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THE JOURNAL,
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%81U7r/W. O.V. FRfl. 5, 18H9.
PAHVtY 1.1C«, Editor and IVm.itoiRR.
Subscript ion Otu' Dollar’per annum.
Entered «*t Zebuluu po»tothe« an second-cl***
matter.
Official Papar of Pike.
.Editorial] Etchings.
A Hoad between Zebulon an.! Gridin
became impassable during the recent
heavy rains. Many other roads in time#
of wet weather can only bo traveled over
in ground -hog cases.
-pPEi.l.iNo bees aro still going on over
the State This is ono of the most com
mendable crazes that ever struck the peo
ple of Georgia. It heats walkings matohes
and base ball to death.
Ir U itow estimated that the ootton
crop will ‘reach the mormons propor
tions of 7,600,000 ;bale»; the largest yet
grown, Hence it will.be seen the king
yet rules,
Tuk (Voolfolk case was taken upjln
the supreme court last Wednesday. 3he
court room would not hold half.thejpeo"
pie that struggled for admission.
W
Conv.n, the man who was so badly In
jurcd.at Covington'somo time ago, ha#
roadiJ a statement in which he charges
Echols with the perpetration ot the
crime. Cohen’s statement redds pretty
slritgllt and Is directly against Eobols
from beglnlng to; end. As is well re
^
membered the crime was a most brutal
one and, no doubt, tlio moat severe pun
ishment w ill be mcetcil out The state
ment was made heaauso ofj Echols' at
tempt to get out of jail on bond, After
hearing the statement Judge Harris said
that his sense of jmtioo would not per
mit Echols to give bond. Bo Charley
Echols will remain",in Covington Jail un
til ho is tiled for tho.killlug of Thomas
and deadly assault upon Chocn.
One or two of nor exchanges jhave
scearingly taunted ti# with being) young
—» boyish braggart, etc. As to being
young we have only this to plead: that
having been brought to light,'
^volition mi: ouvpftH^n tjits last days of
f "" the sixties, we cannot he otherwise than
young; therefore, wo cannot reasonably
be held responsible. As to our
ful follies aud foibles, we can only plead
that youth in extenuation. But we have
a hopeful trust that, unlike the traduc
ers of youth, as we advance In years we
may become more w iso and less vicious—
that wo may not wrap ourselves in the
I filthy slums of ignorance and, like a ra
bid cur snarl and snap at evciy shadow
that goes athwart its pathway.
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■ —Os* of our Atlanta exchanges oi
5 ult. contains tho following:
■ f„ R . Keif, a colored man, was found
I guilty in the city court this morning of
I earning concealed about his person a
I pistol. Judge Van Epps ordered that
I he be Sent to the‘chain gang for four
Ut * ny allornn, ' ve Charles
Iprl'ayidr, the colored lawyer, who
S' defended Reid, did not hoar the
! facing the judge asked:
sentence, and he
“What was the fine, your honor?”
“There was no flue,” replied the judge.
‘‘Ties court knows no alterative in
cn so# of lid# kind The chain gang is
the home of the pistol tutor as far us litis
court i* concerned and the sooner the
people find it out the better it will
for them.”
a mountain non*.
IF. M. Hartley, who has been the effi
cient bailiff of our county court for quite
while, knows a great deal about
county. 11c knows some things that
would take tho average citizen a
time to find out.
Ou one of his trips to tho mountains of
this county the opinion forced itself up
on him that there must bo a still some
where in the vicinity and pretending
he would enjoy a drink made some
quiries as to a still which led to the dis
covery of a rather novel plan by which
travelers who are accustomed tn it pro
cure their whisky. Ha was told to climb
k certain hill, descend diagonally until
he reached a clump shrubbery. Ou
reaching this, investigation revealed an
old hollow stump, inside of which was a
large born with the inscription:
“Give the horn a tuta, rite on paper
w hat you want, go off out of sight and
come hack in SO miulte.”
It is said that tho man who follows
the#e instructions will never want for
whisky.
AnoFT. a mouth ago tho Barneville
Gazette called upon 'M* correspondent*
[nad jxsople, generally, to express disap- and
proval of the course of the ordinary
sheriff in changing the legal advertising
to The Journal. l?p to date ho has
found
One man!
this nuestion
““
for t wo years
ahfctsr to Uu‘
gPP 0 ** {1 - >n ’
|i.d
roim month*’ school.
The following sensible comments up
on the four month's school thstweare
to hare in Georgia this year is from.the
Macon Telegraph.
The increased appropriations for pub
lic schools rosde at the recent session of
the legislature will enable the state
school commissioner to keep up the
common school for four month# this
year. The same appropriation act makes
it practically certain that we will have
six months’ school next year. !u all the
cities of Georgia excellent public schools
are maintained,tot nine or ten months in
the year. In the average rural districts
of this statu children have had opportu
nities of tuition for only three months in
the year. This crying evil has been em
phasized often by the Telegraph, and we
are glad to see Georgia moving toward
the light line of education. Besides.the
$330,000 additional appropriation^.for
next year, it is believed that a large sum
will ho realized under the provision (hat
taxes on all property in excess of $300,
000 shall go to the school fund. For the
present year tliare is avail ible $080,000.
derived from the following soursea: Poll
tax, $185,i)00; half rental of state road,
inspection of fertilizers, etc., $330,000;
new appropriation, $105,000. It is esti
mated that the average attendance for
the year will lie „ 890,290. Georgia is
gradually coming up to the measure of
her duty to her half million children.
81.e is not coming as fast ax some of ux
would like, hut the way to a liberal
school policy has been opened and it will
not he long before we will he spared the
mortification of appologizing for our
common schools. A reform in tiro meth
od of collecting taxes would increase the
school fund very largely. There arc
over 300,000;pcr#ou# injthisj’state liable
to a poll tax of $1 each, and yet it is esti
mated thaFonly $185,000 will he collect
ed from this source. The average return
of property for taxation is a gross under
valuation.HThere are many property
owner# who systematically dead-beat tire
state and the most llagrant instances of
this kind are to be found among those
who off. are woiifJVliir*"a wealthy or Tow'” comparatively well
It estimate to
the amount of real and personal
ty in Georgia which is hid away from the
collector every' year at T$100,000,000.
Cannot some way bejdevised by |w hieb
lids enormous amount of property can
bo reached and made to hear ils just
of taxation? Friends of the school
tem should sot their w its to work to
all the money that Is honestly due to
educational fund. o ne of the I est,
ducementa we can pjssibly offer to
hostjclass of immigrants is the
in Georgiafthey will, 1 find good
nities for the education of their chiidrer.
MAT TAI.M
Here ore some rat tales.
We pin five rat tales to ns many men
and our readers can judge tor
as which is lurger.
Some fellow told of a rat that bedded
under a hearth stone and came out
night aud annoyed Hie household ver.v
much. 11s filled Hp dm hole repeatedly
but it was of no avail. So one night be
filled the holt? w ith firm matt rial and
built a fire over it. Pretty soon the rut
began to claw , snd kept it up until the
bole was opened. Then it came out
through the fire without even a wink of
the eye. This called for another, and
the next man heard (tom was
Charley Driver: "I saturated one o
those great big house ruts with kerosene
oil once anti it w as the most a
thing you ever saw, Itbl.nodu;i al’o.e.
and nil the oil was burned off, but
neither hair nor hide of the rat was in
jured. Thats a fact,”
Dr. Beckham: ‘‘The funniest
1 ever saw a big rat do was to run into a
big tiro with a little cat after it, and
staying in there some time come out all
right.”
Judge Hartley ”1 went out to
Mountain Gap court ground some time
ago with Col. Iverson or Col. Dupree,
I don’, remembt r which, any way it was
a cold day and we built up a big fire in
Hie stove • I reckon—yes, ( know it—
we told been there an hour and the stove
was red hot, and, when the door was
opened three rats jumped out and ran
off. There were four of them but one
of them burned to death. I have twenty
w itnesses to that fact
George Simmons: "When 1 first mov
ed to the hotel we had a line lot of
les in some tin top glass jsrs On
thanksgiving day, just as certain as my
name’s George, tiie rats gnawed
them tin tops, eat all the pickles out
put a number four shoe in the place.
joking about that.’’
A! this point the experience
dosed, chiefly for the reason that Jim
Ballatd aud John Walker were out
town.
The Georgia Midlaud Jfc Gulf railroad
has obtained about sixty-nine judge
ments against stockholders iu this coun
ty. Theae claims are going to he press
ed, and there is t:o hope of the
holders evading tho debt. Look out
some lively work.
The cotton factors of Rome have been
considerably bothered this year with
fraudulently packed cotton. This lias
also been the care for several years past
In some instances in certain bales of
cotton examined it has been di-covtred
that stobs w ere driven in the end of the
hale of cotton and water poured in. The
holes were then plugged up with water
soaked cotton, In other instances a
great amount of sand and sticks have
filled tho bales. This caused a great
deal of trouble at the mills. Tiie cotton
exchange proposes to take steps next
year to ferret out these stepsof iraudultnl
packer* anti prosecute them.
The Carrollton rime* is a bright semi
weekly.
At a touting of the stockholders
ST.
was decided to im-reas} the capacity
tlier of 10 per t* nt.
COMMUNICATIONS.
rue truth or it.
Our fcfarjr had* little lamb,
An'l her heart win moat In toot
To make Ita wool latyond its worth,
BriUf Sfi per cent.
But a pauper girl arrow the non
Had one wnall lamb also,
Who#* wooJ for Je»» than bslf thst aura
She’d willingly let go.
Another girl who had no sheep
Nor ftockInge—wool nor tins—
Bst money Juat enough to buy
A pair without the ta*,
Went to the pauper girl lo get
Home wool to shield her feet,
And make her storking*, not of flax,
But both of wool complete.
Whan Marry taw the girl’a daalgn
She straight began to awear
She'd make her buy both wool and tax
Or let one log go bare.
So ahe oi led out: ’’Protect reform!
Let pauper sheep wool free!
If it will keep both her legs warm
What will encourage nief
So It wm done, and people said
Where e’er that poor girl went,
One leg was warmed with wool and one
With 60 per cent.
New, praise to Marry and her lamb,
Who did this m:beme ioveat.
To clothe one-half a girl in wool
And one-half in per cent.
All honor, too, to Marry’* friend*
And all protective nets,
That cheaply clothe the rich in wool
And wrap the poor In tax.
MEANSVILI.E MENTION.
Special Correvfrtmdena* Joiirnnl.
According to promise I will try to give
you a few items from and around our
little “burg” every week.
It any one wishes to subscribe for your
interesting paper, let them come to
the post office and I will take the dollar
for subscription. I enclose you to-day
$1. Band Tiik Jouhnal, commencing
with this date, to John Means, Means
ville, Gs. Everyone is always anxious
to receive Tun Pik« County Jouhnal,
as it is the paper of the county.
We are having some weather now—
and weather that doe# a ot promise the
farmer dry ground to till for quite a
while. A good _ many of our farmers
have sown oats. Others have not, but
aro waiting for a more suitable season.
IFo arc sorry to sayjthat hut few of our
farmers iiave sown wheat. The farmers
of Georgia will have to raise their bread
and meat at home before they prosper.
Twenty hales of cotton were bought
here on last Tuesday by Mr. Johnson,
who was representing Adair Bros. – Co.
of Atlanta—thirteen of which were sold
by Mr. John Means, u man who raised
plenty to eat at home and takes care of
the dollar, and holds his cotton for bet
ter prices.
Miss Mattie Tyus, of Milner, Gs.,
opened her school at Meansvilie Acade
my last Monday with a very good atten
dance, which, we learn has been steadily
increasing since. She is hoarding at Mr.
Jobu.E. Slade's.
Lot# of corn and feed oats arc being
shipped to this point,/and jmostpif it to
farmers that v e thought had made plen
ty of com to do them, Now this looks,
to me, like hard times in the future.
Our farmers have sold s all tlielr cotton
seed and .they must feed their poor old
eows on ear corn and buy shelled north
ern corn for tlioir horses and mules.
Waller and Carter have been doing a
good business lu our midst, so we learu.
Another item of news which we think
will he a good thing is a proposed oorn
mill, blacksmith shop and other inter
ests by Mr. Janies Vanhouten, of Thom
sstou, Ga. We also learn that he, with
a few others, intends creeling a factory
of some kind in our midst.
There will ho preaching at the Cou
grational church next Saturday and
Sunday before 2nd and 3rd proximo, la t
all come out to hear Dr. Jonex, for he is
always ready to interest us with a good
sermon.
Mr. J. J. Horn, of Weaver, spent
Sunday with us.
Mrs. Lizzie White hits move to Barnes
vide.
It you give, room in your valuable pa
per for this we w 11 come again
Bt-an«-By.
SCHOOL MATTERS.
Tldrty five desks and eighty pupils in
sures the packing process. But there
are other* to come, and we will try to
make them comfortable. Mr. ltunkx
will make us somo new benches next
week. We will cordially welcome all
who come to enter the school, and will
give a fair share of the accomodations
Wo want such a full school that the ab
solute necessity for more and larger rooms
cannot be denied. There are children in
the community for a school of 125 or 150
pupils. If all tho parents of this num
ber of children felt tne all importune* of
proper educational advantages the school
interest could never languish We all
should feel a deep interest in the educa
tion of every child. With education uni
versal, our children would not be de
prived of congenial associates, or unfor
tunately limited in the opportunities for
suitable and desirable mating.
Away forever with the selfish, unwor
thy conception of a school to meet my own
individual wants, to do me and mine
good at the least possible cost. But for
the sake of our posterity, for the sake of
humanity, for the love of our country,
and in obedience to the demands of High
Heaven, let ns plan work and sacrifice
for the judicious training of mind, less on
ly than for the altars of religion, The
school is not only a town interest, it be
longs to the whole community.
When once the town and community
come up lo its support as one man, its
power i n i influence will widen and it w ill
become the glory ana pride ot the county.
Then the sta'e will justly and proudly
claim it as one of her own, and it will be
come a legacy and benefaction to f.il men
everywhere.
Let us cultivate a deeper interest in
home educational enterprises, and stir
each other up to save our children from
the shame of ruin and ignorance.
Not a grout deal of talk by the aspirant
legislator, not paltry additions to the
scUo.d fund by the General Assembly,
wM
but the fathers and mothers of the land
must make better schools until the people
are willing for their representatives to
make sufficient appropriations to meet
the great end in view , public schools wor
thy of the name.
Let all who have not, send In their cliil
ilreit at r-nco, The classes are moving
■ .n, and late comers will be at a great dis
mi vantage. Board can lie readily ob
Utined in good families, The principal
could take one or two more boys, It
will be seen from our circular, that we
are forming regular c'asse*. Now a
child must attend school a year at a time
to make the best progress, To coins
one-Ionrth or one-half the time causes
thorn tochangn in their class, or <!rop
back to a lowcrclass. G. 8. M.
MILNER MATTERS.
Special eorrcapoiuteiiee Jenrnsl:
Judge J. E. Gardner has rented the A.
J. IV’liite farm and expect, to make this
year on the place somewhere between 25
and 300 hales of cotton more or less. The
Judge is a business man and will make
things hum. You were mistaken about
the judge Mr. Editor, when you said he
would not qualify for county commission
er. He knows a good thing w hen he gets
hold of it and is the last man in the ring
that would turn it lose.
The new firm of ffead – Crawley have
the exclusive sale in Milner of the cele
brated Itosphoricguano, introduced here
by Judge B. G. Itivers.
The new firm of nowc and Martin will
he prepared in a few days to supply the
farmers witli ait the standard guano they
need; also, witli plantation supplies for
caali or on time.
Mr. Thomas Head of Butts county lias
rented his store house in Milner to B. I).
Martin who will fill it soon with new
goods.
Mr. Simeon Perdue of Milner 1 ,left a few
days since for Texas, prospecting for a
homo iu the west
Messrs. Howard and Harris have been
in Milner this week with a drove of Tex
as ponies and mutes f jr;»ale.
Mr. K. T. Hunter has moved to Milner
and will make lag home here.
Mr. J. VV. N. Crawley; lias rented the
last vacant house in Milner and will
move here soon with his family.
The Milner male and female Institute
is cn a big boom. With such a man as
Prof. J. W. Beck to lead them any school
will boom. Professor isastauncli friend
of the Alliance and is quite popular with
them.
Mrs. Ann Berry of Monroe county is
visiting her son at this place J. S. Berry.
T. II. P. Blood worth of Atlanta viaited
relatives in Milner last Monday.
Col. Thomas Grayliam of west Pike is
stopping at the Wilson House in Milner.
Milner has 53 g.rls between 14 and 22
yeaas old—9 old maids and 15 widows.
The girls are as pretty as any in the
state, the widows can’t he excelled f 11 -
good looks, and the old maid# while the}
are neither very old nor very young they
are not to be grinned at, There are
hat a few young men here, so if you
know of a few nice, good-looking good
young men with plenty of cash on hand
and some to spare you might do the
young men a favor by sending them
around. Mohoan.
PL EA SA NT It EMINISCENCES.
Written for The Journal.
Atlanta, Ga., reb. 2nd, 1880. —Who
would have thought thirty or forty years
ago that Zebulou would ever boast of
as neat, spicy, newsy and interesting a
paiter as The 1’ike .County Journal?
Not even tho most sanguine and hopeful
of the citizens of thnt day expected sucb
an efficient factor in rejuvenating their
good old town. I certainly congratulate
your people upon having published as
neat a weekly iu their town as yours,
while I felicitate you, Mr. Editor, upon
having cast your lot among as clever peo
ple as there are in the State. I have al
ways loved Zebulon and Fike covnty
and their noble, industrious, honest,
generous people, hallowed as they are by
many pleasant reminiscences, I
taised and educated in Zebulou.
Wells, the most successful educator I
ever knew, was my teacher. It was he
who prepared me for college, aud to him
I am indebted for tvhat education l re
ceived, he being the basis upon which
was built But how sad, how great
changes in the condition of your town
since I was a school-boy at the old acad
emy hart! by where your Methodist
church now stands! Where are my
school-mates? Where are the noble men
and matrons af thst dsy? Alas! Echo
answers, where? Few of either are now
living iu Zebulon or Pike, if alive. I
can name N. Beckham and Major Bob
Allen of the former, and only Uncle
Wiley Maugham of the latter. The
others have either moved to other loca
tions, or to that “bourne from whence
no traveler has ever returned.” But
when I think of such men as James and
John Neal, Gus Daniel, Puir, Dugger,
Drs. John and Jeff Adams, H. G.
Johnson, Mandevili, Hall, Btokes, Wells,
Hanes, Mitchell, Beauchamp, Andrews,
Waller, Varners and others, I realize the
fact that no people on this earth excell
ed them in all what constituted true,
noble mauhood. Their grand old wives
and children were equally respectable.
They planted aud cultivated your old
town—they made it the prettiest and
most desirable town in Mi ddle Georgia,
and although many lived to see their old
town nearly depopulated, its school di
minished and the entire surroundings
gloomy aud unpromising, t-cy neverthe
less realized that they were not willing
participators iu its sad fate.
But time, while it is a great ruler, is
also a great renovator. Railroad destroy
ed Zebulon’s former hopeful prospects,
and railroad has seemingly r juvinated
it, renewed its blood, restored its lost
reign and inspired new hope, aud I, for
one, am glad to learn that the grand old
town is taking on fresh life, is fast re
gaining her lost laurels. But I forbear.
I only intended this, my fijrst letter to con
gratulate you on your present surround
ings and find myself betrayed into noting
the past i
I will, if acceptable, write you an oc
casional the newsy letter aeeedt fijom this thank* busy city. for
In meantime my
the copy of The Journal you so kindly
malted to my address, coupled with the
hope that it will he a regular -weekly
visitor to my humble home. Calhoun.
SECOND DISTRICT NEW S.
Mr. Editor:—E verything In the second see ns
to be moving along as usual. * Very little
plowing done yet, owing to wet weather. *
The bird* are playing havoc with the oat*.
They get them aa fay: as they come up, but 1
think a light shower would bring them up so
rapid that the birds would soon quit them.
There seems to be good stands of wheat but it
does not make much show yet. • There has
been two marriages in the fJoeond—Mr. J. Is.
Vaughn to Miss Jennie Shivers and Mr, J. W.
Vaughn to Miss Vada Roan. * The AlliMice
meets often at Flat Bock, I guess they mean
business and will soon reap their reward. T
There will be another election held for Justice
of the peace tn the near future and Messrs J.
Davis and V. It. Coker will again try then
strength. * Flat Kock school is again in fnli
blast—taught by Mr. Ed. Watson. * I believe
the old .Second will coiue to the front yet.
8. M. J.
HOPE HAPPENINGS.
■Vpi cial correspondence Journal.
Very little farm work is being done in
this section, owing to the inclemency of
the weather.
Mrs. Brown has an interesting school
at Harmony academy.
Mr. Harris says, he must have an as
sistant teacher to help him manage his
80 pupils.
Tuk Joubnal is getting to he a favorite
down here. We say hurah! for The
Jouhnal. It is read by six to two_of
the other papers Leo
The Rome Herald tells at length the
story of Taylor Lawrence, who two years
ago, disposed of all of his possession#
and with bis interesting family set out
to seek a home injtlie far west, and final
ly located in Colorado. Like thousands
that have gone before, the Lawrences
found that the inviting allurements ot
that far off land were less charming
when viewed through the lent; which
distance furnished. After the lapse of
two years the family again took tip their
march homeward, and they came ail the
way in wagons drawn by horses. The
many incidents which they experienced
and the long days of travel upon their
return, were exceedingly interesting, as
their safe return heme again is gratify
ing to them. They traveled over three
thousand miles, over mountains, plains,
and across rivers, and over all this long
distance, one of the wagons was driven
by the young daughter of Mr. Lawrence,
and lire little heroine displayed as little
signs of fatigue as any of the returning
party. The family is again pleasantly
it uated lu the oW borne, and with one
accord they all say, “the sunny south is
the garden spot.”
Perhaps the oldest ordinary in the
stale is Judge Kitchen C. Beavers, of
Campbell county. He was born in Jas
per county December 29. 1813, where
he resided until he was twelve years of
age, when he moved with his father tu
what was then Fayette, but now Camp
bell county Georgia. On July 31st, 1838
he was united in marriage to Miss Jane
McClure, with whom he has been per
mitted to live happily ever sir.ee. In 1838
he aided in removing the Cherokee Indi
ans from Georgia. In lfHljwas elected
clerk of the court of ordinary, which pos
ition he held till ’52; ’58 he was elected
ordinary of Campbell county, aud has
filled that office ever since.
Mr. Jack Stewart ami J. B. Hutche
son, two well-known and rising young
lawyers of Atlanta have purchased a
newspaper avid are doing their editing at
long range. They purchased the Jones
boro Herald and changed the name to
the Jonesboro -Yews. The paper is pub
lished at Jonesboro and is the official or
gan for Clayton county. The editors do
ail their writing in Atlanta and forward
the copy to a young man who is city ed
itor and has charge of the paper in Jones
boro.
Mrs. Elizabeth J . Little and 120 oth
ers have filed petitions asking to bo
made parties to the suit in the ease of
Z. D. Harison and others against the
Cotton States Life Insurance Company.
There are many points of law involved
in this suit and large sums of money at
stake. It bids fair to be one of tiie biggest
cases that ever was filed in Bibb comity.
The Carroll County Times is gleating
over the probability of the Centra!
extending the 8. G – S. A . R. R ,
to Decatur, Ala., since the supreme
court lias given the Centra! control of
that line.
Mr. Joe Fisher went fixing in Robert’s
will pond, in Bullock county last week,
lie put out a set-book and on going to
investigate the next day, instead o
finding a big trout at the end of the line,
lie discovered that a big owl had
swallowed hook and bait. The owl was
serenely silting on a Jog near by, a
humiliated prisoner of hook and line,
Hon Jacob Tome, a native of Fort
Deposit, and now a resident of Wash
ington city, lias given $500,000 to
found a tree, nonsectarian seminary in
which the industrial training of children
will be made a feature. The institution
has been incorporated and will be located
near Fort Deposit.
The fortune hat follows the number
thirteen has a Dakota illusttatioh. Three
young women met December 13 ami
resolved never to mtrery, an 1 to renevr
their pledges on that day annually. On
the 13th oi January each of them wit!
show up with a husband at the reunion.
Two red-headed giri babies were
found secreted in Timbustoo, a suburb
of Rome. When found life was ex
tinct. No dew as to who is the mother
ot tire children or as to who placed them
where they were discovered has i eiii
obtained,
(.B IMI JCROSt.
The following is a oorrect list of the
graud jurors drawn to serve at the April
term of Pike superior court. They art
men who can bo depended upon to do
their duty conscientiously without fear
or favor. However, we learn that Mr.
J. C. McMicbael will not he a citizen of
Pike county at that time as be is arrang
ing to move hi# citizenship to Atlanta.
It is to he hoped that he will defer the
change until after court week that lie
may !>•* present with his wisecounsel:
IF F Com.ally,
R Y Peckbam,
J M Reeves,
T I. Bussey,
I, K Farley,
H C Harris,
E F Martin,
A M Barrow,
Z I. Fryer,
if K Jordan,
J M Scott,
t'apt J J Cook,
J I. Jackson,
F if Craw lev,
J G Smith,
L W Carunafax,
W J Coggin,
Theo S Pope,
B X I, Dee,
J C McMicbael,
Calvin Lynch,
Abb Moore,
J C Thornton,
A IF Brown,
Z H Elliott,
S 3 Jones,
J E Redding,
B W Hale,
A G Harp,
J IF Ford.
WHEN SHE COMES HOME.
VvTjpd fthe com« home ajrtlrr A thousand ways
I fashion U> mrwir (he tenderness
Of mj glad wrieomo l shall iremhls-yM,
And touch her. as when first in the aid dam
1 touched her girlish hand, nor dam! upraise
Mine ejrea, such wo* my faint heart s sweet dis
trm
Tbpn silence And the perfume of her dress
The room will sway a little, and a has*
Cloy eyesight -soulslght ache even —for In t the space throat.
Ami wars -ye*;; and the here
To Know that I so ill deserve lb.* plaet*
ll«*r arm mftitts* for me, and the su–biug note
l stay with kisstai, ere the tearful fact*
Again b» hidden iu the old euihraeo
—James W Riley In Ths Century
An Irlnli llinurr In 1747.
Dinner was genera!!V served at t p In
It wnaubundam excellent, to tx-iug profusion. the choin'st The wines
were French end Spanish vineyards, pro
duce of
whoae quality was remarked by nlmnst
ali visitors to Ireland, and (lie ]Hit-.iUons
were. u» at the same Costly period sliver, in handsome England,
long und deep.
glass .'mil eiiitm. and the lltiest linen ap
characteristic pcareri in till the feature Fetter i-l:nix the house*. A
was “ixitatri
anil ring.” This used was of silver, the richly roused ix>vvl
was to xup|«ut grout
in wide!i jeotmtx's were Hu m brought
to table. ‘UW sequence of courses dif
fered vial*® from that now general.
Soups earneri the third or fourth place,
fish, flesh mid sweet* jostl'd cold each other,
while |x it ted meats ami pa tun were
not uKiTcqts !.t lcuy. . ;i it., ten t r rate
For more accurate knowledge of w hat
our ancestors ate at their chronicler prmeijia! meal the
we arc indebted to a of
time, in 17-17 she sends the following
menu of a dinner to Iter sister: the quaint
spelling is retained "First course— 1 bill,
beefsteaks, rabbit and onions, tillol ol
real, blamange. cherries, Dtdcii cluvse.
Second salmon, course—Turkey, pickled salmon, gtiidr pout | i poult'j, grilse’H
am) quaiils, little terrene apple ;cream, crabs,
mushrooms terrene, pye,
leveret.cheese rakes, almond cream, cur
ra.-.ts and gooseberries, orange butter.
moats Dessert—Raspberries and jelly, win-rriesund and cream, creum.” sweet ■
sira
Kite adds ‘ I give as little but meat as
possible The invitation was to "beef
steaks.' which we arc famous for.”—
Blackwood's Magazine.
Witty Toin-it*.
Good after dinner speakers are among
the who roost cultivate popular tho of art inert of among dining. jieotile The
flashes of wit which draw forth roars of
taught: r and applause are sometimes un
premeditated, frequently Imt thought probably they and are
more out re
hearsed in advar.ee. Impromptu or not,
wo all like a witty s'peeeh mid a witty
toast. Chambers' Journal lets collected
some witty and amusing toasts given at
only banquets, sigit. and, “Would in reading I had been them, there!" one can
A rather cynical toast ran thus: ‘'Wo
man—she requires no eulogy: she speaks
for herself."
festal A gallant young man. under the name
circumstances, referred to one
member of the sex lie eulogized us "a
delectable dear, so sweet that honey
would blush in her presence, anti treacle
stand appalled.” of
At the marriage supper a deaf and
dumb couple, one guest, in the speech
of the evening, wished them ‘“unspeak
able bliss.”
A writer of comedies was given a
oanquet in honor of his latest work, at
which a jovial guest gave the toast:
“The author's very good hoalthi May
he live to lie as old as ids jokes.”
At another gathering were toasted,
“The lienolt anil the bar: If it were not
for the liar, there would be little use for
the bench.”
posed As pithy wjts shoemaker's the following dinner: toast, pro
at all a “May
wo have the women in the country to
shoo, and all the men to boot.”
Literary Person* sail Advertisement*.
I think that Hip average literary tnan
(or woman) is given to looking periodical upon the
advertising pages of a of as so
much know waste from space unworthy attention. such
I experience that an
idea is wrong, as 1 gain much useful in
tormation from advertisements. 1 find
that class n publication of that interests me also lias
a advertisements that are of
value, and more than one idea for edi
torial use lias originated w hilo reading
advertisements.—'Ihe Writer.
The Origin of !>osjs.
The question of tlio origin of the dog
has recently lioen dtecmxed by I’rofessor
Mebri.'tg. who boReves that it lias de
scended from various stiff surviving spe
cies of wolves and jackals. The Tatter
animals can be tamed, and many at
tempts to domesticate wolves have t een
successfully made in recent times. Herr
Kongo wolf that i:asset it follows completely him exactly tamed a young
might do. 1‘uLlic Opinion. as a dog
—
A Voice's “Coior."
Blind people sometimes (give wonder
ful perceptions. A voting lady, talking
for the first time with a blind man. was
astonished to find that hi- had perceived
tliat she was a woman, and a blonde.
“How could you have found it out?"
she asked.
“1 saw it. miss," mid the blind man,
“in the color of your voice!"— Youth's
Companion.
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