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av THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. j VOLUME I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, the Jnck^OJ 1 Uomily l*iil>lisliiii W" 4 ompnnv. jEFFERdoX JACkSbtf COOA. ° n .rF N. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAII#. OFFI* 1 JST 3L m-Jk JtA MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING AND BUSINESS EDITOR. —Jll *-y JF k 11 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f ? One copy 12 m0nth5....,.,* $2.00 „ (i “ 1.00 , 4 u ;{ “ .50 every (Tub of Ten subscribers, an ex tnicopy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Oxk Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. Vll Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. gafllusmess or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Sf.vf.NDollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Advertising. 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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. ‘ ~ V . ... i ... ■i■ . . 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.