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jMftwumaf lousiness (Tunis,
MKS. T. A. ADAMS,
Broad Street, one door above National Bank ,
ATHENS,
Keep S constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
comprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions
of l/.iilieM* Hats lloiii*ts, Kibltons
Ijneew, I'lowrrs Gloves Arc., which will be
sold at reasonable prices. Orders from the coun
try promptly tilled. Give her a call.
July 31 st—3m.
Dk. w. s. ai.eiaaher.
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1575. 6m
V A. WIMJAIINOA,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
At Dr. Wm. King's Drug Store. Deuprce Hlock.
Athens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner,
and warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi-
Ur dy ('ASH. Julvlo-6m.
I Wll,KnN Al <’o.,
u • broad STREET, ATHENS, GA.,
DEALERS IN
stoves, tiist-ware, <scC
(OppotUe North-East Georgian Office.)
July 3d, 1875.
Stanley & pinson,
JEFFERSON , GA.,
|\KALKRS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
.,ries * New supplies constantly received,
loap tor (’ash. Call and examine their stock.
June l! ly
1) E W Ol’l’OKn, Attorney at laiw,
I fV HOMER. BANKS CO., GA.,
■ 1 practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
' '' prompt attention to all business entrusted to
V are - Collecting claims a specialty.
19th. 1875. ly
OAKIN,
N HARNESS MAKER. JEFFERSON, GA.
miV" " ood buggy and wagon harness always
,1 ' un< • Repairing same, bridles, saddles, Ac.,
•' ,M> short notice, and cheap for cash.
Junel-2— ly F
■*’ h *>YD, I I K SI I MAN
, Covington, Ga. jS; Ga.
T *‘o\ |> nii^iaa,
Win ATTORNE YS-AT-L A W.
tho . P rac Hee together in the Superior Courts of
im! l !'! tles Jackson and Walton.
Junel2— -ly
\\ WWABIK
AIT'Y k COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Win Jefferson, Ga.
tv e\' l* r ' a< L t ' ce >u all the Courts of Jackson eoun-
Urior i^ 1^0 b’°urt of Ordinary, and in the Su
•''Unpim °i\ rts °* adjacent couuties. as well as the
1 b°urt of the State. junel2-ly
Itr ~ ——
\\ *’ Attorney at Imw,
1W*!,..,. J fFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
p ro^ ln a } lR e Courts, State and Federal.
kin,l s of I a , thorough attention given to all
cou n t: e:i ‘ business in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875
•‘ENDERGUASS & HANCOCK,
respectfully call the attention of the
1 ‘be to their elegant stock of
* Goods of all Kinds,
ADE t’LOTHI.A C,
Roots * %K cass i meres , lIATS ' caps,
r . S !’i oes ’ Bonnets, Hats and
Ware sit’ Hardware, Hollow Ware, Earthen
upes, pi n , H°°ks, Paper, Pens, Inks, Envcl
*ca, all kinri* i,b Bacon, Lard, Sugar Coffee,
~su allv |Li j • atent Medicines, in fact everything
n l m a enera l Store. Prices to suit
- _ ' Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf
JJONT GO KAREFOOT!
mao!! i?r ant od Boots and Shoes, neat fits,
*" -°od stock, Cheap, for < ih?
l win C i? l ?! cr °* Airs. Venable’s residence,
' ®Hr tor you than anv one else,
*J I2 -m] N. B. STARK.
THE FOREST NEWS.
1 lie People tlieir own ltulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
miscellaneous Medley.
“ Singularities.”
From the “editorial correspondence” of
the Macon Telegraph <£■ Messenger, one of
whose editors has been writing from Indian
Springs, we extract the following, which sa
vors somewhat of the “ curious” :
TIIE EVILS OF INTERMARRIAGE.
Returning to the “Spring,” on the way, a
dwelling was pointed out in which the occu
pants, husband and wife, were first cousins.
They formed no lucky exception to the
usual rule which obtains in such cases. Of
six children which had been bom to them,
four , and if wo mistake not, five were hope
lessly deaf and dumb. And this is the sad
penalty which so often is visited upon those
of the same blood, who intermarry even with
the lawful limits assigned by divine and hu
man laws. Think of nearly an entire house
hold of mutes.
Arrived in our present quarters once more
in safety, we were shown a
UNIQUE AND WONDERFUL CURIOSITY.
This was an empty pillow-case, the inner
sides of which is covered with a nap resemb
ling velveteen or moleskin, and fully as soft
and uniform as the latter. This was so firmly
fixed upon it that no amount of pulling, rub
bing or scraping can remove it. But the cu
rious part of the story is the agency by which
the bedtick received its furry coating. It
seems (and the facts are so authenticated as
to admit of no possibility of doubt,) that a re
spectable colored woman in Thomasville was
the owner of this pillow and its fellow, which,
as they were extra large, she used as orna
mental appendages to the bed, being remov
ed at night and a more inferior article sub
stituted. This was continued for several
years, until she began to notice that one of
the pillows was heavier than the other, and
that the difference in weight perceptibly in
creased. At length she concluded to rip open
the heaviest and ascertain the cause. But to
her surprise and horror, the interior was
found to be completely
FILLED WITH WORMS,
and all the quills to the feathers eaten up.
The other pillow was then examined, and
proved to be free from any injury and in its
normal condition. Filled with the apprehen
sions of witchcraft, she then resolved to sub
mit the pillow and its contents to the action
of fire, and accordingly it was
BOILED LONG AND THOROUGHLY.
The worms were of course destroyed, but
the case upon being emptied and turned
wrong side out was found to be coated all
>ver uniformly, with a long , brownish silk fur.
which resisted removal. More alarmed than
ever, the boiling process was repeated, with
:io be,ter effect. Nor could she rub, scrub
or scrape away this curious coating, which
was as uniform as the nap upon cotton flan
nel or velvet. She then showed the pillow
case to her former owner, who came and
viewed the dead worms and a few that were
alive, and described them minutely. The
piece of ticking was then purchased and sub
jected to the inspection and scrutiny of sci
entific men, North and South, none of whom
can explain the process through which it had
passed. Jt was also exhibited at the Thom
asville Fair and picked and pulled at by hun
dreds of hands without disturbing the nap.
It would puzzle any one who felt only the fur
side to detect that it was not the genuine pelt
of some animal. This is certainly a great cu
riosity. and the facts are substantiated by affi
davits and certificates from the highest
sources as to the standing of the deponents.
And moreover, too, there is
THE OCULAR, TANGIBLE EVIDENCE
of the bed tick on one side looking clean and
natural, and the silky fur or nap on the other.
There are some who think the discovery
might possibly be utilized by the propagation
of the insect, and thus create fabrics that
would rival or surpass those made from the
thread of the ordinary silk worm. But we
doubt if even the cutest Yankee will achieve
that result.
The pillow case is now the property of
Capt. Love, who is a visitor to the spring,
and is privy also to all the facts related
above.
Jeff Davis a Coward.
In answer to the charge of cowardice pre
ferred against ex-President Davis by the
Grand Army of the Republic of Winnebago
county, Illinois, the Augusta Constitutional
ist pertinently says:
“Coward !” You call him that, gentlemen?
The history of the battle of Buena Vista con
tradicts you. When Colonel Bowles and his
regiment of Indianians fled like a flock ot
sheep before General Mignon, or as your Gen
eral Shields graphically described, “the regi
ment ran like a pack of cowards, with its Co
lonel at the head,” Jeff Davis and his immor
tal Mississippians opened ranks and allowed
them to pass to the rear, and then closed
with the Mexicans in the deadliest conflict
recorded in American history. The onset of
eight thousand of the enemy, headed by their
most gallant leader, and fighting under the
verv eye of Santa Anna, was arrested and
hurled back. At the first fire Colonel Davis
was shot, but he remained in the saddle at
the head of his men throughout the culmina
ting moments of that battle and the balance
of the day. Had the charge been successful,
Washington’s Battery would have been cap
tured. Gen. Taylor’s left wing would have
been turned, his retreat to Saltillo cutoff, his
army surrounded and made prisoners of war.
The American army that day was lost by the
cowardice of your Colonel Bowles, and saved
bv the lion-hearted Colonel Davis.
Coward! There was never a more infa
mous falsehood. There is not a drop of
such blood in his veins.
The times must be exceptionally “hard*’
up about Borne. According to the Commer
cial, the experienceuof a darkey of that place
abundantly proves it, as he was heard to re
mark : “Neber seed sich times since I bin
born. Work all day and steal all nifce. and
blamed if I kin hardly make a livm.”
Carpenters are given to vice—they do so
so much chiselling.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, SEPT. 4, 1875.
THE LOVERS.
IN DIFFERENT MODES AND TENSES.
Sail V Salter, she was a young teacher who taught,
And her friend, Charley Church, was a preacher
who praught;
Although his enemies called him a screecher who
scraught.
Ilis heart, when he saw her, kept sinking, and
sunk,
And his eyes, meeting hers kept winking and
wunk;
M hile she, in her turn, fell to thinking, and thunk.
He hastened to woo her, and sweetly he wooed,
F or his love grew until a mountain it grewed,
And what he was longing to do then he doed.
In secret lie wanted to speak, and he spoke.
To seek with his lips what his heart long had
soke;
So he managed to let the truth leak, and it loke.
lie asked her to ride to the church, and they* rode ;
They so sweetly did glide, that they both said
they glode,
And they came to the place to be tied, and were
tode.
Then homeward, he said, let us drive, and they
. drove,
And as soon as they wished to arrive, they arrove;
For whatever he couldn’t contrive, she controve.
The kiss he was dying to steal, then he stole ;
At the feet where he yvanted to kneel there he
knole;
And he said, “ I feel better than ever I foie.*’
So they to each other kept clinging and clung,
While Time his swift current winging and yvung;
And this was the the thing he was bringing and
brung.
The man Sally wanted to catch, and had caught—
That she had wanted from others to snatch, and
had snaught—
Was the one she that she now liked to scratch,
and she scraught.
And Charley's warm love began freezing, and
froze,
While he took to teazing and cruelly toze
The girl he had wished to be squeezing and squoze.
“ Wretch 1” he cried, when she threatened to
leave him. and left,
“ How could you deceive me. as you have dcceftV”
And she answered, “ I promised to cleave, and
I've cleft !*’
An Interview with Treasurer New.
It was 10 o'clock this morning. Treasurer
New had gotten ready to square himself to
tackle a huudred or more signatures, when
he was interrupted by rather a good-looking
Irish woman, clad in snowy white, with an
umbrella and portfolio burdening her arms,
lie looked up with a pleasant “good morn
ing.”
“ Well, madam, what can I do for you?”
“ Its a place phat I want, God bless yees."
Mr. New—“My dear woman 1 have no
place to give you.”
“And is it a lie, that, on the end of your
tongue. Bad luck to ye ; I have my charac
ter with me, and its the reading of it that will
obleege me.’’
The visitor, who had bv this time become
somewhat elated, opened the portfolio, which
was well filled with letters. She handed them
out one by one, for the good-natured Treas
urer to read, lie had read about three of
them when he again interposed to have the
woman relieve him from further trouble, by
the emphatic announcement that he really
had no place to give her at present. “Would
she call again.*’
“ Ay, faith, I will call again. But won't
yees read my character ; ay, here's a beauty ;
and it’s from Gineral Grant, that it is.”
Mr. New took the letter, and sure enough
it was an endorsement from the President.—
Still, he told the woman he could not give her
a place.
Whereupon the Celtic blood got “ riled.”
She came down with a succession of thumps
with her umbrella on Treasurer New’s table,
after the manner of a negro minstrel giving
force to the stump speSraes made by such
artist.
“ Wurrah, wurrah !” said she, “ an’ it was
me own cousin phat ton Id me that yees was
a honest man, and that yees would help the
poor. When Gen. Spinner was here he
wouldn’t give me a place, faith, bekase I
wasn't a good-looking woman, and it was that
little spalpeen Saville, that, when he was
Chief Clerk, turned me out, and faith, now l
hear that he is in Europe. Bad luck to the
ship phat brings him home, and may it sink
to the bottom of the say !”
Mr. New—“My dear woman, don't get ex
cited.”
“ Excited, is it! And am I excited ?
Faith I would have yees know that the man
Dinnis and me boy Pat sarved in the army ;
and meself it was who nursed the sogers.—
Now, Misther New, I know lots o’ payple in
this office who was ribbles whin me man Din
nis and me boj' Pat was marching wid the
sogers.”
Mr. New—“ Well, if you will bring me
their names. I will have them turned out.”
“ Yees, sir. and it's meeself that will bring
the names, and right soon, too, I tell yees.
I am going to have a place, and if I can't git
it with the large bundle of characters that I
bring wid me, I will come down with a re
volver, and someone will get kilt, that he
will!”
As she brought out the last sentence she
repeated the umbrella process, bringing it
down with violent thumps. As she retired
she told the Treasurer, “ and its the name of
the ribils I am after, and bad luck to yees, I
will bring them.”
After the woman had retired. Mr. New said
to the Star representative that he guessed he
would give the woman a place or there might
be a dead Treasurer.— Washington Star.
idPA presiding elder from Maine—a keen,
humorous, somewhat waggish man—was ap
proached by a traveling companion, as he
seemed to be asleep in the railway car.—
‘ Brother D.,’ said the friend, ‘ wake up, wake
up ! Do j'ou know where you are ?’ ‘Yes,
I know where I am,’ answered the elder.—
‘ Where are you ?’ ‘ Not far from New York.’
‘ How do you know ?’ ‘ Because I have for
the last hour felt like stealing something.’
Prosperity has its “ sweet -uses” as well as
adversity, for no sooner does a man come in
to a little property than he instantly learns
the number of his friends ; whereas, if he re
mained poor, the chances arc that he would
have died in perfect ignorance of the fact.
A Tremendous Battie.
MB. AND MRS. M*STINGER’S CONFLICT WITH THE
ROCKING CHAIR.
Old McStinger was going to lied a little
wavy the other night, and not wishing to dis
turb Mrs. McStinger. who has a tongue like
a rat-tail file, he thought it just as well not to
turn on the gas. He got on very well until
he reached the door of the chamber where his
patient wife lay sleeping. Here he paused a
moment, balancing on his heels like a pole on
a juggler's nose. Then he made a dash for
it, in order to make a bee-line across the
floor.
Mrs. McStinger, with her usual exemplary
fortitude, had placed the rocking chair with
such gifted skill that no man could come into
the room without running over it; so the first
thing he knew, McStinger stubbed his toe
nail off against the rocker, which knocked the
seat against the crazy bone of his knee, and
made one of the long arms prod him in the
stomach. Simultaneously he fell over the
chair cross-wise, and it kicked him behind
his back before he could get up from the
floor, as he stood on all fours. The engage
ment was now fully opened. When a man
begins falling over rocking chairs in a dark
room, he ought always to have three days’
rations and forty rounds.
Before McStinger could get up straight his
knee came down on one of the long rockers
behind, and the back of the chair came down
on his head with a whack that laid him out
flat on the floor, and before he could move
the chair kicked him three times in the
tenderest part of his ribs with the sharp end
of the rocker. This made him perfectly furi
ous, and he scrambled up and made a blind
rush at the chair, determined to blow up the
enemy’s works. He ran square against the
back, and it rocked forward with him, turn
ing a complete somersault over the handles,
throwing McStinger half way across the room
and landing on top of him, digging into his
abdomen like a bull's horns, as he lay spread
out on the under side. It would have been
a good thing for McStinger if he had lain
still then and let the chair have its own way.
It lay flat on its back, with the long points
of the rockers embracing his abdomen, and
didn’t seem to want to do anything active
just then. But McStinger couldn't make up
his mind to give it up vet. He rolled over
sideways and upset t e chair. It fell with a
crash on its side, giving him a furious dig in
the liver, which made him straighten out his
legs spasmodically, barking one shin from
the instep to the knee on the rocker which
hung in the air. and getting the chair on its
feet again, where it stood rocking backward
and .forward at him, like a weary old ram
making feints of bucking its adversary, in
order to throw him off its guard. The blow
in the side nearly finished McStinger, and
while lying there rubbing his wind back again,
he was just beginning to reflect whether his
honor required him to proceed any further in
the affair, when Mrs. McStinger suddenly be
gan screaming all the names in the crimes
act, under the impression that the Charley
Boss abductors were trying to commit a btir
glar\ r , bigamy, robbery, and everything else
on her. 9
Up to this time she had been speechless
with terror, and had lain there trembling,
shedding perspiration, and accumulating
shrieking power, until she had gained the
screaming capacity of a camel-back engine.
She had just reached her third s forzando for
tissimo accelerando , when old McStinger suc
ceeded in getting to his feet once more, and
became dimly visible to Mrs. McStinger.—
With one last wild parting shriek she sprang
from the bed and made a dash for the door,
near which the rocking chair still stood,
menacing the whole universe with a butting
mot ion. Mrs. McStinger had no time Tor in
vestigation just then, and she pitched into
and over the rocking chair and clear on down
stairs, the chair after her: turning over and
over, and kicking Mrs. McStinger every
bump, until they both landed in the hall be
low, where the chair broke all to atoms.—
This ended the fight.
If wives will learn from this sad story not
to leave rocking chairs standing around the
middle of the room for their poor husbands
to fall over, we shall not have written in vain.
—Ohio State Journal.
Sr#"A great many accidents are happening
every day from the use of kerosene. I will
tell you a method by which they can be to a
great extent prevented, and I hope you will
publish it for the benefit of poor people who
are obliged to buy cheap oils. If the body
of the lamp is filled with cotton, such as jew
elers use to wrap their articles in, after it is
stuffed lightly it will receive one-half the
quantity of oil wh'ch it would if the cotton
were not put in. If any accident happens,
the oil can not spill or flow about, but is, as
it were, sopped upon the cotton, which burns
like a fagot, but all in one place.
Artless Simplicity. —One of the sweetest
incidents which we have noticed for many a
da}’ —and and one which shows the effect of
early training, assisted by a pure and undefil
ed imagination—has just fallen under our
ohservatien. It is thus related : A lady
visited New York city, and saw on the side
walk a ragged, cold and hungry little girl,
gazing wistfully at some of the cakes in a
shop window. She stopped, and taking the
little one by the hand, led her into the store.
Though she was aware that bread might be
better for the cold child than cake, vet desir
ing to gratify the shivering and forlorn one,
she bought and gave her the cake she want
ed. She then took her to another place,
where she procured her a shawl and other
articles of comfort. The grateful little crea
ture looked the benevolent lady full in the
face, and with artless 'simplicity said—“ Are
you God’s wife ?”—Did the most eloquent
speaker ever employ words to a better advant
age ? m ~m . t m
It is seldom easy to see the hidden bene
faction in that which is an apparent affliction.
A boy who was “ confounding” the mosquito
was told by his pastor that “ doubtless the
insects a r e made with a good end in view,”
when the young scamp replied, “I can’t see
it whether it is in view or not. At any rate
I don’t like the end I feel.”
Strength of a Mother’s Love.
Asene Houssaye, the brilliant French
novelist and Paris correspondent of the New
York Tribune , relates this incident of the
late terrible floods in the south of France :
The journals and the telegrams have told
you all about these misfortunes, but you
know little about the private tragedies which
have melted even Paris to tears. I will tell
you one story among many. A young
mother is awakened by the inundation. She
has two children, twins, at the breast,
adorable litle girls. The water invades her
house: it is night and the hour is full of
terror. The husband takes care of himself
and mounts on the roof. But the woman
thinks only of her children ; she ties them to
her breast with a scarf, and as she is about
to swim away from the house she thinks
that the bread-trough will serve as a boat.
The house is tottering as the mother
embarks in her frail boat. She is scarcely
out of the house when it goes to pieces. The
husband disappears in the ruins. The little
boat floats away, but strikes against a tree
and is overturned. The poor woman seizes
a branch and climbs into the tree with the
strength of a lioness fighting for her young.
But the tree is young ; it bends ; it will not
hold all three. The mother sees, that the
end has come, but her motherhood is not con
quered. She ties her children to the strong
est branch, she kisses them again and again,
she signs them with the sign of the cross,
and cries “To the mercy of God !”
The piteous drama was witnessed by spec
tators who could do nothing in aid until a
quarter of an hour was gone. The mother
was drowned, but the children were saved
like Moses. They were adopted by the
Sisters of Charity of Castelsarrazin. The
mother's funeral was an occasion of mourning
in the midst of the general sorrow. Her face
seemed sanctified by her action. One of my
friends said to me, “ I never saw such a
beauty.” Her eyes were half closed, her lips
slightly open, her hands crossed above her
breast. There is no spectacle more divine
than that of maternity in sacrifice.
Legal Intelligence.
A countryman walking into the office of
Lawyer Barnes one dav, thus began his ap
plication.
“Barnes, I have come to get your advice
in a case that is giving me some trouble.”
“What’s the case ?”
“Suppose now,” said the client, “that a
man had one spring of water on his land, and
a neighbor living below, should build a dam
across a creek through bot h their farms, and
it was to back the water up into the other
man’s spring, what ought to be done ?”
“Sue him, sir, sue him. by all menus,” said
the lawyer, who always became excited in
proportion to the aggravation of his clients.
“You can recover heavy damages, sir, and
the law will make him pay well for it. Just
give me the case, and if he hasn’t a good
deal of property, it will break him up sir.”
“But stop, Barnes,” cried the terrified ap
plicant for legal advice, “it’s I that built the
dam, and it's Jones that owns the spring, and
he threatens to sue me.”
The keen lawyer hesitated a moment be
fore he tacked ship and kept on.
“Ah, well, you sav you built a dam across
that creek. What sort of a dam was that,
sir ?”
“It was a mill-dam.”
“A mill-dam for grinding grain, was it?”
“Yes, it was just that.”
“And it is a good nioghborhood mill; is
it ?”
“So it is, sir. and you may well say so.”
“And all your neighbors bring their
grain to be ground, do they ?”
“Yes, sir, all but. Jones.”
“Then it is a general public convenience
is it not ?”
“To be sur£ it is. I would not have built
it but for that. It is so far superior to an}'
other mill, sir.”
“And now.” said the old lawyer, “you tell
me that man Jones is complaining just be
cause the water from your dam happened to
put back into his little spring, and he is
threatening to sue you ? Well, all 1 ? have to
sav is to let him sue, and he'll rue the day as
sure as my name is Barnes.”
An Impressive Sight.
There were seventeen of them—exactly
seventeen. They marched down Michigan
avenue in double file—all but one. He
marched alone at the head of the column.
They were noble young men. They had
high foreheads and intelligent faces, and
there was a stern, determined look on each
face—a look which said they* would die at
their country’s call. Were they going forth
to battle? Were they going to the rescue of
some kind sentiment which the wicked world
was trying to blot from the hearts of men?
Were they going to the succor of the unfor
tunate and distressed? No, not a cent’s
worth—they were going out to play base
ball. It was an imposing sight to see them
march, march, march—each form erect, each
step in time, each face bearing that look
which warriors wear when the roar of the
battle is loudest. If every one of the seven
teen had been on their way to the woodpile
or corn-field the sight could not have been
more grand or thrilling. —Detroit Free Press.
|JPA pedestrian passing along acorn b
street Detroit saw a father staggering drunk,
being led along by a ragged son, and he felt
so mad that he exclaimed: See here, you de
based sot, if you had a spark of manhood in
your rum-burned soul you would not make
such a public spectacle as this! “Mizzer,”
replied the man reaching out his hand to
shake, “Mizzer, I’ve been a drunkard for
thirty-four years, and zhese are the first kind
words ever spoken to me. Gimme hand,
Mizzer—l’m going to reform right away !”
Mrs. Laura Gordon, editor of the Stock
ton (Cal.) Leader, has temporarily retired
from the tripod, because, as she says, the
present campaign promises to he too boy
strous for a lady to appear in public.*
George Washington couldn’t tell a lie. It
is worthy of note that he left no descendants.
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S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS
Q-LEANING-S.
A machine has l>een invented in England
for making hay by artificial heat at a coat of
eight shillings per ton.
General Wade Hampton is prominently
spokon of for President of tle Univesity of
North Carolina.
Enoch Morris. 81 years old, has cleared,
this year, with his own hands, 12 acres of near
ground, in Paulding County, Ga.
A Pennsylvania man dislocated his jaw in
laughing at a joke in a borrowed newspaper.
The moral is obvious.
In Germany, the loss of young men in
the war has been so great that there are
1.000.000 more women than men.
McCulloch says forty million Frenchmen
could subsist on that forty million
Americans throw away.
Several life insurance companies havo
organized under the management of Granges
in different States, upon the mutual benefit
plan.
The annual receipts of the American Bap.
tist, Missionary Union have advanced, in 25
years from $104,837 in 1850, to $241,979 in
1875.
Mrs. Provatt, of Bradford co., Fla., has an
orange tree whioh measures four feet seven
and a half inches in circumference three feet
above the ground.
At the recent goat show, the first ever held
in London, one hundred animals were exhibit
ted, including one which gives five quarts of
milk a day.
There are oight completed Bessemer steel
establishments in the country, and according
to the Iron Age “ every one of them is run.
ning to its full capacity, and is foil of orders.’*
The Fatness of the Earth.— An lowa
farmer has eighty acres of corn that stands
sixteen feet high, and will average one
handed bushels to the acre.
English gardeners now gladly pay one
dollar each for toads. They find them the
l>est and cheapest destroyers of the insects
which infest their plants.
Millions of grasshppers have made their
appearance in portions of Alabama, and are
proving very destructive to the cotton and
growing corn.
The term of Senator Norwood, of Georgia,
expires March, 1877, and among those on
whom the succession may fall are mentioned,
Hons. Alex 11. Stephens and B. H. Hill.
The letter R is said to be very unfortunate,
because it is always in trouble, wretchedness
and misery; is the beginning of rum, riot
and ruin, and is never found in peace,
innocence or love.
There is one town in New England that
claims to be entirely happy and good. It is
Eaton, in New Hampshire. There is not a
physician, doctor, lawyer, drinking saloon or
pauper in the place.
A California town has a female brass band,
and, somehow, those players can sit and
blow, and blow, for hours at a stretch, and
not once get out of breath, as a ipalc band
would.
When a Massachusetts man walked seven,
teen miles to see a man hung, and the man
was respited, the disgusted traveler sat down
in a fence corner and hoarsely inquired if
this country was drifting back to barbarism.
rr The Covington Enterprise thinks a
constitutional convention should not be
called at the present time. It would give
the partisan press of the north an opportuni
ty to prejudice and mislead their readers,
and the coming presidential and gubernato
rial campaigns would not admit of the cool
and deep deliberation that the grave ques
tions involved demand.
Lap “ Local option” has been in operation
in Newnan nearly two months, and the He
rald, of that pleasant little city, recently
interviewed a number of dealers as to its ef
fects. Liquor is not sold under the law in
quantities less than one gallon. The dealers
claim that they sell as much whisky to the
whites, biit the negroes do not buy as much
as they did formerly. The business is not
as profitable as it was, but the expenses are
less. One firm conducts its sales on a novel
plan. It is called the “post-office plan,” and
the Herald thus describes it:
Their stores are provided with little boxes,
boxes, neatly constructed, and attached to
the wall. These boxes are numbered, and
contain look and key. They are long enough
to contain a gallon jug and two or three
drinking glasses. Gentlemen who desire it
buy a gallon of whisky and, securing one of
these boxes, keep it there and have access
to it any hour in the day. Being tarnished
with a key, his jug cannot be trespassed upon
by others. This plan seems to be very
popular, as these houses are provided with
ten of these boxes eaoh, and we believe they
have all been taken,
As an evidence of the scarcity of money
in that section, the LaGrange Reporter says,
at a sale in that county last Mouday, good
“ mules sold for $5 each ; good horses for the
same price; oxen sold for $2 each: young
cows, with calves, brought $3 and $3.25; a
good two-horse wagon went for $3, and a log
cart, with irons, for sl. Wheat sold tat fifty
cents a bushel; anew buggy and harness
broughl $25, and a carriage and harness, $5.
A horse collar was the highest article sold—-
bringing SI.BO. almost as muoh as aet oX\
These sales were made on sixty dayi’ twe/*
NUMBER 13.