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THE FOREST NEWS. cV THE JACKSON COUNTY ) publishing COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. & §ami *** 9 7 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, ( l, c Jackson County l*nl>liliing W 1 Company. JEFFERSON JACKSON C 0. 3 GA. .„ c V W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. =ff~ HALCOM STAFFORD?- O IT MANAGING and business editor. ~ :: TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 1 nnctopv 12 month* ;......$2.00 , ” B " I*oo .. X 3 “ 5 bo every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex- L copy of the paper will be given. — RATES OF ADVERTISING. ,_i ] ; OSH Dollar per square- (of b6n lines or less) I for the tirst insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. yjp. \ p Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of-insertions marked thereon, I w in be published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. or Professional Cards, of six lines or less Seven Dollars per annum; and where theyvdo not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Advertising. 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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.