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Railroad Schedule.
BLXKKI.Y EXTENSION.
Leaves Blakely daily at 7:30 a. m.; ar¬
rives at Arlington at 8:30 a. m.; arrives at
Leary at 9:39 a. m.; arrives at Albany at ■
11:30 a. m. 4:20 m.; arrives at
Leaves Albany at p. Arlington
Leary at 5:58 p. m.; arrives at
at 6:57 p.m.; arrives at Blakely at 8:12
p, m.
County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Ron. B. B. Bower. Judge; J.W. Walters,
Solicitor General:. J. H. Co*nam, Clerk.
Spring term convene* on scvon« Monday
(a Judy. Fall term on second Monday
-
in Docember.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary, A. I. Monroe; Sheriff. W. W.
Gladden; tax Collector, E. 8. Jones; Tax
Receiver, Thos. F. Cordray; Treasurer, C.
H. Gee; County School Commissioner, J.J.
Beck; County Surveyor, C. P. Norton; Cor¬
oner, A. G. Gadsop.
COUNTY COURT.
1 L.G. Cartlcdge, Judge. Quarterly May. Au- ses¬
sions 4th -Vonday in February,
yrugt aiki 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 AN1)
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
574th District—R. J. Thigpen, J. P.; 'c.
F. Blocker, N. P. and Ex-officio J. r.
('ourts held third Wednesday iu each
month. J. V.
1123d District—J. L. Wilkcrson, second
John Hasty, N. P. Courts held
Thursday iu each month.
626th District—J. C. Price, 3. P.; N. W.
Face, N.P. Courts held third Saturday
1n each month. J. P-
1283d District— J. N.J Trice, month.
■Courts held first Saturday in each
R. R. Davis, N. P. J. P. C. l>.
1316—Thos. W. Holloway; 2nd Saturday
Smith* N: P. Courts held
in citch month. J. P. John A.
1301—Thos. H. Griffin, Saturday
Cordray, N. P. Courts held 1st
In each mouth.
Baker Dounty Directory
SUPERIOR COURT.
B. B. Bower, Judge; J. W. 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. V
COMMISSIONERS R.R.
V7. W. Williams, T. H. Caskie, J- W.
Thayer, W. L. Sperlin. Courts held on
first Tuesdays in each month.
r’nrrvry~TCFRS COt A TY OH r it A My.
Ordinary, W. T. Livingston; Sheriff, G.
T, Calloway Tax Collector, R. B. Odom
Tax Receiver, J. M. Odom: Treasurer, L.
G.JKowell; Surveyor, C. D. Browup Coro-,
nar'B. D. Hall.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NO¬
TARIES PUBLIC.
•71st District—S. J. Livingston, J- P,;
5V. C. Odom- N. P.: Courts held 1st Sat¬
urday in e.ach month.
900th District—Gi T. Galloway J. P.;
T. H. Caskie, N. P.; Courts held 2nd
Saturday in each mouth..
957th District— G. D. Lamar, J. P., H
Il» Bhww-t. «. Shttk, J. F.|*. *.
Mcffulluu.N. P. Courts held 4th Aatur-
m mnrnv
L. G. Cartledge,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MLRGAN, GA.,
Will practice In the Ceurt* of the W. Georgia
Circuit, and other Courts of S.
by special contract.
J. J BECK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
MORGAN, GEORGIA.
Pron pt attention will be given to all
business entrusted to his care. Collec¬
tions made a specialty. Money loaned feb 0 82. on
»3od security.
Dr. L S. Graves,
- o-
Practicing Physician
Will answer calls Jay or bight. My
charges are reasonable.
L. S. Graves.
feb 8 tf. Lemy, Ga.
GRIFFIN'HOUSE
73
Ike undersigned begs leave to call
the attention of the travelling public and to
the above named house. Its fare
accommodations will be second to none
My charges will be reasonable.
me a call. F. P. Griffin,
aug 17 ct. Proprietor.
A-W. Turner,
WHOLESALE'DEALER IN
Tolasco, Cijars aii Snuff,
85 liulherry Stosrt, 85.
Macon, Ga.
Send him your or<l e rs, and get the
best goods for tli u lease money,
jui 13 83. tf.
T. W. Hammond,
Livery ad Ted Stalk
Good stock and comfortable vehicles.
Terms moderate. feb 8 tf.
—L. LOEWr-
■:o:
W achmaker and Jeweler
o
Corner Broad and Washing2on street, at
8. Mayer & Glauber.)
'ALBANY, GA.
All work sent to roe will be* promptly
done and warranted. Satisfac¬
tion guaranteed where’VAhers
fail.4 A nice selection of
JEW EI^R Y
always ou band. jul. 6. ly.
PHILIP HARRIS,
. Ventulett’s Block,
Everythingjthat is kept in a First-class
Jewelry store. Give me a eall before pur-
chasingtelsewhere. No trouble to show
goods. Orders filled aud delivered prompt-
REPAIRING 5 DEPARTMENT.
j ^headof all. I defy competition South
or North j claim to be the best Practi-
cal WatchmakTVkahd Jeweler Watches South and and in
Albany. Repairing of fine
Jewelry where jewelers South and North
failed. Repairing of liae Watches a spec-
laity. In no instance have I failed. They
, are now keeping accurate time. Be suie
to come to the right place; Phil.'. Harris,
u Veutulwtt’s Block,
Albany, Ga
nov 15 i t
r*owm\vrvcTYtTrmio fitDr.LaBaree. kfi»jTVij I It X
; in diseases fOthe Riiim.HC »»d a-bimy.
J^SEKSteiSS£K»!SKa faff * K*/ £ *‘ £3
LEARY, GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1884.
The Printer Boy# Dream-
>V All LACE BRUCE.
On a rickerty stool, by a rickerty door
Of the editor’s room on the upper floor
In the inner sanctum of pen and
shears.
Sat a printer’s boy of uncertain years
Waiting for copy, and all was still
Save the rasping scratch of a rapid
quill.
The carrier’s address was being boro
Iu the old-time verse of the New Year's
morn;
And the editor wroto like a man iu
spired,
But the hour was late and the boy w»8
tired.
Congressional Records, iu binding
grim,
And Patent Reports looked down on
him—
Plump volumes revealing the nation’s
health
And of books the editor’s ouly wealth.
Large files of papers, dnsty and old,
In unswept corners quietly told.
That this paper was somehow a thing
of dates,
While the plums were leserved for
happier fates.
But the books and* the files and the edi¬
tor gray
To the drowsy boy were fading away,
And the narrow room seemed a gallery
grand,
Which was wrought with ca t ving on
every hand.
Beautiful volumes, quaint nnd old,
Yellow vellums with clasps of gold ,
Arranged i i ebony cases rare,
Greeted his visiou evergwhere.
l, * • ’ •' *
And he noted—the'books in tens
were p acer., - • ...
And a hundred volume# each alcove
graced.
Eighteen were closed with a braztn bar
But the nineteenth alcove was still
ajar;
No parchment ht-re; the books were
new,
And the last was registered eighty-two;
While n boy in feature resembling him
Not ragged and soiled, but neat aud
trim,
Near the lower Ghelf he seemed to see t
Placing another marked eighty-three,
And an angel sat in a golden chair.
Writing in character# bright and fair
With noiseless pen; and tlie volume
bore
On the clear white margin, eighty-four
But the vision vanished with—“John
ny, c»me,
This to the foreman, and then go
heme.
Wait, one line more—a merry cheer!
To each and all a blithe New Yearl”
Gone were the alcoves with carvings
old.
And volumes rich with clasps of gold.
The patent reports came back again.
The whitewashed wall aud the dingy
den,
And the angel that sat in glory there
Was the editor gray in his old arm*
chair.
“Will you be home io dinner?”
asked a Chicago woman of her hus¬
band as he was about starting for
business.
“No, I tliink uot.” he answered; I
expect to be very busy. Besides, a
new saloon is to be Opened jost around
the corner from my offica, and I will
drop in there and get a little free
lunch ’ 1 •’
“Well,” said his wife, while a wave
of fear swept across her face, be care¬
ful not to get hurt iu the rush.”
Kee p the ,Done >’ moving. Don't
saltitaway. Pay vour debts as fist
as you can. Have patience with one
metcl “"“’- *■“"“'•8° h-.me enter
P riSe - «nd g^e your patronage to onr
own mechanics.
The following is a part of a very in-
teresting interview between Bishop
George T. Pierce and a Constitution
reporter, on the occasion of the Rev-
erened gentleman’s golden wedding
celebrated at Sparta, Ga„ on Monday
of last week:
“The negroes are entitled to elemen¬
tary education the same as the whites
from the hands of the stale. It is the
duty of the church to imjirove the
colored mini try, but rather by theo¬
logical training than by literary edu¬
cation. In my judgement higher edu¬
cation, so called would be a positive
calamity to the negroes. Io would in¬
crease the friction between the races,
produce endless sir fe, elevate negro
aspirations far above the station he
wa3 created to fill, and resolve the
wh. 1 ■ race iuto a political fraction,
full of Btrife, mischief and turbulence.
Negroes ought to be taught that the
respect of the white race can only be
attained by good character and eon.
duct. Their well-doing and well-be ¬
ing all right minded citizens desire,
and Would rejoice in. Agriculture
and all the mechanical pursuits ate
open to them, and in them they might
find lucrative employment. Iu these
directums they may support their
families, get property and become
valuable citizeus. If negroes were ed¬
ucated, intermarriage in time would
breed trouble, but of this I see no
tendency now. My conviction is that
negroes have no tights injuries, legis¬
latures, or in public office. Right
involves character and qualification.
The appointment of any colored man
to office by the government is an in¬
sult to the southern people, and pro¬
vokes conflict and dissatisfaction,
when if lelt as they ought to be, in
there natural sphere, there would be
quiet and good order. The whites
can never tamely and without protest
Submit to the intrusion of colored
men i’f o places of tm t and profit arid
ragpeii .br!ity: There never can be
stabi 1 ' . and good Tv*.’ - except wljen
intelligence and virtue presides nnd
directs the affairs of the country. The
negro ought to be protected iu nil his
rights of person aud property by the
righteous administration of the laws.
He is entitled to respect aud kiud
consideration iu all his pursuits and
wants, while he himself is industrious
aud upright and well behaved.
The outlook of the future as to the
material advancement of the country
is hopefni. The influence of the
churches, wisely directed, will save the
country from the dangers into which
unsafe leaders would bring it. I be¬
lieve that the people of tlie United
States will remain a church loving peo¬
ple’ The agitation of the temperance
qne8tio(1 is oue f i aug i,t, with gr. at in¬
terest. If the evil of intemperance,
by legislation or otherwise, can be re¬
moved, one of the greatest evils of the
country will have been wped out
The means by which this end is to be
attained deserve earnest consideration.
The calender of crime show’s that in¬
temperance is oue of its most potent
influences. One great danger of the
United States is tlie lack of bread,
controllingjstatesmanship iu its legis¬
lators—men who allow local and per-
sonal motives to be the guides by
which their conduct is gnag'-d. The
same danger is to be leared in our
eoiuts*.
I explained to the bishop the pro¬
visions of the Collum bill, now before
the senate, which proposes the aboli¬
tion of the territory of Utah, it- gov
erument by a commission wliieh would
enforce the law, aud the remarkable
attitude of Senator Brown who would
allow Morniomsm to shield ftself un¬
der the cloak of relig on, which would
defy interference, and which the sen¬
ator would ouly attack through “an
open Bible.” To all this Bishop
Piere* li>teued with interest, nnd
said’
Mo'inoiiism can never be reached
through legislation, It must be
re . (C i je d for i he crime that it is by the
strong arm of justice. Bigamy is just
as foul iu Utah as it is iri Georgia,
nod a bigamist should not receive any
more consideration in one place than
the other. Abolish tlie territory.
That congress has tl>e right to do. It
is only when i) becomes a state that it
can take its place as a sovereign com¬
munity. Pot a commission of deter
mined and discreet m“u io charge of
the territory. Punish sins of imjmii-
tv jusr, as they are punished all over
the Christian world. Arm the c >on-
mission with plenary authority. Mis¬
sionary effort might, very property uid
the secular authorities but one thing
slionld Not be lost sight of, and that is
that the evil must not, be merely
talked about, but extirpated,"
What of divocies?
The divorce law of the different
states a e great curses of the laud.
The laws of all the states on that sub¬
ject are licentious and disruptive of
good order. Good peo.de do not ask
the protection or relief supposed to be
afforded by such laws. They are
temptations thrown out to the weak
and taken advantage of by the design
ing. As in all such laws it is the wo-
man who suffers the final iujnrv while
the man goes forward seeking fresh
victims to his evil desires. Marriage
should be inviolable save for the one
cause given in the supreme law.”
MACKAY’S SCHEME
He Proposes to so fix Things That
the Public may Have Cheap
Telegraphy.
Macluiv’s Postal TelegrapU^Oom'
pany 1ms sent an agent here to pro¬
pose to take tlie mk of huiiding a pos¬
tal telegraph line out of the hands of
the government and build u, line at its
owu expense that the post-office can
use it as freely as if Senator Edmund’s
plans should be carried out. It agrees
to build the trunk lines between the
East aud West, North and South, con¬
necting first with all the principal
cities and then with every town that
has two thousand inhabitants and
over. It will estaldi.-h its own offices
in all these places nnd will place a
connection in each place with the post-
office, wIiere an iustrumeut and oper
ator will also be stationed. The com¬
pany als agrees to carry all kinds of
messages, whether long or short, at a
nf {*■ c**nt H
word
All the company a-ks of the govern¬
ment is to agree to sell the telegraphic
stamps of the company and that the
stamps shall be devi-ed and tnaonfac-
tured by the governmentTwhich is to
deduct from tlra sales the.eost of mak-
jiig and handling the stamps, which
are to be used upon messages as they
are ..ow on letters. A message of 100
words, for instance, will require a
lifty-cent stamp aud the stamping of
the message will allow the company
the means of estimating correctly its
receipts without a complicated system
of book-keeping. The Postal Tele¬
graph company ask the government to
sell these stamps as a guarantee for
their receiving enough business to
warrant the outlay in extending their
present system.—Washington . Dis¬
patch in tlie Chicago News.
Health Hints.
Don’t go to bed with cold feet’
Don’t stand over hot air regist rs.
Don’t lie on the left side too much
Don’t inhale hot air or fumes of any
acid
Don’t eat iu less than two hours af¬
ter bathing
Dog’t sleep in a room that is not
well ventilated.
Dou’t eat the smallest morsel unless
hungry, if well
Don’t start a day’s work without
eating a good breakfast
Don’t eat anything but well cooked
and nutritious food
Don’t take long walks when the
stomach isentirley empty
Dou’t sing or hollow when your
throat is sore or you are hoarse.
Don,t wear thiu or light soled shoes
in cold or wit weather
Don’t forget to take a drink of pur®
water before breakfast.
Dou’t forget to cheer gently aud
amuse invalids when visiting them
D >n.t jump out ot bed immediacy
on awakening it the morning
Don’t strain your eyes by reading
on an empty stomach or when ill
Don’t eat between meals, nor
enough to cause uueasiness at meal
times.
Don’t fill the g ish with soot, sugar
or anything else to arrest the hemor
age when yon cut yourself, but bring
the parts together with strip of adhe¬
sive plast r
No. 28
Plantation Philosophy.
Yong man, stick ter pu’pose. Forked
lightnin ’ niu’ no sign o’ ruia
De fool neber tries tries hide de leaves
o’ lamin’
A smart man has more^ter worry him
den a fool has. De brighter ’plow
w’ars de fnstes’.
No main aiu’ so great airter we once
knows him. Debullfraug hellers de
loudds’ when yer ka«u see him
I alius feels sorry fur de yong feller
whet is smart befo’ Ids. time De flow¬
ers whut blooms de soones’ is soones’
ter die
De laugh what doan’ come nocliul
gratos mighty harsh on de humar year
De dry, hoarse laugh o' de owl makes a
chicken feel mighty oneasy
------• — — ... -...I.,
A ceitain gentleman, whose fortune
beeu made iu r* 1 o d ft ck , wh >se
name is familiar all over the country
and who has a showy establishment
not ten miles from Boston, took unto
himself to console the loneliness of a
brief widowhood, a second wife, one
•f Chicago’s fair daughters, Mrs, A. a
lady of the neighborhood, went to
call upon the bride, and in a lapse
• >f the rather; dragging conversation,
made some casual remark upon an oil
painting of ft female head hanging
uponjthej’parlor wall
”Is it a portrait of one of your hus
baud’s familyi 1 ’;ihe asked. “I seem to
see a faint likeness
•Well, not exactly one of the family
the hostess replied; ‘ it was a picture
of his first wife once, but it wasn’t a
very good likeness, so we had the
eyes changed and u feather put in the
hair, and keep it for a fancy head.”
A young man who had beet? assisted
away from tlie home of a girl whose
socioty he yearaed for wrote next day
to the cruel parent as follows; ’I did
not mind what you said to me, though
your language was pvetty rough; but
when youxkieked me with that number
eleven boot you imi
slut II make no father
your daughter. If she in
style of feet, and any of your v
in the use of*thein, I feel that i *
not bo entirloy happy with her ,#•
An enterprising Arkansaw editor
having in vain made numerous gifts to
increase the circulation of his paper
finally offered the followiug induce¬
ment. “The publisher of this paper,
hnving recognized the demands of the
community, has decided to offer a
quart bottle of whiskey with each year¬
ly subset apt ion ” It is said that editor
lias rented a warehouse in which to
store his subscription books.
Two colored women were baptised
in the James river. One submitted
quietly, while the other came out of
the water all excitement, shouting:
‘ ‘I saw Gabr’l! I saw Gabr’l, right in
tlie bottom ob de ribber! Brass mjr
heart for dat visbuo ob glory.”
* ( Hush your mouf, Dilsey,” said
the less excitable one; “dat was nufiin
but a big terrapin. I done seed that
myself,”
Wrightville Recorder ; "Whiskey
has not been sold within the limits af
onr county for several year#, and we
can truthfully say that no eounty iu
tho State of Georgia, has made more
rapid strides in the development of
her resources than Johnson eounty has
since the prohibition of the whisky
truffle.
A young man who bad been going
with a Vermont girl for some time,
ami had made her several presents,
asked hei one day if she would ac¬
cept a puppy. He was awful mad
when she replied that her mother told
her. if he proposed to her, to say uo.
Mahone says that he will not resign
his seat in the Uuited States senate,
and that the recent resolntious of tho
Virginia Legislature calling upon him
t# do so will not affect his conduct id
tho least degree.