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The Fading and Falling Leaves
Of antmirn are just now admirably typical of
the fading awl falling hopes of the Southern
Democracy. A month ago we were in all
the vigor of the green leaf—perl taps very
green to l>e so; but so it was. We were
strong in the faith that the era of lawless
rule and baronet government was drawing j
to a close, and Federal usurpation would
next year meet with so signal a popular
rebuke as to revive the hopes of the friends
of liberty and republican government
throughout the world—rehabilitate the public
conscience and morals—reinaugurate an era
of constitutional law. adminstrative integrity
and responsibility, and take us, as a nation,
once more out of the arid wilderness of
bayonet rule and official tyranny and corrup
tion. We felt that the popular tide set that
way, and was bound to overflow the coun
try.
But we don’t feci so now. Everybody is
counting on the possibility of more Grant
ism. and this is not so much from what has
happened in the way of elections, as what
we feel ought to have happened. We know
that the Ohioans have polled some 80,000
more Democratic votes than they have ever
done before, but we feel sure that, with a
proper alignment they should have carried
the day. We are in the situation of an army
without confidence in the generalship which
directs it. We fear that the Democracy has
lost the strategic and tactical ability winch
once directed its fortunes, as well as those
high, broad, generous principles and motives
and tolerant policy which animated it. The
example of Ohio, throwing aside her invinci
ble armory of Democratic weapons, and
investing the fortunes of American Demo
cracy on a private little financial dogmatism
of her own, was disheartening in the extreme.
And the misfortune was not bettered by the
haughty dictatorial spirit with which she in
turn was assaulted by the Northern and
Eastern Democratic leaders.
Every one saw that this side-show business
was lound to ruin the whole performance:
and as it becomes more and more evident
that the actors and enactors don't mean to
listen to reason and harmonize, we are being
most unwillingly forced to the conclusion
that the Great, Centennial Exposition of the
American Democracy must end in a dead
faliure for the want of competent managers,
and the entire stock and properties go to the
block at an enormous sacrifice.
If this should happen, strange to say, both
the Democratic inflaters and contractionists
may sec thair projects carried out, after a
sort. The inflaters will see plenty of curren
cy, such as it may be—from “Good for a
Drink” to every other kind of merchandise
and transportation certificate—and the hard
cts kind of a hard money man may gloat
himself with the agony of paying eight, hun
dred millions ol taxes yearly with less than
three hundred millions sum total of currency
applicable to purpose. When all this
conies about on the resumption bill of 1861),
we shall be prepared to admire that felicitous
stupidity which reconstructed Grant’s shoul
der strap dynasty on such a ditferenee of
financial opinion as that which now divides
and paralyzes the American Democracy.—
Tel. <s•
The “Stonewall” Brigade.
BEAURKGARI)’S ACCOUNT OF HOW TIIF. NAME
ORIGINATED.
Tn a letter to the New Orleans Picayune,
General Beauregard says:
During the battle of Manassas, about elev
en o’clock a. m., when that gallant and mer
itorious officer, Brigadier General Barnard E.
Bee, was endeavoring to rally his troops in
the small valley in the rear of the Robinson
House, he noticed .Jackson's brigade, which
had just arrived and taken position a little
in the rear of him, in a copse of small pines
bordering on the edge of the plateau where
was about to be fought the first great battle
of the war. Bee, finding that his appeals were
unheeded by his brave but disorganized troops,
then said to them : “ Rally, men, rally ! See
Jackson’s brigade standing there like a stone
wall.” These words gave the appelation to
the brigade, and thence to its heroic com
mander.
The other incident occurred at the delivery
of the Confederate battle flags to my forces
at Centerville, in the autumn of 1861. Many
of these flags had been made from ladies' red
silk dresses, some of which were much faded,
but nevertheless highly appreciated by our
troops. The brigade had been drawn up in
columns of regiments on the plateau of Cen
terville. around a small elevation, where were
stacked all the flags for distribution. The
Colonels of regiments inarched to the front
and formed a line near the colors. After
addressing a few remarks to these officers, I
handed each one in succession a flag. When
I came to Col. Withers, he remarked : “Gen
eral. it is nearly white, and may be mistaken
for a flag of truce.” I answered at once :
“ Then, sir, dye it in the blood of our enemies,”
which lie promised, laughingly, to do. But
he had occasion to dve it more than once in
his own gallant blood, and finally he was so
desperately wounded that he had to be put
on post duty toward the end of the war.
iW The Augusta Chronicle awl Sentinel of
Tuesday chronicles a strange death : “Mrs.
Joseph W. Judkins, wife of J. W. Judkins,
Assistant United States Marshal, and daugh
ter of Capt. Wm. M. Moore, United States
Revenue Collector, died in this city last
Sunday morning of erysipelas. Mrs. Jud
kins some days since noticed a small pimple
on her chin. She prickod it with a needle,
and from this small puncture the disease
which caused her death ensued.”
John King, in 1862. lived in Tennessee.—
Soldiers of both armies raided on his farm.
So he removed all his produce to a cave, in
the Cumberland mountain. A storm threw
down a rock which closed the mouth of the
cave. Therein he lived for thirteen years in
the dark, eating from his produce and drink
ing from a spring. The other day a railway
company blasting for a tunnel blasted him
out. So says a paper.
The other day a would-be fashionable lady
called at a neighbor's, at what she thought
would be supper time. “Come in,” said the
neighbor, “we are having tableaux.” “ I'm
so glad, said the visitor, “ 1 thought I smelt
cm, and like em better than anything for
supper.”
Truth is one of the rarest gems. Many a
youth has been lost to society by allowing it
to tarnish, and foolishly’ throwing it awav.—
It this gem still shines in your bosom, suffer
nothing to displace or dim its lustre.
An old Grecian philosopher advises all men
to “know themselves.” That is advising a
good many to form very low and disreputable
acquaintances.
JITil WOLF.
HOW ITE FAILED TO <;AB THE TOM OATS, BUT
SPOILED A CANDY PULL.
I knew by the sympathetic glow upon his
bald head—l knew by the thoughtful look
upon hi* face —l knew by the emotional flush
upon tlie strawberry on the end of tiie old
free liver's nose, that Simon Wheeler’s mem
ory was busy with the olden times. And so
I prepared to leave, because all these were
reminiscences—but I was too slow ; he got
the start of me. Anearl vas I can recollect,
I the infliction was couched in the following
language:
“We were all boys then and didn't care
for nothing, and didn't have no trouble, and
didn't worry about npthing only to shirk
school and Keep up a revivin’ state of devil
ment all the time. This yah Jim Wolf I was
talking ’bout was the ’prentice, and he was
the best hearted feller, he was, and the most
forgivin’ an onselfish I ever see—well, there
couldn’t be a more bullier bov than he was,
take him how you would, and sorry enough
was I when I saw him for the last time.
Me and Henry was always pestering him
and plastering horse hills on his back and
putting bumble laics in his bed, and so on,
and sometimes we and crowd in bunk with him
not'thstanding his growling, and then we'd
let on to’get mad and fight across him, so as
to keep him stirred up like, lie was nine
teen, he was, and long, and lank, and bash
ful. and we was nrteen and sixteen, and tol
erably lazy and worthless.
So, that night you know, that my sister
Mary gave a candy-pullin', they started us on
to bed early, so as tlie company could have
full swing, and wc run in on Jim to have
some fun. •
Our winder looked out onto the roof of the
ell, and about ten o'clock a pair of old tom
cats got to rarin' and chargin’ around it and
carrying on like sin. There was four inches
of snow on thft roof, and it was frozen so that
there was a right smart crust of ice on it, and
the moon was shining bright, and wc could
sec them cats like daylight. First they’d
stand off and e-yow yow-yow, just the same
as if the}’ was a cussin' one another, you
know, and bow up their backs and push up
their tails and swell around and spit, and then
all of a sudden the grey cat he'd snatch a
handful of fur out oftheyaller cat's ham, and
spin him around like a button oil a barn door.
But the yaller cat was game, and he'd come
and clinch, and the way they’d gouge, and
bite and howl, and the way they'd make the
fur fly, was powerful.
Well, Jim, he got disgusted with the row,
and "lowed he'd climb out there and shake
him off'ii that roof. He hadn't reely no no
tion of doin’ it. likely, but wc everlastingly
dogged him, and bully-ragged him, and ’low
ed he'd always bragged how he wouldn’t take
a dare, and so on, till bimeby lie highsted up
the winder, and 10, and behold you, he went
—went exactly as lie was, nothing on but a
shirt, and it was short, but you ought to see
him. Von ought to see him cre-e-pin’ over
that ice. and diggin’ his toe-nails and finger
nails in to keep from slippin’; and’bove all,
you ought to seen that shirt-tail flappin’ in
the wind, and them long, ridickulous shanks
of iiis glistenin’ in t-iie moon dig lit.
Them company folks was down there un
der them eaves, and the whole scpiad of ’em
under that ornery shed of old Washin'ton
Bower vines—all settin’ round about two
dozen sassers of hot candy, which they’d sot
in the snow to cool. And they was talkin’
and laughin’ lively; but bless you, they didn’t
know nothin’ 'bout the panorama that was
goiu’ on over their heads. Well, Jim, he went
a-snea-kln up, unbeknowns to them tom cats
—they was a switchin’ their tails and yow
yowin' and threatenin' to clinch, you know,
and not payin' atiy attention—he went asnea
kin’ right up to the comb of the roof, till he
was in a loot’ft half of ’em, and then all of a
sudden he made a grab for the yaller cat!—
But by gosh he missed fire and slipped his
holt and his heels flew up and he flopped on
hfs back, and shot off n that roof like a dart!
—went a slashin’ and a eras bin’ down thro’'
them old rusty vines, and landed right in the
centre of them eomp’ny people !—sot down
like a yearthquak© in them two dozen sassers
of red-hot candy, and let off a howl that was
hark f’m the tomb ! Them gals—well, they
looked, yoirknow. They see he wasn’t dress
ed for conin’ny,' and so they left. All done
in a second—it was just one little-war-whoop
and a win ah I of their dresses, and blame the
wench of ’em was in sight anywhere !
Jim he was a sight. lie was germed with
that bilin’ hot molasses candy clean down to
his heels, and had more busted sassers bang
in' to him than if he was an Injun princess—
and he come a prancin’ up stairs just a-whoop
iT and cussin,’ and every jump he gave he
shed some china and every squirm he fetched
he dropped some candy !
And blistered ! Why bless your soul, that
poor cretur couldn't reelv set down comfort
able for as much as four weeks.” —Mark
Twain.
LV This, according to an Atlanta Herald
correspondent, is the way in which Judge
Ilansell rids rhomasville of the presence of
colored desperadoes : C’has. Davidson, the
mulatto l>oy. wlto broke into the house , of
Judge R. 11. Hardaway one night during the
past summer, and who, upon being seized by
the Judge, snapped a pistol at him, was
yerterday sentenced by Judge Ilansell to
forty years in the penitentiary.
Tin: LaGrange Reporter states that
marrying is getting quite common in that
section notwithstanding the hard times. At
a Baptist association last Sunday morning
seventeen newly mated couples put in an
appearnce. Twelve of them had been mar
ried that morning.
Milan, Tenn., Erehamjc: A sow on the
farm of Mr. Joseph Williams, one mile east
of town, gave birth to two lambs one day r last
week. These remarkable “pigs” are still
living.
A Parting.
“ Bood-by, then !” And ho turned away,
No other word between them spoken;
You hardly could have guessed that day
llow close a bond was broken.
The faint slight tremor of the hand
That clasped her own in that brief parting,
Only her heart could understand,
\\ ho saw the toar-drops starting—
Who felt a sudden snrge of doubt,
Come rushing hack unbidden o'er her,
As with words her life without,
llis presence loomed up before her.
The others saw, the others heard
A calm, cold man, a gracious woman,
A quiet, brief farewell, unstirred
By aught at all uncommon.
She knew a solemn die was cast,
She knew that two paths now must sever,
That one familiar step had passed
Out of her life forever.
To all the rest it merely meant
A trivial parting, lightly spoken ;
She read the bitter mute intent.
She knew—a heart was broken !
SUNDAY READING.
“THE THORN IN THE FLESH.”
Concerning the “small worries” which 90
to make up a vast sum of human misery, the
Biblical Recorder says:
The Christian world has long been guess
ing what Paul’s thorn in the flesh was." We
have a book that in ten pages tries to show
what Paul's thorn was not, and in another
ten pages tries to show what it was.
Many of the theological doctors have felt
Paul’s pulse to see what was the matter with
him. We suppose the reason he did not tell
us what it was, may have been because he
did not want 11s to know. lie knew that if
he stated what it was, there would have been
a great many people from Corinth bothering
him with prescriptions as to how he might
cure it.
Some say it was diseased eyes—some that
it was a humped back. It may have been
neuralgia. Perhaps it was gout, although
his active habits and a sparse diet throw
doubt on the supposition. Suffice it to say,
it was a thorn—that is, it stuck him. It was
sharp.
It was probably of not much account in
the eyes of the world. It was not a trouble
that could be compared to a lion, or a
boisterous sea. It was like a thorn that you
may have in your hand or foot and no one
know it. Thus we see that it becomes a
type of those little nettlesoine worries of life
that exasperate the spirit.
Every one has a thorn sticking to him.
The housekeeper finds it in unfaithful domse
tics ; or an inmate who keeps things disor
dered ; or a house too small for convenience,
or too small to be kept cleanly. The profes
sional man finds it in perpetual interruptions
or calls for “more cop} 7 .” The Sunday
school teacher finds it in inattentive scholars
or neighboring teachers that talk loudly, and
make a great noise in giving a little instruc
tion. One man has a rheumatic joint which,
when the wind is northwest, lifts the storm
signal. Another, a business partner who
takes full half the profits, but does not help
to earn them. These trials are the more
nettlesome because, like Paul’s thorn, they
are not to be mentioned. Men get sympathy
for broken bones and mashed feet, but not
for the end of sharp thorns that have been
broken off in the fingers.
Let us start ont with the idea that we
must have annoyances. It seems to take a
certain number of them to keep us humble,
wakeful, and prayerful. To Paul the thorn
was as disciplinary as the shipwreck. If it
is not one thing, it is another. If the stove
does not smoke then the boiler must leak.
If the pen is good the ink must be poor. If
the thorn does not pierce the knee, it must
take you in the back. Life must have sharp
things in it, we cannot make up our robe of
Christian character without pins and needles.
We want what Paul got: grace to bear
these things. Without it we become cross,
censorious, and irascible. We get in the
habit of sticking our thorns into other
people’s fingers. But. God helping us, we
place these annoyances in the category of
the “all things work together for good.” We
see how much shorter thorns are than the
spikes that stuck through the palms of
Christ's hand, and, remembering that He had
on 11 is head a whole crown of thorns, we
take to ourelves the consolation that if we
suffer with Him on earth, we shall be glori
• • • VO
fied with Him in Heaven.
But how could Paul positively rejbice in
these infirmities? The school of Christ has
three classes of scholars: In the first class
we learn howto be stuck with thorns without
losing our patience : in the second class we
learn how to make the sting positively
advantageous; in the third class of this
school we learn how even to rejoice in being
pierced and wounded—but that is the senior
class, and when we get to that, we are near
graduation into glory.
GOOD IMPRESSIONS.
“ God’s Spirit only can render good
impressions lasting. When Daguerre w r as
working at his sun-pictures, his great diffi
culty was to fix them. The light came and
imprinted the image; but when the tablet,
was drawn from the camera the image had
vanished. Our lamentation is like his—our
want the same ; a fixing solution that shall
arrest and detain the fugitive impressions.
He discovered the chemical power which
turned the evanescent into the durable.
There is a divine agency at hand that can
fix the truth upon the heart of man—God’s
llolv Spirit.”
RPSays the Presbyterian Banner: —No
man will promptly develop as a Christian
who lives in a state of quarrel. In enmity
against God, he is of course not a Christian
at all; but reconciled to him, he must remain
a dwarf, unless he secures peace with those
around him. Fighting the brethren, fighting
angrily in behalf of reform, contending w r ith
bitter words and hard strife for even the best
of doctrines, he will stunt the growth of a di
vine life within him. Even fighting against
sin is not to be done in a quarrelsome way,
but in a spirit of honoring God, while abhor
ring sin and pitying the sinner. We are to
conduct a warfare, but our fight is to be a
“good” one, which means that it is to be di
rected against wrong and in favor of right,
and also that it is to be waged so that in the
darkest day of defeat we may be able to say,
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what
they do.”
load of toil, and sin, and care;
the heavy burdens which our weary hands
are daily’ called upon to carry for a wise pur
pose, will be taken away from us some day,
not here in this sad world, but in a better
and a brighter one, and by the hand of our
Father in Heaven. Let us remember that
in the blessed home of Jesus there is no toil,
no aching heart, no throbbing brain, no
doubt, no sorrow; hope becomes fruition,
and sorrowing love is crowned with everlast
ing bliss. Bear with the sorrows of earth,
remembering the beatitude of Heaven, which
is given to all who trust and believe.
The grandest operations, both in nature
and in grace, are silent and imperceptible.
The shallow brook babbles in its passage, and
is heard by every one ; but the coming of the
seasons is silent and unseen. The storm ra
ges and alarms, but its fury is soon exhaust
ed. and its effects are soon remedied ; but the
dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense
in quantity, and the very life of large portions
of the earth. And these are pictures of the
operations of grace in the Church and in the
soul.
( W Best of all, is it to preserve everything
in a pure, still heart, and let there be for
every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every’
breath a song.
Life is a short day’, but it is a working day.
Activity may’ lead to evil, but inactivity can
not lead to good.
THE FARM.
From Ag. Depar't Nashville American.
CAUSE OF SMUT IN WHEAT.
This is the season for sowing wheat in the
South, and everyone who attempts to raise a
bushel of this grain should know how to pre
vent the growth of smut which is a foul and
blighting parasite. We regret to see a mis
take made by Mr. Lynch Turner, chairman
of a committee of the Pulaski Grange in this
State, appointed to examine into the cause of
smut in wheat, having a wide circulation in
agricultural papers as a matter of fact to be
relied on by farmers. Thereportof this com
mittee was first published in the Rural Sun,
with editorial indorsement. The material
part of the report is copied in the Rural New
Yorker which says: “This is an important
subject, and which Granges. Farm Clubs and
individual farmers throughout the country
should investigate. This association of farm
ers recently becoming so popular and success
ful, inaugurates anew era in the progress of
American agriculture,” etc.
The error into which a half dozen agricul
tural papers have been led, and the Pulaski
Grange Committee in the first start of this
nominal investigation, has its origin in the
fact that all these intelligent and respectable
writers for the press entirely overlook the care
ful observations and studies of men of science,
aided by microscopes applied to the investi
gation of parasites on wheat during the last
two hundred years. This is one among a
thousand cases where book knowledge has
great value to the farmer to prevent serious
mistakes. Not to do Mr. Turner a seeming
justice, we copy from his published report as
follows :
“There is a small, brownish bug, about the
size of a buffalo gnat, which makes its ap
pearance soon after harvest time, and depos
its eggs in the cleft of wheat grain. These
eggs are, of course, sown with the wheat in
the fall, and when germination takes place
these eggs are enveloped in the plume and
carried upward in the future growth of the
stem until, perhaps the latter part of May,
when those conditions favorable to insect life
obtain, and may be found in one or more of
the lower joints of the stem—rarely above the
second from the top. At harvest time, they
may be seen with the naked eve.”
No one has shown that the eggs of insects
circulate in the microscopic sap-vessels of
wheat and other plants, nor through the
smaller pores in the cells of plants. Animals
and plants live on wheat simultaneously ; but
a smut-bug no more produces smut than chil
dren that eat wheat bread. All see the ab
surdity of sa3*ing that the life in a horse can
produce the life in an ear of corn, making an
animal the father and mother of a well known
grain. But the black mass of smut that oft
en grows on the seeds and stalks of corn,
and in the seeds of wheat, oats and barley, is
as much a plant as any cereal can be, and
like cereals has germs derived from parents,
which reappear in offspring, descending like
the vitality in man himself from one genera
tion to another. Two species of smut-fungi
are propagated by slovenly farmers in the
seeds of wheat—one, the wredo segetum, and
the other wredo fuetuid. The spores of these
parasites are killed bx r washing seed wheat
in strong briue, and letting it lie in brine an
hour. Should it remain in brine too long it
will destroy the life of the wheat and render
the seed valueless. Nothing is easier than
to infect clean wheat with smut, and raise
infected plants, with no bugs or other insects
near the plants. Thousands of experiments
of this kind have been tried. In 184fi, Gen.
Ilarmond, a distinguished red wheat grower
in the town of Wheatland, New York, showed
the writer a head of smut wheat with small
live bugs in the seeds, like bugs in English
peas. He claimed that the bugs caused the
smut. We made a plenty of smut with the
bugs left out from his seed. Take a sack in
which smutty wheat has been handled, and
put into a quart of as pure wheat, washed in
Milestone, chamberlcy, or whatever else you
please, that does not kill the germs in the
grain, having the salts to kill the smut, wash
ed off, and the second infection from the sack
will be perfect, anp the harvest a crop of smut
as well as one of wheat, when the quart of
seed has been sown in the usual way. Noth
ing is easier than to raise a crop of cockle, a
crop of cheat and a crop of smut b} r planting
the seed. The parasites known by the names
of rust and mildew are not so easily prevent
ed ; they are, however, blights that belong to
the same class of enemies. Draining swamps
and clean culture tend to dry the atmosphere
and keep at a distance those microscopic cells
and germs that produce malarial diseases in
man and his domestic animals, and very sim
ilar maladies in all plants whose seeds and
Units form human blood, and that of cattle.
LiPMr. David of Camilla, Mitchell
county, in Southwestern Georgia, where snow
never falls and the ground seldom freezes,
and where the original pine forest is carpet
ed with native grass, says his sheep—3,soo
in number —cost him annually fourteen cents
per head ;,clip three pounds of unwashed wool,
which sells at thirty cents per pound, giving
a clear profit of ninety per cent, on the money
and labor invested in sheep. Lands suited
to sheep-raising can be purchased in that sec
tion of the State for from $1.50 to $lO per
acre, according to location. Mr. Ay’ers does
not feed his sheep at any time during the year,
neither has he introduced the improved breeds
using only what is known as the native sheep.
Extraordinary Corn. —Mr. Joseph Rut
ledge, who is farming for Col. F. A. Frost,
has raised some very remarkable corn, a stalk
of which is on exhibition at Col. Frost’s store.
Out of every joint grows a shoot or branch,
and on the end of each branch is a good-sized
well developed ear of corn—not a “nubbin.”
There are eight joints on the stalk, and con
sequently eight branches and eight ears. The
ears on the bottom branches are the smallest
and they increase in size towards the top—
the highest ears being the largest. This corn
was raised by accident. The seed was in a
sack of common western corn, and there are
only four stalks of Jhis remarkable growth.—
LuGtange Reporter.
corn can and should be raised
in the Soyth. It will grow on any soil where
bread corn will—and yields from five hundred
to two thousand pounds per acre, and requires
but little care. It is planted closely in drills
four feet apart; and as it soon out-grows the
weeds it needs but little work. The lowest
yield is five hundred pounds per acre, and
this at ten cents (it is two to five cents more)
per pound makes a crop worth as much as
cotton, with far less trouble.
BPTho LaGrange Reporter says Mr. L.
Strong, of that county, has gathered this year,
from an acre and a half of well improved land
without invoking the aid of home-made or
commercial fertilizers, one hundred and five
bushels of corn, eight loads of peavine hay,
and fodder and peas in proportion,
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AY. M. BURROW,
P. O. Box 58, Bristol, Tenn.
Jackson County.
Ordered, by the Board of Commissioners of
Roads and Revenue of said county, that one hun
dred per cent, is hereby assessed on the State tax
for county purposes, specifically as follows :
Two-tenths of one per cent., to payjurors
and bailiffs attending the Sup’or Court
of said sounty, amounting to $3,479 53
One and a quarter tenths of one per cent.,
to pay the expenses of public bridges
of said county, amounting to 2,174 70
One-half tenth of one per cent., to pay
the Jail expenses of said county,
amounting to 869 88
One-quarter tenth of one per cent., to
raise a pauper fund for said county,
amounting to 434 94
One-tenth of one per cent., to raise a
contingent fund to pay lawful demands
that may come against said county—
there being no special fund to meet
them—amounting to 1,739 76
Aggregate $8,698 81
WM. SEYMOUR, 1
W. J. HAYNIE, ICom'rs.
W. G. STEED, j
A true extract from the minutes of the Com
missioners Court of Roads and Revenue of Jack
son county. T. 11. NIBLACK, Clerk.
To Debtors and Creditors.
NOl'Mil —All persons indebted to the Es
tate of W. T. Green, late of said county, de
ceased. will please come forward and settle ; and
all persons having claims against said deceased,
will present them, in terms of law, without delay,
to the undersigned, W. J. COLQUITT,
Oct Hi Administrator.
DIRECTORY
JEFFERSON BUSINESSMREc^
PROFESSIONS
Physicians... J. I). &H.j. lL t
ter, N. W. Panthers, J. 0. Hunt '
Atty’s AT Law.... J. B. Silman Ar ,
.J. A. B. Mahatfey, W. C. Howard \f \i 14
P. F. Hinton, R. S. Howard. ’* “ ’bla;.
merchants.
Pendergrass & Hancock, F. M. ma
& Pinson, Win. S. Thompson. ' • v ’
MECHANICS
Carpenters.. . Joseph P. 4Yilli ainsfm e
J. P. Williamson, Jr. mson >
Harness Maker... John G. Oakes
Wagon Makers... Win. AVinkurn
llay, (col.) 1 •"<*?
Buggy Maker...L. Qilleland.
Blacksmith. ..C. T. Story.
Ttnner... John H. Chapman.
Tanners... J. E. & IT. J. Randolph
Boot and Shoe-Makers... N. B. start-
Forest News office ; Seaborn M. Stark iJ|
S. Thompson’s store.
HOTELS.
Randolph House, by Mrs. Randolph
North-Eastern Hotel, by John sw
Public Boarding House, bv Mrs l' s
Worsham.
Liquors. Seoars. &c... J. L. Bailer
Grist and Saw-Mill and Gin j n *
J. Long. u * 4 t
Saw-Mill and Gin...F. S. Smith.
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COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECTOR?
Martin Institute. —J. W. Glenn. PrinCn,’
P. Orr, Assistant; Miss M. E. Orr. a.JI
Miss Lizzie Burch, Music.
Centre Academy— L. M. Lyle, Principal
Galilee Academy. — A. L. Barge, Princin;
Harmony Grove Academy. —R. S. Chernov,
cipal.
Murk Academy. —J. 11. McCarty, PrincipJ
Oak Grove Academy —Mrs. A. C. P,
Principal.
Academy Church. — J. J. Mitchell, Princmj
Duke Academy. — Mrs. 11. A. Deadwvlerc.
cipal.
Park Academy. —Miss V. C. Park. Princi-
Chapel Academy. —AY. 11. Hill. Principal'
Holly Spring Academy — AV. P. Newman, jv
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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF
Athens nail arrives at Jefferson on
days and Saturdays, at 10 o’clock, A. M.,ain
parts same days at 12 o’clock, M.
Gainesville mail arrives at Jefferson on W->
days and Saturdays, at 11 o'clock. A.M..®,;,
parts same days at 12 o'clock, M.
Lawrenceville mail arrives at Jefferson on S
days, at 12 o’clock, M, and departs samedivt
o'clock, P. M.
F. L. Pendergrass, Dep'vPj
,MAGISTRATES AND BAILIFFS
Jefferson District, No. 245, N. 11. Penderna
J. P.; 11. T. Fleeman, J. P. John M. Bint
Constable.
Clark esborougli District, No. 212, F. M. Hs|
day, J. P.; AT. B. Smith, J. P.
Miller's District. No. 45a, H. F. Kidd. J. P.
Chandler’s District, No. 240, Ezekiel Hm
J. P. ; J. (J. P,arson. J. P
Randolph’s District. No. 248, Pinckney
Pirkle, J. I’.; Jas. A. Straynge, J. P.
Cunningham's District, No. 428, J. A. Bra
ton, J. P.; T. K. Randolph, -J. P.
Newtown District. No. 253, G.AA\ O'Kellv.
P. ; T. -T. Stapler. Not. Pub. & Kx. Off. •I.l’,
Minnish's District. No. 255. Z. AV. Hood,],
Harrisburg District, No. 257, Win. M. Morp
•J. P. ; J. AV. Pruitt. J. P.
House's District, No. 24.4. A. A. Hi11..1.1’.
Santafee District. No. 1042. AV. K. Boyd, .J.
S. G. Arnold. J. P.
Wilson's District. No. 40.">, AV. J. Comer. J.
MU NIC! PA L OFFICERS OFJEFFFM
AV. 1. Pike, Mayor; J. P. Williamson, Sr.
I. N. AVilson. R. J. Hancock. Aldermen; Tl
Xiblack. Esq., Clerk & Treasurer; J. 11. lto
Ma rslial.
JACKSON SI PERIOD CO CRT.
'llox. GEO. D. RICE, - - - J"
EMORY SPEER, Esq., - - Sol. (k
COUNTY OFFICERS.
WILEY C. HOWARD, - - - - or-linfl
M. M. PITTMAN. - - Judge C.<*
TIIOS. 11. XI BLACK. - - - Clerk S.(V
JOHN S. HUNTER,
WINN A. WORSHAM. - - - Deputy
LEE J. JOHNSON, ----- Trw
JAMES 1,. WILLI AMSON. - - Tax folia 1
GEO. W. BROWN. " KecfW
JAMES L. JOHNSON, - - County Sum) 1
WM. WALLACE. - - - ۥ
G. J. N. WILSON. County School Coniine
Commissioners (Roads and RkvenixM 1
Seymour, W. .1. Ilaynie, AY. G. Steed. Mw'
the Ist Fridays in August and November. 1
Nildack. Esq., Clerk.
CP L-V T l' 67/ L'R CH DI RECTOR Y.
METHODIST.
Jefferson Circuit. —Jefferson. Harmony
Dry Rond, Wilson's, Holly Springs. AV.A
ris, P. C.
Mulberry Circuit. —Ebenezcr. Bethlehem. 1
cord. Centre and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. J
Anderson. P. C.
Chapel and Antioch supplied from fists#
villc Circuit.
PRESBYTERIAN. ,
Thyatira. Rev. G. 11. Cartledge. Pastor: S*’ 1
Creek, Rev. Neil Smith, Pastor; Pleasantnc
Rev. G. 11. Cartledge, Pastor; Mizpah, Ket.*
Smith, Pastor.
BAPTIST. ,
Cabin Creek, W. R. Goss. Pastor: ll rr p
Grove. W. B. J. Hardeman. Pastor; Zion.' 1 ;
•J. M, Davis. Past.; Bethabra, Rev. G. L. IbP.'
Pastor; Academy, Rev. J. X. Coil. l/\
Walnut. Rev. J. M. Davis. Pastor:
Creek. W. F. Stark, Pastor; Oconee Chunn.
A. J. Kelley, Pastor; Poplar Springs. lj e '. .
A. Brock, Pastor; Kandler's Creek,
Pastor; Mountain Creek. W. 11. Bridges. I**
PROTESTA NT M ETUODLST.
Pentecost, Rev. 11. S. McGarrity. Pastor.
“ CHRISTIAN.”
Bethany Church, Dr. F. Jackson, Pastor.
Christian Chapel, Elder W. T. Lowe, P#*’ 1
Galilee, Elder P. F. Lamar, Pastor.
FIRST UNI VERSA LIST. n , r
Centre Ilill, Rev. B. F. Strain. Pastor; ' .
meeting and preaching every third Saturn 3 '
Sunday.
M. E- CHURCH—(NORTH.)
Simpson Circuit, Ira Woodman, P t •
lation church, 2d Sunday; Pleasant bro ve ‘ ;
Saturday: Mt. Olivet, Bauks co; Dunnep
Chapel, Ilall co ; Corinth, Franklin co.
FRATERNAL DIRECTORY-
Unity Lodge, No. 36. F. A. M„ meets Id
dav night in each month. 11. AY. Bell. ' •
John Simpkins, Sec’y.
Love Lodge. No. 05, I, (). 0. F., meets jjy
and 4th Tuesday nights in each month. •
man. N. G.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec‘y. u
Stonewall Lodge, No. 214,1. O. G. L,
Saturday night before 2d and 4th Sundays '
month. J. B. Pendergrass, W. C. TANARUS.;
ry F. Winburn, W. R. S. . iL; t
Jefferson Grange, No. 488, P. of H., j,
Saturday before 4th Sunday in each montn.
E. Randolph. M.; G. J. N. Wilson, Sec ,
Relief (colored) Fire Company, No. 2, 11 U V,,;
4th Tuesday night in each month. Ilcnri
Captain; Ned Bums, Sec’y.
Oconee Grange. No. 391, meets on Sat
fore the first Sunday in each montlu at <>•“ jj
1 o’clock, P. M. A. C. Thompson, AV • -“•>
Bush, Sec’y.
$25 Reward*
STOLEN, from the plantation ofThe r
near Jefferson. Ga., on the night o ..-jj
inst., a light MOUSE COLORED MAKE
medium size, about five years old ; mu
snot on one hip about as large as a sd' l '. l .
shod before, shoes worn ; inane and taj *
The above reward will be paid for the' ll ,
the mule and proof sufficient for theapi' ri
and conviction of the thief, or a reason* 1
pensation paid for the delivery of the in ./.j
JAMES K, BAM* 1 . I 'V
Ort 10 JoUtrso".