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JA on sox svi'eh ion cor nr.
Hon. CKO. D. RICK, - - - Judge.
EMORY SPEER, Esq., - - Sol. Gen’l.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
M IhF,\ C. HOWARD, - Ordinary.
TIIOS. H. M BLACK, - - - Clerk S. Court.
JOHN S. HUNTER, ------ Sheriff.
WINN A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy “
I. J. JOHNSON, ----- Treasurer.
JAMES L. WILLIAMSON. - - Tax Collector.
GKO. W. BROWN. ------ Receiver.
•TAMES L. .JOHNSON, - - County'Surveyor.
MM.\\ A FLACK, - - - Coroner.
G. J. N. \\ ILSON, County School Commiss'r.
(’< >MMISSIONEIIS (RoAI>S A Nl> R EVENUE.)—WiII.
Seymour. W. Haynie, W. G. Steed. Meet on
the Ist Fridays in August and November. 'l'. IF.
Niblack, Esq., Clerk.
m i ats fn. t res axn n ail tffs.
•TefFerson District, Xo. 215. X. 11. Pendergrass,
•hi*.; H. T. Flceman, 3. P. John M. Burns,
Constable.
Clarkesliorough District, No. 242, F. M. 1 lolli
dav, .J. P.; M. B. Smith, .J. P.
.filler's District. No. 455, 11. F. Kidd, J. P.
Chandler’s District, No. 246, Ezekiel Hewitt,
J. P. ; J. fl. Burson, J. P.
Randolph’s District, No. 248, Pinckney P.
Pirkle, J. P.; .Jas. A. Stravnge, .J. P.
Cunningham's District. No. 428, J. A. Brazle
ton, J. I'.; T. K. Randolph, J. P.
Newtown District, No. 253, G. W. O’Kelly, J.
I*.: T. J. Stapler, Not. Pub. A Ex. Off. J. P.
Minnish’s District, No. 255. Z. W. Hood. J. P.
Harrisburg District, No. 257, Wm. M. Morgan,
J. P.; J. W. Pruitt, J. P.
House's District, No. 243, A. A. Hill, J. p.
Santa fee District, No. 1042, W. R. Boyd, J. P.
S. <L Arnold. J. P.
A ilson's District, No. 4G5, W. .J. Comer, J. P.
FRA TERN A L DIRECTORY.
I nity Lodge, No. 36, F. A. M., meets Ist Tues
day in each month. 11. \Y. Bell, W. M.;
John Simpkins, Sec")'.
hove Lodge, No. 65, T. O. O. F., meets on 2d
an, l Atli Tuesday nights in each month. J. 11. Sil
m:U1 ' N. G.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec'y.
Stonewall Lodge. No. 214, 1. 0. G. T.. meets on
Saturday night before 2d rtnd 4th Sundays in each
month. .). I*. Williamson, Sr., W. C. TANARUS.: J. 11.
I‘endergrass, W. R. S.
-Teflerson Grange, No. 48$, P. of IT., meets on
oat unlay before 4th Sunday in each month. Jas.
R. Randolph, M.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec’y.
Relief (colored) Fire Company. No. 2, meets on
4th I uesday night in each month. Henry Long,
Captain; Ned Bums, Sec’y.
COUNT Y CJU RCH DIR ECTOR Y.
METHODIST.
JtjLrxon Circuit. —Jefferson. Harmony Grove,
r . v Pond, Wilson’s, Holly Springs. W\ A. Far
ris. p. c.
Nnlherry Circuit. —Ebenezer, Betjilehem, Con-
Crtr d. Centre and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. A. L.
Anderson, P. C.
Chapel and Antioch supplied from Watkins
vdle Circuit.
PRESBYTER I AX.
I hyatira, Rev. G. 11. Cartledgc, Pastor ; Sandy
reek. Rev. Neil Smith. Pastor; Pleasant Grove,
[yv. H. Cartledgc, Pastor: Mizpah, Rev. Neil
femith. Pastor.
BAPTIST.
Cabin Creek, W. R. Goss, Pastor; Harmony
\!r°vc, V • R. J, Hardeman. Pastor; Zion, Rev.
”11. Bridges, Pastor; Bethabra, Rev. J. M.
avis. Pastor; Academy, Rev. J. N. Coil. Pastor ;
alnut. Rev. .J. M. Davis, Pastor; Crooked
reek, \\ .F. Stark. Pastor; Oconee Church, Rev.
a' i> Kelle y, Pastor; Poplar Springs. Rev. W.
i aStor ’ Kandler ' s Greek, W. F. Stark,
PROTESTANT METHODIST,
entecost, Rev. R. S. McGarrity, Pastor.
.. “ CHRISTIAN.”
ethany ( hureh, l)r. F. Jackson, Pastor.
iH istnui ( Impel, Elder W. T. Lowe, Pastor,
uudee, Elder P. F. Lamar, Pastor.
r , , I ,.,, FI I RS 'r UNI VERSA LIST.
m trC ! * Rev. B. F-> Strain, Pastor; Church
bundav an< prcachin S every third Saturday and
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Tlic People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
dlie Pod’s dottier.
My Husband’s Grave.
The following lines arc suggested by a slab in
the soldiers’ burying ground at Greenville, Ala.,
placed upon the grave of G. W. Nichols, C. S. A.,
by his affectionate wife :
At last my husband's grave is found !
My aching feet may rest.
And I may swoon away and dream
1 lean upon his breast.
A Southern man for Southern cause,
Regardless of the cost,
Wore Southern grey; ’neath Southern flag
lie fought and won—l lost!
And though the marshalled hosts in file
Tramp heavy on my heart;
Fd rather iceep than blttsh far him —
Thank God, he bore his part!
How long ago I cannot tell—
It seems one hundred years !
For time has held in scarlet hand
An hour-glass dimmed by tears.
God bless the gentle ones who came
A t dawning of the y'car,
And wept with me and garlanded
Bright laurels for thy bier !
A widow's prayer will rise for aye,
Strangers, for thee and thine;
Thy kindly hands that ministered,
Ilow blest, had they been mine !
An emblem of my widowhood
Is all that 1 can bring—
A stainless harp, four broken chords,
And one poor, silent string !
Ah, wake me not! This spirit hand
That sweeps the green, strong pine
With lingers light, and strokes my hair
Caressingly, is thine.
Kisses T press upon the earth,
Oh, stillest arms, unfold !
Thou wilt not give me kiss for kiss,
Oh sod, thou art so cold !
If life and death were mine to choose,
I'd be the coldest clod
On tin/(h ad heart, than living flower
That breathes above the sod !
I wait; sleep on where comrades sleep
(>JT f/nard; thy warrior soul
Would rather rise in ranks when God
Shall call llis muster-roll !
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JttisccHiiiu’ous illeilfei).
President Grant and Jefferson Davis.
The portrait of Jefferson Davis lias been
assigned its proper place in the War Office in
Washington. We like this. There is stronger
practical evidence in this seemingly trilling
incident, that hates engendered by strife are
forgotten, than in the sloppiest orations ever
hoveled out in Federal or Confederate grave
yards. When Mr. Davis’ worth, as a man,
is conceded by the foremost men in the coun
try. it is shown that the people of the North
have forgotten how to hate, and we are
sure 1 that legislation. like that which chuck
ed Sambo into ballot-boxes, will be slowly
but surely reformed. Mr. Davis, in social
life, never recurs to wrongs he has endured,
lie seems to have forgotten absolutely every
incident of harshness that should make his
prison life memorable, lie has apparently
dismissed, utterly, all unpleasant memories,
and no one encountering him on the street,
or at the fireside, would dream that he had
been the central figure in the most fearful
revolutionary drama of modern times. He
lends a life of quiet study, and is only earnest,
outsi le his library, in promoting the ends of
the London Society of the Valley of the Mis
sissippi, designed to open direct trade be
tween the Valley of the Mississippi and the
Old World. He is eminently social in tastes
and habits, and is the most fascinating col
loquist perhaps that lives. He has traveled
and enjoyed every possible advantage that
wealth, refinement, cultured taste and high
social position could give. In Scotland,
among the old nobility, he was more familiar
with local history, we are told, than were his
delighted hosts. He has read everything and
forgotten nothing. In manner he is singular
ly graceful, and his face lias lost that cold,
hard, immobile, expressionless character,
worn habitually when tempests shook and
lightnings flashed about his capital on the
James. Whatever the fact, no one who now
encounters Air. Davis would ever dream that
he dreams of any further share in the guid
ance of the affairs of nations. He is rejuve
nated—ever smiling, ever ready to talk and
amuse and delight, by exhibiting his wonder
ful stores of wit and wisdom to those who
would derive solid advantage or amusement
from lessons he inculcates. If Air. Jefferson
Davis be not one of the uncrowned kings,
content to rest and abide by the fiat of his
tory and truth, lie is the most eonsumate ac
tor that lives. However generotisty, then,
Federalism, as embodied in Grant's cabinet,
deals with Confederatism, as personated by
Jefferson Davis, there is no danger that it
will blunder. Air. Davis, in all the forms and
external acts of every day life, is, at this
hour, the proper representative of the true
people of the South, and it is in view of this
fact that Grant’s proposition to suspend
habeas corpus becomes a crime against every
incident and development of Southern so
ciety, and against Southern modes of think
ing. as against peace, order and good govern
ment. —Austin (Texas) Statesman.
Religion as a Business Investment. —
Mr. John 11. James is reported in the Atlanta
Herald, as having delivered himself as follows
at a late “experience” meeting in that city :
Whenever lie had made money and used
part of it in building churches, or other
benevolent works, lie was always blest. In
every instance his business prospered after
wards. At one time, however, he was consid
ering a business transaction and thought he
could make by it, and he promised the Lord
that if lie would prosper him in it he would
use half to build another church. This time
he signally failed. At a later date still, he
had freely bestowed his money in aid of a
revival meeting, and in a few days the Lord
had wonderfully blessed him, he had made
two or three thousand dollars in a single
transaction.
Moving is not pleasant. It breaks up old
associations and the skin on your knuckles.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1875.
CREASE.
It may not be poetical, but it is neverthe
less true, that the path of life would be ex
ceedingly rough without the practical appli
cation of grease. The milk of human kind
ness might be termed the oil of charity, not
only the charity that givetli, but the charity
that forgiveth.
No machinery will work without oil. Pour
sand into the wheels of cars or steamboats,
and witness the result; the sand must be re
moved, and oil put in its place, before the
wheels will do their duty.
Your watch stops. You find out the cause.
Dust has worked its way in between the
covers, and the delicate machinery is power
less. Clean and oil it, and all goes well
again.
If we arc so careful to remove the impedi
ments, and to oil all the creations of man,
how much more particular we should be in
attending to the wonderful works of God.—
Nothing on earth requires so much oil as the
nature of man, and it is the duty of every one
to use that smoothing power just as often as
it is required.
The head of a household needs to have a
good stock of the oil of patience always on
hand, lor if the sand of discontent and con
tinual fault-finding is ever poured into the
ears of the members of the family, home will
bo far from being the haven of rest it should
be. And if a good example of kindness and
consideration is found in one in power, oth
ers are most apt to follow it.
Children are like watches, tender care and
faithful attention only can keep the dust from
tire delicate and frail machinery : nothing but
the oil of love and patience can make the
wheels run smoothly.
There are so many different kinds of grease
needed that we shall attempt to name but
lew. The merchant would soon find his busi
ness in a sad condition, did he not use the
oils of prompt payment, system, firmness, and
universal kindness. He must be kind to
those in his employ, polite and obliging to
his patrons.
The lawyer must be oiled with a fee before
he uses the oil of eloquence by which he gains
his client's case.
The church is like the family, while the
power of money is needed for its support,
there are many other oils required to make
the institution an agreeable one. The pastor
must please his people—he must preach good
sermons—must neither be too long nor too
short; lie must be faithful in his attentions
to his flock, prompt in his visits, at home
when his parishioners call on him, and always
on hand when consolation or advice is needed.
The .Sunday School is a combination of
families, and while each family is under the
care of a teacher, the whole comes under the
direct control and supervision of the Super
intendent, whose business it is to keep smooth
the entire flock of little ones and their teach
ers, which must be, at times, a most difficult
matter, when all have different wishes and
tastes, even in religion. Then, too, the fi
nancial affairs of the school come before the
Superintendent. It is his business, when the
amount of money on hand is not sufficient
for the demand, to see that the deficiency is
filled, and if not from other sources, it must
come from his own pocket. 11 c perhaps works
hard all the week, and Sunday brings no rest
to his weary brain and body, for be is through
out the day thinking about his charge, if he
is not actually at his labors. In truth, from
our personal observation, wc are convinced
that no two persons outside of the household
need more of the oil of patience than the pas
tor of a church and the Superintendent of a
Sunday School.
But we forget the editor ; and his position
is by no means an easy one to fill. Fancy
his feelings when the hour draws near for the
paper to be ready for the eager public, and
lie is told that half the reporters were on a
“bust” last night, and most of the editors are
missing. In vain the “ devil” calls for copy,
while the editor searches his brain for an
idea, and uses his last resort, the scissors,
with but slight gratification. Then, too, at
best, his is a sorry life, for lie must gratify
the fancies of all his readers or else the pa
per is lost.
The doctor, of course, requires a good sup
ply of oil among his medicines, for illness
will make almost any nature rough.
lie lias not only the trouble of his patients
to bear, but should he be so unfortunate as
to lose one, or any accident should happen,
he must endure the fault-finding and accusa
tions of the friends, and those arc often quite
as hard to bear as the feeling which will
come : “ Suppose I had done differently, she
might now be alive.”
We have mentioned but a few cases where
oil is needed, but enough to show that in
every sphere of life, no matter what our con
dition or position may be, we all require
judicious application and a bountiful supply
of that most useful of all rust removers—
grease. Mary E. Lambert.
Lost Women.
Has it ever occurred to you what a com
mentary upon our civilization are these lost
women, and the attitude of society towards
them? A little child strays from the home
enclosure, and the whole community is on
the alert to find the wanderer and restore it
to its mother's arms. 'What rejoicing when
it is found, what tearful sympathy, what
heartiness of congratulation? There are no
harsh comments upon poor tired feet, be they
ever so mirey, no reprimand for the soiled
and torn garments, no lack of kisses for the
tear-stained face. But let the child be grown
to womanhood, let her be led from it by the
scourge of want—what happens then ?
Do Christian men and women go in quest
of her? Do they provide all possible help for
her return, or if she return of her own notion
do they receive her with such kindness and
delicacy as to secure her against wandering?
Far from it. At the first step she is denounc
ed as lost—lost 1 echo friends and relatives—
we disown you ; don’t ever come to us to dis
grace us. Lost, says society indifferently.
How bad these girls are. And lost—irre
trievably lost—is the prompt verdict of con
ventional morality, while one and all unite in
bolting every door between her and respec
tability. Ah, will not these lost ones be re
quired at our hands hereafter?—Mrs. Burleigh.
A Look Backward.
WALL PAPER JOURNALISM BEFORE THE SUR
RENDER MULE AND CAT MEAT.
Someone sends us a copy of the Minneap
olis “(Minn.) News, of the 24th inst., which
contains the following reminiscence of the
days of shot and shell and bellowing of the
mortars.
T hrough the kindness of Air. J. P. Ray, of
this city, we have examined quite a newspa
per curiosity. It bears the title of the “ Daily
Citizen ,” and was published in Vicksburg,
Thursday, July 2d, 18G3. It is printed on
the blank side of a small strip of wall paper,
there being four columns of reading matter
on the sheet. It contains many interesting
items, of which wc make extracts.
''Khe editor, Air. Swords, acknowledges the
receipt of a “mule steak" as follows :
“ We are indebted to Alaj. Gillespie for a
steak of Confederate beef, alias meat. AYe
have tried it, and can assure our friends that
they need have no scruples at eating the meat.
It is sweet, savory and tender, and so long as
we have a mule left, we are satisfied our sol
diers will be content to subsist upon it.”
Speaking of the scarcity of provisions in
the city, of their secretion and sale to the
half-starved citizens, at exhorbitant prices,
the Citizen says:
“A rumor has reached us that parties in
our city have been, and now are, selling flour
at five dollars per pound, molasses at ten dol
lars a gallon, and corn at ten dollars per
bushel. We hope this allusion to the subject
will induce someone to ascertain upon whom
rests this extortion, and if so, let a brand not
only be placed upon his brow, but let it be
seared into the very brain, that humanity may
scorn and shun them as they would the portals
of Hell itself.”
The following shows one dinner bill of
fare :
“ Poor defunct Thomas was then prepared,
not for the grave, but for the pot, and several
friends invited to partake of a nice “rabbit.”
Asa matter of course, no one would wound
the feelings of another, especially in these
times, by refusing a cordial invitation to din
ner, and the guests assisted in consuming the
poor animal with a relish that did honor to
their epicurism taste. The “sold” assure us
that the meat was delicious, and that hence
forth “ pussy'’ must look out for her own
safety.”
Of Grant's boast of occupying the city on
the Fourth of J uiy, the paper says :
“Grant has expressed his intention of din
ing in Yieksburg on Katurday*next, and cele
brating the Fohrt h of July by a grand dinner,
and so forth. Ulysses must, get into the city
before he dines in it. The way to cook a rab
bit is “ first catch the rabbit, etc.'’
But on the morning of the Fourth of July
the city fell, and the ITnion troops were in the
city. The “ form” of Thursday’s Citizen, was
still standing, and some Union ‘ comp.” at
the lower right hand corner, inserted the fol
lowing, and re-printed the edition :
NOTE.
July 4tii, 1803.
■ “ Two days bring about great changes.—
The banner of the Union floats over Vicks
burg. Gen. Grant has ‘caught the rabbit,’ he
has dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring his
dinner with him. The Citizen lives to see it.
For the last time it appears on ‘ wall paper.’
No more will it imagine the luxuries of mule
meat and fricassed kitten—urge Southern
warriors to such diet no more. This is the
last wall paper edition, and is, excepting this
note, from the types as we found them. It
will be valuable hereafter as a curiosity.”
The extracts above are substantially cor
rect. Major Gillespie had the mule meat
“jerked” by Mexican “experts” belonging to
Want’s Texas Legion, and it was an experi
ment of Gen. Carter L. Stevenson, like that
of the pea bread, and became a leading article
of food during the latter part of the siege.—
The rumor mentioned about “extortion” is
true, though some of the parties “ marked”
then would grow bellicose if such a thing was
intimated now, yet the proof might be found
no farther off than Monroe, Louisiana. The
extract about the killing of a cat is true.—
The cat was killed in the yard of Mr. M.
Shannon, one morning about five o'clock, and
the parties to the “demise” were Marmaduke
Shannon, Jr., afterwards killed in a charge at
Spanish Fort, near Mobile, and the writer.—
The venerable Thomas was prepared for table
use by a cook belonging to one of the boats
sent up Yazoo river for safety, and Gus Lew
is, a servant of Mr. Shannon, yet in the city.
The “ rabbit” was made attractive by pastry,
and in addition, there was mule soup, pea
bread, fig leaf greens and corn beer. Invita
tions were sent to Colonel Robt. Richardson,
Capt. Frank Pennington, Maj. M. S. Ward,
Maj. F. S. Gregory; now of the Petersburg
Appeal, and one or two others. The busi
ness end of the Federals attracted consider
able attention just then, and the dinner was
sparsely attended. A plate of the dinner was,
however, sent to the residence of our present
Alderman, and to some lady friends at the
corner of Second East and Cherry streets.—
The “rabbit” and accompaniments were pro
nounced “ delicious,” but the young men who
perpetrated the joke, made themselves scarce
until after they received their parole papeis,
which followed very soon, as the Federals
came in and found the forms of the Citizen
“locked,” and the establishment deserted.—
Vicksburg Herald.
It is well known that nobody makes more
delicious corn bread than the negro women
down south. One of them told an enquiring
young lady how she does it, and for the
benefit of our housekeeping readers, we give
the receipt. Says Dinah: “ Why, darlin’
sometimes gen’ally I takes a little meal,
and sometimes gen" ally I takes a little flou,’
an’ I kine o’ mixes ’em up with some hot
water, an’ I puts in eggs enuff and a little
salt, an’ then I bakes it jist ’bout enuff. An’
you do so, jess so, honey, an' you'll make it
as good as I do.”
Cream Cake.— Four tea-cups flour, three
of sugar, one of sweet cream, one of butter and
five eggs ; sift two teaspoonsful of cream tar
tar and one of soda into the flour and use any
flavoring preferred. Rub the butter and su
gar together, mix in the other ingredients,
beat well, and bake as pound cake.
The “ Grey Moss” and its Meaning.
In almost every nation some natural pro
duction of the soil has been regarded as
emblematic of its people or its destiny. The
Scottish thistle is a true type of a gallant
race who cannot be trampled upon with im
punity. What emblem more appropriate than
the triune shamrock for a people whose pre
eminent characteristic is attachment to their
faith, and who may truly boast that infidelity
and ingratitude find Irish soil as uncongenial
as do the reptiles of animated nature.
The “ Sunny South” lias been frequently
typified by the queenly magnolia, the fra
grant jasamine and the ever-blooming rose ;
and while travelers have eloquently de
scribed them, they have alluded to tlie ap
parent anomaly; the sad discrepancy of tie
mournful grey moss fluttering its funeral
seeming drapery, where all else told only of
joy and hope. It is meaningless no longer—
fit emblem of a mourning land, it droops over
many a sad and roofless homestead; it
wreathes itself around our cemeteries and
waves its banners over many a nameless
hero’s grave.
And less hopeless would be the task to
tear it from our forests that it might never
more meet the eye, than to eradicate the love
of “the grey'* which is the just tribute to
valor, patriotism, and all that ennobles
manhood.
Nature often seems to console or sympa
thize with us; in future years, as they who
keep weary vigils “ out-watching the stars,”
view tlie grey tints of early dawn melt and
kindle into the roseate flush of morn, they
will recall the glories of Manassas, Ciian
cellorsvillo and Fredericksburg." And as
long as at eve the “twilight grey,” deepens
into the shades of night we will not forget
Atlanta, Columbia or Petersburg.
On the banks of the Mississippi I lately
passed the ruins of a stately mansion, proba
ble once a happy home. The chimneys and
massive columns alone stood ; shot, shell and
fire had effectually done their mission, the
orange grove was destroyed, a few struggling
shoots of “the cloth of gold,” and a “ blood
red rose,” the “giant of battles,” showed the
spot where once had been a garden. There
was no sign of life or cultivation ; but amid
all this devastation there towered, unscathed,
in immortal verdure, a live oak, heavily
draped with the mournful moss. And this I
thought should be the future emblem of the
South, the oak, the firmly rooted, the less
liable to decay, from the tempest it had with
stood. and the removal of the adornments
that had been torn from around it—the
moss—that's for remembrance.—
Record.
True to the Character.
“I say. girls,” said a little blue-eyed, flax
en-haired boy, on Second street, yesterday,
“ let me take your candy, and we’il all play
chicken.”
“Is it nice? - ’ inquired half a dozen six
year-olds in chorus.
“ Nice ! you Get it is. Let me show you.
Now, I’ll lay the candy down here on the
step, and you all go down there and come up
when you hear me call like a rooster.”
The girls retreated, and gathered in a group,
about fifteen feet off, while the boy got on his
knees, with his head over the candy, and be
gan to call and strut and flap his arms like a
rooster's wings.
“Cluck, cluck, rat, tat, rap, cluck,” and all
the girls came running up and bent to pick
up the candy, when the little fellow opened
his mouth and took it in at one gulp.
“Oh, you mean boy,” they cried, “you
have taken all our candy.”
“ That's ’cause I played rooster,” said the
boy ; “roosters always call the hens up when
he finds a grain of corn, and then picks it up
himself.”— St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.
ITe Knew llow.—At an auction of house
hold goods on Harrison Avenue, the other
day, when a woman had made a bid on an
old bureau worth about §2, a boy slipped
around to another woman and whispered :
“ You see that woman over there with a
blue bow on?’’
“ Yes.”
“ Well, she says that no woman with a red
nose can buy anything at this sale.”
The woman with the red nose pushed her
way into the crowd and ran the price of the
bureau up to sl2. and as it was knocked down
to her she remarked :
“I may have a red nose, but no cross-eyed
woman with a blue bow on can bluff me !”
Detroit Free Press.
Two Pictures.
BEFORE MARRIAGE.
My Maggie, my beautiful darling,
Creep into my arms, my sweet,
Let me fold you again to my bosom
So close 1 can hear your heart beat.
"What! these little fingers been sewing?
One's been pricked by the needle, T see ;
These hands shall be kept free from labor
When once they are given to me.
All mine, little pet, T will shield you
From trouble and labor and care,
I will robe you like some fairy princess,
And jewels shall gleam in your hair;
Those slippers you gave me are perfect,
That dressing-gown fits to a T ;
My darling, I wonder that heaven
Should give such a treasure to me.
Eight—nine—ten—eleven ! my precious,
Time Hies so when I am with you,
It seems but a moment I've been here,
And now, must I say it ? Adieu.
AFTER MARRIAGE.
Oh, Mag. you are heavy—l’m tired;
Go sit in the rocker, I pray;
Your weight seems a hundred and ninety
When you pf ump down in that sort of way.
You had better be mending my coat sleeve—
I've spoken about iwTbfore—
And I want to finish thi?novel
And look over these bills from the store.
This dressing-gown sets like the d—l;
These slippers run down at the heel;
Strange, nothing can never look decent;
I wish you could know how they feel.
What's this bill from Morgan's? why surely,
It's not for another new dress?
Look here 1 I'll be bankrupt ere New Year,
Or your store bill will have to grow less.
Eight o'clock ! Mag, sew on this button
As soon as you finish that sleeve ;
Ileigh-ho ! I’m so dcucedlv sleepy ;
I'll pile oil"to bed, 1 believe.
S TEEMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
NEWS MISCELLANY.
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Dr. Loviek Pierce is said to be the oldest
effective minister, of any persuasion, in
America.
A Blakely negro, who had jumped up to
shout at a church meeting, a few nights ago,
fell and broke his jaw.
There were shipped this year from around
Charleston, S. C., 400.000 quarts of straw
berries, for which SIO,OOO was received.
Col. Seward, of Thomas county, exhibited
last week a stalk of cotton bearing two ma
tured bolls and a blossom.
The news comes from the grasshopper
regions that the jumpers arc rapidly taking
their leave, and the farmers arc yet hopeful
that they will make fair crops, although many
of them have planted their crops for the third
time.
A Milledgeville man who found a dusty
finger-nail in a cud of tobacco which he was
endeavoring to masticate, now chews calamus.
The Albany News says that Capt. T. 11.
Willingham has 2,000 acres in corn, 2,000 in
cotton, and 1,100 in oats. His oats aro
harvested, and he will probably have 8,000
bushels for sale.
A Washington, D. C., man writes to the
National Republican complaining of the “wa
ter we drink.*' lie has been examining it
under the microscope, and says, “ there's
millions in it.”
The Gainesville Eagle says the price of
tickets to New York from Gainesville is only
$24. Cheap enough for all who can start from
Gainesville.
Killed.— Dave Drummonds, the negro who
attempted to commit a rape in Milton coun
ty, about two months since, was killed near
W estminster, South Carolina, last week. The
Keowee Courier says that, he was killed by a
man named Knight, who was attempting to
arrest him. Dave attempted to kill him with
an axe. Knight, after giving back some dis
tance, shot him through the body with a gun.
An examination at Cuthbert, last week, in
to some scandalous charges against Hon.
John T. Clark, resulted in his complete vin
dication and acquittal. The trial was before
Judge Kiddoo.
It seems to be a habit of the Atlanta preach
ers to fight over dying men and criminals.-*-
The religion that causes its apostles to mash
each other's noses and to refuse to shake
hands, is a little too warm for us. We prefer
the kind we read about in the New Testa
ment—the gospel of peace and forgiveness,
—Savannah News.
It is reported that a weekly paper, devoted
todthe interests of the Southern Methodist
Church, and edited by Dr. W. P. Harrison,
with an able corps of contributors, will soon
be started in Atlanta. Mr. R. K. Payne will
be the publisher.
A cypress tree was cut down in Randolph
count}' recently which contained a colony
each of sap-suckers and bats, and two hun
dred pounds of nice honey. Talk aliout 3 T our
eucalyptus globuluses.
A worth} 1 - country parson once preached a
labored sermon on the beneficence of Provi
dence in causing large rivers to usually flow
past important towns.
Virginia can boast of two of the youngest
murderers of any State in the Union. One
of them is only nine years old, and the other
is thirteen. The latter is being tried for his
life at Richmond, and the other is now under
going imprisonment for his crime in the State
prison.
A young lady in Alabama said she guess
ed she knew how to shoot a pistol. The doc
tor who dug the bullet out of her brother’s leg
said lie guessed so, too.
An amusing feature of the next State Fair,
to be held in Macon, will be a wheel-barrow
race. The contestants will be blind-folded
and placed with their backs towards a post,
two hundred yards distant, and will then turn
round and try to strike the post.
A fifteen year old Atlanta boy has written
a book called “The Two Boys ; or,
Among the Pirates.” A Savannah t>oy is en
gaged on a serial to be called “The Red Bug’s
Redowa; or, Summer Life in Habersham.”
There is a house in South Carolina which
was once the headquarters of Gen. Marion
during his revolutionary campaign on the
Great Pedee river. It is built of c) r press, and
is still in an excellent state of preservation.
The Dawson Journal says that a very large
majority of the people of Terrell count}' are
much dissatisfied with the acquittal of Jack
son, who was tried a few days since for the
murder of Col. Jones. It says that the ver
dict was an astonishing one to the Judge, the
attorneys and the people, and was received
with a feeling of indignation.
An old gentleman gives the Elberton Ga
zette a remedy for snake-bites or insect stings,
which he lias never known to fail. Immedi
ately upon being bitten or stung, or as soon
as possible thereafter, apply a piece of moist
ened copperas to the wound, and keep it there
until the effects of the poison disappears.—
The copperas can be applied with a bandage,
or a large lump placed on the wound, to which
it will adhere as .the mad-stone is said to do.
When the lump drops off it should be replaced
by another piece, moistened as the first, and
this kept up until the adhering ceases.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta
Constitutionalist thinks that Col. Alston, of
the Herald, lias forfeited the office of State
Printer by sending a challenge to Col. Clarke.
The challenge was not sent in Georgia, though
whether this fact relieves the Colonel of the
operations of the law, we are unable to say.
The farmers in Oglethoqie county are com
plaining of the destruction caused to their
lands by beavers. These dam animals, they
say. dam the creeks till whole acres are dam
med.
How hardly can a ragged man enter into
the church of the period.
NUMBER 6.