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ADAMS, Broad Street, one door ahore National Banlc, ATHENS, GA., KEEPS constantly on hand an extensive stock of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS, comprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions of Lsulir** llats llotincl*. Kihbons, lares, Flowers Gloves A<•., which will be sold at reasonable prices. Orders from the coun try promptly tilled, (live her a call, duly 31st—3m. DU. W. M. ALIAAIHEK, SURGEON DENTIST, Harmony Grove, Jackson C'o., (ia. duly 10th, 1575. 6m V AUIIAmiNOY -U WATCIIMAKER ANI) JEWELER. At Dr. Win. King's Drug Store, Dcuprec Block, Athena, Ga. All work done in a superior manner, and warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi lirrhj CASH. Julyl()-6m. ] <• WII.UI>* .v < <>., BROAD STREET, ATHENS, GA., DEALERS in STOVES, TIIST-AAT-ATrtE, ScC (Opposite North-East Georgian Olfice.) July 3d, 1875. STANLEY & PINSON, JEFFERSON, GA., jAKALFJLS in Dry Goods and Family Groce nes - New supplies constantly received. ‘eap for Cash. Call and examine their stock. June 10 ly l! r * WOFFOKI), At t<rn‘v at law, HOMER BANKS CO..‘ GA.. 'll practice in all the adjoining Counties, and e prompt attention to all business entrusted to \ carc ‘- feaT - (,’ollecting claims a specialty'. June 19th, 1575. ly OAKES, x HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA. On V" * n( ' ?°od buggy and wagon harness always doiu* n ' ' l Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &e., "" short notice, and cheap for cash. J"nel2—l v b J - | J B STT.MAN, lAi r Ga. Jefferson, Ga. A. Sll.nAN, w A TTORNE YS-AT-L A W. raot ' Ce together in the Superior Courts of ounnes of Jackson and Walton. \\ U \ K .\ *> Howikd, AIT * & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Will n Jefferson, Ga. tv -etc; P f a( i tlce ’ n the Courts of Jackson coun perior (£ * ie Court of Ordinary, and in the Su ?'UDrt>m r. Fts °t a djacent couutlcs. as well as the Of the State. junel2-ly L Attorney at Law, JKPFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. Pro mn / a a ‘J the Courts. State and Federal. Ws of l, a , .thorough attention given to all c °U"ties >U: iness in Jackson and adjoining June 12, 1875 " of the of all Kinds, PIVL. 1 CI,OTHIH, J*u ; n ; "assimeres, hats, caps. i to6 B,’ Ladies’ Bonnets, Hats and ' lr e, fvKrvV 1 ~u ,t 'v are , Hollow Ware, Earthen 21*8. Flo ,r° Paper, Pens, Inks, Envel *e. all hind's j)’ 1 ’ Paeon, Lard, Sugar Coffee, fon,wi ate ntMedicines, in fact everything times. * 111 a General Store. Prices to suit Jelferson, June 12, 1875. tf DON’T GO BAREFOOT! jrf made of* 111 ®°°ts and Shoes, neat fits, '1 ! ° n me at Jf stock . t'l.cm for t a.l. ? -n< t will d(p v°?* er Venable’s residence, * Urc - rjjf. ter tor you than any one else, b 122 N. B. STARK. THE FORESTXEWS. The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. iftisceffancous iflcilfey. __ v x ,The Cloudy Evening. R<^ < {jthov3Bth of August, 1856. Already naturVwtts Assuming the sombre hues of au tumn, telling us plainly enough, that, pass a few short month’s and winter’s icy breath would congeal the brooklets and scatter the snow-flakes where now grew the wild flowers in such beautiful luxuriance. The day had been bright and lovely. A few fleecy cumuli were now and then seen chasing each other from the west, and casting their flitting shadows over the landscape ; but as evening drew on they began to gather in murky dark ness along the western horizon, and soon the low toned thunder gave token that a storm was approaching. Lcnson Ward had finished a hard day’s work, and throwing on a coat, set off to pay his usual evening visit to his betrothed, the amiable Delia Bland. But the rapid approach of the storm obliged him to take shelter in an old building that stood by the wayside. It was now very dark, and while Lenson was groping around for a seat, his ear caught a voice without, and he found that others were seek ing the friendly shelter old house till the storm should pass. He saw by the dim light of the doorway a man enter apparently bearing a female figure •in -his arms ; and from her sighs and groans, Lenson knew that she was weeping. In his sudden surprise Lenson remained silent, especially as the gloom completely hid him from view ; but imagine his feelings at the following conver sation that now took place : “Oh ! why do you treat me thus ? Why do you tear me from my home and all that I hold dear on earth ? Oh ! if you have a hu man heart, I implore you to release me.” “Swear that you will be mine, and I will. Say that ere to-morrow dawns you will be my bride, and I will take you back to your home. This is the condition.” “Never, while I am alive, will I consent to wed a man I do not love. You may me away, you may impress, you may torture me, but I w r ill never be yours.” “I swear by the infernal powers you shall. Ere to-morrow’s sun shall rise you must, willingly or unwillingly, be mine. I swear it. Come, the storm has passed, let us hast en to the priest’s, for we must be far away be fore day-light dawns again.” “Oh, God, protect a helpless woman! Must I thus be torn from my parents and the society of loved ones, and doomed to life long misery with one 1 hate ? Can no one hear me ? Is there none to help me ?” “Yes,” shouted Lenson, springing forward, “here is one that will rescue you or die in the attempt. Villain, what vioest thou ? How dare you transgress the laws of God and man by tearing a helpless girl away from her home ? and”—two pistol shots were fired in quick succession, one of which grazed Lenson’s shoulder, but Lenson’s strong arm feared nothing in human shape. He struck the monster a stunning blow, and a despe rate hand and hand encounter took place. Lenson soon learned that his antagonist was the stronger, but he believed that his power of endurance was greater. And so it proved. The villain finding that he was about to be overcome, disengaged himself, sprang to his horse, and took flight. Lenson now discovered that the woman who had been the subject of this cruel out rage was his own idolized Delia ; and that the fiend whose attempt to carry her off by force had been so providentially frustrated, was his rival and bitterest enemy, the braggart, Nathan Ulster. Imprinting a loving kiss upon her brow, Lenson and Delia knelt and poured out their hearts in gratitude to God for their deliver ance. Lenson now conducted Delia to her home, much to the relief of her distressed parents, who knew not what had become of her. And when the story of her seizure and rescue became known, with moist eyes and and grateful hearts they all gathered around the family altar, and the aged father, in trembling accents, thanked God that his child had been rescued from a life of misery. Arising, the father turned to Lenson and said: “Noble youth, you have saved my daughter from a fate worse than death. I knew before that your hearts were plighted, but you have now won her anew. Take her, she is thine. A father's blessings attend you both.” It was a brilliant and happy party the next evening found gathered at “Sylvan Shade.” The news of Ulster's crime had spread like wild-fire. The good gentry for many a mile around had come to witness the nuptials and bless the union of two loving and trusting hearts. Years have now passed, they have been prospered and but Lenson and Delia have not forgotten the tragic events of the “Cloudy Evening,” and the 28th of August has become a “thanksgiving day” at the beautiful “Rural Retreat,” at the country home o r Lenson and Delia. May they long live to enjoy the sweets of country life, and the pleasure of each other's society. . —Maryland Farmer. gplt was a good old-fashioned “set down” at draw poker. There were three of them —Ulysses, Childs and Murphy. “I’ll tell you what, it’s a jolly game,” re marked the poet laureate, “when you know it’s played on the square.” “I could never see any pleasure in cards where there’s cheating going on,” added his excellency, flipping another chunck of ice in to the glass that stood on the table beside him “Faith, you can depind upon it,” said Mur phy, “that a man who would chate his own fri'nds ain’t got the right sort of nayture in him, at all, at all.” Finally there was a “call,” and all threw down their hands simultaneously. Childs had three aces, so had Murphy, so had Grant. Nine aces and only one deck ! Then they all got up without saying a word, went out, and walked off in different directions.— Brooklyn Argus. The Chinese interpretation of going to law is. “Losing a cow for the sake of a cat. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, AUG. 28, 1875. The Land of Horse. A correspondent writes : “ The moment you enter the Blue Grass region you hear nothing but horse-talk. The whole section lives upon pedigrees. The stable boys banter pedigrees in a nomenclature of their own.— The men utter pedigrees with a volubility like the flowing of a never-ending stream. Even the ladies of polite society will chatter pedigrees, and talk as fluently of sire and dam as if they had received their accomplish ments in the precincts of the breeding por tions of the stock farms. Everywhere it is horse, mare, filly, foal, gelding. The stables are swarming with them, the streets are alive with them, the fields are dotted with them like the cattle on a thousand hills ; and the visitor, even though he came merely to see, has a secretiveness and obstinacy more pro found than the mysteries of a Sphinx, if he does not buy before he comes away some lit tle equine specimen for which he has no earthly use. There is a certain Freemasonry or brotherly love among the horse dealers of Kentucky. If one breeder has nothing in the horse line to answer 3 T our demands, he will furnish you with a saddle-horse and accom pany you for miles around the neighborhood to inspect stock which he is sure will just suit your fancy. The horses are thrown open to your entertainment. The rarest wine of corn, and the freshest of mint, and the rich est of Alderney cream, and the tenderest of spring chickens are offered, with a princely generosity, to feed the flame of 3 r our horse fever, which must not be allayed till you have left your money behind you on some of the stock farms. This is the logic ot all the at tentions and pedigrees and horse enthusiasm, and it is wonderful how the interest is kept up year after year, and how the surplus funds of our wealth}’ horse-fanciers are poured, with increasing volume, into the coffers of the Blue Grass regions.” The Country Skool Mom. She is invariably about twenty-three years and six months old, and remains rite thare for a term of years. She wares her hair either kut short or hang ing around in ringlets, and iz as precise in all things as one of Fairbanks improved plat form skales. She never laffs out loud, and seldum even smiles, but when she duz, she duz it accord in’ tew the rules lade down by Murray for speakin’ out and pronouncing the inglish lan guage korrectly. She is the very essence of double-extracted propriety, and would rather be four j r ears be hind the fashions, in her dress and bonnet, than to spel a word wrong, or parse a sentence inkorrectly. She keeps a scrap-book and an album, and would prefer rather to have the autograff of some milk-and-water poet than the name of some good man to a sixty days’ note. The country skool mom seldom dies an old maid ; she gets married generally to sum man who has but little edukashun, and he thinks (as he ought to) that there aint another such a larnt woman on the face of the earth. With all her precise foolishness, her pomp ous knowledge, her silly sentimentalism, and her almost always mistaken manner for mat ter, I respekt the country skool mom; she taught me mi letters, she was pashunt when I was stupid, she soothed me when I was frackslius, and she often (good soul) gave me a titbit from her luncheon at noon time. May kind heaven strew sum kind ov hap piness in her pathway, for she iz paid poorty, worked hardly, and the step-mother to every body's children ; she never receives from the world eny thing better than the most formal respekt. —Josh Billings. ■ THE CHILDREN. BY CHARLES DICKENS. When the lessons and tasks are all ended. And the school for the day is dismissed, And the little ones gather around me. To bid me good night and be kissed : Oh, the little .white arms that encircle My neck in a tender embrace ! Oh. the smiles that are halos of heaven, Shedding sunshine of love on my face I And when they are gone I sit dreaming Of my childhood too lovely to last; Of love that my heart will remember When it wakes to the pulse of the nast: Ere the world and its wickedness made me A partner of sorrow and sin ; When the glory of God was about me, And the glory of gladness within. Oh, my heart grows weak as a woman’s, And the fountains of feeling will flow, When I think of flie paths steep and stony, Where the feet of the dear ones must go : Of the mountains of sin hanging o’er them, Of thq, tempest of fate blowing wild ; Oh ! there’s nothing on earth half so holy As the innocent heart of a child. They are idols of hearts and of honseholds; They are angels of God in disguise ; Ilis sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, His glory still gleams in their eyes ; Oh ! those truants from home and from heaven, They have made me more manly and mild, And I know how Jesus could liken The Kingdom of God to a child. I ask not a life for the dear ones All radiant, as others have done, But that life may have just enough shadow To temper the glare of the sun. I would pray to God to guard them from evil, But my prayer would hound hack to myself, Ah ! a seraph may pray for a sinner, But a sinner must pray for himself. The twig is so easily bended, I have banished the rule and the rod ; I have taught them the goodness of knowledge, They have taught me the goodness of God ; Mv heart is a dungeon of darkness, Where I shut them from breaking a rule ; My frown is sufficient correction; My love is , the law of the school. I shall leave the old house in the autumn, To traverse its threshold no more ; Ah ! how shall I sigh for the dear ones, That meets me each morn at the door; I shall miss the “good nights” and the kisses, And the gush of their innocent glee, The group on the green, and the flowers That arc brought ever}' morning to me. I shall miss them at morn and at eve. Their song in the school and the street; I shall miss the low hum of their voices, And the tramp of their delicate feet, When the lessons and talks are all ended, And Death says: “ The school is dismissed !” May the little ones gather around me. To hid me good night and he kissed ! The Colonel’s Hat. • HE didn’t MEAN TO INSULT THE COURT. Colonel Bangs is very’ bald, and, in order to induce his hair to grow again, is using a ver} r excellent article of “ Hair Vigor” upon his scalp. A week or two ago he was sum moned as a jur} T man upon a case in the Cir cuit Court, and, upon the day of the trial, just before the hour at which the Court met, he remembered that he had not applied the Vigor to his head that morning. He had only a few minutes to spare, but he flew up stairs, and into the dark closet where he kept the bottle, and, pouring some fluid upon a sponge, he rubbed his head energetically. By some mishap the Colonel got hold of the wrong bottle, and the substance with which lie in undated his scalp was not Vigor, but the black varnish with which Mrs. Bangs decorated her shoes. However. Bangs didn't perceive the mistake, but darted down stairs, put on his hat and walked off to the court-room. It was a very cold morning, and by the time the Colonel reached his destination the varnish was stiff as a stone. He felt a little uncom fortable about the head, and lie endeavored to remove his hat to discover the cause of the difficult}’, but to his dismay it was immovable. It was glued fast to the skin, and his efforts to take it off gave him frightful pain. Just then lie heard his name called by the crier, and he had to go into court to answer. He was wild with apprehension of coming trouble ; but he took his seat in the jur} r -box and determined to explain the situation to the court at the earliest possible moment. As he sat there with a guilty feeling in his soul, it seemed to him that that high hat kept get ting bigger and bigger until it appeared to him to be as large as a medium sized shot tower. Then he was conscious that the law yers were staring at him. Then the Clerk looked hard at him and screamed : “ Hats off in court!” and the Colonel grew crimson in the face. “ Hats off!” yelled the Clerk again, and the Colonel was about to re ply when the J udge came in, and, as his e} T es rested on Bangs, lie said : ‘ Persons in the court-room must remove their hats.” Bangs—“ May it please } T our Honor, I kept my hat on because—•” Judge—“ Well, sir, you must take it off now.” Bangs—“But.J say I keep it on because—” Judge—“We don’t want any arguments upon the subject, sir. Take your hat off in stantly !” Bangs—“ But you don’t let me—” Judge—“ Remove that hat this moment, sir ! Are you going to bandy words with nig, sir? Uncover your head at once.” Bangs—“ Judge, if 3’ou will onl}’ give me a chance to—” l Judge—“ This is intolerable !Do you mean to insult this court, sir ? Do you mean to profane this sacred temple of justice with un timely levity ? Take your hat off, sir, or I will fine 3’ou for contempt. Do you hear me ?” Bangs—“ Well, it’s very hard that I can’t say a word by way of ex—” Judge (warml}’) —“ This is too much ! This is just a little too much. Perhaps you’d like to come up on the bench here and run the court, and sentence a few convicts? You’ve got more audacity than a mule. Mr. Clerk, fine that man fifty dollars ! Now, sir, remove 3’our hat.” Bangs—“ Judge, this is rough on me. I—” Judge (in a furious rage) —“Won’t do it yet ? Why, you impudent scoundrel! I’ve a notion to—. Mr. Clerk, fine him SIOO more, and Mr. Jones }’ou go and take that hat off by force!” Then the tipstaff approached Bangs, who was by this time half crazy with wrath, and hit the hat with his stick. It didn’t move. Then he struck it again, and caved in the crown ; but it still remained on Bangs’ head. Then he picked up a volume of “Brown on Evidence,” and smashed the crown in flat.— Then Bangs sprang at him, and, shaking his fist under the nose of Jones, lie shrieked : “You mutton-headed scullion! I’ve half 'a notion to kill you ! If that jackass on ffle bench had any sense, he could see that the hat is glued fast. I can’t take it off if I wanted to.” Then the Judge removed the fines, and ex cused him, and Bangs went home. He slept in that hat for a week, and even when it came off the top of his head looked as black as if mortification had set in. —Max Adler, in New York Weekly. A Real Gentleman. A few days ago I was passing through a pretty shady street, where some boys were playing at base ball. Among their number was a little lame fellow, seemingly about twelve years old—a pale, sickly looking child, supported on two crutches, and who evidently found much difficulty in walking, even with such assistance. The lame boy wished to join the game ; for he did not seem to see how much his infirm ities would be in his own way, and how much it would hinder the progress of such an active sport as base ball. Ilis companions, good naturedly enough, tried to persuade him to stand one side and let another take his place; and I was glad to notice that none of them hinted that he would be in the way, but they all objected for fear he would hurt himself. “ Why, JimmjV’ said one at last, V‘3 r oa can't run, you know.” “O, hush !” said another—the tallest boy in the party—“ never mind, I’ll run for him. and you can count it for him,” and he took his place by Jimmy’s side, prepared to act. “If you were like him,” he said, aside to the other boys, “ you wouldn’t want to be told of it all the time.” As I passed on, I thought to mj’self that there was a true little gentleman. —Childs World. To Miss Don't forget me when you are happy > Keep for me-one vacant spot ; In the depths of thv affections Plant one sweet forget-me-not— That will bloom in pleasure’s moments Like sweet incense from the heart; Sweetly then. I’ll he remembered. Like the twilight’s tiny spark. The Woman Who Lingers. She stands on the comer with a squad of female friends, and smiles at the car-driver —at the same time signaling him with her parasol. As soon as he begins to slacken his pace, she opens out in a conversation with her friends. The car stops, and the conduc tor waits. She glances around at him, steps down from the curbstone, and branches off into a fresh lot of talk. The conductor looks mad. He requests her to hurry up. She rushes at the car, seizes the iron hand-rail to make sure that she has got that car all safe and certain, and then she determines that she will have her talk out or perish on the flag stones then and there. She has more last words than the Indian chief who refused to die and go to the happy hunting grounds un til he had said the Ten Commandments and Constitution of the United States, including the fifteenth amendment, backwards, three times, in his native tongue. She holds on to that rail grimly, plants one foot in the step, and yells out: “ Give my love to Maria ! Tell Arabella she owes me a call! Don't forget to bring William Henry and the children up to tea on Tuesday night! And tell Aunt Sarah I’d have that bombazine dyed black and trimmed with bugles !” Conductor looks like a man who would commit justifiable homicide upon slight provo cation. In wrath he pulls the bell; the wo man mounts the steps, smiles at her friends, waves her parasol at them ; when she has sailed about a hundred yards up the street, she calls out: “Be sure to tell Arabella, and don’t let Georgie suck the yellow paint off his mouth organ !” When she is seated the conductor waits awhile and then he asks for her fare. She feels in her pocket. Good gracious! she hopes she has not lost her purse. She dives into her satchel; it isn’t there. Perhaps the tickets are under her glove ; she removes it slowl}’, but they can’t be found. She tries her pocket again, and finds the purse, after all. Conductor looks as indignantly melan choly as an aristocratic undertaker at a funeral, at which there are onl}’ four carriages and a yellow pine coffin. She unfolds a bundle of notes slowly, but as she doesn’t find the one she wants, she puts them back and hunts around her satchel for five minutes for a note. Conductor gives her three cents change, and goes out on the plat form, where he tears his hair, kicks a news boy off the step, and tells his sorrowful tale to a passenger who is smoking a cigar.— Meanwhile the woman has found an acquaint ance, to whom she is talking as briskly as if this was the first chance she had since last summer. She wants to get out at Twentieth street. Conductor stops the car. but the wo man, half rising, continues her remarks to her acquaintance. Conductor says: “ Please burr}’ up, ma'am,” and then she jumps to her feet, shakes hands with her friend, saying : “Oh. I forgot to ask after John.” John is well; but the woman thinks it necessar}’ to offer some sanitary suggestions in reference to John’s health, and to declare that she will be abjectl}’ miserable unless Mar}’Jane brings the twins up to spend the day. More objura tions on the part of the degraded outcast on the platform. The woman at last starts for the door, and is about to step off, when she misses her purse. She goes back to look for it. moves all the passengers, overturns all the hay, at last finds the purse in her pocket, says, “ Good bye, come up and see me,” to her friend, and gets out. Conductor rattles a volley of imprecations down the street after her, pulls the strap savagely, and transfers twenty-five cents worth of fares from his busi ness pocket into his own private exchequer as a balm to soothe his lacerated feelings. Mark Twain. WHAT HE REMEMBERS ABOUT STEAMBOAT RAC ING ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Racing was royal fun. The public always had an idea that racing was dangerous; whereas, the very opposite was the case— that is, after the laws were passed which re stricted each boat to just so many pounds of steam to the square inch. No engineer was ever sleepy or careless when his heart was in a race, lie was constantly on the alert, try ing gague qocks and watching things. The dangerous place was, on slow popular boats, where the engineer drowsed around and al lowed chips to get into the “ doctor’ and shut off the water supply from the boilers. In the “ flush times” of steamboating, a race between two notoriously fleet steamers was an event of vast importance. The date was set for it several weeks in advance, and from that time forward, the whole Mississippi Valley was in a state of consuming excite ment. Politics and the weather were drop ped, and people talked only of the coming race. As the time approached, the two steamers “ stripped” and got ready. Every incumbrance that added weight, or exposed a resisting surface to wind or water, was re moved. if the bqat could possibly do without it. The “spars,” and sometimes even their supporting derricks, were sent ashore, and no means left to set the boat afloat in case she got aground. When the Eclipse and A. L. Shotwell ran their race, twenty-two years ago, it was said that pains were taken to scrape the gilding off the fanciful device which hung between the Eclipse's chimneys, and that for that one trip the captain left off his kid gloves and had his head shaved. But I always doubted these things. If the boat was known to make her best speed when drawing five and a half feet for ward and five feet aft, she was carefully" load ed to that exact figure—she wouldn’t enter a dose of homeopathic pills on her manifest af ter that. Hardly’ any passengers were taken, because they’ not only add weight but* they’ never will “trim boat.” They’ always run to the side when there is any’ thing to see, where as a conscientious and experienced steam boat man would stick to the centre of the boat and part, his hair in the middle with a spirit level. —Atlantic Monthly . At Vinoenes, Ind„ during a marriage cere mony the bride’s teeth dropped out, which so frightened the unhappy man that he rushed off like an arrow and has not been heard of since. S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTE*. GLEANINGS. The population of the globe is put down at 5,320,000,000. In England swimming is one branch of public education. An offensive war against weeds is fire times less expensive than a defensive one. Cows should alwaj’s be milked regularly and quickly. And should never be chased about abruptty. Cotton men predict a loss of 80,000 bales in the Memphis District from high waters. The libraty of Congress contains 274,000 volumes, and is the largest library in this country. On the British railways last year there were 211 passengers killed and 1,981 injured. The Baptist Publishing House in Philadel phia is to be four stories high, and to cost, including the lot, $222,000. A Chinese young lady is an applicant for a teachers place in one of the public schools of San Francisco. The English railway dividends thus far de clared show a material improvement over last year. The Tennessee papers report a scarcity of hogs,for the fall trade, especially so in East Tennessee. The greatest contest of reaping machines ever held in Germany has just ended in a victory for an American harvester. Missouri has 1,500 Sunday schools, 11,069 teachers and 101,729 scholars, while the chil dren of schooling age in the State number 705,817. McKinney Walker, on Fork creek, Monroe county, Tenn., realized 360 bushels of wlieat from 12 acres of ground. Rice is now coming into use for brewing purposes. The beer produced from it is said to be superior in color and flavor. Don’t use soap. A Brooklyn editor says that it communicates disease by being made of fat taken from dead dogs and cats. The legislation against the rail roads in Illinois, has forced 3,206 miles of railroad into liquidation and bankruptcy. The Baptists of Kentucky have fifty thou sand associations, 1,118 churches, 517 minis ters, and upwards of 130,000 members, of whom 30,000 are colored. A woman 60 years old was recently convic ted of murder in the Midland Circuit in Eng land for killing her husband, aged ninety nine. A rattlesnake caused the capture fa fu gitive from jail in Texas recently and in this way: the snake bit him and he had got to a doctor for treatment and was thus recaptured. The governor elect of Kentucky, James B. McCreary, was a colonel in the confede rate army, and is only about forty years of age. The State of Kentucky gives him 40,- 000 majority. A mother of 16. in Franklin comity; N. C., having three boys at a birth, the citizens have great hopes, if she lives and goe* on* of becoming entited to another member of the Legislature. A charred shingle fell over a bird's nest in Ingleside, Mass., while a buiklifrg waa burning close by, and some young sparrows were thus protected, although the heat was intense enough to destroy the leaves, on the tree. The Liverpool Post don't mind the victory won by’ the American Rifle team,, bet objects to the Yankees carrying off so much bullion from Ireland, “which that country can ill afford to lose.” It estimates the Araercaa winnings in bets at $150,000. The deaths in New York, alxmt this time, exceed the births in nnmlier by over 300 weekly, or at the rate of 15,000 per annum This is a fearful falling off. The Star of that city says, were it not for fbrei'gn Immigration, the population of New York would soon be in Greenwood cemetery*. In the recent great storm in Switzerland, near Geneva, a man was killed by a hail stone striking him on the temple, and another had his wrist broken. An extraordinary number of small birds were killed by the hail; one person is said to have picked up 500. A visitor to a Sunday school picnic near Albany (let us say Troy), found a pom pous man, who was an ex-sheriff, and who seemed to be a sort of “king bee” among the people, superintending all the arrangement#. Large tables were spread and loaded with an abundance of good things. As soon as everything was nearly ready for the feast, a number of children “went in,” when the ex. sheriff howled out: “Hold on, you d—n hogs, will you?” Then in a milder tone said to one of the ministers present: “Brother Us News. An Eastern exchange says: “Rev. Henry Morgan, of Boston, has offered S2OO in prizes for the best essays ou ‘Why don’t men go to church, and what is the remedy’?’* Were wc called upon to write an essay we should, judging by our own religious people here in Virginia City be obliged to assert that the cause was the game played at the close of the services, called “collection.”— Vinjinia Enterprise. NUMBeWs.