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POETICAL.
’Twas in a restaurant we met—
T still recall the frlancc she gave,
Ami how enthralled I was, as if
That glance has made my soul her slave.
llow quick she turned and deeply blushed,
As if she would avoid my eye :
And hung her head and went to work
Upon a plate of chicken pie.
How more and more confused she grew,
It was iny duty sad to note,
Until with snch dispatch she ate,
A chicken-hone stuck in her throat.
How, then, she started, choked and gagg’d,
I never, never can forget,
And dropped her teeth—l think they were
At least a fifty-dollar set.
So paled my hopes as pales the light
That Fancy lends her fairy scenes—
She grabbed her ivories up and fled,
And I resumed my pork and beans.
PACTS AND FANCIES.
- “ Send me a letter of true inwardness or a
paroxysmal kiss”—writes a gushing lover.
“Oh, my dear wife,” said John Ilemy, as
Ve paid the milliner s bill.
Some girls are angry when you tell them
you love them—others angrier if you don’t.
' A miss is as good as a mile—as good as
two or three miles, in fact, if she is pretty,
and it’s a moonlight night.
“ Don’t you wish we could come back to
hard money, Tom?” “Well, John, not to
any that'll be harder to git 1”
A certain young lady is so modest, that she
will not permit the Christian Observer to re
main in her room over night.
You will never find a man out until he owes
you, and you go to collect that little bill;
then you can always find him out.
Why is a drunkard like a bad politician?
Because he is always poking his nose into
measures that spoil the constitution.
A confectionery is out in Philadelphia styled
“ Centennial kisses.” The ladies, however,
prefer their kisses not quite so old.
An itch for office does not always lead to a
niche in the temple of fame. This is intend
ed to be humorous.
The pinafore has now become the pin be
hind. If ladies will persist in this style of
dress, why not use an elastic band instead of
a pin, and sit down comfortably.
If you think the pull-back style of dress
for ladies is meritorious because it looks
scant, and therefore inexpensive, just get
married and pay for a few such garments.
A Schenectady girl, at a spelling school,
sat down on “ pantaloons.” This happens
here often, and yet it never gets into the pa
pers.
The compositor who substituted an “m”
for a “ w,” in speaking of a lady troubled
with “ swelling of the feet,” accomplished the
worst typographical feet on record.
The following definition is pretty fair :
“ Legislative Assembly—a circus, where each
of the performers rides his own hobby, and
takes his part at pla3’ing the clown.
“ I should like to know.” said a creditor
fiercely, “ when are you going to pay me what
you owe me?” “I give it up,” said the debt
or ; “ ask me an easy one.”
In his letter to the Pennsylvania Republi
can Convention, Grant says : “ Now for the
third term. Ido not want it any more than
I did first.” Lor’ bless you, honey, of cour.sc
you don't—how could you?— Shreveport Times.
A correspondent writes : “Will you please
inform a subscriber where Gen. Logan was
wounded?” We are not positively certain,
but we are quite sure it was not in the jaw.—
Chicago Times ,
A bachelor recently made a will, leaving
his entire fortune to be divided among the
girf who had refused him. “ For to them,”
he added, feelingly, “I owe all my earthly
happiness.”
A Vision of the Future.—Fond Mamma :
“Suppose, Arnold, I should die, and papa
married another mamma, what would you
do?” Dutiful son: “Oh! I should go to
the wedding.”
“ Oil, my friends,” exclaimed a temperance
orator, “that I had a window in my heart,
that you might look in and see the truth of
what I tell you !” “Wouldn’t a pain in your
stomach do just as well?” asked a small boy.
The bottom lias not dropped out of every
thing yet. We are sure of it, for we recently
sat down down on a wood-bottomed chair, on
which a tack was standing on its head. We
immediately arose with renewed confidence
in our agility.
Grant's third-terra letter reminds one of the
skeptics of the Widow liedott's remonstrance
Uncle Keziah offered to kiss her : “ No,
sir !” said the lady, with virtuous indignation :
“ not unless you are stronger than I am—and
I know you are/’
Forney writes home that Adam died of
gout, but Forney has been imposed upon by
some unscrupulous Arabian fable-maker.—
Adam died from chronic grief, brought on by
a cankering consciousness that nobody had
ever presented him with a gold-headed um
brella.
A man in Ohio, who was daily looking for
an event in his family, took a solemn vow
that if it was a boy, he’d quit chewing tobac
co and drinking. It came three girls, and
he drank himself into delirium tremens in a
week, and jumped out of a sixth-story win
dow.
A man came out of a tax-office the other
day, and exhibiting an empty pocket-book to
a friend, gloomily observed : “Bill, where's
the altar of our country? I want to find it.”
“ What for?” asked the other in some aston
ishment. “ Well, I want to lay that pocket
book on it.”
If a lady wears a three-story hat to the
theatre, is it etiquette for the gentleman who
sits behind her to climb up and roost on the
back of his seat ? Or must he bob his head
from side to side, to catch furtive glimpses
of the stage around her head? Will some
modem Chesterfield answer.
“ Did you like the sermon, love?” asked a
pious wife of a heathen husband on their way
home from church. “Well, my dear, to tell
the truth,” he said, “ I didn't pay much at
tention to the sermon, but, from the sweet ex
pression of the parson's face, I should say he
was a man who wouldn’t have to be asked
twice to take a drink.”
A boy once asked of his father who it was
that lived next door to him, and when he
heard the name, inquired if he was a fool.—
“ No, my little one, he is not a fool, but a
very sensible man * but why did you ask the
ifluestion?” “Because,” replied the boy,
r. mother said the other day that you were
next door to a fool.”
STORY COLUMN.
WAS SHE A BRICK.
It was one of the handsomest packets on
the river, and among the passengers bound
for Vicksburg were a Georgian and his wife,
who have relatives in Misissippi.
lie was a large-sized, handsome-looking
man, and she was a pleasant-looking little
woman, with blue eyes and short chestnut
curls. One would have said that she would
have screamed at a tilt of the boat.
lie sat smoking with a gentleman after
she had retired to her state-room, and the
cabin was entirely clear of ladies when some
one proposed a game of cards. In ten min
utes aLer, half a dozen men were shuffling
cards over cabin tables, and the Georgian
was matched against a stranger to all oil
lioard. He was a quiet, courteous, well-dress
ed man, and had been taken for a traveler
in search of health. He was lucky with his
cards, but he did not propose playing for
stakes. It was the nettled Georgian who
proposed it. He called himself a champion
liand at iioker, and when he found that he
had met his equal he determined to test the
stranger’s financial mettle.
They had fifty dollars on the table when
the Captain looked into the cabin. He
caught the Georgian’s eye and gave him to
understand that his opponent was a river
black-leg, but the other gentlemen had drop
lied their cards and crowded around, money
was up, and the information had come too
late. Besides, the Georgian was doing well
enough, and he flattered himself that he
could teach the courteous black-leg a lesson.
It was a very quiet group around the ta
ble, and after the play had continued for fif
teenpninutesthe gentlemen spoke in whispers,
and some of them were reminded of old times
on the Mississippi, svhen gamblers had the
full run of every boat.
The Georgian had luck with him from the
start, and while he looked smiling and con
fident the gambler appeared to grow excited
and uneasy. 11 is money was raked across
the table until the Georgian had S2OO in
greenbacks before him. The stakes had been
light up to this time, both men seeming to
fear each other’s skill. The Georgian pro
posed to increase them, the gambler agreed.
In ten minutes the latter has his S2OO back.
Luck had turned. The Georgian lost S2O ;
then SSO ;then SBO ; then SIOO.
The gambler’s face wore a quiet smile—
the Georgian became nervous. His hands
trembled as he held up the cards, and his
face was wet with moisture.
!’ Come gentlemen ! said one of the group,
let’s have a general hand for amusement and
then turn in.”
The Georgian looked up with a fixed glance,
and replied:
“ I have lost S4OO ; he must give me a
fair show ! ”
The play went on. The heap of green
backs at the gambler's right hand grew lar
ger. Once in awhile the Georgian won, but.
he lost $lO for every one gained. He final
ly laid down his cards, pulled a roll of bills
from a breast-pocket, and counted out S3OO.
That was his pile. In less than ten minutes
every dollar of it had been added to the
gambler’s heap.
“Gentlemen, will you smoke?” asked
the gambler, as he turned around and drew
his cigar case.
They knew his true character in spite of
his disguise, and they refused.
“I am sorry for my friend,” he contin
ued, biting at the end of a cigar, but you
will agree that the play was fair.”
The Georgian had passed out on the prom
enade deck. The gambler turned to his
stack of bills and was counting them when
there was a sharp exclamation, the sounds of
a brief struggle, and the little woman with
blue eyes and chestnut curls entered the
cabin. She was half undressed, a shawl
thrown over her shoulders, and she had a
revolver in her hand.
No one had seen her leave her state-room
and cross the cabin. No one knew that her
husband had the revolver in his hand as she
softly came upon him. “Go back! ” he
whispered—“ I am coming in a moment.”
With swift motion she seized the weapon,
and wrenched it from his grasp, and as she
came down the cabin to the table at which
half a dozen men yet lingered, her blue eyes
were full of fire.
The gambler looked up.
The hammer of the revolver came up with
double click.
A white arm stretched out, and the muzzle
of the revolver looked straight into the gam
bler’s face.
He turned pale ; the men fell back.
For half a minute the deep silence was
broken only Ivy the faint splash of the paddle
wheels.
“ Go ! ” she said.
He rose up and reached for the money,
“ Leave it! ” she whispered, making a
threatening motion with the revolver.
He retreated back.
She followed.
Foot by foot he flanked across the cabin,
the muzzle of the revolver always on a line
with his face. He backed through the door
on to the promenade deck, and the railing
was there.
“Jump ! ” she whispered.
The boat was running along within three
hundred feet of the shore. Over the rail to
the water was a terrible leap.
“ You can have the money ! ” he said.
“ Jump ! ” she repeated.
“ I will not! ”
The arm came up a little, and the light
from the cabin showed him a cold, strange,
determined look on her face. He turned
about, shivered, and was over the rail, leap
ing far out and unable to surpress a cry of
alarm as he felt himself going down.
The boat swept along, her arm fell, and
re-entering the cabin, she sat down, leaned
her head on the table and wept bitterly.
The passengers said she was a “ brick.”
Was she ?— Vicksburg Herald.
A farmer called at the house of a lawyer to
consult him professionally. “Is t’ squeer at
home ?” he enquired of the lawyer’s wife,
He was answered negatively. After a mo
ment's hesitation a thought relieved him.
“ Mebby yourself can gi' me information as
well as t’ squeer, as ye’re his wife ?” The
kind lady promised to do so if she found it in
her power, and the other proceeded as fol
lows : “ Spoaze 3’e were an old white mear,
an’ I should borry ye to gwang to mill with
grist on ver back, an’ we should go no farder
than Stair Ilill, when all at once ye should
back up and rear up and pitch up and kneel
down backwared, and break yer darned old
neck, who’d pay for ye ? Not I—darn me if
I would!”
The lady smilingly told him, as she closed
the door, that as he had himself settled the
case, advice would be superfluous.
Unlike most drummers, advertisements
work accurately.
THE POULTRY-YARD.
Carbolic Acid and Poultry.
Of the many discoversies which science
has given to the present age, no article has
so rapidly grown into favor as carbolic acid
—a product of the distillation of tar for the
production of naphtha, benzole, etc. Its chem
ical properties are numerous ; it is alike an
antiseptic and disinfectant, and, too, when
ever and wherever brought into contact with
them, is certain death to all kinds of insects.
It is a poisou, but only moderately so to the
human system ; yet from some peculiarity of
its nature is intensely destructive to insect life.
And to this point, in connection with poultry
and poultry-houses, we desire to direct the
attention of our readers.
All amateur and poultry breeders are but
too well aware that parasites arc the pests
of poultry-houses, more especially in towns
and cities, where poultry are kept within con
fined limits. Without, as the owner thinks,
any real cause, the fowls begin to droop and
look sickly, and after a while one by one die
off. lie then becomes alarmed ; examines them
dnd finds them covered with parasites ; he
looks into his fowl house and examines the
creaks in the boards, and finds them filled
with insects'. lie is astonished ; he cannot ac
count for it; and then the question arises in
his mind: llow can I get rid of them ?
Scores of times within the last few months has
this question been asked of us, and our answer
invariably has been, use carbolic acid.
But how to use it is a matter of importance.
There can be no doubt about its efficacy,
but it becomes ever3 7 one to exercise care in
handling it. The acid is sold bj 7 all druggists
in its crystalline and liquid form. In crystals,
it dissolves in twenty times its weight of
water, that is, an ounce of the crystals requires
twenty ounces of water to dissolve them.
Thus dissolved, it is entirely too strong for
any ordinary use. Dr. Emerson gives recipes
for preparing this powder for disinfecting
and others purposes. Asa whitewash for walls,
for protection against insects, bugs, etc., he
sa\m : “Put three ounces of carbolic acid
into twelve quarts of lime water or whitewash.
Whitewash the walls of the poultry house
well with this wash, and no living parasites
will be seen—their death is inevitable. A
weak solution may be made to wash fowls
in ; one part of the acid to fifty parts of warm
water; let it cool, then dip the fowls in until
the feathers become thoroughly wet and the
solution reaches all parts of the body. Af
terwards place the fowls on clean, dry straw,
where the sun will reach, until they are dry.
Another form in which it is recommended to
use it is in soap. These soaps are for sale by
various manufacturers, and have a high repu
tation for cleansing animals and the cure of
skin diseases. A mode of making this soap
is as follows : Dissolve eight pounds com
mon bar soap in hot water, add two to four
ounces of carbolic acid, according to the
desired strength. Allow to cool as usual in
making hard soap. As these preparations
may be bought ready prepared, and as car
bolic acid is by no means a safe article to
keep about the house, we would advise persons
to buy rather than attempt to make them, ex
cept in the case of whitewash, when they must
get the pure article and dilute it.— Canadian
Poultry Chronicle.
Gapes in Chickens.
Eds. N. Y. Day Book: One word through
the columns of 3 T our valuable paper, in repl3 7
to your lady, correspondents of Amenia, New
York, and Decatur, Illinois, with regard to
the gapes in chickens. “Mary 11.,” of Am
enia. in 3’our paper of August 25th, says
that an “ ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure,” which is the fact of the case.
Her theory of prevention, however, is different
from mine. She proposes to prevent chickens
having the gapes by giving them proper feed,
which cannot be done. My method of preven
tion is b} 7 keeping fowls free from lice. If
fowls are lousy, the chickens will have the
gapes, it matters not what you feed them. If
the fowls are not lousy, the chickens will not
have the gapes. From these deductions we
conclude that it is the lice and not the feed
which produce gapes in chickens. Our Illi
nois correspondent sa3 7 s that gapes in chickens
are occasioned by small red worms in the
winpipe, which is also the fact. Those
worms are produced there by the lice that
crawl from the hen upon the chickens, thence
into their ears and nose, and in from five
to ten da} r s hatch out multitudes of small red
worms, and as they grow in size, thay effec
tually close the air passage to the lungs, and
the chicken is choked to death. Our 111. cor
respondent sa3’s she knows of no cure except
by worming them with a feather or spear of
blue grass. In this vicinity the cutting the
winbpipe open with a sharp penknife and ta
king out the worms which are frequently found
in bunches or knots, sufficiently large to fill
the cavity in the windpipe, is a remedy often
rosorted to. I think the disease may be re
medied in a measure when the chickens have
attained some little growth, by feeding tansy
or wormwood cut very fine and mixed with
Indian meal. When wet the meal sticks to
the tansy, and the chickens eat it voraciously
when hungry. I have had whole broods cured
in a week or ten da} 7 s by using this kind of feed.
Yours respectful^ 7 , J. M. V.
He Was Thar Too.
In the times when the political war fare
between the whigs and democrats waxed hot
and relentless, there was a town out west in
which the two parties were so equal in num
ber that the variation of single vote, one way
or the other, might be a matter of the most
serious consequenee. Of course on both
sides sharp e} r es were open and watchful.
A young man came to the polling place on
elction day and offered his vote. It was his
first appearance in the character of an elector,
and he had the independence, or audacity, to
differ politically with, his father. His father
challenged his vote.
“ On what grounds ?” demanded the pre
siding officer.
“ He ain’t twenty-one.”
“ I am twenty-one,” asserted the youth.
“No you ain’t,” persisted the father; “ you
won’t be twenty-one till to-morrow.”
“ I say I will,” cried the youth. “ I was
bom on the 12th day of November. It is
down so in the old bible.”
“ Then it’s a dod-rotted mistake,” said the
old man. “ You weren’t bom till the mom
in’ of the 13th of November, l ean swear.”
“ How can you swear ? ”
“ How ? ” repeated the father, indignant
ly. “ Goodness gracious ! wasn’t I thar ? ”
“ Well,” returned the son, with proud defi
ance, “ wasn’t I thar, too ? ”
The young man voted.
A lecturer, wishing to explain to a little
girl the manner in which a lobster casts its
shell when he lias outgrown it, said : “ What
do you do when you have outgrown your
clothes ? You throw them aside, don’t you ? ”
“Oh no! ” replied the little one; “we let
out the tucks.”
SUNDAY READINGS
Is Your Lamp Burning 7
Eds. Columbus Inquirer: In one of the
devotional meetings of the Young Men’s
Christian Association Convention, held in
Dayton, Ohio, June 24-28th, 1874, Col. C.
W. Lovelace, of Selma, Alabama, repeated,
in a very appropriate manner, the following
beautiful verses. In sending them to you for
publication, I regret that I am not able to
give the author's name. lota.
Is your lamp burning, my brother?
I pray you look quickly and see ;
For, if it were burning, then surely
Some beams would fall bright upon me.
Straight, straight, is the road, but I falter,
And oft I fall out by the way ;
Then hold your lamp higher, my brother,
Lest I should make fatal delay.
There are many and many around you,
JTho follow wherever you go;
If you thought that they walked in your shadow,
Your lamp would burn brighter, I know.
Upon the dark mountain they stumble ;
They are bruised on the rocks, and they lie
IF ith their white, pleading faces turned upward,
To the clouds and the pitiful sky.
There is many a lamp that is lighted,
IFe see them anear and afar,
But not many among them, my brother,
Shine steadily on like a star.
I think, if they were trimmed night and morn
ing,
They would never burn down or go out,
Even though, from the four-quarters of heaven,
The winds were all blowing about.
If once all the lamps that are lighted,
IFould steadily blaze in a line,
JFide o’er the land and the ocean,
IF hat a girdle of glory would shine !
How all the dark places would brighten !
llow the mists would roll up and away !
How the earth would laugh out in her gladness,
To hail the millennial day !
Say! is your lamp burning, my brother?
I pray you look quickly and see;
For, if it were burning then surely
Some beams would fall bright upon me.
“God will Take Care of You, my Son.”
A gentleman walking along one of the
streets of Philadelphia, was accosted by a
boy who pleaded for a penny. The gentle
man was at first inclined to send him away,
but something in the boy’s look forbade that,
so he asked. “ What do you want to do
with a penny ? ”
“ Buy bread, sir,” was promptly answered.
“ Have you had nothing to eat to-day ? ”
“ Nothing, sir.” “ Boy, are you telling me
the truth?” asked the gentleman, looking
him in the face. “ Indeed I am, sir.” “Have
3 r ou a father ? ” questioned the gentleman,
now thoroughly interested in the boy. “ No,
sir ; father is dead.” “ Where is yonr mo
ther ? ” “ She died last night, Come with
me, and I will show you where my mother
is.”
Taking the hand of the boy, the gentleman
followed his guide down a narrow alley, and
stopped before a miserable place which the
boy called home. Pushing open the door,
he pointed to his dead mother, and said,
“ There is my mother, sir.” “ Who was with
your mother when she died.” asked the gen
tleman, deeply moved. “ Nobody but me,
sir.” “ Did your mother say anything before
she died?” “l r es, sir; she said, ‘God will
take care of you, my son.’”
Sooner than this dying mother had dared
to hope, God had honored her faith by send
ing to her son on whose heart was touched
with tenderest pity for his condition. The
gentleman was a Christian, to whom God
had entrusted much of this world's goods,
and the little orphan was kindly cared for
by him.
God in his word is called the helper of the
fatherless. lie has said that none of them
that trust in him shall be desolate, and it is
safe to trust in his promises.— American
Messenger.
Good Counsel.
My advice is that you endeavour to be
honestly rich or contentedly poor; but be
sure that your riches be honestly gained, or
you will spoil all. For it is well said by
Caussin, “He that loses his conscience,
has nothing left that is worth keeping.”
Therefore be sure you look to that.
And, in the next place, look to your health ;
if you have it, praise God, and value it next
to a good conscience, for health is the second
blessing that we mortals are capable of, a
blessing that money cannot buy, therefore
value it, and be thankful for it.
As for money, which may be said to be the
third blessing, neglect it not, but note there
is no necessity for being rich, for there are
as many miseries beyond riches as on this
side of them ; and if you have a competence,
enjoy it with a meek, cheerful, thankful
heart.— Good Words.
Human beings, like seeds, are valuable,
as far as they have the power of growing and
bringing forth fruit, and the most common
place character whose hopes and ideas are
limited to the most ordinary round of daily
duty and kindness, who bring forth his fruit
in due season, is more precious to the Mas
ter than a genius who aspires to benefit the
whole human race, but whose talents remain
wrapped up in a napkin, and whose hopes
and aspirations never bring forth either flow
er or fruit of righteous work.
Legal Weight.
The following is the Legal Weight of a
bushel, as fixed an Act of the General As
sembly, approved February 20th, 1875 :
Wheat, .... 60 pounds.
Shelled Corn, 56 “
Ear Corn, ... • 70 “
Peas, - ... 60 “
Rye, - ... 56 “
Oats, 32 “
Barley - - - - 47 “
Irish Potatoes, - • - 60 “
Sweet Potatoes, - 55 “
White Beans, • - - 60 “
Clover Seed, - 60 “
Timothy, - - - 45 “
Flax, - - • 56 “
Hemp, - - 44 “
Blue Grass, - - 14 “
Buck Wheat, - - 52 “
Unpeeled dried Peaches, * - 33 “
Peeled dried Peaches, 38 “
Dried Apples, - - . 24 “
Onions, - - - 57 “
Stone Coal, - - 80 “
Unslaked Lime, - * 80 “
Turnips, - - • 55 “
Corn Meal, - - - 48 “
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ed to the attention of Business and Professional
men, Farmers, Mechanics and Working-men of all
classes. Its circulation will be principally among
an enterprising people whose wants are diversified,
and those who wish to buy or those who wish to
sell—either at home or abroad—in village, town,
city, or the “Great Trade Centres,” will find the
columns of the “ NEWS” an appropriate and invi
ting channel through which to become acquainted
with the people of this section of the country.
As an inducement to all those who desire to avail
themselves -of the advantages herein offered, a
Liberal Schedule
Of Advertising Rates will be found in the proper
place, to which the attention of all interested
are most respectfully invited.
Terms of Subscription,
$2.00 Per Annum. SI.OO For Six months.
Address all communications, &c., intended
for publication, and all letters on business to
MALCOM STAFFORD,
Managing and Business Editor ,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos., Ga.
June 12th, 1875.
J&STAII kinds of Leather and Lumber, kept
constantly on hand and for sale by
June 12 J. E. & H. J. RANDOLPH.
JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
PROFESSIONS.
Physicians... J. D. & H. J, Long, J. J, D os .
ter, N. W. Carithers.
Atty's at Law...J. B. Silman, W. I. Pike
J. A. B. Mahaffey, W. C. Howard, M. M. Pitman’
P. F. Hinton. ’
MERCHANTS.
Pendergrass & Hancock, F. M, Bailey, Stanley
& Pinson, Wm. S. Thompson.
MECHANICS.
Carpenters... Joseph P. Williamson, Sen’rj
J. P. Williamson, Jr.
Harness Maker... John G. Oakes.
Wagon Makers. .. Wm. Winbum, Monroe
Ray, (col.)
Buggy Maker...L. Gilleland.
Blacksmith. ..C. T. Story.
Tinner... John H. Chapman.
Tanners... J. E. & 11. J. Randolph.
Boot and Shoe-Makers...N. B. Stark, Sea
born M. Stark.
HOTELS.
Randolph House, by Mrs. Randolph.
North-Eastern Hotel, by John Simpkins.
Public Boarding House, by Mrs. Elizabeth
Worsham.
Liquors, Segars, &e...J. L. Bailey.
Grist and Saw-Mill and Gin,..*J. D. & H,
J. Long.
Saw-Mill and Gin...F. S. Smith.
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COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECTORY.
Martin Institute. —J. W. Glenn, Principal; S,
P. Orr, Assistant; Miss M. E. Orr, Assistant;
Miss Lizzie Burch, Music.
Centre Academy. —L. M. Lyle, Principal.
Galilee Academy. —A. L. Barge, Principal.
Harmony Grove Academy. —R. S. Cheney, Prin
cipal.
Murk Academy. —J. H. McCarty, Principal.
Oak Grove Academy — Mrs. A. C. P. Itiden,
Principal.
Academy Church. —J. J. Mitchell. Principal.
Duke Academy. —Mrs. H. A. Deadwyler, Prin
cipal.
Park Academy. —Miss Y. C. Park, Principal.
Chapel Academy. —W. 11. Hill, Principal.
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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE J)F MAILS.
Athens mail arrives at Jefferson on Wednes
days and Saturdays, at 10 o’clock, A. M., and de
parts same days at 12 o’clock, M.
Gainesville mail arrives at Jefferson on Wednes
days and Saturdays, at 11 o’clock, A.M., and de
parts same days at 12 o'clock, M.
Lawrencevifle mail arrives at Jefferson on Satur
days, at 12 o’clock, M, and departs same day at 1
o’clock, P. M.
F. L. Pendergrass, Dep’y P. M.
Useful Information for the Millions.
A note dated on Sunday is void.
A note obtained by fraud, or from one intoxi
cated, cannot he collected.
If a note be lost or stolen, it docs not release
the maker; he must pay it.
An endorser of a note is exempt from liability if
not served with notice of its dishoner within
twenty-four hours of its non-payment.
A note made by a minor is void.
Notes bear legal interest except when otherwise
stipulated.
Principals are responsible for their agents.
Each individual in a partneship is responsible for
the whole amount of the debts of the firm.
Ignorance of the law excuses no one.
It is a fraud to conceal a fraud.
The law compels no one to do impossibilities.
An agreement without consideration is void.
Signatures in lead-pencil are good in law.
A receipt for money is not legally conclusive.
The act of one partner bind all the others.
Contracts made on Sunday cannot be enforced.
A contract made with a minor is void.
A contract made with a lunatic is void.
To ascertain the length of day and night.—At
any time in the year, add 12 hours to the time M
the sun’s setting, and from the sum substraet Hit
time of rising, for the length of the day, Snbtnrt
the time of setting from 12 hours, and to the
remainder add the time of rising the next morn
ing. for the length of night. This rule is true ef
either apparent or mean time.
RURAL DIVINITIES.
Flora — The goddess of Flowers.
Pan —The god of Shepherds and Hunters; fa
mous for his whistling which fatigued him so much,
that be invented pipes to blow on,
Plutus —The god of Riches; represented with
wings.
Pomona —The goddess of Orchards and Fruit-1
trees.
DOMESTIC POSTAGE.
Newspapers, Magazines, and Periodical's 5
sent from a known office of publication,* or by J
newsdealers 1 to actual subscribers, postage to be
prepaid in bulk by publishers and newsdealers, at
office of mailing, and go free to subscribers.
Letters 3 cents each \ oz.; Drop Letters at let. ..i
ter-carrier office. 2 cents ; Drop Letters at non
letter-carrier offices, 1 cent.
Transient matter embracing newspapers. *
circulars, and other printedbnatter, seeds. cuttings,
bulbs, roots and seions, books, merchandise and
samples, 1 cent for each 2 oz. Registered Letters f
8 cents in addition to regular postage.
Post-Office Money Orders. —Attention is
called to the Money Order system, as a safe and
cheap method of transmitting money through the
mails. Orders are issued in sums of not more
than fifty dollars. Larger sums can be i
transmitted by additional Orders. On Orders not *
exceeding $lO, 5 cents ; over $lO and not exceed
ing S4O, 20 cents; over S4O and not exceeding SSO,
25 cents.
INTEREST RULES.
For finding*the interest on any principal for bt
number of days. The answer in each case beinp
in cents, separate the two right hand figures ol g
answer to express in dollars and cents :
Four per cent.—Multiply the principal by the
number of days to run ; seperate right-hand figure
from product, and divide by 9.
Five per cent.—Multiply by number of days,
and divide by 72.
Six per cent.—Multiply by number of days,
seperate right-hand figure, and divide by 6.
Eight per cent. —Multiply by number of days,
and divide by 45.
Nine per cent.—Multiply by number of days, J
seperate right-hand figure, and divide by 4.
Ten per cent.—Multiply by number of days,
and divide by 36.
Twelve per cent.—Multiply by number of days,
seperate right hand figure, and divide by 3.
Fifteen per cent. —Multiply by number of days,
and divide by 24.
Eighteen per cent.—Multiply by number of days,
seperate right-hand figure, and divide by 2.
Twenty per cent. —Multiply by number of days,
and divide Dy 18.
Twenty-four per cent.—Multiply by number 0
days, and divide by 15.
USEFUL TABLE EOR FARMERS.
4 inches make one hand.
56 lbs. Corn make one bushel.
56 lbs. Rye make one bushel.
60 lbs. Wheat make one bushel.
60 lbs. Clover Seed make one bushel.
196 lbs. Flour make one barrel.
200 lbs. Beef or Pork makes one bbl.
32 lbs. Oats make one bushel.
60 lbs. Potatoes make one bushel.
14 pounds make one stone.
3 miles make one league.
6 feet make one fanthom.
A perch of stone is 16 J feet long, feet thick
and 1 foot high, or 24f cubic feet.
A mile is 320 rods—l,76o yards—s,2Bo
63,360 inches.
An acre is 4,840 square yard—43,s6o squ* fi
feet—6,272,640 square inches.
COUNTING.
12 units are one dozen.
12 dozen one gross.
20 units one score.
5 scores one hundred.
PAI’ER.
24 sheets one quire.
20 quires one reams
2 reams one bundle.
5 bundles one bale.
Recipes. —To drive cabbage worms awav. r* ;
China tree leaves on them. To kill lice on the
take one gallon of ashes, three spoonsful of A.
and one of sulphur; mix and sprinkle it on tf* 1 ' 1
twe with dew. A sure remedy.