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H y tHE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. $ VOLUME I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, . thr Jackon County Publishing *** Coiii|);in>. JEFFERSON , JACKSON CO., GA. o ( kKICE , n. w. cor. public square, up-stairs. MALCOM STAFFORD, managing and business editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months $2.00 “ 6 “ 1.00 it “ 3 “ 50 |gFor every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. jgyAll Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. lofdlusiness or Professional Cards, of six lines or less. Seven Dollars per annum ; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Advertising:. The following will be the regular rates for con tractadvertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases: Squares, iw. Im. 3m. m. 13 m. One 81 00 B*2 50 $G 00 $0 00 sl2 00 Two 200 550 11 00 17 00 22 00 Three 300 675 10 00 21 00 30 00 Four 400 050 18 75 25 00 30 00 Five 500 10 25 21 50 20 00 42 00 Six 6 00 12 00 24 25 33 00 48 00 Twelve 11 00 21 75 40 00 55 00 SI 00 Eighteen.... 15 00 30 50 54 50 75 50 100 00 Twenty two 17 00 34 00 GO 00 90 00 125 00 JtaTA square is one inch, or about 100 words of the type used in our advertising columns. Marriage and obituary notices not exceeding ten lines, will be published free; but for all over ten lines, regular advertising rates will be charged. Transient advertisements and announcing can didates for office will be Cash. Address all communications for publication and all letters on business to MALCOM STAFFORD, Manayiny and Business Editor. |)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. I ii | 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.