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H y tHE JACKSON COUNTY )
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VOLUME I.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
. thr Jackon County Publishing
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JEFFERSON , JACKSON CO., GA.
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MALCOM STAFFORD,
managing and business editor.
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|)rofessiumif £ (Business (Tunis.
WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
Howard a iiow irik
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Ga.
Will practice t ogether 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,
Broad Street, one door above National Bank,
ATHENS, C3-AA.,
KEF.PS constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
comprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions
oi Liidits' Slat*.. lionnels Ribbon*.
Luces, Flowers, Gloves &<*„, which will be
sold at reasonable prices. Orders from the coun
try promptly tilled. Give her a call.
July 31st—3m.
Dtt. W. S. ALEX IXDER,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. * 6m
I? A. WILMAn^OA
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
At Dr. Wm. King's Drug Store, Deupree Block,
Athens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner,
nd warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
hrfhj CASH. Julylo-G‘m.
I <’* WILKWS A CO.,
BROAD STREET, ATHENS. GA.,
DEALERS IN
stoves, tin-ware, sea.
{Opposite North-East Georgian Office.)
July 3d, 1875.
STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFERSON, GA.,
DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
,,rics - New supplies constantly received,
cap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 19 ly
]\ *'• WOIT’ORH, Attorney at l^aw,
HOMER. BANKS CO.. GA.,
ili practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
J P r °nipt attention to all bu siness entrusted to
‘ V are ‘ Collecting claims a specialty.
June 19th, 1875. * ly
• OAKIX
N HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
‘, e " ar| d good buggy and wagon harness always
j. n and - Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &t\,
■ 1 on short notice, and cheap for cash,
juneii—i v v
J - p U)Yp, I j. siLMAN,
'r-i, J vln gton, Ga. Jefferson, Ga.
]' M> *l> A Mum.
w ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
tk P rac fice together in the Superior Courts of
Humti es of Jackson and Walton.
Junel2_iy
\\ *• PHili Attorney at I<aw,
Prw JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
p 1( es ma R the Courts, State and Federal,
kinds' IU f ,t i aU th ? rou S h attention given to all
count ° Business in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875
Jxdergrass & iiancock,
\\ J respectfully call the attention of the
P' l ‘lie to their elegant stock of
R . Dr y G-oods of all Kinds,
‘ A H'-l* Al> E CL OTIKING,
Bo t NE CASS LMERES, HATS, CAPS,
Shoes; Ladies’ Bonnets, Hats and
Warn H ar dware. Hollow Ware. Earthen
°Pes ' pi loo Rooks. Paper, Pens, Inks, Envel-
Tea/au , OU L Bacon, Lard. Sugar Coffee,
f ln j futent Medicines, in fact everything
the tin p ° Und in a General Store. Prices to suit
Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf
GO BAREFOOT!
XJ u ;,:; u Want good Boots and Shoes, neat fits,
ball on m 0 ! B00<1 stock - Clionp, for Cu.h?
an, i I will c , orner °f Mrs. Venable's residence,
s Urc. ° better for you than any one else,
IJI2 2m] N. B. STARK.
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People tlieir own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Miscellaneous Medley.
From the St. Louis Times.
A TERRIBLE STORY.
THE FOLLY AND FATE OF THREE BEAUTIFUL
SISTERS.
Our readers may possibly* recollect the
circumstances of a fatal duel widely publish
ed at the time, which occurred on the 3d of
April, 1874, on the old duelling ground on
the sandy stretch of shore fronting Bay St.
Louis. The participants were Artelle Bien
venue, a broker, and Andrea Phillips, a law
yer, of New Orleans. It was on the same
spot where the fatal bullet of Rhett, of the
Picayune , sped to flight the gallant spirit of
the intrepid Cooley ; the ground on which the
rifle shots of Badger and Carter were ex
changed ; where Scott and Campbell met;
and where many a previous bloody* episode
had expiated a real or imaginary fault.
Aside from the fatal termination of the
meeting, the contest between Phillips and
Bienvenue would not have been unusually*
remarkable but for the fact that it was the
final scene in the tragic wedded lives of three
women—sisters—whose husbands fell by the
hand of violence, incited by the evil courses
of their wives.
Born of reputable creole parents, these sis
ters were inheritors of vast wealth and a
stainless name, and distinguished for personal
beauty in a land where the loveliness of wo
men was proverbial. Tenderly reared and
brilliantly educated, with possessions that
rivaled in extent and excelled in value a Ger
man principality, it is not surprising that
they* became the flattered belles of society*,
and were the boast and pride of the merchant
and planter beaux in all the wild coast coun
try*. That these brilliant proteges of the
haughtiest aristocracy* of the old regime
should be destined to exercise the fatal influ
ence they exerted on the men who loved them
and made them their wives is indeed surpris
ing. But they were flirts from their cradles.
Born to admiration, their lives were spent
from youth to maturity in an atmosphere of
ficticious sentiment and unreal passion.
They looked upon men as merely the minis
ters of pleasure, and as the mediums through
which their flattered vanity might grow and
expand, as the flower blooms in the warmth
of the sunshine. All the aims and duties of
life were bounded by* the ambitions of society.
Admiration to them was appreciation.—
Taught to regard their individual pleasures
as superior to all considerations of conve
nience to others, it is not surprising that sel
fishness, indifference and folly became the
mainsprings to their actions. Nor is it aston
ishing that they exercised the fatal influence
f hey* did upon men. Their beauty was glo
rious. The youngest was the living type of
the other two. As the writer saw her but
little over a year ago, she rises before his
vision now, a tall, graceful, slender woman,
a lithe, willowy form of splendid contour and
exquisite symmetry. The oval, tinted face
glows with health, and is radiant with intel
ligence. Deep, slumberous black eyes, un
fathomable in their depths, which a word can
kindle with excitement or make aglow with
passion; a queenly woman, regnant inyouth,
grace, and the empire of men’s hearts. The
rich coils of hair, black and intense, were
wound above the low, broad forehead, and
Formed a raven-like crown to the dusky
splendor of a dark Egyptian face. Men
paused to look at her, and women sighed with
envy as she passed. What she was in her
youthful bridehood has been imperfectly de
scribed ; what her sisters were in their matur
ed and splendid womanhood the enthusiast's
imagination alone can picture.
And now for the story* of their lives. The
oldest sister was married to Dr. Sharp, of
Tuscaloosa, Ala., a polished, graceful gentle
man, whose love and devotion might have
contented any* woman less prone to the allure
ments of society* and the admiration of men.
It was in the first year of the war, and the
most brilliant society in the South was gath
ered at Mobile and New Orleans. With an
appetite whetted to fever heat by a few
months’ abstinence from social pleasures, she
plunged recklessly into a whirlpool of gaiety*.
The married flirt w*ears no armor of innocence.
Her love of admiration is pitted against
man's duplicity and cunning. She staked
and lost. From folly there is but one step
to imprudence, and that step was taken, de
spite a husband’s jealousy* and sense of hon
or. The end was inevitable; a challenge
and a duel, and her husband fell pierced to
the heart by the bullet of her seducer. There
was no pity for a woman like this ; society
repelled her. and she fled to New Orleans to
lead the life of an adventuress.
The second sister shortly afterward married
the son of a distinguished journalist of Mo
bile. The fate of her elder sister was no bar
to a career of similiar folly. Society received
her with open arms. Wealth, influential con
nections and alliances with a distinguished
family obscured for a time the recollections
of a sister's imprudence. But gossip soon
grew busy with her name. From one folly
to another she passed with fatal haste and
seeming indifference, until in a fatal hour her
husband learned that the woman he loved,
the wife that he idolized, was a thing to be
scorned. It broke his heart. With the down
fall of his idol his reason wavered, and he
perished by his own hand. For all his bril
liant talents, and the promise of a splendid
woman, he died the victim of a woman's per
fidy.
The youngest sister became the wife of
Bienvenue, a young broker of New Orleans.
Rich, beautiful snd accomplished, she was at
once a leader in society. Courted, flattered
and caressed, she plunged headlong into the
vortex. Men lavished praises upon her—
women hated and smiled upon her. What
cared she ? Beautiful, reckless, heartless
and indifferent to all alike, she cared only
for that social admiration which was the sun
shine of her life. Her large fortune gave her
an income in her individual right. This gave
wings to the extravagance and enabled her
to contract bills in her own name. One of
them —a milliner's bill—was overdue, suit
was brought and execution issued, which Mr.
Phillips, the lawyer, had levied for satisfac
tion upon her carriage and horses. In an
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, SErT. 25, 1875.
interview subsequently had with the lady,
regarding the settlement of the bill, words
which she construed into an insult were charg
ed upon the attorney. Her husband resent
ed it—a challenge ensued—and then the fatal
duel on that sad April morning, when a hus
band's life ebbed away its purple tide upon
the lonely beach, the last unhappy victim of
the sisters’ folly and extravagance.
That Hired Girl.
The Detroit Free Press says : When she
came to work for the family on Congress
street the lady* of the house £at down and
told her that agents, book-peddlers, hat-rack
men, picture-sellers, ash-buyers, rag-men, and
all that class of people must be met at the
front door and coldly* repulsed, and Sarah
said she’d repulse’em if she had to break ev
ery broomstick in Detriot.
And she did. She threw the door open
wide, bluffed right up to’em, and when she
got through talking the cheekiest agent was
only too glad to leave. It got so after awhile
that peddlers marked that house, and the
door-bell never rang except for company.
The other day as the lady of the house was
enjoying a nap, and Sarah was wiping off the
spoons, the bell rang. She hastened to the
door, expecting to see a lady, but her eyes
encountered a slim man, dressed in black,
and wearing a white necktie. He was the
new minister, and was going around to get
acquainted with the members of his flock,
but Sarah wasn't expected to know this.
“Ah—urn—is Mrs.—ah—?”
“ Git!” exclaimed Sarah, pointing to the
gate.
“ Beg pardon, but I’d like to see—see !”
“Meander,” she shouted, looking around
for a weapon ; “we don’t want any flour-sift
ers here !”
“You are mistaken,” he replied, smiling
blandly*; “I called to ”
“Don’t want anything to keep moths away
—fly*!” she exclaimed, getting red in the face.
“Is the lady* in ?” he inquired, trying to
look over Sarah’s head.
“Yes, the lady*'s in, and I’m in, and y*ou’re
out!” she snapped, “and now I don’t want to
stand here talking to a •fly-trap agent any*
longer ! Come, lift your boots !”
“ I am not an agent,” he said, Dying to
smile ; “I am the new ”
“Yes, 1 know you ; you arc the new man
with the patent flat-iron, but w*e don't want
any*, and you'd better go before I call the
dog 1”
“Will y*ou give the lady* my card and say*
that I called ?*’
“No, I won’t; we're bored to death with
cards and handbills and circulars. Come, I
can’t, stand here all day.”
“Didn't you know that I was a minister?”
he asked, as lie backed off.
“No, nor I don't know it now ; y*ou look
like the man who sold the woman next door
a dollar ehromo for eighteen shillings !”
“But here is my card.”
“I don't care for cards, Itelly*ou! If you
leave that gate open I'll heave a flower-pot
at you !”
“ I will call again,” he said as he went
through the gate.
“It won’t do you any good !” she shouted
after him ; “we don’t want no prepared food
for infants—no piano music—no stuffed
birds ! I know the policeman on this beat,
and if you come around here again lie'll soon
find out whether you are a confidence man or
a vagrant 1”
Prospects for Trade.
The prospect is not so bad. Cotton may
be low this fall and winter, not because it is
not worth more, but because of the want of
confidence in commercial integrity. Thatunay
render it difficult for any one except those
who deal in corners from procuring funds to
move the leading staples. There is no gen
eral cause for depression. Many mills stop
ped during the summer, but the telegraph
tells daily of thir resumption. The demand
for all kinds of agricultural products and
manufactured goods in such a country as
ours, must result in large consumption.
People must eat and wear clothes, and they
have been very enconomical in the clothing
line in this section this year. If they do not
eat so many nice things and wear so many
fine clothes, so much the better for the coun
try. It is a good time for every merchant
to study the necessities of his surroundings
and draw still closer to a cash basis in which
there is always ‘safety.
Farmers are really better off than they
were last year and will not be so apt to
hurry cotton to market as they did last
year, and by their haste and overcrowding
give color for heavy estimates which ruined
prices. Mony prominent men believe that
the incoming crop will not be any larger than
the past one—about 3,830.000 bales. The
farmers have sufficient provisions to last
them awhile—many through the entire season
—and they can market judiciously, and
when they sell will buy largely, for they
have economized until their necessities are
great. No fancy prices need be looked for,
nor need the bear speculators expect to get
cotton for less than the cost of production.
Planters will put no faith in the four and
a quarter to a half million crops. They will
do some estimating themselves and study
closely the situation —Columbus Enquirer.
v Raleigh, N. C., August 28. * * *lt
was love in death. He saw her sinking fast,
he knew it, she knew it—it was consump
tion. He nursed her like a little child ; the
great strong man, and there they were in
the room together the night she died. She
wanted to see out, to gaze once more at the
world outside, but he entreated her against
it, and told her that to take her up would
make her worse, but she told him she was
dying anyway, and he lifted her tenderly in
his arms and walked with her from window
to window, holding her to his breast, and
showing her this object and that, pointing
out every pleasant thing, and she kissing
him at intervals till the last breath had gone,
and the kiss died cold on his cheek. Wo
man’s love ! W hen God made man he put all
of heaven in a woman’s love, and told him
to win it and be worthy of it.—[Correspond
ence Vicksburg Herald.
Bread and Cheese.
I met my love in the summer ;
The breeze blew from the south.
Sweet with the breath of clover ;
I kissed her little mouth—
But I told my pet so plainly.
As I gave her hand a squeeze.
“ I’ve lots of love for you. darling.
But not much bread and cheese.”
But then she showed her dimples ;
The blue eyes seemed to shine ;
Her head was on my shoulder ;
The little lips sought mine.
She said. “ I am not hungry,
And summer time is here.
Who cares for bread and cheese, love ?
I want the kisses, dear.”
Printers’ Devils.
Few are the newspaper readers who have
not at some time heard of the “Printer’s Devil.*’
The following “ facetious sketch” will give
the patrons of the News an idea of the “stern
stuff” of which a great many of this class of
our craft are composed :
A DEFUNCT DEVIL.
"We had a devil once, but the place that
erst while knew him, knows him no
more forever. lie was a devil fair to look
upon. When he took off his rings to wash
the rollers, and stood aloof in a faultless
shirt and dove-colored pants, it watered the
envious soul of the looker-on with admiration,
lie was a devil of a fellow, and his name
it was Brooks. By profession he was a lady
killer, but he had a fair practice at the bar,
considering his youth, being drunk on every
holiday with as much dexterity and eloquence
as an old practitioner, lie was bred in the
dry goods line, but having been blighted by
his employers, he resolved to embrace one of
the learned professions. Having already
made considerable progress, he naturally
gravitated towards the devil, and chose that
of a printer. As he sat before us in the
office, gently and artistically settling his tie
with a delicately gloved hand, while he ex
plained the convictions which had sent him
to wrestle with letters and rollers, it stirred
our soul with pity. We said come. He
came. That is, lie came occasionally, other
engagements permitting. He smoked cigars,
with feet on the editorial table, brought his
friends in on Sundays to take a hand at
cards, amused himself with dropping quads
from a tluee-shuy window and whistling
for the edification of the compositors, and
otherwise disported himself as a young and
devilish high-toned devil should be expected.
On holidays, when he was sick, he could be
seen taking an airing behind a livery team,
lie got $2 50 per week, but never walked.
At the races he shone; except, possibly, for
the brief time he lay under a tree, drunk.
But the brightest stars do not shine always;
so the bluest devils anon happily hide their
rays from mortal ken. He is no more. An
engagement at a festival one evening unfortu
nately conflicted with running off the paper,
and the fashionable young devil pulled on
his tight boots and walked out, leaving us to
mourn his untimely loss. It will be a long
time before we shall look upon his like again.
We unhesitatingly challenge our brethren for
a devil fit to unlace his suspenders. —South
Bend Union.
The Story of an Arab.
The story of a Cincinnati newsboy who
found a pocket-book containing one hundred
dollars, and returned it to the owner, with
contents intact, reached this city in due time,
and was productive of considerable of a sen
sation among the street Arabs. One small
boy was so affected by it. that he straight
way determined to see the Cincinnati boy,
and go him seventeen or eighteen better.
He took another small boy in his confidence,
and yesterday afternoon the test of probity
of character was carried into effect in front
of the State House Row.
Boy No. 2 dropped a well padded pocket
book, which boy No.l, following close be
hind. picked up. Then with a look on his
face that would have done honor to Benjamin
Franklin, the honest little fellow walked up
to an old gentleman who was passing by,
extended the pocket-book and with trembling
voice, exclaimed, “Take it, sir. It isyour’s.
You dropped it just now. My mother and
seven little brothers are starving but I can
not keep it, sir, for it don’t belong to me.”
The old gentleman looked at the bov, then
pulled out his spectacles and adjusted them
for a better sight. He could not sufficiently
admire the wan visage of that little street
wanderer, illumined as it was with a glow of
goodness and beauty, lie patted the boy
on the head and pulling a five dollar bill from
bis vest pocket, handed it to him, Saying,
“Boy, yon will grow to be a great man.
Take this money for vour starving family
and always remember that ‘ honesty is the
best policy.’ ”
Then the old gentleman skurried into the
nearest lager beer saloon, and opened his
pocket-book. Then he began to dance
around and call heaven and earth to witness
that if he ever encountered the boy again he
would burn him alive. And he continued to
orate until a policeman was called in to
arrest him as a lunatic, and the only excuse
he could offer for his conduct was that a
small bov had robbed him of fivedollars bv
giving him a pocket-book stuffed with old
paper.
# Ii
Largest Wan in the World.
Humboldt Journal: “We find the follow
ing in an old Scrap Book, without date.
Probabl}' some of our readers know some
thing of the largest man in the world :
“The funeral sermon of Mr. Miles Darwin,
who died at his residence in Henderson
county, was preached on the 4th Sunday in
June, five miles southwest from Lexington.
Tenn. The Masonic fraternity were in at
tendance, in full regalia, on the occasion.
“The decased was, beyond all question,
the largest man in the world. Ilis height
was seven feet six inches—two inches higher
than Porter, the celebrated Kentucky giant.
His weight was a fraction over one thousand
pounds. It reqnired seventeen men to put
him in his coffin ; took over one hundred feet
of plank to make his coffin. He measured
around the waist six feet four inches.
The Most Powerful War Vessel in the
World.
The British ironclad Inflexible is now
about one fourth completed, work having
been begun upon her in February, 1874.
Unless the progress of invention results in
the projecting of a still more formidable
engine of marine warfare before the Inflexi
ble is launched, she will possess the thickest
armor, the heaviest guns, the largest displace
ment in tons, the most machinery in the
world, and probaly prove more expensive
than any other war vessel hitherto construct
ed. She will have engines for steering, for
loading guns, hoisting shot and shell, for
ventilation, for moving turrets, for lowering
boats, and for turning the capstan as
well as for propulsion. The vessel is little
more than a floating castle, rectangular
above water, 100 feet long, by 75 feet in
width, and protected by 24 inches total
thickness of iron. The two turrets which
are placed within the citadel are formed of
iron of a single thickness of 18 inches, and
within each of them are two 80-ton guns,
which can be trained to any point of the
compass.
The main engines work up to 8.000 indi
cated horse power, and the bunkers carry
1,200 tons of coal. The total cost of the
vessel is placed at $2,G05X)00.
Porter House Steak.
This term has an American origin. In
1814. a hungry pilot entered a New York
porter house on Pearl street, where lunch as
well as drink could be obtained. Morrison,
the keeper, had nothing but the beef ordered
for the next day*’s family* dinner, in the
shape of a sirloin roasting piece, and from
this he offered the pilot a cut, which he ac
cepted. After ravenously devouring it he
turned to his host, who was expecting
dissatisfaction with the order, “Messmate,
another steak just like that.” After having
finished his steaks and porter the old pilot
ordered his steaks to be “cut off the roasting
pieces for the future,” and soon his compan
ions learned the good that lies in the “small
loin steak,” and Morrison was obliged to
instruct his butcher to cut his sirloin into
sfeaks for his customers, and the butcher,
ordering his subordinates and messengers,
designated them as “porter house steaks,”
and increasing custom and extending repute
soon established the term now so common in
all eating houses of our country* and Now
England.
Wives and Female Barbers.
A feature of the fashionable watering places
m Virginia this season is the female barbers.
One of them has an establishment at the
White Sulphur Springs, and her skill witli a
razor is only excelled by the fascinations of
her person and her manners. The other day*,
as a Baltimore lady was passing the shop,
she met her husband, who is perfectly* beard
less, coming out, and with such a pleased
expression on his face that her indignation
was aroused.
“What were y*ou doing in there, sir?” she
avagely inquired.
“Taking a shave, my* dear,” he placidly*
replied.
“Taking a shave! Why, you barefaced
old prevaricator, you couldn’t raise half a
dozen hairs on that brassy cheek of y*ours, if
y*our life depended on it.”
“That’s very* true, my dear,” returned the
incorrigible man, “but I like to have her feel
for ’em.”
A Unique Newspaper Dun.
A Virginia paper furnishes the following
illustration of how a dun may he done :
As the report that we are very wealthy
has gone abroad among our subscribers, and
has made them awful slow about paying up,
thinking doubtless we don’t want the money,
we hasten to say that the report of our
wealth is false in every particular. If ocean
steamers were selling for a cent a dozen, we
couldn't make the first payment on a canoe.
The lightning of poverty has struck us, and
had it not been for an armful of hay our
devil managed to steal from a blind mule,
our large and interesting family would be
without a mouthful to eat at this moment.
Is not this a sad picture, and can you, delin
quent subscribers, look upon it without feel
ing the greenbacks rustle with indignation
in your pocket books? We do not like to
dun you, but we must if you fail to take the
hint.
IdFDld Guinea Joe, a native of Africa
some seventy years old, and formerly a ser
vant of Dr. R. C. Bryan, killed a rattlesnake
last week with eighteen rattles, and which
was eight feet long. Old Guinea carefully
cut olf its head, skinned, dressed and fried
it, and had a regular African feast. lie says
it was better than chicken. Joe has a great
reputation as fire-eater and conjurer. We
have seen him eat a handful of the brightest,
hotest hickory coals that could be burned
out of barrel hoops ; and while you could
hear a terrible frying and hissing in his mouth,
and clouds of smoke issuing from it, we gave
him a thorough examination and found not
the least burn ; there could be no humbug in it.
—Perry Home Journal.
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heathen Chinee doesn't take to
Hammond, the revivalist. In San Francisco
the celestial designation for the great evan
gelist is “Muchee Jumpee.”
A bride’s veil must now reach below the
waist.
AT THE DOOR.
The mistakes of mv life are many,
The sins of my life are more ;
And 1 scarce can see for weeping:
But 1 knock at the open door.
I am the lowest of those who love Him,
I am the weakest of those who pray—.
But I come as He has bidden,
And He will not say to me, Nay.
My mistakes His love will cover,
My sins He will wash away.
And the feet that shrink and falter,
Shall walk through the gate of day.
If I turn not from His whisper,
If I let not go His hand,
I shall see Him in His beauty,
The King in the far-off land,
s TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEAN INGS.
Anew perfume is called “ Modesty.”
Kentucky has 100,000 Patrons of Husband*
ry-
The entire railway mileage of the worid is
about 175,000.
Kentucky has produced a stalk of corn this
year with fifty years on it.
t °rty years ago 58,000,000 cigars were
manufactured yearly ; now the consumption
demands 742,000,000.
England has but ten legally recognized fe*
male physicians, while in this country there
are hundreds.
A St.‘ Louis physician has offered a reward
of SI,OOO for an authenticated case of death
from eating ripe watermelon.
Of the original cedars in Lebanon only
.seven now remain. They cover a space of
not over half a mile on the mountain side.
A Western newspaper says that the devil
lias reserved several choice seats for those
who write communications to newspapers
with a lead pencil.
A disease similar to the epizootic has bro
ken out among the cattle near Avon, New
York. Forty have died within two weeks.
One of the happiest and most independent
of all human occupations is that of an intelli
gent farmer, whose land is paid for, and who
keeps out of debt.
Three ears of corn, grown on the farm of
T. F. Gibson, near Athens, Tennessee, aggre
gated in weight 10 pounds—aggregate length
six feet.
Miss Nellie Thurston is to make a balloon
ascension at the Madison Co’}', N. Y., Agri
cultural Fair, next month.
The Milwaukie girl who was arrested for
stealing a pair of shoes to wear to Sunday
school, says she will never try to be good
again. .
The man who can vary his pursuits, and
has time for everything—for himself, for his
wife, for his children, for his friends—alone
understands what it is to live.
About a hundred old darkey women in
Tennessee, w r lio “missed Massa Johnson”
are beginning to put on airs, and prepare to
tell tales of “ de ole ta’lor President” to the
coming generations.
O O
There are 12,000 windmills in Holland and
Flemish Belgium, each from six to ten horse
power service, according to the strength of
the wind, and working twenty-f6ur hours per
day.
There was a place set apart in heaven for
good wives who could judge a wicked tiling
as harshly when a man did it as when a wo
man did it. But it has never been occupied,
I believe. —Ghee Foo Tsin.
James 11. Cole, the new American evange
list, who is successfully following up the
work commenced in England by Moody and
Sankey, is a native of Jacksonville, 111., and
rejoices in the title of “ major.”
Louisiana’s last orange crop amounted to
16,250,000, and realized a net profit of SBIO,-
000. The custom there is to sell the fruit on
the trees at $lO a thousand, and let the ship
per do the picking.
Agnes Meyers, a young lady living at San
Buenaventura, has just starved to death, ow
ing to the burning of her throat by a solution
of potash, which she took by mistake, the ex
coriation being so dreadful that she was una
ble to swallow anything but ice-water.
The corn crop throughout the eastern por
tion of Tennessee is very heavy —the largest
grown for a number of years—and the farm
ers, hogs being scarce, are at a loss what to
do with it.
The average daily shipment of wheat over
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railway, is twenty-five carloads, with a pros
pective increase.
“It is astonishing,” says an exchange,
“ what short dresses are worn over those SIOO
stockings.” Astonishing, indeed. So sen-
astonishing as to inspire a hope
that high-priced undergarments will never
get higher.
There is a rapidly increasing number of
petitioners in New Jersey who will memorial
ize Congress next winter, in favor of adding
two stars in the national banner —one for the
Beecher trial, and one for the Sartoris baby.
Discussing the great increase of labor due
to the increased complication of life, the San
itary Record says: “The one day’s rest in
seven is not now sufficient for our needs.”
Here’s a chance for a reformer to give the
people two Sundays a week.
A Michigan paper tells, on one page, of a
man who has lived 105 years, drinking whis
ky most of the time, but over on anotlier
page, it tells of one, Mr. Nibbelink, much
younger, who has just died of delirium tre
mens, leaving a wife and five children. Now,
what’s a man to do ?
In "Wyoming at an election recent!} 7 , a lady
whose vote was challenged became ungovern
ably angry at the implied suspicion and wept.
Her escort took off his coat and thrashed the
challenger, and then the lady wept again—
tears of gratitude.
NUMBER 16.