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LEY C. HOWARD. KOB'T S. HOWARD.
lIOVAKD V HOWIRD,
L ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Ga.
Will practice together in all the Courts of -Taek
i and adjacent counties, except the Court of
dmary nf Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
MRS. T. A. ADAMS,
Broad Street, one door above National Bank,
ATHENS, GrJN.,
r KEPS constantly on hand an extensive stock
L of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
inprising. in part, the latest styles and fashions
l<ndie' lints Konnets Kililions,
aces Flowers, Glares Ac., which will be
kat reasonable prices. Orders from the e*mn-
F promptly* tilled. Give her a call. /
July 31st—3m.
\R. W. S. ALEV AADI.R.
J SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jacksou Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. 6m
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+ WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
At Dr. \\ m. King's Drug Store, Deupree Block,
, ns ' t ia. All work done in a superior manner,
w warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
,flv OASH. Julyll)-6m.
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• BROAD STREET, ATHENS, GA.,
DEALERS IN
TOVES, TIN-WARE, ScC
[Opposite A orth-East Georgian Office.)
J iy3d, 1875.
STANLEY A PINSON,
JKFFERSOX, GA.,
)E ALEI4S in Dry Goods and Family Groee
n>nesV ” evv supplies constantly received.
tuMfti L 4 all and examine their stock.
{ r * WOFI'OKW, Attorncv at knv,
homer, banks co., ga.,
• in nil the adjoining Counties, and
s ~^ 0In i )l 'Attention to all business entrusted to
j u r °.\ Collecting claiyis a specialty.
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■Nti T KS ‘ SMAR ER, JEFFERSON, GA.
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■action; PERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
[■Prompt'! a ] lke Courts, State and Federal.
of j j i orou S* l attention given to all
Booties business in Jackson and adjoining
8~-—June 12, 1875
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B* Dnht; V Oall the attention of the
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SoM u , are ' Hollow Ware, Earthen
B ' C Pens ’ Inks ’ Envel -
B •dlkiml' . liaco, h Card. Sugar Coffee,
■'‘ally f uu . ut cnt Medicines, in fact everything
lna General Store. Prices to suit
■ Jefferson. Junel‘2, 1875. tf
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J N. B. STAKttt
THE FOREST NEWS.
r,lc I>ew I ,lc Bieir own ltnlers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Iftisceffancous TRolfeij.
GENEALOGY OF CRIME.
Margaret, the Mother of Criminals—A Family
of Criminals — 'l%e Descendants of one Wo
man—Male Thieves and Female Prostitutes
—A Remarkable Revelation.
The interesting facts first stated in these
columns in regard to “ Margaret, the mother
of criminals,” have attracted the attention of
the United States Commissioner of Educa
tion, who has made a careful investigation of
them. From the information furnished to
the bureau by the member of the prison as
sociation, Mr. Dngdale, who first unraveled
the genealogy of this guilty family, it appears
that his attention was originally called to
them by discovering the following interesting
band of relatives in the Ulster county jail:
The oldest, a man of fifty-five years of age,
awaiting trial for receiving stolen goods ; hi 9
daughter, aged eighteen, (subsequently arrest
ed as a prostitute,) held as a witness against
him ; her uncle, aged forty-two, for burglar}'
in the first degree ; the illegitimate daughter
of the latter’s wife, aged twelve years, upon
which child he had attempted violence, and
who was awaiting sentence for vagrancy, and
two brothers, aged nineteen and fourteen, ac
cused of an assault with intent to kill, they
having pushed a child over a cliff, and nearly
killed him by the fall. These were all blood
relatives, and, on carefully tracing back their
genealogy, proved to be the descendants,
among numerous others, of one unfortunate
little vagrant and her sisters. The ancestral
source of this line of paupers and criminals
is described as “ the forest covered margin of
five lakes, so rocky as to be in some parts in
accessible,” in Ulster county. Here a colony
of rural rovers and vagrants lived, crowded
in small log or stone houses, all ages and
sexes, delations and strangers living and
sleeping together in the same room, much as
do our shanty or tenement population in some
portions of this city. No privacy was pos
sible. and purity or modesty was unknown.
The occupation of these people were fishing,
shooting, fighting and stealing. Owing to
‘heir out-door life they grew up, unlike our
criminal population, very wiry and robust,
and they were enabled to continue for six
generations their genealogy of crime.
The attention of the benevolent was fre
luentlv drawn to the ragged little vagrant,
Margaret, and her miserable sisters. The
kind hearted here and there gave them bread
or supplied them with clothing in the winter.
But the majority of persons did not consider
themselves responsible for the wretched con
dition of this little waif, and made no efforts
to reform or educate her or her sisters. She
grew up, as hundreds of such children are
growing up through the State, without known
parents, (for in all probability she or her sis
ters were illegitimate children,) without
friends or education, or being reached by any
religious influence. The vagrant girl grew
up to a wicked womanhood, and died shortly
after 1825, aged, it is believed, about sixty
five years. The family line of her and her
sisters has been carefully searched, and 834
persons are distinctly traced, but it is believ
ed that the full number of descendants is at
least 1.200. The number whose fortunes are
mostclearly known amount to 709 —327 males
and 319 females; remainder unknown. Of
these, 106 were illegitimate, 164 prostitutes,
17 keepers of houses of ill-fame, 142 receiv
ing out-door relief, 64 paupers in alms houses,
and 76 were criminals. The number of in
dictable offenses committed by them is 114 ;
the number of years’ imprisonment they have
suffered, 116; the number of years’ individ
ual relief, 734. And of the whole 709, only
22 ever acquired any property, and of these
8 lost what they gained.
When it is remembered that these figures
are all derived from the public records, and
that they only express probably a fraction of
the offenses really committed by this unhap
py family, the picture becomes truly appall
ing. In examining more closely the offenses
of this guilty stock, it will be found that
among the females the especial crime is
licentiousness, and among the males theft and
violence. The former would arise naturally
from the promiscuous habits of living of the
females. In our own house of refuge there
have been six children from three families in
the sixth generation from Margaret—count
ing herself as the first. Fifty percent, of all
her direct female descendants became pros
titutes, and of the whole stock, from the age
of twelve upward, fifty per cent, are found to
be of disreputable character. Murder, or .at
tempts to murder, appear among the males in
evwry generation except the sixth, where the
children are not older than seven
Forgery is found but once on their records.
Theft appears everywhere. As Mr. Dngdale
well observes, the same general conditions of
parentage and training produce prostitution
in the one sex and theft in the other. The
tendency of crime is in the direction of least
resistance. Each sex without moral training
chooses the easiest way of making a living.
The trait at the foundation of the true crim
inal is “ the lack of the power of continuous
effort.” Early want of training and early ex
amples, as well as inheritance, produce this
in both sexes, and each shows the result in
analogous forms. It is to be hoped that this
terrible lesson in the inheritance of crime,
furnished bj T the New York prison associa
tion, will be carefully studied by all our vil
lage and city authorities and superintendents
of our alms houses. A little care and ex
pense may turn a genealogy of guilt into a
family line of virtue and industry.— Neio York
Times.
An Indiana girl wanted to see if her lover
really loved her, and she got a boy to yell
“mad dog!” as they were walking out. The
lover flew over a femce and left her to be
chewed up. and she went right away and
married a store clerk.
The question is again agitated, “Shall
women be permitted to pass the hat in
our churches.” Granted that it is her right,
but we must protest. It is in some measure
a financial question. We are giving two
thirds of our salary to the churches now, and
does a generous public want us to starve to
death ?— Rochester Democrat.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1875.
The Queen of Vines.
IIOW TIIE GREAT SANTA BARBARA VINE IS SEC
TIONIZED AND BONED —ITS DIMENSIONS, ETC.
The great queen of vines arrived in this
city, per steamer Ancon, on Wednesday even
ing, en route for the Centennial Exhibition at
Philadelphia. It is contained in seven large
boxes, weighing fifteen tons.
At a meeting of the citizens of Santa Bar
bara, held at Fibbit’s Hall, September 9£h,
1875, on the removal of the big grape vine,
there was adopted the following statement and
resolution :
I His famous vine is without doubt the
largest in the world. The celebrated vine
at Hampton Court, England, grown under
glass, is nine inches in diameter three feet
from the ground. This vine is fourteen
inches in diameter three feet from the ground,
and nearer to the ground has a measurement
of eighteen inches in diameter, or fifty six
inches in circumference, while its foliage has
long covered a space equal to 10,000 square
feet. The Hampton Court vine produces an
nually from 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of grapes.
The product of this vine, as estimated by Dr.
Ord, now one of the Sate Commissioners to
the Centennial, Judge Iluse and others, has
often annually reached the immense number
of 7,500 clusters of an average weight of one
and one-half pounds each or nearly 12,000
pounds. It is of the variety known as the
Mission grape, and was planted by Dona
Maria Marceliua de Dominguez, at the birth
of a child, according to the custom of the
country. Its age is between 50 and 60 years.
For several years it has shown evident signs
ol decaying vigor, and has now been dug up)
sectionized and boxed (after weeks of labor,
for removal to the East. ". In view of this re
moval, be it
Resolved , That we feel the less regret at
its removal from the fact that there remains
upon nearly the same spot a daughter vine
which also outranks the Hampton Court vine,
being now 16 years old, and 16 inches in
diameter three feet from the ground, and
making growth at the rate of an inch in di
ameter annually, and having the last year
famished 8,000 to 10,000 pounds of grapes,
which were plucked and eaten by visitors
from August loth to January 26th. —San
Francisco Chronicle.
Singular Fate of a lacking Bird.
A mocking bird, an exquisite warbler,
owned by Colonel J. E. Elliott, of Jackson
ville, Florida, came to its death in a sin
gular manner one day lately. On that day.
alter the Colonel had listened to its melodi
ous notes for some time, he retired to his
room for the purpose of writing. Having
finished his labors lie again thought of His
pet, and went out on the piazza, intending
to feed it. Upon taking down the cage he
was shocked and grieved to find the unfortu
nate little songster lying on its back on the
bottom, its breast and neek (from which the
feathers had been plucked) all torn and
bleeding, and its head twisted completely
from its natural position. A lady who
resides in an adjoining house explained the
mystery. She, while sitting upon her piaz
za, noticed a bird very much resembling a
mocking bird flying around and occasionally
alighting upon the cage, as if wishing to
hold communication with the other. Sud
denly as ‘‘pet” came hear the bars, the stranger
dashed forwared his claws, and caught its
little victim by the breast, siezed the neck
with its strong bill, and suddenly lettng go
his hold on the cage, revolved around witli
lightning rapidity, by which means the poor
inmate’s neck was completely wrung as is a
fat chicken’s by a kitchen scullion. Both
the Colonel and his wife were very much
attached to little “Pet,” as they had named
it. The other bird belonged to a species
known as the “loggerhead,” and it is not a
very generally known fact that they invari
ably attack mocking birds when in their
vicinity, and always in the manner describ
ed above.
Crawling Into the New Eighty-One Ton Gun.
After the first shot, an extracting-rod broke
off inside the gun, and a small gunner volun
teered to go in after it. He was immediately
hoisted up by - his comrades, and rammed in
his head first, like so ranch ammunition, till
nothing was visible of him but the soles of
his boots. He had to go in five times before
he was able to tie a rope around the obstruc
tion and pull it out. It is supposed that the
new gun would probably carry a half-ton shot
seven or eight miles ; but though there are
already guns which can carry five or six
miles, something over two miles is the maxi
mum for practical purposes. So that the ca
pacity of the eighty-one ton gun in this way,
whatever may be its full extent, is not of
much consequence. It is expected that it
can pierce from eighteen to twenty inches of
iron-plating. Though the “Fraser” is, for
the present, the biggest gun in existence,
there are, it seems, guns of 100 and 110 tons
being made for the Italian and some other
foreign governments, and Sir W. Armstrong
has also in view a 150-tonner. Mr. Fraser,
however, is quite in the mood to keep pace
with the age, and looks forward to a 160-ton
monster which will fire a one-ton shot that at
a wide range will make a fissure equal to that
made the other day in the Vanguard by the
prow of the Iron Duke. —London Correspon
dence New York Times.
Seaside Dangers. —“ Come on now, Ned,”
cried a New York girl at Long Branch, the
other day, to a stripling lover at her side;
“ we’ve got clear of papa—now let’s take a
<tive.”
“Your father is an awful big and stout
man,” observed the youth.
“Oh, never mind that,” exclaimed the miss
petulantly; “let’s take a swim—-just see the
great waves.”
“Don’t you think it dangerous ?” anxious
ly inquired the lover, gazing up and down
the beach.
“Dangerous? No! There isn’t hardlv
any undertow at this point; it’s—”
“Oh, but it isn’t the undertow I’m afraid
of,” interrupted the young man.
“ Isn’t it ?’
“No; it’s your father’s toe!” And she
1 couldn’t get him to risk it.
The Farm and the City—Two Views.
An old farm-house, with meadows wide,
And sweet with clover on each side;
A bright-eyed boy, who looks from out
The door With woodbine wreathed about,
And wishes his one thought all day :
“ Oh ! if I could but fly away
From this dull spot the world to see,
llow happy, happy, happy,
How happy I should be .
Amid the city’s constant din !
A man who round the world has been,
Who, ’mid the tumult and the throng,
Is thinking, thinking all day long :
“ Oh ! could I trace once more
The field path to the farm-house door,
The old, green meadow could I sec,
How happy, happy, happy.
How happy I should be !”
A Wife’s Fatal Error.
Matthew Walpole, a prominent citizen of
Groton, New York, and well known as a
successful hotel proprietor, came to his
death on Saturday under the most painful
circumstances. It seems that he had not
been feeling well for several days, and yes
terday laid down on a sofa at his residence
and requested his wife to prepare him a dose
of salts. She took a package from a shelf
in a closet, where she kept salts and other
household remedies, and poured out a large
dose of the contents, and, dissolving it in
cider, gave it to her husband, supposing it
to be epsom salts. Mr. Walpole drank the
entire dose, and, remarking to his wife that it
had a peculiar taste, was almost instantly
seized with a terrible burning in the stomach.
This was followed by severe convulsions
and vomiting of blood and pieces of flesh.
In his agony Mr. Walpole ran shrieking
about the room and rolled in convulsions
over the floor, and constantly crying for
water. His wife offered him water, but he
could not drink.. Mrs. Walpole at once
dispatched a messenger for Dr. Weaver, but
before he arrived Mr. Walpole died in the
most intense agony. No medical aid could
have given him the slightest relief, however,
as an examination by the physician revealed
the fact that the unfortunate man had drank
oxalic acid in sufficient quantity to kill a
hundred men. llis intestines and stomach
were literally eaten up entire. The acid
had been brought into the house to be used
in some cleansing operations, and a servant
had placed the deadly stuff, unknown to
Mrs. Walpole, on the shelf with her collec
tion of medicines.
The Champion Snake Story.
While out hunting on last Tuesday, Mr.
Richard lines discovered a large cave in the
side of a hill, under a rock, and while oppo
site, heard the squealings of pigs inside. lie
stepped close to the mouth of the cave to in
vestigate the matter, and to his horror saw
protruding the head of an immense rattle
snake with a pig in its mouth. He summon
ed a number of neighbors with guns and
pitchforks, who built a large fire in the mouth
of the cave in order to drive the snakes out.
fn about an hour they commenced pouring
out over the burning coals. As they ap
proached in sight the parties fired upon them
from the top of the cliff. They continued to
pour out until the surrounding woods, for
twenty yards square, was literally covered
with dead and live snakes. They killed three
hundred and ten, but many made their es
cape. THe largest, one killed—a male—was
ten feet long, and measured around the body
two, and a half feet. The next largest—a fe
male—was seven feet long, and measured one
foot around the body. The largest snakes
have been preserved in alcohol and will be
on exhibition at our Fair free of charge.—
The snake referred to had one hundred and
ten rattles. The cave was literally filled with
the heads and bones of sheep, pigs, &c., which
had been captured from the mwrounding coun
try.—Oivensbord’ (Kg.) Shield.
Baby’s Weight.
A doctor of France has invented a machine
by means of which an over-anxious mother
may assure herself from day to da}% or even
from hour to hour, tiiat the baby is doing sat
isfactorily as regards its increase of weight.
It consists of an ordinary cradle, to suit the
taste, fitted with a balance underneath which
will tell the exact weight of the cradle and its
contents, without any need of disturbing the
child. It is said that after two complete days
of life a child weighs 4 ounces less than at
birth. When a wilbk old, it will be the same
weight as at birth. From seven days to five
months the average increase should be three
quarters of an ounce daily. At 5 months the
weight should be double that at birth. At 16
months the weight should be double that at 5
months. Of course, infants vary from time
to time, and each individual has a rule of its
own ; the great point is that growth ought to
be constant.
Toe Much Music.
It takes a woman to repulse a traveling
agent sometimes. In a neighboring village,
the other day, a man called on Mr. C. at his
place of business and wanted to sell him a
parlor organ. Mr. C., not wishing to buy, to
get rid of him referred him to his wife. On
the man’s making his business known to the
lady, she asked him if Mr. C. sent him to her.
“ Yes, ma’am,” he replied. “ Well, sir,” said
Mrs. C., “you just go back and tell him that
until he can furnish me with something be
side mackerel to eat I can make all the music
that is necessary around this house.” The
agent concluded he couldn’t sell an organ
there.
A Wise Conscience.
“My son wouldn’t steal peaches from Mr.
Gammon’s orchard, I hope ?”
“No, ma, I wasn’t in that crowd the other
night.”
“ That’s right, my boy. Keep out of bad
company and you’ll never do wrong. Let
your conscience be your guide in all things,”
and the fond mother patted her son approv
ingly on the head and went about her duties
with a light heart.
Left to himself, the noble boy soliloquized :
“You don’t catch me foolin’ around old
Gammon’s. My conscience can guide me to
lots better orchards than his, where there ain’t
no dog, nuther.” —Missouri Brunswicker.
What this country really needs Is a good
live cent cigar.
Legislation Needed.
Under this head the Columbus Enquirer
makes the following timely and sensible
suggestions:
The result of the trials of the negroes
arrested in Washington and other counties
for conspiracy to get up an insurrection,
proves the fidelity and impartiality with
which law is administered in Georgia. Even
the bitterest Radical presses of the North
compliment Judge Johnson and the juries
for the sternness with which, under circum
stances well calculated to bias and irritate
them, they adhered to the letter of the law
governing the case. They did their duty
manfully. But it by no means follows that
the laws do not need amendment to prevent
a repetition of such disturbances. There
was abundant evidence to show that such a
conspiracy was contemplated, if not fully
organized and made criminal by an attempt
to carry it into execution. Is it best always
to wait until overt acts of murder, arson or
robbery arc committed, before punishing
those who conspire for such deeds? We
think that ordinary prudence dictates n neg
ative answer. Suppose that the prisoners in
this case had been white men, and that they
had beeu tried in a Federal court for such a
conspiracy as the enforcement act under
takes to punish. Does not every one know
tiiat the evidence adduced would have been
considered amply sufficient to convict them?
That law raises the presumption of guilt
when unlawful combinations are Droved, and
punishes men upon that presumption with
barbarous cruelly. Under a State law em
bodying the provisions of the Enforcement
act as to unlawful conspiracies, there would
be no difficulty in convicting and punishing
persons guilty of such secret combinations
and threats as those proven upon prisoners
acquitted in Washington and Johnson
counties. If we remember rightly', a bill
framing a State law embodying the provision
of the Enforcement act of Congress was in
troduced in the Legislature of Georgia and
there defeated. It would have covered the
late negro consipracy, and hoisted the Radi
cals “with their own petard.” Perhaps the
Georgia Legislature, at its next session,
may conclude that what is good enough (or
bad enough) law to punish the white man
ought al o to be law sufficient to punish the
negro, and may enact accordingly. Another
particular in which the laws appear to be
defective or insufficient, is in the conviction
and punishment of persos who attempt to
throw railroad cars from the track. A more
atrocious crime, or one that, is likely to
prove more disastrous to human life, cannot
well be conceived. There ought to be no
escape from the gallows for any one who
attempts it, whether successfully or not.
Macon gentleman who is partial to
pets, purchased a squirrel from a hoy some
time since. The squirrel was put in a cage,
in the gentleman's room, and in a few days
gave birth to a litter of three young ones.
The young were nursed by the squirrel with
all a mother’s assiduity and fondness, and
apparently throve well. Like other animals
of the kin .1, they were born blind. At the
end of the usual nine days their eyes were
not opened. At the end of thirty days they
were as blind as they were born, and it was
not until the end of the forty-second day
that there was of their eves being
opened, and their optics were not fully open
ed until the forty-fifth day. This seemed to
be rather an unusual occurrence, as it is gen
erally understood that animals which are born
blind, are able to see in about nine days. It
is possible, however, that this is the usual
ease with squirrels, and is but another fea
ture in the wise manner in which nature
adapts things to the circumstances by which
they are surrounded. Squirrels are usually
produced among the branches of the tallest
forest trees, and if their eyes were opened
before they were old enough to take some
care of themselves, in all probability they
would fall to the ground and be killed.—
Telegraph <£ Messenger. .
The Question of the Day.— “ Sir,” said
Mr. Magruder, addressing Mr. MacgufTm at
the boarding-house dinner-table, do you in
cline to favor the theory of contraction or of
expansion ?” “If,” said Mr. Macguffin,paus
ing in a desperate struggle to cut the small
piece of tough meat that had been set before
him in response to his order for roast beef,
“if you refer to money, sir, I unhesitatingly
give in my adherence to contraction, but if
you refer to the bill of fare in this, boarding
house, them sir, I am heart and soul for ex
pansion.”
“ Don't you know the prisoner, Mr. Jones?”
“ Yes, to the bone.” “ What is his character?'”
“ Didn’t know he had any.” “ Does he live
near yon ?” “So near that he has spent only
five shillings for firewood in eight years/”
‘Did ever he come in collision with you in
any matter ?” -“Only once, and then he was
drunk and mistook roe for a lamp post.”
From what you know of him, would you be
lieve him under oath ?* “That depends up
on circumstances. If he was so much intox
icated that he did not know what he was say
ing, I would ; if not, I would not.”
Unreasonable Grief. —The husband and
wife had arranged that when one was drunk
the other should work, thus keeping on every
other day. But once John kept drunk for
three days, and came home in- distress.—
“ And what are you crying about ?’” asked his
helpmate. “Oh, I feel so unhappy.” cried
John. “Unhappy? and you’ve been drunk
while I've been working ever since day be
fore yesterday. Do you expect to beau
angel ?”—Liverpool Mercury.
$ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM,
( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
G-LEANING-S.
Nebraska has produced a cucumber 5 feet
8 inches in length.
The Buffalo Courier prophesies a Demo
cratic victory in New York of 70,000.
The greatest depth of the Pacific Ocean, as
found by the British ship Challenger, was
about five miles.
Twelve Baptist churches, in Boston and
its suburbs, are reported to be without pas
tors.
The leather business of the United States
represents a capital of over seventy million
dollars.
Mrs. Clemson, the last surviving child of
John C. Calhoun, died last week, at Pendle
ton, South. Carolina.
The agricultural products of Colorado is
estimated at about five million dollars, or
double that of last year.
The next session of the Odd Fellows’ grand
lodge of the United States will be held at
Philadelphia during the Centennial season.
The Austin, Texas, Gazette says that three
fourths of all the cotton raised in that State is
produced by white labor.
Dead letters are not altogether dead mat
ter, after all. They yield the department
$4,000 a year as waste paper.-
A fatal disease has broken out among the
hogs of Southern Indiana, causing deaths in
large numbers.
Gov. Osborn snys that the surplus grain
raised in Kansas this year, if loaded in cars,
would make a train 1,000 miles long.
Boston has a tenement population of over
55,000 persons, representing 13,000 families,
crowded into 43,000 rooms in 2,638 houses.
A Nashville boy is said to have engraved
the Declaration of Independence in red ink
on a piece of parchment of the size of a sil
ver dollar.
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Fine Ohio wool was offered in Philadelphia
the other da}’at forty-four omits per pound,
the lowest figure it has reached since the pa
nic of 1857.
A year old girl at AVestfield, Vt., weiglis
111 pounds, is 42 inches around the waist, 36
around the chest and 22 inches around the
head.
There are eight hundred paper mills in the
United States, with a capital of $40,000,000,
and producing annually $7,000,000 worth of
paper.
They have discovered the boss frog near
Montreal. He is described as being “as
large as a cow’s head,” and “his croak is as
loud as a dog's bark.”
In Ohio, we have, as we had in California,
the singular spectacle of men electing women
to office. "Women being nominated for
offices of school supervisors, cannot vote, but
may boelectcd !
Sorghum mills and evaporators are in full
blast all over the West, turning out thou
sands and thousands of gallons of molasses.
The crop of cane grown this year is larger
than any crop ever grown before.
A shocking account of the maltreatment of
Jews comes from Bagdad. One Jew was
burned alive by the populace. The excuse
of these barbarities was that the Jews had
been guilty of blasphemy.
The Detroit Free Press says when an old
veteran in Cairo was asked to split his vote
he replied: “ Ilow could I face the Judg
ment Day with them angels knowin’ that I'd
gone back on the Democratic part}’ T*
The Methodists of Michigan are negotiat
ing for the purchase of ground for a “ Perma
nent State Camp-meeting,” to be held annu
ally. It will, when secured, be improved
and set apart as a park.
The census-taker of WinoitendorL,. Mass.,,
has encountered a woman twenty-five years,
of age, who was married at twelve years old,,
has ten living children, the eldest of whemda
thirteen years eid.
Some persons reported that wildl geese
were flying over Atlanta, southward, on Vrii
day night of last week. Here is an item.fOr
those who are noting indications of am early
winter.
One of the most horrible incidents- of the
catastrophe at Indianola, Texas, was the rob
bery of dead bodies found on the shore by
the Mexicans. Citizens slaughtered five
Mexicans detected in the act.
There are 116 churches in Sf . Louis, own
ed by 14 religions sects, with a total valua
tion of $2,93.0,770. Of this amount,, only
$274,640 are taxable, the rest being repre
sented by property in actual use for reiigiaua
worship.
In lowa, in the October election, the peo
ple will be called upon to ratify or reject tlie
two amendments to their constitution—one
making colored men eligible to the legisla
ture ; the other permitting women to vote
‘and to hold office.
Itev. John Smith, the sole surviving mean
l>er of the original Sandusky Conference of
United Brethren, which was organized is
1834, says that during one of tbe years he
traveled as an itinerant, he received in pay
ment for his services $47 50. and paid ftr
house rent and firewood $45.
NFM BER IS.