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WILEY C. HOWARD. ROR*T S. HOWARD.
Howard a Howard.
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 ,
ATHEISTS, Gr-A.-,
KEEPS constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
comprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions
of Lillies' lint*. Ilonnets Ribbons,
Laces, Flowers, blovisi, Ac., which will be
sold at reasonable prices. Orders from the coun
try promptly tilled. Give her a call.
July 31st—3m.
Dr. w. s. wiwmu k.
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. Gm
Ra. Wll aaamsoa.
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
At Dr. Win. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
Athens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner,
tnd warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
tively CASH. JulylO-Gm.
T c. U ll.blNS A t 0.,
u • BROAD STREET, ATHENS, GA.,
DEALERS IN
STOVES, & cC.
(Opposite North-East Georgian Office.)
July 3d, 1875.
STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFE IIS OX. GA.,
JjEALKRS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
nes - New supplies constantly received.
t-heap tor Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June l> ]y
*’• WOFFORD, Attorney nt liiiw,
-v* HOMER, BANKS CO., (IA.,
"I practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
p. e prompt attention to all business entrusted to
1 are * fe?" Collecting claims a specialty.
June 19th, 1875. ly
U. O iklX
HARNESS MAKER, .JEFFERSON, GA.
on h " an, l good buggy and wagon harness always
Qon laU ' e P a iring same, bridles, saddles, Ac.,
( iu short notice, and cheap for cash.
JlUHil2— ly
I t sir,M VN
-p Ui’iugton, Ga. I . Jefferson, Ga.
P OVD Ac SHU Vy,
. attorn fas-a t-l aw.
tK„ P r *ctice together in the Superior Courts of
inn° l i U ! tlL ‘‘ s of Jackson and Walton.
June 12— \y
\\ *• Attorney s*t l.:nv,
p r ’ t * . JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
p..!5 es m ft R the Courts, "State aiul Federal,
kinds 1 /' t | au thorough attention given to all
count; e gal business in Jackson and adjoining
Juno 12, 1873
I'KNDEKGRASS & HANCOCK,
\\ 'bp respectfully ca q t j ie attention of the
Pnhlie to their elegant stock of
-Dry Goods of all KincJs,
tV\ Ah K u-OTiinti,
Bo LNK b’ASSIMKRES, IIATS, CAPS,
Trimin;!"* 1 S b°es; Ladies' Bonnets. Hats and
Ware <! S: bird ware. Hollow Ware, Earthen
°Pes ’Pi U) ° Paper, Pens, Inks, Knvel-
T e a .' :i n t our i' ea h Bacon, Lard, Sugar Coffee,
Usually f' U< j ‘ >atcnt Medicines, in fact everything
the tin,,. " Un< t in a General Store. Prices to suit
l* Jefferson. June 12, 1873. tf
WON’T UO HAKKFOOT!
li n "';; u * ant good Boots and Shoes, neat fits,
Fail on stock, t liesip. for CasliV
a n<l I toilet ornor °f Mrs. Venable's residence,
s ure, r-i* tcr b >r you than ahV one else,
G l2 2m] N, B. STARK.
Ihe People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Miscellaneous Mcdfeg.
The Boy in Church.
lie was playing at the gate as I went
pa?t, and I heard his father call out:
“ Boy, you want to gallop in here and get
ready for meeting!”
“ Shi!” briefly replied the lad.
“ Shi!” I’ll shi you, young man, if you
don t trot in here lively! You’d be as bad
as Jesse Pomeroy if left without a father for
three mouths!”
*f I would, hey?”
“No sass, young man ; it’s time you were
getting ready for church!”
The minister was giving out his text when
the boy and his father came in.
There was considerable improvement in
the lad’s looks. Ilis hair had been greased
and combed, he had on his Sunday jacket, and
there was a religious look in his eyes as he
fell into the pew. , .
I ought to have listened closely to the
sermon, but I did not. The boy and his
father were in the pejy next ahead, and I
couldn’t help but watch him. I have my
opinion about forcing boys of ten or twelve
years to listen to sermons which not one
adult mind in five can fully grasp, and I
was willing to chance my theory on that
boy’s actions.
lie got along very well for the first ten
minuites. Then he asked his father what
time it was, and when the parent replied
with a warning shake of the head the boy
cast around him for something to interest
his mind. The preacher settled down to his
discourse and the boy settled down to his
plan of wearing away the coming hour. He
reached over and got hold of his father’s silk
hat, and was trying to remove the band,
when the parent took it away and bent over
and whispered:
“ Boy, if you don't pay attention to the
preacher, I’ll break your neck when we get
home!”
The lad fixed his eyes on the clergyman,
lie saw that the good man had auburn hair,
blue eyes, florid complexion, and was well
dressed, lie heard him make use of such
words as “fortuitous,” “unexampled,” and
“repellant,” and without being able to tell
whether they referred to anew kind of
string beans or the Gospel of Christian light,
he reached out and secured his father’s cane,
lie punched at several flies, crammed the
diver head into his mouth until lie turned
purple in the face, and finally reached over
and jabbed a woman under the left shoulder.
His father then grasped the cane, laid it
away, and win snored :
“ Y'oung man, I'll tan the hide off’n you
when v, c get home !*’
The words were intended to make the boy
pay strict attention to the balance of the
sermon. lie straightened tip, looked at the
peaeher again, and tried hard to understand
the discourse. The good man was trying to
explain the difference between theoretical
and practical Christianity, and in two min
utes the lad's eyes were fixed on the
deliers. lie counted the number of burners
over and over, and forgetting himself for an
instant he began to sing. Ilis father gave
him a kick and leaned over and whispered :
“Oh! boy, I’ll make yon hump the minute
we get into the house !” He knew he’d keep
word, but yet hoping to break the force of
the prospective “peeling” by being real good
for the next half hour, the boy faced the
clergyman again. He knit his brows and
plainly showed his determination to under
stand and interest himself in all that was
said. The good man was drawing a parallel,
and a dozen of the members were half aslcfep.
It was discouraging, and after two or three
minutes the boy got hold of a bit of paper,
wadded it up, stuffed it into his mouth, and
chewed it awhile, and then balancing the wad
on his thumb, he elevated it ten feet towards
the ceiliug.
The law of gravitation applies to pfper
wads as well as to iron weights. This one
came down in a short time, and, as luck
would have it, it struck the bald pate of the
half-asleep sexton. The victim gave a start
of alarm, whirled quickly around, and the
boy’s father pinched him savagely and whis
pered :
“Oh! I’ll fix you for this ! Just let me get
you home once !”
I couldn't see how the boy was to blame,
lie couldn't understand one word in ten of
the sermon ; lie saw a dozen men around him
asleep ; it was a hot day ; he was a nervous
boy and used to moving around, and his own
father had been gazing out of the window in
an absent way for a quarter of an hour. lib
made a last grand effort. He braced his
nerves, shut his teeth hard, and sat as erect
as anew hitching-post. The clergyman
seemed to look right at the boy as he used
twenty big words in succession, and the lad
gave it up. lie opened the pew door, and
was trying to entice a small dog to come in
when his father awoke and whispered:
“ You wait—oh, you just wait!”
The exercises closed just then, and the boy
walked home behind his parent to get a
dressing down for not having the mental cal
ibre of a full-grown man, and for not sitting
still and going to sleep like his father.
A Whistling Hired Hand,
An old farmer once said that he would
not have a hired man on his farm who did
not habitually whistle. He always hired
whistlers, saying he never knew a whistling
laborer to find fault with his food, his bed,
or complain of little extra work he was
asked to perform. Such a man was general
ly kind to children and to animals in his
care. He would whistle a chilled lamb into
warmth and life, and would bring in his hat
full of eggs from the barn without breaking
one of them. He found such a man was
careful about closing gates, putting up bars
and seeing that the nuts on his plough were
all properly tightened before he took it into
the field. He'never knew a whistling hired
man to kick or beat a cow, or run her to the
stable. He had noticed that the sheep he
fed in the yard and shed gathered around
him as he whistled without fear. He never
emplo}’ed a whistler who was not thoughtful
i and economical.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1875.
Love for Love.
Ragged, dirty, ugly. He had fallen in
the muddy gutter; his hands and face were
black; his mouth wide open, and sending
forth sounds not the mossmusical. A rough
hand lifted him up, and placed him against
the wall. There he stood, his tears making
little gutters down his begrimmed cheeks.
Men, as they passed, laughed at him, not
caring for a moment to stop and inquire if
he were really hurt. Boys halted a moment
to jeer and load him with their insults. Poor
boy ! he had not friend in the world that he
knew of. Certainly he did not deserve one ;
but if none but the deserving had friends,
how many would be friendless !
A lady is passing; her kindness of heart
prompts her to stay and say a kind word to
the boys who are joking their companion
and laughing at his sorrow. Then she look
ed fixedly at the dirty, crouching lad against
the wall.
“Why John, is it you?”
He removes one blak fist from his eye and
looks up. He recognizes her. She has
taught him at the ragged school.
“O, ma’am, I’m so bad !”
She has him examined, then sent to the
hospital. Afterwards she visits him kindly
and frequently.
A year passes by.
There is a fire one night. A dwelling
house is in flames. The engine has not yet
arrived. The inmates cannot be rescued.
A boy looks on. Suddemly he shouts :
“Oh, she lives here !”
Then he climbs up the heated, falling
stairs. He fights against the suffocating
smoke. He hunts about till he finds what
he sought. She has fainted—perhaps dying.
No! he wiH save her. Five minutes of
agonizing suspense, and she is safe in the
cool air.
The by-standers are struck with the intre
pidity of the boy. He only walks away
muttering:
“She didn’t turn away from me when I
was hurt.”
Oh, friends, the stone looks very rough, it
may be a diamond.
Why She Didn’t Catch It.
One of our prominent merchants was in
formed a day or two since, when he went
home to tea. that there was a mouse in the
sitting room ; it had run in there during the
afternoon, and they had shut the door to keep
it in until someone came to catch it. “ Well,
why didn’t you catch it ?” said the gentleman
to his wife as he started for the sitting-room,
banging the door pretty sharply behind him.
The ladies—there were two or three callers
present—waited in breathless silence, and
were soon startled by a yell that sent the
lady of the house into a swoon and one of the
callers to the rescue.. Opening the door, there
was the gentleman with his pants half off,
both hands grasping the antipodes of the
small of his back, and he executing a Modoc
war dance in the middle of the room. The
lady said: “What is it?” The gentleman
said : “ You clear out, and send my wife J”
Soon as cold water and camphor had revived
her, the lady of the house went in and quiet
was soon restored. Inquiry elicited the fact
that when the gentleman went in and discov
ered the mouse, he went for it at once, and
the mouse went up the leg of his pantaloons
and got in such a position that he could not
be shook out, and fearing he would bite as
well as scratch, he seized him with both hands
and then found it impossible to get his pants
off alone. When the mouse was finally re
moved, his wife quietly remarked: “Yon
see now, why I didn’t catch it.” The gentle
man said he did. —Fairbnlt Democrat.
A Dutch Victory.
A crowd of young chaps about town were
in one of the popular beer saloons yesterday
where they met a jolly old German, who often
gets thoroughly soaked in beer and is maudlin
funny.
“ Hello, Kaiserlicher, have you heard the
news ?” said one.
“ Nein ; vas ish dat ?”
“ The water-works are bursted !”
“ Vel, dot’B bad mit dem temberance bee
pies, don’d id, poys ?” [Laugh all round.]
“ l"es, and the rolling-mill's gone up !” said
another of the boys.
“ chnst don’t got skeered aboud dat;
it’s so heffy dot it goom down again, eh!”—
[A grand peal of laughter.]
“ And—and—the ice machine has explod
ed !” cried a third.
“Is dot bin pozzible ? Den dot’s bad,
midoud some misdake, and id don’d rain mid
out it pours—de vasser oud—de rolling mill
oud—no more ize unt all you young shack
asses broke oud of de shtable lot! Dot makes
me gry!”
And nobody thought it necessary to laugh
at this point. —Detroit Free Press.
Profanity.
We are emphatically in the age of pro
fanity, and it seems to us that we are on the
topmost current. One cannot go on the
streets anywhere without having his ears of
fended with the vilest words, and reverence
shocked by the most profane use of sacred
names. Nor does it come from the middle
aged alone, for it is a fact as alarming as
true, that the younger portion of the com
munity are most proficient in degrading lan
guage. Boys have an idea it is smart to
swear; that it makes them manly ; but there
never was a greater mistake in the world.
Men, even those swear themselves, are dis
gusted with profanity in a young man,
because they know how, of all bad habits,
this clings the most closely, and increases
with years. It is the most insidious of
habits, growing on so invisbly that almost
before one is aw are he becomes an accom
plished curser.
The Fear of God. — l have been young,
and now I am old, and I bear my testimony
that I have never found thorough, pervading,
enduring morality with any but such as fear
ed God—not in the modern sense, but in the
old childlike way. And only with such, too,
have I found a rejoicing in life—a hearty,
victorious cheerfulness of so distinguished a
kind that no other is to be compared with it.
i— Jacobi,
A Charming Story.
Someone tells this charming love story
in regard to the introduction of fine lace
weaving into Brussels : A poor young girl
named Gertrude was dying for love of a
young man whose wealth precluded all hopes
of marriage. One night, as she sat weeping,
a lady entered her cottage and, without
saying a word, placed in her lap a cushion,
with its bobbing filled with thread. The
lady then, with perfect silence, showed her
how to work the bobbins, and how to make
all sorts of delicate patterns and complicated
stitches. As daylight approached, the maid
en had learned the art, and the mysterious
visitress disappeared. The price of the
maiden’s lace soon made her rich, Qn ac
count of its valuable patterns, and she was
able to marry the object of her love. Many
years after, while living in luxury, with her
numerous family about her, she was startled
by the mysterious lady entering her com
fortable house—this time not silent, but
looking stern. She said : ‘Here you enjoy
peace and comfort, while without are famine
and trouble. I helped you ; you have not
helped your neighbors. The angels weep for
you and turn away their faces.’ So the next
day Gertrude went forth with her cushion
and bobbin in her hands. Going into the cot
tages, she offered to teach the art she had so
mysteriously learned. Yet after all it may
be doubted whether the art introduced by
the mysterious stranger and her pupil has
proved a blessing to their country women.
True, it has saved them from starving, but a
compassionate male traveller of our acquain
tance says that, after seeing their strained
eyes, intense looks and pinched features, he
regards laceweaving as a curse rather than a
blessing, and does not envy the heart of the
woman who, having seen and known as he
has, can consent to wear lace or in any way
to encourage its manufacture.
Valuable if True.
The Fincastle Herald has been informed
that a piece of iron hung in fruit trees will
effectually prevent the ravages of frost. The
informant states that the night before the
freeze in April last, that he hung several
pieces of old iron in ten of his peach trees,
and that the fruit was not killed, and that
those trees are now loaded with peaches, and
he thinks there will not be less than seventy
five bushels. The fruit of the remaining trees
(15 in number) in the orchard were all killed.
A piece of horse-shoe was hung in a cherry
tree in the same orchard and it was loaded
with fruit, whilst on three adjacent trees the
fruit was entirely killed, lie says the idea
originated with his mother, and that he, by
her instructions, when a boy, had done the
same thing frequently, with similar results.
A Great Corn Crop.
According to the September report of the
Agricultural Bureau at Washington, the
American corn ctop this year is the heaviest
one ever produced ; but there is some doubt
aliout saving it all, on account of bad weather
and the backwardness of the crop. The De
partment contends that the overflow of sum
mer did not diminish the crop in the bottom
so much as the wet weather benefited it on
the Uplands, and that the average yield per
acre is unusually high. This is unexpectedly
good news to people who buy corn.—Tele
graph and Messenger.
Renovation of Soils.— The Department
of Agriculture at Washington lias been
collecting information in regard to the
improvement of socalled “worn out” or
naturally poor soils. Says the report:
“Many examples are given of the renova
tion of worn am; apparently worthless soils,
and the increase of fertility in fresh but
unpromising lands. Fields that have been
cultivated exhaustively for twenty, and even
forty years, have been restored to original
productiveness, not by guanos and super
phosphates, at S6O to SBO per ton. but by
inexpensive local resources, the cheapest
and most reliable of which is found in
clovering. In one case, in Butler County,
Pa., a section of thin, gravelly land, on
which it was thought no one could secure a
decent living, came into the possession of
German emigrants at nominal rates. They
cleared off the brush, ploughed, cultivated,
turned under the green crops, saved every
fertilizing material available, never duplicat
ed a crop in five or six years* rotation, and
that tract is now a garden, and from worth
lessness lias advanced to the value of SIOO
per acre, and is yearly becoming more pro
ductive.”
An eminent lawyer of Boston tells the
following joke: A flashily dressed young
sprig entered Ben Butler’s office, and was
requested by Benjamin to be seated. The
request was complied with, and the young
man was asked to state his business. “ Well,
Mr. 8., what would be the first thing for me
to do in order to learn the profession ?” Ben
jamin fixed his weather eye upon the nobby
dressed young man and surveyed ffm from
his flashy necktie to his highly polished
boots, and exclaimed : “ The first thing 3 T ou
had better do would lie to go and roll in a
barn-yard.” An answer came as quick as
the suggestion in the following terse lan
guage : “If I should come and study two
years in your office wouldn’t it do just as
well ?*’
He was a lodger in an unpretentious Brook
lyn boarding-house, and for several days the
landlady’s daughter, a sentimental maiden of
thirty-five, had teased him to write something
in her album, lie at last consented, and
penned the following : “As the hostilit}’ to
dogs diminishes, the quality of hash improves.”
An explanation was added in these words :
“ I never could make rhymes, Miss Giles, and
when I write poetry I have to express it in
prose.”
It is no uncommon sight to see an Atlanta
man sailing across the street in his night
shirt to get his neighbor to help catch a bur
glar, while his wife remains in the house
quietly mashing the robber’s head with a
brass-mounted andiron.
Discoursing sweet music—blowing your
own trumpet.
SUNDAY READING.
The Ninety and Nine.
There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter of the fold ;
But one was out cu the hills away,
Far off from the gates of gold.
Away on the mountains wild and bare,
Away from the tender Shepherd’s care.
“ Lord, thou hast here thy ninety and nine ;
Are they not enough for thee?”
But the Shepherd made answer : “ This of mine
Has wandered away from me;
And although the road be rough and steep,
I go to the desert to find my sheep.”
But none of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters he crossed ;
Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed
through
’Ere he found his sheep that was lost.
Out in the desert he heard its cry,
Sick and helpless and ready to die.
“ Lord, whence arc those blood drops all the way
That mark out the mountain track ?”
“ Thev were shed for one who had gone astray,
’Ere the Shepherd could bring him back.”
“ Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn ?”
u They are pierced to-night by many a thorn.”
And all through the mountains, thunder riven ;
And up from the rocky steep,
There rose a cry to the gate of Heaven,
“ Rejoice ! I have found my sheep !”
And the angels echoed around the throne,
“ Rejoice ! for the Lord brings back his own !”
—San key's Revival Collection.
The Sort of Revival that is Needed.
We need a revival that is not only a revi
val of sounder scriptural preaching, but a
revival of true Christian living. We have
had quite a surfeit of the religion which lux
uriates in the devout fervors of the prayer
meeting and the camp ground, which sings
sweet hymns and applauds sweet sermons,
and then goes straight off to its money-grasp
ing and its pleasure seeking, and its pander
ings to self and sin. God forbid that we
speak lightly of true spiritual emotion. But
the Christianity which Christ demands is
something deeper than a song or sermon or
a sacrament. It is the holy and the humble
imitation of Himself.
The revival, then, which we need is a revi
val of the religion which keeps God’s com
mandments ; which tells the truth and sticks
to its promises ; which pays twenty shillings
to the pound ; which cares more for a good
character than a fine coat; which votes at
the ballot-box in the same direction that it
prays; which denies ungodly lusts, and which
can be trusted in every stress of temptation.
A revival which will sweeten our homes, and
chasten our press, and purif} l - our polities,
and cleanse our business and commerce from
roguery and rottenness, would be a boon
from heaven. A revival which will bring
not only a Bible knowledge but a Bible con
science to all is what the land is dying for.
The world’s sorest want to-day is more Christ
like men and women. The preaching it
needs is—more sermons in shoes.
Vacant Churches.
The Christian at Work has the following
concerning vacant churches:
We think that the reports concerning the
number of vacant churches is inaccurate. A
church is usually called vacant when it has
no pastor. But a church is really vacant
when it has a pastor who does not fill the
place. Much is said of the evil of frequent
changes in the pastorate. The opposite evil
of ministers staying too long in a place is as
great. There are ministers in charge where
the majority of the congregation desire them
to go. If any one begins procedure by which
to remove the overstayed clergyman, such
parishioner immediately becomes the object
of acrimony. Can it be that there is no waj r
of getting rid of a minister who ought to go,
unless it be by bringing charges of miscon
duct ? A clergyman may be pure and good,
and yet unfit for certain localities. We know
churches that have been afflicted for twenty
five years with a pastoral that they have
not been able to break. The clergyman, in
not having offended any of the laws of the
land, has maintained his position ; but npean
while all spiritual interests are languishing;
the young people have gone to other parishes,
and the church is in gradual decay. Nothing
can save it from extinction except the de
cease of the pastor ; but there is no prospect
of that, for the dominie has ceased hard study
and is preaching to the children the jTellow
covered manuscripts which were delivered
to their fathers. If a minister may have a
call to come, he may also have a call to go.
There are many instances all about us where
a church has a minister’s name attached to
it in ecclesiastical records, but the public
sentiment of the people long ago declared
the pulpit vacant.
Death.
We shall come down to the time when we
shall have but ten daj's left, then nine days,
eight days, seven days, six days, five days,
four days, three days, two days, one day.
Then hours; three hours, two hours, one hour.
Then only minutes left; five minutes, four
minutes, three minutes, two minutes, one
minute. Then only seconds left; three sec
onds, two seconds, one second! Gone!
The chapter of life ended ! The book closed !
The pulse at rest! The feet through with
the journe}’! The hands closed from all
work ! No word on the lip. No breath on
the nostril The muscles still. The lungs
still. The tongue still. The nerves still.
All still. You might put the stethoscope to
the breast, and hear no sound. You might
put a speaking trumpet to the ear, but not
break the deafness. No motion. No throb.
No life. Still! Still!
An English publisher has just issued the
“Smallest Bible in the World,” which is so
small that it may be sent through the English
book post for one penny. It is four and one
half inches by two and three-fourth inches,
and half an inch thick, and weighs 4 in limp
morocco, three and one-half ounces.
Anew branch of Methodism has been or
ganized in Northern New Jersey, under the
title of “ The United Methodist Church.”
The members hold their doctrine of immer
sion, and discard a discipline and all creed
save the New Testament. The new organi
zation at present numbers about eighty mem
bers, who are scattered over a large field.
\ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
I SIOO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
The hog crop of Kast Tennessee will be
small this year.
The estimated hog crop of Kentucky for
1875 numbers 1,700,000.
Selling produce of the farm after night is
creating quite a stir in lower Georgia.
Anything written or printed upon the side
of a postal card intended for the address sub
jects it to letter postage.
Anew church (Christian) is being built in
Augusta, which it is said will be the finest
church in Georgia.
The cattle disease is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in Madison, Henderson and Mc
nary counties, Tenn.
We have in the United States $166,000,000
in specie and $750,000,000 in paper money.
There are thirty-eight Agricultural Colleges
in the United States, 330 teachers, and 3,617
students.
There are 140,000 marriageable girls in
California. The precious products of the
State seem absolutety without limit.
The I loose of Representatives stands, 171
Democrats, 101 Republicans, 6 Independents,
and 6 to be elected in Mississippi.
British Columbia will send a flag-pole 140
feet long, composed of a single tree, to the
Centennial.
A gentleman in Nueces county, Texas, has
a field of sixty thousand acres within one
fence. He recently filled an order by tele
graph for twenty-six thousand beeves.
Out of 800 convicts in the Georgia peni
tentiary only one-tenth are white, the ma
jority being negro boys of ten and twelve.
In Bell county, Texas, there is a farm of
3,500 acres, which is enclosed by one fence
and cultivated by thirty-two owners, every
one of whom is unmarried.
A man seventy years old is to be hanged
at Cleburne, Texas, on the first Friday in Oc
tober. He has asked for three hours in which
to deliver a speech on the gallows.
It is stated that the Philadelphia confec
tioner who advertised “Centennial Kisses”
cant sell any. They are too old. 16-ialsare
preferred by men of taste.
A baby without a backbond’ was born in
Massachusetts the other day. If It is a boy
his destiny is settled alreadj-. He will be a
politician.
It is stated that about ninety per cent, of
the cigars used in this country are home
made, while most of them, bear mongrel
Spanish names for the deception of smokers..
A Pultney, N. Y., girl put in a good ten
hours’ work the other day. She nailed in
that time 900 grape boxes, driving 10,000
nails and handling 3,000 pfeces 6f wood.
The largest church in North Carolina has
just been erected at the Kails of Tar River,
by the Primitive Baptists. Its seating ca
pacity is two thousand, and it is built on the
site of the one that was burned by an incen
diary last year.
M. Robing, a French chemist, has notified
the Academy of Medicine, Paris, that we may
all live forever if we use enough lactic acid,
and recommends the extensive use of butter
milk. •
Miss Annie Wyatt, of Shady Dale, Jasper
county, Ga., has a wonderful pet pigeon which
alights on her piano while she is playing and,
goes through the evolutions of a waltz wifcEi
remarkable ease and grace.
It is claimed that the first camp-meetings
in America were held in 1767, by two Baptist
ministers, Rev. Samuel Harris and Rev.
Read, who preached in that part of Yirginoa.
lying between the Rappahannock and James
rivers.
The New York Democrats claim that their
ticket will be elected in November b3 r at least
75,000 majority, which would be a pretty
healthy handwriting on the wall to* show the
Rads what to expect in 1876.
On the body of Stanielau Morell. who* was
struck by lightning at Clay, Mo., recently,
was found the delicately traced ontlLaos of a
tree near which he was struck, every limb
and leaf being imaged in fine red lines on
the skin.
One of the most remarkable men of the
Alabama Constitutional Convention, Says the
Courier-Journal, is Col. Bethea. He is a
lawyer, but has had only ooe case in his life.
It was his first and his last. The case in
volved a large amonnt of property, and his
fee depended upon his success. lie won * his
fee was $60,000, and with this he gracefully
retired from the bar. A legal career so brief
and so brilliant has probably been the lot of
no other man since litigation began.
We find the following in tTie “ Southern
News” column of the Courier-Journal .- “ The
Governor of Georgia, asked for his opinion
of Beecher, replied: ‘lf ever there was a
fraud, if ever there was a hardened old repro
bate, then Beecher is the individual. That
man has kissed more of other men’s wives,
preached more lying sermons, and been guilty
of more diabolical ‘ true inwardness’ than any
man under the sun. He’s a regular snorter
on women, and no preacher can fool around
women and expect to go to heaven.' ”
NUMBER 18.