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nV THE JACKSON COUNTY /
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VOLUME I.
If*
PUBLISHED EVEUY SATURDAY,
ii lh<* Jafktioii County
**•' Coni|:iiiy.
JEFFKIISOX, JACKSON CO., GA.
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MALCOM STAFFORD,
managing and business editor.
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jtajWiaiinf & lousiness tliinls.
I A. B. MAHAFFEY,
. A T T O K NEY AT LA AY,
•Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga..
Will practice any where for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to his care.
Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly
"HiKY ('. HOWARD. BOIi’T S. HOWARD.
How ai:i> a iimv\iei),
ATTORNEYS AT LA AY,
Jefferson. (sa.
A' ill 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,
Broml Street, one Jour chore National Bank ,
KATHEIMS, GrJN.,
LLPS constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
comprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions
“ ■ai Hals. Stoniict*. Itililion*.
• ■accs. Flower*, 4mlove*. Ac., which will be
• V) ! , l reasonable prices. Orders from the coun
ty promptly tilled. Give her a call.
July Jlst—;tm.
| )K. AV. s. i \
X/ SFRGEON dentist.
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos,, Ga.
Jily 10th, 157.1. ‘ 6m
P '• WII.UA.nxOY
i* U ATCIIMAK ER AND JEWELER,
.. 1 ‘ ,r - " hi. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
• 'rn>. (la. All work done in a superior manner,
h warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
'nl S CASH. JulyUMim.
J <'• *IUil v.V <<►..
* broad STREET, ATHENS, GA.,
~ DEALERS IN
STOVES, TI3ST-A7^A.PIE 3 <ScCL
(Opposite North-East Georgian Office.)
J "ly3d, 187.1.
STAN LEY & PINSON,
, JEFFERSON, GA .,
JJ in Dry Goods and Family Groce
i'l ,Cs ‘ N<?w supplies constantly received.
Jurie dly 1 " *“ a H and examine their stock.
li, * ’ BOli’Oltll, Attorney at Law,
Wil) HOMER, BANKS CO., GA..
practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
his Ul^t a Bent ion to all business entrusted to
j UI . e * Collecting claims a specialty.
JUUc 19th, 187.1. *ly
X e JJ‘ i Kss MAKER. JEFFERSON. GA.
011 h*n,i’ lUI iF° 0< ! wagon harness always
done nr, i * e P a ’Ong same, bridles, saddles, Ac.,
junei-)^.] not ' Ce ’ an 'l cheap for cash.
1 J. B. BIRMAN.
TM ,a P ton . Ga. | Jefferson. Ga.
1 " Xt > * mmian,
"ill n „. A TTOR N K YS-A T-L A W.
the con,,, a ' t,c P to gether in the Superior Courts of
and Walton.
H , *’ * **♦ 5-1, Attorney at I,aw,
Practice * „ PERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
thou* "I , tla ‘ Courts, State and Federal.
Oiuls of ! J l /j , Hmrough attention given to all
Katies "nsiuess in Jackson and adjoining
‘ June 12. 1875
&EBORAW A HASCOCkT
'V rcs pectfully call the attention of the
1 *c to their elegant stock of
G-oods of all Kinds,
P,x ' n yi: <l.o r 111 acs,
ktt.ts ‘ , Ca SSL\IERES, HATS, CAPS,
.^!i OL j ; Ladies’ Bonnets, Hats and
4r<f * StdwwJ n r , are * Hollow Ware. Earthen
r K flour* H°oks, Paper, Pens, Inks, Knvel
til kina' iw ’ l iacon * I-aid. Sugar Coffee,
'. S ' la "' r fon, a • ate, H Medicines, in fact everything
l V a ( c,a ‘ l al Stove. Prices to suit
Jellerson. June 12, 1875. tf
THE FOREST NEWS.
I lie People then- own Eulers; Advancement in Education, Seienee, Asricnlture and Southern Manufactures.
£cpf Hilucrtiscuients.
Jackson Sheritf’ Sales.
VturbL be sold on the first Tuesday in Decem-
V her next, before the Court House door, in
•Jdfferson, Jackson county, Ga. within the legal
hours of sale, the following property, to wit :
(U*o) One hundred acres of land, more or less,
lying on both sides of Beech creek, known as the
Edwin Pendergrass place, adjoining lands of Mrs.
Met lesk v. AV L Espy and others, tolerably well
improved ; two separate dwelling houses and im
provements; about thirty-live acres of good bot
tom land on said place in cultivation, the balance
in old field, except 15 acres of good forest land.
Levied on the property of .J R Holliday, dec’d, by
virtue of a ti la issued from the Superior Court of
said county, in favor of John A. Avimpy vs John
Simpkins, adm’r of J R Holliday, dec’d. Prop
erty pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney; notice
served on Alfred Cody and Adolphus Holliday,
tenants in possession, as the law directs.
\Y A. AVORSHAM, Dep. Sh’ff.
November oth, 1875.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
(330) three hundred and thirty acres of land, more
or less, on the west side of the north Oconee 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 on said place in cultivation ; about 65 acres
of good upland in cultivation ; a small portion of
old field ayd the balance forest land, well timber
ed. Also. 37.} acres of land on tlie north side of
the north Oconee river, adjoining lands of Marga
ret ('anthers 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 ti fa issued from
the Superior Courl of said County, Executors of
Robert AY. Prewett, dec’d. (controlled by D J
Chandler,) vs. James 11 Burns. Property point
ed out by defendant.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
(1000) one thousand acres of land, more or less, on
the waters of AValuut 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 bv AY F Hunter,
EC. J. S. HUNTER, Sh’ff.
November Oth, 1875.
’ Also, at the same time and place, will he sold,
One house and lot, in the town of Jefferson,
known as the Thomas Adams lot, containing one
acre, more or less; with a tolerable good framed
house thereon; bounded on the AA'est by the
Gainesville road, on the North by Thomas Car
ithers' (doe’d,) land. Also, one other house and
lot ad joining the above described lot, containing
nine acres, more or less, with a splendid dwelling
and necessary out-buildings thereon ; bounded on
the AA'est by the Gainesville road, on the south by
S. P. Thurmond’s lot; on the East by Drs Longs*
land. Levied on as the property of A L Shelor,
by virtue of two fi fas issued from Jackson Supe
rior Court in favor of J K Randolph vs a 1< She
lor. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attor
ney. Notice served on AA’ A Farris, tenant in
possession as law directs.
novl3 J. S. HUNTER, Sh’ff.
Jackson County Postponed
Mortgage Sheriff’s Sale.
X\7TT.L lie sold, on the first Tuesday in Janua-
A t rv, (1870.) eighteen hundred and seventy
six. before the Court-house door in Jetferson,
•Jackson county, Ga., within the legal hours of
sale, the following property, to-wit: A certain
bay horse, four years old, levied on as the prop
erty of Jesse Hull, to satisfy one mortgage fi fa
issued from Jackson Superior Court, in favor of
J R& b C Matthews vs. Jesse Hull. Property
pointed out in said mortgage ii fa.
novl3 AY. A. AVORSHAM, D. Sh’ff.
pYKi’I TOK’S SALE.
Agreeably to an order of the Court of Ordinary
of.Jackson county. (sa. 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 AA’ild 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. AA'’l) SHIELDS,
November Oth, 1875. Executor.
IDIINISTItATOK'S Sale.
Pursuant to an order of the Court of Ordinary
of Jackson county, will be 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 of land, more or less, lying in
Jackson county, on the waters of Sandy creek,
adjoining lands of AY 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 the same time and place, a lot of 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 31st District of originally
Lee county. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors of Bennett Strickland, late of said coun
ty of Jackson, deceased. Terms Cash.
THOMAS J). HAWKS, Adm’r, Ac..
Nov 6th, 1875 Bennett Strickland, dec’d,
IDIIA IST IS ATO IS\S Sale.
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 r i wenty
ninc acres, more or less, all in the woods, adjoin
ing lands of W J Roberts, A R 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. Haines, lands of W J Rob
erts and others. On said land is about twenty
live 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'll, for the purpose of paying debts
and distribution. Terms Cash.
W J ROBERTS, Adm’r.
November Gth. 1875
y IDIniSTRATOK'S Sale.
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 f i uesday in December
next—One tract of land, known as the S. M.
Brooks place, near Grifteth’s Mills in said count} .
adjoining lands of Mathews, Glenn and others,
containing 180 acres, more or less, in original for
est—no Improvements. Sold for the purpose of
distribution. Terms, one-halt cash; remainder
in $50.00 notes for twelve months; interest from
date; bonds for title given.
W. S. GILMER, Adin rof
November Oth. 1875. S M Brooks, dec’d.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, NOY’R 20, 1875.
miscellaneous Jlleillei).
Thoughts for Saturday Night.
Vi ortli begets in base minds envy ; in great
souls, emulation.
I rust not the world, for it never payeth
that it promiseth.
AA e ought not to judge men’s merits by their
qualifications, but by the use they make of
them,
AA hen a man seems to be wise, it is merely
that his follies are proportionate to his age.
V oung men are apt to think tnemselves
wise enough, as drunken men are to think
themselves sober enough.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden ;
it will conceal and cover up what is now shi
ning with the greatest splendor.
Mail}' do with opportunities as children do
at the seashore—fill their little hands with
sand and then let the grains fall through, one
by one, till all are gone.
Different minds incline to different objects.
One pursues the vast alone, the wonderful
the wild ; another sighs for harmony and grace
and gentlest beauty.
Thinkers are scarce as gold ; but he whose
thoughts embrace all his subject, pursues it
uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences,
is a diamond of enormous size.
Emerson says that every man is wanted,
but is not wanted much. That may be so,
but any woman who is not wanted much will
deny that any man is ever wanted at all.
Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy,
sad soul. Ho will be sure to aggravate thy
adversity and lessen thy property. He goes
always heavily loaded and thou must bear
half.*
AYe may imitate the Deity in all 1 Tis attri
butes. but mercy is the only one in which we
can pretend to equal Him. AA e cannot, in
deed. give like God ; but surely we may for
give like him.
Happiness depends on the prudent, consti
tution of the habits : and it is the business of
religion not so much to extinguish our desires
as to regulate and direct them to valuable
and well-chosen objects.
AVkatever be M, e cause of happiness may
also be likewise the cause of misery. The
medicine which, rightly applied, has power
to cure, has, when rashness or ignorance [ire
scribes it, the same power to destroy.
“ Come and See Me.”
A writer says: Never take ‘•Come and see
me” as a phrase meant in earnest unless it
he accompanied with a date. Such an invi
tation amounts to nothing at all. If a lady
or gentleman desires your company he or
she will appoint a time for your visit. “Call
on me when you can make it convenient,”
“Drop in as you are passing,” “Make us a
visit when you have an hour or two to spare,”
are social ambiguities by which in >n and
women of the world understand tint lhay
are not expected to do the thing requested.
When people wish to be cheaply polit \ there
is nothing like this kind of vagueness. The
complimentary small change of society must
always be taken at a large discount. If is
never worth its face or anything like it.
Yet it is a convenient medium of exchange,
and heavy debts of gratitude that ought, to
be required in better coin are often paid
with it. People who have more polish than
principle use it lavishly—plain, blunt, honest
men sparingly or not at all. AA r hoover
makes a friendly visit to a fashionable house
on the strength of mere “Come and see me,”
will very often find that the family circle he
has dropped into by request is ns ungenisl
as the Arctic circle, and lie will probably
leave it with a chilly feeling that will prevent,
him from venturing in the same high latitude
again. But when a whole-souled man, whom
you know to be your friend, grasps you vig
orously by the hand and says : “Come and
dine with me to-day —dinner on the table at
5 o’clock—be sure to come—we shall expect
you,” you can take it as certain that your
presence is warmly desired. It is pleasant
always to make or receive a visit from a
friend, but a nod on the st r eet, is all suf
ficient from a fashionable acquaintance.
|T!PA writer in the New York Herald states
some facts about how horses should be shod,
which are worthy the consideration of black
smiths and farmers as well: Most of the
horse-shoers of the country prepare the hoof,
fit a shoe, and secure it to the hoof in the
same manner that a wood-butcher fits a shoe
to an old wood ox-sled. The mechanism of
a horse’s hoof is one of the most wonderful
and ingenious structures that can be found in
all the works of the Creator. Beneath aTid
in the rear of every hoof there is a frog, which
is a tough and elastic pad for preventing in
jury to the animal whenever he plants his
foot on any hard substance. Large rolls of
cylinders of India rubber are placed beneath
railroad cars to prevent injury to any part of
the car or to the cargo with which it is loaded.
The frog beneath the foot of a horse is de
signed to subserve a similar purpose. But
the manner in which most horses are shod
lift them up. as it were, on short stilts, so that
the frog cannot perform its appropriate func
tions. If we look carefully at the young horse
when he is trotting or running, it will be per
ceived that ever\' foot is brought to the ground
in such a manner that the frog receives the
powerful blow. By this means all injury to
the animal is prevented. Science teaches us
to permit the frog to develop and expand
downward. But most blacksmiths seem to
think that the Allwise Creator made a great
mistake when he formed the hoofs of horses.
Hence, they fall at the frog with red-hot burn
ing irons, with edge tools, and with any oth
er appliance thai will enable them to remove
this extraneous excrescence. Illustrious nin
nies. Why not shave and burn away all the
tough, callous adipose tissue beneath their
own heels, and allow the bare bones to rest
on a plate of iron inside their own boots and
shoes ?
A woman cured her husband of staying
out late at night by going to the door when
he come home and whispering through the
“key-hole, “Is that you, Willie?” Her hus
band's name is John, and he stays at home
every nsght now. and sleeps with one eye
open and a revolver under his pillow.
The “T. J.” at Last.
Tiie Xewnan Star claims that Mr. Mars
chalk of the Planter’s Advocate is the trained
journalist of the state ; and he bases it on
his history which is thus given in the Star:
Fifty years ago, Air. Marschalk’s father
was a poor young man just married, and got
hold of a little type and an old press of the
primitive kind, and got a little room to put
it up in. Ilis wife lived in the office with
him, did the cooking and washing there, and
helped him at the case and press. He had
no other assistance, and very little furniture,
one bed, a couple of chairs, a skillet, and
oven, and a little table furniture. Mrs.
Marschalk’s confinement was rather pre
mature, and the infant was wrapped in its
swaddling clothes and laid upon the bed of
the press as there was no other place to put
it. The boy was raised up a printer and
received no education whatever, except from
his parents and the types. He says his
father had forty-eight subscribers and four
exchanges. The subscribers paid mostly in
provisions, and the family relied upon * the
legal advertising of the county and an occa
sional job, for money to buy their clothing
and pay for house rent,, and the Marsehalks
were useful and valuable members of so
ciety.
The Responsibility.
A young man had been sadly intemperate,
lie was a man of great capacity, fascination
and power; but he had a passion for brandy
which nothing could control. Often, in his
walks, a friend remonstrated with him, but
in vain ; as often in turn, would lie in vain
urge his friend to take the social glass. On
one occasion the latter agreed to yield to him,
and as they walked up to the bar together
the bar-keeper said :
“Gentlemen, what will you have?”
“ AA ine, sir.” was the reply.
The glasses were filled, and the two friends
stood ready to pledge each other in renewed
friendship, when he paused and said to his
intemperate friend :
"Now. if I drink this glass and become a
drunkard, will you take the responsibility ?”
The drunkard looked at him with severity
and said :
“Set down that glass.”
It was set down and the two walked away
without saying a word.
Oh, the drunkard knows the awful conse
quences of the first glass ! Even in his mad
ness for liquor lie is not willing to assume
the responsibility of any other one becoming a
drunkard.
Mrs. Joblink’s Experience.
“AYhon I first jined the church,” said an A
street matron yesterday, as she leaned out of
the window, speaking to a younger and sc
vercr-looking female, “I had jest them kind
of notions myself. But I got more light as 1
growed older." “But. Mrs. Joblink.” said
the other, “duty is duty, and each must act
out his mission.”
“ Yes.” rejoined Airs. Joblink. patronizingly,
“that’s jest the way I used to feel till I got
married. AA’hen you have a husband coming
home nights an’ failin’ up stairs you won’t
think the Lord requires so much of you. I
used to pray for Joblink till he started in to
make a stump speech to the hat rack at three
o’clock in the morning, an’ then I got. more
light. The Lord helps them as helps them
selves. an’ 1 find now that a metal-hacked
hair brush does better with Joblink than all
the prayers you can shake a stick at. You'll
see when you get married.”
The younger lady sighed and inquired if
there were any poor people in the neighbor
hood who would be benefited by a tract on
“The Sin of Dancing.” —Virginia Cti>j Chron
icle.
Watching One’s Self.
“ When I was a boy,” said an old man,
“we had a schoolmaster who had an odd way
of catching the idle boys. One day he
called out to us : “Boys, I must have closer
attention to your books. The first one that
sees another idle I want you to inform me,
and I will attend to the case.”
“ Ah !” thought I to myself, “there is Joe
Simmons, that I don't like. I'll watch him
and if l see him look off his book I'll tell.”
“ It was not long before I saw Joe look off
his book, and immediately I informed the
master.
“ Indeed,” said he, “and how do you know
he was idle?”
“ I saw him,” said I.
“You did? And were your ej’es on your
book when you saw him?”
“ I was caught, and never watched for idle
bovs again.”
If we are sufficiently watchful over our
own conduct, we shall have little time to find
fault with the conduct of others.
Wheat Bran for Milch Cows.
Cows that give milk require feed that
abounds in albuminous matter, in order to be
able to maintain a satisfactory flow of rich
milk. —Buckwheat bran will produce about
as large a quantity of milk as wheat bran.
But the milk made by feeding buckwheat
bran will be thin and poor, and much infe
rior to the milk which a cow gives when her
feed is composed largely of wheat bran which
contains a large amount of albuminous mat
ter. But wheat bran undergoes a great im
provement by being cooked before it is fed.
Agricultural chemists tell us that bran con
tains more than fourteen per cent, of albumen,
which is an excellent feed for making rich
milk. Besides this wheat bran contains about
three per cent, of phosphoric acid, which is
an excellent article in the line of fertilizing
materials for producing bountiful crops of
any kind of grain or vegetables. When a
man lias only one or two cows, it will always
be profitable to scald the bran before feeding
to the cows. Let a few quarts be put into a
tub and boiling hot water turned in and min
gled with it until the mass is as thin as gruel;
then allow it to stand over night, or during the
day, covered closely. A good cow, fed with
such a mass and prime hay, will roll out the
rich milk, almost as abundantly as if she were
fed on grass provided she have a comfortable
shed, or stable, in cold weather.— Bonham's
Messenger-.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
An independent fortune will be the reward
of the man who will invent a self-wiping nose
for use in cold weather.
A woman purchasing sonic cups and sau
cers was asked what color she would have.
“ AAJiy, I ain’t particular," said she; “ any
color that won’t show dirt.”
Shakspeare said, “There is a tide in the
affairs of men,” but it appears to be pretti
much all tied back in the affairs of women.—
Norristoivn Herald.
“ The hardest trial of my life.” said good
old Deacon Banes, “ was to shed tears at the
news that my wife’s uncle had died and left
$60,000.”
Lady to waiter—“ Don't put that ice into
the goblet with your fingers.” Waiter—“ Lor.
ma’am, I don’t mind, my hands arc very
warm.”
A young lady asking a AA'i 11 iamsportyoung
man in a music store, "Have you happy
dreams ?” was astonished when lie replied,
“ No, ma’am, I’m mostly troubled with the
nightmare.”
I hey have found a petrified Mormon in
Utah, and, from the number of dents in the
head, evidently made with a poker and fiat
iron, it is judged that he had at least thirty
three wives.— Norristown Herald.
“ Union is not always strength,” is what a
man said to the bar-keeper this morning, who
seemed to be putting an undue quantity of
water into the cocktail he was mixing.
A AA'estern newspaper thus sings a funeral
hymn: “Now we miss the gay muskeeter,
and his cheerful song at night: the cruel frost
did make him peter out, and weaken in the
fight. Gone to meet the Kansas grasshop
per.”
“ Bob,” said a Camden boy to a playmate,
“your father’s just been killed.” “No!”
said Bob. “ A'es. sir, blown up by a steam
boiler,” answered the other. “By gum, he’s
got my knife, too, ’ exclaimed Bob, thrusting
his hands in his pockets.
The editor of the Bowmanville Standard
had a man fined ten dollars for throwing an
ink bottle at him. Act this editor has been
slinging ink at everybody else for years—
only he didn’t sling it bottled up.
A lady whose husband has an unpleasant
habit of railing at her, has hit upon the plan
of calling in her servants when he begins to
let his temper rise, and then turning to him
and saying sweetly, “ Now, my dear, please
go on with 3 r our remarks." He doesn’t go on
—at least, not as he began. .
It will certainly shorten your life, Harry,
if you continue to smoke so much.” “I don’t
know that,” replied the gentleman, “ there’s
my father who smokes every blessed day, and
now he’s seventy years of age.” “ Well,”
was the reply, “ if he hadn’t smoked he might
have been eighty.”
A certain colored deacon, on occasion of
missionary collections, was wont to shut his
eyes and sing: “Fly abroad, thou mighty
Gospel, ’* with such earnestness and unction
that he would quite forget to see the plate as
it came around. “ Oh, yes !“ said the plate
bearer, “ but just you give something to make
it fly.”
A lady, thinking it time for her little girl
to put away childish things, informed her
that Santa Claus was a “made-up” person—
that there was no such person at all, upon
which the child, with becoming solemnity,
asked, “Mamma, have you been telling me
lies about Jesus Christ, too ?”
Briefly stated, our financial views are these?
Tiebacks are better than greenbacks. They
are in greater demand ; they are more con
stantly in circulation ; they are always boy
ant, dreadfully bovant; they are always
good for their face, and are always quoted
above par, or mar either. —Burlington Hawk
eye.
John Henry came home late the other night,
and as lie entered the darkened room Mrs.
Henry exclaimed : “ Darling Peter, I'm so
glad you’ve come.” Now, John, who has
faith in his wife, says that this is playing it
rather low down on a man in these ministerial
days. —Cincinnati Times.
Vt hen a man is chopping kindling and a
stick with a ragged edge takes him between
the eyes, he hurls the hatchet far away, nurses
his head with one hand, and hops around as
if he had the spring-halt in his right leg. All
his physical agony is nothing compared to
his inexpressible feelings when his wife pokes
her head into the wood-shed and mildly in
quires. “Richard, are you hurt ?"— Titusville
Herald.
A party of young men were conversing last
night, when one, who is always propounding
conundrums, asked, “What is the first com
mandment?” A student, evidently of the
bible, answered: “Look not upon the wine
when it is red within the cup.” The boys all
said he was right.
No and Yes.
The following poem appeared, originally, in the
Allantic Monthly.
I watched her at her spinning ;
And this was my beginning
Of wooing and winning.
But when a maid opposes.
And throws away your roses,#*
You say the case forecloses.
Yet sorry wit one uses,
Who loves and thinks he loses,
Because a maid refuses.
For by her once denying
She only means complying
Upon a second trying.
When first I said, in pleading,
“ Behold, my love lies bleeding !”
She heard me half unheeding.
When afterwards I told her
And blamed her growing colder—
She dropped upon my shoulder.
Bail I doubt? That quelled it,
Her very look dispelled it.
I caught her hand and held it.
Along the lane I led her, ,
And while her cheeks grew redder,
I sought outright to wed her.
Good end from bad beginning !
My wooing came lo winning—.
And still f watch her spinning.
TEEMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
t sl-00 FOH SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
Alabama has fourteen iron furnaces.
1 he Democrats made considerable grains
in Kansas.
The Democratic majority in New York
St:l e now nearly reaches ten thousand.
Fh-e elections over—the next political ex
citement is*t-h* assembling of Congress.
A Massachusetts tree is one side birch tnd
the other maple.
oo\. Smith of Georgia has finally an
nounced that he will not be a candidate for
re-election.
In several recent outbreaks of typhoid fever
at Glasgow, milk was found to be the active
agent in carrying the contagion.
A fourteen year old boy, in Columbus, was
taken to the guardhouse for drunkenness.
i he majority of Carroll, regular Democrat
ic candidate for Governor in Maryland, is
not over five hundred.
An Indiana court has decided that a girl
may. if she wishes, simultaneously sue fifty
young men for breach of promise.
There was coined at the various mints in
the country during the month of October,
$5,785,225 worth of all kinds of hard money.
Ilartranft's majority in Pennsylvania will
not be over twelve thousand. In the election
for twelve State Senators to fill vacancies,
the Democrats gained one.
Journalistic amenities. A Louisiana pa
per refers to a contemporary as “a sickly
jackass who edits a paper half the size of his
ears/’
The legislature recently elected in New
Jersey is the one hundredth legislature elect
ed by that state, the first election having oc
curred September 21, 1775.
Fifty shares of Georgia railway stock sold
at Augusta, on Saturday, at per share.
Sixty shares of Augusta Factory stock brought
SI2O per share.
Allice F ullkr denied herself anew dress
longer than any other young woman in Eaton
county, Mich., and the county fair awarded
her a prize of ten dollars.
Mr. AY. AY. Corcoran, of AYashington, D.
C., has given to the Southern Historical Soci
ety five hundred dollars, and promises a like
contribution each year hereafter.
Carnesville is expected to have a newspa
per to be published by Prof. Cartmell, of
Gainesville, and Dr. M. V. Gurley, of Toccoa
City, to be called the Carnesville Democrat.
An Indiana father shot three of his little
children the other day, and while stealing a
ride on the cars, in order to make his escape,
fell and was crushed to death.
A mischievous editor remarks that the sug
gestion that ladies’ dresses be made of the
newly discovered, unbreakable and elastic
glass, prompts the hope that it isn't the trans
parent kind.
The Democrats have made a clean sweep
in Mississippi, electing all the Congressmen
with the possible exception of one, and se
curing a majority of thirty in the House of
Representatives and seven or eight in the
Senate.
Air. Baxter, a Milledgeville butcher, killed
a beef the other day and took from its
paunch one watch key. one nickle, a lump of
lead, and a piece of hoop iron, a key check
marked W. A. Cary, Crawfordsville, Ga., a
pin and about half a pound of na'ls<
The Springfield Republican argites that
many of the ways of American women are
vulgar, one of its points being this: “No
gentleman would care to parade the streets
in such attire that one hand was constantly
occupied in reefing the slack of his breeches,
after the manner of hoisting up skirts at the
present time.”
From a single tree planted in a tub and.
kept in bis hot-house, C. S. Holbrook, of Hoik,
brook. Mass., sold in eighteen years n less
than $2,300 worth of peaches—some of them
at $6 per dozen ; many at from $-24 to S2B
per dozen, and all at an average of $lB-. per
dozen. They were sold mostly in the months
of February and March.
The earnings of war don't seem to be*
healthful—don’t stick to the ribs. Germany,
with ad the plunder of France, is financially
prostrate and bleeding at every pore. The
North, with the plunder of the South, and two
or three thousand millions turned loose for
army supplies, is claimed to be worse offthajv
the South, with no earnings but defeat, pn#>.
ertv and misfortune. Why is this ? Gentle
shepherd, tell us why, except that in the or~
ler of Providence it is not intended that meet
and nations shall get rich that wayv
A Centennial religions celebration is to be*
held in Cincinnati, and a board of managersv
consisting of fifteen persons will be appointed,
who shall be charged with the execution and
arrangement of plans for the celebration ?
invitation to participate shall embrace the
whole land, and all religious denominations
are in vile 1 : and it is to le conducted only
by the utmost ability, in order to make it
such a religious success, both in represen-,
tation and number, as the world has never
before witnessed.
r Oil, 2"> cents per gallon,
at Kilgore’s stand, Athens,
NUMBER. 24.