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„v THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ yOLUME I. EVERY SATURDAY, the Jackson 4'ounty Pullihing 1 Company. jrJFKRSOK, JACKSON CO., GA. v W. COR. Prni.lC SQUARE. UP-STAIRS. pppKf” *” : MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING and business EDITOR. terms OF SUBSCRIPTION. line copv 12 months ~ $2.00 U 6 “ 1.00 M u 3 “ 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. q ve Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) r r the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents or each subsequent insertion. I\]i Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, Kill be published TIU FORBID, and charged iccordingly. fy Business 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 tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases: Stakes, fw. Im. :t m. m. Io m. One $1 00 $2 50 StTOO $9 00 sl2 00 T WO ” 200 550 11 00 17 00 22 00 three 300 075 10 00 21 00 30 00 Four 400 950 IS 75 25 00 30 00 Five 500 10 25 21 50 29 00 42 00 Six 000 12 00 24 25 33 00 48 00 Twelve 11 00 21 75 40 00 55 00 81 00 Kightecn 15 00 30 50 54 50 75 50 109 00 Twenty two 17 (Mi 34 00 00 00 90 00 125 00 jks“A square is one inch, or about 100 words of (he type used in our advertising columns. Marriage and obituary notices not exceeding ten lines, will be published free; but for all over ten line*, regular advertising rates will be charged. Transient advertisements and announcing can didates for office will be Cash. Address all communications for publication and ill letters on business to MALCOM STAFFORD, Managing and Haziness Editor. Wessiimaf <£ business Cards. WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB'T S. HOWARD. TTOWARD A' HOWARD. 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. A Kll.H \\. \ V|I . ATTORXEYS-AT-LAW. thp,- U’letiee together in the Superior Courts of o f Jackson and AValton. \\ Attorney sit l.vv, 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.