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County mu! Ciiiou Directory.
JACKSOX SUPERIOR COURT.
ITox. GEO. D. RTCE, - - - Judge.
EMORY SPEER, Esq., - - Sol. Gen’l.
COUXTV OFFICERS.
4V I LEY C. HOWARD. - Ordinary.
THUS. H. NI BLACK, - - - Clerk S. Court.
JOHN S. HI NT HR, - - - - - - Sheriff.
WINN A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy “
LEE J. JOHNSON, _____ Treasurer.
JA.MKSL. WILLIAMSON, - - Tax Collector.
GEO. \V. BROWN, -____*• Receiver.
JAMES L. JOHNSON* - - County Surveyor
WM. WALLACE, - - - Coroner.
G. J. N. WILSON, County School Coinmiss'r.
Commissioners (Roads and Revenue.)—Wm.
Seymorrh W. J. ITayhie, W. 0. Steed. Meet on
the 1 St'Friday# in August and November. T. H.
• Nndack, Esq.* Clerk.
M. I GJSpi}. I TEE . I XJ) BA ILIFFS.
Jefferson District, No. 245, N. 11. Pendergrass.
J. I’,; H. X, Fleeman, J. P. John M. Burns,
Constable.
Clarkesborough District. No. 242, F. M. Holli
day, J. P.; M. 1. Smith, J. P.
Miller's District, No. 455, 11. F. Kidd, J. P.
Chandler’s District, No. 240, Ezekiel Hewitt,
J. P. ; J. G. Burson, J. P.
Randolph's District. No. 248, Pinckney P.
Pirkle, J. P.; Jas. A. Strayngc. J. P.
Cunningham's District, No. 428, J. A. Bra/.le
ton, J. P.; T. K. Randolph. J. P.
Newtown District, No. 2 58, G. W. O'Kelly, J.
P.; TANARUS, J. Stapler. Not. Pub. & Ex. Off. J. P.
Minnish's District, No. 255, Z. W. Hood. J. P.
Harrisburg District, No. 257, Wm. M. Morgan,
J. P.; J. W. Pruitt. J. P.
House'# District. No. 248, A. A. Hill. J. P.
San to tee District, No. 1042, W. R. Boyd, J. P.
S. Ir. Arnold. J. P.
AN ilson's District, No. 405, W. J. Comer, J. P.
FRATERXAL DIRECTORV.
I fifty Lodge, No. 80, F. A. M„ meets Ist Tues
day night in each month. 11. W. Bell, AV. M.;
John Simpkins, Sec’y.
Love Lodge, No. 05, T. 0. O. F.. meets on 2d
and 4tu Tuesday nights in each month. J. B. Sil
man, N. G.; G. J/N.AVuson, Sec'y.
Stonewall Lodge. No. 214,1. (>. G. TANARUS., meets on
Saturday night before 2d and 4th Sundays in each
month. J. P. Williamson, Sr., W. C. TANARUS.: J. B.
Pendergrass, W. R. S.
Jefferson Grange, No. 488, P. of 11., meets on
Saturday before 4th Sunday in each month. Jas.
E. Randolph, M.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec'y.
Relief (colored) Fire Company, No. 2, meets on
4th Tuesday night in each month. Henry Long,
Captain ; Ned Burns, Sec'y.
Oconee Grange, No. 891, meets on Saturday be
fore the first Sunday in each month, at Galilee, at
1 o'clock, P. M. A. C. Thompson, W. M.; L. T.
#ush, Sec’y.
COUXTV CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST.
Jefferson Circuit. —Jefferson, Harmony Grove,
Dry Pond, Wilson’s, Holly Springs. W. A. Far
ris. P, C.
Mulberry Circuit. —-Fbcnezer, Bethlehem, Con
cord, Centre and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. A. L.
Anderson, I\ C.
Chapel and Antioch supplied from Watkins
viile Circuit.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Thyatira, Rev. G. 11. Car tl edge. Pastor; Sandy
Creex, Rev. Neil Smith. Pastor; Pleasant Grove,
Rev. G-. H. Cart ledge, Pastor; Mizpah, Rev. Neil
Smith, Pastor.
BAPTIST.
Cabin Creek, W. R. Goss, Pastor; Harmony
Grove, W. B. J. Hardeman. Pastor; Zion, Rev.
W. 11. Bridges. Pastor; Bethahra. Rev. J. M.
Davis. Pastor; Academv, Rev. J. N. Coil. Pastor;
Walnut, Kev. J. M. Bavis, Pastor; Crooked
Creek. W. F. Stark. Pastor; Oconee Church. Rev.
A..J. Kelley. Pastor; Poplar Springs. Rev. W.
A. Brock, Pastor; Handler's Creek, YY. F. Stark,
Pastor.
PROTESTANT METHODIST.
Pentecost, Rev. R. S. McGarrity, Pastor.
“CHRISTIAN.”
Bethany Church. Dr. F. Jackson, Pastor.
Christian Chapel. Elder W. T. Lowe, Pastor.
Galilee, Elder P. F. Lamar, Pastor.
FIRST UNI VERSA LIST.
Centre Hill, Rev. B. F. Strain. Pastor: Church
meeting and preaching every third Saturday and
Sunday.
Jtliscrllmicmus Died [’ey.
Prayer and Practice of the Day.
(Jive me an eye to others' failings blind—
(Miss Smith'’# new bonnet's quite a fright be
hind?)
Wake in me charity for the suffering poor.
(There goes that contribution-plate once more!) —
Take from my soul all feeling covetous,
(I'll have a shawl Jike that or have a fuss!) —
Let me in truth’s fair page delight.
(I’ll read that other novel through to-night!)—
Let love for all mankind my spirit stir,
(Save Mistress Jones—l'll never speak to her!) —
Make nie contented with mv earthly state,
(I wish l*d married rich, but it’s too late!) —
Give me a heart of faith in all my kind,
(Miss Brown's as big a hypocrite’s youTl find!) —
Help me to see myself as others see,
('lnis dress so tine just fits me to a tee!) —
me act out no falsehood—l appeal!
(I wonder if they think these curls real?) —
Make this heart ofhrnnility the font,
(How glad I am our pew's near the front!) —
Fill me with patience and with strength to wait,
(I know he'll preach until mv dinner’s late!) —
Take from my heart each spark of self-conceit,
(I'm sure the gentlemen must thhink me sweet!)
In this world teach me to deserve the next.
(Church out! John, do you recollect the text?)
BURIED ALIVE.
INSTANCES IX WHICH THE VICTIMS HAVE
BEEN RESCUED.
Excellent material for a sensation story is
furnished by the following well-established
facts : VlCtorine Lafonreade, young, beauti
ful and accomplished, had a great number of
admirers. Among them was a journalist
named J ules Bossouet. whose chances of be
ing the successful suitor seemed to be the
best, when suddenly Victorine contrary to
all expectation, accepted the hand of a rich
banker named Renelle. Bossouet was in
consolable, and his honest heart ached all the
the more when he learned that the marriage
of his lady love was unhappy. Renelle neg
lected his wife in every possible way, and
finally began to maltreat her.
This state of things lasted two years, when
Victorine died—at least so it was thought.
She was entombed in a vault of the cemetery
of her native town. Jules Bossouet assisted
at the ceremony. Sill true to his love, and
well-nigh beside himself with grief, he con
ceived the romantic idea of breaking open
the vault and securing a lock of the deceas
eVs hair. That night, therefore, when all
was still, he scaled the wall of the cemetery,
and, by a circuituous route, approached the
vault. When he had broken open the door
and opened the vault, lie lighted a candle
and proceeded to open the colßn.
At the moment when he bent over the sup
posed corpse, scissors in hand, Victorine
opened her eyes and stared him full in the
face. lie uttered a cry and sprang back ;
and immediately recovering his self-posses
sion he returned to the coffin, covered its oc
cupant’s lips with kisses, and soon had the
satisfaction of seeing her in full posssession
of her faculties. When Victorine was suffi
ciently recovered they left the churchyard
and went to Bossouet’s residence, where a
physician administered such reme lies as
were necessary to effect the complete recove
ry of the unfortunate woman. This proof of
Bossouet* s love naturally made a deep im
pression on Victorine. She repented her
past fickleness, and resolved to fly with the
romantic Jules to America. There they
lived happily together, without, however be
ing able to fully overcome their longing to
return to their native land. Finally their
desire became so strong to revisit the scenes
of their j'outh that they decided to brave the
danger attendant on a return, and embarked
at New York for Havre, where they arrived
in July, 1839. Victorine, in the interim, had
naturally changed very greatly, and Jules
felt confident that her former husband would
not recognize her. In this hope he was dis
appointed. Renelle had the keen eve of a
financier, and recognized Victorine at the
first glance. This strange drama ended with
a suit brought by the banker for the recove
ry of his wife, which was decided against him
on the grounds that his claim was outlawed.
The scene of the following two cases, with
which we shall end our review, is in Eng
land : One Edward Stapleton died—as was
supposed—of typhus fever. The disease
had been attended by such strange phenome
na throughout, that the physicians were de
sirous to make a post-inortem examination of
the case. The relatives, however, positively
refused their consent. The physicians con
sequently desided to steal the body—not an
unusual thing in England—in order to satis
fy their curiosity. They communicated
with a band of rascals, who at that time
made a business of stealing bodies, and three
days after the funeral had the body of Sta
pleton brought to the dissecting room of
a neighboring clinic. When they made the
first incision, which was across the abdomen,
they were struck with the fresh appearance
of the flesh and the clearness and limpidity
of the blood. One of the physicians propos
ed that they should subject the body to the
action of a galvanic battery. This they did,
with abnormal results; the movements and
contractions of the muscles were more pow
erful than are usually observed. Towards
evening a young student suggested that they
should make an incision in the pectoral
muscles, and introduce the poles of the bat
tery into the wound. This was done, when,
to their amazement, the body rolled from the
table, remained a second or two on its feet,
stammered out two or three unintelligible
words, and then fell heavify to the floor.
For a moment the learned doctors were con
founded, but soon regaining their presence
of mind, they saw that Stapleton was still
alive, although he had again fallen into his
former lethagy. They now applied themsel
ves to recusitating him. in which they were
successful. llq afterward said that during
the whole time he was fully conscious of his
condition, and of what was passing around
him. The words he attempted to utter were :
“I am alive.” A somewhat similar experi
ence was that of an English artillery officer
who, in a fall from a horse, had fractured his
skull, and was trepanned, lie was in a fair
: way to recover, when one day he fell into a
lethargy so profound that he was thought to
be dead, and, in due time, was buried. The
following day, beside the grave by which he
had been interred, another citizen of London
was buried, and at last one of the assistants
chanced to stand on it. Suddenly the man
cried out that he felt the ground move under
his feet, as though the occupant of the grave
would find his way to the surface. At first
the man was thought to be the victim of an
hallucination, but the earnestness with which
he persisted attracted the attention of a con
stable. who caused the grave to be opened.
They found that the officer had forced the
coffin lid, and had made a partially success
ful effort to raise himself up. He was entire
ly unconsious when they got him out, but it
was evident that the effort to extricate him
self had been made but a short time before.
He was carried to a hospital near by, where
tl e physioians, after a time succeeded in re-
I fcuscitating him.
He stated that for an hour before his last
swoon he was fully conscious of the awful
situation he was in. The grave had fortu
natelv been very hastily and lightly filled
with clay, and here and there the continuity
of the mass had been broken by large stones,
which allowad the air to penetrate as far
down as the coffin. lie had tried in vain to
make his cries heard, and, finally, partly in
consequence of having an insufficient supply
of air, and partly in consequence of the men
tal agony he suffered, he had fallen into the
unconscious state in which he was found.
Another Englishman discribes what he ex
perienced, while lying in a coffin in a
perfectly conscious state, in the follow
ing : ‘'lt would be impossible to find words
that would express the agony and despair
that I suffered. Even' blow of the hammer
with which they nailed down my coffin-lid
went through my brain like the echo of a
deatli-knell. I would have never believed
that the human heart could endure such terri
ble agony and not burst into pieces. When
they let me slowly down into the ground, I
distinctly heard the noise the coffin made
every time it rubbed against the sides of the
grave.”
This man also awoke under the knife of a
doctor. He, like Stapleton, had been stolen
and carried the dissecting-room of a medical
school. At the moment the professor made
a slight incision down tho abdomen, the spell
was broken, and he sprang to his feet.
Sleeplessness.
To take a heart}" meal just before retiring
is, of course, injurious, because it is very
likely to disturb one’s rest, and produce
nighmare. However, a little food at this
time, if one is hungry, is decidedly beneficial;
it prevents the gnawing of an empty stomach,
with its attendant restlessness and unpleas
ant dreams, to say nothing of probable head
ache, or of nervous and other derangements
the next morning. One should no more lie
down at night hungry than he should lie
down after a very full dinner, tho conse
quence of either being disturbing and harm
ful. A cracker or two, a bit of bread and
butter, or cake, a little fruit—something to
relieve the sense of vacuity, and to restore
the tone of the system—is all that is necessa
ry-
We have known persons, habitual sufferers
from restlessness at night, to experience
material benefit, even though they were not
hungry, by a very light luncheon before bed
time. In place of tossing about for two or
three hours, as formeiy, they would soon
grow drowsy, fall asleep, and not awake
more than once or twice until sunrise. This
mode of treating insomnia has recently been
recommended by several distinguished
physicians, and the prescription has general
ly been attended with happy results. — Scrib
ner.
Rowing for tiie Girl he Loved. —A
j young man of Evansville, Ind., being at an
up-river town recently, took a skiff to row to
! the next town down stream. About the
time he put out, he noticed a man, and wo
man in a similar boat on the op
posite side of the Ohio, the man pulling with
all his might down stream. The Evansville
youth did not want to be beaten by a man who
had a load, while he had an empty skiff, so
he bent himself to his work with great energy.
Row as hard as he might, the oarsman on the
other side kept ahead of him, until the young
man made up his mind there was something
wrong with the current, and he tried to cross.
This seemed to give additional energy to
the other oarsman, and our Evaiuviller drop
ped back, but still kept the couple in sight.
After half a day’s row. the single oarsman
I stopped at a town, rested, and took the next
, steamer for home. On the way down the
| steamer was hailed, and the couple from the
skiff got aboard. The young man, after a
short time, approached the champion oars
man and remarked: “Well, you beat me,
didn’t you? But I tried hard to get ahead.”
“Thunderation !” exclaimed the man, “was
that you a-pullin” aftur us? I thought it
was Lize’s dad, an’ I jist lit in with all my
might; but it’s no use now—we’s married for
good now, stranger, an’ I wouldn't row that
hard even of the old man was to heave in
sight.”
A Marvelous Leap.—A dispatch from
Dresdon, Ohio, announces that Robert Stick
ney, the celebrated rider and acrobat of
Robinson’s Circus, accomplished last Satur
day evening at that place the extraordinary
feat of turning a double somersault over
twenty-four horses. Hitherto the greatest
number of horses over which “a double” had
ever been turned was eighteen, and the event
is exciting] much talk among circus men.
Uncle John Robinson offers to wager that
no other man living can turn even a single
somersault over twenty-four horses. Cer
tainly the feat of Stickney deserves record
in acrobatic annals as the most marvelous in
circus historjL
Coughing.—The best method of easing a
cough is to resist it with all the force of will
possible, until the accumulation of phlegm
becomes greater ; then there is something to
cough against, and it comes up very much
easier and with half the coughing. A great
deal of hacking, and hemming, and coughing
in invalids is purely nervous, or the result of
mere habit, as is shown by the frequency
with which it occurs while the patient is think
ing about it, and itsjeomparative rarity when
he is so much engaged that there is no time
to think, or when the attention is impelled
in another direction.
The other day when the stamp clerk at
the Vicksburg post office refused to ‘‘lick
on” a three-center for an old lady who want
ed to post a letter, she stood back, and gave
him a look of scorn and indignantly exclaim
ed : “ Well, if folks ain’t getting powerful
peart and sassy these days! I believe if
Gabriel should blow his trumpet to-morrow
that half the young folks would want to git
on starched shirts afore they went to
heaven.”
Let’s chip in and raise a hundred dollars
for the Boston physician who says that it is
unhealthy to rise before the sun has dispelled
the morning fogs.
“To be Let.”
To he let at a very desirable rate
A snug little cottage in a fine, healthy state,
’Tis a bachelor’s heart, and the “agent” is chance,
Affection the rent, to be paid in advance.
The owner, as yet, has possessed it alone,
So the fixtures are not of much value, hut soon
’Twill he furnished by Cupid himself, if a wife
Take a lease for the term of a natural life.
The tenant will have a few taxes to pay.
Love, honor, and heaviest item, “obey:”
As for good will, the owner’s inclined
To have that, if agreeable, settled in kind,
Provided true title by proof can be shown.
To heart unincumbered and free as his own.
So ladies, dear ladies, pray do not forget,
There's an excellent bachelor's heart “to be let.”
LADIES’ COLUMN.
Psalm of Marriage.
Tell me not in i<lle jingle,
“ Marriage is an empty dream !”
For the girl is dead that's single,
And girls are not what they seem,
Life is real ! Life is earnest!
Single blessedness a fib !
“ Man thou art to man returnest !*’
Has been spoken of the rib.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act that each to-morrow
Finds us nearer our marriage day/
Life is long, and youth is fleeting.
And our hearts though light and gay,
Still like pleasant drums are beating
Wedding matches all the way.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb cattle driven !
Bea heroine—a wife !
Trust no future, however pleasant,
Let the dead past bury its dead !
Act—act to the living Present I
Heart within and hope ahead !
Lives of married folks remind us
We can live our lives as well,
And, departing, leave behind us
Such examples as shall k ‘tell.’ T
Such example that another,
Wasting time in idle sport,
A forlorn, nmnarried brother.
Seeing, shall take heart and court.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart on triumph set
Still contriving, still pursuing,
And each one a husband get.
The “Professor at the Breakfast Table”
Speaks his Mind.
Oliver Wendell Holmes writes : Our land
lady’s daughter is a young lady of some pre
tensions to gentility. She wears her bonnet
will hack upon her head, which is known to
all to be a mark of high breeding. She
wears her trains very long, as the great
ladies do in Europe. To be sure their
dresses are so made only to sweep the
tapestried floors of chateaus and palaces ; as
those odious aristocrats of the other side do
not go dragging through the mud. in silks
and satins, but, forsooth, must ride in coach
es when they are in full dress. It is true
that considering various habits of the Ameri
can people, also the accidents which the best
kept sidewalks are liable to, a lady who has
swept a mile of them is not exactly in such
a condition that one would care to be her
neighbor. But confound the make-believe
women we have turned loose in our streets !
Where do they come from? Not out of
Boston parlors, I trust. Why there isn’t a
beast or a bird that would drag its tail
through the dirt in the way these creatures
do their dresses. Because a queen or a
duchess wears long robes on great occasions,
a maid of all work or a factory girl thinks
she must make herself a nuisance by trailing
about with her—pah! that’s what I call get
ting vulgarity into your bones and marrow.
Making believe what you are not is the es
sence of vulgarity. Show over dirt is the
one attribute of vulgar people. If any man
can walk behind one of these women, and
see what she rakes up as she goes, and not
feel squeamish he has got a tough stomach.
I wouldn’t let one of’em into my room with
out serving them as David served Gaul at
the cave in the wilderness—cut off his skirts.
Don’t tell me that a true lady ever sacrifices
the duty of keeping all about her sweet
and clean to the low wish of making
a vulgar show. I won’t believe it of a lady.
There are some things that no fashion has a
right to touch and cleanliness is one of those
things. If a woman wishes to show that her
husband or father has got money which she
wants and means to spend, but doesn’t know
how, let her buy a yard ’or two of silk and
pin it to her dress when she goes out to
walk, but let her unpin it before she goes
into the house.
Woman’s Taste and Resources.
There is a "rent variety of tastes in the
world, and it is to be presumed that almost
every woman has a taste for something, al
though it may not be painting or music. It
is always desirable that they should have
some resources outside the daily routine of
their domestic duties, to relieve the tedium
of ordinary life. The instincts of their na
ture crave such relief. Men have their
sports and office gossippings from which
their wives and daughters are excluded.
There is something touching and pathetic in
some of the heirlooms, which show how they
were wont to amuse themselves in days
gone-by. On the walls of some remote up
per chamber there hangs a quaint old sam
pler, covered all over with alphabets, in
every conceivable form of text, and in all
varieties of color, very much faded now.
“worked by Abigail W. Brown, 1811, in the
thirteenth year of her age.” By its side
may be seen a funeral piece, with a green
willow, bearing a strong resemblance to an
umbrella, hanging over a white shaft some
what out of line, and supported on the sides
by" the two marvelously-carved female
figures, with a noble botany in the surround
ing grass and flowers, and of the ordinary
rules bf perspective in the adjacent church.
On the opposite wall, elaborate card-racks
are suspended, made of varnished and gilded
scollop-shells; and in centre of the room
stands a block table, adorned with little
pictures of birds and bugs, and buildings
and beasts, and anything else that happened
to turn up in the pictorials of the day,
arranged in rows and circles and squares and
triangles, perhaps with a vase of artificial
flowers on the top more brilliant than nature,
and a great deal stiffer.
The Lazy Daughter.
Among the worst features of a badly
minded daughter, we would first single out
indolence, or to use the rough and more ex
pressive English word, laziness. A lazy,
sofa-lolling, lie-a-bed late in the morning
young woman, is an affront to her sex, and
in her own family more a curse than a bless
ing to her mother. She is a burden, and to
her father an object of contempt. She is
also a great promoter of domestic strife, and
a shocking example to her younger sisters.
Such a being crawls instead of walking with
a tripping alacrity through life. She daw
dies instead of works, her speech is vulgar,
and altogether her ways are very bad indeed ;
and to add to her misdeeds her health suffers
through her folly, and thus she wantonly
imposes a grievous tax on the purse and
patience of her parents. For a girl to be
idle in the flush of her youth is to invite any
and all kinds of calamities to befall her with
blistering anguish, and, depend upon it, the
downward career of most afflicted women
may by primarily traced to this early and
wicked habit, for it is nothing else, it being
as easy for a young woman to be industrious
as the reverse.
Now is the time to subscribe !
SUNDAY READING.
Watchwords of Life.
Hope,
While there's a hand to strike !
Dare,
While there’s a young heart brave !
Toil,
While there’s a task unwrought!
Trust,
While there’s a God to save t
Learn,
That there’s work for each I
Feel,
While there’s strength in God I
Know,
That there’s a crown reserved !
W ait,
Though beneath the cloud and rod !
Love,
When there's a foe that wrought!
Help,
■When there's a brother’s need !
Watch,
When there's a tempter near !
Pray,
Both in thy word and deed !
“ Does God Ever Scold?”
“Mother,” said a little girl, “does God
ever scold ?” She had seen her mother, un
der circumstances of strong provocation,
lose her temper, and give way to the impulse
of passion ; and pondering thoughtfully for a
moment, she asked:
“Mother, does God ever scold?”
The question was so abrupt and startling
that it arrested the mother’s attention al
most with a shock ; and she asked :
“Why, my child, what makes you ask that
question:
“Because, mother, you have always told
me that God is good, and that we should try
to live like him, and I should like to know if
he ever scolds.”
“No, my, my child, of course not.”
“Well, I'm glad he don’t for scolding al
ways hurts me, even if I feel I have done
wrong, and it don’t seem to me that I could
love God very much if he scolded.”
The mother felt rebuked before her simple
child. Never before had she heard so for
cible a lecture on the evils of scolding. The
words of the child sank deep into her heart,
and she turned away from the innocent face
of the little one to hide the tears that gather
ed to her eyes. Children are quick obser
vers ; and the child, seeing the effects of her
words, eargerly inquired—
“ Why do you cry. mother? was it naughty
for me to say what I said?”
“No. my love—it was all right; I was only
thinking I might have spoken more kindly,
and not hurt your feelings by speaking so
hastily and in anger as I did.”
“O mother, yon are good and kind, only I
wish there was not so many bad things to
make you feel and talk as you did just now.
It makes me feel a way from you so far, as if
I could not come near you as I do when you
speak kindly, and oh, sometimes I fear I
shall be put off so far I can never get back
again.”
“No, my child, don't say that,” said ti e
mother, unable to keep back her tears, as si e
felt her tones had repelled her little one from
her heart—and the child, wondering what so
affected her parent, but intuitively feeling it
was a case of sympathy, reached up, and
throwing her arms about her mother's neck,
whispered—
“ Mother, dear mother, do I make you cry?
Do you love me?”
“Oh yes! 1 love you more than I can
tell,” said the parent, clasping the little one
to her bosom, “and I will try never to scold
von again, but if I have to reprove my chi’d,
I will try not to do it in anger, but kindly,
deeply as I may be grieved that she has done
wrong.”
“Oh, I am so glad ; T can get so near to vc 11
if you won't scold, and do you know, mother,
ldo want to love you so much, and I will
try always to be gocx 1 .” .
The lesson w r as one that sank deep into that
mother's heart, and has been an aid to tier
for many a year. It impressed the great
principle of reproving in kindness, not in
anger, if we would gain the great end of re
proof—the great end of winning the child, at
the same time, to what is right, and to the
parent's heart. •
Children in the Bible.
One of the most remarkable and most sig
nificant features in the Bible, as far as chil
dren are concerned, is the fact that it has no
less than nine different expressions to denote
a child. These nine words are by no means
synonymous, but describe the various possi
ble stage of the child’s life, from its birth to
manhood, thus showingthe tender care with
which the Hebrew parent watched and
marked every period in the child’s growth
and development. There is the word ben,
“son,” feminine bath, “daughter,” which is
the general term for a child of any age.
Then we have the more characteristic and
specific yield, the “newly-born child,” indica
ting by its name the fact of its arrival. A
farther stage of the babe's existence is ex
pressed by the name yonek, “sucking.” As
still denoting the nursing period but expres
sive of the age when the child is about to be
weaned, is the name olel Gcimul, “the wean
ed,” the fifth name, marks the period when it
becomes independent of its mother. Equal
ly expressive are the remaining four names,
which describe the successive stages of the
child’s life, from the time he begins to run
about to his development into maturity.
Thus taph, the “quickly stepping,” “the little
trotter,” is the name of the little one who has
ceased to be carried by the mother, who
makes short and quick strides to keep the
pace of his parent. Diem, “the strong,” the
seventh appellation, describes him when he
has developed his strength, and is ready to
assist his parents in their labors, though not
prepared for independent action. Near, “the
free” (from near, “to become free,”) the
eighth name, describes the grown up youth,
who, though still assisted by his parents, is
no more at their side, but has attained to that
age when he can walk about freely and de
fend himself; and Bachur, “the matured,”
“the ripe,” the ninth name, describes him
when he has attained his majority, is mar
riageble, and fit for the military service.—
Summers.
Family Prayer.— Perhaps some of you
say : “I am so ignorant that there is no good
trying to have prayer in our family.” You
make a mistake there. It is not grand
words that God wants, but honest hearts.
God offers you his Holy Spirit to help you in
your prayers and to teach you to pray. Je
sus says, “If ye, then, being evil, know how
to give good gifts unto your children, how
much more shall your Heavenly Father give
the Holy Spirit to them that ask him !” Ask
God for the help of his Holy Spirit, and you
will find that it is far better than all the help
any man can give you.— British Workman.
St. Matthew is suppoesd to have suffered
martyrdom, or was put to death by the
sword, at the city of Ethiopia.
The editor of a Cass County,
paper, planted two beds of onions early i n J
spring, one of which he salted to prevent n
grasshoppers from taking them. Shortly f
ter they were planted the grasshoppers mi' |
a raid on them, ate all of the salted bed fi r t
and then pulled those up from the other 2
and carried them to where the salt was a J
ate them.
An English newspaper has an advertis
naent from “a clergyman :’ r “Violet ve lv t
sermon case, large size, with gold
on the cover, lined with water silk, V J!
handsome, never been used, cost guineas
infant’s new short clothing desired in
change.”
“Sir,” said a little blustering man to .
religious opponent, “to what sect do you Sn
pose I belong?” “Well, I don’t 'exact!-
know,” replied his opponent, “ but to ’
from your size,appearance and constant
ing, I should think you belonged to the class
generally called insects.”
A Scotchman went to a lawyer once fo,
advice, and detailed the circumstance
case. “Have you told me the facts precis*,
ly as they occurred?” asked the lawyer “Oh
aye, sir !” replied he. “I thought it best tr,
tell the plain truth. Ye can put the lies into
it yourself’
What is the difference between spermaceti
and a school boy’s howl? One is the
produced by the whale, and the other is tt
wail produced by the whacks.
JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTORY?
PROFESSIONS.
Physicians... J. D. & 11. J. Long, J. J. Dos.
ter, N. W. Carithers.
A TTY'S at Law... J. B. Silman, W. I. pjtJ
•T. A. B. Mahatfey, W. C. Howard, M. M. Pitm*
P. F. Hinton.
MERCHANTS.
Pendergrass & Hancock, F. M. Bailey, Stanfo
& Pinson, Wm. S. Thompson.
MECHANICS.
Carpenters... Joseph P. Williamson, Sen'r
J. P. Williamson, Jr.
Harness Maker... John G. Oakes.
Wagon M akers Wm. Wintram, Menu*
Rav. (col,)
Buggy Maker. ..L. Gilleland.
Blacksmith... C„ T. Story.
Tinner. .. John H. Chapman.
Tanners...J. E. & 11. J. Randolph.
B(x>t anj> Shoe-Makers... N. B. Stark, St*,
born M. Stark.
HOTELS .
Randolph House, by Mrs. Randolph.
North-Eastern Hotel, by John Simpkins.
Public Boarding House, by Mrs. Elizabett
Worsham.
Liquors. Sugars, &c...J. L. Bailey.
Grist and Saw-Mill and Gix...‘J. D. k I!,
J. Long.
Saw-Mill and Gin...F. S. Smith.
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CO UNTY SC HO OL DIR ECTOR Y.
Martin Institute. —J. IV. Glenn, Principal;?,
P. Orr. Assistant; Mi>s M. E. Orr, Assistant
Miss Lizzie Burch, Music.
Centre Academy. —L. M. Lyle, Principal.
Galilee Academy. —A. L. Barge, Principal.
Harmony Grove Academy. —R. S. Cheney,P4
cipal.
Murk Academy. —J. 11. McCarty, Principal. ]
Oak Grove Academy —Mrs. A. C. P. flitltn,
Principal.
Academy (’lurch. —J. .J. Mitchell, Principal.
Duke Academy. —Mrs. 11. A. Dcadwyler, Pris-J
cipal.
Park Academy. —Miss V. C. Park. Principal.
Chapel Academy. —W. 11. Hill, Principal.
Hatty Spring Academy —W. P. Newman, Prin
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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAII.i
Athens mail arrives at Jefferson on IVednu
days and Saturdays, at 10 o'clock, A. M., anilA-i
parts same days at 12 o'clock, M.
Gainesville mail arrives at Jefferson on IVcdne
days and Saturdays, at 11 o'clock, A. M., anddt-l
parts same days at 12 o'clock, M.
Lawrenceville mail arrives at Jefferson on Satnl
days, at 12 o'clock, M, and departs same day at
o'clock, P. M.
F. L. Pendergrass, Dep'yP.M.
USEFUL INFORMATION.
Legal Weight.
The following is the Legal Weight of si
bushel, as fixed by an Act of the General.!'
sembly, approved February 20th, 1875:
Wheat, .... 60 pound*]
Shelled Com, ... 56 “
Ear Corn, ... 70 “
Peas, - ... 60 “
Rye, - ... 56 “
Oats, - - - - -32 *
Barley - - - - 47 “
Irish Potatoes, - - 60 “
Sweet Potatoes, - - 55 “
White Beans, - 60 “
Clover Seed, - - GO “
Timothy, . - 45 “
Flax, - - - 50
Hemp, - - . .44 “
Blue Grass, - - - 14 “
Buck Wheat, - - - 52 “
Unpeeled dried Peaches, - -33 “
Peeled dried Peaches, - - 38 “
Dried Apples, - - . 24
Onions, - . . 57 “
Stone Coal, - - 80 “
Unslaked Lime, - - - 80 “
Turnips, - - - 55 “
Com Meal, . - - 48 “
Wheat Bran, - - 20 “ ,
Cotton Seed, - -30 “
Ground Peas, - - - 25 “
Plastering Hair, - 8
A Useful Table. —To aid farmers in arnT*|
at accuracy in estimating the anioimt of land -
different fields under cultivation, the following' l '
hie is given by an agricultural eotemporV
Five yards wide by 978 yards long contains lC |
acre. I
Ten yards wide by 484 yards long contain |
acre.
Twenty yards wide by 242 yards long contain
acre.
Forty yards wide by 121 yards long contain
acre.
Eighty yards wide by 10J yards long contain
acre.
Seventy yards wide by 69} yards long conta I
1 acre.
Two hundaed and twenty feet wide by 108 v |
long contains 1 acre.
Four hundred and forty feet wide bv 90 |
Ion" contains 1 acre.
Eleven feet wide by 398 feet long contain
acre.
Sixty feet wide by 726 feet long contain 1
acre.
One hundred and twenty feet wide by 3G3
long contains 1 acre.
Two hundred and forty feet wide dy 181} !f! |
long contains 1 acre.
The By-Laws of Journalism.
1. Be brief. Tbis is the age of telegraphs * |
stenography. |
2. Be pointed. I)on‘t write all I
subject without hitting it.
3. State facts, but don’t stop to moralize, J
it is a drowsy subject. Let the reader do i
own dreaming.
4. Eschew preface. Plunge at once into f p
subject, like a swimmer into cold water. f . f
5. If you have written a sentence thaC
think particularly fine, draw your pen throUr' |
A pet child is always the worst in the family- ■
6. Condense. Make sure that you really 1
idea, and then record it in the shortest
terms. We want thoughts in their auinteN^
7. When your article is completed, strike
nine-tenths of the adjectives.