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nv THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, jarkHOß County PatMifthing “ Company. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. OPFIC& N* W * COR - PUBLIC SQUARE. UP-BTAIRB. MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING and business editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. (Hit copy 12 months $2.00 .. m 6 “ 1.00 (l u 3 “ ...* SO gyFor every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. rates of advertising. ONE DOLLAR per square (often lines or less) for the brut insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. jay All Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will he published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. gctf-Business or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines. Ten Dollars. ('onlniel Advertising. The following wdl he the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases : Sqi'AKES. Iw. 1 in. 3m, tt in. 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Will practice together in all the Courts of Jack son and adjacent counties, except the Court of Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist *75 MRS. T. A. ADAMS, Rro<id Street , one door above National Bank , ATHENS, GA., KF.EPS constantly on hand an extensive stock •f SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS, Mmprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions I,allies* llals, IS on nets, Itililions, Lace*. Flowers, Gloves Ac., which will be *°*<l at reasonable prices. Orders from the eoun !9y promptly tilled. Give her a call, j July 31st—3m. D*l w. *. ali:xi.w,r, SURGEON DENTIST, Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga. July loth, 1875. <im V UVIIMDISOY 4A WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. -V r ‘ ra * King's Drug Store,.Deupree Block. Athens, La. All work done in a superior manner, aad warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi- My CASH. JulylO-ffin. ] wiriinx a <<►., BROAD STREET. ATHENS, GA., DEALERS IN S TOVES, TIN-WARE, ScC (Opposite A orth-Easi Georgian Office.) j Jul .v 3d, 1875. •STANLEY & PINSON, JEFffiIISOX, GA ., |) ■ I-KIiS in Dry Goods and Family Groce- r Ks New supplies constantly received. Ju^> |° r Fash. Call and examine their stock. 1] lVOl'i'OKit, Attorney at Law, HUMEU. BANKS CO., GA.. lv ‘ Kaetice in all the adjoining Counties, and iiis attention to all business entrusted to Jun, n i;, ll f^“ 7 C . 0lk ‘ ctingclaims a specialty. . (ttkix MAKER, JEFFERSON. GA. on I |‘ nd go<xl buggy and wagon harness always a lktt P^ r }“g same, bridles, saddles, &c., jmivl')-' i >rt uot ' ce ’ an( l cheap for cash. J- 1 kloyd i />*"' J. 11. StLMAX, l?l ivVk^ lon * a ’ Jefferson, Ga. Will nr * YS-AT-La w. the conn* aL lc ? together in the Superior Courts of jun e i2^]' v °* Jackson and Walton. \V. 1 at Lau, Nctkw; ' „ FKRSON, JACKSON CO., GA. jC,'" al t,l e Courts, State and Federal. ki*l, of i a , . thorongh attention given to all fo <mtios husiness in Jackson and adjoining June 12, 1875 ' Dubn. rcs P ect fully call the attention of the P uh hc to their elegant stock of ** 4 r L Goodsof aU Kinds, H\; / ■ WADE clothing, **ts in j lIATS, CAPS, I,Jaimes-uV Indies’ Bonnets, Hats and are, Sch ' i , ar ‘\ War e, Hollow Ware, Earthen 2|*, Flour J. ,>o ks Paper, Pens, Inks, Envel- MlkinHe n. a “ acon - Lard, Sugar Coffee, founri atcn t Medicines, in fact everything ,h * ti,nv S m a ( i encral Store. Prices to suit Jcttcrson, June 12, 1875. tf DON'T GO BAREFOOT! < ®°°t s and Shoes, neat fits, S ol "ne at ?r l ‘ StO r Ck ' for <***!.? ' l*illdo : ,7)^°/ Mrs. \ enable’s residence, fii, t 7 er . for you than anyone else N. B. STARK. THE FOREST NEWS. Tlie People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. ittisceffnticous iledlci). The Famous Bone-Setter. Writing from Conegliano, Italy, Charles \\ arren Stoddard says : I have met one of the most celebrated women of Italy, Regina del Cin, whose marvelous successes in the dislocations of long standing have made her famous even bey r ond the sea. You can read of her in the standard works on surgery. This uncultured woman, born with an in stinctive knowledge of anatomy, lives in a villa about twelve miles distant. She is sought by people from all parts of the world, and, though she sometimes attempts to straighten limbs that have been distorted from birth and to correct the blunders of unskillful professionals, her specialty is the setting of hip dislocations, and I believe in this line she is without a living rival. I hal been re commended to visit Regina, as she is familiar ly called in this neighborhood, to see if she might not be able to regulate an arm that has troubled me somewhat since an accident I met with a year ago near Rome. The mar velous stories I had heard of her skill, the tributes paid to her character by people of all professions, nationalities and creeds, encouraged me to believe that my salvation rested in her hands, and I sought her this morning with my heart in my throat and my arm in a state of suspense. 1 went on alone to the villa of Regina, with its broad, cream colored walls shining brightly on the hillside. A maid held the door open as I approached the villa, and I was at once ushered into a small drawing-room tastefully furnished. A portrait of Pope Pius IX. hangs conspicu ously on one wall; a life-size photograph of Regina is on the opposite side of the room ; a smaller photograph of the famous lady stood on the etagere in an elaborate frame, while a third was set in the cover of a large volume which ornamented the centre-table. This book, presented by the city of Trieste to Regina when she removed to her present villa, contains four thousand autographs of the best known citizens of that place. There was also a large album, containing the photo graphs of many who have been successfully treated for deformities of variours kinds by that lady whom I had come to see. While I was looking at this album she entered—a very plain woman of forty or more ; short, stout, untidily dressed. The lower hooks of her waist were bursted, and there was nothing at tractive in her personal appearance. Two of her front teeth were gone, her hair was rolled nto a small wad at the top of her head, long gold eardrops dangled upon her shoulders, and about her neck she wore a massive gold chain. She stripped my arm to the shoulder, touched it lightly here and there with a touch that was exceedingly agreeable. Her exam ination of my case was so slight, the questions she asked so few. yet her comprehension of my condition so complete, that I strongly sus pected the lady of being a clairvoyant. She lays no claim to any such gift; was born with the genius for bone-setting, which she is con tinually exercising, uses the simplest possible remedies, and in all cases performs her opera- tions without giving any pain whatever. I had proof enough of her marvelous skill. In the hall I saw a heap of crutches, braces and straps, iron stilts, and other horrible aids such as cripples are forced to seek. These were left at the villa by sufferers who had found complete relief under her roof, and many of them bore touching inscriptions in token of gratitude and affection and as vol untary testimonials to her skill. The place looked like the shrine of some saint with its multitude of votive offerings. There was one steel shoe with a sole at least a foot in thickness. Knowing me to be an American, she called my attention to the inscription on it. I found that a gentleman of New Y >rk city had left it, certifying that he had been “cured of a dislocation of the hip of seven teen years’ standing, instantly and without pain.” It is her custom to ask no fee for her services. You pay according to your meaus. Those who desire it, and for whom it is ne cessary, lodge in the house and receive her constant attention. She says at once wheth er she will or not attempt a cure. The good woman, after much persuasion, consented to give me her autograph. My conscience smoted me for urging her when I saw the great beads of sweat starting out on her forehead as she bowed over my pocket album and wrestled with her pen. Her signature is as unhand some as possible, and under the circum stances I don’t wonder that she never attempt ed to write anything else. When it was time for me to leave her I hated to go; her atmos phere is wholesome and strengthening; her home beautiful and full of peace. Hydrophobia in Fruit. Two native gardeners and a little boy hav ing been suddenly seized with alarming spasms, accompanied with foaming at the mouth, after eating a quantity of peaches, the Englishman to whom the peach orchard belonged forthwith proceeded to analyze the fruit. To his horror the juice was found to contain a considerable proportion of poison ous virus, a discovery which naturally led to a close examination of the tree lrom which the fruit had been gathered. After inspect ing the leaves, the branches, even the barb, with no scientific results, one of the examin ing party suggested that the roots should be uncovered. This being done, the origin of the poison at once came to light. Being anxious to enrich the soil of the orchard, the gardeners had buried dead dogs under many of the trees, fhcluding the one on which the deadly peaches had grown. Under its roots lay the carcass of a defunct pariah, proved by appearances to have died of hydrophobia. After this tiiscovery there could be no doubt about the source from which the fruit derived its poisonous qualities. Ihe virus of hydro phobia had first impregnated the soil, next the sap of the tree, and subsequently transmitted itself to the fruit, et the poison appears to have lost some of its power in transit, since it is related that the three patients “were successfully treated and all recovered.” —Lucknow Cor. Indian Daily News. | Two reformed circus-riders are preaching in Gridin. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, SEPT. 11, 1875. LATE TO CHURCH. Along the road, on either side, The elder boughs are budding, The meadow lands a rosy tide Of clover bloom is flooding ; The sunny landscape is so fair, So sweet the blossom-scented air, That when I went to church to-day I could but choose the longeet way. Loud sang the bobolinks, and round The milk-weed flowers the bees were humming; I sauntered on, but soon I found Behind me there was someone coming. I did not turn my head to see, And yet I knew who followed me Before Tom called me—“ Kitty! stay, And let me share with you the way !” We did not mind our steps grew slow, Or notice when the bell stopped ringing, Or thiuk of being late, but, lo ! When we had reached the church, the singing Was over and the prayer was done, The sermon fairly was begun ! Should we go in, should we stay out, Press boldly on, or turn about? Tom led the way, and up the aisle I followed—all around were staring— And here and there T caught a smile ; I tried to think T was not caring ; And yet I blushed, I know, and showed A face that like a poppy glowed. For every one seemed saying, “ Kate, We all know why you are so late.” Another Sunday, come what will. I mean to be at church in season ; But to regret this morning still, I trust I never shall have reason ; For should I wear a wedding-dress A year from now, perhaps you'll guess What Tom said to me when, to-day. We walked to church the longest way ! Rev. T. DeWitt Taimadge was select ed this year to write the annual tract of the Scottish Temperance league. The subject of course is temperance, and after welcoming the inhabitants of Great Britain to this free country, and counseling them to leave their ale pitchers behind them, lie continues; “In view of the devastations of strong drink, my first word is to toilers of brain or hand or foot! God intended us all to be busy. The sun and moon in six thousand years rested only part of a day and then it took a miracle to stop them. Nothing that God ever made, animate or inanimate, hu man or angelic, can afford to quit work. But the outlay of human energy often lead to inebriation. Men have so much to do that they must have artificial stimulus. ■ Vast multitudes of professional men have found their nervous system exhausted and their brain lethargic, and have resorted to this dangerous help. Now. what a man cannot do without perpetual stimulant, I do not be lieve he ought to do. You are responsible for no more strength than that which you have in your arm. and for no more speed than you have in your foot, and for no more vivacity than you have in your brain. God asks no more, and the world has a right to expect no more. Notwithstanding this, some of the most brilliant men in the law and medicine—yea, even in the ministry—have fallen overboard. It will be a glorious day for Britain and the United States when all their professional men and artisans shall throw the bottle out of the back window. My next word is to parents ! If I can per suade you that your present course of taking intoxicating liquor in the slightest, yea, in the ten-thousandth part of a risk, imperils your boys, you will knock out the end of your ale keg, and pull out the cork of your, wine bottle, to let the beverage which hith erto has made your lips smack, go into the ditch. You say you have never been harmed by it. Granted. But remember what I tell you, this first day of January, 1875. That if you proceed with your present idea about intoxicating liquors, the probability is your son will break your heart with his dissipa tions. I)o not let them be familiar with the odors of the wine-closet. Do not let them take the sugar from the bottom of the glass. Abstain, not only for but for your children. O, father ! if in the last hour of your life you can take the hand of your son and say, “Farewell! I thank God that I can trust my name and my property, and the defence of vour mother in your keeping. I thank God that He ever gave me such a son as you are !” In that hour yon will be more than compensated for any self-sacrifice of appetite that you have made for his welfare. But suppose you should, on the other hand, come to stand at the death-couch of a dis sipated son, and he should say, “I am lost! Father yon are to blame. You drank and I thought you could do no wrong. But the habit which I learned in our sitting-room on winter nights at the entertainment of friends has been my destruction !” Ah !in such an hour a pile of beer-barrels high as heaven and deep as hell could not barricade your soul againkt remorse and chagrin unutter able. My next word is to the fashionable and elegant! Beastly drunkenness is no tempta tion. But when intoxication fills its cut glass or golden chalice under blazing chan deliers', and before flashing mirrors, graceful gentlemen bowing to gay ladies as they click the rim, then the thing is bewitching. Though the heavens fall we must be in the fashion. The wedding hour, when two immortals join their fate in holy alliance, and when of all other occasions hearts should be purest, yea the wedding has often been the starting place of a dissipation which ended not until he who took the vows had fallen under the all-consuming influence of strong drink, and she who among the throng of congratulating hearts in clear, sweet voice promised “ I will!” had wandered out in the winter night and from the abutment of a bridge looked down into the glassy water and then in hope of relief from earthly agonies, took a wild leap into the wave. Kentucky inaugurated her new governor, McCrerv, at Frankfort, Tuesday of last week. Food Versus Morality. Speaking of the need of a temperance re form, a writer asserts that our tables are so badly supplied, and our women so ignorant of cookery, that we are taking to alcohol'and stimulants as a necessity. It is not. consider ed lady-like for the girl of the period to broil a steak or make a pudding ; she may know decimal fractions, but she must not keep house keeping accounts. She can play a waltz by Chopin, but could not tell you when lamb and salmon are in season; she just knows that there are fruits and flowers in summer and autumn, and plum-puddings at Christmas, and that is the extent of her food knowledge. And yet she looks so charming, and is so sprightly and pretty, that she soon obtains a husband. Then comes the trouble—there is no doubt about it, Angelina has red eves the second week of the honey-moon, because dear Jack got up from the table and said the meat was hard, the potatoes were soapy, and the pudding horrible. lie was really cross, and would not be coaxed into good humor until she assured him that horried girl should do the cooking no longer—she would do it herself. John has full faith in the little wife’s powers, and comes home the next day with visions of a perfect dinner looming apetizing ly before him. and finds Ageline in histerics ; the dinner wouldn’t be got ready; the chops are burnt to a cinder, the potatoes hard, there is no sauce, and the spinach is smoky. The fritters wouldn’t be even thought of, and the salad lies in native simplicity in the back kitchen—for the girl has run away, she wouldn’t stand it any longer for mistress to interfere. Angelina has burnt her hand and is smarting with the pain, her curls are un tidy, her dress full of grease spots. The young husband is cruelly disappointed ; but loving his little wife, he gently consoles her, wiping away her tears, smooths her curls, makes up the fire himself, and gets a cos} r tea ready. Angeline watches his orderly, quiet ways and sighs, for she is quick-witted and she begins to see that there was some thing wrong about her education—that in fact something had been left out, better than all the finery she knew—the knowledge of the first wants of a home. And the next day, when Jack says, with a smile, "Mv darling. I shall dine in the city, for it is such a trouble for you to get the dinner done for me,” she sighs but does not object, for she knows lie is right in consulting iiis own comfort. So the restaurant near Jack’s place of business has anew and regular customer, and perhaps Jack takes a little more wine or lager” than he would at home, and gets a little rough, there are now no failures and no hysterics. Will Angelina ever turn the scale again in her favor? She can if she will, and surely the ‘'game is worth the candle.” A Brand Hew Dish. We often hear of the smart ness of Yankees, but the following anecdote proves that the geniuses of Chatham street are not so far be hind in such matters. One of them, a pedler, was once traveling through the country when he visited the house of a thrifty farmer who had the reputation of being the meanest man unhung. The Jew being hungry, asked the farmer for something to eat, but the latter replied that he had nothing in the house, and could therefore give nothing. “ Haven’t you as much as a stone to give me ?” asked the pedler. Well, as for that matter, I calculate that you can find as many stones as you like ; and if you want to boil it, I won’t be hard on you ; I will let you boil it in my stove. Thanking him with mock gravity, he pro cured the stone and placed it in a pot over the fire.” “ Now, said he, if you will bring me a quart of milk, I will show yon how to make a stone pudding, one of the newest aud cheapest dishes you ever tasted.” The farmer, being curious, brought the milk, which the Jew poured into the pot.— When it began to boil, lie said : “ Now, I want two cups of rice, and two eggs and a cup of sugar.” These groceries were brought by the anx ious farmer, who grew more and more excit ed over the invention, and he watched the stranger nervously as he stirred the contents. When the rice and stone were well boiled, the Jew emptied them upon a plate, the stone in the middle and the rice all around it,— Then he strewed some cinnamon over it and quietly sat down and began to eat, all the while praising its excellence. This he con tinued until he had eaten the pudding all up, leaving the stone alone on the plate for the farmer. “Now, sir,” said the Jew, “the next time you have nothing whatever in the house to eat, and feel as hungry as I did, just boil a stone as I have ami you will have a good meal. I assure you it was very fine,” lie ad ded, smacking his lips, and leaving the house and its astonished owner. Different Kinds of Pennies. A boy who had his pocket full of cents dropped one into the missionary box, laugh ing as he did so. lie had no thought in his heart about Jesus, the heathen or the mis sionary. lie was a tin-penny. It was as light as a scrap of tin. Another boy put in a penny, and looked around with a self applauding gaze. His was a brass penny. Not the gift of a lowly heart, but of a proud spirit. A third boy gave a penn}\ saying to him self, “ I suppose I must, because all others do.” That was an iron penny. It was the gift of a cold, selfish heart. Asa fourth boy dropped in his cent in the box, he shed a tear, and his h§art said, “ Poor heathens! lam sorry they are so poor, so ignorant, and so miserable.” That was a silver penny, the gift of a heart full of piety. But there was one scholar who gave his cent with a throbbing heart, saying to him self, “For thy sake, O, loving Jesus, I give this, hoping it may be the means of some good to those who have never heard of Thee.” That was a golden penny, because it was the gift of love. Instead of sending your money North for wishy washy literature, subscribe to the Co lumbus Sunday Enquirer. It is a home en terprise and is emphatically sound. A MODERN MIRACLE. A BROOKLYN CLERGYMAN CURED OF*LAMENESS OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS* STANDING BY THE LAYING ON OF HANDS AND BY A WOMAN’S PRAYER. At the Merrick camp meeting on Sunday, the Rev. S. 11. Platt said that twenty-five years ago he was kicked by a horse on the left knee, and the leg was practically disabled, so t hat for years he was forced to use a crutch, and he could not bend the knee. Subsequent ly he right knee was also disabled by an accident. He sought the best surgical aid, but was onty partially relieved, and the best he could do was to hobble a short distance with the aid of two canes, and with much effort and pain. For twenty-three years he did not stand up to preach, but delivered all his sermons while seated. Sciatica super vened, and he was thus further made wretched. Three weeks ago. while at Ocean Grave, he was visited by a Miss Moseman, a spinster somewhat advanced in years, who announced that she had come to pray for him—that she had been sent by the Lord to do so for the purpose of healing him. He consented to the trial. She knelt before him, and plac ing her hands upon his knees, began to pray. Her prayer was ordinary in language and terms, but the result Mr. Platt described as wonderful indeed. He soon began to feel a sensation, from the feet upward, of coming strength, and gradually the entire use of his limbs returned to him, so that he was enabled to dispense with the use of first one cane and then the other, and the knee that had not bended before for twenty-five years became supple. Suuday before last he stood up for the first time to preach, without support, and last Sunday he stood before the spell-bound audience at Merrick, strong on his feet, and with the perfect use of all his limbs, a well man. There can be no question about the truth of Mr. Platt’s story, for it is otherwise suf ficiently vouched for. Miss Moseman is described as of slight physique, of rather in ferior vitality, and a possessor of little mag netic force ; and the reverend gentleman con sequently scouts the notion that the cure was effected by the ordinary “laying on of hands,” or manipulation. Presidential Elections. President Washington was elected in 1789 and again in 1793 without an opposing vote. John Adams had only one majority in 1797. In 1801 Jefferson and Burr received an equal vote, and the House of Representatives gave the decision in favor of the former. In 1805 Jefferson received 162 electoral! votes over Charles C. Pinckney's 14. In 1809 Madison got 122 out of 175 electors, and in 1813 he re ceived 128 to DeWitt Clinton’s 89. At the eighth Presidential Election Monroe received 183 out of 217 electoral votes, and in 1821 was re-elected by 228 to 1. In 1824, the elec tion of President devolving upon the House of Representatives, John Quincy Adams was, through the influence of Henry Clay, chosen for the position. In 1828 Andrew Jackson received 178 electorial votes to John Q. Ad ams’ 83, and he was re-elected in 1832 by 291 votes against 67 scattered betweeuClay, Floyd and Wirt. In 1846 Martin Van Buren came in by 170 to 114 divided between Har rison, White, Webster and Maiigum. Ini 1840 Harrison was elected President over Van Buren by a vote of 234 to 69. In 1844 James K. Polk received 170 to Henry Clay’s 105 votes. Zachary Taylor, in 1848, had 163 votes in the Electorial College to Lewis Cass’ 127. Franklin Pierce was elected President in 1852. by a vote of 296 to Winfield Scott’s 42. Janies Buchanan defeated Fremont, in 1856, b} r 176 to 114. In 1860, Abraham Lin coln received 180 electorial votes, Douglas 12, Breckenridge 72, and Bell 30; and, in 164, Lincoln was re-elected over George B. McClellan by a vote of 212 to 12. And in 1868, Grant defeated Seymour by a vote of 214 to 80. Humors of the Census. The following good one is told by a census enumerator in an adjoining county : While in pursuit of his vocation last week, he knock ed at the door of a house. A window was raised in the upper part of the domicile and the head and shoulders of a man quickly made an appearance through the aperture. ‘ Vel, vot you vants ?’ was the question ask ed. ‘Well, sir,’ said the man of statistics, ‘l’m the census taker— ’ ‘Dunder redder, ’ said the Teuton, inter rupting ; ‘you can’t take some centses here, py shimony gristofer ; I don’t got no centses to gif avay, no siree, I vas a boor man.' ‘But my dear sir,’ said the enumerator, ‘you must do as I say ; it’s according to the law of the land.’ ‘Vot’sdot? Dot gentry der duyfel 1 llow can I gif some centses yen I don’t got any ? I didn’t do some vork for more as five or tree monts, nnd I got yet my daxes to bay.’ ‘Youdon’t undestand me. my friend,’ re plied the man with the book. ‘I simply want to ask you a few % questions in reference to the number of children you have, your name, business, how long you have been married, and so on.’ ‘Oh, ish dot all?’ retorted the German. ‘ Vy didn’t yon told me dot on de forst time ? I tink you vanted to dake me a little foolise ness by dot —ha, ha. I kum right avay quick unt make der door out.’ Which he accordingly did, answering the necessary questions, and the enumerator went on his way rejoicing. On the Stretch. Human heart-strings are often stretchel to their utmost capacity. Like some delicate instrument, when the strings are touched by the skillful player, hard-pressed in some deli cate passage. How we tremble less they should be. snapped asunder! The human heart, like that delicate instrument, is severe ly tried oftentimes. Surely, we say, it will be broken to pieces. But no—it is held attun ed to the richest melody. How is this ? The breath of the Divine Intercessor sweeps over the instrument. “For we have a high priest which can be touched with the feeling our infirmities.” — [ Bishop Wilson. A matter of course—a river bed. S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM. I SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. GLEANINGS. The Hoy who loves castor oil lives in lowa, lie drinks it by the pint as a beverage. Fannie Elsslcr, the famous danseuae, is living in Bremen, the wife of a physician, and is a well preserved woman of 71. The difference just now between fishes and girls is that the fishes are fin backed and the girls are pinned-back. There are no postage stamps in Washing* ton, and the citizens of the village have to lick their children instead.— Sav. Netcs. It has been ascertained by the anthro pologists that, as a rule, women now*a-dnys become gray earlier than men. Why is it T A considerable amount of damage is be ing done in California by the millions of squirrels, which abound and prey upon the wheat fields. A Lowell, Massachusets, firm has just gone into the manufacture of felt shoes, for which it has the entire patent right in the United States. A field of lava fifty' miles square has leen discovered in. Southern Utah by the geologists of the Wheeler Expedition, and one of 200 square miles in Arizona and New Mexico. Banks, a member of Congress, has never had much of a following outside of his state since he came down the Red river with arebel arm}' after him.— Norwich , Conn., Bulletin. At this present writing you can’t “wet your whistle” in Monticello Ga., without getting an order from a doctor. It is whis pered that much sickness now prevails in that village. The Japanese are shipping bricks to Cali fornia, and sell them cheaper than those made in that State, notwithstanding that there is an ad valorem duty of 20 per cent, on them. The largest Sunday-school in the Southern Presbyterian church is said to be that of the First church, Nashville, Tenn. It has seven hundred and fifteen scholars, and eighty-sev en teachers. It has been decided by the United States District Court, in a Wisconsin case, that the secured creditor of a bankrupt should prove his entire claim, and not merely the unse cured balance, in order that the indorser may benefit by the dividends. It is said that ex-Governor Holden is the only man now in North Carolina debarred from voting or holding office, he having been impeached by the Legislature a few years ago. The President does not impress any one very much by his public speeches, but when he bawls at his nigger boy, “ Sam, fetch me that corkscrew,” his words are not without effect. Anew branch of Methodism has been or ganized in Northern New Jersey, under the title of the “United Methodist church.” The members hold the doctrine of immersion, and discard a discipline, and all creeds, save the New Testament. Columbus, Mississippi, shipped 300,000 boxes of fruit North this season, and expect* next year to realize a million dollars by similar shipments. For the past three weeks a thousand bar rels of apples have been shipped every day to the West and East from Memphis. The average price is $2 per barrel. Joe Howell, who was on trial for the kill ing of young Strickland, in Milton count)', was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced by Judge Knight to fifteen years in the penitentiary. A writer in a Presbyterian paper calls up on every honorable man to hang his head for shame, because America pays $22,200,000 for liquor, $10,000,000 for dogs, and barely squeezes out $6,000,000 for preachers of the Gospel. A minister once said : Those mee young men who stand outside the church doors waiting for the girls to come out, will some day stand around the inside of heTTs door waiting for the girls to come in—but they won’t come. We hope they won’t. One of the constitutional amendments to be submitted to the people of Maine at the election next month prescribes the exclusion from the right of suffrage for ten years, of all persons bribing or being bribed at elections. Isaac Fancher, of Sandy Hill, predicts that the world will be destroyed July 4, 1876. This will spoil the Centennial, lie bases his cheerfnl view on Isaiah, 65th chapter, 17th verse : “ For the child shall die a hundred years old.” The “child” he considers to be Uncle Sam. —Chicago Times . A little girl in Gallon, Ohio, is likely to make her wav in life by her ingenuity alone. She tied a string to her little brother’s tooth., tied the other of the string to the stove leg, and then touched a red-hot coal to the little victim’s nose. The tooth came out. She was an athletic and deeply religious woman, and “Here I raise my Ebeneezer,” she always sang softly, as she lifted her hns band, Ebeneezer Johnson, off the stoop with an application of her foot to his coat-tail* when he came home a little inebriated.— St. Lo uis Republican. NUMBER 14.