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SUPERIOR COURT.
Hon. B. B. Bower. JuA^e; J. W. Walters,
fcolicitor General; J. H. Corani, Clerk.
Suving term convenes oa second Monday
tv -fuly. Eih tone, ou socoiiji
in Docemb t.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary, A. T. Monroe; Sheriff, W. W.
GRadden; fax Collector, E. 8 . Jones; Tax
Receiver, Thos. F. Cordray; Treasurer, C.
ft. Gee; County School Cotrunisstoner, J.J.
Beck; County Surveyor, C. 1*. Norton; Cor-
A. G, Gadson.
'county COURT. Quarterly
L. G. Cartlcdge, JudR«. May. Au- ses¬
sions 4tli Afoaday la February,
gust and November. Monthly sessions,
every 4th Monday.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
John C'ollvv, J. G. Collier and J. T. B.
Fain. Cosrts held tat Tuesday iu each
aonth.
JUSTICES OF THE PEA CE AND
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
574th District—R. J. Thigpen, J.P.;
F Blocker, N. P. and Ex-officio J. P.
Courts held third Wednesday in each
month.
1123d District—J, L. Wilkerson, /. P.
John Hasty, N. F. Courts held second
Thursday in each month,
«26th District—J. 0. Price, J. P.; N. W.
Pace, N.P. Courts held third Saturday
in each month. P.
1283d District—C. J. McDaniel, J.
Courts held first Saturday iu each month.
1316—Thos. W. Holloway; /. P. C- L.
Smith 1 N: P. Courts held 2nd Saturday
in GKch menth. J.P. , , A.
1301— Thofi- H. 0 riffle, 1st Saturday
Cordray, N. P. Courts h«ld
ia each mouth.
iaker Oaaaty Blrostery
SUPERIOR COURT.
B. B. Bower, Judge; J. W. IFalUrs, So¬
licitor Genera'; B- F. Hudspeth, Clerk,
Bpriog term convenes on first Monday in
May. Fall term on first Monday in No¬
vember.
COUNTY COURT.
Jobn O. Perry. Judge. Monthly ses¬
sions held first Mondays—Quarterly ses¬
sions.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
W. W. Williams, T. H. Caskie, J. W.
Thayer, W. L, Sperlin. Courts held on
first Tuesdays in each month.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Tax Receiver. J. -'i. Odom; Treasurer, L.
G. Rowell; Surveyor, C. D. Brown; Coro¬
ner, B. D. Half.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NO-
TA HIES PUBLIC.
fcilSl*
urday in each month.
900th District—G. T. Galloway J, P.;
T. H. C'askie, N. P.; Courts held Sad
Saturday in each month,
957th District—G. D. Lamar, J. P., II
S. Johnson, N. P. Courts hald 3d Satur-
o'ay Iu each mouth,
McPailnn ts'moVffe. N P ' C-oarf* held 4th
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FOR BETTER OR WORSE.
The Devil Fishh g
Tlie devil sat by the river's side—
Tlie stream of time where you w ill
always find him—
Casting his line in the rushing tide,
And landing the fish on the bank,
behind him.
He rat at ease in a cozy nook
And tilling his basket very fast;
"While you might have seeu that his
deadly hook
"Was differently baited for every cast,
Ho caught them aa fast as u man
coulJ count,
Li .tie ot big, it was nil the same,
One bait was a check for a round
amount,
An assemblymau grabbed it and in
Le came.
took a gem that as Saturn shone
It sunk in the water without a sound,
And caught a woman who long w as
known
As the best airily purest for miles
around.
be would laugh, and some¬
time* sing,
Fur better luck no one could wi-h.
lie seemed to know to a dead sure
thing;
The best bait suited to every fish.
Satan; ‘The fishing is veiy fine!’
And took a drink somewhat enthused
And y*-t a parson swam ronndthe line
That e’en the most tempting of baits
refused.
tried with his goid and his flashing
Reins,
Hung fortune and fame upon the line
Dressinggowns with embroidered herns
And still tlie Dominie made no sign
A woman's garter went on the hook;
‘I have him at lust,’ quote the d:vil.
• biightoing;
Then Satan’s sides with laughter sho >k
And he landed the preacher as quick
9 hgfyUiiyg --ibid, I
& Disgusted DrutnOTeh
A tall young man in jumper and
overall stood in the engine room of one
*if the largest factories of this city tbe
other morning. He was the assistant
tugiueei aud bis chief was out.
A brisk little drummer in full dude
nestmeiils opened tbe door and ap¬
proached.
“Ate you the engineer?”
“Yes."
i t Have you « large e igine lu re?”
“Yes.”
“You smoke? ’•
“Yes.” .
“Have a cigar?”
“Certainly,”
“Use u givat deal of oil, I suppose?’’
“Yes.”
“Ever drink?”
“Yes.”
“G"t a f*>w minutes to spate?”
“Certainly.”
“Come across the street with me.”
“All light. Johnny mind that crunk
and look after the engines.’’
They went across tile road, anil wlia**
they returned the young uiau in the
jumper and overalls Usd tlie contents
of a small bottle of wine stowed away
under his belt and his pockets were
full of the choice cigars.
“I would like to introduce my oil
here. ”
“Yes,”
“ lleve are some samples.”
“Yes.”
IIovv do you like them?”
“Well, the chief engineer bag come
j n; ( }„. re i ie is You had better talk
with him.’
A look of wild surprise, rage {it'd
away and approached the person indi-
eated. The wily assistant winked at
his chief, grinned like a fiend and ex-
po>ed the cigars <o vjew.
“Don’t want any oil; got in four
Well aatisQe.1 *v iih
the brand I’m using. Good day.”
But the drumm r answered not. He
v > gone.—Brooklyn Unionr
j :----
If you think nobody car* 8 for 5011
iu this o dd world, just try to learn to
1*^ tha fidd,e or the P l, » no ,n “ P°P U *
lous neighborhood,
LEARY, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7> 1883.
A Cow Boy Among the Ivories.
•‘Say, von,” exclaimed an eiongn
ted cow-boy, with bandy logs fiona
long aud tedious sedentary pursuits
in the saddle, and wealing a list weigh¬
ing about ten pounds. “Won’t you
go out with ire and paint yotir nose?’
The party addressed was a gin st
stopping at an Austin bote), and tlie
scene of the incident was in the office
of the said caravansary. The guest
regarded the cowboy for a few minutes
attentively, and then, for the sake of
novelty accompanied him to the bar-
toom After imbibing the two stroli-
back into the hotel, and pass*d the
door of the parlor, within which stood
, t piflJ)0 The piano caught the cow-
boy's eye, and there was no people in
t[)e rootn
“Pardner,” said the cowboy, “did
you know I could jolt eno of them
things?”
“What things?’- inquired the guest,
“Planners. I’m a boss at jerkin’
melody onten’ the fingi v-board of
them things. Jest step in an’ IM give
yer a taste.’
They entered Ilio parlor and the
cowboy spread himself all over the
front of the instrument, coiled liis
whiplash legs down under the piano
stool, threw buck his long, sinewy
body, ran his bony, diity fingers over
the delicate white keys, dipped into
an overture in a minor key. as soft
and plaintive ns the sigh .of a summer
breeze, changed suddenly from a wild
succession of cords from “Pinafore,"
“Patience,” Olivette,’’ und “La Mas-
coft,” to “Peek -u-hoo” and “Only a
Pansy Blossom.”
As the man played, liis physical
identity seemed to dissolve; and while
the outer shape and lines of a cowboy
remained, within he seiin* d Jit up
with spirituality, which gleamed soft¬
ly out from his l arge, expressive eyes.
He surely played with marvelous pow¬
er and expression, and one by one the
guests of, the hotel crept infoTTie j wi¬ ar*
lor, arranged themselves by the
dows and walls, or hung listening at¬
tentively, near tlie doorway. It was
a weird, yet novel scene. The big
sombrero had fallen off, and the dark;
matted hair of the player reached half
way to the floor, as his body swayed
back and forth to the undulating
rhythm of the music.
Then he stopped suddenly, whirled
around on the mu-do stool, and facing
ing tlie guest, said:
“How do you like it?”
The tone in which the cowboy ut¬
tered this interrogation was entirely
now, and a strange metamorphosis ap¬
peared to have occurred in his person¬
al appearance. In his face there was
a familiar look which wa» quickly ob¬
served by the hotel guest, and as
quickly was the expression ou tho lat¬
ter’s face noticed by the cowboy . The
man rose hastily from his chair by the
piano, but the cowboy rose up with
him, threw open his buckskin vest, ex¬
hibited the steel badge of a detective
and, at the same moment, whipped out
a revolver, and said:
“Charles Mortimer, I arrest you n*r
forgery commitb-d three months ago
i n Chicago. Miss Abbott, am I correct
in the identity of this man?"
All eyes were immediately turned
iu the directum of a handsome young
lady standing by a lounge in the rear
portion of the room, and directly op-
posite 1 a large minor hanging over
the .
piano.
“Y*-s, sir,” replied Miss Abbott,
with but slight embarrassment consul-
ering the peculiar sensational episode,
“Yes.” continued the cowboy, “by
intently watching y**ur signs and
movements in the glass over the piano
I concluded that you have acquitted
yourself nobly in the undertaking.
Ladies and gentlemen,” turning to-
ward the hotel guests, “for three
months. Miss Abb U, who is a promt-
nent femaledet'-ctive, and myself have
followed this man, Mortimer,
hamlet to village, and from village to
ci;y Invariably h<* lias succeeded iu
evading ns, until now, and.,’ prodnG-
i ga pair < f biac lets the cowl oy
deftly clasped them on the wrists of
Mr. Mortimer, saying, “I think
will shake Texas and cultivate for
awhile the moist lake air of Uluciigo.
-Sitting-.
Advice to a Young Man.
Do I believe m luck; my son? lu¬
deed I do, in bad luck. I think there
is uo such thing ns good luck. I do
not believo that a lazy, no’i-do-well
sort of a men ever stumbles into a for-
tune or climbs into fame by mere good
luck; or if lie dot s, he doesn’t hold
his good fortune ary longer than lie is
getting it. No man is born lucky.
But I believe some m n aro bom an¬
lucky, and I will tell you why, iny
son, 1 have often observed:
If a young man spends more money
on neckties Ilian he d< ds on books, he
is pretty apt to ho unlucka in his lit¬
erary vtntmes.
If a young man attempts to make a
liviugby sticking the hea i of his cane
and playing billiards, lie is liable to be
an unlucky in his business ventures.
If a young man habitually breakfasts
at 10 o’clock, lie is usually unlucky
in liis efforts to obtain (tie position of
cashier in the new bank
If a man tikes half a minute in his
prayers aud an hour and a half to
dress he is unlucky in spiritual life.
If a roan got s to his fatliex every
time t c'wants a dollar, ho developes
iuto au^n lucky merchant, with more
assignees tliau sale men
Ifayonng man on the road plays
bililaids all nrjlit and swings cocktails
all the morning, lie is unlucky when
lit. tries to sell goods in the afternoon.
If a man buys his clothes on a credit
and has a little bill at every furnish¬
ing store und restaurant and livery
stable in town, lie is very unlucky on
the first of January.
U avonng man studies srt exclu¬
sively at a variety th. ulte, be is a very
unlucky artist.
If he drinks Torn and Jerry ail New
Year’s day to swear off on, ho is a
very unlucky reformer.
If he goes? fo college with three
Gr«’ek books und five porno*, l.e is a
Very unlucky student
It be scoots out of town because a
uote is falliug due, f he will not sow
b*eflu^ti|er wind blows nor reap he-
ca ne the sun is hot, it he iishes on all
the fair days and sits on a cracker box
at the corner grocery and smokes on
all the rains’ ones, if he complains be¬
cause tlie worl’l slights him and with
hands in his pockets waits for quail on
toast to drop into his m >utb, if lie
spends more money for street car fare
than for walking shoes, if he works
while he cats anil rests while he works,
if he is the last man lit tlie store or
office in the morning aud the the first
to |esve in the evening, if lie rigidly
insists on eV*-vy one of his holidays
and Kicks against every minute of <sv*r-
work. if his boys do u >t do all the
chores aud bis wife build tlie fir*'s, if
lie is lazy and selfish and shift!* as
then my buy, he is an unlucky man.
B*u every cent you can raise, aud offer
big odds, that Bad Luck with a big B
will haunt that unlucky man all the
days of Ins life.
But;
If a man aria* th in the morning
wiih tlio “p issel tree and harp," if he
spends more time in the buth tub th m
ho does ou a green and yellow neck¬
tie, if he can talk at tli 3 breakfast ta¬
ble about what lie has already s*en in
the morning paper, if lie gets to the
office the first man after the porter, if
lie isn't afraid to dust his own desk.
if tie wearetli a coat with glossy elbows
until lie can buy a new one, if he
knoweth more about tho petition he is
drawing up or the goods be is selling
than he does about a trotting home, if
| )e oall sweep out tha,st*>re as well as
the poiter. and run up a column of
f es us fast as the book-kesp-r if
ke knows every lawyer aijd merchiut
in town, and nev.-r saw Sullivan or
Wilson in all his life, it he knows
wliat he wants to be and bends every
mind .rod b-*dv to attaining Ins
point, who works more that) he sleeps,
an( | r ,. a ,i B mor e than h*- plays billiard**,
ti.at man, my boy, is b**rn to Good
Luck, as the sparks fly upward. And
now go to w *rk, tnv son. and work as
though von believed in luck, and had
Kot mto the of the stars aud
know how to shape the destiny of at
Wt one lucky man in the world.—
Hawkeye.
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et f»dlovv ... . ^
J h ; p< 8 11
^ " tche nu«.^ , iu-bhv’k nvm
is !<n unfinished puc* (f f w w< uk ik. Sci* Sci nee nee
h is n> ver discovered why *h*> negio is
as black us he is,, but po-ffty shrewdly
attributes it to a press of business
ID Lord made de cnLed m.,n,
He made him in the night;
He pride him in a burry,. v
An’ lot got to make him white,—
Ex.
Pam 's Love,
lu ono of t.lie t >wns bordering clove
to New York there occurred the fol-
lowing incident:
One day a man was seen driving n
horse who seemed determined to
break from bis baud. It plunged and
reared, aud at length started to run.
The- driver at first wrapped tlie reins
around bis wrists in hie efforts to bold
the fractions animal.
Let him go!” cried the bystanders,
“you can’t hold him! Let him go!
Why don’t you let him go?”
The driver never heeded these cries;
he held ou with ail his stsength, and
as a last r*«ort wrapped the reins
around Ids reck
Great effor 8 were miide, and after a
time the hor'B was caught, but not till
the blood was gushing from the nose
and mouth of tue man who strove so
hard to hold him
A crowd gatlieied around the poor
man, mid ho was asked.
‘ Why dicln’r you let him go? Your
life is worth a hundred such horses.”
“Look in toe back of that wagon,"
said lie. “Do von sea that little boy?
That’s all the little boy we have, I
couldn’t go homo to his mother with¬
out that little boy, and for him I held
the horse to the danger of my own
1 fe. ”
The Fiend Mutt Go
While the man who talus your
umbrella lias nil seasons lor liis own
and the man who has a little story to
tell fails not in seed time nor harvest,
there is one particular fiend who be¬
comes numerous at about tlie time
wheu there is a coolness in tho morn¬
ing breeze and no steam in the radia¬
tor- We refer to the umii who leaves
the door open. He emirs to the
office on various <rr**nds, iu fact about
about every known pretext—excepting
to settle a bill—but always bis actual
purpose to go away aud leave the
coor wide open, the portal through
which the autumnal zephyrs come
with glacial coolness, mid
bearing in their chaste embrace full
many a token oflhe pervasive dust
from which we sprang and to which
we shall return. It does no good to
bawl after him to shut the door. Oh,
no. He is meandering ad<wvu the
sunny s reet, wutching the while-wing
clouds playing tag in the deep-smiling
heavens. But as we lay down tlie
pen, and push back the chair, and
walk to the door and close it softly
and pensively, and then stoop to gath¬
er up the scattered pap «rs that have
be* n whirled about our feet like fading
forest leaves, tho blessed Seraph wnis
pej-s promises of a good time coming,
and we are consoled with confidence
llmt in that bright dawning era our
autumn days will be free from curlting
care, for the muu who leaves ihe door
open mus go.—Ex.
-•
A granger dreamed that he died.
He went straight to tlie spirit-world;
he knocked at tlie gato ol the New
Jerusalem, and it was opened unto
him. Tho bo ks were opened; he
was a*ked, “Did you ever , belong to
any secret society?" to which lie re¬
plied, “I did; to the Grangers. ” “Then
sir, you can't he admitted; depart,”
lie then went,to the door of the hot.
tomh’ss pit, where the same questions
were asked by the Devil, aud again lie
ugs told to depart. Af.er he had
g**n*- a little way off he was accosted
by the homely ruler of the pit, when
tlie following propositions were made 1
“►Stranger,” raid Nick, “I will not ad¬
mit you here; and they d *n’t want yo i
in lieavet;; hut I will sell yotttwo bun-
dr* d bairo’s of brimstone for cash,.ton
per cent, off, and you can start a
hety of your own, With no agents or
middle men,”
----
A Texas man wag left .£200 by the
death of an nucle iu N* w York. He
drank deeply and tan through
l ,ro P <>rt ^ 1,1 two month'*, While en.
U ‘ fi com l >ie,i(> " of one of
'p ex . lS n,ilroad* he received noti e
j ie j, f a ;ien heir, this time
ggqoo, “Allow me to
you,” said one of liis fellow workmen.
»‘Dongiotnlafe ° nothing,” rt ’ suid ().« man
fii-smally; , , It, , 1 oks , ve*y much ,
though there w 13 some kind of a
on font to ki I me of.
No. 18
A L ttl« Affair.
He was k littls b »y, with a littl *
r und head, e little pug nose, shining
little eyes that looked like little black
beads, a bright little smile that re-
vented a row of lit'l^ white t-eth. He
w ore a littlo brown jacket and a jaunty
little cup, and his httlo pink toes took
merry ldtln s'eps «.« he came out of a
little white hou-e with a little portico
in front. He was f filo.ve l by a little
poodle dog, which took funny liitle
runs from side to side as they went
down a little meadow path across a
narrow little style to a little brown
cut'.ig-, where lived ft little gol len-
haired maid.
A lit 1c hoy did plan,
As from the house he r.in,
With Fido at Ins hels quits cl os*,
A lit'In maid to see,
(That’s twist you and ru >,
And entirely under the rose.)
The little maiden cou'd,
Whene’er she said she w<m!d,
Sec li'lle M ix at home or abroad.
But lie gr. adv prefered
To have a little word
In private, with little Maud,
The little boy knocked,
And the little dog barked,
When tlie littte maid applied—
And they h id a Iitti- talk.
And they t >ok a little walk,
Until the brook they oeavid-
Tliey sat on a litt'e log,
Hear firm was the dog,
Which they soon had ah forgot.
Siie heaved a little sigh,
He divw a ii'tl** nigh.
And the cause he kindly sought.
How the little dog had, unobserved
(For he hadn’t said a wont)
Got upon tlie Jog to snooze;
The little maiden fair.
And tli« little buy wa* there,
Who uad—by a tittle rune—
Bro’t tV little tnaid at p ar,
From tlie little hoiis? away.
(What liia intentions were,•who know.f)
But a tmy little s**reuun,
And u piling** iuto Lhe^itresm,
And a suddtn cooluhsa grows.
Toe little t»lk is done,
The homeward w alk begun,
Ho explanation can avail.
When y..u ciaki a little luve,
B i sure, }dl tilings ab'
You don't sit on your dog tail.
A Business Melody
There wav a man in our town and
he was wondrous wise; i r when h
marked prices down he then did ad¬
vertise.
And when ho saw liis trade increase,
with all liis might and main, be
in irk d st ill lower every price and ad¬
vertised again.
Aud when lie advertised again his
riypls loudly swore, to see folks rush
with might and maiu to patronize his
s t ortf .
And wbilo they sat in solitude and
saw in iu custom win, that man behind
the couuter stood and raked the sheek-
e s in.
And when lie raked the sheckvls iu,
an J saw his fortuue rising, he took a
goodly lot of tin aud kept ou udverti »
iug.
Each day a generous sum he’d sink,
and demonstrate full plain tbs mote
one pays for printer’s ink tbe greater
is his gam.
C otton seed'oil. wo* unknown ten
years ago. There.are now eighty five
mills ju operation, and twenty-five
more iu course of construction. In
1876 there were but twenty-four cot¬
ton seed oil mills in the country, Dur¬
ing the past season about 506,000, tons
of seed wo. e crushed, the product of
oil being estimated at over 25.0,000
barrels. About §1Q 4 OOO.OOOm ulready
invested.in the mills, which now form*
one of tho most important i net u St lies
of the South.—Trade Gazette.
A young lady was sitting with a gal-,
hint Capjain in a charmingly decora¬
ted reces*. Ou her knee was a-dlmiu-,
ntive neice. In tlie ad joining room,
with tlie door *>pen, w* re tlio rest of*
the company. S:iid the little txcioe, in
a jealous aud Very andible voice;
“Aunty, kiss me loo.” Evidently*
something Jiappened. “You should,
always say twice, Ethel, dear;, two; i$
not grammer,” was the immediate
rejoinder.