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SUPERIOR COURT.
Hon. B. B. Bower, JoAqe; J. W. Walters,
sjolteitov General; J. H. Cora*. Clerk,
Spring tev*» convenes on uecoii.. Wh,n i aj
tn July. Fall term on second Monday
ia December.
C 0 UXT T OTEICERS.
Ordinary, A. I. Monroe; Sheriff, W. W.
Gladdan; Tax Collector, E. 8. Jones; Tax
Receiver, Tbas. F. Cordray; Treasurer, C.
H. Gee; County School Commissioner, ,T.J.
Beck; County Surveyor, C. P. Norton; Cor¬
oner, A. G. Gadecn.
COUNTY COURT.
L. G. C#rtle4ge, Jndqe. Quarterly ses¬
sion* 4th Monday iu February, Mar. Au¬
gust and Novel*ber. Monthly sessions,
every 4th Monday.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
John Colley, J. G. Collier and J. T. B.
Fain, Courts held 1st Tuesday In each
mouth.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
374tli District—R. J. Thigpen, J.P.; C.
j Blocker, N. P. slid Ex-officio J. P.
Courts held third fFedueeday in each
month. /. P.
1123d District—J. L. 'Vyilkerson, second
John Hasty, N. P. Courts held
Thursday in each month.
020th District—J. C. Price, J. P.; N. W.
Pace, N. P. Court* held third Saturday
Sh each month. P.
1283d District—C.J. McDaniel, J.
Courts held first Saturday in each inuath.
1816—Thos. W. Holloway; J. T. C. L.
Smith 1 N: P. Courts held 2nd Saturday
ia each month. Griffin, J. P. Jahn A.
1304— Thos. U. Saturday
Cordray, N. P. Courts held 1st
In caeh mouth.
Safes' llrsitor;
SUPERIOR COURT.
B. B. Bower, Judge; J. TV. TPalfars, So¬
licitor General; B» F. Hudspeth, Clerk,
spring term convenes on first Monday iu
May. Fall term on first Monday In No¬
vember.
COUNTY COURT.
John O. Perry. Judge. Monthly se«-
*lon» hsld first Mondays—Quarterly »es-
ss©»».
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
W. W. Williams, T. H. Caskle, J. W.
Taaver, W. L. Sperliu. Court* held on
fir*t Tuesdays in each month.
COUNTY OFTICERS.
Ordinary, \V. T. Livingston; Sheriff, G.
Y, Galloway Tax Collector, R. B. Odom
Tax Receiver, J. M. Odom: Treasurer, L.
G.JKovvell; Surveyor, C. D. Brown; Coro-
aer B. D. Hall.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NO-
TARIES PUBLIC.
971st District—8. 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. H. Caskle, N. P.; Coarts held 2nd
Saturday In each month.
957th District—G. D. Lamar, J. P., II
9. Johnson, N. P. Courts held 3d Satur¬
day in each month.
1123 District—L. J. Mathis, J. P.;R. E.
McCulluu,N. P. Courts held 4th Satur-
*r hi
The Old Soldier Tramp.
Yes bread! I waut bread! You heard
what I said.
Yet you stand and you stare,
As if never before came a tramp to
your door
With such insolent air.
Would I work? Never learned—My
home it was burned,
Aud I haven’t yet found
Any het.rt to plow lands and build
homes for red hands ’
That burned mine to t theJground.
No bread! you^have" said?—then my
corse on your head!
And. what shall sting worse,
On that wife at your side, on those
babes in their pride.,
Fall my seven fold cursel—
Good-bye! I?mnst l’arn to creep into
your barn;
Suck yourioggs; hide away;
Sneak around like a hound—light a
match in your hay—
Limp away through the gray!
Yes I limp—curse these stones! And
then my old boues—
Wereriiddied with ball
Down at Shiloh. What, you? You
were wounded thar, too?
Wall, you beat vis—that’s all.
Yet eveu my heart with a stout pride
will start
As I tramp. For, you see
No marter which won, it was gallant¬
ly done,
And a glorious America* victory.
What kind words and bread? God’s
smile* on your head!
On yonr wife, on yo*r babesl-r-aad
please, sir I pray
You’ll pardon me sir; but that fight
trenched me here.
Deeper—deeper than sword-cut that
day.
Nay. I’ll go. Sir adieu! lu Tityrc *
* YV-. *«*
While I—Yes, read and speak both
Latin rnd Greek;
| §And slank without end.
Hey? Oxford, But," then, when „tke
wild cry for men
Rang ’out through the gathering
night
Asiajmother cries for her children and
dies
We two hurried home for the fight.
How noble, my brother, how brave—
and—but there—
The tramping about somehow weak¬
ens my eyes.
At Shiloh! We stood ’neath" that ^hill
by the wood—
It’s a graveyard to-day. I surmise.
Yes, we stood to the last! And when
the strife had passed
I sank down in blood at his side,
Ou his brow on his breast—what need
tell the rest?
I but know that my brother had
died.
What! Wounds on your breast? Your
brow tells the rest?
You fought at my side and you fell?
the brave boy that stood at my
side in that wood,
On that blazing red border of hell!
brother! Mj own! Never king
on his thrown
Knsw a joy lfke this brought to me-
btess you, my life, bless your
brave Northern wife.
And your beautiful bkCes. two and
three.
—Joaquin Miller.
A disagreeable girl—Auna Mosity.—
Waysaw Wasp.
A snake in the grass—Anna Conda.
—Chicago Sun.
A girl to be courted—Anna Mate,—
Hot Spring* News-
Any-mate to this will require an
Anti-dots. —Trade Gazette.
The diversity i» the growth of
the fact that theie are now .
Southern states 276 establishments for
the manufacture of agricultural
ments. working $ 3 , 509,881 capital and
2,633 hands, consuming $1,646,750 ot
material, requiring$798,012 of wages
and creating, $3,557,604 oi products.
LEARY, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, i,
Duties of a Newspaper Correspon¬
dent .
The duties of a newspaper corres¬
pondent are delicate and complicated,
and his responsibility overwhelming.
We will endeavor to explain those du¬
ties, relieve the delicacy, clear up the
complications and.lift the responsibil-
i‘Y- should write
A correspondent on
bot h sides of his paper and i n a wretch¬
edly bad hand; he should blur, erase,
obliterate and interline nntil the man- ~
(
uscript resembles the trail of an army
of drunken flies returning home from
a night’s debauch in an ink bottle.
The writing should be in pencil,
very dim. almost illegible, with notb-
ing on earth, in the way of sense
or marks to indicate where the inter
Jinerations belaug; in fact lie should
fix it so they'll suit as well at one
place as another if not a little better.
If the coaimuircation covers several
pages, the pages ought by no means to
be numbered. He sheuld take counsel
by the following remarks from the old
Temperance Banner: “We publish
elsewhere the address of Dr. T. H.
Chi vers. The pages are not number-
ed, and there’s nothing in the Bcnse to
show whick is the beginning, middle
or end. So we print, the pages ju.-t aa
we pick them tip, and upon a careful
study of the address, we are satisfied
that that’s as good a way as any.”
The production was as intelligible
backwards as forwards, sidewise as
leugthwise, and that’s a good idea for
a correspondent to adopt.
A correspondent should say a great
deal about small matters and very lit¬
tle about matters‘of public importune®
Yesterday’s agricultural convention
can be disposed of in three linos, but
last night’s hop ought to have two
pages of fool® cap.
The corrospomdent mus* by nil means
state whether the farmers in his beat
are planting, or hoeing, or fencing; or
harvesting. If he don’t tell that they
are at work and state ~wnac they *<t
doing, the natural pre-umption will be
that the lazy fellows are fooling away
their time.
He must also let us know the state
of the weather and how that kind of
weather affects the people, and the
land, and the stock and everything.
He’s the ®nly ehnnnel through which
we can get authentic nnd legitimate
information on these points.
He should ala© ^present statements
that are boldly made, and made with¬
out more than a bare reason forsuspi-
sion,
A New Y"ork paper s«nt it’s cerres-
pondent to Europe ta observe imd re
port - The correspondent stopped the
first night at a villiageion on the coast
of Holland. The inn had but one ser¬
vant, and she was red headed, and in 0
continual fret with children, dogs and
everythins:, The faithful Bohemian
immediately wrote' in haste, to hispa-
per: “The servant girls in Holland
are red bended and spiteful ” That’a
the way to do. Make statements in
advance of evidence and stand a chance
to have a nice little squabble, "and
have the Integrity and veracity of tho
newspaper toyod with, bandied, and
made the theme of the pleasing jest.
Tbs correspondent should further¬
more tell who are the right men to he
run for congress, governor and presi¬
dent; especially if he don’t take bn'
one paper, and lives where the mail
comes regularly once a fortnight.
He should never fail to begin his
letter with some remark about, “Your
interesting and widely circulated pa-
per.” That beats a broom straw in
tickling the vanity of the editor. He
rolls that remark under his tongue ?s a
sweet morsel, and gulps it down as the
ox gulpeth the wafer. He carries it
homo and showns it to his children and
tells them: “Here’s the kind of man
yonr papa is, according to the canoni.
cal nnd unerring opinion of that sin-
cera, candid, free sp eaking and enlight¬
ened gentleman, the correspondaut
from Lick Spittle cross roads, and thi-
proud parent smiles all over himself
with smile of satisfaction. *
a
diralv traced production does notap- Ft
pear ‘i„ p r i nt exactly hs ho thinks
ought to be, should stt .p h;s paper,
) vie ld all the influence he can to
]^S^,he f ibtmVnthe to' aubiect'
That’s the way manage, that
mattej.— Ex.
Our Increasing Wsaltk.
The Bradstrert Commercial Agency
has been for three or four years in¬
vestigating the wealth and
coudltion of the country by means of
reports from bankers and real estate
agents. Tin* answers ware complete
and the calculation lias.id thereon is
held to be substantially correct. It
appears that tho assessed value of
real estate in this country in 18(10 was
$6,973,005,040. in 1870 $9,914,780,825
a gain in ten years of forty-two per
cent. In 1880 It amounted to $13,-
036.766,915. a gain of thirky-ono per
cent, over that of 1870, and iu the
twenty year# since 1860 a gain of
eighty-seven per cent. In contrast
with this are the reports concerning
the value of personal property. In
1860 this was $5,111,553,956; in 1870
$4,231,205,907; in 1880, $3,866,618,000
being a decrease in tho ten years from
1860 to 1370 of 164 per cent., run!
f-oai 1870 to 1880. of 9 3-10 per cent.,
or a total in the twenty years of 24
3-10 per cer t., white in the same time
real property had incteased 87 per
cvnt. It is apparent that “there is
something rotten in Denmark.” It
be, he u matter of fact, that
while the country has increased ro
enormously in real property it has lost
in personal property. It is held that
the abolition of slavery and the other
loses attendant upon the war accounts
for the fast decrease, iu the decade
from 1860 to 1870: but no such cause*
in the decade from 1870 to 1880, al¬
though it is held that the avoifiunce
of double assessments through count¬
ing mortgages and bonds once icck-
oned and assessed may explain a por -
tion of the decrease. The report says
that “tho ratios of assessed to true
valuation in the United States rarige
from 40 to 100 per cent, nnd for
the country at large r the average is
about 65 per cent.” The conclusion
finally reached puts the aggregated
sum of the wealth of the country on
JuneT, r,t $'4ff,&42 1 *too,o<W. *iu« ***»-
eral grand c!*«es which make up this
aggregate are expressed as follows, the
figures being milium*: Farms, $10,-
197. residences and business real os-,
tar,**; capital employed in business; in.
eluding waterpower, $9,881; railroads
aud 1 equipment, $5,536; telegraph,
shipping and canals, $119; live s'oslc,
whether on or of? farms, farming tools
and machinery, $2,406; household
furniture, paintings, hooks, c'othidg,
jewelry, household supplies of food,
fuel, etc., $5,000; mines (including
petroleum wells) and quarries, togeth¬
er with or.e half of the annual product
reckoned as the average supply on
hand $789, three-quarters of the an-
mini product of agriculture nnd mann-
faetnres, and of the annual importa¬
tion of foreign goods, assnmad to be
the average suppiy ou hand, $6,160;
chu rchci ■;< jhoals, asylums, public
buildings of all kinds, and other real
estate exempt from . taxation, $2,000;
Bpccie, $612; miHcellaneouw items, in¬
cluding b ols of mechanics, $650; total
$43 642.
The largo amount of the vafae of
household goods has excited surprise,
but other computa ions ;talli»d with
thh as correct The goods were
valued according to their worth
their owner, or what it would cost to
replace them, fair allowance being
made as to wear and tear, and not
what thay would bo worth as second¬
hand goods, This, of cour»a makes
the sums large; bnt it Is a correct
valuation and testifies to the general
prevalence of the comfort iu the daily
life of the people.
♦ 4®*»
When our genial nows editor called
and paid cash down for the suit, the
German was so delighted that he
asked his customer to go out aud take
a drink with him. The editor, of
course, declined, saying he did not
drink, whor- uponst gleam of satisfac-
tion and intelligence combined shot
across cue tailor’s countenance as he
exclaimed: “Dot’s de reason vy you
v . for he clothes so quick :is got ’em.’
_---
A full statement of the cotton mil’s
i n South C.rolina shows that f air
thonSl,ud flv e hundred people are cm-
I_ ploy*;d. and the value of the annual
I product is six million dollars.—Ex.
The Country Editor.
Somebody has written up tho eoon-
try editor in about two columns non¬
pareil for a New York paper - Tho
subject is not so uncommon as it may
at first appear- Tho country editor
has a hard road to travel. Ho ’is the
reporter, bookkeeper; mechanics]
superintendent, business manager,
collector and mailing machine, aud
soliciting agent of the establishment.
His w.-rk is hard, his receipts small
and his creditors numerous. In a
small town an editor Ins to steer his
owu coarse So as to avoid givJug of¬
fense to different circles of society,
the religion* denominations, toe busi¬
ness community. and the rural popu¬
lation. If an influential old farmer
wauts a two column notice of his new
barn it must appear, or the editor
lose ft hundred subscribers.
Patch-work quilts, big Wits and
phenomenal eggs also clamor for
space in tho columns of tho country
paper. Iu the course of time the rura]
scribe becomes either jocose or morose
in erher frame of mind he continues
to itinko friends who demand free ad¬
vertising, and enemies who work
against him The country editor is
always getting ready t» abandon jour¬
nalism for something else but he rare,
ly carries out his threat. Ho gener¬
ally d es in h.aii'cRS. In some .wild
communities editors occasionally meet
with bad treatment. Sometimes they
are driven out of lh@ country, and
when other methods of getting rid of
them fail, they are sent to tho legisla¬
ture. The city editor get* a groat
deal of fun out of the country editor’s
work, but the man who bears the bur¬
den regards it as a serious basinets,
In tho best sense it i* r-noua. Tho
little local weeklies Mattered all over
the country ere all ia.theiiway poten¬
tial factors of civilization. They de¬
velop their localities, bring tboir re¬
sources before the world, and in a
manner educate their readers, They
are mwayn.ou tue s\ae ot tue'j okuren
the schools, program and reform.
Men who livo and die working for
such objects aro ■ public* ban.-factors
aud deserve a substantial reward.—
Ex.
AN OLD FARMER’S WISDOM.
One who has tilled the soil for forty
years, and in the meantimu lias ac¬
cumulated a competence and given
bis children a good education, says
his experience has taught him these
thiiigs:
1. One cow, horse, mule, sheep or
hog, well fed, la more profitable than
two kopt on the amount necessary for
one.
2. One acre of land carefnlly pre¬
pared mid well cultivated produces
more than two which only receives
the B.ime amount of labor had on one.
3. One acre @f good grass is wortli
m^rc than two acres of cotton where
no grass is r«i*ed.
4. No farmer who buys corn, oats,
fodder or hay, as a rul«, for ten years,
can keep the sheriff from hi3 door in
the end.
5. The farmer wh« never reads
the agricultural papers, sneers at hook
and improvements, has a
roof, poor stock, brokon down
and complaints of “bad so«-
6. The farmer who is above his
business and entrusts it to another to
soon has n© business to attend
7. The farmer who habitual bever¬
is cold water, is healthier, wealth¬
aud wiser than the one who does
not refuse strong drink.
-,* » . —
Fred Douglass, the well known col.
orrd leader, was married in this city,
this evening to Miss Helen M. Pitts,
a white woman, formerly of Avon,
New Yo'k. The wedding, which took
place.at the residence of Dr. Grimke.
of the Presbyterian church W:.s pri¬
vate, only two witnesses being present.
Tba first wife of Mr. Douglass, who
was a colored woman, died about a
^ * The woman he ma.iried to-
day h . about thirty-five years of age,
and whs employed as a copyist in his
office. Douglass himself is about
seventy-three years of .age and has
daughters as o'd as his present wife,
—Wa-hingt-m Dispatches.
No. 26
The following which we clip from
the Atlanta Constitution is largely
overdrawn; is a very incorrect picture
of the dirty polygamies plans.—Give
the devil Ilia dues:
The tyranny of the Mormon system
is simply indescribable. When the
missionaries make female converts
abroad they send their photographs to
Utah. At the Sunday aerview In the
temple theie pictures are displayed
from the pulpit, and si! good Mormon*
who m od froth wires inspect time
portraits, select the woman they Want,
and luroish money to pay their pss-
sag.5 to Utah. When the female con-
verts arrive they are frequently drag-
gad from the curs by tho brutal Mor-
raoms who have bargained far them,
placed in wagons and drive* away.
initiations into the church and the
marriage ceremonies at i ha endowment
house are represented as being brutal
and shocking iu the extreme. Mur-.
ntoti wives are compelled to labor to
support their husbands . Once under
Mormon rule it is difficult to escape.
The government is tyrannical. No
one can build a house or plnut a tree
without p-rmis ion from tho head of
the church. In the schools the child¬
ren are forced to study the Book of
Mormon. The young people aro
trained rip in hostility to the national
government, aud are educated in the
belief that oaths administered by
•onrts nnd civil authorities are not
binding. This make-. MorinODS abso¬
lutely useless a« witnesses and pro.
tsc'.* Momoninui from exposure in tb^
cour‘8. -
#
If you don’t like to s e people spoon¬
ing night, i
Cstclung cSld in the dense August
dew,
Prey doti’i t onbls you reelf abound
|g breaking them up,
, Nobody'< HnboningjKgifc . j
,
If you don’t like to see a man handle a
- fau,
Though the heat of her oompiexioa
may stew;
There’s no used to ratse such a deuce
of a row
Nobody’s fanning yon,
If you don’t think that we tvro ought
to drive out alone,
SjWith no third party in wiow,
It ia not necessary for you to look
shocked,
Nobody’s driving you.
—Hervard Lampoon.
An exchange says: Probably the
largest and most complete junction
system in tho world is that at Claphain
England, where the great railroad
systems of London connects. The
mads lie together like the wires of a
piano. Sixteen huodrsd trains a day
run over them. But, unlike onr own
noisy stations and junctions, with our
English cousins }bero is no shrinking
of whistles or clanging of bells. They
keep their signals for their officials,
and outriders must expose themselves
at their Own risk. A tunnel way for
passengers connect the whole, so that
no one is allowed to cro*s the rails *x-
cept the empdoyes. who grew fool
bar-ly, and now and then come to
grief - Ou the average one man is
killed every six weeks.
Somehody has taken the census of a
Philadelphia hoarding school to see
what the girls do. Out of 48, one could
make bread, one knew how to fry
oysters, three knew how to broil beef¬
steak. 48 could embroider, and 47
dance.
— «•
From many parts of tho stats come
complaints of au army of tramps whose
demands are clamorous. Atlanta is
fairly overran with them. It would
be a good time to enforce the vagrant
law.
Tbe newspaper foreman get a mar¬
riage notice among a Jot of items
headed “Horrors of 1383,” and when
the editor learned that the groom’s
income was only $5 a week he said it
had better rema'n under that head.