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■ley C. HOWARD. ROB'T S. HOWARD.
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M ATTORNEYS AT LA AY,
•Jefferson, Ga.
■' ill practice together in all the Courts of Jack-
Brand adjacent counties, except the Court of
Bimary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
MRS. T. A. ADAMS,
B/lroaol Street, one door above National Bank,
B ATHENS, G-/A-,
BEEPS constantly on hand an extensive stock
■ of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
Baptising, in part, the latest styles and fashions
I Ladle*’ Hal*, Itomiols, Ribbons,
Buck, Flowers Doves Ac., which will be
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■ JEFFERSON , GA.,
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B ( n r o Ctlee ni 1C adjoining Counties, and
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19th, 1875. iy
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■ x or ;’; MAKKK. JEFFERSON. (JA.
f 00( ! '"’--y and wagon harness always
n oo n X x:P a:r ! Il p ume, bridles, saddles, &c.,
u otiee, and cheap for cash.
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P nr ; J. B. OILMAN,
B'l-OVn' ton ' ( ’ a - Jefferson, Ga.
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June 12, 1875
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■ Fh n , ’ . °°ks. Paper, Pens, Inks, Envel-
B, ' 1 ’ Racon la.nl. Sugar Coffee,
B'% found a ! CIR Medicines, in fact everything
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|| Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf
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Childrens’ Hats, which he offers 25 per cent,
lower than they have ever sold in this section.
Please come and examine, he charges nothing
for looking, and be convinced that goods can
be sold cheaper in Jefferson than any where.
SdFT. M. Bailey has just received from
New York a nice selection of Groceries, such
as Coffee, both green and roasted ; Sugar, all
grades ; Cheese, Spice, Pepper, Soda, and, in
fact, a general assortment of things suited to
the trade of this section.
IdPWho has the largest stock of Kentucky
and Georgia made Jeans ever brought to Jef
ferson? F. M. Bailey.
GPWho has one of the largest and best
selected stock of Mens’, Womens’, Boys’ and
Childrens’ Shoes ever brought to Jefferson?
F. M. Bailey.
IdPWho has Boots and Shoes to fit all ages,
sizes and colors? F. M. Bailey.
SdPWho sells best brands Prints from 8 to
10 cents per } r ard? F. M. Baile}”.
KdPWho sells good brands Bleachings for
12| cents per yard? F. M. Bailey.
tip Who sells Atlanta-made Brogan Shoes
for $1.75 per pair? F. M. Bailey.
tSPWho sells Athens Factory Checks at
12| cents per yard? F. M. Bailey.
ypGents’, Ladies’, Misses’ and Childrens’
Lubber Over-Shoes, at F. M. Bailey’s.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, NOV’R 6, 1875.
Miscellaneous Medici).
THE VILLAGE BARBER.
lie thought he recognized me the moment
I entered the door, but I refused to encour
age him in that belief. It was a strange
town to me; all the people were strangers,
and I was so far from home that I doubted
if man, woman or child in that locality had
ever met me before.
The barber smiled tenderly as he pointed
to the chair, and then led right off as famil
iarly as if he had shaved me every dav for
a month past. While mixing the lather he
remarked on the weather, the crops, the
panic, the lost balloonist, and other matters,
and although I did not pretend to hear him,
he was not to be beaten.
“1 hope you'll do well here,” he said as he
pushed my head over and daubed the lather
on the right cheek, commencing at the butt
of the ear.
(Silence on my part.)
“This town needs another dry goods
store,” he countinued after a moment, “and
I shouldn’t wonder if you just coined
money.”
(Long silence.)
Perhaps it was the silence which convinced
the barber that he had made a mistake, but
he was not discouraged. As he lathered the
left cheek he suddenly said :
“There are three or four lawyers here now,
but, as Christopher Columbus said, ‘there's
room at the top of the heap,’ and 1 think
you'll be full of business all the time.”
He was looking right down into my face,
and through the foam of lather he might have
detected a faint smile, a frown, or some
other expression which hurt his conceit. He
instantly suspected that he had made another
mistake. I was looking into the glass on
the wall and I saw his countenance change.
Some barbers would not have pursued the
subject further, but he was the only barber
in the village, and he felt that he had certain
rights which I was bound to respect. He
might have reasoned that I was mulish and
obstinate, and needed coaxing and flattering,
or perhaps he theorized that I was timid and
hesitating, and wanted encouraging. At any
rate he soon attacked me again, saying:
“This is a nice village, but I never saw so
much sickness in my life as we have had this
year. Our doctors don’t seem to know
enough to manage the diseases, and I'm glad
you are going to open an office. lam pretty
healthy as a general thing, but if I get sick
I’ll give you my custom in preference to any
one else.' 5
Still watching thc glass, I saw a self-satis
fied smile ripple across his face. For about
half a minuite he was dead sure in his own
mind that he had boxed me up. Then a
shade of suspicion crossed his face. Silence
sometimes gives consent but in this case,
after scrutinizing my face sharply for an
instant, he interpreted it to mean that he had
blundered again, lie was vexed. I had no
right to sit there and treat his round-the
corner queries with such contemptuous
silence. He would pay me for such conduct.
I saw the spirit of resolve creep into his
lace, and he said :
“ I was saying only the other day that this
town was able to support another blacksmith
shop. Old Jones is good hearted, but he
knows no more about shoeing a horse than a
coon dose about sailing a canal boat.”
His eyes glistened, and he took no pains to
keep down the chuckle of satisfaction bub
bling up into his throat. He regarded it as
a line shot—a crusher —and if he hadn't
been shaving ray chin at that time he would
have been unable to suppress a laugh.
His razor crossed the chin, scraped up
and down, and skipped around to the jugular
vein before the barber’s smile faded. He
had been watching me to catch a start of
surprise or a look of displeasure, or some
thing to guide his opinion ; and as he had
been unsuccessful he renewed the lather on
the left cheek and sighed drearily*. I hoped
he was a man of determination, and trusted
that he would not give up. Fearing he
would, I was about to speak, when he smiled
blandly and remarked :
“ I can tell a school teacher the minute I
set eyes on him !”
(Lather and silence.)
“And it’s funny, too,” he continued*, that
I have shaved every professor in thcNormal
school here the very first morning of his
arrival, and have told each and every one
that he was a professor before he had said a
word to me.”
(Silence and shave.)
“ Well, I suppose teaching is a good
paying business.” he went on, as he looked
my face over to see if he had skipped a spot,
“and Pm willing to help you all I can. I
haven’t any children—am not married—but
if ever I get married and have children I’ll
send them to school to you.”
Ilis persistence and flattery deserved
some encouragement, but I was determined
to hold out to the last ditch. He shut up
his razor with a quick, vexed motion, tossed
it on the stand regadless of damages, and he
smiled maliciously as he got down his bottle
of unadulterated bay- rum. I knew it would
bite like a serpent and sting like an adder,
but could I show less stoicism than lie had
shown diplomac3 T and persistency'! Didn’t
I commence the struggle?
I shut my teeth, looked straight into the
glass, and he sopped the fiery stuff over my
cheeks and chin. He expected a squirm and
a yell, and his surprise was great. The light
of revenge had crept into liis eves, but it
quickly faded away, and as he replaced the
bottle and wiped in}' face with the towel, he
said:
“ I never saw but one other man who could
stand bay rum like that, and he has returned
to California. The climate of that country
hardens the flesh, I suppose ?”
I refused to reply. He got angry again,
dug my scalp as he combed my hair, gave my
head several unnecessary twists and knocks
and pushes, and he jerked the big calico apron
off my lap as if he hated me. However, cu
riosity suddenly overcame his vexation of
spirit, and as he brushed me off he said:
“Thistown ought to support another un
dertaker, and if I can be of ant' assistance in
finding y*ou a shop, you can call upon me day*
or night.
“I wouldn’t speak, and I heard him gritting
his teeth. lie also struck me several hard
blows with the brush, and once tried to hit
me fair on the nose. I thought I had dis
couraged him, but just as I put on my hat
and opened the door, he made a last desper
ate charge. Smiling sweetly, he inquired :
“Less see! Reverend—Reverend—what
did you say it was ?—Reverend Mr. Brown !”
I didn’t say,
Stamps on Legal Documents.
For the benefit of those who may perchance
have inadvertently neglected a matter which
may prove essentially important, we publish
the following correspondence. It may be
well for the people to examine their old deeds,
and other legal documents, to see if they are
properly stamped, and if not, to save expenses
by supplying the omission while they yet
have time to save costs. The correspondence
is furnished us by Mr. Jemison :
Central Georgia Bank, )
Macon, Ga., October 7th, 1857.
Andrew Clark, Esq., Collector Internal Rev
enue :
Dear Sir : —ls the act requiring stamps
on legal documents still in force? If not,
when was it repealed ? And has there been
any provision made for affixing stamps to
such documents where it has been neglected
by the makers or holders of the same ? Can
either party affix the stamps ? An early re
ply will oblige, Yours, very truly,
R. \Y. Jemison, Jr., Cashier.
United States Internal Revenue, i
Collector's Office, 2d Dist., Georgia, [•
Macon, Ga., October, 9th, 1875. )
R. W. Jemison. Esq., Cashier Centred Geor
gia Bank:
Sir :—ln reply to yours of the 7th instant,
you are informed that deeds, mortgages, etc.,
dated between July 1, 1865, and October 1,
1872, require revenue stamps.
An act of the Forty-third Congress, ap
proved June 23d, 1874, extended the time to
Januaty Ist, 1876, for stamping unstamped
legal documents, and the stamps can be af
fixed on or before that date without the pen
alty prescribed by law.
Under the act above referred to, the Col
lector of Internal Revenue, a Judge or Clerk
of a Court of Record can affix the stamps—
the latter having to certify as to date of affix
ing. Either the party making or holding the
paper can have it stamped as indicated above
until after January Ist, 1876 ; then they must
ho affixed by the Collector, and the former
law complied with.
Very respectfully,
Andrew Clark, Collector.
Telegraph c)’- Messenger-
Do Not Laugh.
Do not laugh at that drunken man reeling
through the street. However ludicrous the
sight may he, just pause and think. He is
going home to some tender heart that, will
throb with intense agony; some doting
mother, perhaps, who will grieve over the
downfall of him who was once her sinless
boy, or it may be a fond wife whose heart
will almost burst with grief as she views the
destruction of her i loi; or may be a loving
sister who will shed bitter tears over the
degradation of her brother, shorn of Ids
manliness and self-respect. Rat lie r drop a
tear in silent sympathy with those hearts so
keenly sensitive and tender, yet so loyal that
they cannot accept sympathy tendered them
either in word, look or aet, although it might
fall upon their crushed and wounded hearts
as refreshingly as the summer dew upon the
withering plant. As your eye follows the
inebriate’s uncertain footsteps, record a
solemn vow in heaven, that while your life
endures, you will do all that within you lies
to further the cause of temperance and to
make it a crime to sell or drink intoxicants.
A Fair Game, but Not Equal. —During
the war a Georgian started to Marietta with
some chickens for sale. He met a squad of
soldiers, and they bought all his chickens
but one rooster. He insisted they should
take him, but they Avere out of money, and
couldn’t buy.
The old man said he hated to go on to
town with only one chicken, and was greatly
puzzled about it.
At last one of the soldiers said :
“ Old man, I’ll play you a game of seven
up for him.”
“Agreed,” says the old man.
They played a long and spirited game.
At last the soldier won. The old man wrung
the rooster’s neck and tossed him at the
soldier’s feet, and mounted his swab-tailed
pony and started home. After getting some
two hundred yards he suddenly stopped,
turned round, and rode back and said :
“You played a far game, and won the
rooster farly, but I’d like to know what in
the h —l you put up agin that rooster.”
—filer id ia n 11omestecid.
PP’TheSt. Charles Cosmos thus points
out one of the annoyances attending the
publicatoin of a newspaper in that city—
and others :
“There is a certain class of men who are
continually running* to us and saying:
‘Why don’t you give h—l? If I was
running a newspaper I’d do it.’ Our inva
riable reply has been, if they feel anxious to
excoriate any person, they can do so at the
moderate price of twenty cents a line. This
invariably quiets them. They are willing
for us to get into trouble, but when we offer
to let them fight their own battles, they sud
denly discover that it is not their business,
and then go off and call us afraid of our own
shadow for refusing to do what they are
afraid to do.”
“Never fail to do that good which lies next
to your hand. Trust God to weave your lit
tle thread into the great web, though the pat
tern shows it not yet. The grand harvest of
the ages shall come to its reaping, and the day
shall broaden itself to a thousand yaars, and
the thousand years shall shovy themselves as
a perfect and finished day.”-
TREATING THE GIRLS.
A HANDSOME YOUNG MAN TALKS WITH A DEAF
CASHIER IN A RESTAURANT.
People have noticed that one of the hand
somest young men in Burlington has sudden
ly grown bald, and dissipation is attributed
as the cause. Ah, no; he went to a church
sociable the other week, took three charming
girls out to the refreshment table, let them
eat as much as they wanted, and then found
lie had left his pocket book at home, and a
deaf man that he had never seen before at
the cashier’s desk. The young man, with his
face aflame, bent down and said softly :
“I am ashamed to say I have no change
with ”
“Hey?” shouted the cashier.
“I regret to say,” the young man repeated
on a little louder key, “that t have unfortu
nately come away without any change to ”
“Change two ?” chirped the deaf man. “Oh,
yes, I can change a five if you want it.”
“No,” the young man explained in a terri
ble penetrating whisper, for half a dozen peo
ple were crowding up behind him, impatient to
pay their bills and get away, “I don’t want
any change, because ”
“Oh, don’t want no change ?” the deaf man
cried, gleefully. “Bleeged to y*e, ’bleeged to
ye. Tain’t often we get such generous do
nations. Pass over your bill.”
“No, no,” the young man explained, “I
have no funds ”
“Oh, yes, plenty of fun,” the deaf man re
plied, growing tired of the conversation and
noticing the long line of people waiting with
money in their hands; “but I haven't cot
time to talk about it now. Please settle and
move on.”
“ But the young man gasped out, “I have
no money
“Go Monday?” queried the deaf cashier.
“I don’t care when you go. You must pa\ r ,
and let these others come up.”
“ I have no money !” the mortified young
man shouted, read3 r to sink into the earth,
xvhile the people all around him, and espe
cially the three girls he had treated, were cU
gling and chuckling audibly.
“Owe money ?” the cashier said. “Of
course 3-011 do ; $2.75.”
“I can't pa3 T ANARUS!” the youth screamed, and by'
turning his pocket inside out and yelling his
poverty to the heavens he finally made the
deaf man understand. And then he had to
shriek his lull name three times, while his
ears fairly rang with the half-stifled laughter
that was breaking out all around him ; and
he had to scream out where he worked, and
roar when he would pay, and he couldn’t get
the deaf man to understand him until some
of the church members came up to see what
thc uproar was, and recognizing their young
friend, made it all right with the cashier. And
the young man went out into the night and
clubbed himself, and shred his locks away
until he was bald as an egg.
Sorrow Treads on the Heels of Joy.
—Did you ever notice immediately after the
“marriage” head, that the “obituary” fol
lowed? Typical of the wedding happiness
and grief in this life. The chants and songs,
and glee of merry ones to-day will be broken
by* wails to-morrow, for the sods will be
piled on the breast of some we thought not
so near the grave. AYe read who are mar
ried and wish them joy ; a line below is the
record of deaths, and we say*, mournfully*,
peace to their ashes. Sorrow treads on the
heels of joy*; songs are hushed by the foot
falls of death; laughs a r e broken rudely—
voices, no matter how musical, are stilled in
a moment.
The New York Observer says : The fol
lowing incident is said to have occurred at
Cape Girardeau, Mo. A character noted for
frequenting bar-rooms was sitting in his
usual place of resort with several companions
about a card table. Suddenly his wife enter
ed the room, bearing a large covered dish,
which she deposited on the table with the
remark: “Presuming, husband, that you
were too busy to come home to dinner, I
have brought you yours,” and departed. The
husband invited his companions to share his
meal, and removing the lid from the dish,
found only a slip of paper on which was
written : “I hope you will enjoy your din
ner : it is of the same kind your family has
at home.”
I forget to say “good morning!”
Say it to your wife, children, friends and fel
lows, employers and emplo} T ees—and sa} T it
cheerfully and with a smile. It will do you
good and do them good all day. There is a
kind of inspiration in every “good morning”
heartily and smilingly spoken, that helps to
make hope fresher and work lighter. It seems,
early seems to make the morning good, and to
be a prophecy of a good day to come after it.
And if this be true of the “good-morning,” it
is also of all kind, bear some greetings. They
cheer the discouraged, rest the tired one, and
somehow make the wheels of life run smooth
ly-
GP’During the recent flood in Texas, an
old colored dame, who weighed fully 200
pounds, was the lucky possessor of a well
filled When the water invaded
her premises she launched the bed, placed
herself in the middle of it, and was floated to
a place of safety.
CdPThe western hog crop for the present
year is now estimated at $140,000,000. llow
much of this immense sura will Georgia be
called on to contribute ? Enough we know
to leave us poor next summer. So it goes.
Will we never learn wisdom from experience ?
At. Constitution.
prevent postage stamps from stick
ing together while being carried in the pocket,
rub the side with the mucilage on it over the
hair.
President Grant has taken to the
use of spectacles. With other glasses he has
long been familiar.
GPAU kinds of Country Produce taken in
exchange for goods, at F. M. Bailey’s.
S TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
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GLEANINGS.
A man in Georgia has a pocket knife which
he has carried since 1821.
There is no U. S. Senator to be elected by
the new Legislature of Ohio.
Chicago handles 90,000,000 bushels of
grain annually.
i'he Methodists of this country number
1,100,000. The Baptists number 1,761,171.
A ship was wrecked recently off the east
ern coast of Scotland, and fifty-five lives lost.
A rattlesnake with 40 rattles has been kill
ed in Wilkinson county recently.
The latest edition of Webster’s Dictionary
contains 3,000 illustrations, and nearly 105,-
000 words.
The proposed Constitutional Amendment
to provide for the taxing of dogs was lost at
the late election in Ohio.
The floods in Great Britain have not only
caused considerable damage to property, but
also the loss of many lives.
A man in Dusseldorf, Prussia, lately mur
dered his wife and daughter because they rid
iculed his red hair.
The sum of $750,000 in Confederate money
and $50,000 in Confederate bonds was sold
in Nashville last week for SSO in gold.
Five inches of snow Monday of last week
at Susquehanna, Penn., and snow and heavy
gales at Port Jervis, N. Y., same day.
In some parts of Texas the people are com
plaining because their cotton crops are so
large they cannot gather them.
There are ninety-nine American missiona
ries in China, and thirty-four American lady
laborers, besides the wives of missionaries.
Let everybody rejoice. Nol prosequis have
been entered in all the suits growing out of
the Beecher-Tilton scandal.
The corner-stone of the first Methodist
church in the world was laid at Bristol, Eng
land, in 1739, and the first in America in New
York, in 1769.
A writer says that if Miss Alcott had spent
her time in pinning back her dress and choos
ing zebra stockings, she could not have earn
ed $60,000 at writing.
Carroll county, Ga., boasts of an old lady,
ninety years old, who is still very spry, does
more or less work every day, and has never
worn spectacles.
The election in California on Wednesday,
apparently, had no political significance, and
as a consequence the result is somewhat
mixed.
It is computed that 18,000,000 hogs will go
into the pork barrels of this country between
now and January. The figures bring a grunt
of satisfaction from every corner of the land.
We hear of a union protracted meeting
among the Protestants in the City of Mexico,
participated in by Baptists, Congregational
ists, Methodists, Presbyterians and Episco
palians.
Col. Joyce, of St. Louis, involved in the
Missouri whisky frauds, has been found guil
ty on all the counts in the indictment against
him. The penitentiary will open its doors
for somebody.
Elder A. C. Bussell, a Baptist Sunday
school missionary in Indiana, reports 535
Baptist Sunday schools in that State, with a
membership of 60,000. About three-fifths of
the schools continue through the year.
There was frost last week in Louisiana as
far South as Pascagoula, and the yellow fever
there is dying out. A Memphis dispatch re
ports a killing frost, which probably damag
ed late co'ttbn in that section.
A Lewiston (Me.) man boasts that he trad
ed horses nine times in a day, and at night
he had the same horse he started with in the*
morning, $45 in money, a watch worth S2O,
a double-barrelled shot-gun, and four bushels
of potatoes.
The precious right of suffrage, as exercised
in Utah, is even more interesting than it is it*
the South. A writer speaks of a Mormon
who voted the ballots of his three wives and.
six children, and for two then unborn..
In 1790 there was one Baptist church, that
at Columbia, with thirty members, west of
the Ohio. Now there are- three- hundred,
thousand members, excluding Texas and-
Arkansas. This gives an increase of the de
nomination in this territory two and a half
times greater than that of the population*
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has just
decided that the whipping of a child by a,
public school teacher is an assault and batte-.
ry, and that an offending teacher may be fin
ed, as well as held answerable for violating
the dignity of the law.
The organ question is up in Texas. A
great many good people there distrust instru
mental music in conneetion with worship.—
The “ knock-clown argument,” as a writer in
the Texas Baptist Herald remarks, against
the organ has always been that as soon as a
revival begins the organ ceases to play. W„
E. Penn has found a case, even in Texas*
that floors that argument flat as an Illinois
prairie. At Tyler, in that State, a great re
vival has been enjoyed, and many adults
converted, in which an organ was actually
used at every service !
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