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BY THE JACKSON COUNTY ( PUBLISHING COMPANY. S VOLUME I. frori flrfao* PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, Iky tin- Jaokion ( oiinlj Compunj’. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. OFFICE, N. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE. UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, M \NAOINO AXI) BUSINESS EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months .. $2.00 “ “ 6 “ 1.00 “ “ 3 ** 50 35p**For every dab of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. # RATES OF ADVERTISING. (>NK Dollar per square (often lines or less) for the lirst insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. JtjfAll Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will he published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. Business or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Control**! Ad vert Isiny;. The following will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will he strictly adhered to in all cases : Squares, iw. im. :t m. t* m. r^m. One $1 00 $2 50 *6 00 s'.> (K) sl2 00 Two 2no r r>o noo 17 00 22 00 Three 3 (Ml 6 75 Hi 00 21 (Ml 30 00 Four 4 IK) 060 IS 75 25 00 30 00 Five 5 00 10 25 21 50 2!t 00 42 00 Six 0 (Ml 12 (Ml 24 25 33 (Ml US (Kl Twelve 11 00 21 75 40 00 55 00 Kl 00 Eighteen.... 15 00 30 50 5t 50 75 50 109 00 Twenty two 17 00 31 00 00 00 .I0 00 125 00 JtafA square is one inch, or about 100 words of the type used in our advertising columns. Marriage and obituary notices not exceeding ten lines, will he published free; hut for all over ten lines, regular advertising rates will he charged. Transient advertisements and announcing can didates for office will he Cash. Address all eoinmunieat ions for publication and all letters on business to MALI’OM STAFFORD, Managing and Buxine** Editor. (Eoiuify uml ioii>ii Jlirccturi). JACKSON SUPERIOR conn'. llox. GEO. D. RICK, - - - Judge. EMORY SPEER, Esq.. - - Sol. Gen'l. COt XT V OFFICERS. WILEY C. HOWARD, - - - - Ordinary. THUS. 11. XIIIEACK, - - - Clerk S. Court. JOHN S. lIENTER. Sheriff. WINN. A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy •* LEE .1. .JOHNSON, ----- Treasurer. JAMES L. WILLIAMSON. - - Tax Collector. GEO. W. BROWN. ** Receiver. JAMES L. JOHNSON, - - County Surveyor. WM. WALLACE, - - Coroner. G. J. N. WILSON. County School Conimiss'r. Commission Kits (Koaiks a.\i> Rkvkxck.)—W'm. Seymour. W. J. Haynie. W. G. Steed. Meet on the Ist Fridays in August and November. T. 11. Niblack. Esq., Clerk. MUNICIPA h OFFICERS, JEFFERSON. Dk. 11. J. LtkNG. - Mayor JOHN SIMPKINS. - - Clerk & Tresis. J AS. A. B. M AIIAFEEY, - Town Attorney. JOHN M. BERN'S. - - - Marshal. Ai.dkkmkn.—•James E. Randolph, George W. Stanley, John W . Glenn. Joseph P. Williamson. MAGISTRATES AND HMUMS. Jellerson District, No. 245, N. 11, Petmergrass. J. P.; 11. T. Fleeman, J. P. John M. Burns, Constable. Clarkesborough District, No. 242, F. M. Holli day, J. I*. • M. B. Smith. J. P. Miller's District, No. 455, H. F. Kidd, J. P. Chandler’s District. No. 24G, Ezekiel Hewitt, J. P. ; J. G. Burson, J. P. Randolph’s District, No. 248, Pinckney P. Pirklc, J. P. Cunningham's District, No. 425. 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. /. \V. Hood, J. P. Harrisburg District. No. 257, W in. M. Morgan. J. P.; J. W . Pruitt, J. P. House's District, No. 24.1, A. A. Hill. J. P. Santafee District, No. 1042, W . R. Boyd. J. P. S. G. Arnold, J. I*. Wilson's District. No. 405. W. J. Comer. J. I’. FRA TERN A L DIRECTOR V. 1 nity Lodge. No. 36, F. A. M.. meets Ist Tues day night in each month. H. W. Bell, W. M.; John Simpkins. Sec'y. Love Lodge. No. 65. I. O. O. F.. meets on 2d and 4th Tuesday nights in each month. J. B. Sil man, N. G.; t. ,1. N. Wilson, Sec'y. Stonewall Lodge. No. 214. I. O. (J. T.. meets on Saturdny night before 2d and 4th Sundays in each month. J. P. Williamson, Sr., W. C. TA NARUS.; J. B. Pendergrass, W. R. S. Jetferson Grange. No. 488, P. of 11.. meets on feat unlay before 4th Sunday in each month. Jas. E. Randolph, M.; G. J. N Wilson, Sec'y. Rdtef (colored) Fire Company. No. 2. meets on 4tn luesdaj night m each month. Henry Long. Captain; Ned Burns, Sec'y. * r COT. A TV CHCRCH DIRECTORY. METHODIST Circuit; Jefferson, Harmony Grove, Dry Pond. llsou s. Holly Springs. W \ Pa ris, P. C, Mulberry Circuit. —Ebene/.er. Bethlehem, Con cord, Centre and Pleasant Grove. Lebanon. A. L. Anderson. P. C. Chapel and Antioch supplied from Watkins ville Circuit. PRESBYTERIAN. Thyatira, Rev. G. H. Cartledge, Pastor; Sandy ( reek. Rev. Neil Smith, Pastor ; Pleasant Grove, Rev. G. If. Cartledge, Pastor; Mizpah, Rev. Neil Smith, Pastor. BAPTIST. * abin Creek, 4\ . R. Goss, Pastor; llarmonv Grove, W. B. J. Hardeman. Pastor; Zion, Rev. ''.H. Bridges. Pastor; Bethal-ra. Rev. J. M. Davis. Pastor; Academy. Rev. J. N. Coil. Pastor ; alnut. Rev. J. M. Davis. Pastor; Crooked Creek W F. Stark. Pastor; Oconee Church, Rev. A. J. Kelley. Pastor; Poplar Springs. Rev. W. A. Brock. Pastor; Kandler's Creek. W. F. Stark, Pastor. PROTESTANT METHODIST, nsrentecost. Rev. R, S. McGarrity. Pastor. THE FOREST NEWS. The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. ff)ripmt’ Communications. For the Forest News. Letters to Young Men.—No. i. My Dear Young Friends: —Once I was young, and although I am now growing old, yet I still remember how young men feel, and what difficulties and temptations lie along their pathway through life. And having a deep and tender solicitude for your welfare, happiness and usefulness, I will address you a few letters in this periodical with the hope that you will read and ponder them well, and receive some lasting benefit from their sug gestions and instructions. You doubtless wish to be respected, to be happy, and to be useful. Such a wish is noble and truly commendable. You should earnest ly strive to merit the respect of your fellow beings. And if you prove yourselves worthy of respect, you will most assuredly be re spected by all good men and women. For mankind are so constituted by nature, that they will respect true worth and merit wherev er they find them. The foundation of all re spectability is a good moral character. With out good moral characters, you can never en joy the lasting respect of your fellow-men. Therefore, my young friends, let your first aim in life be the formation of exemplary and irreproachable characters. Be truthful. Love and cherish the truth as a precious gem.— Kschew all falsehood as a hateful and danger ous enemy. Every falsehood uttered, or act ed. will wound your consciences, pollute your hearts, and leave a blot upon your characters which long years may never wipe out. But cultivate and practice truth, and lovely truth will be a girdle of strength to your loins and a crown of glory to your heads, lie honest, do right, and fear not. Have and cherish as much regard for the rights of others as you have for your own rights. Wrong no man— no. not even a dumb brute. The first ele ment in a good character is a strict regard for truth every where and at all times ; and the next el ‘incut is like it, namely : a nice and tender regard for the rights of all men in all circumstances. He, who loves the truth in his heart, and always utters it with his lips, and who also gives to all men their dues, and tramples upon the rights of none, has two of the most important and precious elements of a good moral character, lint other things also are necessary to the formation of a per fect character. Be temperate, my young friends, and practice strict sobriety at all times and on all occasions. Shun the intoxi cating cup as you would avoid the venomous bite of the poisonous serpent. Arsenic, opium, prussic acid and strychnine have slain their thousands, but alcohol has slain its bil lions. It has cast down many mighty ones. Kings, nobles and lords. Judges, Governors and Senators, as well as vast multitudes of others, have fallen before this fell-destroyer, alcohol. Drunkenness itself is a crime against a man's nature and character, and it is the fruitful cause of many other crimes. Nearly all great criminals began their careers of vice and crime by sipping at the intoxicating bowl. If you wish to be respected, happy and use ful men, my dear young friends, be sure to shun the way of intemperance. And the on ly sure method of shunning the way of in temperance, is never to sip the liquid fire, and never to keep company with those who fre quent the rum-shop. Besides, in these days most people soon cease to respect the young man who is often seen in a dram-shop, or whose breath gives forth the foul odor of the whiskey barrel. Permit me also to advise you to avoid all licentiousness. Go not in the way that leads to the house of the strange woman. For as the wise man saith : “Her house inclineth un to death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.” Frequent the refining society of intelligent and virtuous fe males, but shun all associations with low and degraded women. Nothing corrupts a man faster, and degrades and ruins his character more effectually, and destroys his peace and happiness more completely, than licentious ness. If you would maintain your own self-re spect, promote your own happiness in time and in eternity, gain the lasting confidence and respect of your fellow men, become use ful citizens and worthy members of society. I conjure you to cultivate virtue and chastity, and seek not the corrupting companionship of evil women. From among the chaste and lovely daughters of Eve, let each one of you select a worthy companion for life. “It is not good for man to be alone/’ Such was the judgment of the Most High in regard to the first man ; and the fact is no less true of men in this latter age of the world. Man and woman were made for companionship togeth er in the marriage bond ; and neither can at tain to the utmost perfection of character, the highest degree of usefulness, and the largest attainable share of happiness, outside of the marriage relation. But, more anon. M ith much respect, I remaiu your friend and well-wisher, H. Cartledge. i (P There is one advantage gained by hot weather : very few preachers have strength to preach more than one hour at the time. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., JUNE I<>, 1875. FACTS AND FANCIES. If you wish to sleep well, never take your cares to bed. How a woman can keep on talking when she is twisting up her back hair and has her mouth full of hairpins, is a mystery not yet explained. A cruel joke at the expense of those ladies who are perpetually striving to gain a hear ing in the Press has been going the rounds of literary circles, to the effect “ that they look much better in muslin than in print.” It is the sagacious remark of a keen ob server that you can generally tell a newly married couple at the dinner table by the indignation of the groom when a fly alights on the bride's butter. “Here Warren fell," said the janitor at Bunker Hill to a young man from Andover. “ Poor man,” said the divinity student, “I hope he was prepared. Did he fall from the middle or the top window of the monument ? ” —New Orleans Republican. A Troy chemist proposes to catch a few grasshoppers, to inoculate them with some thing like the small-pox, and then to set them at liberty among their fellows again. The idea is inspirational, but it will not work. A stomueh that can digest old boots, fence rails, mouldy gridstones, w r ouldn’t pay any attention to small-pox, to speak of. — Cincin nati Times. When will it end ? A man can't set his house on fire, collect the insurance and put on style with the money without someone is mean enough to throw out insinuations. A little American lad, who had just com menced reading the newspapers, asked his father if the word ‘“lion.” prefixed to the name of a member of Congress, meant “ hon est.” The latest thing from the west was written by a Texas sheriff to an anxious and inquir ing father, the sheriff's letter stating that the son, “ while camping out with another man's horse, lashed himself to a limb of a tree and dropped off to sleep.” At last accounts he hadn't woke up. lAF’Gen. Sheridan’s father, who died at Somerset, (J., the other day, began life as a cartman, and supported his family by the earnings of honest labor. He never dispers ed any Legislatures, nor bore false wifness against his fellow-citizens, nor desired to court-martial and shoot all anti-Grant men as “banditti.” And so. when death came, he could truthfully say, “ I'm not afraid.”—Kan sas City 'Times. The Vallejo (California) Chronicle relates the following incident of the revival now in progress at that place, conducted by the Rev. Mr. Hammond: Last Thursday even ing Mr. Hammond preached from the text: " Saul. Saul, why persecutest thou me ?" In the audience there was an engineer named Saul, who was accompanied by his wife and little girl. The reverend gentleman repeated his text several times. “Saul, Saul, why perse cutest thou me?'’ At last the little one, who thought that the text had a personal ap plication, looked up into the face of her parent, and said, “ Father don't mind him, lie's drunk. A Curious Rythmical Medley Culled from the Master Poets. A LITERARY CURIOSITY. A lady of San Francisco is said to have occupiod several years in hunting up and fitting together the following thirty-eight English poets. The names of the authors are given with each line : LIF E . 4V hy all this toil for triumph of an hour? Young. Life’s a short summer, —man a liower. l)r. Johnson. By turn we watch the vital breath and die. Pope. The cradle and the tomb, alas ! so nigh. Prior. To be is far better than not to be. Seictll: Though all man’s life may seem a tragedy. Spencer. But light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb. Daniel. The bottom is but shallow whence they come. Raleigh. Your fate is but the common fate of all. Longfellow. Unmingled joys, here, to no man befall. South well. Nature to each allots his proper sphere. Congreve. Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. Churchill. Custom does not often reason overrule. Rochester. And throws a cruel sunshine on a fool. Armstrong. Live well, how long or short, permit to heaven. Milton. They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. Hailey. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face. Trench. Vile intercourse where virtue has not place. Somerville. Then keep each passion down, however dear. Thompson. Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. Byron. Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure lay. Smollet. With craft and skill to ruin and betray. Crabbe. Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. Massinger. We masters grow of all that we despise. Cowley. Oh, then renounce that impious self-esteem. Beattie. Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. Cooper. Think not ambition wise because 'tis brave. Dacenanf. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gruy. What is ambition ? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Willis. Only destruction to the brave and great. Addison. What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown? Dry den. The way to bliss lies not on beds of down. Quarles. How long wc live, not years but actions tell. Watkins. That man lives twice who lives the first life well. Herrick. Make then, while yet ye may, your God your friend. * ‘ Mason. Whom Christians worship vet not comprehend. Hill. The trust that's given guard, and to your.-elf be just. * Dana. —College Mercury. N. B.—We find but thirty-seven authors named above; it is clear, therefore, that by some accident, in its “ peregrinations through the press,” a line has been unintentionally omitted.—En. News. IN MEMORIAM. For the Forest News. Lines on the Death of Robie Cartledge. BY A STUDENT. How strange, how sad. how unexpected was that fate Which carried from earth our little mate, ITho was in school the day before He landed on the heavenly shore. Oh ! death, pale death, why shouldst thou strike Such merry boys, that have only made a step in life? Surely thou must be, as one remarked. The lover of a shining mark. ►Then a lady friend and l did go To visit him that was so low. 1 saw there was conic a messenger of death To take him away to the angels at rest. For a while we remained, but ah ! not a change In the death fixed eyes, the prostrate frame ; And then, how soon upon the trembling wings of a common fate, lUcnt the immortal part to the heavenly gate? Kind mother—good mother, weep not o’er thy son, Think of his virtues, his life.'tlie crown he has won ; He is cold—he is only at rest in the dark, dark grave, That will open to the rich, to the poor and the brave. (■Miscellaneous JlleiH’q). Georgia and Virginia. The roar of artillery and the smoke of bat tle have long died away upon our ears, and peace, like a Gilead balm, reigns throughout the borders of Georgia The busy hum of in dustry is heard through all the varied avoca tions of our people, and ere long the skeleton of want will be driven, as witli an Ithuriel spear, from every hearthstone. Our old red hills and impoverished low-lands are begin ning to bloom like a garden field, under the manipulations of scientific culture, while the commercial and mechanic arts move with new inspirations to the music of remunerative mills and factory spindles. Colleges, high schools, religious institutions, and a success ful system of public instruction, bless the people with the saving and elevating influ ences of knowledge, while temples, dedicated to the true and living Jehovah, stand with open doors upon almost every hill-top. The judicial ermine is respected as of yore, and wholesome laws are administered with judicial purity under a wise and prudent executive administration. Now, Science arises from this thraldom and steals From the keeping of nature new gifts for the soul: Now. valorous Enterprise waves his proud hand And might and magnificence cover the land ; Now, Commerce, from bonds of oppression set free.* Links country to country and sea unto sea ; Now, Art with a dream-like devotion refines Into beauty and purity, matter and mind. Yes. progress is once again written in liv ing colors upon the brow of glorious old Georgia, the empire State of the South, and her watchword is upward and onward. With laurels untarnished she sits again at the council-board of nations, and her voice is once more heard with magic power in the halls of national legislation. But while she thus rejoices in this high career of prosperity some of her sister States are still under the heels of the oppressor, and to each of them her great heart goes out in profoundest sym pathy, and she would exhort them in burning words to look aloft, for the day of deliverance is nigh at hand, and will be all the more glori ous because of the long, dark night through which they are passing. And as we run over the brilliant galaxy of Southern States, how the heart of every true Georgian swells at the mention of old Virginia. “ Land of the beautiful and brave ! The freeman’s home, the martyr's grave ! The nursery of giant men Whose deeds have linked with every glen The magic of a warrior’s name.” Yes, what vision of glory clusters around that venerable name 1 What wizard land scape beauty; what gleams of sunlight; what martial daring ; what Abrahamic hospitality ; what hallowed faith and burning zeal; what martyr toils and martyr graves rise up, like an overpowering panorama, before the mental vision ! Does the blood of a traveleer circulate more warmly through his veins when he stands up on the classic ground of Greece, and calls up her ancient glory?—when he stands amid the ruins of the once proud city of Pericles, and listens to the fiery eloquence of Demosthenes, enkindling the war-spirit against the oppres sor? Does his pulse beat high when he walks through Thermopylae and over Maranthon, Plates, and Luctra? These arc hallowed grounds, but here, in old Virginia, we have a land surpassing in glory the brightest records of all nations. Who was it that rescued the coronet of re publican liberty from the maelstrom of tyran nical dominion, and sat it as a blazing lumi nary in the political firmament of the world as a beacon of hope to the oppressed of all lands. It was George Washington, of Vir ginia. Who was it that lit up the fires of the first revolution, and with Demosthenian elo quence called up armies from the valleys and down from mountain heights to battle for the birthrights of men? It was Patrick Henry, a Virginian. Who was it that drew up the text-book of freedom/ and set it before the world to teach it liberty? It was Thomas Jefferson, a Virginian. Who was it that sur rounded that text-book with a flame of living fire and preserved it through the dark eras of our young republic? It was James Madison, a Virginian. Who was it that calmed inter nal discord among the people and united all parties under one banner? It was James Monroe, a Virginian? Who was it that gave to America her great anl comprehensive ju diciary as a bulwark to her institutions? It was John Marshal, a Virginian. Who was it that could calm, as with God-like power, the stormiest sea of political commotion, and stands to-day as one of that immortal trio whose names shall survive the wreck of em pires and the fall of republics? It was Hen ry Clay, a Virginian. Who was it that led our soldier boys through the late sanguinary war, and with but a handful of devoted fol lowers kept back the hordes and hirelings of the entire world for four long years from our beloved sunny land? It was the venerated, the immortal Robert E. Lee. a Virginian.— \N ho was it that lit up the mountains of Northern Virginia with a girdle of fire, and by the Napoleonic dash of his genius and the brilliancy of his achievements, struck terror to the minions of the North and won the ad miration of an astonished world? It was that immortal Christian hero. Stonewall Jack son. a Virginian. Blessed land, thy soil is filled with the illustrious bones! Land of benedictions, Georgia is bound to thee by a thousand ties, and “ Not a tie will break Nor a link will start.’’ The bones of brave soldier boys from every Southern State, and almost every county, slumber there. ” And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.” And when faction shall have been hushed and even justice shall hold the scales, their records will then be brighter still than when on the march to victory they won the admira tion of the world, and when the impartial historian shall wander among these dead bones in search of the traditions of liberty, he will find that he is indebted for their perpetu ation to the sleeping dead in Virginia's bosom. Land of liberty ! thy soul has been conse crated by the blood of heroes, and by great and holy deeds of peace. Thou art now one vast temple and hallowed asylum, sanctified bv the benedictions of Georgia, and of all people. “ May peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces." May there be no decay nor leading into captivity, and no complaining within thy streets. “ May truth flourish out of tlie earth and righteous ness look down from heaven !”—Sunny South. Lost Gow by Shiminy I Asa rule there isn't a better class of peo ple in the world to deal with than the Ger mans, but occasionlly you will find one whose ideas concerning certain business transactions are amusingly peculiar. For instance : A German subscriber to the Jour nal recently called to advertise a lost cow, and according to the long established cus tom of this well regulated print shop, we immediately wrote up the notice and figured up the cost of publication. “ Vat ish dat ? ” asked our friend, placing the butt end of his whip on our little sum of multiplication. We informeed him that it cost him so much for advertising his lost cow three weeks. “ You make me pay for dat ? ” “ Certainly ; we always take pay for adver tising.” “ You takes pay, eh ? Veil, dat ish von tarn shvindle. I shcribe init dat Shonmal papers dese tree years, und now you slinrge me yoost for vot leetle advertise uv mine gow/’ “ But we— ’’ “ You slitop my Shovrnul bapers/’ “ But you—” “ You slitop mine Shonmal bapers, und I got some more in Daytraw, py shiminy, und you gome little end dot horn oud.” “ But, see here, my Inend ” “ I go right away und dond got sheated mit you, py krashus, Tink you got some steep mit a veasel, dond you ? Kharge me yoost for advertise von gow ! It vas better uv you dond got me med ven I gome here, uiul I dat Shonmal more as tree year, but you makes me med und you stop mine bapers before I got it, next dime. Dat isli vat man I am kind uv, py shiminy ! ” We tried to explain ; we tried in vain ; we lost him and a three-weeks advertisement of a “ lost gow. py shiminy ! ” Can a Woman be a Widow While Her Hus band Lives? A remarkable suit is in progress in a San Francisco court. In November. 1872, Jas. C. King shot and killed Arthur F. O'Neil in Brooklyn. New York. King was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. King had met a wealthy merchant named Scott in San Francisco, and he had married the lat ter's daughter. The union for some reason turned out to be most unhappy. Her father left all his estate by will to Airs. King on her becoming a widow, and the question now pre sented to a San Francisco tribunal is, wheth er she is entitled, under the will, to come in to possession of the property, though King (at present about thirty-eight years old) is now confined in the State prison at Sing Sing. Mrs. King now contends that she is a widow fully within the meaning of the terms of her will, and therefore entitled to come into the property left by him at the time of his decease. The laws of New York, as rep resented to the California Judges, provide that “a person sentenced to imprisonment for life shall be deemed civilly dead,” and that “ no pardon granted any person who shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life shall be deemed to restore such person to the rights of any previous marriage.” The question is, though the wife be divorced and King alive in the flesh, and. though civilly dead accord ing to the laws of New York, is Mrs. King a widow in California? Upon the determina tion of that point depends the acquisition and enjoyment of a large property left by a father to a daughter upon the event of her becoming a widow. The New A ork Herald gives the statistics of Masonry in the United States, as follows : No. of Lodges 8,654, Master Masons 543,- 474, No. of Encampments 406, Knights 40,- 410. According to its tables. Georgia has 268 Lodges, 13.021 Master Masons, 8 En campments, and 365 Knights ; Alabama has 300 Lodges. 10,643 Master Masons, Encamp ments, and 264 Knights. State conventions have already l>een call ed as follows : Republican—()hio, June 2 ; California. June 10 ; Maine, June 14 ; lowa, June 30; Wisconsin. July 7. Democratic —Ohio, June 1 7 ; Maine, June 22 ; California, June 29 ; Mississippi. August 3 ; Pennsyl vania. September 8. “People's Indepen dent party " —California, June 22. V TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM. / SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. NEWS BREVITIES. Missouri has 2,017 Granges, the largest one is Darksville, 604. Randolph County ; it has 170 members. Mr. John Barron, who left Clarendon coun ty, S. C., some time siuce to settle in Cali fornia, has returned to his old home. No place like home. The Executive Committee of the National Grange meets at Washington in formal ses sion. on the Ist of July next. Those poor Missionaries. One in South Africa has just ordered a carriage shipped him by a London (inn. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, has written to Gen. Gordon that he will attend the Geo. State Fair next Fall. Governor Smith has been advised by At torney General Hammond that United States bonds are not taxable by the States. Mrs. Gaskins, of Carteret County, N. C., weighs 640 pounds, and one of her stockings can hold a bushel of shelled corn. A young immigrant in Northern California writes back to warn others that the girls there are all from Boston, and that stimulants are twenty-five cents a drink. The prospects now are that Spencer coun ty, Ivy., will, this year, raise double the amount of tobacco produced last year. The Memphis Avalanche est imates the wheat crop, this year, in the country tributary to Memphis, as the largest since 1860. A Milwaukee girl, only five years of age, walks a rope suspendc l thirty feet from the ground. A contract for the erection of an ice factory in Atlanta, to cost $12,500 has been closed. h urther details of the earthquakes in Asia Minor show that several villages were de stroyed and that 2,000 persons, lost their lives. A gentleman in Marion county, S. C., has a colored man in his employment who chop ped out twelve acres of cotton for him in three days, being an average of four acres per day. The Patrons of New Jersey have saved from $50,000 to $75,000 in their purchases the past year. No wonder the Order is thriv ing among the “ Jersey Blues.” A Portland, Oregon, man has lieen fined fifty dollars for disturbing the funeral of his wife by loud crying. The Judge who fined him has six cross-eyed daughters, all unmar ried. The Camilla Enterprise says a fanner in that county has a little girl eleven years old, who chopped one and a half acres of cotton each day for nine days in succession. The Supreme Court of Louisiana has given judgment, with $25,000 damages, against Samuel Hastings, a druggist, whose clerk made a mistake in preparing a prescription, and which caused the death of Mrs. McCubbin. The ladies of Texas have started a sub scription for the purpose of providing Jeff. Davis with a homestead in that State. Mrs. Cobb, of Illinois, has left her husband because he gets corned so often. He says that ’tis because she wants him to shell out too frequently. Ex-Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, has been presented by the young Jewish people of \\ ilmington, with a gold-headed cane, as a token of their appreciation of his recent lec ture on “ The Scattered Nation.” A South Carolina paper announces that an other English company has been formed for the purpose of manufacturing furniture, ship frames and other articles of wo<xl, in that State. Saw-mills and manufactories of dif ferent kinds will be erected at once.. The simple faith of a Virginia Christian is his faith aided by in man. He was asked if he thought Stonewall Jackson was in heaven. “ Wal,” said the old gentleman, “ I reckon lie is if he started for that place. He always managed to get round in time. War has broken out in the Pennsylvania mines again. Rioting and arson are the pleasant divertisements of the strikers. Gov. Ilartranft, is meeting the issue with his accustomed firmness, and has ordered the militia to support the sheriff. Mrs. Mulligan, of Oconto, Wisconsin went into her brother s garden and found some roots, which she supposed to be artichokes. She ate of them heartily, and within two hours'was taken sick with cramps, and died. The root was wild parsnip, a very deadly poison. The demand for grain cradles in the Ma con market has been larger than it ever was known to be before, more having already been sold this season than were disposed of in the whole of the past six seasons combin ed. rhe Teleyraph 4- Mexsetiger says cheeri ly : “Me begin to feel that ‘ there is life in the old land yet.’ ” An infant in Terre Haute, Indiana, was strangled lately by a cat in bed. Its mother awoke and found a cat in the room and sai<k to her husband to drive it out; but he sup jiosed she was talking in a dream, and he went to sleep. The next morning the child was found with the cat on its face and stran ' gled until it was black. NUMBER 2.