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RV THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. sfl£ §OPrf flfjjlff. PUBLISHED KVEUY SATURDAY, iite jafkiMMi C’ownly Publishing “ Company. jfjpgl&Oy, JACKSON CO ., GA. ~rv S W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE. UP-STATRS. office- y —,.— ; MALCOM STAFFORD, M \X AGING AND BUSINESS EDITOR. terms of subscription. One copy 12 months - *2.00 u “ 0 I.'AJ i‘ 3 “ 30 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tracopy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. OYK Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) , tjrst insertion, and Seventy-five CENTS for each subsequent insertion. uaT Yll Advertisements sent without speciiica t nofthe number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. •gf Business or Professional Oajds, of six lines SEVENDoT.LAfIB per annum; and where thev do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. 4’onlrsiet Advert King. I The following will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases i [ Iw. 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Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD. UOlYtltD A HOWAItIk ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Jefferson. Ga. Will practice together in all the Courts of Jack son and adjacent counties, except the Court of Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75 DR. W. S. ALEW'tDFR. SURGEON DENTIST, Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga. July 10th, 1875. 6m Kl. WII<VI A MMOK. . WAtCHMAKKR AND JEWELER, At Dr. Wm. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block. Athens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner, iind warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi tively CASH. JulyHMkn. J€. WIIJiIAK A TO., • BROAD STREET, GA., DEALERS IN- STOVES, TIN-WARE, &c<2 (Opposite Nortk-E"st Georgian Office.) July 3d, 1575. STANLEY & PINSON, JEFFERSON. , <;A„ DEALERS m Dry Goods and Family Groce ries. New supplies constantly received. Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock. June 19 ly BP. WOKFORI), Attorney sit law, . HOMER, BANKS CO., GA.. Will practice in all the adjoining Counties, and ?ive prompt attention to all business entrusted to his care. 6*3s*' Collecting claims a specialty. June 19th, 1875. ly JOHN G. OAKES, T HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA. Mw and good buggy and wagon harness always on hand. Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c., done on short notice, and cheap for cash. junel2—ly L J. FLOYD, | J. B. SILMAN, F Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga. U>YD A SIMIAN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. " ill practice together in the Superior Courts of . counties of Jackson and Walton. junel2—ly \\ 1* PIKE, Attorney at Law. • JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA. raetiees in all the Courts, State and Federal. Prompt and thorough attention given to all mas of legal business in Jackson and adjoining c °unties. June l-j, 1875 Medical Notice. J) r - J* O. 11l AT having located in Jetfer *on ,)r the purpose of practicing Medicine, s Ptfully tenders his services to the citizens of /town and county in all the different branches ue profession. After a flattering experience nineteen years, he feels justified in saying that j-’ s prepared to successfully treat any curable C ’ nc hlent to our climate. He is, for the ' ~j' ent > hoarding with Judge John Simpkins, but n? love family here soon, jhee with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey. Heference can be seen in the office of T. 11. -'JBLack, Esq., c. S. C. octie Pendergrass & Hancock, l\ i-P respectfully call the attention of the public to their elegant stock of pry Goods of all Kinds, *;A !> Y-tt Al> E CLOTHING, *INE CASSIMERES, HATS, CAPS, Ladies* Bonnets, Hats and "arc c ’ Hardware, Hollow Ware, Earthen °Pes 'bi Bucks. Paper, Pens, Inks, Envel- ea h Bacon, Lard. Sugar Coffee, usually f tent Medicines, in Cs/-t everything the tiij... * Un< ,n * General Store. Prices to suit Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf THE FOREST NEWS. . I . /M" . , ' ' The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. ' Miscellaneous Medley. The Mystic Masonic Tie. In the wilderness of Edom the hand of the children of Ishmael is still raised as of old against every stranger, but if some Mason of this city were to meet these marauding sons of the desert, at the sign Fellow-craft, every matchlock would be instantly lowered and he would be welcomed to their tents and received as a brother. A friend of ours—an officer of our Navy long since deceased—was once wandering about in the narrow lanes of an Eastern city, having lost his way in its inextricable labyrinths. Suddenly he was startled by the frightful words, , ‘Christiain dog! Chris tian dog !’ He turned, and beheld approach ing him a crowd of enraged Mahometans, each with a large stone in his up-lifted hand. The Lieutenant saw no escape from the most terrible of deaths ; for with the exception of the mob now almost upon him, he could see no human being, save an old man sitting in his door, and apparently' looking out for the fun to begin of stoning a Christain to death. Luckily, the thought crossed the officer’s mind that the old man might be a Mason— lie made a sign, and instantly the Arab rush ed out, placed himself by the side of the ‘Christian dog,* drove off his would be-mur derers, and conducted him in safety to his ship. We can cite .another instance of the fidel ity of an Eastern Mason to his duty. About nine years ago, an American vessel was wrecked off the shores of one of the Asiatic islands. None were saved from the waves but the captain, who being a very expert swimmer, reached the land. The barbarous natives carried him to their Sultan. When ushered into the presence of the despot, the captain made himself known as a Mason. The Sultan immediately met him on the square, received him as a brother, treated him as a brother, with great distinction, and promised to send him to Calcutta by the first opportunity. The climate was so pestilen tial that our captain soon fell sick with the jungle fever. The Sultan nursed him through all his illness, entertained him like a prince, till lie recovered, furnished him with abun diance of money, and sent him to Calcutta whence he returned to America. We will give yet another example, for which we are indebted to an officer of the British Navy. He had been stationed in Australia, and while there he was informed of the following facts which he communicated to us. A party of white men attempted to cross that great continent, blit they all perished by thirst and starvation but one man. This man’s strength at last gave out, and he laid himself down in the parched desert to die. lie had not been lying there long before a tribe of Australian savages ■ ame up. and would in a few seconds have killed him, had he made that sign which is never made in vain. The chief was a Mason ; he threw himself along-side of the, Englishman and restrained his followers from murdering him. He gave him food and drink, kept him till restored to strength, and then escorted him to the nearest white set tlement. —Norfolk Landmark. A Cunning Expedient. There is a fable among the Hindoos that a thief having been detected, and condemned to die, happily hit on an expedient which gave him hope of life. Lie sent for his jailor, and told him a secret of great importance which he desired to impart to the king, and when this had been done, he would be prepared to die. After receiving this piece of intelligence, the king at once ordered the culprit to be conducted to his presence, and demanded of him to know his secret. The thief replied that he knew the secret of causing a tree to grow which would bear fruit of pure gold. The experiment might be easily tried, and his Majesty would not loose the opportunity. The king accompanied by his prime minis ter, his courtiers and his chief priest, went to a spot selected near the city wall, where the latter performed a series of solemn in cantations. This done, the condemned man produced a piece of gold, and declared that if it should be planted, it would produce a tree, every branch of which would bear gold. “But,” he added this must be put into the ground by a hand that has never been stain ed b}* a dishonest act. My hand is not clean ; therefore I pass it to your Majesty.” The king took the piece of gold, but hesi tated. Finally he said, — “ I remember in my younger days, that I filched money from my father’s treasury which was not mine. I have repented of the sin ; but yet I hardly dare to say my hand is clean. I pass it to my prime minister.” The prime minister after a brief consider ation answered, — “ It were a pity to break the charm through a possible blunder. I receive taxes from the people, and as I am exposed to a great many temptations, how can I be sure that I have been always perfectly honest ? I must give it to the governor of the citadel.” “ No, no !” cried the governor, drawing back. “ Remember that I have the serving out of pay and provisions to the soldiers. Get the high priest to plant it. The priest said, — “ You forget that I have the collecting of tithes, and the disbursements for sacrifice.” The thief exclaimed at length,— ‘fYour Majesty, I think it were better for society that all five of us should be hanged, since it appears that not an honest man can be found among any of us.” In spite of the lamentable exposure, the king laughed; and so pleased was he with the thief s cunning expedient, that he at once granted him a pardon. The inland mail transportation of the coun- Hy includes 871 railroad routes, aggregating 70.083 miles in length, and 89 steamboat routes, aggregating 15,788 miles in length. The railroads got last year from the govern ment $9,216,518, and the steamboats $684,130. iW Kerosene Oil, 25 cents per gallon, at Kilgore’s stand, Athens. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, NOY’R 27, 1875. Nancy Hart. This amusing picture represents a scene that actually occurred, in Georgia, during the Revolutionary war. The heroine was Mrs. Nancy Hart, after whom one of the counties of Georgia is named. She was a large, strong, very determined woman, afraid of nobody, and a great patriot. She lived in the county of Elbert, in a log cabin, and was a skillful hunter. One day when her husband and his three neighbors were at work in the field, five tories, as the British soldiers were called, came to her cabin at noon, shot down a turkey in the yard and made her cook dinner for them, she consented, after some grumbling ; cooked the dinner and set the table; but, while the “Britishers” were eating, she snatched up one of their guns and declared she would shoot the first man that stirred. One attempt ed to advance towards her, and, true to her word, she shot and killed him: then, snatch ed up another gun, she brought it to her shoul der, threatening to shoot. Just then little Sukey, who had been to the spring to blow 7 the horn, or, “conch” and thus call the men home, entered the house and said : “Daddy and them will soon be here.” This frightened the tories more than ever, who proposed to make a general rush upon the brave woman, but she fired and another man fell. Suke\ 7 had another musket read} 7 , which her mother took, and placing herself in the door-way, called upon the party to “Sur render to a whig woman !” They agreed to surrender, and proposed to “shake hands on the strength of it,” but the cool, courageous woman kept them in their places by pointing the deadly gun at them, until her husband and his neighbors came to the door. They were about to shoot down the tories, when Mrs. Hart, whose spirit was at boiling heat, stopped them, saving, “They had surrendered to her. and shooting was too good for them.” This hint was enough : the prisoners were taken out and hung. On another occasion she met a tory in the road, and entering into conversation with him, managed to divert his attention and seized his gun. She then declared that un less he took up the line of march for the fort, which was not far distant, she would shoot him. The man w r as so intimidated that he actually walked before the brave woman to the fort, where she delivered him t * the American commander. Many other startling anecdotes are told of this remarkable woman, but our space does not allow us to repeat them.— Kind Words. Why Franklin Used Simple Language. Tradition has it that years ago, when Ben jamin Franklin was a lad, he began to study philosophy, and soon became fond of apply/ ing technical names to common objects. One evening when he mentioned to his father that he had swallowed some acephalous inollusks, the old man was much alarmed, and suddenly seizing him, called loudly for help. Mrs. Franklin came with warm water, and the hir ed man rushed in with the garden pump. They forced half a gallon down Benjamin’s throat, then held him by the heels over the edge of the porch and shook him, while the old man said : “If we don’t get them things out of Benny he will be pizened, sure.” When they were out, and Benjamin explained that the articles alluded to were oysters, his father fondled him for an hour with a trunk strap for scaring the family. Tradition adds that ever afterwards Franklin’s language was marvelously simple and explicit. A Sensible Father. The will of a rich citizen of New York provides that his two sons shall have no share in his estate after they have reached the age of tweuty-four years, it being the belief of the testator that a well educated man of that age should be able to take care of himself. The provision seems at first to be eccentric, but it may be doubted if a parent owes more to his son than a good education, a profession, or a trade. Within his own experience almost everybody knows of young men who have been ruined by com ing into possession of ten thousand dollars, or fifteen thousand dollars which they have not earned, it having been left them by will. A parent owes it to his sou to provide him with the means of earning a living, but noth ing more, and there would be a great deal less trouble in the world if all fathers acted like this one, and gave their children to understand, in time, that they must work for themselves and expect nothing from their father’s death. Something Remarkable. An old resident of Columbia county has handed us a curiosity, which can be inspec ted in our office. It is certainly very curious. A large trout was caught from a lake, where he lived in an old pine top which had fallen into the water. The lining of what is called his “swimmer” (air bladder), was stretched upon a piece of white paper and a perfect picture of the pine top in which he lived was indelibly stamped upon the paper. And it is said this result always follows, no matter whether the fish lives in the grass or in an oak, pine or cypress top, a picture of his home can always be had by the above pro cess. This is certainly a curious freak o f nature, and the most remarkable thing about it is that the picture is of a cream-color. — Jacksonville (Fla.) Press. A Quaker Woman’s Sermon. —“ My dear friends, there are three things I very much wonder at. The first is, that children should be so foolish as to throw stones and brick bats up into fruit trees to knock down fruit; if they would let it alone, it would fall itself. The second is, that men should be so foolish and even so wicked as to go to war and kill each other; if let alone, they would die themselves. And the third and last thing that I wonder at is, that young men should be so unwise as to go after the young women; if they would stay at home, the young women would come after them.” A Pennsylvanian named Wingert cut his toe off because of an aching corn, and then hung himself because of the aching of the • amputated toe. Concerning Roads. Georgia— not to speak of sister states—is full of bad roads. Many of them are like the two roads in California, of which a preacher wrote : “ I asked,” said he “an old negro which of two roads was the shorter one. lie an swered, ‘Bofe of dem is de longest, boss ; dey is so bad.” Right here in old Newton we have roads that in winter are “sloughs of despond.” By the middle of January an empty buggy will mire nearly to the hubs between Oxford and Covington. For two months during the win ter we will have about two broken wagons a week, besides much wear of horse-flesh and tear of harness, and no end of cursing. And all over the greater part of our state the peo ple will be breaking their wagons and cursing the roads in the vain effort to get half a load to market. Only consider the roads in Cherokee Geor gia, northern and northeastern Georgia. Think of a man tryiug to get to market out of Mc- Lemore’s cove, or from over the Blue Ridge. Start a loaded wagon from Lumpkin count} 7 to Gainesville, or from White or Pickens, or Hart or any of the counties north of the sand belt. What sort of loads can they - haul ? not enough to pay for the trip. Men talk about inducing immigration. Who wants to settle in a country he will break down moving to, and break down getting his crop out of ? It is hard to get in, harder to get out. Turnpikes made the va’ley of Virginia rich before they had any rail-road. It was so in Middle Tennessee, and in part of Kentucky. We dream, theorize and speak about the “development of Georgia’s great physical resources,” but what is ttie use to develop unless we could get to market? It is a pitiful sight to see a man come to market, driving a worn out team, that lias managed to pull through numberless mud holes and over rough hills and mountains, a fourth of a load. No wonder that man don’t raise half as much corn, or wheat or cabbages, or apples as he might. It had as well not lie raised as to rot. And he can’t spend half the year hauling —in broken doses—his surplus crop. It is too plain to argue. * * * * If any legislator wishes to deserve a monument —wishes to make himself historic in Georgia —let him frame a law that shall turn over our army of convicts upon our bad roads, and work them till they are good. We and our children will call him blessed.— Rev. A G. Hay good in At. Const. A Discouraged Editor. lie was a sad-eyed, meek-faced man and we supposed he merely wished to give us a news item ; but when he commenced telling us nbrut building a barn on his ranche 190 *by 280 feet, seven stories high and ornament ed with bay windows, we thought it was time to check him, and so we commenced : ‘Well, we must admit that is a pretty large barn for this country, but back in the States our father built a barn 325 by 500 feet, nine stories high and furnished with steam eleva tors ; the— ’ ‘Back in the States,’ interrupted our lis tener, ‘why that wasn't much of a barn for the States. I remember now that w r hen I was quite young my father built a chicken coop 550 by 832 feet. I don’t recollect how many stories it was high, but I know there was a cupola on it for the roosters.’ ‘About how high was that cupola?’ we asked. ‘ T don’t know the exact height now, mister, but I know it was so high that the fourteen upper tiers of roosters died from the effects of the light atmosphere the first night.’ Then, we went out and sat down on the wood-pile and wondered why somebody was always outstripping ns in the race of life. Worth Knowing. Dr. Folks, of Wavcross, Ga.. gives the Valdosta Times a timely article descriptive of how clay may be made to refine sugar : When the sugar is sufficiently dripped, spread it about two inches thick on clean smooth planks, fastened together like a battepn door, then spread soft wet clay on it about the same thickness. Put a thin piece of home spun between the sugar and clay. The sugar so prepared can be kept in the open are in fair weather, and in-door a in bad wea ther. As soon as the layer of clay is thor oughly dry take it off, when the sugar will be found brilliantly white, the wet clay having extracted all the coloring matter. If you should be satisfied with the experiment and the result, you can continue the process until you have prepared all } T ou want for family use, and j r our surplus, which will find a ready sale and at an increased price, paying you well for your trouble. The following document has been issued and is of interest to the banking and business community: Treasury Department, I Office of Internal Revenue, > Washington. November 5, 1874. ) Officers of internal revenue and the public are informed that a contract has been entere9 into with the Graphic company, of Nos. 3d and 41 Park place, New York city, for the imprinting of stamps upon all bank checks, drafts, orders, or vouchers for the payment of any sum of money whatsoever drawn upon any bank, banker, or trust company, or upon blank paper that may be furnished for that purpose by a person, firm, or corporation de siring stamps so imprinted. The contract takes effect on the 15th instant, and on and after that date the above stamps will be imprinted only at the establishment of the above company, and until otherwise directed the stamps will be imprinted under the regulations heretofore prescribed. D. D. Pratt Comm. BP A Silver City (Nev.) young lady, who has a passion for pretty babies, to a little four year old angel who has a, bran-new sister. “I say bub, won’t you give me your baby sister? I love little babies.” Young hopeful: “No, I tant.” Young lady, (wink ing at her young man): “Why, sonny, why won’t you give your baby to me?” Hopeful (indignantly): “Fy, he’d tarve to death ; your dress opens behine.” Painful silence for the next fifteen minutes. FACTS AND FANCIES. “ What comes after T ?” asked a teacher of a small pupil who was learning the alpha bet. lie received the bewildering reply, “ U —to see ’Liza.” Said a pompous fellow, brow-beating his auditors : “I have traveled around the world.” Replied a wit: “So has this cane I hold in ray hand, but it is only a stick for all that.” An Alabama negro hung himself because one of his mules died, and his wife sold the other, gave the old man a second class burial and bought her sixteen pairs of kid gloves. “ What object do you see ?” asked the doc tor. The young man hesitated for a few moments, and then replied : “ It appears like a jackass, doctor, but I rather think it is your shadow.” Challenging lawyer to colored juryman in Clinton, La.:—“ Do you know what a verdict is?” “No, sail.” “Did you ever see one?” “ No, sail; I nebber was at a show in my life.” Religious intelligence in the Memphis. Tenn., Appeal: “Her matchless and perfect figure was a model, and never shown to so much advantage as when she knelt for bap tism.” Imagine the horror of a Chicago mother, whose three-year old daughter addressed her with: “Mamma, my doll’s played out, and I don’t want any more rag dollys or china dollys, I want a meat baby.” A little German girl in a public school of a certain city was told to put the word year in a sentence. After a moment’s reflection she answered : “ Last year my sister was married ; this year she has a baby.” A good brother in a Baptist church of Miami county, Ind., while giving his experi ence, not long ago, said, “Brethrin, I've been try in’ this nigh onto forty years, to serve the Lord and get rich both at once, and I tell yer, it is mighty hard sleddin.” Why did Abraham, at the age of five and seventy, leave the old plantation and seek a new home fur, eh? thundered a colored min ister the other evening. “I couldn’t tole you,” replied an old moke from rear part of the congregation, “I couldn’t tole you unless he went to grow up wid de country.” When a boy has been off all day, contrary to the express wish of his mother, and on approaching the homestead at night, with an anxious and cautious tread, finds company at tea, the expression which suddenly lights up his face can not be reproduced on can vass. An item is wandering about the Eastern press in which it is boldly asserted that a Missouri clergyman has left the pulpit to become a clown in a circus. He gives as a reason that “three square meals a day and SSO a week are better than S4OO per annum, payable in dried apples, hay and old clothes.” A young gentleman lately attended the circus for tile first time, and on the Sunday following was taken by his grandmother to church. He gazed around in some wonder ment for a few moments. When the organ ist began to play he turned to his grandmoth er and said, “Grandma, will there be a cir cus, so I can see the lion ?” “Why, no, Ed die, this is church.” “Well,” replied the lit tle fellow, “it’s circus music any way.” THE GEORGIA VOLUNTEER. Far up the lonely mountain side, My wondering footsteps led, The moss lay thick beneath iny feet, The pines sighed overhead. The trace of a dismantled fort Lay in the forest wave, And in the shadows at my feet I saw a soldier's grave. The laurel nestled with the weed, Upon the lowly mound ; The simple head-board, rudely writ, Had rotted to the ground. I raised it with a reverent hand, From dust its words to clear, But time had blotted all but these, ‘‘A Georgia Volunteer.” I saw the toad and scaly snake. From tangled coverts start. And hide themselves among the weeds Above the dead man’s heart; But undisturbed, in sleep profound, Unheeding there he lay, llis coffin but the mountain sod, His shroud, Confederate grey. I heard the Shenandoah roll Along the vale below, I saw the Alleghanics rise Toward the realms of snow ; The “ Valley Campaign” rose to mind— Its tender name—and then 1 knew the sleeper had been one Of Stonewall Jackson's men. Yet whence he came, what lips shall say. What tongue will ever tell, What desolate hearths and hearts Have been, because he fell? What sad-eyed maiden braids her hair— Her hair which he held dear— One lock of which, perchance, lies with— The Georgia Volunteer. What mother, with long watching eyes, And white lips, cold and dumb, Waits with appalling patience for Her darling hoy to come ? Her boy ! whose mountain grave swells up But one of raanv a scar “’Cut on the face of our fair land, By gory-handed war 1 What fights he fought, what wounds he wore, Are all unknown to fame, Remember on his lonely grave There is not e'en a name ! That lie fought well, and bravely, too, And held his country dear. We know, else he had never been A Georgia Volunteer. lie sleeps 1 what need to question now If he were wrong or right ! He knows e’er this, whose cause is just In God, the Father’s sight. He wields no warlike weapon now, Returns no foeman’s thrust; Who but a coward would revile An honest soldier's dust. Roll, Shenandoah, proudly roll A down thy rocky glen ; Beneath thee lies the bones of one Of Stonewall Jackson’s men. Beneath the cedar and the pine, In solitude austere, Unknown, unnamed, forgotten lies A Georgia Volunteer. s TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM. ) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. GLEANINGS. Ohio proposes sending a youth of 117 sum mers to the Centennial. A nine year old girl in the town of Shetok, Barron county, Wis., weighs 1(151 pounds. In England a judge has decided that you are liable in damages for keeping a noisy rooster. Twenty-three States have had elections this Fall, and of these eighteen have gone Republican. It is reported that Know-Nothing lodges are being organized in New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania. A suit lor the value of two hogs has just been settled in Logansport, Ind., the eosts amounting to over $2,000. One hour after she was married, on the 29th tilt., Mrs. DeWitt, of Johnstown, 111., eloped with an old lover. Fifty thousand persons witnessed the un veiling of the statue of Stonewall Jackson, a€ Richmond. Capt. Howell, the lost commander of the recently wrecked steamer Pacific, was the youngest brother of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. M. C. Kerr, of Indiana, seems to have the inside track for the Speakership of the next House of Representatives. The Democrats gain two United States Senators by the November elections—about all there really was involved in the contest. The Cejdon government is trying to pre vent the capture of elephants, and the price of fine animals has gone up to SI,OOO in gold. It is said there are more lies told in the sentence, “I am glad to see you,” than in any other six words in the English language. Indiana is said to have the largest public school fund of any State in the Union, amounting to over $8,000,000. Capt. Paul Boynton will next attempt a trip of 300 miles down the Rhine, which he expects to make without leaving the water. You may do a man a thousand favors and offend him once, and he will never forgive you for the one offence ; it out-weighs all the favors. What domestic discord must prevail in Massachusetts. It has 358.518 families, and only 222,518 houses. The house large enough for two families has never been built. The Board of Physicians of the State of Georgia will begin their annual session in Milledgevillc, on the first Monday in Decem ber next. At latest accounts there will be twenty four contested seats in the next Congress.— Nine of them are occupied by Democrats and fifteen by Republicans. “My native city has treated me badly,” said a drunken vagabond, “ but I love her still.” “Probably,” replied a gentleman, “her still is all that you do love.” Fifteen thousand, eight hundred and seven ty-five survivors of the little army that did our fighting in 1812, are still drawing pen sions. The postal cars are used on sixty-two lines of railroad, and 901 postal clerks are employ ed thereon, at an annual cost of over a mil lion dollars. Judah P. Benjamin, late Secretary of State of the Confederate States, is said to have an income of £IO,OOO a year from the practice of law in London. The only living descendant of George D. Prentice is a grand-son of 14 years of age* who bears the same name. lie is now can vassing the S9uth for his grand-father’s forth coming book of poems. While the Republican vote in Town this year did Hot ctmie up that cast for Grant 1872 by some G,OOO, the Democratic vote 10,726 heavier than any ever previously . ed against the Republican ticket. Knowing young men are waiting inpatient- . ly for the opening of the skating season. The - results of the first general introduction o C the; ■ pull-bhck on ice are expected to. be grand, glorious and peculiar. Mr. J. B. Crabb, who lives* three and a half miles from Cedartown, itas worked one • hundred and seventeen day:* at the Cherokee Iron Works, without losing a day or half a day. He has done this, amd walked; seveni miles each day. When Bishop George F. Pierce;, of the Methodist Church, Steuth, was a young man, Rev. John Collingsworth oppose# Bis being: licensed to preach because-the cut and trim ming of his coat were not of tbe regular Methoclist style.. The Legislature- of California has- enacted’ a good law, worthy of adoption everywhere* which allows- every citizen who wilt plant, trees and maintain them for three years* a deduction from his taxes of one dollar for each tree planted. The annual meeting of the South Carolina Conference M. E. Church, Sooth, will begin in Orangeburg, on Wednesday, December 15. Bishop Keener, of New Orleans, will preside over the Conference, and more than two hun dred delegates are expected to be present. NUMBER 25.