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Jackson County Publishing Company.
Dr. J. D. Long. ; N. 11. Pendergrass,
President. | l ice President.
T. 11. Xiblack, Setr'y $• Treat.
Executive Committee.
W. C. Howard flTm.
G. J. N. Wti.sox. I R. .!. HANCOCK.
JEFFERSON, Gr-A..
KITIKDAV HORVt, JIM 31, 1573.
How they Stand thus Far.
The Nashcille Union and American says:
Tiiere have been eleven State Conventions
since the year began—six Republican and
five Democratic, in Maine and New Hamp
shire both parties were equally emphatic in
demanding as early a'return to specie pay
ments as practicable. In lowa the Republi
cans declared for the same policy ; the Dem
ocrats for a return when practicable, and
meanwhile more paper currency. In Ohio the
Republican plan is that of “ ult imately equal
izing” coin and paper, which is nothing but
a glittering generality; the Democratic is
unequivocal inflation. In California the
Democrats favor a currency convertible at
the will of the holder, and the Republicans
say nothing, while in Pennsylvania they shirk
the question. The strongest and most deter
mined declaration for inflation comes from
the Ohio Democrats. Many of the Southern
Democratic papers warmly approve the Ohio
platform, and there is little doubt that it will
have strong support from the South in the
Democratic National Convention.
The Athens, Tenn., Post says: “An en
telligerkt friend, who has jast returned from
an extended trip through Georgia, represents
crops of all kinds to be in a most promising
condition. The corn is safe, and cotton
never looked better. In middle and north
Georgia heavy crops of wheat and oats were
harvested. The whole system of farming in
that great state is vmdergoing a change. In
other days the Georgia planter raised noth
ing but cotton, and depended upon others for
corn, meat, flour, and all his necessary sup
plies. The- result was, when the cotton
yield fell short lie would come out in debt
and be compelled to beg for credit until anoth
er crop could be made. Now, a large pro
portion of them plant less cotton and more
corn, wheat and oats, and a good many are
beginning to raise their own meet. - So that
hi a few years at most, under this system,
they will be entirely independent of other
sections iit regard to- all the substantiate of
fife. This is not very encouraging news
for east Tennessee, for Georgia lias been the
principal market for her surplus products
from the earlier settlement of the country.”
Macon TeTegmpJt S,- Messenger, writing from
Athens, in paying his respects to matters and
things generally, gives some very compli
mentary “ notes” of the pfesent Faculty of
the State University. From this part of his
correspondence we are induced to make the
following extract—not merely because it is a
worthy compliment to one for whom we en
tertain the highest respect, personally, but
for the “ sound doctrine” it inculcates other
wise, and further, because we knave it is, in
the main, true to the letter.
EUSTACE IV. SPEER, D. D., BELLES-LETTRES
PROFESSOR.
Our acquaintance with this gentleman is very
limited. But one of the resident Board of Trus
tees informed the writer that as a sermouizer he
has but few equals. Moreover, that he possesses
the rare knowledge of knowing ichen to stop
preaching. Our informant declared that he had
listened to a finished and exhaustive discourse
from the professor which did not consume fifteen
urinates. Oh that those old stagers” who feel
that they are called upon to hold forth for a given
period, no more, no less, by the watch, would
take hoed to this shining example. Much talking
on hot summer days acts only as a sorporific and
destroys the c-tFeot'of the sermon. Dr. Speer ap
pears t®lk* a wholcsouled and most excellent man.
A Cure for Drunkenness.
We desire to draw particular attention to
a prescription which has been printed by the
Scientific American , which is said to have
proved a practical and efficient remedy for
the chronic love of strong drink. It is de
scribed as follows:
There is a prescription in use in England
for the cure of drunkenness, by widen thou
sands are said to have been assisted in recov
ering themselves. The receipt came i .to no
toriety through the effort s of John Vine Hall,
commander of the Great Eastern steamship.
He had fallen into such habitual drunkenness
that his most earnest efforts to reclaim him
self proved unavailing. At length he sought
the advice of an eminent physician ,who gave
him a prescription—which he followed faith
fully for seven mouths, and at the end of that
time had lost all desire for liquor, although
he had for many years been led captive
—which he afterwards published, and by
which 60 many drunkards have been assisted
to reform, as follows: “Sulphate of iron, five
grains ; peppermint water, eleven drachms :
spirit of nutmeg, one drachm, twice a day.”
This preparation acts as a stimulant and ton
ic, and partially supplies the place of the ac
customed liquor, and prevents that absolute
physical and moral prostration that follows a
sudden breaking from the use of stimulating
drinks.
We can scarcely conceive that the Scienti
fic American would have printed this without
being satisfied of its efficiency. We com
mend it, therefore, to the cosideration of our
physician.s and druggists. There are many
addicted to strong drink who are worthy ob
jects of commiseration, lost beyond their own
mental and morahpowers for recuperation and
reform. If there is anything in the world
that can help them out of the slough of de
spond in which they find themselves, it is a
blessing which ought to be disseminated.—
Chicago Tribune.
There is said to be less drunkenness
among the colored people of the South than
* among the white inhabitant ; of New York.
BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS.
Mr. Editor :—At the request of many
friends who heard this little address to our
last graduating class of Martin Institute, I
place it in your hands for the public, if you
choose to give it room in your columns. I
claim for it no solid merit, but present it as
only a bouquet, hastily arranged, from the
beautiful flowers of thought furnished by the
young ladies themselves m the subjects of
their final essays—as given at the head of the
address. Yours, respectfully.
J. W. Glenn,
Principal Martin Institute.
SUBJECTS :
“ The Poetry of Earth ia Never Dead."
“ Trifles Make Perfection, but Perfection is no
Trifle.”
“ Good Times and Bad Times and All Times
Pass Over, Then Cheerily Bend to the Oar.”
” The Fancy that's Touched by Reality’s Hand,
ne'er Soars on Bright Pinions Again.' 1
ADDRESS.
Averse as I am. young ladies, to public
adieus, I cannot send you out into the world
without one word of farewell. Though I may
say nothing new, some old thoughts seen in
the light, of this hour, and re-set in the jewels
and gilding of this bright occasion, may be
photographed on the tablets of your memory
and laid away as one of the mementos, at
least, of your old Alma Mater.
There are great crises in every life—cul
minating points around which events and cir
i eumstances group themselves, and beyond
which \ye never look or reckon ; supreme mo
ments, when we reach a summit and stop to
survey the past and future.
They are the ganglia of mind at which the
i nerves of our existence concentrate and crowd
| into a few moments all the recollections of
; the past, all the throbbing, palpitating feel
j ings of a whole life time, and all the pulsat
■ ing, thrilling hopes of a far reaching future.
Such moments are a boy’s first farewell to
i home, a maiden's first love, the marriage day,
and when the hard-won laurels are placed for
j the first time on ambition’s brow. And such
a moment is this to you, young ladies. You
| have reached one of those peaks in life—one
of the stations to which man}* hopes and
; plans have been forwarded with through
i checks, and you expect to find them here
again, all safe.
You have just passed that stage through
I the poetic world where you were ever dream
; ing—dreaming that the “ Poetry of earth can
never die.” God grant that it may be so to
you f
Hoping, yet doubting-—eager, yet fearful,
■ you stand here on this elevation straining
your wistful eyes to peer into that murky
: world that lies out before and beneath you !
| but it is clouded with mist and veiled in
| smoke. I would not lift that veil if I could.
| In wisdom, God has more than half conceal
■ ed it all, or many a frightened nestling would
go shivering back from the first flight, never
to try those pinions again.
But I would assure you that this dread
world is not so bad after all. You will often
find its peretry marred, and the rythm broken,
perhaps, by rude hands, and many a swelling
pean may sink into the low wails of an elegy
—the harp-strings may often snap under its
chilling winds, and the sweetest strains die
away in sobs ; yet, and yet, I assure you,
that many of it’s brightest “fancies, though
touched by reality's hand, may soar, and will
soar on bright pinions again.”
“ Good times and bad times” will come and
go, but if we “cheerily bend to the oar,” and
give our hearts as well as our hands to each
trifling stroke—one by one, though the merest
trifle—the sum will perfect the grand voyage
of life and land us in that glorious haven
where all the dead poetry of earth is revived ;
where every trifle is a grand perfection ; where
good times abide, and bad times never come,
and where all our brightest fancies are crys
tallized into the most gorgeous realities.
As I looked over your programme on last
night, and read aloud the beautiful subjects
in succession, the echoes of their sentiments
floated back from the four distant stations of
human life.
Bright bouyant y,outh sent back the confi
dent shout, “ The poetry of earth is never
dead.” Young manhood with a long life ahead
as uimes the philosopher, and invokes pati
en >e with the wise aphorism that “ trifles
make perfection.”
Then I heard from the battle-scarred hero
of fifty summers and more, who had succeed
ed and failed in turn—who had passed through
storm and sunshine, as he trimmed his sails
‘o new breezes and another cruise, I heard
the sailor's cheer, with the “good times and
bad times and all times pass over, then
cheerily bend to the oar.*’
Tiien far down the stream of Time, from
feeble age, amid the ruins of former grandeur,
and the bitter ashes of dead hopes, there came
floating back this sad refrain, “ The fancy
that’s touched by reality’s hand, ne’er soars
on bright pinions again.”
An l I thought surely there is a divinity
in all beauty, and Providence has planted a
tongue in every accident of life. So I re
ceived it—so I accepted it, j-oung ladies, as
an omen of good to you as you glide out into
life, and I bid you G od-speed under its favor
able auspices.
Live for some noble purpose. “ Trust to
no futilre,” but “act in the living present.”
You have no time to weep over dead fancies,
but you will find life full of poetry as well as
duty, if you wisely sum its “trifles,” and
“ cheerily bend to the oar.”
For, after all, woman has her mission —as
debased and soiled as that word may be.—
She is the brightest exponent of truth and
virtue. She is the noblest type now left to
man of the pure and the beautiful.
Then never let 3*our lives be absorbed by
another—keep your elevation, and raise oth
ers to it; and let it be the proudest boast
emblazoned on the bright escutcheon of old
Georgia, that she was the first people of the
• world that ever chartered a college for the
, education of woman.
This you cannot do in your own strength,
but in the strength of Him who is woman’s
only hope, even in this world. For,
“Oh ! what is woman , what her smilt —
Her lip of love, her eyes of light,
What is she, if her lips revile
The lowly Jesus? Love may write
His name upon her marble brow,
And linger m her curls of jet—
The light Spring flowers may scarcely bow
Beneath her step, and yet, and yet.
Without that meeker grace, she'll be
A lighter thing than vanity.”
I would bid you farewell with these beauti
ful words rippling through the chambers of
your memorj’, but I cannot suppress the sel
fish desire, as you vibrate here “ betwixt a
smile and tear,” that the last lingerin'.; im
press upon your hearts, like the mother’s fare
well kiss upon your brow, may be the fond
adieu of Alma Mater.
Ma} r it cheer you in your hours of depres
sion, and come like a home-song with yo r
days of joy. Farewell!
For the Forest News.
NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE.
Jefferson, Ga., July 30th, 1875.
Mr. Editor :—During my recent rambles,
it has afforded me ranch pleasure to learn
that the News is a favorite with the public,
and wherever read is received with much
favor and commendation. Being devoted to
the interests of the whole people, it deserves,
and no doubt will meet with success.
A local paper has, by the force of circum
stances, become a necessity of the times, and
no county can now do well without one. As
“ a native to the manor born,” I am glad to
know that the prospect of the Forest News
is onward and upward, and that the public
sentiment is hearty in its support.
Since my last communication, I have been
looking over my note-book with a desire to
select something that will be entertaining to
your readers, and to this end have chosen
the following natural curiosities, which, if not
entertaining and instructive, will, to say the
least, prove to be without the usual course of
mother nature :
At the residence of Mr. J. W. Murk, of
this count}’, there may now be seen a little
chicken, but a few days over three months
old, that is carrying a brood of ten smaller
chickens. At the age of two and a half months,
this young creature began to sit, with its
mother, on a nest containing ten eggs. In
due time, ten little chicks were hatched, and
as their older sister appeared to take more
interest in their welfare than the parent hen,
Mrs. Murk took the latter away, and confided
the brood to the care and keeping of the pul
let ; and now, when not as large as a common
partridge, itris carrying them with all the
care anti attention of the most devoted mother.
It clucks and calls them up as a full grown
hen would do, and is even more industriously
engaged in scratching for them. It also takes
the utmost pains to hover them during a
shower of rain and at the approach of night,
spreading out its little feet and wings to their
utmost extent, for the purpose of covering
every one completely over. It is of the com
mon dunghill species, but is game to the last
degree. If disturbed, it ruffles up its feathers,
arches up its neck, struts out its wings, and
flies at an assailant with the most determined
fury. It is supposed that it first began to sit
upon the nest for the purpose of being with
its mother, and that in some mysterious way,
during the time of incubation, the principle
of maternal affection entered into its common
nature. When, at an age so tender, did this
principle so thoroughly pervade any other
living creature?
And now that the scientific world is all
agog on the subject of carnivorous plants, let
me tell of a very curious one, indigenous to
Jackson county, and which may be found
growing in early Spring on the waters of what
is known as Big Sandy Creek. A visit there
at that season of the year will convince the
most sceptical that, after all, the Devil Tree
of South America, and the Cannibal Plants
of the Ocean Isles, are not wholly without
foundation.
The plant to which I refer, and for which
I know no name, has a bulbaceous root of a
reddish hue, and is about the size and shape
of an ordinary turnip. It tastes similar to a
mixture of blood and water. The juice or
sap, which readily oozes from it when wound
ed, if allowed to remain for a few minutes on
the flesh, will produce # clear red blister,
which, if not well cared for, will increase to
a bad sore, producing the most vexatious
itching that ever called for the use of finger
nails.
Early in Spring, this root puts forth three
broad and firmly knit leaves, which, until
about half grown, lie so flat upon the ground
that a careless observer would not think they
grew there. At this stage, a single flower
begins to shoot up between the leaves, and,
without producing any stem, grows very
rapidly into precisely the same shape as an
ordinary tin trumpet, with the large end up
ward. When about ten inches long, this
trumpet-like flower ceases to grow in height,
but a covering begins to form from one side
only. In a few days the top is covered over
with a perfectly fitting lid, wiiich, however,
is not fastened to the body of the flower only
by a hinge-like ligature at the point of its
first formation. Like the root, the flower is
of a reddish hue, but is variegated w r ith an
innumerable number of small black specks,
giving it a nebulous appearance. In the mean
time, the leaves have changed their position
by curling into a spiral form, thus forming
three tubes, which rest their extremeties on
the upper rim of the trumpet, but never on
the side where the hinge grows. At both
ends of these t übes there are openings through
which various insects can and do readily
crawl ; there being some kind of an induce
ment offered that is unknown to mortals, but
is far more potent in its silence than all the
arguments offered by “The Spider to the
Fly for just as sure as a common spider, or
any other small insect, chances to pass near
by, its movements, however tardy or quick
before, immediately become accelerated, and
with a spasmodic jerk it disappears through
the lower opening in the tube nearest to it.
And what is most strange, when a spider or
other small insect starts up one of these, it's
doom is sealed ; for, by some unknown im
pulse, it rushes to the top, and at the instant
when it places its little paw on the edge of
the trumpet, the lid opens, and with fearful
contortions the victim falls inside. Instantl}’
the lid closes with such a perfect fit that it is
impossible for the naked eye to discover the
seam.
If, a few minutes after the fearful leap is
taken, you will touch the rim of the trumpet, it
will open as it did for the touch of the insect,
and you will see that the victim is not only
dead, but that it has entirely disappeared,
except a dry hull or husk, which will
crumble to powder upon the slightest touch—
all the animal juices having been absorbed by
the flower of this singular plant. In other
words, the victim has been caught in a trap
more ingenious than any ever invented by
man, and its digestible parts devoured with
all the voracity of a hungry toad.
Wondering awhile over the singular fate of
the unsuspecting insect that has just been de
voured, we are induced to examine the trumpet
trap more closely, and find that a touch on
the outside of the rim will cause the lid to
open, and if on the inside it will close. If
the finger be placed upon the inside of the
flower, a strong suction or drawing is imme
diately felt, and one cannot help thinking
that the gluttonous hybrid, if mongrel it is,
is trying to swallow your finger, and one in
stinctively takes it away, and finds the skin
of a dark hue. lam of the opinion that it is
a cantharadine , and might be used as a
vesicatory. I invite the attention of scientists
to this consideration, and ask if the bat be an
intermediate link between the fowl and the
brute, is not this plant an intermediate link
between the animal and vegetable kingdom ?
for, if any portion of the main tube be cut,
even while growing in the ground, it will bleed
to death and wither as soon as any animal I
will die after having the jugular veins severed, j
As regards its sensibility of touch, we find
its counterpart, at least to some extent, in
the common saw-brier, ( schrankia ,) and in the
mimosa tree, both of which grow within sight
of where I write, and whose leaves suddenly
| close when touched. This family is called
j sensitive plants by botanists, and has come
under the examination of children when at
play, a3 did the trumpet-like tiower when the
: writer was a little boy.
At that time these curious flowers grew in
profusion on the above mentioned creek, and
1 spent many hours in watching them catch
spiders and flies, and in studying their nature
and contexture. Then I did not know that
Linnseus or Tournefort had ever lived ; but
| the scenes witnessed were interesting to me,
and I hope this hasty and imperfect account
of them will be a little so to your readers.
The recent exhibition of carnivorous plants
| before some of the scientific societies of Eu
| rope, induced me, a few days ago, to visit my
; youthful field of observation; but I found
; that the beautifully shaded vale where once
! my mysterious flowers grew, was covered over
with a field of waving corn. I mused awhile
over the mutations of time, and then mental
ly exclaimed : “ Is it not strange that nearly
all of the woods in Jackson county have been
cut down and half of the land worn out, and
yet nine-tenths of the farmers are buying
corn at ruinous prices, and dealing it out in
scanty meals to half-starved stock ?” Why
is this so ? Will some Granger answer the
question ?
Still dwelling upon this subject, I thought
fully directed my steps to a neighboring
! wood to look for some representative of mv
| plants of the olden time. After a few hours
I search, I found two of them ; but, as is their
nature at this season of the year, they were
so much decayed that I recognized them only
by the withered tubes, which, like the columns
Jof an old castle, had crumbled from their
: base—a sad relic of their former power.
Rambler.
Dreadful Tragedy in Baldwin County, Ala.
A NEIGHBORHOOD VENDETTA FOUGHT OUT.
Partial reports of a terrible occurrence near
the line of the Mobile and Montgomery rail
road reached us by’ telegraph from the junc
tion on Tuesday morning, but we could learn
nothing definite. Yesterday we were called
' upon by Mr. W. J. Van Kirk, of Millvue, a
! surveyor who was on duty near the scene of
i the tragedy, but not a witness to its occur-
I rence. He visited the battle ground, how
j ever, was present at the funeral of the vic
i tim=, and gave us an intelligent report of the
| dreadful affair.
Greenberry Bryers and James Hadley, two
i men of considerable means and both large
owners of stock, had been at feud for some
| years in consequence of misunderstandings
j caused by the intermixing of their cattle
which “used” in the same range. On Mon
day Bryers, sr., with his son Larry, was
j plowing about 150 yards Loin the house,
when Hadley, sr.. accmpanied by five others,
: comprising his son “Dink,” two other sons,
and his sons-in-law Bud Prieher and Thomas
j Stewart, all armed with shot guns, rode up
; near the fence and said they had “come to
! settle the Flatter.” Bryers and his son were
' unarmed, but the father, after some angry
words had been exchanged, caught up a
piece of pine root, a foot and a half long,
and getting over the fence, his son following
him, advanced tow; rd the party. As he ap
proached them he was shot down and in
stantly killed, and his son, who ran to his
father as he fell, was instantly killed. Jo
seph Bryers then came out of the house with
a double barrel shot gun, but both barrels
missed fire and he was shot dead. Mean
while Dink Hadley rode toward the house,
sprang from his horse and got behind a pine
tree to await the coming of another son,
John Bryers, who advanced from the house
under fire, with two guns, lie dropped one
of them and sprang to a post in the road
which did not shelter more than a third of
his person and exchanged fires with Dink
Hadley about thirty-five or forty yards
off, the rest of the attacking party meanwhile
firing on him from a distance. At his second
fire Hadley fell, got up and attempted to re
load, but seeing Bryers run back to get his
other gun he scrambled upon his horse and
rejoined his party and rode awav with them,
John firing into them, as they left, wounding
old Hadley in the shoulder. Dink Hadley’s
wound was in the knee. John was wounded
in the head, arm and foot, but not dangerous
ly. Three shot struck the post by which he
stood. While the fight was going on near
the house, Wylie, the younger son of the
Bryers family, ran to where his father and
brother Larry had fallen and was shot down,
the wound being in the thigh and dangerous.
The summary of the affair is a father and
two sons murdered and two sons wounded,
on one side; and on the other, a father and
one son wounded. We are told that Mr.
Bryers was much respected, being a leading
man in religious affairs in the neighborhood,
and that Hadley had always been deemed a
respectable person. The dead were buried
on Tuesday, a large assemblage being pre
sent. No inquest was held, it “not being
thought necessary’, the facts of the crime
being so plain.”
Tuesday a posse of ten men, provided
with warrants for the arrest of the murderers,
went to the Hadley settlement but found
their residences deserted.
The locality of these occurrences is near
the Florida line, four miles west of Perdido
station, or about midway between the junc
tion and Tensas bridge.— Pensacola Gazette.
Hon. James Jackson.
This gentleman, so well known in Jackson
and other counties of the Western Circuit,
has received the appointment of Judge in
the Supreme Court of Georgia, to fill a vacan
cy. About the close of the war, we believe,
he removed to Macon from Athens, and has
resided in the former city from that time up
to the present. To an exchange, we are in
debted for the following brief history of the
Hon. gentleman ;
Judge Jackson was born in Clarke county, in
1819 or 1820, and is the son of Col. W. H. Jackson,
and a grand son of the renowned Gov. James Jack
son. Judge Jackson is a graduate of Franklin
college and commenced the practice of law in Wal
ton county. He succeeded Judge Junius Hillyer
as judge of the Western Circuit, and was judge for
ten or twelve years, lie is a clear headed and a
sound lawyer. He is a member of the Methodist
church, and a trustee of Emory college and of
Wesleyan female college as well of the State Uni
versity.
A Milwaukee girl, only five years of age,
walks a rope suspended thirty feet from the
ground.
From the Gainesville Eagle.
Some Historical Facts.
Editors Eagle : In your issue of July 2nd,
under the head of ‘‘Some Things,” your corres
pondent ‘‘Hall” has made several erroneous
statements, which should not remain uncorrected.
If “Hall” had consulted Prince’s digest, he would
have learned that Franklin county was not made
“out of the counties of Wilkes, Jackson, and new
territory,” and that his statement is not true that
“at the close of the Revolutionary War, perhaps,
the government acquired of the Cherokee Indians
a slip of their land as indemnity, and which was
made, extending from Cherokee Corner westward
to the mouth of the Appalachee river, and up said
river tc the falls, and thence to Tugalo river,
which was organized as Jackson county.”
Now for the truth of history: Jackson county
was not organized at the close of the Revolution
ary War, hut in 1796, thirteen years after King
George had acknowledged the independence of
the United States; and Franklin county was not
organized out of the counties of Wilkes and Jack
son and new territory, but wholly out of new ter
ritory, and Jackson county was afterward made
wholly out of Franklin in 1796.
Without pretending to perfect acuracy in re
gard to the lines—many of which were never very
accurately defined—l will give you a facts in re
ference to these counties: Wilkes was an organ
ized county during the war of the Revolution, and
was the most northerly county then in the State.
Its northern limit was a line running from the
mouth of Lightwood Log creek on the Savannah
river, just above where the villages of Hartwell
and Danielsville now are, bending southward to
Cherokee Corner, now in Oglethorpe county,
about eight miles above Lexington, on the road
to Athens. Cherokee Corner was probably the
point were the lands of the Cherokees cornered
with the lands of the Creeks, on the land occupied
by the whites. At the close of the Revolution;
Georgia acquired new territory from both these
tribes. The lands acquired from the Creeks
were situated between the western limits of
Wilkes and Richmond counties and the Oconee
river, and was organized as Washington county
in 1784. Subsequently Washington was cut into
several parts, and Hancock and Green were made
from it. The northern limit of Washington, as
first founded in 1784 was probably a line running
westward from Cherokee Corner to the mouth of
the Appalachee river. The territory acquired by
Georgia from the the Cherokees at the close of the
Revolutionary War, was bounded southward by
the northern line of Wilkes, from the Savannah
river to Cherokee Corner, thence by r Washington
county to the mouth of the Appalachee river,
thence by said river to the high shoals, or falls,
| thence a straight line to the foot of Hog mountain,
thence a right line to Ciarrahce and across the
Tugalo to some point ou the Senaca river, thence
down the Senaca and Savannah rivers to the be
giimingt And all this territory was organized
into Franklin county by act of the Legislature in
1784, at the same time that Washington county
was organized.
In 1796 Jackson was formed out of the western
part of Franklin, and the Court House was located
at Clarkeshoro, on South Oconee, twelve miles
from Jefferson, and a mile from the Athens
road. Previous to the organization of Jackson
out of Franklin county, in 1796, and the organi
zation of Greene county out of Washington in
1786, the two counties of Franklin and Washing
ton cornered together at Cherokee Corner, and
thence were coterminous to the Oconee river, at the
mouth of the Appalachee. Greene was made off
of Washington in 1786, and Hancock was made
out of Washington and Greene in 1799, Clarke was
made from Jackson in 1801, and the northern line
of Clarke was near Clarkeshoro’, the old county
site of Jackson.
Haber and am, Hall, Gwinnett and Wallon were
laid out by act of the Legislature in lSlß,jl'rcm new
territory lately acquired, and with some slips
of old territory taken from Franklin and Jackson.
After the organization of the county of Jackson,
in 1796, Georgia acquired from the Cherokecs a
narrow strip of territory four miles wide, extend
ing from the Tugalo river to Ilog mountain, north
of Franklin and Jackson, called the “four-mile
purchase,” which was added to Franklin and
Jackson, but was afterward added to Habersham
and Hall, when they were organized. The neigh
borhood about Buffington's ford, on north Oconee,
was included in the “four-mile purchase,” and
was in Franklin county long after the organiza
tion of Jackson. All the lirst surveys of lands
made between the Tugalo and Seneca rivers, now
in South Carolina, were recorded in Franklin
county, because at the first settlement of the
county, that “Fork country” was a part of Frank
liu county in the State of Georgia. But a dispute
having subsequently arisen between the two States
in reference to their respective boundries, com
missioners were appointed to adjudicate the mat
ter, and the commissioners decided that thcTuga
lo(andnot the Senaca) was the true dividing
line between the States. A tradition, for the
truth of which I cannot vonch, says that Judge
Thomas Peter Carnes, of Franklin county, was
the commissioner on the part of Georgia, and that
the commissioner on the part of South Carolina,
at Beaufort, in that State, feasted and treated
Judge Carnes until he became jolly and drunk,
and then prevailed on him to sign the agreement
that Tugalo should be the dividing line. At any
rate, many people, well acquainted with both
streams, still believe that the Seneca is the main
branch of the Savannah river.
Elbert county was formed from Wilkes in 1790;
and the same year Columbia was formed from
Richmond. In 1783 Warren and Oglethorpe was
formed from “Wilkes and several others counties
contiguous.” In 1811 Madison was formed from
Elbert and Franklin. About 1854 Hart was form
ed from Elbert and Franklin. In 1859, Banks
was formed from Franklin and Habersham ; and
subsequently, portions of Hall and Jackson were
added.
Persons curious in such matters, if they will go
to the place, can yet ffnd houses on the north side
of the Appalachee, built of logs, with port holes
still remaining. These were built when the
Appalachee river was the dividing line between
the whites and Indians, and when that river was
the Southern line of Franklin county. If any one
has doubt about the facts above given in regard
to counties and lines, and will call on me, I will
show him the old records and laws in the Court
House, in Jefferson. G. 11. Cartledge.
By an act of the last legislature all school
money due each county is stopped in the
hands of the Tax Collectors and paid over to
the County Commissioners; so no money
will be in the hands of the Commissioners
until the taxes are collected in the fall.—
Gainesville Southron.
A local colored candidate for state sen
ator down in Mississppi, says: “If dese
white men who ’fess to be ’publicans want
our votes, dey must come clean over and be
one of us—yes, by ganny, dey mus’ be nig
gers wid us.”
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Greensboro’has com growing from
raised this year.
A. S. Dorminey, of Irwin county caiuAt
175 pounds of cat fish with hook and line, j
one} night, in the Ocmulgee river.
Col. Logan E. Bleckley, of Atlanta, has
declined to accept a position on the Supreme
bench of the State. Which adds to the fg tc jj
of our conviction that he is the man for th
place. — Saw News.
A white woman near Forsyth, on the > ■
dav of July, gave birth to twins, borntoa e
ther in very much the same manner as the
Siamese twins, though not in the same par,
of the body. They were born dead.
An Elberton gentleman caught a
woman stealing, and let her off upon her huV
band giving her thirty lashes, well put or '
The husband added thirty for
Gazette.
Dan White (col.) was convicted of torment
ing, torturing, cruelly beating and multilat*
ing an ox belonging toT. J. Nelms, and sen'
tenced to pay a fine of $lO and costs.—-Con
yers Register.
A certain man in attendance upon the pic.
nic the other day, devoured a ham, two chick,
ens, sixteen pounds of beef, five loaves of
bread and about a half barrel of nick-nacks
—Darien Gazette.
Rev. C. W. Lane, of Athens, will conduct
a meeting of some days, incluaing the 3rd
Sabbath'in August, at Dahlonega, and at
Blairsville including the 4th Sabbath in An
gust. Similar meetings will be held at th
above named places on the 3rd and 4th Sab
baths in September, by Rev. R. Milner
Evangelist of Augusta Presbytery.— Mt. Sin.
nal.
A Curious Cow.—Every morning and
evening there may be seen passing alonn
Hunter and East Fair streets a little
colored cow that is a curiosity of the brute
creation. She is a perfectly formed beast in
every way, but lms a fifth foot which grows
cut of the under portion of her body, and !
dangles there in utter uselessness. The foot
is equally well proportion and with the other
four, but is of as much use to the cow as an
extra hat is to a man caught in a ifigh wind. •
— At. Const.
Uncle Billie Dennis, is upwards of eighty
years old. A few weeks back he visited his
children in Hancock. While there hemetan
old gentleman with whom he had a regular
cross-road combat just fifty years ago. The
two exchanged salutations, talked a while at
random, meantime taking one or too “horns.” i
Then the Hancock veteran propose awrestle. |
The banter was accepted, and Uncle Billy,
who whipped at their last meeting, honorably
celebrated this semi-centennial by wallop,
ping the llancockite upon the dirt.— Metrn- jj
ger.
There was a fatal affray at Kingston on
Saturday night. Ab. Johnson, son of the
late Jeff. Johnson, of Chattooga, killed l
Collins, former sheriff of Bartow, in the fol
lowing manner: Johnson and Murchison
were eating crackers and sardines in Collins’ ]
grocery. After eating it was passed twelve
o’clock, Saturday night, when Johnson
wanted a quart of whisky, Collins refusing
oil the ground that it was Sunday. Words
passed, when a quarrel ensued. Collins fired
and missed his aim. Johnson returned the
fire, kil ing Collins instantly, and made his
escape.— At. Const.
Calhoun Ga.. July 26. — It is reported
that the steamer Mary Carter, loaded with
eleven hundred bushels of wheat, ran on a
sand bar above Resaca. The boat is badly
smashed up, and much of the wheat was
lestroyed. No lives were lost. A man i
named Johnson, from Murray county, with '
his wife and five children, his entire family, in
a wagon, drove into the Coosawattee river
near Carter’s mill in this county’. The wagon
got into deep water, and the bed floated off.
The children were all drowned, but the man
and wife escaped. The bodies of four of the
children have been recovered.— At. Const.
Seventy-six replies from twenty-eight
counties in Georgia are summarized in the
July report of the Augusta exchange. Sev
enty-four say that the weather has been very
favorable and seasonable ; one say’s it has
been too wet, and the remaining man says
it has been too dry’. The plaut is doing well
—better than lasi season. Nearly all the
replies report the cro A > as well-worked, clean
and growing freely’.— At. Const.
“Old Rock,” the sobriquet by which the
late Gen. Henri’ L. Benning, of Georgia, was
known throughout Lee’s army* is said to
have been gained in this way : Gen. Ben
ning was moving his brigade rapidly into
action to support Anderson at the second
battle of Manassas. A wounded soldier on
the ground cried out, “Hurry up, Rock, Tige
has treed.” “Rock” and “Tige” were hence
forward the army names of Gens. Benning
and Anderson.
The people of Montgomery are alarmed at
the prevalence of j’ellow fever at Barancas.
A proclamation of quarantine against Pensa
cola will probably be issued this week. The
Journal says it is the only way to save Mont
gomery from the plague.— At. Const.
Memphis, July 25.—There is still con
siderable alarm in regard to an apprehended
overflow, and prayers were offered up fo
various churches to-day fbr its abatement.
To-night news from above is regarded a 8
favorable despite heavy local rains of last
night, as it is believed the nine inches decline
reported by the signal service at Cairo ren
ders danger from the Ohio freshet im
possible.
is needed now—in many place*
vegetation is nearly ruined.
$3.10 C^sh,
Will secure The Forest News and Souther #
Cultivator for one year, to any subscriber i#
J ackson county.
PENDERGRASS & HANCOCK,
WOULD respectfully call the attention of th
public to their elegant stock of
Dry Goods of all Kinds,
KEADT-ifIADE CLOTlll^fi*
FIXE CASSIMERES, HATS, CAPS,
Boots and Shoes; Ladies’ Bonnets, Hats
Trimmings; Hardware, Hollow Ware, Earthed 1
Ware, School Books, Paper, Pens, Inks, Enver ,
opes. Flour, Meal, Bacon, Lard, Sugar Coffey |
Tea, all kinds Patent Medicines; in fact everyth lls .?
usually found in a General Store. Prices to s--
the times. Jefferson, June 12. 1875. 11