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flic \h et 8 (lonu’r.
Measuring the Baby.
IVo n •easured the riotous baby
Against the cottage wall,
A lily green at the threshold.
And the boy was just as tall !
A royal tiger lily
Wish spots of purple ?wal gnTd,
Awl a hcftlt Like s jeweled elm lice,
The fragrant dew to hold.
Without the blue birds whistled
High up in the old roof trees,
And to and fro at the window
- fhe red rose rocked her bees ;
Arid trie wee pink fists of the baby
Were never a moment still,
i c ßatebi| at shine and shadow
XbaA daoct-d ott the lattice still !
ULs eyjjs were wide as blue bells—
IfW mouth like a flower unblown.
Two little biuc feet, like funny white mice,
Peeped out from the snowy green :
we thought with a thrill of rapture.
That vet luvl a touch of [rain.
When June rolls around with her roses
We’ll measure the Iroy again.
All. me ! In a darkened chamber.
With the sunshine shut away.
Through tears that fell like a little rain,
We uieasurad the boy to-dav ;
And the little bare feet were dimpled.
And sweet as a budding rose.
Lay side by side together,
in the- hush of a long repose.
I p from the dainty pillow.
White as the rising dawn,
The fair little face lay smiling.
With the light of Heaven thereon—
And the dear little hands like rose leaves
* I trooped from a rose, lay st ill.
Never to catch at the sunshine.
That crept to the shrouded sill !
We meastm-d the sleeping baby
With ribhons white as snow,'
For the shining rosewood casket
That waited him below ;
And out of the darkened chamber
Wc went with a childish moan—
To the height of the sinless angels
Our little one had grown.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Dirty days hath September,
April, June and November.
And from February until May
The rain it ruineth every day.
All the rest have thirty-one.
Without a single gleam of sun :
And if they should have thirty-two,
They’d be dull and dirty too.
Ours at home—the baby. .
A head wind—a sneeze.
Dubious weather —Wether or no.
The first thing in a boot is the last.
Notes of admiration—love letters.
A high-toned man—a tenor singer.
The coming woman—Annie Versary.
Q*jeeT* of "Arts—female graduates.
A girl of in-bread usefulness—Kally-ratu.s.
Hanging is brisk, but with a falling ten
dency.
People wlio sell coal do business on a
‘‘large scale/'
Academy of design—A young ladies’ board
ing school.
Moderate thine expenses; be not idle:
keep thy counsel.
Speaking of the Israelites, were they not
to the manna lwirn ?
Why is a kiss like a sewing machine? lie
cause it seems so good.
When under weigh, sailors can tell wheth
er or not the sea is heavy.
What horn produces the most discordant
musks? The drinking horn.
In w hat colors should babies be dressed ?
Why, Ift fhnev colors, of course.
A Boston murderer wants his execution
delayed, as he is in poor health.
It makes a great difference whether glass
es are used over or under the nose.
“ Heat generates motion.” Illustration—
A small boy sitting down on a hot coal.
A A\ estern man who bit his neighbor's nose
off was bound over to keep the piece.
It docsn t take long for a man with a small
mind to make it up.
The only men who don’t get out of patients
in warm weather—the doctors.
*’ This,” thought a boy, while being trounc
ed by his loud papa, “is very like a whale.”
The two most ineffectual things in the world
are undoubtedly a blue-eyed woman’s rage
and a liquor law.
“Sambo, did you ever see Catskill Moun
tains ?” “ No, sail; but I’ve seen um kill
mice.”
Query—When Dickens wrote his character
of Dot, did he have in mind “a girl of the
period?”
If a person follows punning for ten years,
he is sure to pass into the ranks of decade
punsters.
What is it that, that with ones is exceed
ingly useful, but with two ss is altogether use
less ? A needle.
A person looking at some skeletons asked
a young doctor present where he got them.
He replied, “ We raised them.”
A tourist, who was asked in what part of
Switzerland he felt the heat most, replied,
“When I was going to Berne.”
“They fired two shots at him,” wrote &11
Irish reporter : “ the first shot killed him. but
the second shot was not fatal.”
A blind mendicant wears this inscription
round his neck : “Don’t be ashamed to give
only a half-penny. I can’t see.”
A kleptomaniac excused himself from the
charge of stealing, on the ground that he took
the articles in a fit of abstraction.
Shakspeare’s “patience on a monument”
doesn't refer to doctors’ patients. Because
you always find them under a monument.
Never waste a fly in huckleberry season.
One fly in a plate of huckleberries contains
more nutriment than three berries.
In Meriden, Conn., last Friday, two base
ball players, running for the same ball, bump
ed heads so hard that one of them got brain
fever.
The gardener who hung an old coat out to
frighten birds away, and afterward found a
young brood in one of the pockets, writes,
asking for another remedy.
A Norristown boy who found a pocket-book
containing eighty-five dollars, and returned it
to the owner, refused a reward of five cents
for his trouble, explaining that many a man
has been ruined by suddenly becoming rich.
“Sure,” said Patrick, rubbing his head with
delight at the prospect of a present from his
employer, “I always mane to do my duty.”
“ I believe you,” replied the employer, “ and
therefore I make you a present of all you have
stolen from me during the year.” “I thank
your honor,” replied Pat; “ and may all your
friends and acquaintances treat yon as lib
erally.”
TEMPERANCE.
What aCFiHd Saw.
Yesterday morning some people firing on
j Macomb street entered a house to fiml father
and mother beastly drunk on the floor, and
their child, a boy fooryears old dead in his
cradle.
The parents locked like beasts—the child
wore the sweetest, tenderest smile on its white
face that any of them ever saw. It had been
j nilling for days, anil its brief life had been
full of bitter woe, dmt yet the women cried
as they bent over the old cradle and kissed
its cold cheeks and felt of its icy hands.
Father and mother lav down at dark the
evening before, and people passing by heard
: the child crying and wailing. It was too
weak to crawl out of the eradle and its voice
j was not strong enough to break the chains
of drunken stupor.
When the sun went down and the evening
shadows danced across the floor and seemed
|to grasp at him, the boy grew afraid and
cried out. The shadows came faster and as
they raced around the room and scowled
darkly at the lone child, lie nestled down and
drew the ragged blanket over his head to
keep the revengeful shadows from seizing
him. He must have thought his parents
dead, and how still the house seemed to him !
“It's dark mother it’s dark!” the neigh
bors heard him wail; but no one went in to
comfort him and to drive the shadows away.
The night grew colder—the feet of the
pedestrian ceased to echo, and the heavy
breathing of the drunkards made the child
tremble and draw the cover still closer. 11 is
•little bare feet were curled up, and lie shut
his eyes tightly to keep from seeing the black
darkness.
‘ By and by the ragged blanket was gently
pulled away, and the child opened his eyes
and saw a great light in the room.
“Is it morning ?” he whispered, but the
drunkards on the floor slept on.
Sweet, tender music came to the child’s
ears, and the light had driven every shadow
away.
He was no longer afraid.
The aches and pains he had suffered for
days past went away all at once.
“Mother! mother ! hear the music !” he
cried, and from out of the soft, white light an
angel came. “I am thy mother!” she softly
said.
He was not afraid. He had never seen
her before, hut she looked so good and beauti
i ful that he held up his wasted hands and
| said.
j
T will go with you.”
The music grew yet softer, and the melody
was so sad and tender, and yet so full
of love and rejoicing, that the drunkards on
the floor moved a little and uttered broken
words.
Other angels came and the light fell on the
boy's face in a blazing shower, turning his
curls to threads of gold. He held up his
arms and laughed for joy.
“Heaven wants you !” the angel whispered.
“Earth has no more sorrow—no further
misery. Come!”
And he floated away with them, leaving
the sleepers lying as if dead. The golden
light faded out, the music died away and the
old house was again filled witli the grim
threatening shadows, which sat around the
sleepers and touched their bloated faces
with their gaunt skeleton fingers, and laugh
ed horribly when the drunkards groaned in
uneasy slumber.
AA hen people came in the shadows went
out, The sleepers stilt slept their sudden
sleep and no one minded them. Men and
women bent lowover the dead child, smoothed
back his curls and whispered ; •
“Poor, dead boy !”
They knew not that he had seen the angels,
and that they had borne him to heaven’s gate.
—Detroit Free Press.
Sound on the Temperance Question.
Gen. Samuel Cary, Democratic candidate
j for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, has a level
I head on temperance. He makes the follow
ing remarks:
Of myself I do not care to speak, as this is
j no personal controversy—but when a man is
a candidate for office he is the object of at
tack ; yet a word on one subject may be
necessary from me. One of my personal dis
qualifications is that I am a temperance man.
On this subject I repeat what I said recently
in Belmont county :
I am arraigned also for having been an ad
vocate of a very popular reform—the
temperance reform. They wonder whether
I have gone back on my record, and l sup
pose it will be definitely ascertained before
the canvass closes that I am in the regular
habit of drinking. On that subject I have
simply to say : That for forty years—more
than forty years—l have not drank one sin
gle] drop of intoxicating liquor. And never
intend to. I would not drink a glass of liquor
to-day, to be Lieutenant Governor, Governor,
or President. It is not a mere sentiment
with me; it is a conviction. I know I am
better off without liquor than with it, and I
believe every other man would be. That in
temperance is the crying evil ofthe age every
| body admits, whether he drinks or not. That
j it has cut down the great, and good, and love-
Ily like harvest flowers—that it has scathed
i and blasted with its terrible lightnings, every
' hearthstone, we are witnesses. But as to
I the remedy lor the evil, there is an infinite
| variety of opinion.
Almost every expedient has been tried to
arrest this terrible scourge. In the last six
hundred years of British history there have
i been four hundred acts of Parliment trying
j to restrain, control and regulate, and, if pos
sible, mitigate these evils. Every State and
Territory in this Union has had its legisln
j tion. Disraeli. Gladstone, and John Bright
have said in their places in the British Par
liament that all this legislation had been to
a greater or less utter failure.
Now, my fellow citizens, I am a temperance
man, but while I control my own appetite I
do not propose to control yours. I have en
dorsed different expedients that have been
j tried to stop the evil of intemperance, which
have failed. Last year and the year before
there was the Crusade movement, which did
not commend itself to my judgment, and I
I did not approve it. I was called upon in
regard to the movement as an old temperance
man, but I spoke against it and wrote against
it. I did so from conviction, and I to-day
stand squarely on the Democratic platform.
[Applause.] I profess to be an honest man,
and I have nothing more to say on the sub
ject. If you think that a man who does not
drink liquor is not qualified to preside over
the Senate of Ohio do not vote for me, for
I shan't drink to gratify anybody.
According to the report of Police Justices
ofNew'iork for the j'ear ending October,
1874, there were 40,777 arrests for being
drunk or drunk and disorderly. Of those
arrested 27,203 were men and 13,574 women.
LADIES’ COLUMN.
Love. ✓
Yes, IjO-vc indeed is light from Heaven,
A spark of that immortal fire
AVith Angels shared, by Alla given,
To lift from Earth our low desire.
Demotion walls the mind above,
Bit heaven itself descends in Love;
A feeling from the Godhead caught,
To wean from self each sordid thought;
A ray of Him who form'd the whole ;
A glory circling round the Soul 1
— Byron.
doing to Keeping House.
A lady writer in the London Public Opin
ion, lavs down the following rules for girls
and young housekeepers, which are pretty
good for general reading :
When a girl marries, she ought to acer
; tain extent, to give up her acquaintances, and
consider the company of her husband the
best company she can have. The young
i wife must learn cooking carefully. There
are many excellent cookery' books, but she
must not follow them implicity.
My own plan, for some time after I was
married, was to take some dish, and pre
pare it according to the recipe given, and
note carefully what ingredients could be dis-
I pensed with. The second time I generally
managed it at half the expense. A useful
i plan is to keep a blank book in the kitchen
j table drawer, and whenever a deviation from
j the othodox cookery book is made, to jot it
! down. Do not wait till you have washed
vour hands ; let the book be ’ finger-marked,
! rather than lose an idea.
You will thus learn more of household
economy alone, and when your daughters grow
up, what a fund of practical information it
will be for them. To a great extent the
celibacy ot our young men is owing the way
in which girls are brought up. Through mis
taken kindness, mothers often do themselves
what they' ought to make their daughters
do. Let them teach housekeeping on a fix
ed methodical plan, and they' will then learn
their history, French and music all the bet
ter.
It is natural and right that a mother should
wish to see her daughter well educated, aud
even highly accomplished, and it is a mistake
that good and careful education would unfit a
girl for the homely duties of cooking, dusting,
etc.—On the contrary, those duties would lie
better performed, and if mothers would at
the same time they seek talented instructors
for their daughters, impart to them some of
their own culinary talent, there would be
more good wives and marriages.
Little girls should be taught, as earl}' as
possible, to perform simple household duties
neatly, and as they grow older let them be
come gradually' acquainted with the theory of
housekeeping in such a manner that when
they are married they will be able to adapt
themselves to their circumstances, aud be
useful as well as pleasing companions to their
husbands. Let none of my unmarried sis
ters suppose that I wish them, when they
marry, to become mere household slaves.
Most young men when they marry have
fair prospects of advancement, and should
they be steady they may in time be able to
keep not one servant only, but several, and
their wives’ knowledge of housekeeping
prove no less usefnl to them than it was
when they had no servant at all.
Blue Grass Girls.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial says : “It is a solemn fact not to be
disputed, that the blite grass girls of Kentuc
ky are the handsomest in this conntry. AVe
would not say it if we could help it, but it is
true, and we may as well admit it. Why
the}' are prettier than other women is easily'
told. The fine climate they live in, the hard
lime-stone water of the rigion, and the free
and active open air life they lead, dcvelopes
them to perfection, and gives them a clear
and beautiful complexion. Their features
are not better than those of the women of
other parts of the country, but their forms,
eyes, hair and skin are extremely fine.—
There is, however, another reason why the
Kentucky blue grass girls are pretty, and
that is because they give their whole at
tention to being pretty. They dress with
great taste, and you never see one but she is
dressed in neat and fashionable attire. The
farms are large, and most of the people here
are rich—so the girls can afford to dress.
We warn impressible young men in the Nortli
not to come down here for a wife unless they
have a pocketfull of rocks ; for the pin-money
of a Kentucky girl amounts to more in a year
than the product of a small Northern farm
would bring. As wives, as helpmates, they
are not desirable ; but as ornaments for fine
houses they are unsurpassed. They may
not be able to work, but not one of them but
can sing, dance, ride, and flirt; and the more
they are married the worse they will flirt.
They are high tempered, haughty, and hot
blooded ; and the best way is to get along as
quietly as possible with them, for if they get
on their mettle they are anything but comfor
table companions.”
Marriage.
Leigh Hunt concludes an essay on mar
riage as follows :
“There is no one thing more lovety in this
life, more full of the divine courage, than a
young maiden, from her past life, from her
childhood, when she rambled over every field
and moor around her home ; when a mother
anticipated her wants and soothed her little
cares, when her brothers and sisters grew
from merry playmates to loving, trustful
friends; from Christmas gatherings and
romps, the summer festivals in bower or gar
den. from the room sanctified by the death of
| relatives; from the secure backgrounds of her
I childhood and girlhood and maidenhood,
looks in the dark unilluminated future, away
from all that, and yet unterrified, undaunted,
leans her fair cheek upon the lover's breast,
and whispers, ‘Dear heart! I cannot see, but
I believe. The past was beautiful, but the
future I can trust—with thee.”
Catholic Italy is ahead of all other nations
it the matter of female education. Schools
for girls there are numerous, and they are
under the care of women supervisors, who
visit them at stated times, and receive their
pay from the State.
Said a saucy Rochester beauty to a foppish
fellow who bored her with his compliments :
our presence and conversation are vastly
agreeable, and what is remarkable, your at
tractiveness doesn’t seem to depend upon
brains at all.”
The British Government is about to make
a further trial of the clercial capacities of wo
men by establishing a number of female
clerkships in the post-office savings banks.
There are 700,000 women in the Order of
Patrons of Husbandry.
Why is a rejected lover like a tree in the
spring? Because he is compelled to leave.
SUNDAY BEADING.
Spirit of the Religious Press.
From under this “head” in the Christian
Index, we extract the following notes:
Giving a classification of Christian
workers, and separating the genuine from the
spurious, The Christian says :
There are two kinds ; the genuine and the
spurious. Men who have the power of God
in their souls, the word of God abiding in
them and the glory of God in view ; and men
who contrive to get introduced into the work,
and elected to office ; there, with nothing to
commend them but respectability and formal
ity, rehearsing old things without power or
unction, and disheartening and disgusting all
who have the spirit of Christian labor or the
gift of discerning Christian charity ; but still
contriving to keep their names before the
people, and obtaining credit sometimes for
what others do, and often for what has never
been done at all! No man can be a Chris
tian worker unless he lives a Christian life.
If he is a sinner in secret, or a tyrant in his
family, or a nuisance in his neighborhood, or
a rascal in his business, no matter how much
he may talk religion, he is like a sounding
brass and a tinkling cymbal, with no spritual
power, even though he may preside over so
cieties, control committees, direct measures,
and rule over men who are far more worthy
and efficient than himself.
Christian work demands clear hands, a
pure heart, an honest soul; true to convic
tion, to duty, and to God. Professions will
not suffice ; name, position, and prestige are
vain; God works through his own chosen
workers—through men whose hearts are true
and upright with their God. He hates rob
bery for burnt-offering, and will not accept
guilt and craft as wisdom, lie himself must
work in us; and he wills that we maintain
such unity and harmony with him, that all
our works may be wrought in God—wrought
under the influence of his divine power, un
der the influence of his abiding blessing, and
with respect unto the grace which he has al
ready bestowed, and the recompense of re
ward which he shall give to all his saints at
last.
On the term denying Christ, the Chris
tian Register comments as follows: That
word “deny” means “ thrust from.” So when
the New Testament speaks of “denying all
ungodliness and worldly lusts,” it means to
thrust them far from us and let them no more
have dominion over the heart or life. When
it bids us deny ourselves, it means to thrust
one side the appetite and passions which
have been holding sway, and declare that
henceforth our chief allegiance shall not be
paid to them. So. too, when it speaks of de
nying Christ, it means to thrust His rightful
claims out of sight, to disown our allegiance
to his religion, and to be disloyal to his
righteousness. Hence it was that the Apostle
Paul wrote to Titles of those who profess that
they know God, but in his works they deny
him ; and it is to this renouncing, disowning,
this thrusting one side, that the word always
refers in the New Testament usage. Will
any one ask. after that definition, who it is
that denies Christ ?
The Presbyterian gives the following
advice to ministers on their summer vaca
tion : Muse on the beauties of rural life and
scenery ; be attentive to your wife and play
with the children ; lay on as many pounds of
flesh as you can conveniently carry ; laugh
much and cry none ; regularly read the Bi
ble. and say your prayers ; make yourself es
pecially agreeable to old ladies, taking it as
a matter of course that young ladies will make
themselves agreeable to you ; talk with farm
ers about phosphates, and the prospective
crop of potatoes, in view of the ravages of the
potato bug; listen admirably to those good
people who tell Km when you were born, and
when your grandmother was born, and when
everybody else was born within a circle often
miles ; watch the fleecy clouds, listen to the
murmur of old ocean, and be cheered with
the songs of morning birds. Thus you will
go back to your congregation a healthier and
a happier man, and better qualified to do
that work which, above all things, calls for
energy and strength, and cheer.
The Christian Intelligeneer says, es
pecially for ministers, that “ while the preach
er who would catch souls should enrich and
illustrate his sermons by everything within
his reach that would be most likely to attract
the attention and win the consideration of
men living in this country and century;
while he should have recourse to everything
in the actual world around us to lure men to
their Saviour, he should be always mindful of
the certain fact that there is no way to open
the eyes of the sinners to the foulness of sin
and the exceeding loveliness of holiness, no
way to save him from going down into the
pit, save by placing constantly, fully and
squarely before him Jesus Christ and Him j
crucified.”
On the subject of pastors visiting, the
Examiner and Chronicle says :
“ Men who study human hearts are the men
who are able to preach to them with power.
Much of the ineffectiveness of preaching is
dne to the neglect of this means of gaining
practical insight into the kind of preaching
needed. Next, then, to his Bible, the pastor's
text-book should be living men and women.
The more he knows of them, the stronger and
more searching will his preaching be. We
have no wish to disparage the study of books
—far from it. But it is impossible that the
study of books alone should give the pulpit
power for which our age cries out.” .
A Reminiscence.
Rev. J. D. Anthony, in a letter to the San
dersville Herald of July 29th, descriptive of
a recent trip from Alabama to Georgia, in
passing through Kingston, Ga., relates the
following personal reminiscence of that place :
“Here, in the summer of 1850, we preach
ed the Jirst sermon, so we were informed, that
was ever preached in the place, from the text,
“ How shall we escape, if we neglect so great
a salvation ?” There was no suitable house
to worship in ; an old Baptist brother by the
name of Smith was the only professing male
Christian in town ; there were a few ladies
who had been members of the church in time
past. Brother Smith had requested us to
preach for the Kingston people, and finally
succeeded in getting leave to use a large old
“ wholesale and retail grocery” house, in
which there were several barrels of whisky.
Mr. Smith had them rolled up in one corner
of the house, and rather hid from view by the
counter; temporary seats were arranged in
front of the counter; we stood behind the
counter, using it as a book board. Our meet
ing continued for near two weeks, resulting
in the organization of a church numbering
thirty-odd members.
Three things to govern—temper, tongue
and conduct.
Three things to think about—life, death
and eternity.
He Could not Afford to Swear.
A boy stood near the entrance of a large
hotel, with a box of blacking and a pair of
brushes in his hand, thus showing to the
passers by that he was ready to black their
boots. Patiently he waited, as one after
another passed by without heeding his prof
fered serv ices, until at last two young men,
fashionably dressed and each with a cigar in
his mouth, stopped before him.
“Here, Boots,” said one, rudely, “let me
see if you are master of your trade,” and he
put his foot on the boy’s knee. Charlie, the
boot black, worked with a will, and soon the
polish grew under his skillful touch. The
two young men amused themselves mean
while by trying to frighten the boy, urging
him to hurry, threatening to cane him, and
and swearing profanely at every other word.
Charlie stood it as long as he could ; one
boot was finished and the other blackened
preparatory to polishing, when he quickly
arose and prepared to put up his brushes.
“What now ?” said the young man.
“I would rather not finish them sir.” re
plied Charlie.
“Not finish them!” said the gentleman
with an oath ; “then you don’t see the color
of my money.”
“I don’t want your money, sir, and I will
not stand here and listen to your swearing
and he turned to move away.
“Let the boy alone and have him to finish
his work,” said the other youth.
“Very well! Here, bo}', finish this boot,
and tell me what you mean. A boot-black
afraid of swearing ! That is a good joke !”
“I am afraid of it, sir; I don’t wan’t to
hear it, or go where it is, and I won’t work
for a man who swears at me.”
“And you want to make me believe that
you don’t swear ? Why, there is not one of
your trade that wouldn't both swear and
steal.”
“O, you are much mistaken ; rrtany of the
boys neither steal nor swear : I am sure noth
ing could make me steal, and I cannot afford
to swear.”
“Cannot afford to swear ! Come, now, do
you mean to say that it costs anything: to
swear ?”
‘,Yes, sir, it would cost me more than a
million of pounds.”
“What, a million of pounds! In what
wa} r is your money invested ?”
“In the pearl of great price. If I lost it
my soul would be the forfeit; so yon see, I
cannot afford to swear. My Sunday school
teacher teaches me that it is wicked, and my
mother forbids me to do it. I should disobey
all of them if I did it, and lose ray soul; so,
you see, sir, I cannot afford to swear.”
“The boy is right,” said the young man
who had listened to the conversation in
silence. “But how happens it that you are
different from your companions ?j They do
not think it a sin to swear ; and I suppose
some of them go to Sunday school too.”
“Perhaps they have no mother,” said Char
lie, “or not such a good one as mine.”
“Well, here’s your money, Boots ; I sup
pose I do swear a little, but I am only one
out of many.”
“But always one more, sir. And then the
little boys hear you, and see you dressed so
fine they think it must be smart, and the}'
learn to swear, too. I thought so myself at
first. Thank you, sir,” as he took the money,
which was silver instead of copper; “and
please, sir, do not swear no more.”
“I will think "of it.” said the youth, as he
passed on ; and he did think of it; though he
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JACKSON SUPERIOR COURT
Hon. GEO. D. RICE, - - . JlkJ
EMORY SPEER, Esq., - - Sol. G*
COUNTY OFFICERS.
WILEY C. HOWARD, .... Online
THOS. H. NTBLACK, Clerk S 52
JOHN S. HUNTER, - S W
WINN A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy "
LEE J. JOHNSON, Treasure
JAMES L. WILLIAMSON, - - Tax CoS
GEO. W. BROWN. RecS
JAMES L. JOHNSON, - - County Surveyor I
WM. WALLACE. - . . ‘ C or.
G. J. N. WILSON, County School Com miss'- j
Commissioners (Roads and Revenue.)-'Wn j
Seymour, W. J. llaynie, W. G. Steed. Meet I
the Ist Fridays in August and November. T P I
Niblack, Esq., Clerk.
MAGISTRATES AND BAILIFFS.
Jefferson District, No. 245, N. 11. i
J. P.; 11. T. Flecman, J. P. John M. Bum. I
Constable. j
Clarkesborough District, No. 242, F. M. Holli 1
dav, J. P.; M. B. Smith, J. P. I
Miller's District, No. 455, 11. F. Kidd, J. P.
Chandler's District, No. 246, Ezekiel Hewitt
J. P.; J. G. Burson, J. P.
Randolph’s District, No. 248, Pinckney p |
Pirkle, J. P.; Jas. A. Straynge, J. P.
Cunningham’s District, No. 428, J. A. Bnzlr-1
ton. J. P.; T. K. Randolph, J. P.
Newtown District, No. 253, G. W. O’Kelly. J, 1
P.; T. J. Stapler, Not. Pub. & Ex. Off. J. P.
Minnish’s District, No! 255, Z. W. Hood, J. p, 1
Harrisburg District, No. 257, Wm. M. Momn F
J. P.; J. AV. Pruitt, J. P.
House’s District. No. 243, A. A. Hill, J. P.
S&ntafee District, No. 1042, W. R. Boyd, J. P
S. G. Arnold, J. P.
Wilson’s District, No. 465, W. J. Comer, J. p.
FRA TERN A L DIRECTOR Y.
Unity Lodge, No. 36. F. A. M„ meets IstTun
day night in each month. 11. W. Bell, W. M ;
•John Simpkins, Scc’v.
Love Lodge, No. 65. T. O. O. F.. meets on 2d
and 4th Tuesday nights in each month. J. B. Si)
man, N. G.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec’y.
Stonewall Lodge, No. 214, I. O. G. TANARUS., meets on
Saturday night before 2d and 4th Sundays in each
month. J. B. Pendergrass, W. C. TA NARUS.; Miss Mi
ry F. Winbum, W. K. S.
Jefferson Grange, No. 488. P. of 11., meets on
Saturday before 4th Sunday in each month. Ji>.
K. Randolph, M.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec’y.
Relief (colored) Fire Company, No. 2, meets on
tth Tuesday night in each month. Henry Lony
’aptain ; Ned Burns, Sec’y.
Oconee Grange. No. 391, meets on Saturday lie
ore the first Sunday in each month, at Galilee.it
I o’clock, P. M. A. C. Thompson, W. M.; L.T,
.fusli, Sec’y.
COUNTY CHURCH DIRECTORY.
M ETHODIST.
Jefferson Circuit. —Jefferson, Harmony Grov,
Dry' Pond, Wilson’s, Holly Springs. W. A. Fir
is,' P. C.
Mulberry Circuit. —Ebenezcr, Bethlehem, Con
cord. Centre and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. A.1..
Anderson. P. C.
Chapel and Antioch supplied from WatkiiH
ville Circuit.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Thyatira, Rev. G. H. Cartledge, Pastor; Sand;-1
Creek. Rev. Neil Smith. Pastor; Pleasant Grovi I
Rev. G. 11. Cartledge, Pastor; Mi/.pah, Rev. Nr I
Smith, Pastor.
BAPTIST.
Cabin Creek, W. R. Goss, Pastor: llarraM.'l
Grove. W. B. -J. Hardeman, Pastor; Zion, Rev I
J. M. Davis. Past.; Bcthabra. Rev. G. L. Bagwel I
Pastor; Academy. Rev. J. N. Coil, Pastor!
Walnut, Rev. J. M. Davis, Pastor; Crooke |
Creek, W. F. Stark, Pastor; Oconee Church, Rf' l
A.-J. Kelley. Pastor; Poplar Springs, Rev. I
A. Brock. Pastor; Handler’s Creek. W. F. Stark I
Pastor ; Mountain Creek. W. 11. Bridges, Pastor 1
PROTESTANT MKTIK >]>IST.
Pentecost, Rev. R. S. McGarrity. Pastor.
“CHRISTIAN.”
Bethany Church. Dr. F. Jackson, Pastor.
Christian Chapel, Elder W. T. Lowe, Pastor. j
Galilee, Elder P. F. Lamar, Pastor.
FIRST UNI VERSA LIST.
Centre Ilill, Rev. B. F. .Strain. Pastor; CliurcJJ
meeting and preaching every third Saturdayl
Sunday.
JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
PROFESSIONS.
Physicians...J. D. & If. J. Long, J. J.
ter, N. AY. Carithers.
Atty’s at Law...J. B. Silman. AY. I. Pi*'
J. A. B. Mahatfey, AY. C. Howard, M. M. Pitm r
P. F. Hinton. .
MERCHANTS. ,
Pendergrass & Hancock, F. M. Bailey, Stank'l
& Pinson, Win. S. Thompson.
MECHANICS. , ,
Carpenters... Joseph P. AYilliamson, Sent
J. P. Williamson, Jr.
Harness Maker.. . John G. Oakes.
AY agon Makers...AA*m. AY inbum, Mom
Ray, (col.)
Buggy Maker...L. Gillctamd.
Blacksmith...C. T. Story.
Tinner... John H. Chapman.
Tanners... J. E. & H. J. Randolph.
Boot and Shoe-Makers... X. B. Stark,**
born M. Stark.
HOTELS.
Randolph House, by Mrs. Randolph.
North-Eastern Hotel, by John Siinpkm- gj
Public Boarding House, by Mrs. Kliz' K
AYorsham.
Liquors, Segars, Ac... J. L. Bailey. ,g|
Grist and Saw-Mill and Gin...J. B* 4
J. Long.
Saw-Mill and Gin...F. S. Smith.
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COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECTORY- 1
Martin Institute. —J. W. Glenn, Principal*
P. Orr. Assistant; Miss M. E. Orr, Assist*- |
Miss Lizzie Burch, Music.
Centre Academy. —L. M. Lyle, Principal*
Galilee Academy. —A. L. Barge. Principal*
Harmony Grove Academy. —R. S. Cheney,
cipal. . ,
Murk Academy. —J. 11. McCarty, Princip* l - I
Oak Grove Academy —Mrs. A. C. P* o*"*
Principal. - ,
Academy Church. —J. J. Mitchell,
Duke Academy. —Mrs. H. A. Deadwylcr, 1
cipal. . •
Park Academy. — Miss V. C. Park, Prinop I
Chapel Academy. —AY. 11. Hill, Principal* I
Holly Spring Academy —AV. P. Newman,
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF
Athens mail arrives at Jefferson on "e* ■
days and Saturdays, at 10 o’clock, A. M. * n I
parts same days at 12 o’clock, M. w,dfl r I
Gainesville mail arrives at Jefferson on
days and Saturdays, at 11 o’clock, A. Mm I
parts same days at 12 o’clock, M.
Lawrenceville mail arrives at Jefferson on * ■
days, at 12 o’clock, M, and departs same d*.
o’clock, P, M. ~ i
F, L. Pkndergilvss, Pep y• • * j