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SUPERIOR COURT.
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in Docember.
C 0 UNTY OFFICERS.
Receiver, Thos. F. Cord ray; Treasurer, C.
H. Gee; County School Commissioner, J.J.
Beck; County Surveyor, C. P- Norton; Cor¬
oner, A.G. Gadson.
COUNTY COURT.
L. G. Cartlcdge, Judge. Quarterly May. ses¬ Au-
sions 4th iffonday in February,
gust aod November. Monthly sessions,
every 4th Monday.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
John Colley, J. G. Collier and J. T. B.
Fain, Courts held 1st Tuesday in eaeh
month.
JUSTICES OF THE PEA''E AND
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
574th District-R. J. Thigpen, J. P.; C.
F Blocker, N. P. and Ex-officio J. r.
Courts held third Wednesday in each
month. J. P-
1123d District—J. L. Wilkerson, second
John Hasty, N. P. Courts held
Thursday in each month.
626th District—J. O. Price, J-P.; N. W.
Pace, N. P. Courts held third Saturday
So each month.
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R. R, Davis, N. P. „ -L. T
1316—Thos. W. Holloway; /. P. v.
Smith 1 N; P. Courts held 2nd Saturday
in eneh month. ffriffln, J. P. John , A. .
1301—7'hos. H. Saturday
(Cordray, N P. Courts held 1st
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in each mouth.
Baker Bounty Directory
SUPERIOR COURT.
S. B. Bswer., JuiSgie-J. W. TPaltcrs, So¬
licitor General,; B- F. Hudspeth, Clerk,
Spring term cGovenes oa first Monday in
May. Fall term on first Monday in No¬
vember..
COUNTY COURT.
job a O. Perry. Judge. Monthly ses¬
sions held first Mondays—Quarterly April, ses¬
sions first Mondays in January,
July and Obtober.
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.
Ordinary, W. T. Livingston; Sheriff, G.
T, <?alloway Tax Collector, R. B. Odom
Tax Receiver, J. M. Odom; Treasurer, L.
G.’Rowell; Surveyor, C. Q. Browu; Coro¬
ner B. D. Hall.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NO-
TARIES PUBLIC,
971st District—S, J, L.iviqirstoa, J. Sat¬ P.;
W. C. Odom. N. P,: Courts held 1st
urday in each month. P.;'
900th District— G. T. Galloway J.
T. H. Caskie, N. P,; Courts held 2nd
Saturday in each month.
957th District—J. H. Evorift J. P., E.
C. Brown, N. P. Courts held 3d Satur¬
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II13 District—L. J. Mathis, J. P.;R. E.
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T. H. Griffin. S. W.
£. C. Helms. J. W.
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P. S. Batbre. Tyler.
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ABl NET ON, GA.
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MORGAN , GEORGIA.
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LEARY, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE, 6^1884.
The Song of the Workers.
I sing the song of the workers, the
men of the brawny arm,
Who giveth us daily bread, and keep
us from hunger’s harm;
Who labor afar in the forest, who
leven the fields with toil,
Who take no heed of the sunshine, and
miud not sweat or toil.
I sing the song of the workers, who
harvest the golden grain,
And bind it aod thrash it and sift it,
nor care for the sting aDd stain;
Who load it in creaking wagons and
stoutly their oxen drive,
And bid them good-by as they go. like
the bees flying home to the hive.
I sing the soNg of the workers, the men
who struggle and strain,
Who give us their muscle and nerve,
as they guard the loaded train;
Who give us their sinew and brain, as
they watch the prisoned steam;
And run the risk of their lives as they
pass the perilous stteam.
I sing the song of the workers, the
men who Jabor and thrive,
Who handle for us the hoeey that
comes to the hnman hive:
Tbe patient and tireless workers, with
muscles as tough as steel, ,
Who carry the heaviest burdens, and
lift, aud trundle and wheel.
I sing the song of the workers, de¬
manding for every one
His just and rightful due for all the
work be has done;
For all the work of the workers, no
matter whom, or where.
To each from the graud result, his hon¬
est, proportionate share.—Ex.
A Horrible Explosion.
About seven o’clock yesterday morn-
krtftv tan V. mtrw* sen- wttwcwnK » fclat Imt, wo
Soon the report spread over the city,
thatthe boiler at the brick-yard of
Messrs. Hobbs, Fields &Davm had ex-
ploded, numbejof killing four men, and stun-
nmg a others- Every phy-
gician in the *ity wa3 summoned to
ihe spot, and crowds of people, both
white and black, crowded to the„jard
The scene was sickening aud tf-
iug. jk
The engine was 18 ho* r er,
(Watertown), aud had-reffll iep
overhauled. Tbe engineer; PHill.
a colored man, had fired upland the
men were at their places. Mr. Taylor
Fields, one of the proprietors, had
just left the engine and Come towards
the city wheu the explosion took place
A SCENE OF HOBROB.
greeted the eye in every dilection.
The scene to be properly comprehend¬
ed bad to be investigated by thg re-
p< rter in parson.
So tremendous was the force from
the explosion, that the engine and
boiler, with all their ponderous weight
were thrown a distance of sixtvor sev¬
enty yards from their origiual posi¬
tion. The enormous mass of iron
seems to have struck the earth in sev¬
eral places before it landed upon a
wood pile, where it now lies complet-
ly wrecked.
Albert Miles, Manuel Grant and
Mat. Chapman, were killed outright.
Willis Watson, of Lee connty, has a
feariul wound in his bead. Mutt. Hill
the engineer was scalded and feafully
bruised, and died just as Le reached
his home.
It was a sickeuing spectacle to look
upon. The sadly mutilated forms of
the dead men, their brains oozing from
their fractured skulls, their clothing
torn m shreds, their bodies dis¬
torted aud blackened. The people of
Albany have never been called on to
look upon so ghastly a picture. The
brick-yard lies about a mile and a
quarter from the Court House, and
near the bank of tbe river.
CAUSE OF EXPLOSION.
It is supposed that the water had
peeome too scant in the boiler. Mr.
Fields says that just a few minutes
before the explosion the engine was
running with about 80 pounds of
steam, which was soon after increased
to 129 pounds. Tne loss upon tbe en¬
gine alone will be in the neighbor¬
hood of $1,200.—-N ews and Adverti-
ser,
Our Atlanta
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Atlanta Ga, I
June 15th, 1884.
The I5th day of June and sitting by
a coal fire. Peaches, watermelous,
plums, blackberries and other fruit
plentiful in our markets, does it not
seem an inconsistency? It certainly
looks so to me. The weather seems
to be out of joiut someway. It has
ruined hero every day and night for
more than a week and not merely
showers but hard terrific ruins you
might say, such as yon call iu South¬
west Georgia lightwood knot movers
aod no prospect of clearing up that I
can see at present.
A very pleasing affair came off here
at the U. S, District Court room in the
Custom Honee. The bar of Atlanta
had caused a very handsome portrait
of ex-Judge Eiskine to be painted and
presented to the above court, the cere-
mony came off on Saturday 14th with
a series of resolutions read by Julius
Browa, and speeches made by promi¬
nent members of tbe bar in which the
services of the Judge and the able and
impartial manner iu which he admin¬
istered his eourt in the tronbleous
times after the war, highly com pi imeu.
ted by each one, all of which was true
and I only hope that as worthy a man
may bo made his successor.
Politics are very quiet now. A great
interest seems now to attach to the
coming Democratic convention in Chi
cago, and as to who shall be its nomi-
Dee since Tilden so unequivocally de-
dined to allow his name to be used,
He would no doubt have been nomina
ted by acclamation and elected. New
who shall it be? The deep dissatis-
fiction that the nomination of
Blaine and Logan has caused iu their
own party, satisfies all sensible meu
that a prndeut nomination by the
Ottioago convention will carry all this
^abut with utu |*hiak
<**!«* «W .goc,! **«. secqnij “A
^y place Hoaaley would lead or McDonald, the Democratic for hosts
to a certain victory. May the delfber.
ations ef the convention be guMed by
a Master hand and brought just
conclusion.
JThere was a horrible mu: ler cotn-
mitted here the other ni lit. A young
wife shot through the brains in the
middl ie night, with her babe by
her xme in the house but a
young la jsiD of hers who slept a
short dis - ! from her in another bed
iu tbe same^Ttkn. No clir has as yet
been found although several theories
have been put forth by the police even
arresting tbe husband and the young
lady, a cousiu of the murdered woman
and also another woman. Everything
shows that the murder was committed
by a burglar who in being discoveied
killed tbe woman to prevent her telling
who ho was However, time may
show who committed the dastardly
deed, or it may be relegated to those
mysteries that are never cleared up.
Atlanta.
NO FLOWERS ON HIS GRAVE.
“j turned out with my post and
helped decorate the graves of our
brave boys, but I can’t say that I put
much heart in the business,” said a
grizzley old veteran last bight in an
Eighth Street saloon, as be was about
to absorb his sixth glass of beer. “I
know I have surprised you,” he con¬
tinued, noticing the look of inquiry
oo the faces of the byestanders, “but
I never see flowers or bear people talk
Of decoration that Ido not feel quite
knocked out.”
••It was just this way,” he contin¬
ued, as he had his glass refilled and
held it up between the light and his
eyes; •* before the war I was one of a
party of adventures who hear mry of
the immense gold deposits in i <,*,
penetrated the heart of that coun.»y.
From the outstart we had a pretty
tough time of it, aud *to cap the cli¬
max, when we were a dead fuilure in
our search, aud were longing for home
again, we were captured by a band of
meddling savages. They treated us
we }), bat closely guarded us so as to
proveot rflC'ipc. After a period of
about six mouths every man but my¬
self escaped and made tor the settle
mmts. I tried but was recaptured,
confess I felt blue aud down in
the month, but bore it and determin*
ed to wait patiently for another chance
to get away.
“Another six months passed, but
still no opportunity oflered itself
when a blight idea struck me. I
persistently refused food from day to
day, but secretely took just enough
to keep a gaining, so that after a while
I looked something like a side- show
skeleton. One morning wbeu the
buck who did the feeding business
came to my tent 1 was Btretched out
stiff, appureutly dead. A big hubbub
wus raised and the Indians all throng¬
ed iu to look at me, though
they kept at a respectful disiance and
refrained from tonchiug me. And
if you’d beleive it. they let me lay
there, too until next morning, when
they came in a long procession aud
placed mo ou a sort of litter nn l
carried me to the outskirts of the
town. A large grave had been dug
aud the cool perspiration began to ooze
lrom m6 at the prospect of being bur-
ried alive.
“I was tenderly laid in tbe hole and
there was a pause. Then several ob¬
jects struck me, aud peepiog through
the crack of my eyelids, I was sur¬
prised to find that they were flowers,
of I be fragrant, luxurious kiud pecu-
l iar to tho country. The flowers con-
tinued to come, until a perfect shower
tell* sensation was pleasant to
the olfactory nerves at first, but after
^ was completely covered i up, it got
sor ^ disagreable. in as much as I
a 8Q '^ oithe South American Jim
Crow plant, the si mple odor of which
is sufficient to kill oue When tie
grave was completely filled I was iu
hopes that the gang would leave the
place and allow me to escape. But
no such lnck. Two bucks were sta-
tioued there as a sort of guard of hon-
or- At night these were releived. and
so the blamed watch over me was kept
up for a whole week. When I did
craw, out of Hint fc.wwr bod
W I M* Bk. . »»«-« °»«b gbort.
It took me a month to go to the set-
Moments, and ewr since that fime the
very sight of flowers makes me feel
powerful unwell as you can judge,
-Ph.ltadelphia Times.
The Spice of an Arkansaw Courtship
From the earliest church days it has
been tbe delight of the vUllage swain
to accompany his lassie home after the
divine service. There is something in
tais single act that has always ren¬
dered it popular; and we have
been to considerable pains to
unravel the nijstery. Information
derived from a young person who
knows, leads to the belief that in
courtship there are opportunities and
opportunities, which; while alike in
some respects, yet differ in glory,
For instance, there are five nights of
the working days, any one of which is
perhaps as desirable us another, a
shade of preference, however, beiDg
expressed for the days nearest the ap¬
proaching Sabbath. Then there is
uext iu order the Sunday night call,
famed in song as the great •‘sparking”
occasion, and indeed, for persons
meaning business, Sunday night is a
desirable one. But the walk home
from church is undoubtedly the prime
choice of all.
In the Sunday walk homeward there
are all the elements of pleasure aud
variety. The swain is seen in his best
attire, clean shaved and bis boutonnier
is uuwilted. His “choice” iu as a
matter of course arrayed in her best
aud the two are on dress parade be¬
fore the community. Whatever honor
there is in the position he occupies
tbe swaiu enjoys to his utmost. And
indeed the social recognition, the in¬
dorsement of a pretty aod popular girl
in a Sunday walk is no small affair.
It is seldom, however, that this honor
is so fiercely songht as to lead to
bloodshed, as recently in an Arkaosa s
village, The two young men who fig¬
ured in it were bent upon “seeing
home” the preacher’s daughter and
took their seats in the audience each
determined to secure the prize at any
risk. Suddenly one was seen to rise
and crossing the aisle, calmly seat
himself in the preacher’s family pew.
This of course meant defeat for the
other unless he could prevent a walk¬
ing engagement being organized before
services were ended. He wan a young
No. 47.
man of decision, mid acted at once.
He calmly drew his revolver and sight¬
ing over the left ear of a bald-headed
elder who was propping Ids right up
with his open hand to rate!) the words
of wisdom flint were being utterod by
the father of t e preacher's daughter,
pulled the trigger. As a matter of.
course there was an explosion; the Ar-.
kaumis pistol never hangs fire. The
effect was electrical, especially as con
cerns the young man in the preacher’s
pew. who was scribbling his applica¬
tion on the fly leaf of a hymn book.,
He hurriedly got behind the seat and
arranging his battery; thundered back
a reply.
In the mean time '.he deaf elder had.
led tho most of the congregation out
into the grove, ami the preacher was
hanging out ihe window by his hands
tryiug to decide whethi r it were, .bai¬
ter to climb Imck or take his, chapces
amongst a lialf-duZ-n vicious mules
that he had neglected until the last
moment to observe were tied directly ,
under him. Those the audience who
remained d sinned, the young men,|
and it was ugreed that they should
fight it out whh fists in the woods.
In (lie mean timo services .^vere pus-
pended . This wise arangeonunt, -
however was defeated. It »as not.
known that the young roan in the
preacher's pow was fhe favorite. Nor
was it known that the preacher’*
(laughter hud stuck a derringer in his
boot leg wheu bidding him good bye.,
Tliis was developed later, ,whtjn
when the other young man wa*r
brought in from the “ring,’, shot
through the lungs.
There is undoubtedly an unusual
amount of pleasure in the Sunday-
walks homeward. But the sbice of
Arkansiiw courtship is wanting-
/—Telegraph and Messenger.
The Mississippi Pilot-
Tbe steamer left Vicksburg about
10 o’clock at night, and it was a pigbt
as black as the ii-side of a tar ketlle
After we were well under way I
op into the pilot house to see some,
floe work. According to Mark Twain .
the pilot would be steering by the
barking of a dog, the feel of the cur¬
rent, or some intuition that kept him
in mid-channel. I had been up there
about five minutes, and had just star¬
red to wonder how on earth and Geu- .
ejal Jackson he could see the river
when I couldn’t see down on tbe deck r ,
when there came a bump aud we were
ashore. „
The pilot he cussed, aud the mate
he ripped, and the-captain he swore,
and after half au hour of hard work,
we got off and went our w»y. The
night seemed to grow blacker. Now
was the time for a dog.tO bark, and lol
we hadu’t gone half a mile wlieu the k
souud r-aclied us. Tbe pilot heaved
a sigh of relief. He was all right.
He pulled the wheel over to hold dead
for the dog, hut his chuckle hadn’t,
died away before grind/ rasp! bump!
and we were ashore ou an islaud. The
dog that usad to bark for Mark Twain'
to steer by wus probably dead, and
this was an auimai barking for his own
amusement.
Then the pilot wrenched himself,
and the mate he tore things apart*
and the cuptaro be knocked things
endways, and after » delay of twenty
minutes we were again afloat’.
I made up ray mind that the pilot
would now feel tbe current, and I was
right. He shoved the boat out for the
middle of the river, and his bands
gripped tbe spokes as if he was dead
sura of his route for the next ten
miles. Now he is feeling on tbe port
side—now on the -tarboard—n«.w dead
ahead. A push or pull of the wheel
carries ns straight down the channel.
It is wonderful. If Mark Twain hadn’t
written it iu his book no man would
believe that this pilot cowki tell to a
foot where the chanD©) banks are. He
is holding us in tbe very ceuter of tbo
mighty river when—-Well, we yrere
nbt in the centre. We were fast
ashore in Louisiana, and after tbe
pilot, mate and captaio had cussed alp
the cuss-worda ever heard of in any
kDOwn langurge we concluded to stop
right there until the next morning.—
Free Press.