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Ordinary of .Jackson county. Sept Ist '75
MRS. T. A. ADAMS,
Broad Street , one door above National Bank ,
ATHENS,
KEEPS constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
comprising, in part, tire latest styles and fashions
of Ladies* Hut*. Honiiets Ribbons
Ijicen, Flowers 4*lovew, Ac., which will be
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try promptly tilled. Give her a call.
July 31st—3m,
DK. W. S, ALIA A ADLIt.
SURGEON DENTIST,
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July 10th, 1875. 6m
V A. WH I.lUlsin
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(Opposite North-East Georgian Office.)
July 3d, 1875.
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! JEFFERSON GA .,
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June 19 ly
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J :.v homer, banks 00.,‘ga.,
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19th. 1875. ly
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x HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
onV" *' buggy and wagon harness always
dm/. ' Repairing same, bridles, saddles, Ac.,
• 1 s bort notice, and cheap for cash.
Junel2 —\y
JU>Yp, I J. B. SILMAX,
’ll, Ga. Jetferson, Ga.
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tho . P r _stctice together in the Superior Courts of
coun Ues of Jackson and Walton.
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\\ *• Attorney nt I>:iav,
Prarti. JEFFERSON. JACKSON CO.. GA.
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June 12, 1875
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P’ l die to their elegant stock of
n ? ry G ' ood - S of all Kinds,
A IY-n AOK CLOT IIING,
n INK CASSIMERES, HATS, CAPS,
Trimming ‘ S !\° es; ladies’ Bonnets, Hats and
"arc Hardware, Hollow Ware, Earthen
°pc*s 100 Hooks. Paper, Pens, Inks. Envel
ttsu a fiv _ ,n( ‘ s Patent Medicines, in fact everything
the tim,. ° un< * ln a General Store. Prices to suit
Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf
DON'T GO BAREFOOT!
rnV<) U ' V / ant Boots and Shoes, neat fits,
r *U onll!! ood stock. <liep, for Cash?
4 M I will t cor, er of Mrs. Venable’s residence,
Sur c. 0 better for you than any one else,
*J I2 ‘-bn] N. B. STARK.
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Miscellaneous ileillci).
A RAILWAY INCIDENT.
It was a third-class carriage. She was a
pleasant-faced young woman, going, I think,
for the first time after her marriage, to visit
her parents in her old home, to show them
their two fine grandchildren. At least, this
was the little history I built up for her in mv
own brain from a word or two that I heard
between her and her husband at the station,
as he put her into the carriage with an affec
tionate farewell. I .always watch with great
interest the farewells and greetings of my
fellow-travellers, and have a fashion of think
ing out for myself the whole story of their
previous lives from the little hints that I get
in this way. It is to me as if I were permit
ted to open the second volume of an interest
ing romance, and allowed to read only one
short scene in this, and asked to guess as
nearly as possible from this one scene the
previous course of the story and the charac
ters of the actors in it.
The youngest child was an infant of about
three or four months old—very quiet and
good ; the other was a pretty, restless little
girl of three, who could not be still a single
moment, and kept the careful mother busy
by her questions and wants and childish prat
tle. She was not at all bashful and soon
talked to us also in such a natural, coquettish,
condescending way that we were quite in
love with the charming little lassie, and beg
ged her mother not to check her innocent
advances to us.
When we had been traveling together for
two or three hours, and began to feel quite
like old acquaintances, while the train was
going at full speed, the mother half rose from
her seat to place the girl, who had left her
place, again on the opposite seat. How it
happened I have never understood ; it was
one of those accidents which seem impossible,
and, in fact, only happen once in a hundred
thousand times ; but just as she stood half
erect, holding her sleeping babe upon one
arm and her little frolicsome maiden some
what awkwardly on the other, the little girl
made one of her sudden, quick movements,
and in an instant she was gone from our
eyes.
What a moment! The poor mother stood
fixed and rigid in exactly the same attitude,
her arm still bent as though around her child,
gazing witli wide open, fixed eyes at the place
whence she vanished. She seemed literally
suddenly turned to stone ; with the rest of us
the case was almost the same. llow long
this lasted I do not know ; doubtles it seemed
to us much longer than it really was. Then
the young mother seemed to come to herself,
and made a sudden movement as if she would
spring through the window after her vanish
ing darling, now far away. I caught her
quickly fast and held her, while the kind
young lady who sat opposite to me took the
baby from her arms, and we all began to talk
together, no one listening to the other, about
what was to be done for her. Somehow we
managed in our excitement to do all-that was
possible ; the guard came, the train was stop
ped, and the mother, without speaking to one
of us, or even looking at us. left the train,
supporting herself on one arm of the sympa
thizing guard, while he held the still sleeping
baby fast in the other.
Of course the train must go with increased
speed to make up for the moment of delay,
so there was no chance for us-to see more of
the poor bereaved mother. “Telegraph to us
at the next station,” said one of the railroad
functionaries to the guard. “ Yes, yes, be
sure to do it immediately,” cried a dozen
voices ; for in some mysterious way the news
of the accident had run through the train
as if by electricity, and a long row of sympa
thizing faces watched from the carriage the
disappearing forms of the mother and the
guard.
“ It will take her half an hour to reach the
spot, and it is just thirty-five minutes now to
the next station,” said the stout gentleman
in the corner, taking out his watch and hold
ing it open in his hand, his eyes fixed upon
it." lie had struck me as one of the most
selfish and disagreeable old gentlemen possi
ble ; scarcely answering a polite question
from a neighbor; and then in the shortest
and gruffest manner possible ; he had seemed
completely absorbed by his newspaper and
his snuff-box, not having noticed the little
fairy in any way except to glance at her now
and then with a savage expression as her
clear, childish laugh had disturbed his read
ing. Now his whole soul seemed to be fixed
on the watch before him, and he, “chided the
tardy flight of time” again and again in
words more forcible than ornamental.
There was a young would-be dandy in one
corner ; light, straw-colored gloves, a slender
cane, an infant mustache, and an eye-glass
stuck in one eye, seemed to be, in his opinion,
tokens of vast superiority over the other tra
velers ; and he spoke very little, except occa
sionally to make some supercilious remark
or ask some question about third-class travel
ing, apparently to produce on us the impres
sion that he was a young nobleman, or prince,
perhaps, in disguise, seeing for himselt how
ordinary mortals fared. What a change had
come over him now ; the eye-glass hung dang
ling hither and thither ; with the kid gloves,
of which he had been so dainty, he had grasp
ed the dusty facing of the door, and was
straining his gaze, first backward, until the
poor mother was no longer to be seen, and
then forward to the next station, where news
was to meet us.
Now at last we are there ; the train halts,
and one of the guards runs quickly into the
little office over which “Telegraph” is paint
ed. Everybody who can possibly get his or
her head out of the window on that side
thrusts it out. There is a moment of intense
suspense ; here comes the guard again with
a dispatch in his hand; he stands about mid
way between the ends of the train and begins
to read it out in his clear, loud, official tones :
‘ Child perfectly sound; alighted on a pile
of straw in a field, not two feet from a stone
wall!”
Then what a scene! Every man at the
train windows has his hat off in a moment
and is waving it and cheering as if he would
1 split his throat: every woman is buried in her
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, SERT. 18, 1875.
pocket handkerchief, crying and laughing
together. The stont old egotist and the vain
young dandy have thrown their arms around
each other, and are embracing with that
heartiness that belongs to the sons of the
Vaterland, although they never met before
this morning. The stiff old maid in the cor
ner has shaken my hands in both of hers so
many times that I feel they are quite sore.
All the inhabitants of the little village come
running around the train. “What is it?
here is he ? Is it the Kaiser himself, or
is it the Kronprinz ?” they ask in bewildered
excitement at the sight of ours.
But all thfe Kaisers and Kronprinzes in
Europe put together could not have aroused
the flood of feeling that surged through that
train. It was sympathy with a sentiment far
older than loyalty—older than the kings to
whom loyalty is due—which was stirring ev
ery heart; it was sympathy with a mother's
love! <
How Truffles Did It.
I returned to Ashville after an absence of
three years and found my friend Truffles
grown fat and jovial, with a face the very mir
ror of peace and self-satisfaction. Truffles
was the village baker, and he was not like
this when I went away.
“Truffles,” said I, “how is it? You have
improved.”
“ Improved ! How ?”
“ Why, in every way. What have you been
doing ?”
Just then a little girl came in with a tat
tered shawl and barefooted, to whom Truffles
gave a loaf of bread. “ Oh, dear, Mr. Truf
fles,” the child said, with brimming eyes, ns
she took the loaf of bread : “ mamma is get
ting better, and she say*s she owes so much
to you. She blesses you, indeed she does.”
“ That's one of the things I’ve been doing,”
he said, after the child had gone.
“You are giving the suffering family bread ?”
I inquired.
“ Yes.”
“ Have you any more cases like that ?”
“ Yes, three or four of them. I give them
a loaf a day—enough to feed them.”
“ And you take no pay ?”
“ Not from them.”
“Ah ! from the town ?”
“ No ; here,” said Truffles, laying his hand
on his breast. “ I'll tell you,” he added,
smiling. “One day, over a year ago, a poor
woman came to me and asked for a loaf of
bread, for which she could not pay —she want
ed it for her poor suffering children. At first
I hesitated, but finally I gave it to her, and
as her blessings rang in my ears after she
had gone. I felt my heart grow warm. Times
were hard, and there was a good deal of suf
fering, and I found myself wishing, by and
by, that L could afford to give away m re
bread. At length an idea struck me. I’d
stop drinking, and give that amount away in
bread, adding one or two loaves on my ac
count. I did it, and it's been a blessing to
me. My heart has grown bigger, and I’ve
grown better every way. My sleep is sound
and sweet, and my dreams are pleasant.—
And that's what you see, I suppose.” — N. Y.
Observer.
Curious, if True.
We copy from the New Orleans Bulletin
of Friday the following story which it obtain
ed from Mr. Holley, of the United States Cir
cuit Court, just returned to New Orleans from
Bayou La Battre, thirty miles west of Mobile,
on the New Orleans Railroad :
It appears that five days ago, at Devil’s
Hole, a curious craft of schooner rig put in.
She was very small, but had the appearance
of having come some distance, her build be
ing unlike anything seen hereabouts for
years. Her crew consisted of two men and
a dog. The men conversed well in English,
and from their appearance were evidently
connected with the sea.
Coming to anchor at sundown, just outside,
a man came ashore and rowing up to a fish
erman at the mouth of the bayou, asked him
if he would pilot them up to this Devil’s Hole.
They gave him at once forty dollars in gold,
on this agreement, and accordingly the other
man on board the schooner was signaled,
lie throwed in spades, lanterns, etc., in the
boat and all got in. Piloted by the fisherman
they went up the bayou four miles and com
menced work.
They selected a spot from a diagram they
consulted, and after digging until 12 :15 that
night, the spade touched a metal box. They
became very excited dug faster, and at last
lifted out of the hole, some seven feet in
depth a strong iron chest, corroded and rusty.
Breaking it open with an iron bar, they were
rewarded by a sight of $75,000 in gold coin.
The fisherman was excited and hardly knew
what to do.
He heard them count the money and imag
ined the}' were some band of robbers. He
assisted them with the chest down to the boat.
They rowed off to the schooner. When the
fisherman looked out over the waters next
morning, no sail was in sight.
Wanted to be Hung.
A California Sheriff, who had got tired of
having conscience-stricken Nathan murderers
give themselves up and desire free transpor
tation to New York, there to expiate their
crime on the gallows, addressed the last can
didate as follows : “So your conscience ain’t
easy, eh?” “Ah,” replied the murderer, “ 1
have the curse of Cain upon my brow; I
wander, wander, but find no rest.” “ And
you’re the man ?” “ I am.” “ And you want
to be hanged ?” “ I feel that \ shan't rest
easy till lam hanged.” “ Well, my friend,”
replied the Sheriff, thoughtfully, “ the county
treasury ain’t well fixed at present, and I
don’t want to take any risks in case you’re
not the man, and are just fishing for a free
ride to New York. Besides, those New York
courts can’t be trusted to hang a man. On
the whole, as you say you deserve to be kill
ed, and want to be killed, and as it can’t make
much difference to you or society how you are
killed, so long as you are, I guess I’ll kill
you myself.” So saving, he drew his revol
ver, but that conscience-stricken murderer
had departed in the direction of Alaska with
such fervor that people couldn’t see the brand
of Cain on his brow for dust.
A coflin is wanted for a dying echo.
FORTY YEARS AGO.
llow wondrous are the changes Jim.
Since forty years ago.
When gals wore woolen dresses, Jim,
And boys wore pants of tow ;
When shoes were made of calf-skin
And socks of homespun wool.
And children did a half-day’s work
Before the hour of school.
The girls took music lessons, Jim,
Upon the spinning wheel.
And practiced late and early, Jim,
On spindle, swift and reel;
The boys would ride hare-hacked to mill,
A dozen miles or so.
And hurry off before ’twas day,
Some forty years ago.
The people rode to meeting. Jim,
In sleds instead of sleighs.
And wagons rode as easy, Jim,
As buggies now-a-days;
And oxen answered well for teams.
Though now they’d be too slow,
For people lived not half so fast
Some forty years ago.
O ! well do I remember, Jim,
The Wilson patent stove.
That father bought and paid for, Jim,
In cloth our gals had wove.
And how the neighbors wondered
When wc got the thing to go ;
They said ’twould bust and kill us all,
Some forty years ago.
Yes, everything is different, Jim,
From what it used to was,
For men arc always tampering, Jim,
With God’s great natural laws.
But what on earth we’re coming to.
Does anybody know ?
For everything has changed so much
Since forty years ago.
Forty Thousand Bushels of Potatoes on
one Farm.
Some three or four months since, wc
published an account of a large potato farm
near West Point, Ga. The farm is owned
by a party* of Atlanta gentlemen. They
purchased three hundred acres of land about
nine or ten months ago, and planted it all in
sweet potatoes, from which they expect to
realize 40,000 bushels.
Now the question naturally arises, what
are they r going to do with so many potatoes?
They can find no market near enough at
hand to sell them in their natural state,
lienee arises the supposition that they may
be raising them to feed to stock. But even
this is not the case.
To raise a crop of forty thousand bushels
of potatoes, on three hundred acres of land,
costs comparatively* but a mere trifle, say,
about eight or ten cents per bushel. Pota
toes, at. any time in the year, will command
at least fifty cents per bushel. From this it
will be seen that a clear profit of from thirty
to forty cents per hushel can be made on the
potato alone in its raw state.
But when further consideration of the
question is had, it appears that they* can
make over four huudre l per cent, profit
above this amount! 'The mere statement
makes it apparent when it is known that
they have erected a large distillery* on the
farm and propose to distil every bushel of
the potatoes they* can make, in ad diton to all
they* can purchase. It is a paying invest
ment. The whiskey distilled from potatoes
is as good as the best, and will command
two dollars per gallon, perhaps a little less.
In addition to the profit to be made on
the potato in growing if, there is another
enormous profit to be made in the business,
and of which the gentlemen in question pro
pose to avail themselves. That is this:
They have purchased a large number of
stock hogs, wieh they* will turn loose in a
large pen contiguous to the distillery, and
will feed them on the slops and refuse from
the still, and thus fatten them. By this
means of economy nothing will be wasted,
and even the refuse will be turned to
advantage.
For the last four or five weeks the distil
lery* has been in operation, making brandy
from peaches. They have now got stored in
their still warehouse over ten thosuand bush
els of peaches. Although this thing of dis
tilling the potatoes may be severely reprehen
sible, yet as will be seen, it is a source of
enormous revenue to the proprietors and
projectors of the novel scheme. But they
could stop with the mere growing of the
potatoes, and derive a large profit; and it is
certainly strange that none of our thrifty,
foreseeing farmers have not paid more atten
tion to the raisng of such crops as this
instead of raising so much cotton. It can be
made equally as profitable to raise any other
one crop—say*, for instance peas.
We hope such enterprises as this will loom
up all over Georgia.— Atlanta Herald.
other day a Detroit husband went
on a fishing excursion with a small party of
friends. Returning at midnight, he pounded
on the door and awoke his wife. As she let
him into the hall she saw that something ailed
him, and she cried out:
“ Why, Henry, your face is as red as paint.”
“ Guesser n’t,” he replied, feeling along
down the hall.
“ And I believe you've been drinking,” she
added.
“ Whazzer mean by zhat ?” he inquired,
trying tb stand still.
“Oh ! Henry, your face would never look
like that if you hadn’t been drinking.”
“Mi to blame ?” he asked, tears in his
eyes. “ Spozen big bass jump up’n hit me in
th’ face and make it red—mi to blame ?”
And he sat down on the floor and cried
over her unjust suspicions.— Detroit Free
Press.
A Nevada editor on his travels East
writes home: “The Rev. Henry Ward is
still putting on the lion’s skin afore his fellow
men in the White Mountains, but I guess he
is worse off to-dav than Job ever was on his
dunghill. Job had a few scabby spots on his
body outside ; but Ward has ’em inside incu
rably r . God doesn't pay every Saturday*, read
ers. but when he does pay r you can just bet
your last red he generally squares up!”
A tall, stalwart Indian is often seen about
the streets of Vicksburg City, Nevada, dress
ed in calico like a squaw. He is compelled
by the Piutes to wear women's clothes for
cowardice shown in battle several years since.
Th Indians all make their cowards adopt,
the hard station of squaws.
Is a Great Religious Revival Coming?
Some of the papers are anxiously* asking
whether we are going to have a great Amer
ican revival now that Mr. Moody has reached
this country. No doubt to some sheets such
an event would occasion a notable loss of
subscribers, and its possibility may reasona
bly cause anxiety. It seems to be agreed
that the conditions are generally* favorable to
a grand revival in the United States. If
revivals follow periods ot business depression,
as seems to be the rule, we certainly may
reasonably* look for a very large one. It is
also remarked by those who know, that there
is an unusual fervency of religious feeling at
the campmeetings of the various denomina
tions now being held throughout the country.
There is also an evident tendency on the
part of the people who seek religious edifica
tion to seek it in irregular, outdoor, unde
nominational gatherings and bv emotional
experiences. Many regular clergymen in
deed complain that this tendency amounts to
downright Sabbath-breaking. These arc by
many accounted signs that the minds and
hearts of the people are prepared for a storm
of religious feeling by* such methods of
wholesale evangelization as Moody employs
with results equal to those obtained by* the
preaching of Peter and Paul. There is no
doubt, that Mr. Moody's great prestige as an
evangelist would be a powerful predisposing
influence in bringing the people under his
influence. Should lie deem it in the line of
his duty to undertake evangelistic work on a
large scale in this country lie would no doubt
have the general co-operation of the press.
Even an infidel, if he be an intelligent man,
would behold with great satisfaction the
spread of an influence so beneficial to
popular morality as. a great revival conduct
ed by the unexceptionable methods that Mr.
Moody uses. Evangelists of his style are
an American product, and no doubt the
growth of a great revival would develop a
hundred Moodys all over the country. The
work would spread like wildfire instead of
merely attending the personal labors of Mr.
Moody* as was the case in England. And so
we say* heartily if there is a great revival
in the air the sooner it comes the better.—
Springfield {Mass.) Union.
Wouldn’t Marry a Mechanic.
A young man commenced visiting a young
woman, and appeared to he well pleased.
One evening he called when it was quite late,
which led the young lady to inquire where
he had been.
“T had to work to-night.”
“ What 1 do you work for a living?” she
inquired in astonishment.
“Certainly,” replied the young man ; I am
a mechanic.”
“I dislike the name of mechanic,” and she
turned up her pretty nose.
This was the last time the young man
visited the young lady. lie is now a
wealthy man and has one of the best women
in the country for a wife.
The, young lady who disliked the name of
mechanic is now the wife of a miserable fool
—a regular vagrant about grog shops—and
the soft, verdant, silly, miserable girl is
obliged to take in washing in order to support
herself and children.
You dislike the name of mechanic, eh?
You. whose brothers are but well dressed
loafers. We pitty any girl who is verdant,
so soft as to think less of a young man for be
ing a mechanic—one of God's noblemen —
the most dignified and honorable personage
of heaven’s creatures.
Beware young ladies how you treat young
men who work for a living, for you may one
of these days be menial to one of them. Far
better to discharge the well fed pauper with
all his rings, jewelry, brazenness and pom
posity, and to take to your affection the
callous handed, industrious mechanic.
Thousands have bitterly repented their
folly who have turned their backs on honest
industry. A few years have taught them a
severe lesson.
The Chau ley Ross Abduction. —The
trial of \\ estervelt, now in progress in
Philadelphia, for complicity in the abduction
of Charley Ross, revives tlie widely-spread
and painful interest in the sad affair. The
evidence against Westervelt, as indicated in
the opening speech of the district attorney,
will show that he was in the plot to kidnap
the boy, and had full knowledge of the sub
sequent movements of his captors. Imme
diately after the crime was committed he put
himself in communication with the police,
and professed to be able to assist them in
recovering the child. Instead of doing so
he kept Mosher and Douglass informed of
the movements and other actions of the offi
cers, and thus aided them in escaping arrest.
There is little question that Westervelt
knows where Charley Ross is, if he be alive,
or can clear up the mystery of his fate, if
dead. The friends of the lost boy hope that,
if convicted. Westervelt can be induced to
make a confession that will throw light on
this most singular and baffling case.
A R kmakkable Siieep. —Says the llamil
ton Visitor: —While several gentlemen of this
neighborhood were out on a fox hunt one
morning last week, one of the dogs saw a
sheep a good ways off, and made for it as
fast as he could. Instead of running off. as
most do when they see a dog coming, this one
moved forward to meet his antagonist, with
a determination to save his life, if possible.
Both advanced rapidly, and when within ten
feet of each other the sheep sprang high into
the air and fell upon the dog with such force
that he was knocked flat to the ground. The
dog succeeded in regaining his feet, however,
before the blow could be repeated, and ran
off very fast, followed by the victorious sheep
jumping gullies and fences with as much ac
tivity as the dog. The chase was nearly
three miles in length, and would, in all prob
ability have terminated in the death of the
dog had not some children interfered.
The Union and American and Republican
Banner, of Nashville, have been consolidat
ed, and the new combination journal is call
ed The American. It is metropolitan in its
looks and make up. and an ornament to
Southern journalism.
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GLEANINGS;
The fattest girl in the country is claimed
by Rome; N. Y.
A Colorado woman beats the bnsfi drum for
a bfass band.
Nevada expects to produce this year bull
ion to the value of $25,000,000.
Olive Logan says that Nellie’s baby baS
cut his Ist 2th. That’s tooth in.
Tennessee lias been a State seVeiity-liind
years, and the western section has never pro*
dueed a United States Senator.
“ Who opened the sky to let little brother
in ? asked a three year old girl, gazing in a
brOVvn study upo'ii the clouds the other day/
A lady of Georgia was recently married t <i
an Orange county (Fla.) man whom she had
never seen before the da}’ ofmafrlage.
Benton’s tomb in Missouri is unrecogniza
ble amid ruins. It must always be so. lie
who fails to btlild his own tomb while alive
seldom gets one built for him after his death*
The Tennessee dog tax yielded $300,00(7
last year, the State thus putting into omf
pocket a portion of what went out of the oth
er in damage to the wool industry.
“ Who would have thought they would take'
to lacing around the hips ?” remarked a coun
tryman in astonishment, this morning, as a
“ pin-back lady" passed him on the street.
One of the mottoes at the great Democrat -'
ie meeting at Newark. Ohio, Thursday, was !
“Grant vetoed the currency bill of 1874, but
he can't veto the Allen Bill of 1875.”
Turkish tailors are never reproached for
misfits. They have only to cut out two bags*
hitch them together, and the customer lias a
first-class pair of trOwsers.
Sixty and ninety days* discount arc tod
short for farmers and manufacturers. Thd
good old days of six and nine months’ loans
is what we must have again.— Union <s• Amu
The London Lancet says that no person
should sit for more than half an hour. S'pti
sin a fellow is sitting on the sofa with his
girl, is lie going to be particular to a minute?
Mrs. Joseph Custer, of Worcester, Tenn. f
stung by a bee, died a few days after, her
arm swelling to the shoulder, and a yellowish
liquid being discharged from it in several
places where it broke out.
An editor at a dinner party being asked if
lie would have some pudding* replied in a fit
of abstraction : “Owing to the press of more
important matter we arc unable to find room
for it.”
“ Do you keep matches ?” asked a Wag of
a country grocer. “Oh, yes. all kinds,” was
the reply. “\Y ell, I'll take a trotting match,’ **
said the wag. The grocer handed him a boX
of pills.
On the 3d inst.. the decrease in the cottorf
sight was 305,084 bales as compared with the
same date of 1874, and 201,770 bales as com
pared with the corresponding date tff 1873/
So says the Financial Chronicle.
The success of the Democrats in California
will give the Democratic party a majority of
States in the next Congress—a very impor
tant matter, should the election of President
be thrown into the House.
The Baptists are making strenuous endea
vors to endow their Southern University,
which will be located nt Jackson, Miss. It
is hoped that a large sum will be collected
during next year. They are trying to secure'
an endowment of $300,000. The University
will be opened for the admission of students
next month.
A country girl near Utica a few days ago
mistook the meaning of a young man Who
was hunting up pickers for his father's hop
yard, and when asked if she was eiigaged,
sweetly said, f ‘ Not yet, but always thought
it would be pleasant.” The young man rode
home quickly, and dreamed all night of
breach-of-promisc trials.
Au old man died recently hi l Marysville,
Cal., who had been a devoted admirer of
Henry Clay. When Mr. Clay was a candi
date for the Presidency this man Was so sure
of his election that lie made a yew not to cut
his hair until his idol was installed at the
White House. After liis hair had become so
lung that it made him the laughrng-stock of
his neighbors, he retired from the haunts of
men and lived as a hermit until hte death.
A citizen of Vicksburg, who Wanted a few
hours' work done, accosted a colored Aian
and inquired if he would like a job. “I’d
like to do it, but I haven't time,” was the
answer. “Why. yott don't seem to be doing
anything.” “ I don't, eh f Well, now, Yze
a gwinc fishin' to-day. To-morrow I’zc gwine
ober de ribber. Next day Pze got to git my
butes fixed. Next day I'ze a gwin'e to mem!
de table ; and de Lawd knows how I'ze to gft
frew de Week Unless I hire a man to help l me !”
A YOtrxG lady who resides a few miles
from town, the other day refused the hand of
a young man, who offered her liis service for
life. lie had the boldness to remark to her
that there was “still as good fish in the rivef
as had ever been caught.” She replied Ul
him that his statement was correct, but that
the young ladies nowadays did not bite at a
hook that had no bait on tt,-~ Jonesboro' Her
ald.
NUMBER 15.