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Ulie 4 Joel 8 Comer.
For the Forest News.
Reply to “Wailing,”
in the Anr.krijoni’E echo of jury 10, 1875.
Ah ! boat man. you have come at last,
O. how much I rejoice*
To have vou calling, calling.
In your sweet silvery voice
My weary soul away from earth
To a bright y, happier land.
W hich F -hall reach. I know, when I
Am guided by your hand.
Farewell. t> earth, and all that’s dear,
I’ve on my journey come
To that blest land I have longed to reach—
’Tis mv eternal home.
My v. o til ids arc healed by that sweet balm
Wlucll flows in streamsiio sweet;
Mv s>nrow and ntv earei are gone—
Now rests my weary feet.
Already I can hear the strains
(if that bright angel band ;
T have come, ere this, to the bright shore
j)f that sweet, blissful land.
Tts (lorries and spires already I see—
I am now upon that shore,
Thank God, I am where I have longed to be
In the long drear years of yore.
Yes, 1 can sec the loved ones who
Have long since gone before—
Who left old earth long, long ago, |
In the dreary years of yore ;
I see *“ the honored age and youth’’
And •* the babe with the golden hair”;
We all join in in praising God
With sweet songs “ over there.”
“ OTTS.”
GLEANINGS.
By a recent census the total population of
Nashville, Tenn., is found to be 19,000.
The Northern Methodists have begun to
swing around the circle with Haven’s taber
nacle.
The Indiana census brings to light a mat
ron who has nineteen children with but seven
birth-days among them.
Fifty dollars was what it cost an American
in Liverpool for carrying a loaded revolver
in his pocket. *
The Prince Af Wales is going to Lucknow,
but a good many think he is in ‘‘hick now,”
with $710,000 at his disposal.
/ . '. I
The Constitutional Convention carried at
the election in Alabama, on the Ist inst., by
a majority of about 15,000.
%
The oldest known living horse is at Jack
son, Michigan. lie is fifty-one years old,
and does a good day’s work daily.
*T!ie Rev. Joseph Williams, a negro preach
er at Franklin, Tenn., is on trial for kissing
Sister Jordan. Raise his salary.
den. Hoed is writing a history of his
operations around Atlanta and his campaign
in Tennessee.
Yassar girls, by way of joining amusement
tg lyiefulnoss, propose getting up a washing
match, at the close of the coming school t erm.
A young Lady o.f Boston has been enrolled
as honorary member of the Fifth Maryland
Regiment, and is consequently more partic
ular than ever about the right dress.
LaFnyctte, Indiana, has invited Theodore
TiTtori'tb and he’ll come, so it is said,
and give the white-souled Hoosier women a
a talk that will set their little birds to sing
ing.
One JujncJred and sixty ministers wero pre
sent at* t.lte satioiml 'Camp-miteting, held at
Cedar Rapids, lowa. The attendance of the
people was very large. • L
Asparagus is gaid to be a sure remedy for
rhegjuaafism in its first stages ; the Jerusalem
artidiokfc \§ fMiarfc a shntlar in
relieving rheumatism.
In the Zoological Garden at Paris, a big
seal, of the sort called sea lion, has distin
guished himself by saving the life of a little
bov who had tumbled in. and couldn’t get out
because of the high edge of the basin. The
seal held him up with his teeth till help came.
The population of New York, as shown by
the city census just completed, is 1,064,272
—showing an increase of 91,166 on the United
States census, of 15?70.
ThedNew York Sim says its latest advices
from Ohio, and from Republican as weH as
Democratic sources, are that Allen will prob
ably be elected Governor by from 25,000 .o
30,000 majority.
An intellectual lady, of Salem, Mass., has
given her whole mind, for several years, to
the collection of buttons, of which she now
has a string 24 feet long. To perfect this
noble life-work, we would suggest that she
make button-holes to match them.
In South Russia, recently, in order to pre
vent a duel, a dispute between two young
men was.settled by an agreement that the
man who drew the shortest straw was to give
up hoine, position in societ}', and wealth, and
retire to a foreign land to begin life anew
empty-handed.
Among recent curious fhventions is the ap
plication of the camera obscura to a railroad
car, imparting to the traveling and wonder
ing beholder a moving diminutive picture of
the country through which it is passing.
A circular from the advertising agents, G.
P. Rowell & Cos., states that of 28 new news-
papers placed on their lists during July, and
taking political sides, nine declared them
selves Republican and nineteen Democrats.
An order for 445 miles of lead pencils was
recently received by a New York firm. To
make them 83,000 feet of cedar lumber are
required, and after they are made they will
loacl six freight cars.
IV The highest bridge in the world is to be
built at the crossing of the Kentucky river on
the. Cincinnati Southern Railroad near the
Shaker Ferry. It will be 164 feet and 6 in
ches above low water mark. When this
structure is completed, Kentuckians can
point with pride to the highest bridge on the
Continent.
A Washington man writes to the Republi
tTi*d city, complaining of “the water
wc drink.” The editor indignantly asks who
he means by “wc,” and “what water?”
HISTORICAL.
GETTYSBURG.
The death of Gen. Pickett recalls the event
ful catastrophe at Gettysburg. On the
morning of the third day of the battle, Gen.
Lee, having been unsuccessful in his efforts
to dislodge the Federal rights and left wings
from ilicir commanding positions, resolved
to make a determined rush with a strong
column at Cemetery Hill, which formed the
centre of the enemy’s position. Ifthis point
were taken, their line wotild be pierced, the
army would follow, Lee would be rooted on
this commanding ground, directly between
the two Federal wings, upon which their
own guns might lie turned, and the defeat of
Gen. Meade must certainly follow. The or
ders were given and the colninn prepared for
the assault. Mr. John listen Cooke thus
describes the memorable action that follow
ed :
For the hard work at hand, Pickett’s divi-_
sion of Virginia troops, which had just arriv
ed and were fresh, was selected. These,
were to be supported by Heath’s division of
Nort h Carolinatroop3, under Gen. Pettigrew,
who was to move on Pickett’s left, and a
brigade of General Hill’s under Gen. Wilcox,
who was to cover the right of the advancing
column and protect it from all flank attacks.
The advance of the charging column was
preceeded by a tremendous artillery fire di
rected from Seminary Ridge at the enemy’s
left and centre. This began about an hour
past noon, and 1 lie amount of thunder thus
unloosed will be understood from the state
ment that Lee employed one hundred and
forty-five pieces, and the enemy "eplied with
eighty-—in all two hundred and twenty-five
guns—all discharging at the same time. For
nearly two hours this frightful hurly-burly
continued. * * * * * * * * *
While this artillery duel was in process
the charging column was being formed oil
the west of Sriihinarv Ridge, oppposite the
Federal centre on Cemetery Hill. Pickett
drew up ins line with Kemper’s aud Garnett’s
brigades in front and Armstead’s brigade in
the rear. The brigade under General Wil
cox took position on the right, and on the left
was placed the division under Pettigrew,
which was to participate in the charge. The
force numbered between twelve and fifteen
thousand ; but as will be seen, nearly in the
beginning of the action Pickett was left alone,
and thus his force, about five thousand, was
all that went forward to pierce the centre of
the Federal army.
The opposing ridges at this point are
about one mile asunder, and across this space
Pickett moved at the word, his line advanc
ing slowly, and perfectly “dressed,” with its
red battle-flags flying and the sunshine dart
ing from the gun barrels and bayonets. The
two armies were silent, concentrating their
whole attention upon this slow and ominous
advance of men who seemed in no haste and
resolved to allow nothing to arrest them.
When the column had reached a point about
midway between the oppbs 1 ' ng heights the
Federal artillery suddenly opened a furious
fire upon them, which inflicted considerable
loss. This, however, had no effect upon the
troops, who continued to advance slowly, in
the same excellent order, without exhibiting
any desire to turn the fire.
It was impossible to witness this steady
and well ordered march under heavy fire
without feeling admiration for the soldier
ship of the troops who made it. When shell
tore gaps in the ranks the men quietly closed
up, and the hostile front advanced in the
same ominous silence toward the slope
where the real struggle, all felt, would soon
begin.
They were within a few hundred yards of
the hill when suddenly a rapid cannon fire
thundered on their right, and shell and can
aster from fifty pieces of artillery swept the
'the Southern line, enfilading it, and. for an
instant, throwing the right into some disor
der. This disappeared at once, however.
The" column closed up and continued to ad
vance unmoved towards the height.
At last the moment came. The steady,
“common .-time” step had become, “quick
time this had changed to double quick
then the column rushed headlong at the
enemy’s breastworks on the slope of the hill.
As they did so the real thunder began. A
fearful musketry fire burst forth and struck
them in the face, and this hurricane shattered
the raw troops of Pettigrew as leaves are
scattered by a wind. That whole portion of
the line gave way in disorder and fled from
the field, which was strewed with their dead ;
and, as Wilcox had not moved so as to keep
up, the Virginians under Pickett were left
alone to breast the tempest which had now
burst upon them in all its fury.
They returned the fire from the breast
works in their front with a heavy volley, and
then, with loud cheers, dashed at the enemy’s
wArk; which they reached, stormed and took
possession of at the point of the bayonet. The
loss, however, was frightful. General Garnett
was killed; General Armistead fell, mortally
wounded, as he leaped on the breastworks,
cheering and waving his hat; General Kem
per was shot and disabled, and the ranks of
the Virginians were thinned to a handful.
The men did not, however, pause.
The enemy had partly retreated from their
first line of breastworks to a second and
stronger one, about sixty yards beyond, and
near the crest; and here the Federal reserve,
as Northern writers state, was drawn up
“four deep.” This line, bristling with bajm
nets and cannon, the Virginians now charg
ed, in the desperate attempt to storm it with
the bayonet and pierce, in a decisive man
ner, the center of the Federal army. But
the work was too great for their powers.
As they made their brave rush they were met
by a concentrated fire full in their faces, and
both flanks at the same moment.
This fire did not so much cause them to
lose heart, as literally hurl them back. Be
fore it the whole charging column seemed to
melt and disappear. The bravest saw now
that further fighting was useless—that the
works in their front could not be stormed —
and, with the frightful fire of the enemy still
tearing their lines to pieces, the poor rem
nants of the brave division retreated from the
hill. As they fell back, sullen, like bull-dogs
from whom their prey had been snatched
just as it was in their grasp, the enemy pur
sued them with a destructive fire both of
cannon and musketry, which mowed down
large numbers, if large numbers, indeed, can
be said to have been left.
The command had been nearly annihilated.
Three Generals, fourteen field officers, and
three-fourths of the men were dead, wounded
or prisoners. The Virginians had done all
that could be done by soldiers. They had
advanced undismayed into the focus of a
fire unsurpassed, perhaps, in the annals of
war : had fought bayonet to bayonet; had
left the ground strewn with their dead ; and
the small remnant who survived were now
sullenly retiring, unsubdued ; and, if repulsed,
not “whipped.”
Such was the last charge at Gettysburg.
Lee had concentrated in it all his available
strength, it seemed. When it failed the
battle and the campaign failed with it.—
Mobile Register.
BEN FRANKLIN.
A FEW HITHERTO UNWRITTEN INCIDENTS IN
ms CHECKERED CAREER.
January the 17th was the anniversary of
Ben Franklins birthday. We suppose it was
observed with great reverence by printers
through the United States. The great man’s
memory was, no doubt, drank in copious
draughts of bottled lightning in commemora
tion of the great philosopher’s experiments
with fluid of the same name, but different
qualities.
Franklin did not take part in any of the
festivities in the printing offices on the 17th.
He is, or rather would be if he were here, too
old for such hilarity. He would be 169
years old had he remained with us. But
long-continued habit of early rising under
mined his vigorous constitution, and gentle
death scooped him in at the age of eighty
four, just eighty-five years ago. Let us not
weep for him. If he had but lived a few
years longer this bright, beautiful world, so
full of life and hope, would have been blight
ed and scarred with more dreary old maxims
about going to bed at dark aud getting up
before daylight, and about earning a dollar
by saving a cent, and always thiuking a
week before we speak a miuute, and similar
stuff, than the United States census could
compile between now and the end of time.
Franklin's family must have led a dreary
life. The venerable philosopher, quoting
his favorite msrxim, “Early to bed,” would
drive his helpless family off to their rooms
at sunset, while he would go down to the
post office for an hour or two, then come
back and play with an electrical machine for
a few hours, and then write on his almanac
until 2 o’clock in the morning. He would
then devour a light lunch of cold pig’s feet,
apple pie, and fried liver, after which lie
would make everybody in the house get up
and dress, assemble in the setting room, and
lecture to them for over an hour about eat
ing between meals. Then begging them to go
to work, and remember that the early bird
caught the worm, he would go to bed and
sleep until 12 o’clock m. Tie always slept
as much as lie conld during the day time, i'or
it was one of liis favorite sayings: “Never
put off till to-morrow what you can do to
day.” This custom the great printer had, of
sitting up all night and sleeping all day, was
what established the heathenish hour observe
ed by the morning papers to this day.
The philosopher was a man of the most
rigid temperance. lie begged all the tobacco
lie used, and he could never be induced to
eat tobacco like bread, as some men do. He
was was born at an early age, and was a
printer on compulsion. He held cases in
brother’s office after serving out hisdeyilship ;
but because his brother took all the phat, lie
went on a strike, ratted the office and left.
One evening he entered Philadelphia on foot,
with a loaf of bread under his arm, from
which he was drawing liberal rations. His
tor3 r makes no mention of the black bottle
in his coat-tail pocket. This is the first
tramp printer of whom there is any reco 'd.
lie was a great and good man in his time,
but lie was slow. He would not have been
suited to this busy, progressive ge lefadon.
lie lacked the great comprehensive, abstract
elements of modern American statesmanship.
He would hardly have shone in a Congress
where the Hon. Oakes Ames, and the lion.
John Morrissey write his co•leagues. There
is an anecdote illustrative of hisfidelity to
the principles of truth.
Ilis father was a tallow chandler, soap
boiler, and, as he used a great deal of wood,
he strove to inculcate habits of industry in
his son by letting him saw and split all the
fuel. One day young Ben was chopping
wood in a very bad humor, because his wb>\k
prevented him from going off with a lot of
boys to steal peaches. His father come out
to see that his son didn’t pick out all the
easy pieces to cut;, and as lie passed by the
boy broke a stick in two with a terrific
blow, and one of the pieces went whirling
through the air like an aeroite, and nestled
in the venerable man’s back hair, raising a
lump like a base ball. “Who would be so
cruel as to hit a poor old man like me ?” in
quired the stricken soap boiler, while the
members of his frightened family supported
his drooping frame and rubbed his lump with
ham fat.
“Father, dear father,” sobbed the future
philosopher. “I can’t telf a lie. It was the
boy who lives aeross the street, an’ he has
just skinned around the corner.” “M v son,
my own dear boj 7 ,” said ids pa, dashing a
pearly tear drop from Ids loving orbits. “You
are cordially invited to attend a matinee
for children only, which will be held in the
boiler room in ten minutes from this moment
of speaking. Positively no postponement
on account of the weather, and no pains
spared to make things interesting for the
audience.”
A little incident worth relating happened
to Ben after he had become a married man,
and was living in a small village down in
Connecticut. J. "W. Dusenberry’s great
circus and menagerie had just arrived from
Blossenburg, and was going to give a per
formance in the evening, and Ben’s oldest
boy was seized with an irresistable desire to
attend. So at the dinner table he asked
permission of Ids father to attend the circus
in the evening. “No, no !my son, you must
not go to the show. It is an unfit place for
me as i consider it; how much more dan
gerous must it be for you ; I will not allow
a son of mine to attend a circus performance
where I myself would blush to be seen. Go
to bed my boy, and your mother and I will
go to prayer-meeting. To-morrow J will buy
you a testament for your obedience.”
He went to bed but not to sleep.
An hour afterward Ben and and his wife
might have been seen seated on a top board
under the brilliantly lighted circus tent.
Ben’s face glowed with enjoy mentand his jaws
worked industriously upon the end of twist
ed dog tail tobacco. Once he bowed his
head and allowed a half pint of juice to issue
from his mouth and descend between the
seats.
A smothered cry of pain came up from be
low.
Said old Ben : “Gracious, Ido believe I
have spitten in some one’s face.”
Said his wife : ‘-Too bad ! but, oh ! just see
that man bend the crab?” and they become
engrossed in the antics of the clown.
Next morning at breakfast this boy appear
; ed with a swollen eye.
Said his father, “My son, what ails thine
optics?” “Some blamed fool spit in—that
is—it is darned sore, I don’t know what ails
if,” said the confused lad.
Ben and liis wife exchanged significant
glances and wisely held their peace, and the
promised testament wasn’t alluded to after
ward by either father or son— Cin. Sat. Night.
SUNDAY READING-.
A Stray Leaf from a Lonely Life.
My pastor had for his text to-day the
fourteenth chapter of John, lie spoke, first,
of the strange command with which
this wonderful chapter begins—‘Let not
your heart be troubled.’ When I thought
of dreary life-paths, forever haunted by
shadows, and remembered how death and
sin, misery and despair, with tireless hands
wrought at their dread work in the world, I
could not help from asking with my pastor,
‘How can we keep the heart untroubled?’
As I sat there alone, in a crowd of strang
ers between whom and myself there never
could be a bond of sympathy, and feeling so
weak, tired and cheerless, it seemed to me,
out of the depth of my own sad experience,
a voice whispered, ‘lt is possible to be in the
midst of trouble with an untroubled heart,
even as the Hebrew children walked through
the seven times heated furnace and came out
without even the smell of the fire upon the
garments.’
But how this can be I know not; I only
know it is so.
This strange command in the first verse is
repeated again in the twenty-seventh, and be
tween these verses are. given sundry reasons
why we should keep the heart untroubled.
First. ‘ln my father’s house are any man
sions. I go to prepare a place for you.’
Can we not bear homeless lives for awhile,
knowing that beyond fields of blue in the
nightless city of God, homes are prepared
for us? We are not to go into eternity as
poor, uncared for strangers, as lost, bewilder-,
ed travelers. We are not to go unknown and
unknowing ; but we are to go home to bur
father s house, to the mansions made ready
for us, to our elder brother, to the loved and
lost, to the dead and gone out of sight.
A second reason for keeping the heart
untroubled is, Jesus has promised, when he
lias prepared a place for 11s to come and take
us to himself. Not put off among strangers ;
not even to some beautiful star, where,
though beauty and gladness should be all
around us we would feel lost and strange:
but we are to be with Him. We cannot
comprehend now all that is in these two
words, ‘ W ith Jesus,’ but by-and-by we will
know it all.
Another reason : Whatsoever ye ask in
my name that I will do.’ This promise is
twice given.
MVi 11 not leave yon comfortless,’ or or
phanlosa; ‘ Because I live, ye shall live
also.’ , 11
,At that day ye shall know that I am in
my father, and ye in me and 1 iri you.’ J
Who can ask for more, and, yet, here is
more.
‘lie that hath my commandments and
keep them, he it is that lovctli me ; and he
that lovctli me shall be loved of my father,
and I will love him and will manifest to
him.’
Yet once again:
‘ If a man love me, lie will keep my worels,
and my father will love him, and we will
come unto him and make our abode with
him.’
And ever through all we are to have a
comforter. When 111 doubt, this comforter
will guide us. When amid the stride the
heart dies down and we forget from whence
cometb help, this ever present One wili
‘bring a 1 ! things to remembrance,’
Last of all, here is a part of our inheritance
in this world, ‘ Peace ! peace! So, let not
your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid.’
On a hard, narrow bunk in a crowded
hospital, a young soldier restlessly tossed,
moaning in his troubled sleep, dreaming wild
fever dreams, waking up to the dark reality.
Ilis golden hair was swept far hack from the
sun-browned brow ; a bright red spot bunied
011 either check, and his hands were burniug
and nervous. The sick, mangled and dying
were all around him with their wild, sunken
eyes meeting his in every direction. Poor
boy ! he was so young, only a beardless lad,
a widowed mother’s pet, and yet so far away
from her and home —sick and with straii-
gers.
lie closer! his eyes to shut out the wretch
edness around him, and ’his spirit traveled
back over the well-known, faraway mountain
paths, to the home he had left. Oh! if he
could only step across the old worn door
step ; if he might lay liis burning face upon
the coarse, yet soft snowy pillows of his own
bed, in the little back shed room ; if he might
feel his mother’s loving touches about him,
or hear his sister’s careful step over the floor
then this scorching fever could be endured,
but not here where he was.
The brave young spirit, that had left all
at his country’s call, began to waver; bis
parched lips quivered, but with the thought
; 1 am a soldier,’ he made an effort to shake
off his weakness and to be strong and care
less again. Turning himself from these
sweet home pictures, he opened his eyes and
saw the doctor's kind face bending over him.
In an earnest tone, he said: ‘ Doctor, how
long before I can go home?’
The physician, with his finger pressed
against the soldier boy’s wrist, replied very
gently:
‘ You are nearly home now; you are
dying.’ ‘Dying? Oh! doctor, I can’t die
without seeing them all once more. I must
tell them good-bye. What will mother do
without me?’
‘ God will be with her,’ said the doctor
softly as the tears came to his eyes. Pre
sently he added: Is there any message
you would like to leave, any letter sent?
Anything done?
A damp clammy sweat was gathering over
his thin boyish face. Thoughts of home
and mother and of the anguish in store for
loved ones swept over him ;"liis spirit rose in
rebellion, and be cried, I cannot die, I will
not die/
But even as he spoke a strange pain
darted through his head ; the fever was gone,
but a chilly numbness was taking its place.
In a fainter tone he said, ‘Bring me my
Bible.’
They found his little old worn out knap
sack, and in the bottom of it was his Bible ;
the backs were gone and the leaves were
greased and torn. He held it for a moment
caressing it with his trembling hands, then
softly said :
‘My sister’s Bible and her last gift, send
it to iier when I am gone, and tell her only
this, I have read and loved it/
Turning over the leaves, he paused at the
fourteenth chapter of John, and read it
through slowly; then lay for awhile with his
blue eyes looking upward as if in prayer.
In a little time he commenced reading
over the same chapter, but soon paused, and
said: ‘ Doctor, make them bring a light, I
cannot see to read/ He was growing blind
in the valley of shadows ; the glare of a
noon-day sun was about him, but could give
him no light. Comprehending it after a mo
ment’s pause, he said; ‘There then read
for me/
Ilis blue tipped finger rested at second
verse, they read for him: ‘ln my Father’s
house are many mansions.’ As they read
he settled down in a calm stillness, and
when they reached the twenty-seventh verse,
‘ Peace, I leave with you,’ they glanced up
towards the dying boy. He was lying with
folded hands, and a peaceful smile on his
lips. He had gone home.
The young Confederate soldier had en
tered the city where they have no need of a
candle to give light, no war, no pain no
death .there.
We always loved this fourteenth chapter
of John, but we will lbve it more than ever
now. —Greenville Daily News.
In Memoriam.
[By Bequest.]
Catharine Cole Edwards. —Catherine
Cole Edwards was bora in the village of
Craw ford ville, on the 6th of February, 1835.
Here she spent her childhood and girlhood
until she was entered a pupil of College Tem
ple, from which institution she was graduated
with distinction in the summer of 1854. Re
turning to her native village, she became on
the 10th of October, 1855, the wife of Dr.
John 11. Trippe, from which union there re
mains one son, Percival Edwards Trippe,
now a student in the State University. In
the summer of 1858 she became, as we trust,
the subject of Divine grace, and was baptiz
ed into the fellowship of the Crawfordville
Baptist church, by Rev. Dr. Williams. On
the 14th of June, 1869. she became the wife
of George W. Mitchell,, of which marriage
there remained also one son—little Frank
Mitchell. Early in the Spring of the present
j r ear she repaired to the Surgical Institute,
in Atlanta, to secure medical treatment for
her eyes. While there she was attacked by
acute rheumatism, from which, after two
weeks of intense suffering she was relieved
by death on the night of the 30th of May.
From this brief sketch it will be seen that
Mrs. Mitcheli had spent the larger portion
of her life in the community in which she
was born, and of this she had long been one
of the most valuable and most valued mem
bers. With natural gifts of a high order,
improved by the best culture, she was emi
nently qualified to be useful. That she rose
to the full measure .of what these qualifica
tions required, we will not say—for of this it
is not our's to judge. But we know that by
her life of labor and love, she left an impress
upon her generation, the fill extent of which
eternity alone can reveal. Her integrity in
offices of public trust, her faithfulness in
posts of solemn responsibility, the.taste, tact
and skill whch she brougt to every enter
prise wich enlisted her sympathies, inad6
her such a member of society as no com
munity Can lose without feeling deeply and
long. She had endeared herself tfo a large
circle of friends, not only at her homo but in
various parts of the State. For the forma
tion of friendships, she was happily constitut
ed — : her attachments being strong and last
ing while her resentments were short-lived.
Her popularity was, however largely, if not
solely, the resu It of merit. God had given
her a large sha re of the positive in her com
position, which often brought her in antago
nism with the conventional and the preten
tious. But in every such conflict, the cor
rectness of her motives stood approved, and
her character rose to a higher level. Her
worth was of that stamp which could stand
the test of candid opposition, and shine all
the brighter from having been subjected to
the ordeal. Hers was indeed, not a common
character nor a common life. The one was
as remarkable for its intense devotion and
sublime heroism as the othor was for its keen
suffering, patient endurance, faithful effort
and successful achievement. The Master
had assigned unto her more than one .talent.
Let us hope that at the great assize lie shalj
confirm our opinion, that she was faithful
over a few things, and bid her enter into a
large possession. L. L. Y.
—Christian Index.
GRAND AND SPECIAL JURORS.
A list of Grand Jurors drawn for August
term, 1875, of Jackson Superior Court.
IJ.S. P. Richey, :16 J. L. Park,
2 Thos. W. Jarrett, :17 Alfred M. Packet,
3W. H. Jackson, ilB Woods’n WJackson
4 W. J. Roberts. = 19 Daniel J.Matthews,
SW.J. C. Hunt. 120 Reuben Nunn,
6 J. P. Doss, :21 W. P. Boggs,
7 John M. Venable,; 22 Chas. H. Reaves,
8 11. P. Henry. 123 Lucius S. Bush,
9 Isaac T. Austin, [24 James C. Oliver,
10 David H. Crisler,; 25' Osro M. Wilhite,
11G. P. Trout, j 26 Wm. Cooper,
12 Jerry Murphy. [27 Wm. W. Millsaps,
13 J. B. Pendergrass,;2B L. 11. Shankle,
14 W. M. Potts, i29 David L. Hill,
15 J. M. Lyle, ;30 Andrew Higgins.
A list of Special Jurors drawn for August
term, 1875, of Jackson Superior Court.
1 Terrel Murphy, 1 19 Arch Venable.
2W. O. Harrison, j2O Henry Merk,
3 Robt. McEver, 121 E. M. Thompson,
4 J. A. Brock, i22 W. C. Stevens,
5 A. E. Cofer. !23 J. E. Massey,
6 Wm. Wilson, j 24 H. D. Jackson,
7 J. L. Williamson, ;25 R. J. Hancock.
8 David Casper, [26 James A. Storey,
9H. B. Gober, ' [27 L. C. Bridges,
10 C. W. Finch, [2B Robt. White, Jr
11 George O’Kelley, 129 S. P. Orr,
12 W. R. A. Boyd, [3O P. T. Marler,
13 R. J. Cook, ‘ j3l Wm. Sells,
14 J. P. Thompson, 132 J. T. Smith,
15 P. J. Roberts, |33 H. W. Bell,
16 D. G. Yeargin, |34 J. G. Justice,
17 Adolphus Martin,]3s W. M. McElroy,
18 Alsa Moore, : 36 M. F. Hinton.
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and sold by L. H. Bradfield, Druggist Atlanta
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SOUND AND WELL.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 29, 18G8.
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in stating that, sometime previous to the late
war, I used, with the utmost success, on a servant
girl, your Female Regulator, prepared then
at Bradfield’s Drug Store, West Point, Ga. She
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well. I will state farther, that I know of its
being used with equal success in other cases. I
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July. 24
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dountij nnd Horan Directory.
JA CKS ON S UPERIOR COUR
Hon. GEO. I). RICE, - - - j nd(rt
EMORY SPEER, Esq., - - Sol. Gen V
COUNTY OFFICERS.
WILEY C. HOWARD, - - - - Online
THOS. H. NIBLACK, Clerk S. Uoun
JOHNS. HUNTER, Shertf
WINN A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy
LEE J. JOHNSON, Treasurer
JAMES L. AVILLIAMSON, - - Tax Collect?
GEO. W. BROWN. Receive’
JAMES L. JOHNSON, - - County Surveyor
WM. WALLACE, - - - Coroner
G. J. N. WILSON, County School Commissi
Commission ers (Roads and Revenue.)-AVa
Seymour, W. J. llaynie, W. G. Stoed. Meet oj
the Ist Fridays in August and November. T. H
Niblack, Esq*, Clerk.
MAGISTRATES AND BAILIFFS.
Jefferson District, No. 215, N. H. Pendergrass.
J. P.; 11. T. Fleeman, J. P. John M. B urn s]
Constable.
Clarkesborough District, No. 242, F. M. Holli.
day, J. I\; M. B. Smith, J. P.
Miller’s District, No. 455, H. F. Kidd, J. P.
Chandler’s District, No. 246, Ezekiel Hewitt
J. P.; J. G. Burson, J. P.
Randolph’s District, No. 248, Pinckney p,
Pirkle, J. P.; Jas. A. Straynge, J. P.
Cunningham’s District, No. 425, J. A. Brazle
toa, J. P.; T. K. Randolph, Jt P.
Newtown District, No. 253, G. AY. O’Kcllv.J
P.; T. J. Stapler, Not. Pub.* & Ex. Oft*. J. p.
Mintlish's District, No. 255, Z. W. Hood, J. p,
Harrisburg District, No. 257, Wm. M. Moms
J. P.; J. if. Pruitt, J. P. :
House’s District, No. 243, A. A. Hill, J. P.
Santafec District, No. 1012, W. R. Boyd, J. P
S. G. Arnold, J. P. ’
Wilson’s District, No. 465, W. J. Comer, J. P,
FRA TERNAL DIRECTOR Y.
Unity Lodge, No. 36, F. A. M., meets Ist Tues
day night i)t each month. H. W. Bell, AV. M.;
John Simpkins, Sec’y.
Love Lodge: No. 65, I. 0. O. F., meets on 2d
and 4th Tuesday nights m each month. J. B.Sil
man, N. G.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec’y.
Stonewall Lodge, No. 214,1. O. G. TANARUS., meets on
Saturday night before 2d and 4th Sundays in each
month. J. B. Pendergrass, AY. C. TA NARUS.; Miss Ma
ry F. AYinburn, AV. R. S.
Jefferson Grange, No. 4SB, P. of 11., meets on
Saturday before 4th Sunday in each month. Jas.
E. Randolph, M.; G. J. N. AVilson, Sec’y.
Relief (colored) Fire Cbm party; No. 2, meets on
4th Tuesday night in each month. Henry Long,
Captain; Ned Bums, Sec’y.
Oconee Grange, No. 391, meets on Saturday be
fore the first Sunday in each month, at Galilee, at
1 o’clock, P. M. A. C. Thompson, AV*. M.; L. T.
Bush, Sec’y.
CO UNTY CHURQII DIRECTOR Y.
METHODIST.
Jefferson Circuit. —Jefferson. Harmony Grove,
Dry Pond, AVilson’s, Holly Springs. AV. A. Far
ris, P. C.
Mulberry CG'uif. —Ebenczer, Bethlehem, Con
cord, ,Centre-and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. A.L
Anderson, P. C.
Chapel and Antioch supplied from Watkins- j
ville Circuit.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Thyatira, Rev. G. 11. Cart ledge. Pastor; Sandy
Creek, Rev. Neil Smith, Pastor; Pleasant Grove, I
Rev. G. 11. Cavtledge, Pastor; Mizpah, Rev. Neil
Smith, Pastor.
BAPTIST.
Cabin Creek, W. R. Goss, Pastor; Harmony
Grove, W. B. J. Hardeman, Pastor; Zion, Rev.j
AV. H. Bridges, . Pastor; Beth&bra, Rev. J. M.I
Davis, Pastor ; Academy,Rev. J. N. Coil, Pastor;!
Walnut, Rev. J. M. Bavis, Pastor; Crooked!
Creek, AY. F. Stark. Pastor; Oconee Church, Key. f
A. J. Kelley, Pastor; Poplar Springs, Rev.
A. Brock, Pastor; Handler's Creek, AY. f. Start,!
Pastor.
PROTESTANT METHODIST.
Pentecost, Rev. R. S. McGarrity, Pastor.
“ CHRISTIAN.”
Bethany Church, Dr. F. Jackson, Pastor.
Christian Chapel, Elder AY. T. Lowe, Pastor.
Galilee, Elder P. F. Lamar, Pastor.
FIRST UNIVERSAIiIST.
Centre Hill, Rev. B. F. Strain, Pastor; Church j
meeting and preaching every third Saturday wd !
Sunday.
JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
PROFESSIONS.
Physicians... J. D. & 11. J. Long, J. J. D o **
ter, N. W. Carithers.
Atty’s at Law... J. B. Silman, W. I. Pik f
•T. A. B. Mahafi'ey, W. (J. Howard, M. M. Pitman.
P. F. Hinton.
MERCHANTS.
Pendergrass & Hancock, F. M. Bailey, Stanley
& Pinson, Wm. S. Thompson.
MECHANICS.
Carpenters... Joseph P. Williamson, Sent;:
J. P. Williamson, Jr.
Harness Maker... John G. Oakes.
Wagon MAKERS...Wm. Winbum, Monrw
Ray, (col.)
Buggy Maker...L. Gilleland.
Blacksmith... C. T. Story.
Tinner. .. John H. Chapman.
Tanners. ..J. E. & H. J. Randolph.
Boot and Shoe-Makers,..N. B. Stark, S*
born M. Stark.
HOTELS.
Randolph House, by Mrs. Randolph. _
North-Eastern Hotel, by John Simpkins j
Public Boarding House, by Mrs. Elitabd-
W orsham.
Liquors, Segars, &c...J. L. Bailey.
Grist and Saw-Mill and Gin...J. D.
J. Long.
Saw-Mill and Gin...F. S. Smith.
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COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECTORY.
Martin Institute. —J. W. Glenn, Principal!
P. Orr, Assistant; Miss M. E. Orr, Assist***'
Miss Lizzie Burch, Music.
Centre Academy. —L. M. Lyle, Principal.
Galilee Academy. —A. L. Barge. Principal. I
Harmony Grove Academy. —R. S. Cheney, B
cipal.
Murk Academy. —J. 11. McCarty, Principal* .
Oak Grove Academy —Mrs. A. C. P*
Principal. . . . .
Academy Church. — J. J. Mitchell, Principal
Duke Academy. —Mrs. 11. A. Deadwyler, P" |
cipal. . , 1
Park Academy. —Miss V. C. Park. Principal
Chapel Academy. —W. 11. Hill, Principal.
Holly Spring Academy — W. P. Newman, 1 'I
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE Of
Athens mail arrives at Jefferson on ” el jj(.i
days and Saturdays, at 10 o’clock, A. M., |
parts same days at 12 o’clock, M. ,> |
Gainesville mail arrives at Jefferson on e t ul
days and Saturdays, at 11 o’clock, A. M., aiu ‘
parts same days at 12 o’clock, M. ,
Lawrenceville mail arrives at Jefferson on
days, at 12 o'clock, M, and departs same da)
o’clock, P. M. „
F. L. Pendergrass, Dep'y ?. |