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VOLUME VIII.
DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12. 1886.
NUMBER XLYI.
TOWN AND COUNTY
JDT&J& GTOBT.
CITY OFFICIALS.
Mayor.—J. 0. Scarborough.
Aldkhmen.—M. L; Jones, J. B. Wolfe,
R. M. Arnau, Dr. G. F. Green, D. A.
Smith.
Clerk.—E. J. Tarpley.
Marshal.—W. R. Hudson.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Ordinary.—John T. Duncan.
Sheriff. -J. 0. Scarborough.
CiitcRK and Treasurer.—Hardy Smith,
Tax Receiver.—F. D. Beall.
Tax Collector.—J. B. Jones.
Surveyor.—B. H. Blackshear.
Coroner.—James Barfield.
COURT DIRECTORY
—FOR—
LAURENS COUNTY.
Court of Ordinary.
1st Monday in each month.
.Judge.—John T. Duncan.
Bheriff Sales;—1st Tuesday in each
mouth.
Superior Courts.
4th Monday in January and July.
Judge.—C. C. Kibbee,
Solicitor General.—C. C. Smith.
County Court,
Monthly Sessions.—2d Monday in each
month. .
■Quarter Sessions.—2d. Monday in Jan
uary, April, July and October.
Judge.—Mercer Haynes
Solicitor.—ThoS. B. Felder Jr.
Bailiff.—T. B. Hudson,
Justice Courts,
842d. Dist. (Dublin) 1st. Friday in each
month.
K. H. Walker J. P.
P. Robinson N. P.
43d. Dist. (Pine Tuckey) 1st Saturday in
each month.
.. C. Bracewell J. P.
Dennis McLendon N.- P.
4867th. Diet . (Lowrys) 3d Saturday in each
month.
Lamar Miller J. P.
^J. F. Currie N. P.
1308th Dist. (Burch) 2d Saturday in each
month, "
CL J- Clark J. P.
John Burch N, P,
1869th. Dist. (Reedy Springs) 4th Satur
day in. each month.
R. A. Bedingsfield J. P.
P. E. Grinstead N. P,
844th Dist. (Hampton's Mill) 8d Fiiday in
each month.
N. M. Corder J. P.
S. T. Darsey N.. P.
845th Dist. (Harvaid’s) 2d Saturday in
each month.
William Gilbert J. P.
D. J. Pearce N. P.
84l8tDist. (Burgamies) 8d Saturday in
each month.
W. A. Wood J. P.
N- a. Dixon N. P.
891st Dist. (Bailey’s) 2d Saturday in each
month.
J. B. Perry J. P.
J, I. C. Stanley N. P.
86th Dist. (Buckeye) 1st Saturday in each
mofith.
E. M. Lake J. P.
J. Lj Jones N. P-
1809th Dist.. (Jackson's) 1st Saturday in
each month.
Johi*L. Keen. J. P,
W- T. Bedgood N. P.
52d Dist. (Smith’s) 1st Saturday in each
month.
A. T. Shell. LP.
Bennett Kea N. P.
1888th Dist. (Oconee) 4th. Saturday in-each
month.
M. Thigpen J.JP.
John WflkesN. P.
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THE WEDDING CAKE.
The doctor had a pretty daughter,
And many lads had tried
To woo her feir a sweetheart
And win her for a bride;.
But she was very well content
To be her fathers pride.
Studying in the doctor’s office
Was a talented,young man;
He had loved the doctor’s daughter
Since his studies there began;
And the doctor said with favor:
“You may win her if you can.”
But Jessie was a coy young Miss;
The wooing did not speed;
And all his earnest love for her
She did not seem to heed;
They quarreled every time they met;
Where could such a courtship lead?
One morning pretty Jessiestood,
Sleeves up and plump arms bare,
And looked down in the big cake bowl,
With anxious puzzled air;
For baking cake was Jessie’s pride,
And housekt eping her care.
“Shall it be gold or silver cake,
Or sponge or angel food?”
She mused aloud; Fred coming in,
Said: “Angel food is good,
If it's for you, but not for me;
You could please me, if von would.”
Asked him: i“I$hicli 8hall I bake?
I’ll make just what you want.” Said he:
“My own choice may I take?
Then since ; you left it all to me,
Make u» a wedding cake. ”
“You took advantage of me there
Unfairly.” Jessie said*
“ ’Twas your own offer, sweetheart mine,”
Triumphantly said Fred.
And she did make a wedding cake
Next month, when they, were wed.'
—Abbe Kinne in 2F. T. Ledger. ■
SNOWBIRD.
In the land of the Esquimaux it is
cold and life is hard, as I know,
who, though born there, have spent
many years in softer climates. Those
who live thee always know no dif-
ference. That is what the world is
to them. But they have a summer.
It is brief, but warm. Then they
leave their huts and live in tents.
And the flowers bloom, and the
dwarf willows grow green, and the
moss on the rock softens and fresh
ens.
This season had come and we were
in our hat, my wife. Snowbird, and
our baby and 1, when my sleep was
troubled by dreams of strange, wild
beasts with whom I could not cope,
and of demons who devoured ns. I
awoke with a stait and rose upon
my elbow and listened. It seemed
that I heard something.
“You sigh, Tonabbe,” said Snow
bird. “What troubles you?”
“I dream, Snowbird,” I answer
ed.
“Dream happy dreams, then,” said
Snowbird, “for we have onr stores
for the winter; our beautiful baby,
onr comfortable hnt and our good
parents; we possess fleet reindeer and
a delightful sledge. We have never
yet known what it was to feel th^
want of a skin of train oil, or whale
bone, or of warm furs. We are, in
deed, blessed.”
“Yon are right, Snowbird,” I
said; “let us be happy;” and I slept
again.
Now, among the Esquimaux, belt
known to you, the sort of love I
have since known to be the. feeling
that usually exists between man and
wife in European countries is derid
ed. They say of womeif they were
made to work, to carry the burthens
and to be slaves; bnt 1 loved Snow
bird. I bad wrestled tor her with
Nelog. Nelog was strong, but I was
stronger. I wrestled him a fall as
often us he wonld, and always threw
him, and it i8-the law that he who
wins a wife in this way may keep
her; and for me, I made my wife rest
when she was weary, and make for
herself a dress of handsome fur and
wider boots and a deeper hood than
any other woman owned, and, more
over, all trimmed with little beads,
with sparkling eyes set in them.
And when the baby was born, I
wrapped Snowbird in far, and as we
were on a journey, I put her upon a
sled, and so conveyed her.
Had I not been a strong man, thoy
would have laughed at me. Now uo
one dared to laugh, and from the
darkness came my Snowbird’s voice:
“Sleep, good man, and have happy
dreams; ono who is so kind to his
wife assuredly deserves them.
Meanwhile, heart of mine, what
happened without?
There were in that day tribes of
Indians who hated the Esquimaux,
and without receiving any offence
from them, attacked them and mur
dered them without mercy, men, wo
men children, and babes at the
breast. A tribe, called by a word
of onr language which means the
Quarrelers, passing near our settle
ment, paused. One said to the oth
ers, “Behold the tents of the Esqui
maux!” The other, “Let us kill
them!” They laughed at each oth
er. They twisted up their long hair
into war-knots; eaoh painted himself
black and red. They bared their,
arms to the shoulders. They trod
softly as panthers, and descending
into the valleys, that no watcher
might give warning of their ap
proach, they tpok the deer traok t hat
led to our tents. Then they rushed
upon us. 1 heard their war ory. 1
started up, and seizing all the furs
at hand, flung them over Snowbird
and the babe, hopiug to hide them/
Then I rushed out to defend my
tent. I fought—Alas! who can con
tend with armed numbers? A blow
descended on my head. I fell.
For hours I. knew noiluiig; how
many I cannot guess. When I awoke
it was night. A crimson aurora,
sliot with green, covered the sky,
aud all was silence.
Silence awful bevond words to
speak of. Silence strunge and terri
ble. Such silence! Let me tell you,
though I have no words, what a ter
rible silence bad fallen on the settle
ment.
I was alone under the aurora-
alone with the dead—the dead whom
Indians had murdered and scalped 1
Now that I have heard of heaven and
hell, of God and of Satan, 1 know
that Satan has in his dwelling-place
creatures like those Indians.
Prone upon thegronnd lay bodies,
maimed hideously by their murder
ers; all scalped. One knew not one
man or one woman from another.
The fora bad been torn from them;
the ornaments that, any wore; the
tents were burnt to ashes; the faces
slashed and altered. They had borne
some women away, T fancied, but’I
knew nothing.
Had I been of another nation* I
wonld have killed myself. Suicide
has never yet occurred to an Esqui
maux. 1 waited for my bleeding
wonnds .to end my life. Before this
could be done strangers arrived upon
the spot—white men from the United
States, who were exploring our coun
try. Some knew my wrongs. They
pitied me. They bound my wounds.
They helped mo search for the body
"of Snowbird. Then they wept with
me that I conld not discover it, and
took me with them. Soon I learned
to bear my pain and to be a man
again, and helped them on their way,
for I knew the iand as they did not.
They gave me a name—John Help
ful. 1 liked the English name. 1
keep it yet. 1 understand now
that when they named me so, it was
because I had seemed to them to be
a helpful man and a kindly.
Whither they wished to go I went
with them; and I learned to speak
English very well, so they say. At
least, I can make myself understood,
and J can onderstand. And so we
went on farther north, where all was
ice and snow, and I knew they
searched for comrades frozen up
there, waiting for help, perhaps, and
perhaps dead.
One morning we were among
Btrange snow-fields, when some one
cried out:
“Lookl”
l looked. There were the marks
of snow-shoes. Some human being
was near. Wo followed the tiacks,
and came to a rock, and in the rock
a cavern. Wo entered in, along into
the dark, down into the dark: and
there it was warmer and a fire glowed,
and a woman’s voice sang. It was
an Esquimaux song. A woman sat
before the fire, and lulled a babe
upon her knee. Hor fur hood was
over her head; but how much does
one need to see, if ono ho loves, to
know her?
“Suowbirdi” I shrieked. “Snow
bird I My wife! It is you! It is no
one else!”
And the woman turned,. and it
was she, and no other; and my trans
ports of joy w^re like those of a mad
man for a while. Then she told me
all, while the others crowded about
the fire and listened; and £ interpre
ted what they did not understand.
An Indian bad carried off niy
Snowbird to lie his wife; but she had
said to herself, “Rather doath.” And
she had hid k her baoy in her hood,
and smothered its ories, and no one
knew she had it with her. /And
when they had halted to sleep, she
spied the great liolo some wild beast
had made, and crept into it and cov
ered herself wi|:||, moss. No one
guessed she was there. They search
ed for her, but found her not. But
when they were gone, she returned
to Hie village, and saw what I had
seen. She thought me dead, and
bewailed me, but, for her baby’s
sake, sho knew she must live. So,
wrappiug herself in some furs she
found, she went her way, hoping to
come to a settlement she knew of
where were some kinsfolks. In vain
she wandered; she lost her puth, and
came ht last lo the cave where we
found her. Here she had lived by
snaring rabbits and birds, and gath
ering certain mosses that we know,
which, with the melted snow, made
a very good and nourishing sort of
jelly. And so the days had come
and gone, and Snowbird went, but
waited, believing that, in time, my
spirit had como' to her. And she
said, crying for joy:
“When £ saw you, Toriabbe, I be
lieved that it was so, and chat these
people with the #h»te faces were also
spirits; but, behold we live, and are
together again 1”
Then she arose and served ns with
provision such as she had stored away
and the men about us spoke good
words of my little Snowbird, snob
as we Esquimaux never say of wo
men.
Tho rest of the tale I will tell
shortly. We went aside to leave
Snowbird and the babe at a settle
ment with friends/ and I went on
with the other men; bnt they only
found graves, and words written by
dead men—sad tales of how they
starved and froze to death; and then
they went sadly back to'their coun
try, taking mo and my wife and
child with them.
Here, being a very old man, I livo
still, with my wife and son. And
the children of my son gather about
me in the evening as I tell them
stories of their Esquimaux forefath
ers, and of the massaore of the Cop
per Hills, which makes them shud
der and look over their shoulders as
they go to bod, although they ask
for it again, and still again npon the
morrow.—Mary Kyle Dallas in N.
Y. Ledger,
What He Would Say.
[Merchant-Traveller,]
A husband and wife were talking
grammar.
“Would you,” said she, “say scis
sors are, or scissors is?”
“I say scissors are of course,” he
replied. ‘
“Would.yon say mollasscs is, or
mollasses are?”
“Mollasses is of course.”
“Well, then, would you gay the
family is well?”
“No.”
“What would yoa Bay, then, I'd
like to know?”
“Wliy, love, I’d say tho family
was not well; that you had the
grunts, that Tommy had a sore fin
ger, that tho baby hud tho colic,
that Katie had the headache and
that j was trying to make an average
by being well enough for four.”
She went out of the room and
didn’t speak to him for two days.
Honor and shame from no condi
tion rieo, act woll your part, thore’s
where the honor lies.
The “Oraay King’s’’ Clave.
[Pall Mall Gazette.]
A writer contributes an interesting
article on tho palaces and buildings
of King Ludwig II. in the Bavarian
highlands. Thu description given
of mysterious grotto in the Linder-
lioff carries* one in imagination to the
splendors of tho “Arabian Nights”
caves: It is a high spaoious stulac-
titio oave, with many offshoots, se
cret niches and obsenre recesses, be
fore which yon stand. From all
corners, niches and clefts of the
rock—from many recesses covered
with oolored glass to right to left,
above, below—streams a sea of light,
now yellow, now green, now violet,
rose, red or blue, stiffusing all parts
with an indiscribablb spendor. Above
nil ti is flaming beauty, a rainbow
spreads its lovely light. The prin-
oip' 1 cave is about, fifteen meters in
diumeter find ten meters .high. From
the background rushes like liquid
silver, glittering and breaking itno
‘sprays a beautiful .waterfall, which
folia in bubbling cascades down the
face of tho rock. It feet’s a little
pool occupying three-quarters of the
door of the cave,.whose clear surfaoe
reflects tho blending lights with en
chanting beauty. On the luke is‘a
golden skiff, covered with rose orna
ments, the hinder part of which
onlarges into a shell. Standing on
the bow of this diminutive boat is
Amor spanning his bow. Right and
left the boat is adorned with red
coral. A pair of doves, whose bills
arc united in kisses, are shown in
the aot of alighting on the left side
of the boat. Two golden oars await
the appearance of tho mariner,
Above on the rook rests the bewitch-
ing siren, combing hor golden wav
ing looks with a golden oomb. On
the wall of the cave, too, is Haoki’s
beautiful piotuie of “Tannhauser
Slumbering in the Lap of Venus.”
There is also a mirror three and half
meters high and two meters broad.
Three plates were broken in transit;
before this ono was daftly affixed to
the rook. Near the place where the
mirror stands a small stair, with
wooden rails, loads to the kingfs
seat. It is a seat some two meters
in length, the back part of which is
formed out of a giant shell, while
roses and rushes entwine it all
around. Hero King Ludwig II.
loves to sit and gaze at once on pic
tures of life, love and beauty;
Words of* Wisdom.
The soul is not poisoned by mere
errors cf the head, but by evils *of
the heart.'
If you would not cease to love
mankind, yon must not cease to love
mankind, yon must not cease to do
them good.
To things which you bear with
impatience you should accustom
yourself, and by habit you will bear
them well.
It’s them that takes advantage
that gets advantage in this world I
think; folks have to wait long
enough before its bought of them.
Contemplate thy powers, qpntein-
plate thy wants and thy connections;
so shalt thou discover tho duties of
life* and be directed in ull thy ways.
A man is in comfortable civcum-
stances when he has $25,000. A
woman is in tho same condition
when .her lover sits on the big arm
chair with her.—Hartford Sunday
Journal.
Reduced Rates For Old Custom-
-era.
“How long have you been mar
ried ?” asked the clerk at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel desk as an elderly
bridegroom registered.
“Two weeks,” replied tho happy
man.
“Front!” cried the clerk, “Show
the gentleman to parlor B. Fifteen
dollars a day sir.”
“Third wife,” calmly sAid the
guest.
“Oh exouse mo. Front! show the
gentleman to eight-twenty-four,
back. Take the elevator. Fourteeu
‘dollars a week, sir.”
A South African Sea Serpent.
[London Standard.]
From advice brought by a Cape
mail steamer it would seem that tho
great sea mystery, tho great sea ser
pent, has-just made its appearance
in South African waters. In this
instance it was not seen to the ter
rors of the sailors, but was observed
from the shore. According to tho
diepatoh, a huge monster was ob
served in Moorehead bay, Umhlali,
by eight or nine people. It was
first seen seven or eight miles from
the shore, swimming, in an ereofc
manner. From the first sight it
seemed as if there were two fish, but
a oloser inspection proved that the
rear one was the tail of the Borpcnt.
According to tho aocount furnished
by i tlioSe who witnessed the sight,
the monster appeared to proceed at
the rate of about eight miles an
hour, occasionally plunging into tho
water, making a noise as if a sea was
breaking heavily on an open shore
and causing foam to extend about
twenty yards on either side of it. It
appeared to be about fifteen or twen
ty feet out of the water, and its
whole length wus computed at not
less than ninety or a hundred feet.
Fins like immense oars were seen
striking tho water on either side. It
had a largo stripe down the body,
the remaining portion being of a
dirty yellowish color.
A Calculating: Wife.
[Philadelphia Herald.]
“I suppose I’ll have to go; but In-
eel it wasn’t my fault,” said a pret
ty servant girl when tho mistress
of the house surprised her husband
hugging the lass. “Oh, nO; don’t
think of going,” replied the practi
cal mistress, “since yon have boon
with us wo are saving money. My
husband remains in of evenings,
watching for chances to hug you,
und I stay home to watch him. His
remaining at humo is from $1.50 to
$2 in bis pocket every night, and I’ll
want some of the money shortly for
a new dress, and there will bo tronblo
if I don’t get it. Oh, no, don’t go.
most married women will not have
a pretty servant girl about the houso
but when a pretty servant girl will
enable me to get pretty clothes I’m
willing to tolerate her”
A Mania lor Divorces.
[Sun Francisco Examiner,]
There is perhaps no city o.n tho
continent where divorces are of such
easy procurement as Sail Francisco.
Onr courts, as a very natural result,
are literally besieged with applicants
Tho traditional story of the woman
who desired to procure a separation
because her husband was affloted
with cold feet found V parallel tho
other day, wo are told, in tho eager
ness with which it was urged as a
ground of divorco that tho husband
“dyed his hair with offensive and
bad odored compounds.”
Nothing Except an Index lu It.
[Cincinnati Tlmes-Star.]
This is a true story which suggests
the narrative of the woman who said
she liked to read the dictionary only
the subject changed so of ton.
A teacher ono of the publio schools
gave a particularly bright pupil a
dictionary as u prize.
“llow do you liko it?” she asked
after he had it for a week or two.
“Oh, I guess it’s all right, but I
can’t find any thing in it but an in
dex,” was the astonishing reply.
A little girl heard some ono re
mark that her mamma and auntie
were the pillars of their ohnroh,
whon tho small woman gravely said:
“If mamma and auntie are the pil-.
lars, papa and ancle mast be tho
bolsters.”— Youth's Companion.
The first patient admitted to the
new Nortlien hospital for tho insane
in Michigan was a man who assisted
ill its erection.
If silence is golden what a valua
ble misfortune lockjaw must bo.
A blind man is very sympathetic.
Uo will never sec anybody suffer.