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SUNDAY READING. From the Atlanta Constitution. THE HEAVENLY RAILROAD. Sang by Col. J. R. Wallace, at sermon deliv ered by Rev. W, 11. Crawford for the benefit of the Grand Division of the Railroad Conductors’ Brotherhood. Composed by Rex. IT. H. Cranford, expressly for Ute occasion. Jesus the way to Heaven has made, The track with Gospel truth is laid. From Earth to Heaven the line extends, And life eternal where it ends. Chorus— lam traveling home to Heaven above , To sing a Saviour's dying love. Christ is the captain on the train. He is the Lamb for sinners slain ; Lo ! Jesns gives the gracious call : Come! come, sinners, one and all. Now poor sinners, now’s your time, For here’s a station on the line— If you’ll repent, and turn from sin, He’ll stop trie train and take you in. To penitents he is very kind, No mourning soul is left behind. He’ll keep the train upon the track, But takes no one that.turneth back. On Calvary’s mount he stopped the train Until the dying thief stepped in ; The mourning souls bound down in grief Need but to look to find relief. The track is straight no curves to turn, ’Tis safe by night and day to run ; We give it as a Bible fact This train will ne’er run off the track. The depot’s built on solid ground. The powers of Hell can’t tear it down ; It’s foundation’s sure, and won’t decay, And stands in that eternal day. And as we near our final home, The banner waves aloft, we come ; The engine sounds the knell of time, And lo ! we come from every clime ! And now the angels understand The train is coming just at hand ; And all the gates do open fiing For our great Captain and our King. And as the doors wide open stand, The train moves in at His command ; Before Him now the angels fall And worship him. lie’s Lord of all. Glory to God the saints will shout. He brought us by that good old route ; • Hosannah, ring !—sweet home and rest; Oh, hallelajah ! we are ail blest. Atlanta, Ga., November 7th, 1575. Dancing and Dishonesty. The church has for a long time graded iniquities by au exceedingly perverse stand ard. As an instance of this I can recall the fact that there have been more sermons and tracts against dancing, card-playing and theatre-going, than against slander, falsehood and defaulting. We have strained at gnats and swallowed camels. The young believer, full of life, has been soured by the acidulated criticisms of men who, utterly hard in business, ready to take the pound of flesh if the law will allow, are not only not rebuked for their meanness but are held in reverence. Now, there is no true Chrsitian who ought not to deplore all excess in securing amuse ment, and it is not our intention to defend the lives of many pleasure-seeking professed Christians. The only point I would make is that these questions are not the great, the vital ones, and that there is need of a moral tonic from the pulpit to make men feel the meanness of lying. And I take courage in the thought that the churches are coming inot more sound views in this direction ; that men who have failed two or three times, paying only a few cents on the dollar and living in greater com fort than their creditors, are sure to be scoun drels ; that he who insists upon exorbitant profits or interest, because he is in a position to demand them, is an extortioner ; that men or women who come to church with clothes unpaid for, or move in a circle beyond their means, or tell unfounded stories for their neighbors, steal the affections of those who belong to others, are sneaking hypocrites, however many prayers they may offer, or catechisms they may repeat.— Exchange. Come to Jesus. lie made a long and costly journey to come to you, and it is now a short step to him. Without money, merit, effort, doing hard things, you can come to him. Just give 3'ourself to His service, to His grace, to His pardon, to His care, to follow, trust, obey, and the work is done. Thus the Saviour teaches. Believe and live, deny self, take up thy cross, fellow Me, and thou shalt be My disciple. lie says, Come! What savest thou? Yes or no? All turns upon that. O cease to say No. and begin to say Yes. Say it heartily; say it as well as you can, and repeat it until the whole heart ,is aroused, and you feel that your Yes gives your whole being to the Lord. That is all that is required. It matters not how you come, if you come at all. You cannot come wrong if honest in intent. Therefore dismiss anxiety over feelings, frames of mind, and look only to Jesus and hasten to His feet. Looking within is like gazing into blackness for light—all is vile, dark, discouraging there, and none can cure but Christ. Your certificate of commendation is not that you are good, but very bad, and in great need of a Saviour; not that you are well, but very sick, and needing a physician ; that you are stupidly sick, unconscious of your danger, and barely persuaded to let the Physician treat yon. But only let him, and he will make you whole. A Foot Lamp. —One of the most interest ing things in the Holy Land is the fact that one meets everyhere in daily life the things that illustrate the words of the Lord. The streets of Jerusalem are very narrow, and no one is allowed to go out of night without a light. Throw open your lattice in the eve ning and look out, and you will see what seems to be little stars twinkle on the pave ment. You will hear the clatter of sandals, as the late traveler rattles along. As the party approaches you will see that he has a little lamp to his foot to make his step a safe one. In an instant the voice comes ot your memory, written in that same city three thousand years ago, “Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path/’ The Memory of A Mother.' —When temptations appear, and we are almost per suaded to do wrong, how often a mother’s word of warning will call to mind the vows which are rarely broken. Yes, the memory of a mother has saved many a poor wretch from going astray. Tall grass may be grow ing over the hallowed spot, where all her earthly remains repose ; the dying leaves of autumn may be whirled over, it, or the white mantle of winter may cover it from sight yet. the spirit of her. when he walks in the right path, appears, and mournfully calls to, Trhen wandering off into the wavs of error. THE FARM. GEORGIA. REPORT OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRI CULTURE. Atlanta. October 29.— The October report of the Georgia State Department of Agricul ture, made up to the loth inst., shows the es timated yield, compared to last year, of corn 86 and of cotton 7o|. The estimated acreage compared with last year of wheat sowed, and to be sowed this fall, is 111. and of oats 145. Eighty-three per cent, of the correspondents of tlie Department report cotton picking bet- ter advanced than last year, and sixty-three per cent, report it saved in good condition. The average cost of raising a bushel of corn in Georgia is reported at 58 cents, and of oats 27 cents, and of a pound of cotton 11 cents. The average cost of raising a horse or mule to three years old is reported at S6O ; the num ber annually found is reported at 6.033. One million and one thousand dollars were expend ed this year in buying horses and mules brought into the State. Ninety-one per cent, of the corresponeents report an increase in stock hogs, and 47 per cent, report a full supply of pork raised at home. Ninety-six per cent, report that cotton can not be raised at a profit at present prices on bought farm suppplies ; while 84 per cent, say it can be raised at a profit at present prices, if all supplies are raised in the farm. Twenty-eight gin houses were burned by incendiary fires, and fifteen by accidental fires in the State in the past twelve months, which involved a loss of over seventy thousand dol lars. The negroes are reported in debt to the farmers and merchants for supplies advanced for last year and carried over to this year $1,465,700. Wintering Foals. The season is now approaching when the proper treatment of spring foals during the winter season, in an important question for the consideration of the breeder, and to this end we suggest the following as embodying the result of long an 1 successful experience : It may be set down as a well-settled point that, they should be well-kept and protected from the storms of winter, but this does not imply that they should be constantly housed up and pampered with heated grain. Like all other young and growing animals, they re quire an abundance of fresh air and exercise, and should have free opportunity of indulging in the gambols, and frolics, and races to which their nature prompts them, and which is so essential in order to properly distend the lungs, swell the veins, invigorate the entire system, and make a hardy, healthy, active horse. Give muscle and bone-forming food in abundance, but feed corn sparingly, and, if at all. only in the coldest weather. Oats and wheat, bran and grass, and hay in abundance will make the colt grow; and exercise, with protection from severe storms, will keep him healthy. If it is indispensable that he should run out and take all the storms as they come, which, by the way, should never be permitted, give more corn with the feed, as that produ ces fat, which is a protection from the cold. Were we to be compelled to choose be tween lhe two extremes of close confinement, with high feeding on heating grain, and no exercise, and the other of running at large in fields, exposed to the merciless storms of winter, with free access to the corn-crib, we should unhesitatingly take the latter course as likely to develop the hardier, healthier, stouter horse, because we regard the oppor tunity for abundant exercise as absolutely essential to a healthy, harmonious, develop ment in all young animals. But generous feeding and secure housing from inclement weather are not incompatible with plenty of exercise, and such a course of treatment will bring the youngsters through the winter in perfect health, with constitution unimpaired, and growth unchecked.— Wilkes' Spirit. Secrets of Che3p Pork. An exchange gives the following sensible items as the principal secrets of pork raising : First. A good breed. You may stuff any of the land pikes with any quantity of corn and he will not fatten. Suffolks, Chester White, or grades of any pure breed, will show their keeping. Second. Good housing. A pin wants a nice, clean, dry pen to sleep in. The yard may have much and plenty of litter for manure making, but the pen or. sleeping apartment, should be warm and well straw ed.— Third, early fattening. Fork is made much more economically in warm weather than in cold. Fourth. A variety of food. If cooked Indian meal is the staple, let it be varied with green food while it lasts, corn stalks. weeds, purslane and clover, and in Winter feed enough cabbage and roots to keep the bowels in good condition. Fifth. Regular feeding, three times a day. A fat tening pig should never squeal, and he will not if he always finds his food at the regular time. Calculate to have your pork worth no more and perhaps a little less than the feed costs, and look for all your profits in the grand heap of rich manure which the dying porker leaves as a legacy. These secrets make cheap pork in our pen, even at the present price of corn. Geese-eggs carried to the cellar as soon as taken from the nest, and turned over each day, will hatch well. Above stairs the temperature is uneven. Number the eggs, and let the first goose setting have those first laid. THE TILLER OF THE SOIL. A hardy, sun-burnt man is he, A hardy, sun-burnt man; But who can boast a hand so free, As he. the tiller can ? Nor summer's heat nor winter’s cold, The power has him to foil; Oh, far above the knights of old, is the tiller of the soil; Is the tiller of the soil ; Is the tiller of the soil; Oh. far above the knights of old, Is the tiller of the soil ! He trudges out at hreck of day, And takes his way along ; And as he turns the yielding clay, lie sings a joyful song. He is no dull unhappy wight. Bound in misfortune’s coil; The smile is bright, the heart is light, Of the tiller of the soil ; Of the tiller of the soil; Of the tiller of the soil; The smile is bright, the heart is light, Of the tiller of the'soil. Ar.d when the orb of day has crowned With gold the western sky, Before his dwelling he is found. With cheerful faces by— TV ith little laughing duplicates, Caresses will not spoil; Oh ! joy at every side awaits The filler of the soil; The tiller of the soil : The tiller of the soil; Oh ! joy at every side awaits The tiller of the soil. STORY DEPARTMENT. NELLIE’S REPENTANCE. “I will not, Norman!”—and Nellie Wilde brought her little foot down upon the carpet with a force that shook all her bright golden hair from under its little lace morning cap, and sent it rolling in golden shimmering waves over her shoulders. There was a light in her blue eyes, which her husband had never before seen there, and the fresh red lips which had always greeted him with smiles, were parted over the white teeth with an expression of unmistakable scorn. “ It is cruel and exacting of you, Norman, when you know how much, how very much I like Mrs. May, and how fond she is of me. It is selfish to ask me to give up the society of my best friend just to gratify a capricious whim of j’ours.” And Mrs. Wilde burst into tears. It was not in Norman Wilde’s nature to see a woman’s tears unmoved. It is scarcety that of any man, when the tears are those of his own wife, and ’with one so fondly loved and tenderly cherished as Nellie. Ilis habit ually grave and quiet voice was full of trouble and tenderness now, as he bent over her and said, in tones of gentle remonstrance, “Nel lie!” “ Don’t, Norman !” was the pettish answer, as she turned away from the caressing touch of his hand upon her soft golden hair. “I’m not a child to be tyrannized over one moment, and coaxed and petted into a good humor the next.” Selfish, cruel, tyrannical ! It was too much. Mr. Wilde took his hat with that indescrib able air which injured husbands know so well how to assume, and left the room. With a slow step he passed down the stairs into the street. Was it wrong, he asked himself, for him to win this bright young life to gladden his quiet home and diffuse the sunshine of her buoyant spirits over his graver, maturer life ? For though there was a difference of ten years in their respective ages, many cares had made Norman Wilde older at twenty-seven than most men of thirty-five, lie thought of it now with something like contempt for himself.— He might have known he could never make her happy ; he with a gravity of demeanor that was almost sternness; and she with her joyous, loving disposition, for Nellie was good tempered and affectionate generally, in spite of her willfulness. Something weightier than the great lawsuit of “Hobart vs. Long” pressed upon the spirits of Mr. Wilde as he walked slowly down the street that bitter winter morning; and his head clerk, Richards, to whom an honest law yer was a paradox, and law a sublime mys tery, thought, as he watched him from the of fice window, that some new legal stratagem must have taken possession of his brain, to make him walk at that pace, when the ther mometer stood twenty degrees below zero. “Ma'am,” said Kate, putting her head in at the door of Nellie’s room, “ Mrs. Dion would like to see you directly, if its quite con venient.” “Very well, Kate.” And Nellie, after arranging her hair and bathing her face, proceeded to her aunt's apartment. “ How do you feel this morning, auntie ?” “ Very cheerful, very contented, my child,” was the invalid’s reply, as she looked up into the innocent, girlish face that bent over her couch. “ l should be ungrateful, indeed, if, after all the affectionate, care lavished upon me by my nephew and his wife, I should be otherwise.” Some shadows resting upon the usually happy face, caught Mrs. Dion’s attention.— Site loved Nellie dearly, not less for her lov ing kindness to her, than because she was the wife of her nephew, the only infallible mortal, in Aunt Ruth’s eyes, that the world con tained. “ Arc you not well, Nellie ?” “ Quite well, auntie.” “ You are unhappy, Nellie?” There was no answer, but Nellie’s lips quiv ered, and two large tears gathered beneath the heavy drooped lashes, and rolled slowly down her cheeks. “ My dear child, I am surprised, grieved to see you thus. Can you not confide in me ?” “ Oh, auntie, Norman is so selfish, so un kind.” “Nellie, tell me one thing—have you quar relled ?” “ Yes.” “ And parted in anger ?” “ Yes.” “Go to him, mv child, and beooine recon ciled. If Norman has erred, he will see his fault; if you have, it is all the more fitting that you should seek a reconciliation.” “Never.” “Ilush, Nellie; I will tell you a story, a true one. about a husband and wife who part ed in anger, and never spoke to each other again. It is a terrible thing to anger those we love, Nellie. This man, whom I shall call Robert, was a proud man, grave and self possessed in his manners, commanding as a king should be, nobler than any king that ever lived, Nellie, and far, far handsomer.— Some thought him stern, but there was one who never found him so; and, though he might have been cold to others, he was all love and tenderness to her.” “ II is wife, aunt ?” “ Y es, Nellie. lie loved her with a strength and depth of affection of which few men are capable. Why he loved her with such pas sionate devotion. I could never see ; for she was a wild, thoughtless girl, exacting and willful; great faults they must have seemed to one as thoroughly self-disciplined as he was. Perhaps he divined what she never knew herself till afterward, her deep love for him. They had been married but a few months. They had thus far been very happy, for he was so tender and thoughtful toward her, and she thought she had overcome her faults in her great happiness. They were not overcome, however. One morning lie told her that he was going ! away to Vernon, and should not be back for | two or three days. Vernon was the place where she had always lived till her marriage, and her mother still resided there. She wish ed to go with him, but he told her it would be impossible. She persisted, and he refused. She grew very angry at his immovable calm ness. and said bitter, cutting words, that would have maddened a man less able to con trol his temper. But he controlled himself. This exasperated her more, and she grew more and more sarcastic and provoking; but though he grew pale with anger, he gave her not one angry word. She refused to say good bye when he went, and thus they parted, nev er to meet again on earth.” “ Oh, Aunt Ruth !” whispered Nellie, with paling cheek. “ After he had gone, her anger all died away, and she thought she would follow him and ask his forgiveness, for the thought of his calm, cold scorn nearly crazed her. She hastily put on her bonnet and cloak, and reached the depot just as the train had gone. It was too late. Another train would leave in an hour, and she waited. When she was once on her way she grew nervous and fright ened. She was afraid he would be angry with her for following him, and the day’s ride was a slow torture to her. When she arrived at Vernon it was dusk, there was a crowd gathered at the depot, seemingly under some strong excitement. A terrible fear of some thing, she knew not what, took possession of her as she stepped on the platform. She soon found out what had happened. A man on the other train, in stepping off, had in his hurry, caught his foot, and fallen on the line. The train was in motion. Oh, Nellie, her re- pentance came too late!” There was an agony in Aunt Ruth’s voice, which flashed a sudden suspicion across Nel lie's miud. “ lie had heard that her mother was very ill with the small-pox, then raging in Vernon. He did not wish to pain or frighten her with the news till he had ascertained the truth of the report. This was the reason he refused to let her accompany him. Tender and for bearing to the last; and she—oh, how she had repaid him !” “ And what became of her, auntie ?” “ She took the disease from which his care would have guarded her, and for long weeks lay balancing between life and death. She prayed for death ; but her prayers were not answered. Some portion of her former strength came back to her, but health never. She has never left her couch since that ter rible day ; but in the tender care of his nephew, who is as like him in disposition as in form and features, she has found content.” Nellie knew now whose story she had been listening to. “ No wonder she loves Norman so much,” said the little wife to herself, as she wiped her tearful eyes, and stole out of the room. # *' * * -* * * “ A lady wishes to see you, sir,” said Rich ards, as he put his head into the office where Mr. Wilde sat leaning over a table covered with papers, which were scattered about in lawyer-like confusion. “ Very well, Richards.” And Mr. Wilde rose, and walked into the office, where a little fur-muffed figure sat awaiting him. As he closed the door, Nellie sprang forward to meet him. “ Nellie !” “ Oh, Norman !” and she clung to him, sob bing. “ Forgive me ! I will never speak to Mrs. May again.” “ She is a bad woman ; not a fit associate for my little artless wife. I know this, else I had not asked you give her up. And you came all this distance in the bitter cold to see me about it. my little Nellie ?” 4 And he kissed her fondly. “ Norman,” —and she clung closer, sobbing still— ‘‘ I have suffered so much ! Forgive me, and we will never part in anger again.” “ My own darling, never !” And they never did. Through the long and happy years of married life which follow ed, no word of unkindness or reproach pass ed the lips of either, and they often spoke of this happy termination to their first and last quarrel. Who Wade Him. She was all in a flutter over her school ex amination. The superintendent of the dis trict, accompanied by some friends, were to call that day to test what the young idea had accomplished under the administration of her rod. Nine tow-hearts in a row. Catechism pre pare'! by a careful teacher. First boy drill ed. “ Who made you ?” Answer—“ God.” Second boy ditto. “\V ho was the first man ?” Answer—-“ Adam.” Third boy put in trim. **Who was the first woman T Answer— •• Eve,” etc. Teacher delighted with the pros pect. “ Very good, little boys. Now. remem ber to answer that way when the superintend ent asks you the questions.” Superintendent arrives with a cotton um brella and high paper collar on. Class takes line. First boy very near the door. “ Marin” hands the superintendent a written catechism, First boy slips out of the door. “Marm” gets into a cold perspiration. Too late then. Superintendent adjusts his nose to a pair of horn spectacles. Nods to head of class. “Who made you ?” (loud voice.) Boy per fectly well drilled and fearfully confident. “ Adam /” Superintendent looks astonished, and does some little business about his nose with red silk handkerchief. Boy looks glad, and ope rates on his nose with sleeve of jacket. Superintendent, appreciating the confusion of “marm,” speaks kindly: “No, sonny, it was not Adam that made you. Now, who was it that madet/ou ?” Boy, fearing a catastrophe on the morrow, answered cheerfully : “ Adam!” “ Marm” partially revives and comes to his rescue: “ No, Sammy, don’t you know that God made you, and not Adam ?” “ No. sir-.ice.” Sammy is positively confi dent now. The word “God” had reassured him. “The little boy that God made, he took the stummick ache, an’ he's out thar skinnin’ the cat right now, marm.” Recess! A Georgia Story. When the Irwinton Southerner tells a story it tells a good one, as witness the one here unto appended : Deacon Smith, of Wilkinson county, owns, or did own, a horse, which one time in its life saved him an incalculable amount of money by its horse sense. The deacon says himself and wife, while partak ing of their noonday meal, were very much surprised at the action of their horse, which was loose in the road near the house. It would run up to the gate, neigh and then run off again. This was repeated several times, and the deacon arose from the table to ascertain the cause of its strange conduct, lie reached the door and looked out, and saw away off in the direction the horse had ran a dense smoke. He seized his hat and ran to the place. “ Gentlemen,” said he, “ lightning had struck a tree and set it on fire, and the flames had communicated to mv fence around my’ corn-field containing about eight hundred bushels of corn. The fire had consumed about a dozen panels of fencing, and reached a branch. M3’ horse, when I arrived, was standing in this branch dipping her tail into the water, and throwing the wa ter on the burning fence.” The crowd look ed incredulous, and the deacon said, “ Gen tlemen. if you don’t believe it, you ask Ma haly.” A correspondent sends us a very touching description of a scene of domestic felicity he witnessed at the house of a young married couple in Connecticut. “ I came upon them quite unexpectedly,” he writes. “She was sitting in the parlor eating peanuts, and he was crawling around on his knees picking up the shells.” Now is the Time TO ADVERTISE!! CIRCULATION Still Increasing!! SUBSCRIBE NOW. Terms of subscription, $2.00 Per Annum. SI.OO For Six months. o CLUB RATESI To those wishing to get up Clubs, the fol lowing liberal inducements are offered : For Club of Five Subscribers, - $8.75 “ “ “ Ten \ “ - 15.00 “ “ “ Twenty “ - 30.00 With an extra copy of the paper to the per son getting up the last named Club. 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NIBLACK, Clerk. To Debtors and Creditors. NOTICE. —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, OctlG Administrator. DIRECTOR y. JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTOR PR OFESSIONS Physicians....J. D. AH. j. T ter. N. W. Carithers, J. 0. Hunt ” ’••I Atty's at Law... J. H. silnian w , •T. A. B. Mahaffey. W. C. Howard \f \ > P. F. llinton, R. 8. Howard. ' " MERCHANTS. Pendergrass A Hancock, F. M. if-.ii & Pinson, Wm. S. Thompson. '-'bn MECHANICS . *’• " illiwsc, , •J. P. >\ illiamson, Jr. '■ N Harness Maker.. . John G. Oakes Wagon Makers... Win. Winkura \ t Rav. (col.) ni ’ \ Buggy Maker...L. Gilleland. Blacksmith... C. T. Story. Tinner... John H. Chapman. Tanners.. .J. E. AH. J. Randolph Boot and Shoe-Makers...N. U. start Forest News office ; Seaborn M. Stark ' S. Thompson’s store. HOTELS. Randolph House, by Mrs. Randolph North-Eastern Hotel, by John 5,.,'.. Public Boarding House, by M rs l * Worsham. Liquors, Sugars, Ac...J. L. Bailey Grist and Saw-Mill and (iix if J. Long. Saw-Mill and Gin...F. S. Smith. o . COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECTOR Martin Institute.— J. W. Glenn. p r i n L P. Orr, Assistant; Miss M. E. Orr. Miss Lizzie Burch, Music. Centre Academy. —L. M. Lyle, Principal Galilee Academy. —A. L. Barge, Princip Harmony Grove Academy. —R. S. Chearv cipal. Murk Academy. —J. IT. McCarty. Princiw Oak Grove Academy —Mrs. A. p Principal. Academy Church. —T. -T. Mitchell. Prindt Duke Academy. —Mrs. H. A. Dead wyler, cipal. Park Academy. —Miss V. C. Park. Prinoji Chapel Academy. —W. 11. Hill, Principal Holly Spring Academy —W. P. Newman, o ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OFM. Athens mail arrives at -Jefferson on V| days and Saturdays, at 10 o’clock, A. M„® parts same days at 12 o’clock, M. Gainesville mail arrives at Jefferson on % days and Saturdays, at 11 o’clock. A.M.. parts same days at 12 o'clock. M. Lawrenceville mail arrives at Jeffersonov days, at 12 o'clock, M, and departs same da o'clock, P. M. F. T.. Pendergrass, Dep’yP. MA GTSTRA TES AND BA TLIFFO. Jefferson District, No. 245, X. IT. Pendcn J. P.; H. T. Fleeman, J. P. John M. 11 Constable. Clarkesborough District, No. 242. F. M day, J. P.; M. B. Smith, J. P. Miller's District. No. 455, If. F. Kidd. J. 1 Chandler’s District, No. 240, Ezekiel 11a •J. P. ; J. G. Burson, J. P. Randolph’s District, No. 2 IS, Pinckn• l’irkle, -J. P. ; Jas. A. Strayngo, J. P. Cunningham’s District, No. 428. .J. A. Hi ton. J. P.; T. K. Randolph. J. P. Newtown District, No. 250. (1. Vi. O'Kel P. ; T. J. Stapler, Not. Pub. A Ex. Off. J. I Minnish’s District. No. 255. Z. W. Hood, Harrisburg District. No. 257, Wm. M. Mo f. P.; -J. W. Pruitt. J. P. House's District, No. 243. A. A. Hi11..1.1 Santafee District, No. 1042, W. R. Bovd, S. U. Arnold. J. P. Wilson's District. No. 405, W. J. Comer. .1/ i 'NIC IFA L 0 FFI ('ERS OF JEFF El! W. I. Pike, Mayor; J. P. Williamson. S f. X. Wilson, R. J. Hancock. Aldermen: 1 Niblack, Esq., Clerk A Treasurer; •). 11. 1 Marshal. JACKS OX SC PEI! 101! VOUIT. | Hon. GEO. D. RICH, - J EMORY SPEER. Esq., - - Sul.' C OCX TV OF FI ('EPS. WILEY C. HOWARD. - - - - Onl M. M. PITTMAN, - - Judge Co.I THOS. H. Nl BLACK, - - - Clerk SJ ! JOHN S. HUNTER. ------ S ! WIXX A. 4VORSIIAM. - - - Deputy j LEE J. JOHNSON, Tren JAMESL. WILLIAMSON. - - Tax Coll GEO, W. BROWN, ------ | JAMES L. JOHNSON, - - County Sun WM. WALLACE, - - - Got ! G. J. X. WILSON, County School Conn Commissioners (Roads and RkvenckJ Seymour. W. J. Ilavnic, W. G. Steed. N the Ist Fridays in August and November. Nil (lack. Esq., Clerk. CO I'XT Y CIICRCII DIE EC TOP) M ETIIODLST. Jefferson Circuit. —Jefferson. Harmony ' Dry Pond, Wilson’s, Holly Springs. M.U ris, P. C. Mulberry Circuit. —Ebonozcr. Bethlehem, cord. Centre and Pleasant Grove, Lebanon. - Anderson, P. C. Chapel and Antioch supplied from ID‘l ville Circuit. PRESBYTERIAN. Thyativa. Rev. G. 11. Cart ledge. Pastor: Creek. Rev, Neil Smith, Pastor; Pleasant' Rev. G. 11. Cartledge, Pastor; Mizpah. Ki‘ v Smith, Pastor. BAPTIST. Cabin Creek, W. R. (Joss. Pastor: Ih r Grove. W. B. J. Hardeman. Pastor; Zion. J. M. Davis. Past.; Bethabra, Rev. G. U hP Pastor; Academy. Rev. J. X. Coil, y Walnut. Rev. J. M. Davis, Pastor: C Creek. W. F. Stark. Pastor; Oconee Church- A. J. Kelley, Pastor; Poplar Springs, Be' A. Brock, Pastor; Kandler’s Creek. W- U Pastor; Mountain Creek. W. H. BridgetP PROTEST ANT M ETH< )I)IST. Pentecost, Rev. R. S. McGarrity, Pastor. “CHRISTIAN.” Bethany Church. Dr. F. Jackson, Pastor- Christian Chapel, Elder W. T. Lowe. I >a?! Galilee, Elder P. F. Lamar, Pastor. FIRST UNIVERSALIST. Centre Hill, Rev. B. F. Strain. Pastor: o meeting and preaching every third Satur't- 1 . Sunday. M. E. CHURCH —(NORTH.) Simpson Circuit , Ira Woodman, P G— lation church, 2d Sunday ; Pleasant ' ,r ' . Saturday; Mt. Olivet, Banks co; D unße? Chapel, Ilall co ; Corinth, Franklin co. FRATERNAL DIRECTORY - Unity Lodge, No. 30. F. A. M.. meets H | day night in each month. H. W. Bell. John Simpkins, Sec’y. Love Lodge, No. 05. I. O. O. F., meet-' j) and 4th Tuesday nights in each month. • man, N. G.; G* J. N. Wilson, Sec’y. . Stonewall Lodge. No. 214. 1.0. G. T.. ** Saturday night before 2d and 4th Sunday' ’ . month. J. B. I > endergrass, W. C. T. i ry’ F. Winburn, W. R. S. Jefferson Grange, No. 488, P. ol IL, Saturday before 4th Sunday in each wont t. E. Randolph, M.; G. J. X.‘ Wilson, Sec y. Relief (colored) Fire Company. No. -• 1111 y : 4th Tuesday night in each month. Ih' ,ir -' | Captain; Ned Burns, Sec’y. j. v 1 Oconee Grange. No. 391. meets on Sat,urj - fore the first Sunday in each month, at >* jJ 1 o'clock. P. M. A. C. Thompson, - 1 ” Bush, Sec’y. $25 Reward* STOLEN, from the plantation ofthewj* $ near Jefferson, Ga.. on the night ® inst.. a light MOUSE COLORED MAH * medium size, about five years old; h*H> ‘ rtt ’ spot on one hip about as lai’ge as a s ' l .’ shod before, shoes worn ; mane and taj The above reward will be paid for the 1 U,, • the mule and proof sufficient for the apP <0 and conviction of the thief, or a ponsatron paid for the delivery of the u" ~jj JAMES E. RANI> 01 ; I) Oct 10 Jcfters® 1 -