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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 “ SEND 50 CENTS FOR A YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION JLO THE “TYPOS GUIDE,” A VALUABLE PUBLI CATION TO ALL INTERESTED IN THE ART OF PRINTING. JOl W + RICHMOND > Vt T * *) FOUNDRY, M Xv-V, iaoo-1208 .Sff AT/r. the TYPE ON WHICH THIS PAPER IS PRINT ED WAS MADE AT THE RICHMOND TYPE FOUNDRY. june!2 Now is tlic Time to Subscribe!! PROSPECTUS \ OF THE FOREST NEWS, PUBLISHED IN JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA. Ily tlie Jackson County Publishing; Company. Fully believing that the material and social inte rests, not only of the people of Jackson, but of all the contiguous counties, would be greatly enhanc ed by the establishment of a printing office and publication of a newspaper at the county site, a number of citizens have associated themselves together under the name and style of “ The Jackson County Publishing Company,” And propose issuing on the 12th of June, a paper bearing the above title. Asa Political Organ, The “NEWS” will ever he found the exponent and defender of a high standard of Democracy— founded on those principles of State Rights and State Sovereignty, which, though now fettered by the chains of tyranny and despotism, are hound, at no distant day—under the guidance of a benifi cent Providence—to burst asunder the shackles of imperious usurpation, and shining forth more luminous and effulgent than ever, will add fresh lustre to the political firmament of the “New World.” It will be the constant endeavor of those having charge of the columns, editorially and otherwise, of the “FOREST NEWS,” to make it a “NEWSPAPER,” In the broadest meaning and acceptation of the term ; and in addition to the “General News of the Day,” the state of the markets and other commercial intelligence, in a condensed form, such Political, Literary and Agricultural matter will be introduced from week to week as will tend to make the paper a most entertaining and welcome guest in every family to which it may find access: while, at the same time, the most scrupulous care will be exercised in preventing the appearance in the paper, of anything at which the most refined and delicate taste could take offence. Further detail is deemed unnecessary; suffice it to say, that it is the intention, as far as possible, of those having charge of this enterprise, to con duct it in such a style—in manner and matter—as to reflect credit on the people of Jackson as a whole, and to confer honor on the “ Grand Old Commonwealth” of which Northeast Georgia is so important a part and parcel. Especial attention will be given to the chronicling of Local Events And occurrences, and also to the dissemination of such facts and statistics as will have a tendency to developc the resources, mineral and otherwise, not only of this immediate section, but of “Upper Georgia” generally. Asa medium through which to ADVERTISE, THE FOREST NEWS is respectfully commend 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. o 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. O 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.