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POETICAL.
The Light at Home.
The lijrht at home ! how bright it beams
When evening shade around us fall;
.A ad frmn the lattice far it gleams
To love and rest, and comfort all.
When wearied with the toils of day,
And strife for glory, gold or fame,
How sweet to seek the quiet way,
Where loving lips will lisp our name.
When through the dark and stormy night
The wayward wanderer homeward hies,
How cheering is the twinkling light.
Which through the forest gloom he spies !
It is the light of home, he feels
That loving hearts will greet him there,
And softly through his Hosahi steals
The joy and love that banish care.
The light at home! How still and sweet
It peeps from yonder cottage door—
The weary laborer to greet.
When tlie rough toils of day are o’er !
Sad is tlie soul that does not know
The blessings that its beams impart,
The cheerful hopes and joys that How,
And lighten up the heaviest heart.
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SUNDAY READING-.
Beyond Comprehension.
When Daniel Webster was in his best mor
tal estate, and when he was in the prime of
his manhood, he was one day dining with a
coinpan}' of literary gentlemen in the city of
Boston. The company was composed of cler
gymen, lawyers, physicians, statesmen, mer
chants, and almost all classes of literary per
sons. During the dinner, the conversation
incidentally turned upon the subject of Chris
tian tty. Mr. Webster, as the occasion was in
honor of him, was expected to take a leading
part in the conversation and he frankly stat
ed his religious sentiments, his belief in the
divinity of Christ, and his dependence upon
the atonement of the Saviour. A minister of
very considerable literary repntation, sat
almost opjiosite at the table, and he looked
at, him and said. “ Mr. Webster, can you com
prehend how Jesus Christ could be both God
and man ?” Mr. Webster, with one of those
looks which no man can imitate, fixed his
eyes upon him and promptly and emphati
cally said :—“ No, sir, I cannot comprehend
it; and I would be ashamed to acknowledge
hi in as my Saviour if I could comprehend it.
If I could comprehend Him he could be no
greater than myself, and such is my convic
tion of my accountability to God, such is my
sense of sinfulness before llim and such is
my knowledge of my own incapacity to re
cover myself that I feel the needs of a super
humanSaviour.”— Bishftp Janos.
A Word to Mothers.
Each mother is a historian. She writes not
the histories of empires or of nations on
paper, but she writes her own history on the
imperishable mind of her child. That tablet
and that history each mother will meet
again, and read with eternal joy or unutter
able woe, in the far ages of eternity. This
thought should weigh on the mind of every
mother, and render her deeply circumspect
and prayerful, and faithful in the solemn
work of training up her children for heaven
and immortality. The minds of children are
very susceptible and easily impressed. A
word, a look, a frown, may engrave an im
pression on the mind of a child, which no
lapse of time can elface or wash out. You
walk along the sea-shore when the tide is
out, and you form characters, or names, in
the smooth white sand, which lies spread out
clear and beautiful at your feet, according
as your fancy may dictate, but the running
tide shall. In a few hours, wash out and
efface forever all that you have written.
Not so the lines and characters of truth
and error, which your conduct imprints on
the mind of your child. There you write
impressions for the eternal good or ill of
your child, which neither the floods nor earth
can wash out, nor the slow moving ages of
eternity can obliterate. How careful, then,
should each mother be of herself in the treat
ment of her child! How prayerful, how
serious, and how earnest to write the truths
of God on his mind—those truths which shall
be his guide and teacher when her voice
shall be silent in death, and her lips no
longer move in prayer in his behalf, in com
mending her dear child to her covenant with
God I
Tears-
There is a sacredness in tears. They are
not the mark of weakness but of power.
They speak more eloquently than a thousand
tongues. They are the messengers of over
whelming grief, of deep contrition and of un
speakable love. Oh, speak not harshly of
the stricken one—weeping in silence. Break
not the deep solemnity by rude laughter or
intrusive footsteps. Scoff not, if the stern
heart of manhood is sometime melted by sym
pathy ; they are what help to elevate him
above the brute. I love to see tears of af
fection. They are painful tokens, but still
most holy. There is pleasure in tears—an
awful pleasure. If there were none on earth
to shed a tear for me I should be loth to live ;
and if no one might weep over my grave I
could never die in peace.—[Z)r. Johnson.
To PAiiENTs.-Parents run the risk of los
ing the love of their children who put aside
their trivial questions as of no consequence.
An interrogation point symbolizes the life of
childhood. “Why” and “ what ” are the keys
with which it unlocks the treasury of the
world. The boy’s numberless questions
often seem trivial, but the wise parent will
never turn them off unanswered, if he can
help it. It is his rich opportunity of teach
ing. lie is met half-way. and there is all the
difference between impressing truth on an
eager mind and an uninterested one. The
little fellow, helping you at your work and
peltiu you with endless questions, may learn
as much in half an hour there as in a week
when his body is a prisoner in the school
room and his thoughts are out of doors.
Do it Now.—Don’t live a single a hour of
your life without doing exactly what is to be
done in it, and going straight through it from
beginning to end. Work, play, study—what
ever it is—take hold at once and finish it up
squarely and clearly ; then to the next thing,
without letting any moments drop out be
tween. It is wonderful to see how many
hours these prompt people contrive to make
of a day; it is as if they picked up the mo
ments that the dawdlers lost. And if ever
you find yourself where you have so many
things pressing upon you that you hardly
know how to begin, let me tell you a secret.
Take hold of the very first one that comes to
hand, and von will find the rest all fall into
file, and follow after like a company of well
drilled soldiers; and though work may be
hard to meet when it charges in a squad, it is
easily vanquished if you can bring it into
line. You may have often seen the anec
dote of tlie man who was asked how he had
accomplished so much in his life. “My
fatU;r taught me,” was the reply, “when I
had anything to do, to go and do it.” There
•is the secret—the magic word now.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
“ The barber shaves with polished blade.
The merchant shaves in constant trade.
The broker shaves on twelve per cent.
The Landlord shaves by raising rent.
The doctor shaves in patent pills.
The tapster shaves in pints and gills.
The farmer shaves in hay and oats.
Tlie hanker shaves on his own notes.
The lawyer shaves both friends and foes.
The peddler shaves where’er he goes.
The office-holder shaves the nation.
The parson shaves to meet salvation.
The wily churchman shaves his brother.
The people all shave one another.”
Costly furniture—lndian bureaus.
The rival railroads will soon be issuing
chromos.
At a recent spelling-match one man spelt
it ‘pasnip” and got beet.
One swallow does not make a spring, but
a dozen swallows sometimes make one fall.
No man can become thoroughly acquaint
ed with his family history without running
for office.
The Snake Run Academy is the name of
an Indiana school. The scholars must all be
adders.
Old gent —“What do you wear specs for,
boy?” Bootblack—“ Cos I put such a shiny
shine on gentlemen's boots it hurts me eyes.”
A Chicago editor boasts that he “ can stand
on his intellectual capital.” We suppose he
means he can stand on his head.
Wisdom for women : “It is better to love
a man that you can never marry than to mar
ry a man you can never love.”
A Chinaman in Los Angelos, California,
upon being applied to for payment of a debt,
replied : “If no havee, how can !”
Boarding school miss : “ O, Charlie ! I ex
pect to graduate at next commencement.”
“Graduate? what will you graduate in?”—
“ Whj% in white tulle !”
“If you want fun,” remarked old Smilax,
leaning over the gate and working tlie gravel
with his bare toes, “you ought to see my wife
dig taters when she’s tearin’ mad.”
“ What kind of sausages is them?” queried
an old lady of the young man of literature
and peanuts, as he passed through the train
selling bananas.
“ No,” said Mrs. Dodgers, very positively,
“if I go into the country, Mr. Dodgers goes
with me. This city ain’t no safe place to
leave a man alone in.”
“ Minnie, I’m in such a quandary ; for if I
turn my back on Charley he becomes offend
ed at once, and if I don’t he can’t see my new
buckle. What shall I do?”
An Irishman was once standing before a
looking glass with his eyes shut, and on be
ing asked why he stood there, replied : “I’m
afther seeing how I look when I’m aslape.”
A farmer complains that a hook and ladder
company has been organized in his neighbor
hood. He states that the ladder is used af
ter dark for climbing into the hen-house, after
which the hooking is done.
Quin, the actor, being asked by a lady,
why there were more women in the world
than men, replied, “It is in conformity with
the other arrangements of nature —we always
see more of heaven than of earth.”
“Write me while I am aw r ay,” said Jones
to Mrs. Jones, after an affectionate good-bye.
“Treacherous man!” meditated the lady.
“ Not one letter does he get! He wants to
sell them to one of those Western papers.”
A youth called at the house of a neighbor
and asked for a young kitten. The lady re
plied, “ as soon as it gets old enough to eat
you may have one.” With staring eyes the
boy replied, “We don’t eat cats at our house.”
Ann Culver, of Pennsylvania, went to the
Fiji Islands last summer, as a missionary,
but she's home again now. Her first Sunday
school class came shuffling into her house one
morning with nothing on but necklaces, and
that's enough to break up a camp-meeting.
“ That ar’ patch of ground's mem’rible,”
said an Omaha man, pointing to a grave all
by itself outside of the town. “I reckin
you’ll know that, stranger, when you see it
ag’in. The ockpant of that was the fust man
Ilorrus Greeley ever told to git west—like
wise he was hung for stealin’ a mewl.”
A man rushed breathlessly into a lawyers
office in St. Daul, and approaching the legal
luminary, excitedly remarked: “ A man
has tied a hoop to my horse’s tail! Can I
do anything ?” “ Yes,” replied the attorney,
“go and untie it.” That was good advice,
and didn’t cost the man but five dollars.
A young lady lectured on “Dress Reform”
in Springfield recently, and she was “pulled
back” to such an extent that when she went
to sit down at the conclusion of her discourse
she failed to reach the chair by over six
inches. She seemed to rest that way, howev
er, just as well.
A little girl who had been pondering on
the Lord’s prayer, said, ‘Mother, does God
keep a bakery?’ ‘Why, no, my child; why
do you ask?’ After a few moments reflec
tion the little one said, ‘ Well, I’d like to
know what pap wants to be bothering him
for bread for every day, if he ain’t in the bu
siness !’
A Vicksburg lady was recently inquiring
of a girl from over tlie river, how a certain
old acquaintance, who married a widower a
few months ago, got along. “ Very poorly,”
replied the girl; “there’s five children, who
ought to be spanked twice a day, and Maria’s
left-handed and can’t begin to do ’em justice.
Door woman, my heart bleeds for her !”
“ Well, ray son,” said a Detroit father to
his eight-year-old son, the other night, “ what
have you done to-day that may be set down
as a good deed?” “Gave a poor boy five
cents,” replied the hopeful. “Ah, ah! that
was charity, and charity is always right. He
was an orphan was he?” “I didn’t stop to
ask,” replied the boy; “ I gave him the mo
ney for licking a boy who upset my dinner
basket !”
“I Come* to Warn Ye.”
A resident of the Sixth ward has been
missing wood from his pile for several weeks
past, and the other night he watched and
caught a negro loading up a big armful.
Springing out, he cried :
“Ah ! ha! I've caught you, have I?”
“ Is dat you ?” asked the negro, as he
dropped the wood.
“ Yes, this is I. and I want to know what
you are doing here ? ”
“ Doin’ heah ?”
“ Yes, sir.”
“ You see dis yere wood-pile, don’t } r ou ?”
inquired tlie darky.
“ Yes, I do.”
“ Well, dere’s anew family moved into
dat shanty over dere, and I don’t like dere
looks one bit, I believe dey’d steal wood
quicker* n lightning, and I cum over to warn
ye. If ye miss any wood don’t say dat I
didn’t tell you what kind of folks dese are.”
And he walked away, leaving the man
dumbfounded.
J. M. ORR, Late of Newnan, Ga. J J. G. McLESTER, Jefferson, Geo.
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THE FARM.
Choosing and Raising Calves.
In choosing heifer calves, it is best to
select from undisputed good cows, also hav
ing an eye to the possibility of its becoming
a good milker, and for this we should exam
ine the teats and udder, which should always
be of good size, and in four distinct quarters.
Should all four cluster together, the calf must
be discarded at once, as a good cow must
have room for the milk and conveniences
for obtaining it. We should be a little par
ticular about this, as it is the foundation in
making a choice. A keen eye is as much to
be admired in a calf as in a horse, and also a
symmetrical and fawn-like appearance from
head to tail. It is not safe to select a calf
because it is large, as such will not always
make large cows. One that does not cut up
well in the throat should not be selected. It
should be well to notice this in selecting a
bull calf for breeding, as an animal that one
could not keep a halter on without choking,
no one wants.
The calves should have new milk for two
or Hirer* weeks, then add sweet skim-milk, a
little at a time, and by tlie time the calf is
six weeks old (and not before) it should have
all sour milk. It is unwise in feeding to set
down a pailful for each calf to wallow in;
they should bj r all means be stanchioned, or
fastened so they can be controlled. No calf
should be fed so much as to cloy it, nor
enough to give it the scours. This summer
I have fed the calves myself, and not one
has been troubled with scouring. I always
take the bucket away before they get quite
all they think they want. J. Summeiiton.
Erie county, Denn.
Substitute for Manure. —Tlie following
recipe for raising potatoes is worth the price
of any paper for one year to a farmer who is
short of manure. It is as good as the super
phosphate of lime, and will not cost half as
much. It has been tried two years, and found
good on dry land : Take one cask of lime
and slake it with water, and then stir in one
bushel fine salt, and then mix in lime or
ashes enough that it will not become mortar ;
it will make about five barrels. Dut half a
pint in a hill at planting. All manures con
taining potash are particularly suitable for
the potato. Ashes contain more than any
other natural fertilizer, and should be freely
used and carefully saved. Any farmer seeing
the analysis of the ash.es of potatoes can
readily imagine, what fertilizers produce the
greatest effect, and what the plant most needs.
Food for Farmers. —Tlie New England
Farmer gives the following as a remedy for
film on an animal’s eye: Found and rub
alum into a powder, making it as fine as
flour. Fill a common goose quill partly full
with it, and from that blow it into the eye.
But if the eye is bruised by a blow, that is
another matter, and the alum would probably
do no good.
A Great Piece of Engineering.
The Virginia City (Nevada) Enterprise
boasts that that city has tlie best and purest
mountain water in the world, which has been
introduced in spite of great natural obstacles,
it being necessary to cross the Washoe Val
ley. The supply is derived from Dali’s
Creek, up in the Sierras, near Lake Tahoe,
brought in an eighteen-inch flume four miles
long to a spur on the opposite side of the
Washoe Valley, at a point which is 2,100 feet
above the track ot the Virginia and Truckee
Railroad. Thence it flows easterly along the
crest and crosses the valley at the Lake View
toll-gate. It is in conducting the water
across the valley that the great triumph of
the water company has been achieved. At
the spur above mentioned the water is re
ceived into an iron pipe and conducted along
the crest. The pipe then makes the descent
into the Valley, crosses it, ascends the oppo
site side, and conducts the water to a height
of 1,340 feet above the railroad at Lake View,
where it is again taken up by another flume
and brought on to the city. The total length
of the inverted syphon is 400 feet less than
seven miles. The inlet is elevated above the
outlet 460 feet. The supply in this way in
troduced is equal to two million gallons per
day. By using the full head this quantity can
be largely increased. The leading of such
a stream of water across so deep a valley is
declared to have no parallel in the history
of hydraulic engineering. The pressure on
the pipe is enormous, and has been estimated
as that of a column of water 1,720 feet in
height. The pipe has an orifice twelve inches
in diameter. At the point where the press
ure is greatest it is five-sixteenths of an inch
in thickness, and riveted together with five
eighth-inch rivets in a double row. As the
pressure grows less the thickness of the ma
terial is decreased gradually till it reaches
one-sixteenth of an inch. The amount of
rolled iron used in the construction of the
pipe was one million one hundred and fifty
thousand pounds. A million rivets were also
consumed, It took fifty thousand pound of
lead to lay the pipes. Before being used
each length of pipe was heated to tlie temper
ature of 380 degrees, and submerged in a
bath of asphaltum and coal tar, which has the
effect of preventing it from corroding. The
line of pipes is compelled to twist and curve
to fit the inequalities of the ground, and cross
es thirteen steep cayons. At the bottom of
each depression there is a blow-off cock, for
the purpose of removing any sediment which
might accumulate. At each elevation is an
air-cock also. The water, when received into
the pipe from the acqueduet, passes through
wire screens and charcoal, so that it is com
pletely purified and ready for work.
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Facts Worth Knowing.
Process of Wine-Making.
The following on wine making was written for
Downing's Horticulturist, some years since, by
the late N. Longworth, of Cincinnati, 0., the most
experienced Vintner in this country:—
“We gather our grapes at full maturity ; care
fully pick off all green, rotten, and ‘ decayed
grapes; pass them as speedily as possible through
a machine, (thoroughly seasoned, and all possible
taste from the wood extracted,) to separate the
stems from the grapes, and mash them, without
breaking the seed. Instead of placing them in a
towel and bowl, we place them on a large clean
press, in which not a nail is driven, and the wood
of which has been fully seasoned; and even if of
beech wood, should not allow a particle of the
taste of the wood to remain in it. Press it as
speedily as possible, keeping the last hard press
ing separate from the earlier runnings. Place the
must in clean casks, from which no taste could be
obtained from the wood, or any previous brandy
or wine holdings, unless from liquor from the
same kind of grape, we immediately place the
cask in a cool cellar, do not fill it entirely, but as
the fermentation commences, stop the passage of
the strength and aroma of the grape as far as pos
sible, by putting in a tight bung, through which a
cyphon passes into a cask to receive the air ; and
the opposite end of the crooked cyphonis placed in a
vessel of water; and the cyphon is continued until
the fermentation is nearly over, when the cyphon
is taken out and a tight bung driven in, giving air
by a small gimlet hole two or three times a day,
for three or four days; after which all air is exclu
ded till the wine is clear, when it is racked, and
the cask thereafter kept full and tight. If we wish
a superior article, we do not deem it fit for bot
tling till four or live years old. If fining were nec
essary, and isinglass or the white of eggs, to fine
a pipe, cost $29, we should never think of using
beech chips.”
Calculating Rates of Travel.
AVhcn a train moves 1:47 feet in a second it is
traveling at the rate of one mile per honr; 7:33, five
miles; 14:67 feet, ten miles; 17:60 feet, twelve
miles; 22 feet, fifteen; 26:40 feet, eighteen miles;
29:33 feet, twenty miles; 30:67 feet, twenty five
miles; 44:40 feet, thirty miles; 55:07, forty miles;
73:23 feet, fifty miles, 83 feet, sixty miles, 102:67
feet, seventy miles per hour. Travelers who wish
to amuse themselves by calculating the rate at
which they are traveling, can do so by noting the
time consumed in passing over the several rails
on their side of the track. On the best laid roads
the sound made by the wheels in passing from
one rail to another is quite audidle, and may be
easily noted. The rails are twenty-four or thirty
feet in length. Observation made while the train
stops at a station will tell the passenger which
size the road uses upon which he is traveling.
His watch and count will tell the rest.
A Useful Table.—To aid farmers in arriving
at accuracy in estimating the amount of land in
different fields under cultivation, the following ta
ble is given by an agricultural cotemporary:
Five yards wide by 978 yards long contains one
acre.
Ten yards wide by'4B4 yards long contains 1
acre.
Twenty yards wide by 242 yards long contains 1
acre.
Forty yards wide by 121 yards long contains 1
acre.
Eighty yards wide by HU yards long contains 1
acre.
Seventy yards wide by 69| yards long contains
1 acre.
Two hundaed and twenty feet wide by 19S feet
long contains 1 acre.
Four hundred and forty feet wide by 90 feet
long contains 1 acre.
Eleven feet wide by 398 feet long contains 1
acre.
Sixty feet wide by 72G feet long contains 1
acre.
One hundred and Hventy feet wide by 363 feet
long contains 1 acre.
Two hundred and forty feet wide dy 181 J feet
long contains 1 acre.
To Preserve Herbs. —All kinds of herbs
should be gathered on a dry day, just before or
while in blossom, tie them in bundles, and suspend
them in a dry airy place, with the blossoms down
ward. AVhcn perfectly dry, wrap the medicinal
ones in paper and keep, them from the air. Pick off
the leaves of those which are to he used in cooking,
pound and sift them fine, keep the powder in bot
tles, corked up tight. Dr. Page, of AVashington,
D. C., says that herbs should be bruised or crush
ed while in the green state, and then dried. AVhen
so treated, they retain their color and odor for a
great length of time.
A Good Condiment. —To one peck of green
tomatoes, add eight onions and six peppers. Cut
them in slices, sprinkle thoroughly with salt and
let them remain over night. Tn the morning
drain off the juice, cover with vinegar and boil live
minutes. Again drain off the liquid, this preven
ting fermentation. Then add a cup of sugar, mus
tard seed and spices. Place in a stone jar and
cover with cold vinegar. To all lovers of high
seasoned condiments this will prove desirable.
Settled Beyond a Doubt. —No one questions
the fact that more cases of whites, suppressed and
irregular menses and uterine obstructions, of
every kind, are being daily cured, by Dr. J. Brad
field’s Female Regulator, than by all other reme
dies combined. Its success in Georgia and other
States is beyond precedent in the annals of physic,
thousands of certificates from women everywhere
pour in upon the proprietor. The attention of
prominent medical men is aroused in behalf of this
wonderful compound.and the most successful prac
titioners use it. If women suffer hereafetr it will be
their own fault. Female Regulator is prepared and
sold by L. 11. Bradfield, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga.,
and may be bought for 81.50 per bottle at any
respectable Drug Store in the Lnion.
Effects Truly Wonderful.
Cartersville, Ga., April 26, 1869.
This will certify that tw’o members of my imme
diate family, after having suffered for many years
from menstrual irregularity, and having been
treated without benefit by various medical doctors,
were at length completely cured by one bottle of
Dr. J. Bradfield’s FEMALE REGULATOR. I
therefore deem it my duty to furnish this certificate
with the hope of drawing attention of suffering wo
mankind to the merits of a medicine whose power
in curing irregular and suppressed mensration, has
been proven under my own personal observation.
Its effect on such cases is truly wonderful, and well
may the remedy be called “ JToman’s Best
Friend.” Yours respectfully,
JAS. W. STRANGE. .
June 26th, 1875.
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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 till “ 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 develope 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 diversiiied,
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 u 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.
JggT’ Address all communications, &c„ intended
for publication, and all letters on business to
MALCOM STAFFORD,
Atanaging and Business Editor ,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos., Ga.
June 12 th, 1875.
kinds of. Leather and Lumber, kept
constantly on hand and for sale by
June 12 J. E. & 11. J. RANDOLPH.
JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
PROFESSIONS.
Physicians... J. D. & 11. J. Long, J. j. n
ter, N. W. Carithers.
Atty's at Law... J. B. Silman, AV. I. Pii„
J. A. B. Mahaffey, AT. C. Howard, M. M. Pit m L’
P. F. Hinton.
MERCHANTS.
Pendergrass & Hancock. F. M. Bailey, Stanley
& Pinson, Win. S. Thompson.
MECHANICS.
Carpenters... Joseph P. AVilliamson, Sen',.
J. P. Williamson, Jr. ’ ;
Harness Maker... John G. Oakes.
AVagon Makers...ATin. Winburn, Monro,
Ray. (col.)
Buggy Maker...L. Gilleland.
Blacksmith. ..C. T. Story.
Tinner... John 11. Chapman.
Tanners. ..J. E. & H. J. Randolph.
Boot and Shoe-Makers...N. B. Stark, &•.
born M. Stark.
HOTELS.
Randolph House, by Airs. Randolph.
North-Eastern Hotel, by John Simpkins.
Public Boarding House, by Airs. Elizabet}
AA T orsham.
Liquors, Segars, &c... J. L. Bailey.
Grist and Saw-Alill and Gin...*J. D. & n
J. Long.
Saw-Alill and Gin...F. S. Smith.
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COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECTORY.
Martin Institute. —J. AV. Glenn, Principal; 5,
P. Ott, Assistant; Aliss AI. E. Orr, Assistant'
Miss Lizzie Burch, Alusic.
Centre Academy. —L. AI. Lyle, Principal.
Galilee Academy. —A. L. Barge, Principal.
Harmony Groce Academy. —R. S. Cheney, Prin.
cipal.
Murk Academy. —J. 11. McCarty, Principal.
Oak Groce Academy —Airs. A. C. P. Riden,
Principal.
Academy Church. —J. J. Mitchell. Principal.
Duke Academy. —Airs. 11. A. Deadwyler, Prin.
cipal.
Park Academy. — Aliss Y. C. Park, Principal.
Chapel Academy. —AT. H. Hill, Principal.
Holly Spring Academy —W. P. Newman, Prin.
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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS. \
Athens mail arrives at Jefferson on Wedneg!
days and Saturdays, at 10 o’clock, A. M., and de
parts same days at 12 o'clock, AI.
Gainesville mail arrives at Jefferson on Wednes
days and Saturdays, at 11 o’clock, A. AI.. and de
parts same davs at 12 o'clock, AI.
Lawrencevifle mail arrives at Jefferson on Satur- ;
davs, at 12 o’clock, AI, and departs same day at 1 |
o'clock, P. AI.
F. L. Pendergrass. Dep'y P. >[.
Useful Information for the Millions.
A note dated on Sunday is void.
A note obtained by fraud, or from one intoxi
cated. cannot be collected.
If a note be lost or stolen, it does not release
the maker; he must pay it.
An endorser of a note is exempt from liability if
not served with notice of its dishonor 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 arc 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 arc 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 J 2 hours to the time of
the sun’s setting, and from the sum substraet the
time of rising, for the length of the day. Subtract
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 of
either apparent or mean time.
RURAL DITINITIES.
Flora—The goddess of Flowers.
Pan—The god of Shepherds and Hunters; fa
mous for his whistling which fatigued him so much,
that he invented pipes to blow on.
Plutus — The god of Riches ; represented with
wings.
Pomona —The goddess of Orchards and Fruit-
DOMESTIC POSTAGE.
Newspapers, Magazines, and Periodicals
sent from a known office of publication," or by ‘
newsdealers* to actual subscribers, postage to be
prepaid in bulk by publishers and newsdealers, it
office of mailing, and go free to subscribers.
Letters Scents each 4 oz. ; Drop Letters at let
ter-carrier office. 2 cents ; Drop Letters at non
letter-carrier offices, 1 cent.
Transient matter embracing newspapers,
circulars, and other printed matter, seeds, cuttings,
bulbs, roots and scions, books, merchandise aid
samples, 1 cent for each oz. Registered Letters
8 cents in addition to regular postage.
Post-Offtce Aloney Orders. —Attention is
called to the Aloney 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 he
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, j
25 cents.
INTEREST RULES.
For finding the interest on any principal for any
number of days. The answer in each ease beiii?
in cents, separate the two right band figures of
answer to express in dollars and cents :
Four per cent.—Alultiply the principal by the
number of days to run ; seperate right-nand figure
from product, and divide bv 9.
Five per cent.—Alultiply by number of day?,
and divide by 72.
Six per cent.—Alultiply 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, 3
seperate right-hand figure, and divide by 4.
Ten per cent.—Alultiply by number of days,
and divide by 36.
Twelve per cent.—Alultiply by number of days,
seperate right hand figure, and divide by 3.
Fifteen per cent.—Alultiply by number of days,
and divide by 24.
Eighteen per cent.—Alultiply by number of day?'
seperate right-hand figure, and divide by 2.
Twenty per cent. — Alultiply by number of days,
and divide l>y 18. ,
Twenty-four per cent. —Alultiply by number of
days, and divide by 15.
USEFUL TABLE EOII FARMERS.
4 inche.uuake one hand.
56 lbs. r%rn 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.
GO 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, 1J feet
and 1 foot high, or 24| cubic feet.
A mile is 320 rods—l,76o yards—s,2Bo fed'
63,360 inches. •
An acre is 4,840 square yard—43,s6o squan
feet—6,272,640 square inches.
COUNTING.
12 units are one dozen.
12 dozen one gross.
20 units one score.
5 scores one hundred.
PAPER.
24 sheets one quire.
20 quires one reams
2 reams one bundle.
5 bundles one bale.
Recipes.—To drive cabbage worms away. F'
China tree leaves on them. To kill lice on
take one gallon of ashes, three spoonsful of >*.j|
and one of sulphur; mix and sprinkle it on >'*l
two with dew. -V sure remedy.