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,V rilE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. $ 'OLUME I. §a ml &lm, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, . jafknoa County l*ulli*liing !J ,h Company. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO,, (JA, I( £ V. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, CU-STAI lIS. MALCOM STAFFORD, MASAOIXO and business editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. L c0 pv 12 months $2.00 r *. o “ 1.00 |, ( u3 “ -T“v- ;T-rr 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an cx- l fopV of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. |(IVK Dollar per square (often lines or less) r the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents reach subsequent insertion. > MI Advertisements sent without specifica ln of the number of insertions marked thereon, B]l },e published TILL forbid, and charged ■rordinply. Ibusiness or Professional Cards, of six lines 1 less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where Icy do not exceed ten lines, Ten DOLLARS. font met AdvertiNlag. The'folloH ing will be the regular rates for coll ect advertising, and will he strictly adhered to ill CUM: HI'AUKS. 10. 1 111. S ill. Vim. 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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 ? L Wll.l.i\i|soy + 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. <• W lUtl AJi A O)., • 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. 1875. lv ■ OAKKSi, ■Nti T KS ‘ SMAR ER, JEFFERSON, GA. ■ nn,f n 'and Hne u same, bridles, saddles, &c., no^cc ' an d cheap for cash. I J - floyd , " I. O ' A J. B. STEM AN, ni " ton Ga. Jefferson, Ga. m '■**• A. 511..1 V y ■ Win * r ATTORNEYS-AT-LAw. ■ eanL- ,ce in the Superior Courts of BC!;!^ y of ~ackson a "<* Walton. Bl ,** ** ,or **ev sil Ijiw, ■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 l’Oi>i:i{(;it vss & Hancock, B* Dnht; V Oall the attention of the I P Ut,l,c to their elegant stock of lit, J . r y Goods of all Kinds, Five' ‘ n A|)K CLOfHIXU, B a ‘ t-VSSIMERES, HATS, CAPS, B lQlta mß<-^u 006 V TAdies’ Bonnets, Ilats and 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 | V ‘^ ST 00 ItVKEFOOT! ■ "uml,. Boots and Shoes, neat fits, ■S'Kcat™* to , ck * < tr Caul.? ■ " ill do I* nero /^ rs - N enable’s residence, ■ ,’ 1 M ; t V* r f ” r you than anv one else 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. r * T T4tW * * * ' * . *'i '■ ' !#♦* j’rvilu S' i; 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.