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by THE JACKSON COUNTY / PUBLISHING COMPANY. $ VOLUME I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, By <hr JrtrkxoK County Publishing Company. JACKSON COGA. office, n. \V. cor. Public square, up-stairs. MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAOING and BUSINESS EDITOR. TERIfIS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months $2.00 “ “ 6 “ I.oo’ “ “ 3 “ 50 fgyFor 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. V&- All Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. ygr Business or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum ; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Advertb>ing. The following will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases : Squares. ■w. lm. :t m. am. cjm. 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HUNTER, Sheriff. WINN A. WORSH AM, - - - Deputy “ LEE J. JOHNSON, ----- Treasurer. JAMES L. WILLIAMSON, - - Tax Collector. CEO. W. BROWN, “ Receiver. JAMES L. JOHNSON, - - County Surveyor. MM. \Y ALLACE, - - Coroner. 0. J. N. \\ ILSON, County School Commiss'r. Commissioners (Roads and Revenue.)-'Wm. Seymour. W. .J. Haynic, W. 0. Steed. Meet on the Ist Fridays in August and November. T. 11. Nil)lack, Esq., Clerk. MAGISTRATES AND BAILIFFS. Jefferson District, No. 24.'), X. 11. Pendergrass, L P.; 11. T. Fleeman, J. P. John M. Burns, Constable. Clarkesborough 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 Ilewitt, J. P.; J. (J. Burson, J. P. Randolph’s District, No. 248, Pinckney P. Pirkle, J. P. Cunningham’s District.' No. 428, 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. W. Hood, J. P. Harrisburg District. No. 257, Wm. M. Morgan! J. P.; J. YY . Pruitt, J. P. House’s District, No. 243. A. A. Hill, J. P. Santafee District, No. 1042, W. R. Bovd, J. P. S. G. Arnold, J. P. YY ilson's District, No. 465, YY'. J. Comer, J. P. FRA TEEN A L DIRECTORY. 1 nity Lodge, No. 36, F. A. M., meets Ist Tues day night in eacli month. 11. YY'. Bell, Y\\ 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. U.; 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 month. J. P. YY’illiamson, Sr., W. C. TANARUS.: J. b. 1 endergrass, YY'. R. S. Jefferson Grange, No. 488, P. of 11., meets on Saturday before 4th Sunday in each month. Jas. i*. Randolph, M.; G. J. N. YVil son, Sec’y. Relief (colored) Fire Company. No. 2, meets on 4th 1 uesday night in each month. Henry Long, t aptain; Ned Burns, Sec’y. CO UNTY CHUR CH DIRECTOR Y. METHODIST. Jefferson Circuit. —Jefferson, Harm on y Grove, J’ry Pond, Wilson’s, Holly Springs. W. A. Far ris. P. 0. * ° Mulberry Circuit. —Ebenezcr. Bethlehem, Con ford. Centre and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. A. L. Anderson, P. C. Chapel and Antioch supplied from Watkins vdle Circuit. PRESBYTERIAN. Thyatira, Rev. G. H. Cartledge. Pastor; Sandy Creek, Rev. Neil Smith. Pastor ; Pleasant Grove, C. H. Cartledge, Pastor; Mizpali, Rev. Neil Pastor. ’ n . BAPTIST, tabm Creek, W. R. Goss. Pastor; Harmony " r \ B - " • Hardeman. Pastor; Zion, Rev. *• H. Bridges, Pastor; Bethabra, Rev. J. M. r avis. Pastor; Academy, Rev. J. N. Coil. Pastor: ' alnut, Rev. J. M. Davis, Pastor; Crooked hreek, \V. F. Stark, Pastor; Oconee Church, Rev. a*tb Pastor; Poplar Springs, Rev. W. Pasto*’ Pastcr ’ Kandler 's Creek, W. F. Stark, PROTESTANT METHODIST. Pentecost, Rev. R. S. McGarrity, Pastor. .. “CHRISTIAN.” ethany Church, Dr. F. Jackson, Pastor, t-hmtjan Chapel, Elder W. T. Lowe, Pastor. Galilee, Elder P. F. Lamar, Pastor. universaust. m^;f n tre H j U ’ Re V B - F * strain ? Pastor; Church Sunday P rcac lhng every third Saturday and THE FOREST NEWS. The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. Ulie foci’s Corner. Roll Call—After the Battle. “ Corporal Green !” the orderly cried, “ Here !” was the answer loud and clear, From the lips of a soldier standing near; And “here” was the word the next replied. “ Cyrus Drew!” then a silence fell; This time no answer followed the call, Only a rear man had seen him fall, Killed or wounded, he could not tell. There they stood in the failing light, These men of battle, with grave, dark looks, As plain to be read as open books, IFhile slowly gathered the shades of night. The fern on the hillsides Was splashed with blood, And down in the corn, where the poppies grew, IFere redder stains than the poppies knew, And crimson-dyed was the river’s Rood. For the foe had crossed from the other side That day in the face of a murderous fire, That swept them down in its terrible ire, And their life’s blood went to color the tide. “ Herbert Cline !” At the call there came Two stalwart soldiers into the line Bearing between them Herbert Cline, JUounded and bleeding to answer his name. “ Ezra Kerr !” and a voice answered “ Here !” “ Herman Iverr !” but no man replied ; They were brothers, these two, the sad wind sighed, And a shudder crept through the cornfield near. “ Ephraim Dean !” Then a soldier spoke. “Dean carried our regiment’s colors,” he said ; “ 1U hen our ensign was shot, I left him dead, Just after the enemy wavered and broke. “Close on the roadside his body lies, I paused a moment and gave him a drink ; He murmured his mother's name, I think, And death came with it and closed his eyes.” 'Twas victory, yes ; but it cost us dear, For the company’s roll when called at night, Of a hundred men who went into the fight, Numbered but twenty who answered “Here !” Jlisccllimcous fflcdfei). The First Continental Gongress. The Forty-Third Congress of the United States having failed to provide for a suitable observance of the centennial anniversary of the first meeting of the First American Con gress, that duty was assumed and discharged by the “Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia,” in whose Hail the First Continental Congress assembled on the fifth day of September, 1774. The cere monies which commemorated the initial move ment towards the establishment of the Re public of the United States took place in the same Hall in which the First Congress met. Though not even sanctioned by our National Legislature, they were fitting, impressive, and characterized by earnest patriotic feeling.— The oration prepared for the occasion by Henry Arinitt Brown challenges attention not only for its eloquent passages, but for the careful research and study which it manifests ; while the author's delivery of it gained for him, in the judgment of all listeners, a fore most place among the orators of America.— We should win our readers’ thanks could we here reproduce Mr. Brown’s address entire, but we must here content ourselves with a single extract—his picture of the First Con tinental Congress: “There are fifty delegates present, the rep resentatives of eleven colonies. Georgia lias had no election, the North Carolinians have not yet arrived, and John Dickinson, that * shadow, slender as a reed, and pale as ashes,’ that Pennsylvania Farmer who has sown the seeds of an empire, is not a member yet.— Directly in front, in a seat of prominence, sits Richard Henry Lee. Ilis brilliant eye and Roman profile would make him a marked man in any company. One hand lias been injur ed. and is wrapped, as you see, in a covering of black silk, but when he speaks, his move ments are so graceful and his voice so sweet that 3’ou forget the defect of gesture, for he is ail orator —the greatest in America, per haps, save only one. That tall man, with the swarthy face and black, unpowdered hair, is YY'illiam Livingstone, of New Jersey ; ‘no public speaker, but sensible and learned.’— Beside him, with his slender form bent for ward and his face lit with enthusiasm, sits his son-in-law, John Jay, soon to be famous, lie is the youngest of the delegates, and yonder sits the oldest of them all. His form is bent, his thin locks fringing a forehead bowed with age and honorable service, and liis hands shake tremulously as he folds them in his lap. It is Stephen 1 lopkins, once Chief J ustice of Rhode Island. Close by him is his colleague, Samuel Ward, and Sherman, of Connecticut, that strong man, whose name is to be made honorable by more than one generation.— Johnson, of Maryland, is here, ‘that clear, cool head/ and Faca, his colleague, ‘ a wise deliberator.’ Bland, of Virginia, is that learn ed-looking‘bookish man/ beside ‘zealous, hot-headed’ Edward Rutledge. The Penn sylvanians are grouped together, at one side —Morton, Humphreys, Mifflin, Rhoads, Bid dle, Ross, and Galloway, the Speaker of the Assembly. “ Bending forward to whisper in the latter’s ear is Duane, of New York, that man, a little ‘ squint-eyed’ (John Adams has already written of him,) ‘ very sensible and very artful/ That large-featured man, with the broad, open countenance, is William Hooper. That other, with the Roman nose, is McKean, of Delaware; Rodney, his col league, sits beside him, ‘the oldest-looking man in the world, tall, thin, pale, his face no bigger than a large apple, yet beaming with sense, and wit, and humor/ Yonder is Chris topher Gadsden, who has been preaching in dependence to South Carolina these ten years past. He it is who, roused by the report that the regulars have commenced to bombard Boston, proposes to march northward and de feat Gage at once, before his reinforcements can arrive; and when someone timidly says. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1575, that in event of war, the British w'ill destroy the seaport towns, turns on the speaker with this grand reply : ‘ Our towns are brick and wood ; if they are burned down we can re build them j but liberty once lost is gone for ever.’ In all this famous company, perhaps the men most noticed are the Massachusetts members. That colony has thus far taken the lead in the struggle with the Mother Coun try. A British army is encamped upon her soil; the gates of her chief town are shut 5 against her people the full force of the resent ment of King and Parliament is spent. Iler suffering called tins Congress into being, and now lend a sad prominence to her ambas sadors. And of them, surely, Samuel Adams is the chief. YY'liat must be his emotions as he sits here, to-day—he who ‘ eats little, drinks little, sleeps little, and thinks much; that strong man, whose undaunted spirit has led his countrymen up to the possibilities of this day.’ It is his plan of correspondence, adopt ed after a hard struggle, in November, 1772, that first made feasible a union in the com mon defense. lie called for Union as early as April, 1773. For that he had labored without ceasing and without end ; now arous ing the drooping spirits of less sanguine men ; now repressing the enthusiasm of rash hearts, which tlircatened to bring on a crisis before the time was ripe ; and all the while thunder ing against tyranny through the columns of the Boston Gazette. As he was ten 3’ears ago he is to-da3% the master spirit of the time ; as cool, as watchful, as steadfast, now that the hour of his triumph is at hand, as when, in darker dav’s, he took up the burden James Otis could no longer bear. Beside him sits his younger kinsman, John Adams, a man after his own heart; bold, fertile, resolute ; an eloquent speaker and a leader of men.— But whose is yonder tall and manly form? It is that of a man of forty \'ears of age, in the prime of vigorous manhood. He has not spoken, for he is no orator ; but there is a look of command in his broad face and firm set mouth that marks him among men, and seems to justify the deference with which his colleagues turn to speak with him. He has taken a back seat, as becomes one of his great modest3’- —for he is great even in that— but he is still the foremost man in all this compaivy. This is he who has just n ale, in the Virginia Convention, that speech which Lynch, of Carolina, say3 is the most eloquent speech that ever was made : ‘ I will raise a thousand men, subsist them at my own ex pense, and march with them at their head for the relief of Boston.’ These were his words —and his name is Washington. Such was the Continental Congress assembled in Phil adelphia.”—Proof-Sheet. Witch Burnina. \j “ No human being,” says a Boston journal, “was ever burned in New England for witch craft or sorcery.” This information is very gratifying. A good many old women, seem ingly, were burned for witchcraft and sorcery at Salem and other places in New England, and we have always been a little apprehen sive that they might possibly have been hu man beings, and now to be assured that they were not is gratifying in the extreme.—Louis ville Courier-Journal.. It is not probable that it matters much to the New England witches, at this late hour, whether they were burned or hanged, shot, smothered, or drowned ; but we are all of us interested in the preservation of history and when a paper usually so well-informed as the Courier-Journal errs as above,4t is no more than duty to assist it to the truth. Ti e whole controversy arose from a loose reference of General Sherman, in his late memoirs, to “the hundreds of witches burned in New Eng land.” If the General planned his battles on as inaccurate information as he bases many of his sentences, it is nothing strange that he won so few of them. The facts in this case are, that of his “ hundreds” of witches put to death, there was less than two score that any one else has heard of; and of the hundreds “burned,” the closest research has been un able to discover a single one. The hasty reference of the Courier-Journal to the Salem affair might have been corrected b} T the ex amination of almost any encyclopedia. It occurred in 1692, and the total number of ex ecutions resulting from it was just twenty. Ninteen were hanged, and one suffered death from pressure, or what Blackstone describes as the “priene forte et dure.” At the time the reaction from the mania set in, and King William came to the rescue with his veto of the witchcraft act, there were eight more con demned, one hundred and fifty in prison awaiting trial, and two hundred more accused. As in the French Reign of Terror, some vio lently accused others to save themselves from being suspected, and it needed only an influ ence bold enough to lift itself against the horror for every one to discover at once how hollow the craze was. We repeat that whether they were hanged or burned is not a matter of much concern either to the victims or to the reputation of those who executed them, but it is just as well, since a controversy has arisen, to have ‘the facts correctly stated. —Cincinnati Times. The Pinch. A colored dame encountered a policeman on Eeaubien street, and halting him she in quired : “ Spose’n data pusson spits in anoder pus son’s face, is dat anything ?” “Well, no,” replied the officer. “ Wall, spose’n dat pusson whose face was spit into should take de poker and drop de pusson who done de spitting, and cut a big gash in dat pusson’s head, would dat be any thing ?” “ That would be a very serious case, mad am. Did any one strike you with a poker ?” “ Dat’s whar de pinch comes in. Ize de one who done the hitting!” she exclaimed, lifting her hands in amazement and horror. —Detroit Free Press. There is a difference between dogs and men, and it is not always in favor of men. An Oregon paper tells the story of a man who encountered a panther, and was having a deadly struggle with him, when the dog came and attacked the furious beast, draw ing him off from his master. The man thus relieved immediately fled with all speed, leaving the dog to liis fate. John Lasseter and His Chicken Speculation. A SKETCIi. —BY HOBBS. The Cherokee Bar was, in times past, re markable for the ability and rare social qual ities of its members. Perhaps no Circuit in Georgia could number so many men of mark and prominence. The Underwoods, the Han sels, Aiken, Shackleford, Dabney, Brown, Irwin, YY'ord, YVright, Hooper, etc. Among these were men renowned for wit and rare eccentricity of character. One, to whom the mind of the writer recurs With sad ness, because of his decease, possessed a fund of anecdote-and humor at once original and inexhaustible. His anecdotes were often se rio-comic, and improvised to amuse the crowd, his cousin being the hero. Once in a com pany of gentlemen, during a session of the Legislature in MilledgeVille, he was observed to appear unusually sad and meditative.— “YY’hv, Colonel,” said a friend, “what is the matter witlx you to-night?” lie replied, gloomily, “I was thinking of my poor cousin !” “ YY'liat about your cousin, Colonel, if I may be so bold as to ask the question?” “Cer tainly,” said lie, “no harm in telling you; indeed, it may prove a useful lesson to us all.” “My cousiri, Whose name was Jonathan Lasseter, was a well-to-do farmer in middle Georgia. That is to say he had made an ex cellent start in life : lie had an interesting family, a farm of 80 acres, a likeW negro man and two mules—all the proceeds of his own industry. But, as is too often the case, his success so fanned the liame of avarice that lie became restless, and contrary to the pru dent advice of his wife, determined to sell all his property and move to Texas. “He accordingly sold liis land, and with the money bought him two other fine mules, a fine saddle horse, a large wagon anil about 250 ohickens—all of which he proposed to take to Augusta and convert into cash, at a large profit, to be invested in western lands. “For this purpose he struck out one morn ing in the best of spirits, riding his fine horse, and the negro driving the team. To ward evening, being somewhat fatigued rid ing, he haltered his horse to the hind gate of the wagon, and walked on ahead to find a camping ground. Coming to a branch at the foot of a hill, he decided to camp there, and kindled a fire for that purpose. Ilis team soon arrived, but what were his feelings to see his fine saddle horse dead and dragging along behind the wagon, having, unobserved, by tiie careless driver, fallen and broken his neck. This was a heavy blow to my cousin Jonathan, for the profits in the entire load of chickens would not cover the loss, but said he, “ I will not cry over spilt milk,” and so nerving himself against the stroke, he order ed the negro boy, Jack, to water the chickens while he proceeded to unhitch the horses.— He had barely loosed the traces when he dis co vere 1 that the blocldieaded negro had let down the hind gate of the wagon with the view of driving the chickens ro Yvater. “ Hell and blazes!’’ says Jonathan, “ don’t you know you can’t drive a chicken? Dod drat your infernal picter—stop the wagon—head them chickens—stop ’em, I say !” But too late ! scores were already pouring out, regu lar cascade fashion, cackling, fluttering and squalling. This was a leetle too much for my cousin Jonathan. He seized a brush and pitched into the negro, chasing him around and around the wagon—scattering the chick ens and stampeding the mules, two of which run in one direction and two in another. My cousin Jonathan ordered Jack to catch one pair while he followed the others—so off they put for the mules, whose rattling chains and fearful snorts reverberated through the woods, and startled the wild denizens of the forest. My cousin ran until his breath was gone, and fell panting and foaming with rage and ex haustion. He lost sight of the mules, dark ness came on, and he hurried back to the camp, which he could not have found, had it not been for a glaring conflagration which met his eye, for tiie woods had caught fire and burnt up his wagon ! The negro and horses were never heard of—my poor cousin—said the Colonel, was ruined, and they do say there are wild chickens there to this da3 r ! Moral —Let well enough alone, and be ware of going YY r est. Dress in Church. Apparently the ladies who listen to the sermons of the Rev. Mr. Talmadge have not learned that black is the most fashioned color for church wear, for he declares that: There seems to be in the churches a great strife raging. It is an Austerlitz of ribbons. The carnage of color is seen all over our re ligious assemblages. Along on the outskirts of the Sabbath audiences you see here and there a picket of fashion, but down in the middle of the church are the solid columns blazing away through the service. Five hundred “ broken and contrite hearts/’ cov ered up in rainbows and spangles. Follow ers of the meek and lowty Nazarene” all a jingle and a-flash. Furthermore, he sa3 r s: We want a great ecclesiastical reformation in this matter of Sabbath accoutrement. Shoo these religious peacocks out of the house of God. By your example make sub dued and modest costume more popular than gaudy apparel. Do not put so much dry goods on your back that you can not climb into glory. You cannot sail into the harbor of heaven with such a rigging as that. They would level their guns at you as being a blockade-runner. Coining up to the celes tial door, the gate-keeper would cry, “Halt! you can not go in with such regimentals/’ And as you answered, “ I got those jewels from Tiffany and that dress from Arnold and Constable, these shoes from Burt’s,” the gate-keeper would say to one of the atten dants : “ Take this soul down to one of the out-houses, and tear off those puffs and ruffles and knife-plaitings and Hamburg em broideries, and put on her more appropriate Sunday attire ; for, going in as she now is, all Heaven would burst out a-laugliing ! ” Twelve bald-headed men were drawn on a jury at Cairo, and the Judge refused to go on the case until six of them were replaced by good and true men. lie said his court room could not be made a circus of, no how. „ The Keely Motor. The mechanical and * scientific world Is greatly excited by the discovery of anew motive power by J no. YV'. Keeley, of Phila delphia. It is generated, as the inventor claims, from cold water and air, and evolves into a vapor more powerful than steam, and considerable more economical. It is propos ed by this new invention to revolutionise the world and tarn machinery topsy turvy. The wonderful power of this creation will super sede the use of steam entirely. Ju3t what the vapor is and how it is made the discover er refuses to divulge until his invention is made sale from all the world by letters pat ents* The apparatus generating the power is called a multiplicator, composed of a num ber of iron chambers of cylindrical form, con nected b>' pipes and fitted with certain cocks and valves. The machine upon which expe riments have been made is 36 inches high, 24 long, and 13 wide, aud its cylinders will hold about six gallons of water. A small brass pipe, with an orifice one-quarter of an inch in diameter, leads from it to a strong wrought iron reservoir six inches in diameter and three feet long, wliei'e the power is kept, and whence it is fed to a beam engine through a still smaller pipe. The process of generat ing the power consists in forcing air into the upper chambers of the multiplicator', and afterward letting water run in from a hydrant until the receptacles are nearly filled. YY'ith iil two minutes after this operation is per formed the cocks in the tubs connecting the upper with the lower is ready for use. The little machine exerts through the small tube, one-eight of an inch in diameter, a pressure Varying from 2,000 to 15.000 pounds to the square inch, at will. Very thorough tests have been made by those interested in prob ing the my stery, to see if there was not some trick of concealed chemicals to generat e gas, and although various devices Were used to detect such tricks, not the smallest sign of such was discovered. An elaborate series of experiments were made by the most learn ed scientists and skilled engineers, and the results were printed in a pamphlet for the private information of the stockholders. The inventor talks about the multiplied power of li3 r draulic columns held in suspension, but gives no further explanation of the manner by which a pressure of twent3 r -six pounds to the square inch is increased to 15,000 pounds by merely passing through his iron cplinders. It is his secret, he says, and he will reveal it as soon as his patents in this and foreign coun tries are issued. A large capital has been enlisted for the invention, and Keely, who a few weeks ago was a poor man, is now in comparatively opulent circumstances.—Ex change, A Significant Catechism. Who built all our cities, our villages, every hamlet and cottage in the land?—Mechanics. Who built every ship, steamer, \ r cssel and water craft that floats on every ocean and plows on the surface of every river?—Me chanics. Who construct all the factories and work shops on the earth, and who run them?—Me chanics. Who construct all our lines of railroads, their locomotives and cars, the Pullman cars? Mechanics. Who make every instrument of music, from the organ down to the jewsharp?—Mechanics. Who make all agricultural implements for cultivating the soil, all nautical instruments for navigation of the ocean?—Mechanics. Who make all the magnificent furniture that ornaments the mansions of the rich— carpets, mantle ornaments, silver and china table service?—Mechanics. Y\ r ho make all the jewelry that adorn the persons of the ladies?—Mechanics. Y\ r hat would the civilized world be without Mechanics? A howling wilderness, and man a barbarian. We never think of this brave class of men, and the great work, without a sense of pro found gratitude pervading our whole nature. YY'e honor and revere them for their great achievements. Y\ r e cannot expect everyone to do so, however. Knife and Fork Flirtations. To drop your knife means: “I am badly bored.” To eat with your knife means : I am not posted.” T 6 drop your fork means : “I am desper atelyin love.” To wipe your knife on the table-cloth means : “ All right.” To stir your coffee with a fork means: “ I low sweet you are.” To] eat your soup with a fork means: “You are very beautiful.” To whet your knife on 3 r our fork means : “ You see I am sharp.” To cut j T our mouth with a knife means : “ I am very impatient.” To pick your teeth with a fork means : “ I am the pick of the lot.” To wipe your nose on a napkin means : “ I am making a fool of mj'self.” To drum on your plate with your knife and fork means : “I am almost crazy.” To scratch your head with a fork means : “ I itch for an acquaintance with you.” To dip your own knife into the butter means: “I am not very particular, you see.” To let your knife slip and splatter the gravy out of your plate means : “ I am ex- ceedingly happy to be here.” To draw the knife half way down your throat means : “I am enjoying myself very well, I thank you.” Just the Thing they Want. —By an or der from the Post Office department, separate pouches for registered letters will soon be placed on all the principal mail routes in the country. This will lie invaluable assistance to the mail robbers. Heretofore they have been obliged to carry off bags of unremunc rative letters, and with much care and toil fish out the letters that had money in them. An advertisement says what it is told to say, no more and no less. It can never mis represent. S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. NEWS BREVITIES. The total amount which the Freed men’s bank stole from the darkies is at last deter mined at $2,879,031, Ex-Gov. 7j. Ik Vance is generally named as the Democratic candidate for Governor of North Carolina, The indications arc that the new census of New York, now in progress, will not give that city a population of over a million. A heavy frost occurred in New England and the middle States, on the 14th. In some places milch damage was done. They had a slight touch of earthquake in Ohio, Friday, but look out for a snorter next October, when 'William Alien shakes ’em up. The Vicksburg IleraUl estimates that the wheat crop of Mississippi this year will bo equal to the crops of the last ten years com bined. The number of persons killed on the rail ways of Great Britain last 3’car was 1,425, and the number injured 5,050. There were 130 collisions of trains. Despise not small tilings. The production of poultry in the United States is not less than 250,000,000 pounds annually. Worth $50,000,000, and eggs worth as much more. The opinion at the Treasury is, from the present outlook, that it will be feasible to substitute silver for the fractional paper cur rency during the coming fall. The Freed men’s Savings Bank Commis sioners now soy that they will try and distri bute a dividend of 20 per cent, to the unfor tunate depositors next winter. A colored minister in Abbeville, S. C., who had been Beecherizing, submitted to a severe whipping from his parishoners and then left the country, rather than submit to a trial. Alfred Walker, (colored,) who murdered Rev. J, C. Miller, near Union C. 11., several months ago, after a fair trial, has been found guilty. And will be hung—it is hoped. In 1820, the average individual consump tion of wine in France, annually, was sixty two quarts; in 1853, eighty-four quarts; in 1869, 100 quarts, and in 1874, 217 quarts. Mr. S. L. Graham, of Hickman county, Ky., has a short horn cow that gave birth to a calf on or about the 25th of April, that weighed, tlyec hours after birth, 130 pounds. The Cincinnati Commercial says through out Southwest Ohio the farmers have plowed up barley and wheat and planted corn. One consequence is, the area in corn is unusually large. Commonly it is the husband who, dying, leaves a business for a spirited wife to con* tinue, but in Boston Henry C. Badger is ad vertised as carrying on a school founded by his Wife. A man in lowa obtained a divorce from his wife last fall and then hired her for a cook. Since that time she has had more new dresses and pin money than she ever poss essed as Mrs. . According to Rowell & Co.’s Newspaper Directory, there are eight thousand, three hundred and forty-eight magazines and news papers, at present, published in the United States and British America. Grantism is no longer a power in New England. The Republicans of that section were the last to admit the shortcomings of Grant’s administration, but they are now the most bitter of his opponents. Forty-six of the swords worn by Gen. War ren at the battle of Bunker Hill, together with ten of Col. Prescott’s hats, and sixteen of the enemy’s flags, were on exhibition at Boston, on Thursday, the 17th of June. It was a great day for relics. The story of the mysterious hand that was found a few months ago, growing out of a grave near Jackson, West Tennessee, is still goingthe rounds distorded as follows : “ Jack son, Miss., is just now excited about a mys terious hand. Five aces, probably.* There is a Granger in a certain town in this State who is so ‘ close” that he throws “imitation’ 1 -ham bones to his dog, and the animals, after gnawing the paint off, retire, deluded into the belief that they had partakeu of a square meal. —Savannah Advertiser. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rules that, after a property-holder has once built a pavement which meets the requirements of the law, no municipal corporation can compel him to replace it after being worn out. When the public use it up, the public must rebuild it. The Re'V. Dr. M. D. Iloge, Moderator of the Assembly; the Rev. Dr. Lefevre, of Balti more, and Dr. Stuart Robinson, (if Louisville, have been appointed delegates from the South ern church to the Council of the Presbyterian Confederation, to be held in London on the 21st of July. The meanest man in Chicago cuts the ac counts of the Beecher scandal out of the pa per every morning and hides them in the Bi ble, to keep his wife and mother-in-law from reading them. He says they never look in the book, and he tells them the dog chaws the paper full of holes. Advertisements work nights and Sundeys. NUMBER 4.