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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 felt rather sore at learning his duty from a shoe-black. The Christian at Work. 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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. o 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