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VOLUME Till. DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1886. NUMBER XLY. TOWN AND COUNTY ' DIR 330 T O JEl CITY OFFICIALS. Ua.wr.-J. 0. Scarborough. Aldermen—M. L. Jones. J. B. Wolfe, ' R. M. Arnau, Dr. G. F. Green, D. A. Smith. Clerk.—E. J. Tarpley. Marshal.—W. R. Hudson. 4 COUNTY OFFICIALS. Ordinary.—John T. Duncan. Sheriff. -J. C. Scarborough. Clkrkand Treasurer.—Hardy Smith, Tax Receiver.—F. D. Beall. Tax Collector;—J. B. Jones. Surveyor.—B. H. Blaokskear. Coroner.—James Barfield. KISS AND BE FRIENDS. COURT DIRECTORY —FOR— LAURENS COUNTY. Court of Ordinary. ist Monday in each month. Judge.—John T. Duncan. {Sheriff Sales.—l£t Tuesday in eaoh month. Superior Courts. When my Mollie and I get cioss, An the kindess couples will do, I ; don’t say this and that is rav right, Or thus and so you should do*. Very easy a quarrel begins,. But nobody knows how it ends; A far better way is simply to say; •‘Dear Mollie, let’s kiss and be friends.” * n. Sometimes I forget and am late, Am late, though l r ve often been told There’s nothing can worry a wife Like dinner belated and cold. But always I find au excuse In anger and quatreling ends; A far better way is simply to gay; “Dear Mollie let’s.kiss and be friends.” ill. Sometimes she will give me a charge, And make it both earnest and plain; But never, until I get home, Do I think of the ine§sage again. So foolish ’twould.be to explain— Explaining neglect never mends— j A far-, better way is simply tb say: ’ ’Pgar Mollie, let’s kiss and be friends,” Sometimes with a friend I remain— Remain till its late in the night— And though Mollie is sure to complain, if .'I know very well she is right; 4th Monday in January and July. Judge.—C. C. Kibbee, Solicitor General.—C. C. Smith. County Court, Uonthly Sessions.—2d Monday in each month. ■Quarter Sessions—2d. Monday in Jan uary, April, July and November. Judge.—Mescer Haynes ^Solicitor Thos. B. Felder Jr. Bailiff.—T. B. Hudson. Justice Courts. 1st. Friday in each *342d. Dist. (Dublin) • month. K.H. Walker J. P. P. Robinson N. P. 48d. Dist. (Pine Tuckey) 1st Saturday in each month. . . C. Bmccwcll J. P. Dennis McLendon N. P. 1867th. Dist. (Lowrys) 3d Saturday in each month. Iiftmar Miller ,T« P. J. F. Currie N. P. 1368th Dist. (Burch) 2d Saturday in each month, V. J. Clark J. P. John Burch N. P. 1869th. Dist. (Reedy Springs) 4th Satur day in each month. Ji. A. Bedingsfleld J. P. P. E. Grinstead N. P, 844th Dist. (Hampton’s Mill) 3d IMday in each month. N. M. Corder J. P. (S. T. Darsey N. P. 845th Dist. (Harvaid’s) 2S Saturday in each month. William Gilbert J. P. D. J. Pearce N. P. 841st Disk (Burgamies) each month. W. A. Wood J. P. N. S. Dixon N. P. 3d Saturday in 891st Disk'(Bailey’s) 2d Saturday in each month. •J. B. Perry J. P. Ji'I. C. Stanley N. P. •86th Dist, (Buckeye) 1st Saturday in .each montv montv E. M. Liike j p, J. L. Jones N. 1*» 1 1309th Disk (Jackson’s)' 1st Saturday in each month. John L. Keen. J. P, W- T. Bedgood N. P. -52d Dist. (Smith’s) 1st Saturday in each month. A. T. Shell. J. P. Bennett Kca N. P. to say: kiss and be ' lilv'y Jv And Mollie has copied my plan, . And whenever l have tQ wait, Or breakfast, is hurried and late. < When I’m angry and ready to scold,' he nothing and no one defends. ; takes my own way, and whispers, “Isay. ” , let’s kiss and be friends.” VI. When husbands at such a small cost Their peace and their pleasure can buy, Cau make their wives happy and calm, I wonder that more do not try The power of a few loving words, When quarrels or worry impends; For they’d get their own way, if only they’d say— “Come, darling, let’s kiss and be friends.” —Lillie E. Barr in N. T. Ledger. THE SCHEMER'S FATE. 1388th Disk (Oconee)-4th Saturday in each .month. ;'■* M. Thigpen J. P. John Wilkes N. P. YOU TAKEN THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION TOR 1886 ? If-not. lay this paper down and send for It right now. If you want it cveiy.day, send for the Daily, which.costs $10.00 a year, or $5.00 for six months or $2.50 for three months. If you want it every which Clubs'of Five week, send far /the costs $1,25 a-year •Great Weekl; <or $5,00 for THE WEEKLY C0N- : STITUTION is the Cheapest! Siggestand Best Paper Printed in America! It has 13 pages chock full of news, gos *ip and sketches every week. It pcitwts mere rorauwee .than the story papers, more farm-new- Ilian the .agricultural papers, more fun than the humorous papers—be sides all the news, and Bill Arp’s and Betsy Hamilton’s Letters, Uncle Remus’s Sketch es! •‘V ' • r V. .. —AND— ill • • l Oil n I ; TALM AGE’S SERMONS. Costs 2 Cents n Week! | It comes omte week* -takes a whole week to read it! . You can’t well form or keep house with out it! Write your name on a postal card, ad dress it to us, and wc will send you Speci men Copy Fhkr! Addm* THE CONSTITUTION. The whaleship Comet lay becalm ed in the Okhotsk Sea, about a league from. Eagle Head—a small proiaontory on the coast of Siberia. Ugh! how the frost bites this af ternoon,” said young Captnin Blake, as >ho pulled the lapels of his bear skin cap further over his ears. “Look sharp for whales, Bee.” “Ay, ay, sir,” answered Boo (the captain’s sister Beatrice), playfully, striving to Speak in the gruff tones otfia sailor, Sho gave one agile spring, which brought her on top of the carpenter’s chest, where she stood, round and rosy, with her bright biaok oyos di rected toward an ice-floo, in the dis tance. The captain called her “Boe’‘ for short, and she Was as pretty n girl of seventeen as ever sailed out of Nantucket. The gaze of two young Imrpooners —Henry Clews and Benjamin Bar ker—had followed admiringly the nimble movements of the girl; but soon the glances of the twain met, when Clews frowned at Ben Barker, who then turned his eyes in another direction. “It was plain that these young fellows were rivals. Both were gomJ- looking, but there was a dark, sn-Uen expression on the visage of Clews, not to he found on that of the other, whose face was as frank and pleasant as was' his nature. “There blow-ow-s! there blows!’ cried Bee, suddenly, her clear, organ- like voice ringing on the frosty air. The look-ont at the masthead also shouted, and the captain cried; “Call all hands, and stand by the boatsl” Up came the watch from below, and soon after, three boats worn dowered and manned. Barker was the captain’s harpoon or, and on him the gaze of Bee was riveted as. the boats recoded. In fact it was plain, that lie was the most favored of her two suitors. But as the boats drew near the iee floe in which the whale had been seon, a light fog began to settle on Abe water, hiding the throe crows from the girl’s sight. The wlmlo had gone down, and the hunters, when they reached the floe, lay waiting for hini to name up. All at once a succession of rippling eddies were seen in front of the firqt mate’s boat, which, with Clews in her head, was about twenty feet iii advance of the captain’s. “Ruady, there, Harry 1” sternly whispered the mate to his harpoon- er; and Clews at onoo balanced him self for the dart, with the barbed iron in his right hand. Round and round, faster and fast er, wont those rippling eddies, and soon the water bogan »o gurgle and roar, parting the next moment with the din of a cataract, as the huge form of the whale—-an enormous bull—came booming from the sur face. . “Give it to him?” yeliod the mate. But as he spoke, the whale, seeing the boat; whirled his flukes edge ways, so close to the harpooner that ho drew back a little startled, instead of darting. “Fool 1 Coward 1” cried the mate, furiously; but, as the monster seemed about to go down, the captain's boat came up, and although the whale’s flukes were fairly cutting the air all about his head, young Barker, cool and unconcerned, planted an iron to Iho socket in the creatures hump. The captain’s men cheered, while Clews, pale and mortified, sat down like one half stunned. Hard to boar was the superiority of nerve shown by his rival, and of which Bee would doubtless hear, thus assuring Barker of a sort of double triumph, .“Ay,” thought the evil-minded young man, clinching his teeth, “if something would only happen to prevent his enjoying her smiles when she hears die story.” But not much tuno was given him to ‘think. The captain’s boat was spinning along ahead, dragged out of i ho ice floe by the whale, whiolu had sounded after he was sti uck, and thie other two Boats must now be pulled up towards tho fast one. It was nearly dark ore the huge whale, finally attacked on all sides, with lanoo after lance piorcing his form, yielded up his life. Fog and gloom were now around tho sea men, with nothing to show thorn the whereabouts of their ship. On their right, not twenty fathom off, loomed the cliffs which hero run parallel with the Siberian beach, and now a,nd then, the downward rush of U quantity of earth and stones followed by a slight growling, betok ened that some of tho lean, hungry bears, which infest these regions were passing along the heights, and that tlioy scented the dead whale. “No chance of reaching the ship to-night with our prize,” said, tIn- young captain. “We will moor tin wh.ilo to one of the weeks yonder, and yon, Barker and Clews, will stay by him, and tako turns, waicli and watch. Have a good firo, and don't let it go out. We must -keep the boars away from tho whale. “Meanwhile, with tho rest of (hi crew, I’ll go and search for the shij and, if passable, I'll bring her this way. You must keep a good look out for her.” A.rope was passed throngh a hole made in ono of the monster’s fins, and, having been securely tied, tin other eud was taken ashore and Jas teuod to a rock, thus leaving the wlmle floating about ten fathoms from the beach. The crews then gathered as much driftwood as they, could find bjr' the light of their lantern, and it rousing fire was made. Home, canvas was spread upon the, groniid for the accommodation of the two watchers and one of the boats was left along side qf the beach for their use, necessary. Then, the captain huv ing fastened a signal to the rock departed with the rest of his rnon. “Keep a sharp lookout, and don’ leave tho whale 1” wus his last order as tho two boats disappeared in -the gloom. “I will tako tho first watch,” said Clews to Barkor “As you like, 1 »y But bo suro and wake me, if you see any bears coming.” “Ay, ay,” replied 01ow3, as he turned aside his head to conceal a disagreeable smile. • Barker stretched himself upon the canvas, and, with «i roll of the same material for a pillow, ho was sopn, fast asleep. For awhile Clows set gloomily watching the slumberer. Bee favors him, I know,” he muttered, “but he shall never return to enjoy her admiration of his pluck in the capture of tho whale—not if I succeed in my plan. I hear bears growling in tho distance. Good-bye to him if tho creatures attuek him in his sleep.” He then rubbed the line attaohed to the whale over a sharp projection of tho rook, so as to giv.o it the ap pearance of haying parted from chafing. The rope of a moored' whale ofton parts in this way, and it is then the duty of tho watchers to pull after the whale, obtain the severed end, and re-fasten it. Tho moment the line parted, Clews got into the boat, and sculled it after the Whale, whioti was drifting fust with the current. The rascal’s design was thus plain- shown. When picked np k he tionld pretend that the lino hud; accidentally parted, that he had done his best to repossess himself of it, leaving Barker, who would not ?o with him, us ho did not want to desert the position, lest tie should miss tho ship for which he was keep ing a lookout. Clew's intention was to lot the whale drift on. He could seo the gleam of an ice-floe, not far off, and, if ho allowod the wlmlo to drift into this, bo would have the excuse to offer,of not being able to> reach it amongst the* masses of ice. In fact, he wanted the whale to be lost to the Comet—could > n6t bear the thought of a prize, which Barker had been the means of sc ouring, as described, c\er reaching the vessel. The whale was soun in the ice; then Clews, having allowed the boat to drift about a mile down the coast, endeavored to round a point just beyond which lie beheld, by the light of his lantern, a covo, in which he resolved to en sconce himself for the presont. From here he could keep a lookout for the ship, as well as for Barker. In cuse the latter should escape the bears, and come that way, ho iibruld tako to the boat again so ns to avoid him. 'A strong current was running past the point, and the blade of Clew’s oar catching in a rocky fissure, tlio boat was whirled sideways and cap sized. Tito occupant saved himself by clutching a rugged, spur and drawing himself to land, but his boat soon was carried out of sight in the fog and darkness. Drenched to the skin, and chuttering with cold*, with no means for making a lire, for he had no matches and had left the lantern in tho boat, his situation was most uncoinforta bio. In the (distance he could do tect the gleaming of a few brands of the firo winch still remained near Barker; but whether the latter now wiis alive or dead lie could not dc term i no, its a prostrato form could not bo scon, so far off. • “I would like to warm myself by that firo,” lie muttered. T*But, no— I will not go there yet,” ho added jib he moved rapidly to and fro keep his blood in circulation. Meunwhilo Captain Blake and his nfen wero searching for their ship, now and then blowing their boat- herns, and vainly listened for a res pouse. At last, towards dawn, an answer ing horn was heard, and not long after they were aboard the Comet. Tho fog had begun to elear; sunrise it drifted off. The Comet then was headed lo ward tho part of the coast whore Bar kcr and Clews had been left, and which was indicated by the signal staff planted in the fissure of the rock. But as tho craft drew near, tho captain looked pale and mortified, for he saw ho sign cither of the whale or thtwo lookouts." Sudden ly ho gavo a low ory and shuddered. ‘Oh, brother! what do you see?” nqaired Bee, who; was by his side. “I seventy, a few bones where my lookouts should be!" ho answered. Bee took the glass from him. A brief look revealed to her the sad speotaole of evidently human bptm near the ombers of tho fire on tile beach 1 She comprehended tho dreadful truth. ‘The boars! tho bearsi” she cried, troihbiing in every . limb. “Oh, brother! they have been- attacked by ears, and—and— he is lost!” “They are both lost, for both were there,” answered the captuin. “But what has become of the boat and the whale?” Tho maintopsnil was laid aback, a boat was lowered and manned, and the oaptuMi, with Bee, went ashore: Ay, there they were, sure enough tho remains of one htmiun skele ton, with some shreds of elothiijg here and there. Beo turned as pale as death. Ajl- h.ough the two harpoonors had boon dressed alike, yet she fauoiod that a shoo she saw on the group;! belonged to Barker, whoso feet were a little smaller than those of Clews. ‘ Now, feeling convinced that jit was her lover who had polished, she would have fallen had not her broth er supported her. The fragment of line attached to the rock was holiced by tlio unite. Ay, I see!” he ened. “Tho, line parted, Ono of the young fellows went after the whale; the other re mained, and A glancd at the hopes finished 1 the sentence. “Deadl.doadl” .moaned Beatrice, 1 “Keep up your spirits, cried her brother, soothingly. neverl I can hover get over thisl’fs.he gasped. “Oh, Ben! poor Ben! All 1 little—” Here's Barker, now!" shouted’ one of the men, as the harpooner yvus scon to emerge from a gully not far oflk Bo cluttered aery of joy as the young linn joined tiro group. I have 'bpeu watching for the ship since late last night, from that wooded heigjit off .there,”- ho said, pointing to an elevation in the dis lance. I trie'll to signal you this morning, but yob did not sco mo. Whaturo these?? he quickly added, starting back at sight of the skele ton remains on the gtonn.1. “ i hey arc all tint are left of Hen ry Clews. That is plain now!” crjed the captain, the young follow.. You, then, nan form no idea as to when it happo.ned?” ‘No. I awoke last night from iny sleep by tiio tiro, to find this wero talkin’ to Miss Beatrice, that he’d be tho (loath of yon yet. Well, If ho did leave you fer the bears to eat; he’s somehow fallen into the trn)i himself.” Subsequently, w hen, before night, the overturned botiti was picked up, tho crew divined tho truth. £;The bont hud capsized somewhere near the bench, and ClowS; who had con trived to get ashore, thoroughly drenched and half frozen, lmd finally made his way to 1 the’place whord'the firo had been burning, hoping to find remains of it and to re-kindlo it. Hero lie was soon attacked by M’s; wh'ch speedily mmle him fchreir Next morning the dead whale was victim., plinth all '-r fiftftw n.i . found tho ice, and was towed alongside. Tho captain Buspccted that thp .lihiQ b/ wjiiph it had. bQen moored to. tiio rock hail bce'n : .pnr- . posolv severed by Clows, as it bad not the appoatarico oi haViiigiparted from gradual chafing. 11111 - ' * Months have pusSod since then. Beo and her lover aro married and happy while the bones of the Sbhemer lie deep in tlio Siberian sands, with u single dark-colored stone to mark the Sn6t where ho was bured.—Ru fus Hale in N. Y. Ledger. gone out, and having no matches, jranrdd Tho Importance of aSiieezo. Accord (Tig to the old superstitions, thcro is much importance lit/ ft sneeze. Somebody has been hunting up the subject and 1ms found the venorablo'saw: •ioozo on Monday you sneeze for danger, imjczo on Tuesday, you kiss a stranger; tineezo on Wednesday, you sneeze for a , letter, . . Slicczo qn Thursday for something better; Sneeze on Friday, you sneeze for sbrrow. ■Snetize on Saturday, your sweetlieart.; to- morrow t Sneeze on Sunday, your safety seek. Tho old Nick will liaye;yqii the whole of the week. Two. Bon Maddox, who for sometime carried the mail between the towns of Hillsboro ami Whitney, Texas; is tho possessor of a variegated voice. Ho iisfuilly begins spoaking in a very li,igl>, asperate voice, and when about half through; the sentence fulls to a very deep bass, in which;ho finishes. Qno.dav in returning from Whitney his team ran away, threw Ben out in the mud and tinned the light cover ed hack which ho was driving, over on him in such a manner that, ;»1> iLough niiinjured, he was unable to get from under it. While ho was there a stranger came by, when the following conversation took place* Ben (in his fino voice)—“HellQ, mister, wilkyon please got down and raise this Imok up ho us I can gii out?” St ranger—‘ • Yes, I guess 1 can, but how did you get under thorp?" Ben (in his coarse bass voice)— “Tho horses run away aiid turned the hack over on me.” Stranger—“Lootae. here; if thcro* aro two or three of you under thero you arc able tt> raise that’ ! up to at could not make another. I about me, looking in vain for Clews, the boat, and the wlmle. Then discovered the parted lino, aiid guessed that the wlmlo had drifted off. Clews must have gone after it without awaking me, which I thought was very strange. Soon the fqg cleared a little and the moon shone. I then ascended the wooded height! 1 have spoken of, to see if I could dis cover from there any sign of Clews. My position did not afford inea .yjow of tlio houen, although I could sec the water beyond; but ho was nowhere in sight. I remained on tho height until half an hour since, when I descended and came here, knowing I would here find you, as 1 lmd seen tho Ship approaching. “It’s my opinion,” remarked an old Sailor, “Unit Clews left you the way ho did in ordor that bears about here might make a meal of you. I yourself, and f am not going to got down in the mud to help you.” And away he rode, leaving poor Bon to get out the best way he could.—De• troit Free Press. know his uutur’, and I’ve hoard bad reports of him. He wav always jealous of you, and ( once overheard him mutterin'to himsolf, when you Tlio Wrong Date. The widow of a German army of ficer wont to the pension office for the pu rpose ol d niwing her pension. She presented tho usual certificate of the mayor of her village to the ef fect that she was still alive. “Tliis certificate is not right,” said the official. “What is the matter with it?” “Because it bears the date of De cember 21st, but your peusion was due December 16th.” “WImt kind of a certificate do you want?” “Wo must have a certificate that you were alive on tho Jfith day of December. Of what use is this one that says you wero alive on the 31st day of pooomboiv-six days later?” —Sif/ings. It is reported that farmer* in the nortlion sect ion of Ohio aro alarmed at the appearance of myriad* of young grusuhoppom in their garden* ahd fields.