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|)tofcßSuituil’ Si Jit win ess (Tunis.
T A. B. MAHAFFEY,
. ATT () R KEY A T LA W,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. (la..
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business' entrusted to bis care.
Patronage solicited. ()ct3o 1 y
WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB'T S. HOWARD.
HOW Altl> & IIOAVAISEK
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, 6a.
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,
llrnml Street, one door abore National Bunk,
ATHENS, GA.,
KEEPS constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
comprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions
°f Ladies' Hals, Itonnets Itill*ons,
Hives, Flowers, Eloves Ac,, which will he
sold at reasonable prices. Orders from the coun-
Pj promptly filled. Give her a call.
July 31st—3m.
D. w. S. VUAAYDUR,
SURGEON DENTIST,
T , Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. 6m
p A*WIILIAMSOY
-J* WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
J Dr. IV m. King’s Drug Store, Dcuprce Block,
Athens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner,
and warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
t,r(l U CASH. ° Julylo-6m.
T <- wii unx a co.,
BROAD STREET, ATHENS. GA.,
STOVES, ScG.
(Opposite North-East Georgian Office.)
Ju lv 3d, 1875.
Stanley & pinson,
JEPFE lISON, GA.,
|)EAI.hRS in Dry Goods and Family Groce*
,, nts - New supplies constantly received;
‘ a ; 4 P f°r Cash. Call and examine their stock.
Jmie 19 jy
R W OFFORl), Attorney nt Ijim,
IIOMER. BANKS CO., GA.,
„j v 11 Police in all the adjoining Counties, and
attcntlon to 3,1 business entrusted to
' fare. Collecting claims a specialty.
Juae mhas7.>. iy
J O VltlX
v U ARXESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
o®'ha' f l '' 1 S°°d buggy and wagon harness always
done U< ‘ e P a b‘ing same, bridles, saddles, Arc.,
juni2 j rt not ' ce * and cheap for cash.
J - J - H/)Yn, | j. B> sii^iax.
Iv t ® vm ßt°n, Ga. Jefferson, Ga.
' ,OV I A: *II.IIA A,
w in ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
the oL prac *’ ce together in the Superior Courts of
junels^ v ° f Jackson and Dalton.
\\ '• AttonieT nt Law,
Prictl • JEFFERSON, JAtTvSON CO.. GA.
p ro!1 t ‘V n the Courts, State and Federal,
kinds of i and thorough attention given to all
cannti?.. business in Jackson and adjoining
June I*2, 1875
tTNDKHGKASS & HANCOCK,
\\ \\ !'}? ’ espectfully call the attention of the
1 1 the to their elegant stock of
u Goods of all Kinds,
V\\- U YmU X ,Hi (LOTUIAti,
CASSIMEKKS, IIATS, CAPS,
LitHu,;* 11 '' Ladies’ Bonnets, Hats and
'V'are Sisf’ * Jar and ware. Hollow Ware, Earthen
pi lu<l b°°ks, Paper, Pens, Inks, Envel
b‘a, r’’ lr .' Paeon. Lard, Sugar Coffee,
f, . ut^nt Medicines, in fact everything
••‘t tiine s ' a General Store. Prices to suit
x ’ Jefferson, June 12, IS75{ tf
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Ju’pl’ Hifoertisements.
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Jackson Sheriff Sales.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Decem
hor npxt, before the Cburi, -House door, in
Jaffyrsofi, J*ckwn co6nty, Ga. wtyfin the legal
hours of sale, the following property, to wit:
(lOp) yjie kumdrfidAcres of land, more or less,
lyin£ on. both side* of Beech ergek. krnnvh as.thc
Ldwrfi PtmdoTgrassqrtlace, adjoining lands of Mrs.
McClcskv, V L Espy ami others, tolerably well
improved ; two separate dwelling houses"ancTTm
provemeuts * aboyit thirty-five acres of good bot
dom bind on said place jn cultivation, the balance
dof old field, except 15 acrets of gftod|/orost land.
Levied on the property of .J R Holliday,' aec’u, by
virtue of a fi fa issued from the Superior Court of
said county, in favor of John A. Wimpy vs John
Simpkins, adm’r of Jlt Holliday, dec’d. Prop
erty pointed ont by plaintiff's' attorn tv.-; notice
served on Alfred Cody and Adolphus ilonffTsy,
tenants in possession, as the law directs.
W A. WORSHAM, Dcp. Sh’ff.
. November 6th. 18t5„ . _ — ___
s % LW r rsk FT* rl ’m' F"** T - JW
Also; at the’’saine time tifid pfhcc, 1 will he sold
(330) three hundred and thirty acres of land, more
or less, on the west side of the north Oeonee river,
on the waters of Parks’ creek, adjoining lands of
Randolph and Hunter, J M Potts and others ; on
said land is a splendid dwelling house and neces
sary out-buildings ; 35 acres of first class bottom
land ;oa said jdace in cultivation j about 65 acres
of good upland in cultivation*; a srrfalf portion of
old field and the ha forest huul, well limber
ed. Also. 37. J acres of land on the n#>rth
the north Dconee river, adjoining lands oT\farga
rctCarithers and S S Smith’s mill tract—2s acres
.cleared and the balance mostly old field,; a small
cabin on said land ; all levied on as the property
of the defendant by virtue of a fi fa issued from
the Superior Court of said County, Executors of
Robert W. Prewett, dec’d. (controlled by D J
Chandler.) vs. James II Burns. Property point
ed out by defendant. 1
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
(1000) One thousand acres of land, more or less, on
the waters of Walnut fork of Oconee river, adjoin
ing lands of Stephen Roberts. T L Harrison and
others; said place is well improved, lying two
miles northwest of Jefferson. Levied on by vir
tue of a fi fa issued by C S Hill, former Tax Col
lector, in favor of the county of Jackson vs. C C
Thompson. Property pointed out by defendant,
levy made and returned to me by W F Hunter,
LC. J. S. HUNTER, Sh’ft".
November 6th, 4875.
IJIH 1 TOW’S SAY.IL
Agreeably to an order of the Court of Ordinary
of Jackson county. Ga. will be sold before the
Court House door in Jefferson, within the legal
hours of sale, on the first? Tuesday in December
next, the following property, to wit:—One tract
of Wild Land, lying in Decatur county, originally
Early, known and described as number 258, in
14th district of originally Early, now Decatur
county, containing two hundred and fifty acres,
more or less. Sold for the benefit of the legatees
of James Shields, late of Jackson county, deceas
ed. Terms Cash. \\ 1) SHIELDS,
November 6th. 1875. Executor.
riMTOirS Sul“.
Pursuant to an order of the Court pf .Ordinary
of Jackson county, will he sold before the Court
house door in Jefferson, in said county, to the
highest bidder, at public outcry, within the legal
hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in December
next, the following property, to wit:—Two hun
dred and two acres otland/more or less, lying in
Jackson county, on the waters of Sandy creek,
adjoining lands of W S Rogers. Jesse White and
others, the place whereon Bennett Strickland
resided at the time of his death. Said place is
tolerably well improved.
Also, at tlie same time and placebo lotaof wild
land, containing two hundred and two and a half
acres, more or Less, described as lot No. 241, in
the first section of the 3bst District of originally
Lee county. Sold for the benefit of thc heirs
creditors of Bennett Strickland, late of said coun
ty of Jackson, deceased. Terms Cash.
THOMAS D. HAWKS, Adm’r,
Nov 6th, 1875 Bennett Strickland, dec’d,
HAKm'S Siilo.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in Decem
ber. 1875. at the Court House door in the town
of Jefferson, Jackson county, within the legal
hours of sale, the following property, to wit:
One tract or parcel of land situate, lying and
being in the county aforesaid, containing Twenty
nine acres, more or less, all in the woods, adjoin
ing lands of W J Roberts, A It Cooper and the
Dower of Mrs Haines; one other tract, containing
two hundred acres, more or less, it being a por
tion of the Holder Hudgins farm in said county,
lying on the Federal road ; it adjoins the Dower
of the widow of M. M. llaiues. lands of W J Rob
erts and others. On said land is about twenty
five, acres bottom land in cultivation ; about fifty
acres upland in cultivation ; about fifty acres in
original forest, remainder in old field; there is
also a good mill-shoal and plenty Of water to run
large machinery; All sold as the property of M.
M. Haines, dec’d, for the purpose of paying debts
and distribution. Terms Cash.
W J ROBERTS, Adm’r.
November 6th, 1875 >
Hale.
Pursuant to an order from the Court of Ordina
ry of Jackson county, will be sold before the Court
house door, in the town of Jefferson, to the high
est bidder, at public outcry, within the legal
hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in December
next—One tract of land, known as the S. M,
Brooks place, near Griffeth's Mills in said county,
adioiuiug lauds of Mathews, Glenn and
containing ISO actofq more Or less, in original for
est —no Improvements. Sold for the purpose of
distribution. Terms, one-half cash*, remainder
in soo.oo notes for twelve months ; interest from
date; bonds for title given.
W. S. GILMER, Adm'r of
November 6th, 1875, S M Brooks, dec'tl.
Take Notice,
ALL persons having demauds against the estate
of It T Carrithers, deceased, are* hereby noti
lied to render in an account of such demands, in
terms of la\v ; also, persons indebted to AftKt
estate can save money and trouble by settling
with me or my attorney, J. A. B. Mahaffey,
Esq., at once. SARAII P. CARRITHERS,
novG Gw Adm’x said deckl.
Jackson County Mortgage She
riff’s sale.
WT ILL BE SOLD, on the first Tuesday in De-
T T cember next, befprp ijie Court-house door,
in Jefferson, Jackson county. Ga.f wifhm the lev
gal hours of sale, the following property, tq- tfit:
A STOCK OF GOODS Consisting of. Hats,
Shoes, Prints, Jewelry. Ready-matle
Clothing, Drugs and Medicines. Hardware. Crock
ery, Shawls, motions and,all other articles of
merchandize belongiiijt to and embraced in the
Stock of Goods contained in the store-room occu r
pied recently by W. B. Stockton, m ti e Webb
house, in the town of Jetferson, and all the stor
accounts, account hooks and notes of \ . 1 .
Stockton, acquired by him since the 1 Jth day of
January, 1875. Levied on as the property of
W. 1L Stockton, and described in a certain inden
ture of Mortgage, bearing date on the 13th day of
January, 1875, by virtue of a Mortgage hfa issued
from the Superior Court of said county, •S. La
mar vs AY B Stockton. 1,1
said ft fa. J- S t HCNIER. Sheriff.
Oct 7, 1875 td
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, NOV’R 13, 1875.
STORY DEPARTMENT.
A NIGHT OF ALARM.
My sister Julia was very courageous. In
our youth the country was wilder than now ;
but it might be said of her that she was not
brought up in the woods to be scared by an
owl. She would traverse the most unfre
quented paths wondering at my timidity.
There was nothing masculine, however, in
Julia’s appearance ; she was simply a sweet,
joyous child, with an absence of fear in her
character and a consequent clearness of per
ception in all cases of supposed or actual
danger.
When I was sixteen, and Julia was eighteen,
my father hired a laborer named Ilans
Schmidt, a Hessian, who had been in the
British service, and who, at the close of the
war. had deserted from his regiment.
He was a powerful man, with a heavy, im
bruted countenance, and both Julia and my
self were struck at the very first, with an in
tuitive dread of him. The feeling in Julia
hardly took the character of fear, but was one
rather of the most intense loathing.
One evening she read a horrible murder
that thrilled our blood, and upon turning her
eyes from the paper, they encountered those
of Hans Schmidt. There was something ter
rible in that glance, and from that moment
she resolved that the villain should be turned
away.
As her wishes and opinions were always of
much weight with her father, he took her ad
vice, and gave Hans his discharge.
Soon after this, Julia and I were left alone
in the house, both father and mother being
absent upon a visit until the following day,
and we happened to be without a servant at
the time (for we kept more than one.)
At night we went up to bed and had partly
disrobed, when Julia turned hastily to the
window.
“ I declare,” she said, “the evening is so
pleasant that it is a pity to remain in doors.
1 don’t feel a bit sleepy; let’s go down on
the lawn.”
We descended the stairs. How little I
imagined what was in Julia’s heart! Harry
Irving came up just as we reached the lawn,
lie was only casually passing the house.
Julia engaged him in conversation and he
joined us. My sister was more than usually
lively.
“ Where are Tom, and Edgar, and Will ?”
she asked.
“ Oh,” replied Harry, “ they arc over tv? my
uncle's. They will be coming back soon.”
“ Now, Mary, you need not be nervous,”
she said. “ Keep quiet and do not speak
above your breath. There is a man under
our bed—there, there !” and she clasped her
hand over my mouth—“a man tinder onr bed.
and the vonng Irvings are going to secure
him.”
They all provided themselves with heavy
sticks, and then, guided by Julia, ascended
the stairs.
As to myself I could not follow them, but
remained trembling and leaned upon the
doorsteps. Never did I experience a greater
sense of relief than when the assailing party
descended, looking partly ashamed and partly
amused, having found nothing to justify their
sudden armament.
Julia was in agony of mortification and
wept piteously ; for, although but half con
vinced that her apprehensions had been
groundless, the idea that she. who had never
till now feared anything, had placed herself
so ludicrously in the eyes of those men was
insupportable.
The man, she said, must have taken the
alarm and fled out the hack door, for she
►could not have been so deceived.
Onr friends, more in pity for her mortifica
tion than from any belief in the reality of the
night intruder, offered to remain in the vicin
ity till morning; but she would not listen to
the proposition, and they took their departure.
I was sorry to see them go, and watched
their forms till they were out of sight, for the
affair of tlie evening had almost frightened
me into hysterics.
Julia, however, at once rushed to the cham
ber, and flinging herself on the bed, continu
ed bitterly weeping. She had exhibited her
self in a character which she despised ; and
her man under the bed would be the talk of
the neighborhood. I followed her, but neith
er of us could sleep.
The clock on the mantel piece struck eleven ;
and then “ tick, tick, tick,” it went on for the
next dreary hour. Julia at length ceased
weeping, and lay in thought, not only an oc
casional sigli betraying her wakefulness.
Again the clock struck, but it had not
reached the final stroke when Julia, leaping
out of bed, flung herself upon an immense
chest at the farther end of the room.
‘ Oh, Mary!” she cried, “quick! quick!
lie is here! I cannot hold the lid—he will
get out!”
There was. indeed, some living thing in
side the chest; for, in spite of Julia’s weight,
the lid was lifted, and then, as the instinct of
self-preservation overcame my terror, I sprang
quickly to her assistance.
AYliom or what had we caught ? Imagine
yourself holding down the lid of a showman’s
box, with a boa-constrictor writhing beneath,
or keeping a cage-top in its place by your
own weight alone, with a hyena struggling to
tear his way out and devourjrou.
But we were not long in suspense. Horrid
execrations, half German, half English, chill
ed our very hearts, and we knew that there,
in the midnight, only the lid of an old chest
was between ourselves and Hans Schmidt!
At times it started up, and once or twice
his fingers were caught in the opening! Then
finding our combined weight too much for his
strength, it would become evident that he was
endeavoring to force out an end of the chest.
But he could not work to an advantage.—
Cramped within such limits his giant power
of muscle was not wholly available ; he could
neither kick nor strike with full force; and
hence his chief hope rested upon his ability
to lift us up, lid and all.
Even then, in the absolute terror that might
have been supposed to possess her, a queer
feeling of exultation sprang up in Julia's
heart.
“I was right, Mar}*,” she cried. “They
j won’t think me a fool now, will they ? I
I shan't be ashamed to see Harry Irving,”
Poor Julia! under the circumstances, the
idea was really ludicrous; but nature every
where asserts itself, and Julia hated a coward.
Thump ! thump ! thump ! Lid, and side, and
end, alternately felt the cramped, powerful
blows. Then came the lift—the steady, strain
ing lift, and Julia cheered me when the cover
shook, and rose, and trembled.
“ lie can't get out, Mary ! We are safe ;
only just keep your full weight on the lid,
and don’t be n'ervous, either; it is almost
morning.”
She knew it was not one o’clock.
But one o'clock came. How I wished it
was five ! And two o’clock came, and three,
and four ; and we hoped that onr prisoner had
yielded to his fate, which must now appear to
him inevitable.
A small aperture at one end of the chest,
where there was a fracture in the wood, sup
plied him with air, and hence we could not
hope that he would become weak through suf
focation. He was evidently resting from the
very necessity of the case, for his exertions
had been prodigious. There was a faint
streak of morning in the sk} r ; and there, up
on the chest, we sat, and watched for the
gleam to broaden.
Suddenly there was a tremendous struggle
beneath ns, as if the ruffian had concentrated
all his energies in a final effort. At my end
of the chest there was a crash—and immedi
ately the German's feet protruded through the
aperture that they had forced in the board.
So horrible now appeared our position that I
uttered a scream, such as I do not think I
ever at any other time could have had the
power to imitate.
To get off the lid in order to defeat the
movement through the chest end, would have
instantly been our destruction ; therefore,
still bearing our weight on the chest, we caught
at the projecting feet. In doing this, how
ever, we partially lost our balance, and a sud
den bracing up of the muscular shape below
so forced open the lid that the head, arms and
shoulders of Ilans Schmidt were thrust forth,
and, with a fearful clutch, lie seized Julia by
the throat.
Just then a heavy crash was heard at the
door below, the foot tramps springing toward
ns as if some person were tearing up the
staircase with the full conviction that this was
an hour of need. The dim daybreak hardty
revealed his identity, but I had a faint per
ception that 3 T oung Harry Irving had come to
us in our hour of peril.
Some time during the morning I found my
self in bed with Julia, and several of the
neighbors standing about me. Julia clasped
me in her arms, and cried :
“We are safe, Mary ! Harry' Irving was
near the house all night. lie returned after
seeming to go home. The least scream he
would have heard as he at last heard yours;
but I am glad you did not scream before, for
now we have had an experience and know
what we can do.”
Hans Schmidt had decided upon the ehest
as a safer hiding-place than that in which
Julia had first discovered him.
Upon the very morning on which Harry-
Irving stunned and secured the ruffian in *r*ir
room, the officers of justice were searching
for the old Ilessian scoundrel as a supposed
murderer, and he was soon convicted and
hung.
Julia became the wife of Harry Irving, and
a most excellent wife she was. Magnani
mous and unrevengeful, she was perhaps the
only person who felt no gratification at the
fate of Hans Schmidt, but rather a pity for
the ignorance which had steeped him in
crime.
Up 3 An old farmer, living in the State of
Vermont, was in the habit of loaning money
at a usurious rate. He was, moreover, a
strict church member. One day a neighbor
called on him for the purpose of negotiating
a loan. The old farmer informed him that
he could have the money at the rate of nine
per cent. “Nine per cent!” exclaimed the
astonished neighbor ; “why that can't agree
with 3 r onr principle of Christianity. What,
will the Lord sax’s when he looks down from
above and sees you charge nine per cent,
when the legal rate is only six?” “Ah!
but,” exclaimed the farmer, “when the Lord
looks down from above, the figures will be
reversed, and the nine will look just like a
six.”
Col. Walter McArthur, "of Montgomery
county, tells us the following fish story, for
which we hope an impartial public will hold
him responsible, and ease up on us : “A man
in Montgomery county set a fish basket in
the Oconee river, and caught at one baiting
three catfish averaging six and a half feet long,
and making a total length of nineteen and a
half feet, and also about a bushel of smaller
cats. The basket was too heavy to lift into
the boat and had to be drawn through the
water to a sand bank on the shore, where it
was rolled out on and. The next time the
basket caught an alligator about nine feet
long.” Thus we have told the story as it was
told to us.— Hawkinsville Dispatch.
“Piety,” remarked an Arkansas preacher
to his congregation, the other day, “does not
consist in noise. The Lord can see you give
to the needy just as easily as he can hear you
pray the roof off.”
A curious feature of social existence in
Stark county, Ind., is that every widow in
the country owns a. cranberry swamp. In
consequence no married man dare buy one,
for fear that lie will shortly leave his wife one
of the noble band of cranberry widows.
An Englishman was boasting to a Yankee
that they had a book in the British Museum
which was once owned by Cicero. “Oh. that
ain’t nothin',” replied the Yankee; “in the
museum in Boston, they’ve got the lead pern
cil that Noah used to check off the animals
that went into the ark.”
“ My son,” said a mother to her little boy,
the other day. while he was reciting his cate
chism, “was God angry with Cain for killing
Abel?” “Yes, ma'am,” replied the bright
little fellow, “ and, if he had had a gun he
would have shot him.” -
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Whiskey is alike an internal furnace and
an infernal turn-us.
In New York prayer-meetings they” prav
for the editor of the Svv. There’s just where
people get foolish in religion. They expect
too much of it. —Cincinnati Times.
“No. dolly.” said a little girl to her china
baby, as she was going out yesterday after
noon, “ I tant take ’on down town ’id me—
’on ain’t dot no ‘ pin back !’ ”
An Indiana farmer, after drinking some
hard cider, endeavored to milk his pet mule,
and will, in consequence,'have to repair the
roof of his barn where his head went through.
“Six feet in his boots!” exclaimed Mrs.
Partington. “ what will the impudence of this
world come to, 1 wonder. Why, they might
as well tell me the man had six heads in Ids
hat.”
Customer : “ Look here, this photo’s abom
inable ! You've made me a perfect fright!”
Young Lady: “ Beg pardon, sir, but we
thought you wanted one of oqt guaranteed
correct likenesses.”
A Milwaukie paper says of the air. in its
relations to man: “It kisses and blesses
him. but will not obey him.” Blobbs sa3 r s
that description suits his wife exactly.
“ Rless you,” said John Henry, with tears
in his eyes, “ she takes her own ‘hair off so
easy that perhaps she doesn’t know how it
hurts to have mine pulled out.”
A prominent Detroit Universalist, some
months ago. married a red-headed widow with
four children, and last week lie remarked to
a friend : “ I was blind when I believed there
was no hell. I see now.”
A three-year-old boy asked his mother to
let him have his building bricks to play with ;
but she told her darling that it was Sunday,
and therefore not proper for him to have
them. “ But, mamma, I’ll build a church.”
lie got the bricks.
A man who was sentenced to be hung was
visited by his w T ife, who said: “My dear,
would j-ou like for the children to see you ex
ecuted ?” “ No,” replied he. “ That’s just
like }-ou,” said she, “ 3-ou never wanted the
children to have any enjoyment.”
Look here, gentlemen, whj- this howl against
ladies’ striped stockings ? It is 3'our solemn
didy as a respectable citizen to walk along
the street with your eyes on a level with
second stor}- windows, and it's none of 3’our
business what kind of stocking are shown on
the cross-walks. Anything’is preferable to a
barefooted woman.— Detroit Free Press.
“ What are the flats of a theatre ?” asked
a little girl who had been reading about the
scenery of anew piece. Her sister did not
quite understand the technical term, but sup
posed the flats are the young men who ar
range themselves in two files to stare and ogle
at the audience when it come out of a theatre
after the close of the performance.
“My young colored friend,” said an army
chaplain to a young negro, “ can you read ?”
“ Yes, sah I” “ Glad to hear it,” said the
chaplain; “shall I give a paper?” “Sartin,
massa, if j'ou please.” “ Very good,” con
tinued the. chaplain ; what paper would you
choose now ?” “ Well, massa,” said the med
itating negro, “ if you chews, I'll take a pa
per o’ terbacker.”
A doctor went out West to practice his pro
fession. An old friend met him on the street
one day, and asked him how he was succeed
ing in his business. “ First rate,’’ lie replied ;
“I’ve hadone case.” “Well, and what was
that ?” “It was a birth,” said the doctor.—
“ How did you succeed with that ?” “ Well,
the old woman died, and the child died, but
I think I’ll save the old man yet.”
“ You appear in anew role, don’t you, old
fellow ?” was what the impertinent young man
remarked as he dug a cock-roach out of the
fresh bread at the break fast table. A roseate
flush permeated the landlady’s pallid cheek.
A little five-year old friend, who was al
ways allowed to choose the prettiest kitten
for his pet and playmate, before the other
nurslings were drowned, was taken to his
mother’s sick-room the other morning to see
two tiny, new, twin babies, lie looked re
flectively from one to the other for a minute
or two, then poking his chubby finger into the
cheek of the plumpest baby, he said, decided
ly, “Save this one.”
“ Did you ever break a yoke of four-year
old steers ?” asked a Rock county (Iowa)
farmer of a young Janesville chap who want
ed to marry his daughter. “ No, I never did.”
was the meek reply. “ but I have rode a mule
in a circus, and had a good deal of other ex
perience in the world.” “No other experi
ence,” said the Granger. “ could qualify you,
young man, for trying to handle that girl,”
and the sad youth departed.
Be Not the First.
Oh. be not the first to discover
A blot in the fame of a friend,
A flaw in the faith of a lover
Whose heart may prove true to the end.
We none of us know one another,
And oft into error we fall;
Then let us speak well of a brother,
Ur speak not about him at all.
A smile or a sigh may awaken.
.Suspicion most false and undue.
And then our belief may be shaken
In hearts that are honest and true.
llow oft the light smile of gladness
Is worn by the friends that we meet,
To cover n soul full of sadness—
Too proud to acknowledge defeat.
How oft the sigh of dejection
Is heated from the hypocrite's breast,
To parody truth and affection,
To lull a suspicion to rest.
II ow often the friends we hold dearest,
Their noble emotions conceal;
And bosoms, the purest, sincerest,
Have secrets they cannot reveal.
Leave base minds to harbor suspicion
And small ones to trace out defects ;
Let ours be a noble ambition,
For base is the mind, that suspects.
We none of fn> know one another,
And oft into error we fall;
Then let us speak well of a brother,
Or sneak not about him at all.
$ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
} SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
Two story railroad coaches is the latest
Swiss idea.
Somebody figures out that we are to have
twenty-six snow-storms this winter.
A baby without a spine has ventured into
the world by way of East Haven, Conn.
Again do we have to paj’ our attention to
this mongrel ichetp.-—[Beginning of a Mitosis
ni/tpi editorial.
The water is so low in some of the Western
rivers that the catfish have to stand on their
heads to breathe.
The 25th day of November is proclaimed
by President Grant as the National Thanks*
giving Day.
Twenty cigars per head are annually man
ufactured for every man, woman and child in
the United States.
President Grant weighs one hundred and
eighty-seven pounds. Good living and good
“licker” alwa\*s tell.
Forty-five thousand pounds of grapes from
four acres, have beeu raised this year bj r
Coon Brothers, of Winchester, Pennsylvania.
A pod of Chinese okra, the size and Bhape
of a policeman’s club, was on exhibition at
the Augusta Exchange the other day.
Something very extraordinary about the
Mormons is that 85 per cent, of the children
born arc males, and there are no dark-eyed or
dark-haired ones.
The Griffin papers are stirring up the hos
pitality of the citizens for the North Georgia
Conference which commences December Ist,
in that place.
There are said to be 1,000,000,000 bees in
California. There may be one more or less,
but for ordinary stinging he wouldn’t lie
missed.
A St. Louis woman professes to know per
sonally, twenty-two women who have become
bald by wearing ponderous heaps of false
hair.
The Territorial Enterprise reports that in
Nevada there.is plenty of money to loan to
those who don’t want it. That is very much
the case elsewhere.
At the Democratic procession at Aberdeen,
Mississippi, last week, two thousand mount
ed voters of Monroe county were in line, in
cluding fonr hundred colored men.
Birth—the wife of Judge Thamas J. Gunn,
Smithville, Clay county, Mo., on the 21)th of
September, of a son. Mother and child are
doing well. The former is aged 77.
A pair of canaries last week made the trip
from Nebraska to Richmond, Va. They came
by Express, and, attached to the cage, was a
tag bearing an appeal to passengers along the
route to care for them.
Thousands of emigrants and artisans are
emigrating back to their old homes in Eu
rope on account of the hard times and scarcity
of work in the tlnited States. Two hundred
embarked at Philadelphia in one day last
week.
In these days of labor-saving devices, lazy
rustics will rejoice to know that a Vermonter
has invented a churn wdiich can be so adjust-
ed to a vjagon that all a man has to do is to
pick up his reins, drive a mile or so, and
presto—the butter's made.
Will wonders never cease ? A recent dis
covery in telegraphing has been experiment
ed upon in Belgium lately. One operator
sent simultaneously to Ostend and Antwerp,
from Brussels, the same dispatch at the rate
of 600 words a minute. From Ostend to
Brussels a dispatch was sent at the rate of
1,002 words a minute.
A young man in Macon, whose father is
very deaf, fell over a barrel hbop in the .yard
the other day, and immediately began to
abuse matters arul things generally.
this time the old man came along, and
ing that his son was very red in the t&ibqi&n
qnired as to the cause. “ I was coftpttfcg the
strokes of the town clock,” Hue es>
asperated yonth. “Well,” sabitthe orfdawm,
testily, “you needn't hold y,*ssf hresgU torda
that.”
A Toccoa correspoiufent of the Union, <s*
Recorder writes that tiie> Whitehead family*,
of Toccoa mountain,, beat all creation foyr
throwing physic todlle dogs. Be says.-:- *dlrs.,
Whitehead is lias raised twelve dbsSdren,.
has 36 ai*V for Baesafcer of
her own or efti-Trtreivfc.-ftlroiftes ita<> a pnysteiaa.
vet been summoned. And 5 l m told the old;
lady herself never had a doctor to.see her,.
We haven't heard of ex-Goyernor and' exv
General Wise. ©TYirgioia, in a long timev.bn.fc
the oftT gentleman is neither dead nor
by long odds. He made a speech at Snow
lIrTL MoL, last week, during which, it is saijd,
he declared that he was an “ unconquered and
unrepentant Confederate ” .In a putdie speed*
at Newtown, in answer to a serenade he pro
nounced strongly lor hard money ; declared
his purpose never to take the test oath ; be-,
lieved the cause of the South in the late war
just, but declared his love for the stars and
stripes ; gave some good, sound advioetothe
farming community ; paid a high compliment
to the mechanic and working man, and said
that one lady was worth ten men,
NUMBER £3.