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Address all communications forpublication and all letters on business to MALCOM STAFFORD, Managing and Business Editor. 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. —o 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 o 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.