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Il ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Ga.
Will practice together in all the Courts of Jack
son and adjacent counties, except the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
MRS. T. A. ADAMS,
Broad Street , one door above National Bank ,
ATHENS, Gr-A-. 3
KEEPS constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
comprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions
of ladies' Hal*. Iloniietx. Ribbons
laccs, Flow ers <loves Ac., which will be
sold at reasonable prices. Orders from the coun
try promptly tilled. Give her a call.
July 31st—3m.
D*. W. S. ALEXANDER,
81 RGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. (!m
V i. W H.U AMBDA,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
At Dr. \\ m. King's Drug Store. Dcuprec Block,
Athens, <1 a. All work done in a superior manner,
m l warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi -
Wy CASH. July 10-Gin.
I F.WII.KIASA CO.,
BROAD STREET, ATHENS. GA.,
DEALERS IN
STOVES, TIN-W-A-EtE, <5cC
(Opposite A orth-East Georgian Office.)
July 3d, 1875.
STAX LEY & PINSON,
JEFFJCIISOX, GA.,
JjhAI.ERS in Dry Goods and Family Grocc
... ries *. New supplies constantly received.
Hap lor Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June Ist ]y
U L Wofford, am oruey ait l-vv,
J IfOMER, banks CO..* ga„
'il practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
V e prompt attention to all business entrusted to
\ lare - Collecting claims a specialty'.
Jl "‘e 111th, 1875. ly
J 0 * I '*"- OAKEN,
j. HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
on h" i* n ‘* " 00< I buggy and wagon harness always
don‘ int *' Repairing same, bridles, saddles, Ac.,
in, 0 ?. ort n °t*ee, and cheap for cash.
JUUeI2- ly
I J. B. SILMAN,
lAi '* n gton, Ga. Jefferson. Ga.
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\ V|I . ATTORXEYS-AT-LAW.
thp,- U’letiee together in the Superior Courts of
o f Jackson and AValton.
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Uarti. • JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
Pr ,i S m Courts, State and Federal,
kinds :i'\ an, t thorough attention given to all
ro Un .: R'gal business in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875
Pendergrass & Hancock,
\\ !M‘Jt respectfully call the attention of the
1 'he to their elegant stock of
R G-oods of all Kinds,
Fl v U '" 11 4 K <LO TII I.Ati,
H NK CASSIMERES, hats, caps,
THiaminShoes; Ladies* Bonnets, Hats and
siT’ . hardware. Hollow AYare, Earthen
d*s i’i C m<> JJooks, Paper, Pens, Inks, Envel-
V a u’; u, -.Meal, Bacon, Lard. Sugar Coffee,
u< uall vf m * i .tent Medicines, in fact everything
file tiii Ks >UlU t m a General Store. Prices to suit
rJM-m BAREFOOT!
D mail,. V nt KOO< l Boots and Shoes, neat fits,
I* *‘l *m m,. at stoc k. Fheap. for <asl. V
1 will t ’ orner of Mrs. A'enable’s Residence,
0 potter for you than any one else,
'J 1 - -] N. B. STARK.
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rnlers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Me Poet’s hornet.
MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN SONG.
THE carpet-bagger’s lament.
Tune —“ Old Rosin , the Bott.”
I’ve traveled this country all ore*,
And now to another must go,
Where the darkies are easier swindled.
And less of my lying do know.
I came from the cold fYostv region,
The land of the ice and the snow,
I came with carpet-bag empty,
But now ’tis quite full as you know.
At home I was ragged and dirty,
And left when the sun had got low,
But soon made a rise in this country,
When I got in the Freedmen's Bureau.
I told how I shouldered my musket,
And fought for the poor old negro,
How I hated the seccsh and rebels,
And told ’em to hate ’em also.
I swore them at night bv dark lanterns,
In the league we call loyal, you know,
And made them believe if they left it,
Straight down to the devil they’d go.
I promised that land we would give them,
Of acres quite forty or more.
With a mule fat and ready to tend it,
That caught the fool darkey be sure.
I promised to give them all office,
And make them my equals also,
I made them think I was an angel,
And this earth would be Heaven below.
AYe got every office we wanted,
And threw the poor darkies a bone,
AYe robbed and we stole without fearing.
For Grant he would let us alone.
That *• mounful fact’" speech of old Greeley'.
Struck the first heavy blow,
Now the niggers, confound "cm. want office,
Then where shall we carpet-bags go?
I see that more trouble is coming,
The mule and the land I can’t show,
So like many a swindler before mo.
I must pick up my stealings and go.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
A man of parts—The hair-dresser.
What’s in a name ?—Four letters.
Votive offerings—Election bribes.
A cry sure to stop a buss—Mamma’s look
ing.
Aristocratic seaside amusement—sitting
on a peer.
A good place for the ladies to stay —at the
corset-maker’s.
It is not fare to pass a counterfeit nickle
in an omnibus.
The most cutting remarks are made by the
bluntest men.
A Broadway sign reads, “ Hands wanted on
pocket-books.”
The way to meet a man of doubtful credit
is to take no note of him.
Jones says he loves two charming girls—
Jenny Rosity' and Annie Mation.
Strong drink is not only the devil’s way
into man, but man’s way to the devil.
Maine honey dealers prophecy that this
will be an excellent year for beesness.
There is one block in Detroit without a fe
male gossip. It is a vacant block.
Oregon has a town named Bay Up, and
they talk of calling it See-you-to-morrow.
For thin people to get suddenly fat—step
on a banana peel and come down plump.
The weather just now is dubious, but it is
not such a dubious as we would be done by 7.
What is that which every one can divide,
but no one can see where it is divided ?
AV ater.
Man never is but always to lie blest, says
Pope. Y'et how often you hear a man say,
“I’m blest.*’
You occasionally meet a man in this world
whose word is as good as his bond, and both
are worthless.
“My husband,” says a lady, “is the most
even tempered person in the world—he is al
ways mad.”
A kiss :—The twenty-seventh letter of the
alphabet—the love label which it takes two
to speak plainly.
AYhen is a hen not joking ? AAHicn she is
in ’er-nest. When is she all at sea ? AYhen
she’s in the hatchway.
A Chicago alderman recently refused sl,-
000 for his vote. AYe hasten to add, however,
that he got $2,000 from the other side.
AVe are glad to learn that Senator Jones is
in Connecticut, “visiting his wife.” It is a
sood idea for one to visit one’s wife occasion
ally.
He fondly hoped it would have been a boy,
but it wasn’t, and ever since that he’s been
wringing his hands and murmuring, “ A lass,
a lass.”
You can get a wife in some parts of Indi
ana for twenty-five cents; but remember,
young man ! it costs several hundred dollars
to get a divorce.
Mrs. Mary Vaughn, of AYilliamson county,
Tenn., is 100 years old, and yet nobody men
tions her for Governor or President. Is this
fair ?
A Springfield man recently took a bath in
the dark. He managed well enough, only he
got hold of a piece of stove blacking instead
of soap, with marked results.
The AA'ashington National Republican says
the nearest thing to a funeral is to see a small
boy, with a watermelon under his arm, whist
ling, “Nearer, my God, to Thee !”
Anna Dickinson owns right up that no wo
man can be romantic riding on an ox sled, or
dignified while climbing a rail fence, and now
there’s another dispute forever settled.
Use of Scripture. —Let us read the Gospel,
not so much to know what truth it contains
but as we say our prayers, that we may pos
sess our hearts with the same spirit which
Jesus Cnrist discovers in them —observing
Ilis actions and manner of life, and striving
continually to imitate them, following his
instructions and believing his promises and
j threaten ings.— Bishop Wilson.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1875.
Miscellaneous illcdleij.
Dath—Do we Fear it at Last 7
It is not often we meet with a case that
exhibits any fear of death. Take for in
stance, men condemned to be huno'. In
nine cases out of ten you will them
“game to the last.” Death, as a consequence
of disease or injury, is seldom feared. Disease
so benumbs intelligence that when the hour
comes little fear is exhibited. I venture to
say that no sane man or woman in perfect
health but dreads death and fears its sum
mons ; bilt disease and trouble may so work
upon our brahl that anything, even death, is
welcome as a change. Nature prepares us
for this, As the disease weakens our intel
lect, as pain grows more intense, onr desire
for life grows less; and ill lily own ex
perieneoe, and my professional brethren, I
konw of but one instance where the dying
did not reliquish life without seeming re
luctance or fear. There are many physical
phenomena attendant upon the dying, many
of which vary according to the several causes
which produce it; yet there is so much
similarity in the end that death, once wit
nessed, can never be mistaken again.
Amongthe last physical signs is a gradually
diminished and reduced pulse, first becoming
imperceptible at the wrist and lastly at the
breast, the extremities grow cold; the
countenance changes as the venous blood
courses the arteries ; the vessels relax ; the
skin grows clammy ; the palate drops ; the
fluid accumulates in the wind-pipe, producing
the death rattle as the air passes through ; the
breath becomes short and finally ceases, and
physical death is complete.
Now, as the red blood leaves the brain;
the judgment is impaired the sense deficient;
speecli wandering and incoherent. “Last
words” mean but little: though often con
strued to mean more than intended—in fact,
there is scarcely anything intended. The
expression “it grows dark” or “more light”
comes from the lack of stimulus in the optic
nerve. Strange sights appear before the
clouded vision ; strange sounds may be heard
as the circulation and stimulation leaves the
auditary nerve. lienee we have no trouble
in explaining most of the hallucinations of
the dying, and that from natural causes.
After these principles of life or animation
leave the body, we have but a mass of
putrefaction. A friend once so dear be
comes an object of loathing; and so ends
the career of our mortal existence. AY hat
may be in the beyond is a matter with which
there is so much mystery that we cannot
undertake to say what kind of existence
remanis for the life principles after death.—
Exchange.
From the Microscope to the Woodpile.
The other day a Detroit father purchased
a microscope for his son, a boy often, patted
the lad on the shoulder and said to him:
“ My son, take this microscope, and go out
and study the beauties of nature.”
The boy left all other amusements for that,
and he took such great interest and improved
so rapidly, that at the tea table, to which
several visitors sat down with the family, he
felt that he must make some remarks. Turn
ing to one of the ladies, he inquired :
“ Did you ever look at cheese through a
microscope ?*’
“ I don’t think I ever did,” she pleasantly
replied.
“ Well, you just ought to see the things
crawl ”
“John ! John !” exclaimed the father, shak
ing his head at the boy across the table.
John subdued for a minute or two, and
when his mother passed the cheese aropnd.
everybody said, “Thank you, no.” Pretty
soon the young student, desiring to molify
his father, asked :
“Father, did you ever look at a toad
through a microscope ?”
“I will talk with you after supper,” replied
the parent, scowling at the boy.
John was rather disappointed at his failure
to arouse enthusiasm, and just as the straw
berries were being passed around, he re
marked :
“ Well, you just ought to look at a straw
berry once through a microscope ! They look
just like warts, they do, and you think you
see bugs running ”
“ -Jawn !” said his mother.
“ Boy !” warned his father.
“ Well, they look wors’n flies' heads !” pro
tested the boy, who imagined that they doubt
ed his veracity, “ for flies ”
“ Boy !” said the father, making a mo
tion for John to leave the table.
John left, and as soon as it was conveni
ent for him to do so, the father escorted the
lad to.the washroom in the basement, bounced
him around, and said :
“ Mv son, gimme that microscope, and yon
take the axe and go out and study the beau
ties of that woodpile !”
If that boy 7 continues to feel the wav he
does at present, he will become a bank rob
ber instead of a naturalist.— Detroit Free
Press.
Tiie Bible.— Some one with unpreceden
patience ascertained the following interesting
details : The Bible contains 3,586,489 let
ters, 773,692 words, 31,173 verses, 1,189 chap
ters, and 66 books. The word “ and” occurs
46,277 times, the word “Lord” occurs 1,855
times, the word “ Reverend” occurs but once,
which is in the 9th verse of the 111th Psalm.
The middle verse is the Bth verse of the 118th
Psalm. The twenty-first verse of the 7th
chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the
alphabet except the letter J. The finest to
read is the 26th chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles. The 19th chapter of 11. Kings and
the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike. The
longest verse is the 9th verse of the Bth chap
ter of Esther. The shortest verse is the 35t,h
verse of the 11th chapter of St. John. The
-Bth, 15th, 21st and 31st verses of the 107th
Psalm are alike. All the verses of the 136th
Psalm end alike. There are no words or
names of over six syllables.
An applicant for a pair of boots at a shoe
shop was asked what number he wore, and
replied, as soon as he could recover from his
surprise, “why two, of course.”
Drinking,
Man is the only animal that drinks without
being thirsty, swallowing whole quarts of
water when nature does not call for it, with
the alleged view for* “washing out” the sys
tem. AA'hen persons are thirsty, that thirst
should be fully assuaged with moderate!}'
cool water, drank (in summer time or under
great bodily heat or fatigue) very leisurely,
but noi within an hour of eating a regular
meal.
Eminent physiologists agree that drinking
at meals dilutes the gastric justice, diminish
es its solvent power, and retards digestion,
especially if what is drank is cold. Persons
in vigorous health, and who work or exercise
a great part of every day in the open air, may
drink a glass of water, or a single cup of weak
tea, at eacli meal, and live to a good ole age.
But it is'very certain that sedentary persons
and invalids cannot go beyond that habitual,
with impunity. The wisdom of such consists
in drinking nothing at all at the regular
meals beyond a swallow or two at a time of
some hot drink of a mild and nutrious char
acter. Feeble persons will lie benefited by
hot drinks, because they warm up the body,
excite the circulation, and thus promote di
gestion, if taken while eating, and not exceed
ing a cupful.
Cold water ought never be drank within
half an hour of eating ; for the colder it is,
the more instantly does it arrest digestion,
not only by diluting the gastric juice, but by
reducing its temperature, which is near one
hundred degrees.
Ice-water is something over thirty-two de
grees, and when swallowed, mixes with the
gastric juice, and lowers its temperature, not
to be elevated until heat enough has been
withdrawn from the general system, and that
draft must be made until the hundred degrees
of warmth are attained ; but some persons
have so little vitality that the body exhaust
itself in its instinctive efforts to help the
stomach, from which its life strength come,
and the person rises from the table with a
cold chill running down his back or over his
whole bod}'.
Sometimes these drafts upon the body for
warmth to the stomach are so sudden and
great that they cannot be met, and instanta
neous death is the result. Many a person
has dropped dead at the pump or at the
spring ; such a result is more certain if, in
addition to the person being very warm at
the time of drinking, these is also great bodi
ly fatigue. A French General recently fell
lead from drinking cold water on reaching
the top of a mountain overheated and ex
hausted in the effort of bringing up his bat
talions with promptitude. Under all circum
stances of heat or fatigue, the glass of water
should bo grasped in the hand, held half a
minute, then, taking not over two swallows,
rest a quarter of a minute, then two swallows
more, and so until t he thirst is aearlg assuag
ed. It will seldom happen that a person is
inclined to take over half a dozen swallows
thus.— Medical Journal.
One Way to Reform.
Let every man whose appetite for drink is
constantly growing, but whose conscience is
not yet seared into a confirmed habit, adopt
the plan of making an accurate note of how
he feels in the morning after drinking too
much the night before Let him analyze in
detail as near as he can his thoughts and
reflections when he first wakes up, and put
down in black and white a plain, truthful
description of them. Ido not refer to the
sense of physical pain or discomfort which
always follows a debauch, but to his moral
conditions in the early morning, and in the
absence of iv fictitious excitement of convivi
ality. Let this be done conscientiously, and
let the yojuig man read over his own words
carefully, and endeavor to thoroughly realize
what he has described on paper, every time
he takes a dripk. I believe that most young
men can be controlled by the principal: actu
ated by a desire todo right, struggling against
the inherent weakness of human nature, they
would, in a short time, come to their conclu
sion that “the game is hot worth the candle,”
and in many cases eventually give up the
desire to indulge in so treacherous and delu
sive a relief from enui —so dangerous and
false means of excitement.
A Dog’s Funeral.
The Bardstown, Ivy., Record is credited
with the following remarkable story : “ A
curious incident of the sagacity and imita
tive habits of dogs came to our knowledge a
day or two ago. AYe warn our readers to be
prepared for an almost incredible story, but
it can be substantiated by affidavits from
several persons of the highest standing, mem
bers of the family in which it occurred, some
of whom are ladies. Previous to the war,
Gov. Charles A. AAHckliffe was an extensive
slave owner, and each one of his negroes
owned one or more dogs. In 1869 one of the
dogs, a spaniel, manifested symptoms of hy
drophobia, and was shot by Judge AVickliffe,
the Governor's son. Immediately after the
shooting all the dogs on the place collected
around the body of their dead companion,
and, after prolonged howling, prepared for a
funeral. “Old Bull,” the largest and fiercest
dog, took the body in his mouth, and started
for the woods south of the Governor’s resi
dence. The other dogs formed into a regu
lar procession, end in single file followed the
body to the woods. They selected a tree
just outside of the fence, and at the foot of it
dug a grave, in which “Old Bull” deposited
the body, and all the dogs joined in covering
with eartli the remains. After the grave had
been filled, all united in more howling, which
was kept up some ten or fifteen minutes,
when they dispersed.”
The other day a Detroit husband was read
ing in a newspaper that the premonitory
symptoms of insanity were a wild look, flush
ed face, thick speech, and so forth, and he
handed it to his wife and remarked : “ Mary,
if I ever come home looking that way you’ll
know what it means, and you’ll know what
todo.” “ Y'es, darling,” she softly replied,
as she laid the paper down, “ I’ll have an
emetic and a club waiting for you.”
Is it any proof that logic has legs because
it always stands to reason.
Advertisement Brain Printing.
If to your business pocket you’d be wise;
To bed, and fisc eftfly And Advertise {
For though When an “ad” is seen the flfsttirtlc
One doesn’t “ quite see it”—in Irish sublime j
And next when under our notice it comes
AVe greet it with “ pish !” sundry “ hfths 1” and
“ hums!’’
And even the third time call it a “ bore
Next grimly fancy we’ve seen it before.
And the fifth half read, and cry out, “ AAHinl
stuff!”
The sixth go through it and cut up quite rough j
And the seventh greet it with yawns And
“ pshaws !”
And on the eighth arc near flinging it out of doors j
Yet on the ninth we wonder if ’tis true or not,
And on the tenth imagine it not all “ rot!”
On the eleventh we think we’ll ask and know,
And next we murmur, “ it may be so !”
And thirteen comes with, “ It’s really the case !’’
And fourteen says it “Must be in our place
The fifteenth. “ AYc’ll buy it as soon as we can.”
On the sixteenth we take the address of the man ;
And so go on till we buy. at time the “score/’
And use that advertised article “evermore.”
—London Stationer.
Gen. Lee on Getting Ready for Breakfast.
During the late war, while the army of
Northern Virginia was encamped around
Orange Court House, Gen. Lee called upon
Mr. Joseph Iliden, and asked if Mr. lliden
eon Id entertain two young ladies at his house,
which was situated just outside the village.
The General said he wished to have these
young ladies near him for awhile, that he
might have the privilege of visiting them oc
casionally.
“ Are they your daughters, General ?” ask
ed Mr. Iliden. “No; no daughters, but
nieces, though I feel very much as if they
were my daughters,” said General Lee. Mr.
Iliden readily consented to entertain the
young ladies to the best of his ability ; and
in a few days they were at home at “ Mont
pelozo.”
Of course, they received much attention
from army officers, and at night the parlor
was full of company to a late hour. One day
General Lee met Mr. Hidcn on the street,
and asked, “ How are the voung ladies get
ting on ?” Air. Iliden replied that they Were
quite well, and seemed to he enjoying their
visit. “I am afraid they give Mrs. Iliden a
good deal of trouble.” said the General.—
“ Not at all,” said Mr. Iliden. “ They have
a good deal of company, and are kept up late
at night entertaining their visitors, but I have
noticed that no matter how late they sit up
at night they are always ready for breakfast
when the bell rings, and never keep the table
waiting for them.” “Oh, yes !” said General
Lee ; “ they bare been well raised.”—Richmond
Dispatqh.
A Minister who Couldn’t Stand the Test.
A well-known clergyman was crossing Lake
Erie many years ago upon one of the lake
steamers, and seeing a small lad at the wheel
steering the boat, accosted him as follows :
“ My son, you appear to be a small boy to
steer so large a boat.”
“ Yes, sir; but you see that I can do It,
though,”
“Do yott think you understand your busi
ness, m}' sou ?”
“ Yes, sir; I think I do.”
“ Cun you box the compass
“ Yes, sir.”
“ Let me hear }'ou box it.”
Boy boxes the compass.
“ Well, really, you can do it t Let me hear
3'ou box it backward.”
Bo}' Imixcs it backward.
“ I declare, m3’ son, }ou do seem to under*
stand 3’our business.”
The bo}' now took his turn at question
asking.
“ Pra} T ANARUS, sir, what may be your business ?”
“ I am a minister of the GospeL”
“ Do understand your business ?”
“ I think I do, my son.”
“Can you sa} r the Lord's Prayer?”
“ Yes.”
“ Say it.”
Clergyman repeats the Lord’s Prayer.
“ Well, realty, you do know it! Now say
it backward.”
Clerg}’man sa}'s he cannot do it.
“ lTm cannot do it, eh ? Now you see I
understand my business a great deal better
than you do yours.”
Clergyman acknowledged himself beaten,
and retired.— Providence Journal.
npTetroleum oils are now preferred by'
many manufacturers for dressing leather, and
their use for this purpose is largely increas
ing. It it said that by the use of this article
many advantages are gained, among which
are—that the leather can be reduced to the
desired pliable condition more rapidty and
at less cost than with pure animal oils; and
that the coloring of tanned leather is by r this
means effected more expeditiously' and
thoroughly than by the old process, the finish
ed product being also superior, both in flexi
bility and toughness, to leather tanned and
curried with the usual oils, The heavier
gravities of petroleum, such as paraffine and
steam-reduced oils, are the only ones used in
this way'.
New Tanning Process. —lowa will soon
be independent of oak forests and hemlock
swamps, inasmuch as anew process of tan
ning leather by using tanning plant, instead
of bark, is said to have been full} 7 tested
and proved successful. One ton of the
plant will tan four hundred pounds of
leather, which is said to be more than
the same weight of bark will do. Bark costs
about twelve dollars per ton, the plant not
to exceed five dollars, the latter producing
the best quality of leather. The plant grows
wild in that State. A single tract in the
western part contains over fiften thousand
acres, which, it is estimated, will produce
three tons to the acre. The process of tan
ning is the same as with bark, except that
the juice of the plant, produced by straining,
is used instead of bark.
$ TERMS, $2.00 EER ANNUM.
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
Thd next elections occur in Ohio and lovn,
Octobef 12.
Germany htts nearly 1,000.000 fnore women
than tneil.
The Emperor Alexander of Russia, is paid
$25,000 per da)'.-
lit 22 years Ireland lifts sent 2,520,000 em*
igrants to this country,
Patronize home first if VOit want to prospef
yotirself and see others prosper,
A Pennsylvania cantp*tneeting was recent*
ly broken np l>3' six poor little skdnks,
The woman sitflragists lmVe adopted the
following War*a crj’: No ballot, no babiesi
Eight hundred dogs is ft good many dogs,
but the NUltan of Turkey finds himself own*
in" that many.
DeKalb county (Tcnn.) hflfl a CentffUftfUtl
of still Vigorous appetite, ller name is Mrs,
Clark, and she is 107 years old.
A Tennessean has been sent to the asylum J
he made himself crafty by the excessive Use
of tobacco.
The tariff on telegraph messages between
this country and England has been reduced
to twenty-five cents per word;
An old lady, Mrs. Straw, of Warner, N. 11.,
aged 101, is knitting a pair of White worsted
socks for A. T. Stewart.
In Brooklyn, there are two hundred and
twenty-five churches, aggregate expen
diture for music is said to be, annually, ovef
$171,850.
A resident of Rockport, Mass,, lives In A
house 150 3 r ears old, owns a counterpane
which is 250 years old, and is himself 90
years old,
There are said to be onl3’ two men m Geof*
gia who are worth $1,000,000. One of these
resides iii HaVailnah and the other in North*
east Georgia;
Chicago, during the 3*ear endiflg July 1#
drank 15,000,000 glasses of lager beer— quite
enough to have put out the great fire if proper*
ly applied;
A Presbyterian University for the North*
west is projected. Its location will be Lake
Forest, near Chicago. Dr. K. W. Patterson
is spoken of for the presidency. The colle
giate department was to open Sept. 25.
A party of naturalists were very much
amused one day last week by the spectacle
of a Wisconsin potatoe bug jerking an ox
cart around a ten-acre lot in order to get up
an appetite.
The Prismoidat or one rail railroad is com
pleted from Houston to San Antonio, Texas,
and is now open for traffic. Japan is build
ing one of the same kind that will be 500
miles long.
A bull-beaded newspaper Irreverently
remarks that the modern dress mania out*
strips understanding. It does nothing of
the sort. The girls pay more attention to
their stockings than they ever did,
A dog in Indianapolis Is wrestling with
genuine fever and ague, lief has chills every
morning, promptly, at 10 o’clock, and several
physicians are watching the progress of the
disease upon the canine patient.
One of the Methodist Episcopal churches
in Troy, N. Y., will hereafter use grape jelly
dissolved in water for communion purposes.
A committee of three ladies of the church has
been appointed to make the jelly.
Commodore Perry's flagship, the Lawrence,
which was sunk in Erie (Pa.) harbor sixty*
two years ago, was raised last Monday, and
the bottom fonnd to be in a good state of
preservation. She will be exhibited at the
Centennial.
If every young man in Georgia would con
tribute his pocket pistol to the centennial
fund it would make a respectable strati even
if sold for old iron. Then if they did not
walk the earth with lighter hearts, they would
be a trifle less heavy at the waistband.
The sugar and molasses crop of Louisiana
last year, was one of the largest on record—
-116,867 hogsheads of sugar, and! 111,516,828
gallons of molasses —and this year's crop is
expected to exceed it. A similar report is
made of this year's rice crop, which is esti
mated at 104,9G3 barrels, anil cotton’will pro
bably do as well.
All the preparations are maturing for the
opening of the Vanderbilt University at
Nashville, Tenn., on the 3d of Oct. Piofes
sors Shipp, Safford and Lupton and the
Chancellor, Dr. Garland, are at Nashville.
Professors Lipscomb and Winchel! are expec
ted to arrive at the time of opening. The
University is the gift to the Methodist Epis
copal Church, South, of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Crawford cotint}*, Pa., has in operation 68
factories, producing 6,310,000 pounds of
cheese ; Erie County 22 factories, producing
2,610.000 pounds of cheese ; Mercer and Ve
nango counties 11 factories, producing 647,-
700 pounds of cheese; aggregating in the
four northwest counties 101 factories, pro
ducing 9,557,700 pounds of cheese. Of these
101 f& ‘.ories only five arc manufacturing
milk that has been in the least skimmed.
Two are regular creameries.
NUMBER 17.