
Tlfo people of the North and Ofiho
world, may rest assured that life and
limb and property arc li, Id as sacred
at the South as elsewhere, and her
arms arc spread wide to welcome cap-
itnl and labor. She is consci >us Meat
she needs brain, muscle nod money to
develop her rice resources and open
her abundant mines of wealth. Tlio
clay is past when her public men who
declined to challenge lost their power
and popularity. Prior to the war
Alexander H. Stephens challenged, at
different times Hersehel V. Johnson
and Benjamin II. Hill. Each declined
the combat, yet neither ever lost a
«»»»,»*^
hilly to tln-ir graves, garlanded with
(lowers fragrant with Georgia’s loyp
and wet with bet tears.
The day of the grog-shop an l of
that winch it produces-Itlie imflamcd
passion and the deadly w>apon—is
rapidly passing away. The local op-
tfoo retail law generally preside* the
state of Georgia, county after county
prohibits the trafllo, reduces ‘expe^es
rind diminishes crime, The
ing officers of the state are paid accord- trieb j
ing to the number sf criminals
and they inform the writer that i» ,
tfiosa eountiei where tlic trathe n P r ®‘
liibitgd the offie«ibfW ; '*tf l,, tfffpff,’ M *}lhj
Southern Him will Mi Ino «pon
an entire population, sob*r, prosper-
ous. peaceful and happy. May that
population be swollen into n-W mul-
Z
hilltop with good, sober iiidus^
tries men.
Bluffing a Boy.
A Detroit physician who had bnsi
neH8 ()n Woodbridge street yesterday
had his attention called to a boy^ about
twelve years of ago who bad picked up
a crocked watermelon from a eotninis-
s ion house aud was eating it iu an
alley, isn^t warned
"Boy, that melon ripe,"
the doctor,
"I did’t say it was,” was the blunt
reply.
“And it’s sour.”
-W.ll, I kin sweeten her. I guess.”
“You look out f.,r tlio eboleia nlor-
-T,o l.n.t -er «n,l .he .mnll pox-
too.” doctor,
“Sec. here, boy,” said the
thinking to make a last appeal, “if
yon eat that melon you will be dead
the
a s lie cut off another slice with a
Z piece of iron hoop, “von mav chin
^ aiU ^ tUl<1 ^..e all' you want to,
no kid! I know wha: yer
can’t have it! You kin
> cut
^ TZ ^ c s
^ } ver cut scare me into
for Il0H)i »«! You’d
h..y ........... in the res'h.r
,» .... , W .
.‘There are a great many
C nrrenew In ti is word," observed an
A ,,-tiu attorney. ^
2 ld ^ C(m(jmsitmnl
E lmve you?” flippantly inquired
a yonDg physician. It is
-No, sir, I never lead ffetien.
^ing entirely different.” you?”
“Well, what is it that lmthers
"Well it is this I saw quite r.cent-
' flopped an,nud for
b 0 a v of the bim a
=rv......;........... » 0f that’s simple o.iouuh «M the
rf T . p ) v “You see the bird’s bend was
W a*n’tif •>”
f -*"‘" I dis 1 •„niicc , ed * X™ with ^ tlie-
lw.ly It .lidn t .in. ■
-to* ‘ H ... 4
no. 4
Ms. and Mrs. Spoopendyke-
‘ My dear.” whimpered Mr. Snoop- Zm
endyke, hobbling Into Ms wife’s
and throwing himself into a A*it
with a desolate expression of desnnir
on his vb»"e, ‘ My deaf there is
something the matter with mr foot
and I can’t make out tttiut the tronhla
is.”
“Mifjiie ifs ii stone bruise," re»
marked Mrs. Spnopcnkyke.
“Thut‘a all yon know about it,”
grunted Mr. Bponpendyke, who wsa
not to be put off wiMi so small a dims-
ter a* a stone-brume. “I toll you that
I have got some trouble with my fool
tlmt threatens my life, and you stand
around them like a coik in « bottle
and talk about it ws though I had oof
got ou» leg in my coffin as for as
hip,”
"Arc yon sure it isn’t a corn?” fca*-
arded Mrs. 8pOo|»eudyk,e,. t ‘‘Woma-
tiuies corns hurt worse ih>»n anything
'•lse; but I never heard of people dying
Of them.” ifetfilp
<. NO( it ^ a cowr hnwJe(V
Spoopendyke, nursing -itJwnm. his foot and
gi„ r ,„ K at },j.
( p ye tlilak thin foot is itnrWwr- u
ngricnUnMl n B ru.niuii,u district? Ulsinct t When* M lieu dot (lid row
ever hear of n corn lhat roftehed from
thte liet4 t0 W , lichof ywr
f,^„ds fex-er had acorn that hurt
clear to the ear?" bis’foot and Mr Snoorwa-
dyke touched careftili* ty t®
floor and . y.-d his wifo cnruwion P ot
see if she noticed *•’
ngoiwoftbir „ w j. wa * it must
‘ aimiou exc q ( gpoo-
i „ a ' ••ittyonbKV*
peiidyketmUPP >»h L ^
, (
to do is <> » •*
put y-m slipv‘X B _°^^
ix*ot off »:»l ftringil
the room. ‘•’When » man le
dying with iufluniatyiy rhennuti»iii r
it's a bullion. Vou'v* got itl A psin
tlmt smarts at the toe, aud run* to'
»'
knot over tin* s| ine isa bunion. 8how
mo the bunion!” he contiitnwl, stick¬
ing hi* leg out str*igbt awl poititing
hiaffugtT nt theoffeadingfoot. ' ,, Tsk«
this digit in yfcur lily white band and
pintle it genMy ob the dod gaat-d bnn-
i "ii before I <lte and forget.wfw* killed
««4 Pick it out of the nmMkling
Biurtoiny!” lie yelled, wrigglittg hm
b"ol and bouncing up and (town in
hi'! chair in a delirium of r*#s-. •’"Rliiek
the bunion from its muuntaiu fa»t-
U *‘ HH ,,u tl ,e Spoopeiwlyka aud
h -ld it up *'» »he gaz voCtlie
"Di os it hurt?”—rooiamenoed Mrs.
S|>o< peukyke, soothingly, j > '
‘‘Hurt!” roared Mr. Spoopendyke^
springing from bis chair and dancing
nil.mid the room like ft flea. - "Of
nrse it don’t. It tickle*! Hu rtf
It’- a picnic! Hay ray deifr,” Send his
Voice wu8 low mid fender. **H»y my
d ar, instead of going to the Onnnlry
lies summer we’ll lay in ft st<*ek of
bunions »t:d wear them around tot OUT
.....
shrieked, breaking out In a new spot,
"Hurt! It fee's like a baud of music*,
That’s what it fo, a bnnion! It took
yon to hit H! When I g« t time to ftt
you up with a full beard aud 8 boltla
of whisky I’m going tostartdispenwry
with y n! If you’d only imptovo
y-mr mind nntil it reached the stand-
«* « \
...... . 1-4 »■»-« f W . ***m
m .li.-»| cullose.
"Hay, .leaf,” raid Mrs. Spodpendyke
who had been caremliy Cxplorittg her
Imsbaud’s boot, "say dear, I think I
Uve found out wbat the Go.bfo is.
It isn’t a bunion after alt H«*'l **
P« kicking out here **** *<lt™-
ter of an inch. I think if> you Will
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