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©it §m%l T 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