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JACKSON SUI'ERIOR ('<)( RT.
Hon. (iEO. D. RICE, - - - Judge.
jpEMORY SPEER, Esq., - - Sol. Gen'l
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
AVI LEY C. HOWARD, - - - - Ordinary.
TIIOS. 11. N1 BLACK, - - - Clerk S. Court.
[JOHN S. HUNTER, ------ Sheriff
NVINN A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy “
LEE .J. .JOHNSON, ----- treasurer.
J AMES L. WILLIAMSON, - - Tax Collector.
CKO. W. BROWN. ------ Receiver.
J \MLS L JOHNSON, - - County Surveyor.
MM. \\ ALL ACE, - - - Coroner.
<i. J. N. WILSON, County School Commiss’r.
Comm issi oners (Roads and Revenue.)—'Wm.
Seymour, W. J. llaynie, W. (i. Steed. Meet ori
the Ist Fridays in August and November. T. 11.
Niblack, Esq., Clerk.
.V. 1 CIS TR . f TES . f N D RAIL IF FS.
Jefferson District, No. 245, N. 11. Pendergrass,
J. P.; If. T. Fleeman, J. I*. John M. Burns.
Constable.
Clarkcshorough District, No. 242, F. M. Holli
day, J. P • M. B. Smith, J. P.
.Miller's District, No. 455, 11. F. Kidd, J. P.
Chandler’s District, No. 246, Ezekiel Hewitt,
J. P.; J. G. Burson, J. I*.
Randolph’s District, No. 248, Pinckney P.
Pirkle, J. P.
Cunningham's District, No. 4‘28, ,J. A. Brazle
ton, J. P.; T. K. Randolph, J. P.
Newtown District, No. 253, G. W. O’Kelly, J. P.
Minnish's District, No. 255, Z. \V. Hood* J. I*.
Harrisburg District, No. 257, Wm. M. Morgan,
J. P.; J. W. Pruitt, J. P.
House's District, No. 243, A. A. Hill. .J. P.
Santafee District, No. 1042, W. R. Boyd. J. P.
S. (1. Arnold. J. P.
W ilson's District, No. 405, W. J. Comer, J. P.
FRA TERN A L DIRECTOR Y.
Unity Lodge, No. 30, F. A. M„ meets Ist Tues
day night in each month. 11. W. Bell, W. M.;
Jonn Simpkins, Sec’y.
Love Lodge, No. 05, 1. 0. 0. F., meets on 2d
and 4th Tuesday nights in each month. J. B. Sil
man, N. G.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec’y.
Stonewall Lodge, No. 214. 1. O. G. TANARUS., meets on
Saturday night before 2d and 4th Sundays in each
mouth. J. P. Williamson, Sr., W. C. TA NARUS.; J. B.
Pendergrass, W. li. S.
Jefferson Grange, No. 488. P. of IT., meets on
Saturday before 4th Sunday in each month. Jas.
F. Randolph. M.; G. .1. N* Wilson. Sec’y.
[ Relief (colored) Fire Company, No. 2, meets on
Nth Tuesday night in each month. Henry Long.
pC'apt∈ Ned Burns, Soc'y.
COUNTY CHURCH DIRECTORY.
< METHODIST.
L Jcfrerswi Circuit. —Jefferson. Harmony Grove,
[Dry 1 ond, W ilson's, Holly Springs. W. A. Far
[ns, P. C.
Mulberry Cirrtdt.— F.bcnezer, Bethlehem, Con
cord, (_ entre and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. A. L.
Anderson, P. C.
* Chapel and Antioch supplied from Watkins
ville Circuit.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Thyatira, Rev. G. If. Cartledge, Pastor; Sandy
Creek. Rev. Neil Smith. Pastor; Pleasant drove.
Rev. G. 11. Cartledge, Pastor; Mizpah, Rev. Neil
Smith, Pastor.
BAPTIST.
Cabin Creek. W. R. (. Pastor; Harmony
drove, W. B. J. Hardellim. Pastor; Zion. Rev.
4V. 11. Bridges, Pastor; Bethabra, Rev. J. M.
Baris. Pastor; Academv, Rev. -J. N. Coil. Pastor;
H alnut. Rev. J. M. Davis, Pastor; Crooked
Creek, \\ . F. Stark. Pastor; Oconee Church, Rev.
A. J. Kelley. Pastor; Poplar Springs, Rev. W.
A. Brock, Pastor; Randler's Creek, W. F. Stark.
Pastor.
PROTESTANT METHODIST.
Pentecost, Rev. R. S. McGarrity, Pastor.
“CHRISTIAN.”
Bethany Church, Dr. F. Jackson. Pastor,
i Christian Chapel, Elder W. T. Lowe, Pastor.
Galilee, Elder P. F. Lamar. Pastor.
FIRST UN!VERBALIST.
t entre Hill, Rev. B. I. Strain, Pastor; Church
meeting and preaching every third Saturday and
Sunday.
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People tlieir own Killers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Une |)octs Corner.
For the Forest Neves.
, LINES
DEDICATED TO MISS E. N. E.
I love to wander where the sweet birds sing,
IF here the leafy woods with music ring,
IF here there’s naught but beauty in everything,
And think of my darling Lola.
I love to watch the babbling brook
As it stops to rest in some shady nook,
And seems to say, as it returns my look—
“ You’re thinking of sweet Lola.”
I love to stroll at early mom,
W hen my heart is sail and I feel forlorn,
And think as I wander on and on,
Of my little angel, Lola.
At noon, when Sol, the king of day
Sheds light for worlds and worlds away,
’Round me there’s still a brighter ray
Of light, when I think of Lola.
At eve, when all is calm and still,
And memories sw r eet my bosom thrill,
My soul with happiness is filled,
As I think of my little Lola.
As soft twilight shuts out the day,
And the merry stars all seem to play
“ Bopeep,” ’tis then 1 love to stray
Abroad, and think of Lola.
At midnight, when the world's asleep,
And the moon her lonely vigil keeps
Around me, then conic visions sweet,
As I dream of thee, my Lola.
At morn, at noon, at eve and night,
IF bother the world he dark or light
To others; tome ’tis always bright.
JFhonevcr I think of Lola.
Jefferson, Ga., June 21, 1875.
miscclfimcmts Jllallq).
An Irreverent Clucker.
They have had more trouble at our Metho
dist meeting-house. Last Sunday Rev. Air.
Moody was just beginning his sermon, and
had uttered the words, “ Brethren, 1 wish to
direct your attention this morning to the
fourth verse of the twentieth chapter of Saint
beneath the pulpit. As she had just laid an
egg. she interrupted Mr. Moody to announce
the fact to the congregation ; and he stopped
short as she walked out into the aisle, screech
ing : “ Kuk-kuk-kuk-te-ho! Kuk-kuk-kuk-te
ho!” Mr. Moody contemplated her for a
moment, an l then concluded to go on ; but
the sound of his voice seemed to provoke her
to rivalry, s she put on a pressure of five or
six pounds ‘o the square inch, and made such
a racket that the preacher stopped and said :
” Will Deacon Crimes please remove that
li-graceful chicken from the meeting-house?”
The deacon rose and proceeded with the
task. He first tried to drive her toward the
door, but she dodged him, and, still clucking
vigorously, got under the seat in the front
pew. Then the deacon seized his umbrella
and scooped her out into the aisle again, af
ter which he tried to “shoo” her toward the
door; but she darted into the pew. hopped
over the partition, came down into the oppo
site pew, and in the side aisle, making a noise
like a steam planing mill. The deacon didn't
like to climb after her. so he went around,
and just as he got into the middle side aisle,
the hen flew into the middle aisle again.—
Then the boys in the gallery laughed, and the
deacon began to grow red in the faoe.
At last Mr. Binns came out of his pew to
help, and as both he and the deacon made a
dash at the chicken in opposite directions she
flew up w.th a wild cluck to the gallery, and
perched on the edge, while she gave excited
expression to her views by emitting about
five hundred clucks a minute. The deacon
flung a hymn-book at her to scare her down
again, but he missed her and hit Billy Jones,
a Sunday school scholar, in the eye. Then
another boy in the gallery made a dash at
her. and reached so far over that he tumbled
and fell on Airs. Aliskey's spring bonnet,
whereupon she said out loud that he was pre
destined to the gallows. The crash scared
the hen, and she flew over and roosted on the
stove-pipe that ran along just under the ceil
ing, fairly howling with fright. In order to
bring her down, the deacon and Air. Binns
both beat on the lower part of the pipe with
their umbrellas, and at the fifth or sixth knock,
the pipe separated, and about forty feet of it
came down with a crash, emptying a barrel
or two of soot on the congregation. There
were women in that congregation who went
home looking as if they had been working a
coal mine, and wishing they could stab Dea
con Grimes without being hung for murder.
The hen came down with the stove-pipe, and
as she flew by Air. Binns he made a dash at
her with his umbrella and knocked her clear
through a fifteen dollar pane of glass, where
upon she landed in the street, and hopped off
clucking insanely. Then Air. Moody adjourn
ed the congregation. They are going to ex
pel the owner of that hen from the church,
when they discover his identity.
Mutes. —lf you want mules for farm work,
select mares of medium size, not over three
years old, train them to the work you want
them to do, by gentle treatment, speak kind
ly to them in gentle tones. Do not get in a
passion and swear. The mule never swears, nor
does it comprehend its meaning an}' further
than to know that the swearer is not its friend,
b eed just high enough to keep it in good work
ing condition; if fed too high, its feet and
legs become too weak for the body and give
out. —Stock Journal.
A torpedo chicken has been invented for
the benefit of the robbers of the hen roost.
It is a facsimile of the genuine article, but is
charged with explosive material, which makes
the thief think lightning has struck him when
he touches it. Perhaps Gabriel may as well
sound his trumpet now.
My success is owing to my liberality in
advertising.—Bonner.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., JUNE 26, 1575.
SHERMAN S MARCH TO THE SEA.
A TERRIBLE EXCORIATION OF THE KINO OF
BUMMERS.
Grant Need Not Envy Him — William Gilmore
Simms and the Federal Brigands.
As infamous a record as Sherman’s worst
enemy could wish to impale his reputation
upon was that “ Alarch to the Sea,” the origi
nator of which Sherman claims to be, but
which claim General Grant, it seems by the
clamor of the General’s friends, just now
seeks to rob him of! In God’s name let both
these men share the honors (!) that cowardly,
unmanly, piratical raid upon defenseless wo
men and children seems to have won. Anoth
er age will do them both full justice.
Of all the brutal—infamously brutal—af
fairs that the history of the American war
chronicled, Sherman's “ Alarch to the Sea,’’
of which the world has heard so much, was
the crowning disgrace, if disgrace could crown
an inhuman, barbaric epoch. Alen, to defend
the homes and firesides of mothers, wives,
sisters and little ones hardly able to toddle,
there were none. Ruthless, long continued
war—a campaign of j'ears —had sacrificed the
limited fighting material of a population of
nine millions. Twenty millions in the North
had enough human food for powder and ball
left to continue the sacrifice that had been
kept up in this section, and Sherman's “Alarch
to the Sea” was hazarded. It cost the stal
wart warrior nothing. The burning of barns,
dwellings and all plantation property that fire
would consume, was simply the pastime of
army bummers. ALen, patriots, true soldiers,
who were fighting for a holy principle, would
have died ere they engaged in such a devil’s
carnival. Weak women besought mercy, and
prayed to Sherman’s fiends with clasped hands
that their wardrobes, their food, might be
saved ; but those braves (!) heeded them not.
and the devouring flames were fed with all
(lie necessities and luxuries that were com
bustible, unless gold and silver were found,
in which case this was claimed as “loot,”
and to-day many a New England side-board
displays trophies gallantly won by the noble
Sons of Alars (!) in struggles with weak and
defenseless, overpowered women, during Sher
man's wonderful “Alarch to the Sea.” We
never shall forget the tone, looks and bearing
of the deeply lamented Simms, the poet and
novelist of South Carolina, as he sat in the
office of this journal, and mournfully detailed
the passage of Sherman and his bumming
army through the beautiful city of Columbia,
his place of residence. Poor Simms was at
the time away from his charming home, a
home filled with and surrounded by every
luxury that wealth, and refined, cultivated
taste could gather together. I lis love’y family
of daughters were there alow, with only the
negro servants of the plantation to protect
them. The vandals came and pillaged, rob
bed, destroyed and burned, and that which
they could not easily carry away, destroy, or
consume by fire, in the line of food, they, with
a barbarity and brutality that would have dis
graced Hottentots or Australian Bushmen, or
the Digger Indians of America, so befouled,
that it was food no longer. This picture,
with its terrible and infamous filling up which
we will not attempt here, Gilmore Simms
gave us a year after the soul-sickening event.
That man had lived sixty years with his heart
full of love for humanity, lie had looked
kindly on his fellow-men everywhere. His
writings showed his warm, genial sympathy
with all mankind. He had basked in the
sunshine of life, honored and respected, and
he was unprepared for the startling proof that
there were specimens of human beings on
earth whose organisms were lower in the scale
of humanity than brute beasts. Gilmore
Simms died a changed man. lie gave up his
faith in that order of creation which the Bible
told him came into the world a little “ lower
than God's angels.”
And Sherman craves the honors (!) of the
conception of this great achievement, which,
from inception to culmination, was one long,
black, damning record of infamy of the char
acter of this visited upon the family of Gil
more Simms, of South Carolina. Sherman
was the modern Attila. with his Iluns sack
ing and pillaging ; he destroyed every vestige
of Southern civilization that lie could reach,
and did his best to blot out, like the Goth of
the sixth century, the arts, sciences, manners
and customs of the people he ravaged, hoping
to exterminate the women and children (there
were no men left) by taking from them the
very means of subsistence ; and that exter
mination effected, this modern barbarian, as
did his prototype, sought to plant his heathen
hordes upon the ruins of the cities he has de
stroyed. History, in this “Alarch to the Sea,”
repeated itself. The whole Northern wild
ness of ignorance and fanaticism was in mo
tion, and Goths, Vandals, Visigoths, Alans
Suevi, &c., rushed like a torrent into the
South, spreading carnage, desolation and de
struction through the finest portion of that
then beautiful domain. And the great orig
inator of this damning disgrace of the Ameri
can civil war is actually in fear of being rob
bed of the honors (!) that infamy won him !
—New York Day Book.
The Domestic Growler. —Look at him !
he is a curiosity, lie was pleasant enough an
hour ago, as he sat in his office talking to
Jones. With his chair tilted back, the toes of
his boots on the mantel-piece, his mouth ex
tending in guffaw in reply to one of Jones’
yarns, you would have said he was the jol
liest fellow in the world. But he does not
look so now. lie considers it bad domestic po
licy to come home smiling and cheerful; it
would not onl}- lower his dignity as master
of the house, but it would encourage his
wife and children to the asking of all sorts
of favors, and the running into goodness
knows what extravagances. The only way, he
believes, to keep up a proper system of house
hold authority and reduce household expendi
ture to certain limits, is to always find fault,
and never relax for a moment, the system of
domestic snubbing. Of course, the coining
home of the growler is not looked for with
joy. All pleasant influences take wing.
The very atmosphere becomes charged with
depressing or explosive influences.
The road to fortune is through printer’s
ink.—F. T. Barnuin.
THE COMING PRIZE FIGHT.
SKETCH OF GEORGE ItOOKE AND TOM ALLEN.
Physical Training that Many Business Men
Might Profitably Undergo—Fights that the
Pugilists Have Been In.
George Rooke, who is to fight Tom Allen
for £3.000 and the championship of America,
was bora in Ireland in 1840. In his boy
hood he distinguished himself in encounters
with iron founders with whom he worked.
About thirteen years ago he came to this
country. llis first fight was with Tim Hus
sey for £I.OOO, on the outskirts of Boston.
This battle he won without a scratch, and
was at once looked upon as the coming man
in the ring. After the fight Rooke came to
New Yorki where Bill Clark gave him in
struction in boxing. After this he was back
ed against Charley Collins, “ the Cast Iron
Alan." for SI,OOO. After the men had fought
an hour and a half the referee called a foul
blow, a decision that was strongly condemn
ed by the spectators. Rooke in this way
lost the fight. Soon afterwards Rooke was
matched against ALitt Aloore for SI,OOO a
side. This fight was on one of the Isles of
Shoals in 1867. It was one of the gamest
and most determined fight on record. Rooke
was beaten to a stand-still, but he preserved
his generalship to the last round, when Aloore
delivered a terrific blow with his right on
Rooke’s neck, knocked him down and won
the fight. Thirty-seven rounds were fought
in one hour and four minutes.
Since this Rooke has not fought, but he
has not been inactive, and has made rapid
strides in the science of boxing, lie has
taken training quarters at 321) Alarket street,
Newark, under the care of Johnny AlcCor
mack, assisted by Peter Galvin.
HOOKE’S DAILY TASK.
Ilis mode of training at the beginning isear
ly rising, washing in a preparation of vinegar,
alum ami borax, and a thorough rinsing of
the mouth. Next he lies down, and his face
is rubbed by his attendants with lemon juice ;
then he is dressed, and goes for his walk, a
mile out and back. After his return lie rests
for a quarter of an hour, and then breakfasts
on a cup of tea, a mutton chop or stake rare,
biscuit, stale bread or toast, and seasoning,
under the new mode of training, to render
his food more palatable. After another half
hour's rest he starts for a walk with his train
er. lie began with three miles out and has
increased this to fifteen. Once a week the
tramp is made in heavy clothing to induce
a sweat. On retiring Rooke is put to bed,
covered with blankets and given a draught
of hot brandy and water. In a few moments
rubbers begin with towels at his head, grad
ually uiy.overing and rubbing dry as they
proceed:’until the man's whole frame has
been subjected to a steady, rapid fric
tion. lie is then permitted to rest
or sleep for an hour under light covering.
Then lie takes a dinner of rare mutton boiled,
or chicken well boiled as he chooses, no
other animal food being permitted. lie can
choose from potatoes and cabbage, a loaf of
currant bread, pudding made of bread, rice,
or farina, or custard, with a pint bottle of
Scotch ale or porter. After another rest lie
takes a row on Newark bay from 2to 4 in
the afternoon. There’s another rub off, a
kick at the foot ball, a swing of the clubs, or
throw of the dumb bells : supper of dry toast,
boiled eggs and a cup of tea; a walk a mile
out and in, and then to bed. lie has reduc
ed himself gradually, and expects to enter
the ring at 152 pounds. He says that he has
tested Allen by a set to in Providence, and
that he is satisfied that he knows his man,
and that on the day of the fight, when both
are in the ring, he will bet Allen SSOO even
that he wins.
TIIE LIFE OF TOM ALLEN.
Tom Allen was born in Birmingham, in
1840. His first appearance in the ring at
home was with Morris Conner. This fight he
won. He next beat Jack White, was beaten
.by Posh Price, beat Bingy Rose, and by Bob
Smith, a colored man of Fulton Market; beat
Posh Price, beat George lies, and fought a
draw with Joe Goss. These were his battles
in England. Since his arrival in America,
in 1867. he, has fought and beaten Bill Davis,
lost with Charlie G allagher, was beatan by
Mike McCool, beat Charlie Gallagher, was
beaten by Jim Mace, who won without a
scratch; and beat Jim Gallagher and Mike
McCool. He is training, accompanied by
Johnny Newell, at McKee’s Rocks, Pittsburg,
lie weighed 220 pounds when lie began to
train, and is reducing himself gradually.
Allen has won the toss, and is to name the
place for the fight.
Rooke is younger, taller, longer in the
reach, and more active than Allen. He has
had only three previous trainings. Allen has
the advantage in weight, as he will enter at
175 pounds. He has trained twenty-seven
times. Jack Broughton the father of the prize
ring, who was for seventeen years champion
against all comers, was beaten by a novice
called Jack Slack. The Duke of Cumber
land lost £20,000 on Broughton. Tom Oli
ver. who fought Dan Donnell, the Irish
champion, in 1819, was beaten in a canter
by a young man of no experience, Bill Abgot.
Another old one, Deaf Burke, who came to
this country in 1834, and returned to Eng
land, was beaten by Bendigo in 1839, with
odds of five to one in his favor. The giant
champion, Tipton Slasher, was beaten by
the youth Tom Sayers. The giant of Austra
lia, Ned Chaulker. was beaten in his old
days, when he became stale, by a young man
named Zack Reed. Tom I Iyer whipped Yan
kee Sullivan at his ease in sixteen rounds,
seventeen minutes.
It is the same story from every section of
Tennessee—the wheat crop is likely to be one
of the largest ever harvested, com. cotton and
tobacco doing magnificently, and the farmers
in better spirits than any time since the war.
A Novelty.— lt is proposed by anew
street railway company in Cincinnati to tap
all the cemeteries, place hearse cars on the
route, and thus make funerals cheap as dirt.
A good idea and worthy of imitation.
A merchant who advertises, appeals direct
ly to the intelligence of the public.
Not {o be Caught Twice.
A good story is told of a German, by the
name of Schmidt, who had taken the precau
tion to insure the life of his wife for $5,000,
and his stable for S9OO, believing the former
might die and the latter might be burned, and
he could not get along without some com
pensation for his loss. Both policies had
been taken from the same agent. In a few
months after the stable had been insured, it
was destroyed by fire. Schmidt quietly noti
fied the agent., and hinted to him that he
would expect the S9OO at the earliest possible
moment.
'Fhe agent at once sent a carpenter to as
certain the cost of erecting anew stable of
the same dimensions, jiavhig found that the
property had been insured for more thafl it
was worth. The builder reported that lie
could replace the stable with new material for
$500; but, unfortunately, there was an ordi
nance against the erection of frame buildings
—the old stable having been of wood. lie
was asked to estimate the cost of a brick
stable, and reported the amount at $750.
The agent then notified Schmidt that lie
would build him anew brick stable in place
of the old frame one ; but Schmidt became
very indignant at the proposition, saying:—
“ I ton t understhand dis inshurance piziness.
I bay you vor nine hundred tollers, und ven
my sthable burn down you make me anew
von. I ton t vant anew sthable ; I vant mine
nine hundred tollers!”
The agent reasoned with Schmidt, but all
to no purpose.
V lien the stable was about finished,
Schmidt went to consult a lawyer, thinking
that he could still get the amount of the policy
besides having the new stable. The lawyer,
however, informed him that the company had
the right to make good the loss by building
ing anew stable, and expressed surprise at
his desire of bringing suif against them.
“ But.” said Schmidt, “ I insure for nine
hundred tollers, and dis lellar put dem sthable
up for seven hundred and fifty. I tout im
dersthand dis inshurance piziness !”
Finding that he could not compel the pay
ment by law, he became disgusted with the
insurance business altogether. Calling upon
the agent, Schmidt said:
“ Mr. Agent, I vant you to sthop dat in
slmrancc on mine vrow. I ton’t pay any
more monish that vay. I ton't understhand
this inshurance piziness!”
“ AY hy, Air. Schmidt,” said the agent, much
surprised, “you are doing a very foolish
thing. You have paid a considerable portion
of this policy already, and if your wife should
die you would get five thousand dollars.”
“ Yaw, dat is vat you told me now,” said
Schmidt. “ Yen I pays you on my sthable,
you say I get nine hundred tollers if it vas
purned down ; so it vas purnt, and you will
not give me mine monish. You say, ‘ Oh, dat
vas an old frame sthable,’ and you no pay
nine hundred tollers. Ven mine vrow dies,
you den say to me. ‘Oh, she vas an old Dutch
voman. und she not vord anydings—l get you
anew English vife,’ und so I ton't get mine
five thousand tollers, You ton't fool Schmidt
a couble of dimes.”
A Much-Killed Man.
I’he spectacle of Carruth, the New Jersey
editor, walking about with a bullet in his
brain, and of Anthony seemingly convales
cent with a hole in his subclavian artery, has
set the world to remarking that men are
sometimes very hard to kill. Nevertheless,
there has lately died in Boston, however, an
individual who bore with apparent cheerful
ness bodily injuries that would have ruined
even “Murad, the Unlucky.” Pepper was
his spicy name and sailing his profession.
He entered his public career in the ill-fated
Congress, foolishly endeavoring to obstruct
with his head the passage of a solid shot that
came from the Mcrrimac, that time she made
such havoc in the Hampton Roads. Pepper
was laid out stiff and cold. Ilis nose and
jaw were broken, his skull fractured, his teeth
knocked out, his thumb cut clean off at the
lower joint, one eye put out, and his arm and
leg badly torn. They laid him away for dead,
but he declined to die. lie recovered con
sciousness, was bandaged, trepanned, ampu
tated, &c., &c., and went ashore a veteran,
Having borne so much it occurred to him that
he might survive matrimony. lie at least
survived his wife. A fire next door frighten
ed her so much that she and her infant died,
but Pepper lived to mourn his warm afflic
tion.
Ilis next essay was as a laborer in some
tube mills, where he broke his leer, and after
recovering from that trifle, got under a falling
pile of lumber and broke three ribs. Tftis
cheerful episode again turned his attention
to matrimony, and he took to himself a sec
ond wife, who managed to do for him what
flood, fire and brimstone had failed to do be
fore. She sent him back to the tube-works
where a circular saw relieved him of four fin
gers and his other thumb. After this sad
mishap there was not enough left of him to
earn his daily meal, so the partner of his joys
and sorrows undertook the task herself. She
failed to give satisfaction, and being restive
under reproof, lie knocked her down with his
fingerless hand, and fell upon her to give
emphasis to the rebuke. It was, alas, his
last adventure. The spirited spouse, dislik
ing Pepper in such unlimited quantities, held
up the point of the carving-knife as he came
down, and the cold steel passing directly*
through his heart left no further excuse for
his living on. lie rests at last in a Boston
grave; and his afflicted widow is being tried
for assisting in his death. It would seem a
reasonable defense to maintain that any man
of the least consideration would have died on
a half-dozen previous and most suitable occa
sions.—Cin. Times.
At a prayer-meeting an old man got up and
prayed for a son now in a felon's cell for the
crime of murder. Another old man trem
blingly joined Ms prayers, adding that he too,
had had a son, but he had been murdered.
Their names were made known, and the fa
thers of hdward S, Stokes and James Fisk.
Jr., stood for the first time face to face.—
Chico.jo Trihvnp.
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NEWS BREVITIES.
In Germany there are nearly one million
more women than men.
Louisiana will raise 200,000 barrels of rice
this season, or twice as much as last year.
The U, S. District Judge of Texas has
decided that the civil rights bill is unconsti
tutional.
Northern capitalists have recently paid
sf>o,ooo for a one-third interest in a Greene
county, Georgia, copper mine,
The Gwinnett County Board of Oommis
sionCrs have “ dropped'" on the retailers tip
there very heavily. They refuse to issue
license to sell less than a quart daring the
Current year.
A Texas exchange is dismissing “who
fired the last shot in the late warf' That is
easily enough answered, it was a paroled sob
dier on his Way home who shot our best-lay*
lug pullet.
Among the one hundred and thirty-five
candidates for admission to West Point this
year, we notice the names of James B. Erwin
and James Lockett, of Georgia, are mention*
fid.
Ex-President Davis has bectl tendered,
and, it is stated, will accept the position of
President of the Texas Mechanical and Agri*
cultural College at Bryan, in that Htate, at a
salary of $4,000 per annum,
Shelby county, Ky., is happy in the pos
session of a youth, nineteen years old, who
is six feet six inches high and “ measures
forty inches in the inside seam.’'
The depreciation in the price of silver irl
Europe has brought it to par with greenbacks,
and it is possible that the Treasury Depart
ment will substitute silver for fractional cur
rency.
All the States have elected their meftiliers
of the forty-third Congress, except California
and Mississippi. California elects four Con
gressmen in September, and Mississippi six
in November.
A Dubuque, lowa, mule has a colt. Yon
never could rely on the critters, They always
do what no one expects of them, and now
they've kicked over the whole theory of hy
brids, But it probably wasn’t a high-bred
mule.
A disease has broken out among the color
ed people in the neighborhood of Shady Dale,
in Jasper county, which they call * black
tongue fever." and which has already attack
ed several persons with fatal results in some
cases.
The “fat Woman" of Bamum's show died
at her residence in East Baltimore on Friday,
aged twenty-nine. Her weight was 583 lbs,,
height six feet four inches, and span around
the waist seventy*-two inches.
The Bishops of the Methodist Church
South, have appointed a committee of frater
nization to the next Methodist North Gene
ral Conference, and a special commission to
meet a like commission from the [Northern
Church, to remove all obstacles to final fra
ternity between the two churches.
The Texans have got tired waiting for the
government to protect their border, and have
taken the field themselves to prevent the in
cursions of Mexican cattle thieves and other
depredators#
General F. P. Blair continues to improve
in health, and goes out driving quite fre
quently. The transfusion of blood has been
discontinued for the present, and will not be
resumed as long as the improvement is steady.
The question of taxing the property of Ma
sonic and other lodges has been sprung in
Georgia as well as Ohio. The State Comp
troller is of opinion that it hinges on the
question whether such bodies are charitable
institutions within the meaning of the Code
of Georgia.
Kentucky leads off in the coming State
elections, on the 2d day of August. Califor
nia follows on the Ist of September, Arkan
sas on the 6th. Maine on the 13th of the same
month, and Ohio and lowa on the 12th of
October. Then come Pennsylvania, New
York, Massachusetts, and several other States,
on the 2d of November.
A Mr. Gallaher, of Eaton ton, had an eye
knocked out, last week, by a marble thrown
by a boy. IVe heard, the other day, of a case
in which an Alabama gentleman had an ey*e
destroyed by a boy's pop-gun some years ago ;
and we have known china berries, thus pro
pelled, to strike an object with a force that
would have mined an eye if they had stmek
it fairly*.
A Philadelphia German, upon the arrival
of a second pair of twins, said to his family
physician: “Ov y*ou bleese, Doctor, it isli
better dot a schop be boot to dose tings.
One pair of quince, I dinks, ish ailer riot;
but more as dot ish blaid owit. Don'd id?
You know how it is myself!”
With regard to the third term, the Radical
leaders are in about the situation of the boy
that the Sunday-school books don't tell about.
He said to a comrade who enquired as to the
perplexity under which he was evidently la
boring : “Well, you see if I go to school I'll
get licked like blazes, and if I don't go to
school I'll get licked like thunder.
To advertise h nestlv is to advertise twice.
NUMBER 3.