The forest news. (Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga.) 1875-1881, June 26, 1875, Image 1

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BY THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. s VOLUME I. 3% sm*t ftafe t _ PI BLISIIED EVERY SATURDAY, Jty the .1 nckxon C'oanl)’ I*ullißliin{j Com puny. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. I —°— ID EPICS, N. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING AND BUSINESS EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months 82.00 “ “ 6 “ 1.00 “ “ 3 “ 50 JirgUFor every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. ftraJUAll Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be 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. ('oalrnct tdvn-lising. The following will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases : Squares, iw. Im.,:t m. m. it*m. >ne 81 00 82 50 80 00 B'. 00 812 00 Two 200 f> 50 11 (K) 17 00 22 00 Three 300 075 10 00 21 00 30 00 Four 400 950 IS 75 25 00 3<i 00 Five 500 10 25 21 50 29 00 42 00 Six 000 12 00 21 25 33 00 IS 00 Twelve 11 00 21 75 10 00 55 00 81 00 Eighteen.... 15 00 30 50 54 50 75 50 109 00 Twenty two 17 on 34 00 00 00 90 00 125 00 A 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 be published free; but for all over ten lines, regular advertising rates will lie charged. Transient advertisements and announcing can didates for oflice will be Cash. Address all communications for publication and all letters on business to MALCOM STAFFORD. Yanrtgin<j awl II asi ness Editor. (Eomitij mill fioum JWtori). JACKSON SUI'ERIOR ('<)( RT. Hon. (iEO. D. RICE, - - - Judge. jpEMORY SPEER, Esq., - - Sol. Gen'l I 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&in; 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. Advertisements labor while the advertiser sleeps. S TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM. ) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. 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.