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oV THE JACKSON COUNTY ? PUBLISHING COMPANY. $ VOLUME I. £tafos. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, ihc Jackson County PubllKhing Coinpany. JEFFERSON. , JJ CKSON CO <?A. 4FICK. n. W. cor. public square, up-stairs. MALCOM STAFFORD, managing and business editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months ~ $2.00 „ 6 “ 1.00 U “ 3 “ 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an cx tra copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) ftr the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. jts*r All Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. business or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Advertising. The follow ing will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases: , Squares, iv. 1 in. 3m. m. ittin. 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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. -— circadian. 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.