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VOL.I. C Itt DIBE CTO It Y. bry Mid Groceries. Barber A'Crawford, dealers in Dry t3oods, Main at., in Tew&Hall build ing. \ W. b. WrVrh, 'ActiVer in Dry Goods and Groceries, East sWe Main st. Harris Bros., dealers iu Dry Goods and GiWriies, West side Main street, hi'town Hall-building. E. K. Cow*vNf\ dvaFcr i*s Dry Goods, West side Main street J. A. Broughtox. dealer in Dry Goods aiifl Groceries, corner Cour! Square and Main st. Mrs. C. A% BMAoY', dealer in bry Goods, Ckithfug, Ladies' Dress Goods, corner 03X1 rt Square and Eatonton street. Fki.ix Martin, dealer in. Dry floods ami Groceries, «oete*3k Court Square and Main stwoel-. Apiier Levy, dealer in Dry Goods and Clothing, West side Court Square. J. R. High ft Burk**, don 1 era in Dry Goods and Gim-cHes, West side Court Square. Yasok & Hilsman, dealers in Dry Goods, Hardware and assorted Mer chandise, West side OSVITt Square, r * J. W. A Wn If, Ilk ARDEN, dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, etc., West side Court Square. Phillips A Fm.er, dealers in Dry Goods and Groceries, West side Court Square. •lacob WotfS, deafer til l>ev Goods ami Clothing, corner HallMll street and Court Square. Oscar Thomason, ,dealer in Dry Goods and Groceries, corner Railroad street and Court Square. W. L. dealei' in Groceries, East side Court Square. A. F, Hough, dealer iu Groceries, Railroad street. C. C. Rat, dealer iu Family Groce ries, Railroad street. Boots, Shoes and Findings. J. P. Briogkr, dealer in Boots, Shoes and Findings, Railroad street. W*. M Astras, Boots and Shoes made and repaired, Railroad street. Furniture. A. Sn AW, dealer in Furniture, and general Upholstery, South of Court Square. Watch Hml Clock Repairing. C. H. Richter, Watch and Clock Repairing, East side Main street. Millinery and Cadies’ Dress Goods. Mrs. S. J. IlonKitfSoS', dealer in Milli nery and Ladies’ Dnss'MJoods, and Dress making, East side -Main street. Mrs. S. K. Leake, dealer in Milline ry and Ladies’ Dress Good.*., West side Main street. Mrs. M. A. Mustin, dealer in Milli nery and Ladies’ Dress Goods, and Dress making, East side Court Square. Photograph Gallery. M. L. Richter, Photograph Gallery, Fast side Main street. . Piano Tuning. C. H. T aYLor, Piatlc) Tuning nth! Reparer of Musical instruments, Rail road street. Stoves and Tinware. A. F. Hough, dealer in Tin and Stove ware, Railroad Street* R. N. Booth, Tin, Gun and Lock smith, Railroad street. C. C. Rat, Manufacturer of Tin ware, Railroad street. Con fectlouer ic»« Torbert, Brown & Cos., dcalcars in Candies, Fruits, Toys, Caned Fruits, etc., Railroad street. Richter A Bros., dealer in Confec tionei 'es,- and Groceries, East side Mala treefc R. N. Booth, dealer in Confectione ries, Railroad street. Chas. Fielding, dealer in Confec tioneries, West side Main street. Hotel*, Restaurants and Saloons. Madison House, Nelson Smith, pro prietor, East side Court Square. Atkinson House, C. B. Atkinson, proprietor, corner Railroad street and Court Square. H. Martin, Restaurant and Saloon, Railroad street. M. A. Mubtin, Restaurant and Sa loon, Railroad street. J. S. WrigHT, Saloon, North side Court Square. T. J. Stallings, Saloon, North side Court Square. Day A llillkman, Billiard Saloon, East side Court Square. Hugh Wil3on, Saloon, West of Court Square. \ « v ImwvVrs, * Reese A Reesij office on Main street. Foster A FoJter, office in Court Ilunsc. __ *■ A McHenry, office oyer Amffews’ Drug Arc. Billups A Bkobs-lon, office in Court House. • Joel C. Barnett, office in Court House. . ;/■.«, R-. R. Thurmond, Doctors, Dr. H. J. Ogh-uy, elfTco on Main streets I )tt, A. A. UklU-, office at residenee ‘oh Maltt street. § • % Dr. F. George, office at Andrews’ Drug Store. Dr. W. T. Hollingsworth, office at residence. Dr. W. L. road street near Dc^ot v 1)r. G. B. Knight, office at Atkin son’s Drug Store. , • • - Dr. A-. K. Andrews, office at Drhg Store of Andrews &£o. Dr. J. E. Godfrey, And Drug Store. ™ fientlsP J. D«. W». 11. Burr, office at residence on Main street. « j » Du. John P. Hillmian, office at resi - dence of Dr. A. A. Bell, Main street. -■ Drugs iimljphcdiciiic.s. . C. 11. Andrews A Cos., dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Oils, West side Court SquaftS N. B. AtSiS-son, dealer iu Drugs, Medicines, Paint, Oils, side Court Square. Printing Offices. The Farm Journal, John F. Slreeut, Editor and Proprietor, east side Court Square, over Bishop’s New York Store. The Madison Appeal, R» R. Thur mond, Editor, 11. C. Billings, Proprie tor, Main street. Insurance Agencies. .T. F Oimwj represents Metropoli tan Life, N. Y., Andes Fire, Chi. 0., Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. ~ C. 11. Andrews, represents JEtna, Hartford,Con., Franklin, Philadelphia, Penn., Underwriter, N, Y., Continental, N. Y., Yonkers, N. Y\, Plicnix, Brook- Ivn. N. Y., Southern Mutual, Athens, Ga., Georgia Heme, Columbus, Ga. Carriage Repository. A. J. Ackerman, dealer in Carriages, Buggies and Wagons, North side Court Square. Livery an«l Sale. .Stables. G. N. Dexter, North side Court Square. S, J. W- Few, .North-Court Square. • —“— ' Harness and Saddlery. J. G. Williams, North side Court Square. Chas. Turner, North Court Square. •*, " '•'> *" House* Sigh and Ornamental Painting. ? Towns ft Collier, at residence East side of Court Square. J. P. Griffis, at Carriage Repository of A. J. Ackerman, North side Court} Square. Wi Hobbs, aJ, residence East Court Square. * A. RusseLL. Tailoring Establishments. B. W. Rumney, over the store of Oscar Thomason, Railroad street. a Silvester Allen, over, the store 'of Phillips ft Filer, west Court Square. Carpenters and Contractors. Sebastian Shaw, at residence, rear of Baptist Church. Towns & Collier, at residence East side Court Square. John Towns, at residence, rear of Methodist Church Geol-gia Railroad. Stewart S. Floyd, Agent. Telegraph Oflice. C. 11. TayLor, manager-, office {on llailroad street, near Depot. Post Oflice. Lester Markham, Post Master. Edwin Fur Low, Clerk. Municipal Government. T. J Burnet, Mayor. Henry HoUgii, Marshal. Aldermen—J. Vason. W. I* High. E. W. Thrasher. ~T. F. PattUkson. County Officers. Ord i n a ry—Wm. W ood. Siieritf — Thomas Gibbs. Clerk of Court—E. llkyser. Tax Receiver—C. J. Allen. “ Collector — 11. Martin. Surveyor—C. B. Barrow. Coroner -MONROE. GA.. THURSDAY, MABUII-SasTl A MessAgc; —v “After the battle of Forbrreh, a French officer of Oufitieseurs, was found dtsql wl*. a letter curmpled ftk his lUffid/ 5 * It w#s o*ilv a cruniplcdnllkji: *4 in A careless girlish hand * s It was only a childish message , - From the sun-kissed Soutliern land f Vlt was only a brief memorial Os the tears the absent shed; *’• 11 was a trifle front the living, But a message to tire Acad 5 y Father dear, 3-011 are gone to battle I think incessantly, As I miss your morning blessing *" ' What your suffering must be! . lio she wrote an<l so held it, With a blessing on her head, When the token of the living, Was a message to the dead. “ I’m so good, dear, oh ! so steady— You would wish to have me so; y If Pm quiet, half yoftr dangers A Deir mamma need never know— - So, good-liye, papa, Ood bless you, Guard and keep you evermore ; See! I send you fifty kisses, From an ever ready store I “ It was only a crumpled letter In a dead man’s hand that day, J Jfist to show how hearts were ach-huF In his own land far away— It was on] 3- a loving message, ’ From a ldving child tiiat sped, * But the words the living pencilled. Were a message to the dead. “Take it from bhctfld fihgei*^ La}' it with hlnvin the grove— If it he a consolation, ' ' Tis the latest lie will have— ~ For, I think, the bullet reached him As the tender words were road; So that when the angels told it, ’Twas no message to the dead.’’ Strange Domestic Romance*^ One of the parties of the following strange story has just acquainted us with the part’eulr.r-; Thirty threbyenrtt ago the second son of a family in which there were three boys, being de sirous of bettering bis condition in life, left England for this country, with an indefinite idea as to where he might settle, and only once thereafter, in a letter from New York, had his family any information that lie was alive.— Four years afterward the elder brother came to this country, and has since been reputably known in this city a., a member of oile tlid active professions. We are precluded from laying more on this head. The week before Christmas our Bos ton friend had occasion to visit Har risburg, Penn.-, from which place lie took a night train for New York. An obstruction on the railroad a few miles west of Philadelphia caused a delay of some hours near a small way station. Some of the passengers becoming tir ed of sitting in the cabs went out to explore the locality, particularly with the view to the procurment of refresh ments. In this accomplishment there was little chance of success, as the place could not even boast of a grocery. There are men, however, who are not to be foiled in their intents if any means can be possibly found to carry them out, and some of these people ibappened to be amoDg the delayed passengers, and a respectable looking fkrm house being near, that class of foragers invested it, called up the in mates, who were, enjoying the comforts of their last morning hour’s repose, and prayed.for a supply of anything fluid from cold water to cider, tea, cof fee, bourbon, or apple jack. The own er of the house good natnrcdly opened it to his clamorous visitors and dis pensed his hospitality in various ways with no unstinted hand. What look ed singular to many was the fact that he would not accept of any compensa tion whatever, although he had enter tinned at least twenty rather extempo raneous guests.- 'J bey were all prodi gal of gratitude, and of offers to re ciprocate at any- time. Our Boston friend was one of the farmer’s guests, and after thanking his host with gecuine feeling, he hand ed him his card, telling him that a bed, knife, fork and spoon were ready for him whenever he should visit Boston. The farmer looked upon the card and then at the presenter thereof—gazed again and again at one and the other, and having apparently made* up his iuiud, he said: “Why, Willie, is tins realy you?” The peculiar smile that accompanied the inquiry threw thirty-three years aside as one would fold back a curtain. Two brothers had met after this long interval-“the flame on the card being the direct e.auso of the discovcf\v-A When the train left a short time after ward, it carried one passenger less to New York. Os course the brothers had a plcasaut time in exchanging their respective reminiscences. But a yet more interesting feature of our story is yet to come. Our Bos - ton friend had the company of his | brother to New York on the way home. ! Having some hours to spend qn the j city prior to the sailing of the Ston ington steamer they took aqaunter hfftound the streets-to note the tempta tions spread out for Christmas pres ents. A lady's reticule hit the taste [efthe Boston brother, and he deter mined to buy it and send it to his sis ter-in law in Pennsylvania. They en | tered the store to make the purchase, and a nice Russain leather i>orte Iflcn- I naie was added, to the Christmas re ■newbrance to was the name pf the Pennsylvania brothci. The proprietcr said the names of the par ties who Were to receive the goods could be put on the satchel and wallet at little expense ch: delay, and the sug gfstion was hailed as an improvement iofthe valueof the Articles. The names were written cut and handed to the propricter of the store, who replied (that he also owned the same surname. This led to conversation, to explana tion, and finally to the discovery that /Free long-SeparaWl brothers had then alid there met face to face! It would require iiu abler pen than'ours to de scribe the feelings entertained by the trio. We are permitted to explain things thus far: The third brother had been a little wild in his youth, and had en tered the service of Queen Victoria, in which he had remained over eleven years. had been order ed to Canadg, and being desirous of tasting freedom, he had improved a chance of stepping over the line. For fifteen years past he had been in bus ink ss in New York, and has had world ly? success corresponding with that of his elder brethren. This is our story. Tt has not the flavor of deeply exciting romance, of free imagination, but it is true, and as bvouderfui as it is true.—Boston Times. * lie AVantod Some Schnapps. There is a saloon keeper in Cincin nati, who won’t sell liquor to a man win is intoxicated. This is worth men tJfcSßigYri itself, the Circumstances be ing so rare. Asa general rule the drunker a man is, the inofc liquor he ettn buy, if he can pay for it. The other day a man who was well loaded with “benzine” entered the above named saloon and called for some “schnapps.” “You’ve had enough schnapps” said the S. K. “But I want one more already—then I goes pretty quick (hie) home.” The saloon keeper endeavored to prevail upon him to leave without the one glass more, hut he persisted, and so the S. K. pulled out a bottle of vin egar form a cupboard and poured out a glass with the to mark—“HaVc your schnapps made into a cocktail?” “Yes, and make it sharp.” (Catching np a pepper-sauce bottle.) “Have bitters in it?” “Yes.” (Itt gods the pepper-sauce.) “Have sugar?” . “Yesi” (In goes a quantity of salt.) “There old toppy, there is your cocktail. Hope it will be sharp enough for you.” The seeker after schnapps seized the glass and drained the contents at a gu'p, and the result was, he was near ly strangled. With face purple and eyes strained nearly out of their sock ets, lie fm all}" In an aged to gasp forth “M ein Gott, vot for schnapps is dose?” “Well, don’t it make you snap enough?” said the saloon keeper.— “Next time you come in here and want schnapps, I'll simp you.” Cramming in the Schools. —Wo commend to our school-board and teachers the following from thcPhila dclphia Sunday Times: Initiatory steps have at last been taken to bring about a reform in the public - schools. The evil most and justly complained of. is the foolish system of cramming, which has tin fortunately prevailed already too longi Children, under this high pres sure plan, arc forced to learn a dozen lessons, oil as many different subject, in the course of the day, and. as a mat ter of course, finish by hopelessly in termingling their numerous and severe studies, thorougly understanding no one of them,.and finishing by forget ting them all. Without any tfuiieecs sary delay, the Board of Education should supercede this hot house sys tem of instructing the young, by some more humane and useful method. One lesson, thoroughly mastered, is worth a dozen committed to memory, to be lorgotton, in a few hours. While the “cramming” process is being i’o ferred to, let it be remembered that children; to grow up into strong and useful men and women, need time to grow physically as well as mentally.— They should, therefore, not be l»ur thened with tasks to be conned at home. All the hours out of school they need i (or recreation, for the benefit ofthcii ! bodies, which have too long been sac rificed to the especial use of the brain. ] Dangerous Associates—Those who ■ “dress to kill.” AKrtUNo «jf Peakes^— SidnejfcSmftliV in wise hints and suggestions. . Wit and wisdom flowed togetli<flsJJJ!d the pity is that more of his sayings liave-qot been preserved.— Here arc a few pearlS we have*, culled from his writings: ” “Unpleasant feelings of the body pro duce corresponding sensation in the mind, and a great scene of wretched ness rs sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and. misguided food; of such consequence to happiness is it to study the body.” “Lite is to be fortified by many friendships-. To love and to lie loved is the greatest happiness in existence.” “Let every man be occupied; and oc cupied in the highest employment of! which his nahy-Q Is and die with the .conscibilsness that he has done liis best.” - -. . •**.*■ An* for frivolk cxplaiiaUHps with friends, ri'fi case of affronts.- They sometimes save a perishing friendship, and even place it on a firmer basis than at first; but secret discontent must al ways end badly.’ 1 ’ “A nice person makes no difficulties-, is never misplaced, is never foolishly affronted, and is void of affectations.” “Hardness is a want of minittc atten tion Stethe feelings of others. It does not proceed from malignity, or a care lessness of inflicting pain, buir front want of delicate perception of those little things by which pleasure is.con fer red or pain excited.” “Remember that every person, how-, ever low, has rights aa4Wcclings. . Iu ■ all contentions, let peace be rather your object than triumph. Value tri umph only as the means ofpeace.” I “Never give way to melancholy, re sist it steadily, for the habit will en croach. I once gave a lady two and twenty receipts against melancholy: one was a bright fire; another to re member all the pleasant tilings said to j her; another to keep a l>ox of sugar! pluitls on the chimney piece, and a ket- j tie simmering on the hob.” “If idleness docs not product vice ol malevolence, i t commonly* produces melancholy.”—Hearth and Home. “Uncle Dad .Morton.” of Vermont, who tells the follwing story, should possess, in connection With his inven tion, two or three of our hen persuad ers. His success would then be com plete: “The ancestors of our'n didn’t do nothin’ half-ways. But, there’s an aw ful fallin off since them times. Why in my time, when I w.ns ? bov, tyniugs vent Cu more economical th:ii We all worked. My work was to take care of the hens and chickens, (Dad is famous for his handling of. the al phabet,) and I’ll tell yer how I raised ’em. You know I'Se ;a very thinkiu’ child, al’as a thinkiu’ cept when I's asleep. Well, it came to me one night to raise a big lot o'ebickens from one hen, and I'll tell yer how I did it. I took an ole whiskey-barrel and filled it up with fresh eggs? and put it on the south side ol the barn,’ with some horse manure around it; and then set the old hen on the bung-hole. The old critter kept her sittiu', and iu three weeks I put my ear to the spigot, when the peeping growed like a swarm of bees. I didn’t say anything to the folks about the hatebin,’ for they’d all told me I was a tool; but the next morn’ I knocked the head out of the barrel, and covered tho barn-floor, two deep, all over with little chickens.— Now you in ay laugh as much as you please, but it's true.” A Fiji Comedy. —The Fiji Islanders have just established their first theatre, and a native Fijian has written a tragedy for it. The heroine of the tragedy is a girl who loved a noble young cannibal The Dither of the latter forbade him to marry the girl, because she had no fat and juicy relations who could be s'.ieed down and fried for the wedding breakfast. But the lover made her swear that they should ueter be sepa rated. In fulfillment of her vow she ate him one night at their old tn sting i place, and. after the last mouthful had I disappeared, she wept tears of joy to think that now their two hearts would beat as one. The father, when lie hears the sad news, goes lip stairs, puts o n his banana leaf, and dies: and the villain of the piece is just About to lunch oil' the remains, when the heroine rushes in, kills the villain, eats both of the bodies herself, and chokes to death on the villain’s rib, which sticks cross wise in her throat and strangles herns the curtain comes down, amid frantic applause. Very Artistic, —An artist in Fincas tie painted a dug so natural that the animal had the livdioplrobia during the hot weather, lie's the same man that painted a copy of a beer bottle with such skill that the cork flew out just as he was finishing it. And after he was married, he palate i a picture of his first baby so life-like tiiat it cried, and his wife whipped it before she discovered her mistake. Taking the Census. take the cen. Government the marshals casionally meet with such difficulties as lu well nigh deprive them of their o#n senees The following colloquy ft said to have taken plaee in Germantowir, be tween a deputy marshal and an Irish woman. “How many male members hate you in the familj-?”, “Niver i one.’ 7 “When were you married?*’ “The day Vat Doyle left Tipporary for Amcrika. Ah, well I mind it. A sun shinier day niver gilded the sky of owld Ireland.” “What ws,?* the condition of your i liusbahd. be Id re iharriageT’ “Divil a man more miserable. He said if I jjehavc myself he’d blow his b'ranis out wid a crowbur.” “Was he at the time of your mar riage a widower or a bachelor?” “A which? a widower did you say? Ah, now go jydV wid your nonsense:— Is it the likes of me that #oold take up wid a second-hand husband? Do I look like the wife of. a widower? A poor divil, all legs and consumption, like a sick turkey? A widower! May I be blessed if I didn’t rather live an owld maid, and bring np a family od butter-milk and praties.” Letter to his Mothbil— A youugsfc#, attending school in Pa ducah, has written to his' mother tlie following characteristic letter: Dear Mother: I got another licking yesterday, but I bad on three pair of pants, and it didn’t hurt much. I was licked because I put six pins iu Mr.—’l chair. I knew they would not stick him,'and I made abet that they would not. Mr.— was so mean and hard that the pins could not go in. I won the l>et, which was a dog. He is a good dog, and I am training him to bite old “Hardsides” as tra call him, some night when he comes home after dark. He iis often out after dark, end, if Zack is : as good after him as he is after cats-. I ! won’t get licked any more. Zack and I-killed three cats Sunday; though I was at Sunday school aud chttrch all day,and it wasn't a good day for killing cats either. This makes the third lick ing I gdt this week: One was because I bad a bottle of milk in my room, and the other was because I wrote a com position on negroes that old Hardsides didn’t like. I said that a negro h-sft a dark subject to write dh: It #as like a dark African going down in a dark cellar on a dark night without a light to look for a black cat that was not there. Old Hardsides stopped me and licked me for that. Send me some more « f thelh pies. I -made a good trade with some of them. If you wilt send me five dollars will stop all my bad habits except cursing and swearing Lfiud chewing and drinking and one or two others. You had better make the trade. Give my love to Julie, and tell her to send me that little fiddle I left in the old trunk. Your affectionate son, Billie. Avery intelligent lady relating the j incidents of her trip to California said: | "We had one clergyman along, but he j behaved himself very well, no one would have suspected him of being a I preacher: At a late revival meeting an impul sive youth convert prayed that God would bless the two young ladies be tween whom he had been sitting, and -especially the one on the right” A teacher said to a little girl at school: - If a naughty girl should hurt yon, like a good little girl you Would j forgive her wouldu't you?*’ ‘“Yes | inarm,” she replied, “If I couldn't catch her.” A lady declared to us the other day ! tfi~t she “wouldn't be a cook for the whole world!” For the whole world in ! deed! we should sav uot. Why, she would liefer get through with the ! work. A raw Irishman, just over, went in to a restaurant, and was asked by the , waiter what he would have. | “Why. witiles to ate, uvcoorse,”was ; the reply. A plate of hash was placed before hiin. “Fot's that?” demanded Mickey. “That’s witties,” was the answer, j Mickey eyed the compound suspi ciously for some time, and finally ex claimed: “l>e jabers, the man that chewed that can ate it!” Two travelers having been [assigned to the same bedroom ina crowded hotel, one of them, before retiring, knelt down to pray, and confessed a long catn iloguc of sins. On rising from his • knees lie saw his fellow-traveler, valise lin hand, going out of the door, and ! exclaimed :“What’s the matter? What’s I up?” “Oh! nothing,” was the reply, j“ouly I’m not going to risk myself ! with such a scamp as you confess your self to be.” JS