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-J 68 : June 12, 1875
Notice.
■U ■, 1 having located in Jet Fe
r-Purpose of practicing Medicine,
•7 enacrs h' s services to the citizens of
•fthe . count y in all the different branches
ess: °i'.. After a flattering experience
PTen* 1 • v< j ars * feels jnstified in saying that
W £™a t 0 suc eessfully treat any curable
k " to our climate. He is, for the
Judge John Simpkins, but
herein.
Ul - *• A. B. Mahaffey.
v ncc can be seen in the office of T. H.
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B res pectfully call the attention of the
c to their elegant stock of
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>llv f ol , *. “atent Medicines, in fact everything
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Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf
1H„ , notice.
i are hereby notified not to hunt,
J7 rs °n so A. ; H run or dogs, on my premises. Any
will be dealt icitl to extremity of
Uct -3 lm C. C. THOMPSON.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
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For the Forest News.
NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE.
It has been a long time since I troubled
you with “ Notes by the Waysidenot, how
ever, that I have ceased to take them, but
rather because I doubt my ability to interest
the readers of your valuable paper. ' Myonly
excuse for again seeking a place in its col
umns, may be found in apology of a learn*,
ed man, who, when for the third time he nriaefe
his appearance before a famous Judy, simply
remarked, “ Please, madam r for mere past
time, bear with me once in awhile.” '
If for nothing more than flifs, bear with me
while I give in my testimony to establish a
fact, long ago discovered, but frequently
doubted, that although some people think
there are many things in the world, in reality
only five exist. These are, a devil, round
men and square men, round holes and square
holes.
If, in my rambles, I have found that the
devil is continually going about putting the
round men into the square holes, and the
square men into the round holes, do not place
me on the list with the names of Columbus,
and Newton, and Whitney, and Morse; for
this droll and unpopular doctrine was also
long ago discovered, but never generally pro
mulgated, and still less frequently believed
by the round men in the square holes, and
the square men in the round holes. Having
never been “ poked” into one that was exact
ly my own shape. I know the doctrine to be
true in one case, and think it applicable in a
great majority of the cases noted.
Now, it would not do for me to show you
the notes taken of some of the big round men
in the big square holes, nor of the big square
men in the big round holes ; for then some
body would get ruffled, and the fit would be
made worse. So upon the whole, without
making any personal allusion, I will show
you, in a general way, a few other holes that
I think are not exactly filled.
Some time ago I crawled out of my hole to
the top of a tree, and took a. round survey of
the round world uronnd me. And as an ex
tended account of all that I saw would be
much too long for an ordinary newspaper ar
ticle, I will defer a description of some of the
scenes presented till another time, and for the
present confine myself to one or two divisions
of the round and square classification.
While sharpening ray pencil, preparatxny
to the task before me, the wild rattle and
clash of a thousand school children, turn®#
loose in all sections of the country, suddenly
arrested my attention. I found that most of
the little fellows were of irregular shape, be
ing neither round nor square. They were,
however, verging on to the perfect round dr
the exact square; while here and there a
class of “ children of a larger growth,” called,
by way of distinction, teachers , were busily
engaged in digging round holes and square
holes. The urchins around them seemed ut
terly unconscious of the fate to which they
were doomed, and so went on with all the
hurry and vim of their youthful ardor. Now
a round boy would tumble into a square hole,
and then a square boy would tumble into a
round hole ; but this made no difference with
most of the teachers —so the boys were in
holes, fit or no fit. “ Root hog or die,” some
of the teachers would say; “your daddy’s
money and the shield between me and the
corn-field, is all sufficient for my purpose.”
Thus, day in and day out, while most sus
ceptible to the impressions made upon them,
these children had been cooped in. aa apart
ment so narrow and crowded that they kbew
little how sweet a breath of pure air tasted.
Freezing cold in winter and burning hot in
summer—a dog-eared book in one hand, and
a greasy thumb-paper in the other—a threat
ening rod on one side, and a scowling look
on the other —set adrift upon the tempestu
ous sea of life, with neither chart nor com
pass in good working order —without a smile
to cheer them onward, or a skillful hand to
hold their heads above the water, we wonder
not that the shore is strewn with wrecks, and
that nearly all the round boys are floundering
in the square holes, and the square boys in
the round holes.
Perched upon sharp, narrow benches, with
feet swinging in mid-air, and heads leaning
forward to avoid the natural horror of falling
backwards into the wrong holes—crowded
between wails as bleak and dreary as a Green
land iceberg, with nothing fresh and green to
relieve the eye —nothing beautiful to enkindle
within the soul a spark of that fire which
would point the way of mortals to the Skies,
and put out ‘-that which would drag angels
down,” these ill-fated children were slowly,
but surely, assuming their destined shapes,
and becoming more and more passive to the
condition of remaining in whatever hole their
masters might see fit to tumble them, un
these seats, and within these cheerless abodes,
they have learned to look upon a scliool-room
as looks the convict upon his prison walls,
and from which they would give all of life to
escape, and be freely permitted to crawl into
a hole that would fit them ; for it is a mis
taken idea, many of the learned to the con
trary, notwithstanding, that “ all of the youth
ful mind is bent on mischief. ’ More good
men are made so by the surrounding circum
stances of chilhood than is generally accredit
ed to the spark of Divinity left in human
nature.” Save Voltaire, “Give me a child
till three years old, and I can make 't ade'-il
or an angel.” Though an infidel, Voltaire
*as here more than half right If his teach
in„3 are calculated to make children devils,
[hose of Massillion, Ills great countryman,
I artTealculatcd to make them angels. The
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, DEC’R 25, 1875.
little girl who looked upon the starry dome
that was nightly sparkling above her, and
imagined Heaven a beautiful place, because
the nails in the floor had such pretty beads,
was almost capable of the highest degree of
goodness; and the other one, who, when ad
vised by her companion to steal an apple be
cause no one saw her, answered, “ Myself
aees me,” was already an angel. Few blight
ing winds had touched these tender flowers.
But, still looking from my perch, I saw the
school-children scattering abroad to assume
the cares and responsibilities of real life—
the class by which the proud Roman hoped to
maintain his universal supremacy, and for
whose education the learned Greek set apart
his most profound philosophers—and thus
looking, a tear of s} r mpathy fell upon the
point of my pencil, and while yet it was
moist, I wrote, as well as I could, “ Surely,
near all those children have been put in the
wrong holes.”
The tear yas a briny one, and when I had
finished the sentence, my pencil again need
ed trimming. But I did not trim it. Though
a poor hand at sketching, I found that I could
delineate many of the characters before me
with a blunt pencil—l mean the teachers dig
ging the round holes and the square holes.
Here and there I saw one examine a pupil to
see what kind of a hole he would fit; but the
great majority dug away at random, without
having ever given the science of hole digging
a serious thought—without knowing or think
ing there was a good and a bad system of
school government. The theory and practice
of teaching had never once entered their
minds, and the dull boy and the sharp boy
were expected to learn the same lessons—dig
as many holes—gather the same flowers—
stowaway the same treasures, and be cram
med into the nearest hole, regardless of shape,
size, or condition.
One teacher was making an effort to pour
“ lafnin’ an’edieation” down the throats of
his pufnls by some kind of a patent process
that was manipulated by him to the highest
degree of perfection. His machinery had the
general appearance of an ordinary steam
engine ; but his manner of firing it up was a
little peculiar, being run bv gas instead of
steam. He had obtained the position of en
gineer by first placing his engine upon the
track, and then, by promising to work cheap,
he induced them all to get “ aboard,” while
he collected a sufficient amount of gas to put
it in good run Ring order. Assuming an air
of dignity and self-importance that would
have put Newton and Franklin to shame, he
then mounted upon what he thought was the
top round in thojadder of fame, and began
his usual course of lectures. lie told them
that everyone else besides himself was a fool,
and that for one cent per day he would ef
fect such revolutions in the minds of their
children that they would soon learn to think
that Solhmon was a fool, and that Baron
Munchalisen was a character celebrated for
truth and veracity—that he would teach them
to cut large holes in their barn doors for the
old cats, and small ones for the kittens, and
‘that it was all nonsense to drink from a
spring of pure water, when a mud-hole was
equally as good, much cheaper, and far more
convenient.
The patrons, good souls, bit at the bait be
cause it was cheap, and taking their children
on board, they all went off at a break-neck
&peed 5 but coming to a dreary abode in an
open old field, where the scorching heat of
summer dried up the childrens’ brains, and
the freezing blasts of winter congealed them
into a mass closely resembling green cheese,
but whose analysis has never yet revealed
any other element than self-esteem, they all
stopped, the parents went home, the children
took their cheerless seats, and the teacher at
once began digging round holes and square
holes, but all without considering the neces
sary shape of one or the other.
The holes dug, as if every scholar were an
enemy, he proceeded to place a guard at
every post, lest the exuberance of youth
should burst forth. The children were watch
ed and trapped into misdemeanors, and then
punished with a severity' only palliated by the
ignorance of the teacher. He believed the
chief end of the pedagogue to be to flog his
scholars, and drive knowledge to the brain
through the medium of the back. To smile
was a crime, and childhood the wickedest
period of life. With ferules, rods, and scowl
ing looks ; with angry words, egotism and ig
norance—all combined—his great engine was
put in motion, and his work went on.
Having his machinery thus in motion, he
made a spasmodic effort to teach his pupils
the orthography and pronunciation of a class
of words of whose construction he did not
himself know the first principles. If Wor
cester spell Wooster, Roch-es-ter spells
rooster. Then with a wonderful stride he
passed on to the Reading Book, and with a
sing-song tone that more resembled the cater
waul of a dying cat than the silvery chimes
of a cultivated voice, he begau the delicate
task of trying to teach his scholars how to
read the English language correctly. Ilis
passage from one word to another sometimes
resembled the steps taken by a man on a
slippery hill-side—then of a bare-footed child
running through hot ashes, and finally, the
motions of a bob-tail rooster trying to look
upwards on a rickety pole. I
And so it was throughout his entire curric
ulum. Matthew Maddox was considered the
author of all Arithmetics, George Raphy wrote
all Geographies, and Dick Shinery piled to
gether the ponderous Dictionaries of Webster
and Worcester.
This Don Quixotic practice of stuffing chil
dren with undigested food, has filled the
world with loathsome disease, and the custom
of teachers trying to teach others what they
do not know themselves, lias filled the round
holes with the square men, and the square
holes with the round men. As the teachers
before my wondering gaze and took
their stations in their respective holes, I took
my untrimmed pencil and wrote, as well as I
could, “ Surely, many of these teachers have
been placed in the wrong holes themselves.”
They had thought but little upon the grand
and glorious mission of the true teacher—
that not only the minds of their pupils are in
their care, but their hearts as well—that they
are flowers to bud and bloom in their keep-
I ing. or hang on the stem a lifeless monument
to their indiscretion and want of heart. Lit
tle had they thought that there is something
more in teaching thau the dollars and cents
received for services rendered, and that they
are preparing those around them for the great
work of their lives, be it for weal or for woe
—that they are writing thoughts on hearts
that will in after years develop into noble
deeds or into shame and misery, and that
from the ranks of their pupils are to come the
fathers and mothers of another generation,
the eloquent men who carry the messages of
God, the orators, the statesmen, the poets,
the philosophers, and all the men into whose
hands will fall the destiny of this wide-ex
tended commonwealth.
I have written much; it may be, said little;
but the object I have in view, poorly as I may
have treated it, is a high, and I think, a noble
one. My plea is for children and happiness
in their schools. My plea is for that bright,
and sunny, and intelligent teaching that would
render our school-rooms places of pleasure in
stead of pain, and fill all of them, as a few
now are, with teachers who have studied the
grandeur and glory of their profession when
properly followed, and who appreciate the
great truth that it is in their power to make
the world wiser and better than it is.
Rambler.
A Fortunate Kiss-
The following pretty story is told by Bran
el, who vouches for its truthfulness :
In the great university of Apsala. in Swe
den, lived a young student, a noble youth,
with a great love for his studies, but without
means for pursuing them. He was poor, with
out connections. Still he studied, living in
great poverty, but keeping a cheerful heart,
and trying to look pleasantly at the future,
which looked so grimly at him. His good
humor and excellent qualities made him be
loved by his comrades.
One day he was standing at the square with
some of them, prattling away au hour of leis
ure, when their attention was arrested by a
young and beautiful lady, who by the side
of an elder one, was Slowly walking over the
place. It was the daughter of the Governor
pf Apsala, living in that city, and the lady
was her governess. She was generally known
for goodness and gentleness of character, and
looked at with admiration by all the students.
As the young men stood gazing at her as
she went by, like a graceful vision, one of
them suddenly exclaimed:
“ Well, it would be worth something to have
a kiss from such a mouth.”
The poor student, the hero of our story,
who looked on that pure, angelic face, ex
claimed, as if by inspiration :
I think I could have it.”
“Well,” exclaimed his friends in a chorus ;
“Are 3*oll crazy ? Do 3*oll know her ?”
“ Not at all,” lie answered, “ but I think
she would kiss me if I asked her.”
“What, in this place,, and before all our
eyes ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Freely ?”
“Yes.”
“Well, if she would give you a kiss in that
manner I will give a thousand dollars,” ex
claimed one of the party.
“ And I, and I,” exclaimed two or three
others, for it happened several rich men were
among the group, and bets ran high on so
improbable an event. The challenge was
made and received in less time than it takes
to tell it.
Our hero (my authority tells not whether
he was plain or handsome ; I have peculiar
reasons for believing he was rather plain, but
singularly good looking at the same time)
immediately walked up to the young lady
and said:
“ Mine fraulien, my fortune is now in your
hands.”
She looked at him in astonishment, but
arrested her footsteps.
He proceeded to state his name and con
dition, his aspirations, and repeated simply
what had just taken place between him and
his comrades.
The young lady listened attentively, and
at his ceasing to speak, she said blushingly f
but with great sweetness:
“ If by so little a thing so much good can
be effected, it would be foolish in me to re
fuse your request.”
And publicly, in the open square, she kiss
ed him. Next day the student was sent
for by the governor. He wanted to see the
man who had dared to seek a kiss from his
daughter that way, and whom she had con
sented to kiss.”
He received him with a scrutinizing bow,
but after an hour’s conversation was so pleas
ed with him that he ordered our hero to dine
at his table during his studies at Apsala.
Our friend pursued his studies in such a
manner that it soon made him regarded as
the most promising student in the universi
ty.
Three years are now elapsed since the first
kiss, when the young man was allowed to
give the second kiss to the daughter of the
Governor as his beloved wife.
lie became, later, one of the most noted
scholars in Sweden, and was much respected
fof his character.
Ilis works will endure while time lasts
among the works of science; and from this
happy union sprang a family well known in
Sweden at the present time, whose wealth
and high position in society are regarded as
trifles in comparison with their great good
ness and love.
Moody, the revivalist, is said to believe
that the “ second coming of Christ” will be
during this generation. He thinks that many
now living will witness it, and that the press
ing duty of all mankind is to prepare at once
for the great event.
There are seventy Congregational churches
in California, with 3,581 members. Their
property is valued at $434,250, against which
there are debts to the amount of $104,355. —
The contribution during the year past for
current expenses—church erection and be
nevolent purposes—sls7,so2.
Youth should be a savings bank. — Mine.
S wet chine.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
HESTER A. BENEDICT.
•‘Merry Kismas. mamma?” and two little feet.
Dimpled and snowy, and soft and bare,
From a heaven of toys, climb, swift and sweet.
To the couch where the lady’s light dreams arc ;
And, clasping him close to her heart she wakes,
And softly she prays in the early dawn,
“ Let me keep forever the life that makes
My life the fairest the sun shines on 1”
There’s a shower of kisses, a shout of glee;
There’s R swoop of wings from the Kingdom-
Come,
And the angels, listening, smile to see
How the day begins in the boy’s bright home.
“ Merry Christmas, my love !” and the maiden
drops
Iler shy eyes under her lover’s gaze,
And the hounding pulse in her bosom stops
As she thinks of the hastening married days.
And softly she asks in her secret heart,
5\ liile his lips lie light on her fair young brow,
“ What time we shall joumey no more apart,
Will the love of my love he as real as now?”
There are vows renewed, there arc great gifts
given ;
W hile the shutters shake in a sudden gust,
And the angels, wondering, waft to heaven
The old, old tale of a woman’s trust!
“ Merry Christmas, sweetheart I” and theold wife
lifts
A face all smiles to the love-lit eyes
That seem to be watching thro’ Time’s gray rifts
A widening wonder of new-made skies.
And softly she answers—her thoughts like birds
Following after his vision clear,
And all her life in her simple words—
“We scarce can be happier there, my dear !”
There’s a hand of snow upon snow-white hair
There are brow r s a-light, there are eyes a-shine,
And the angels, worshipping, proudly” bear
A true love’s tale to the Love divine.
“ Merry Christmas to all!” and the whole wide
world
Echoes the cry of the tireless hells,
And the wings of a beautiful peace are furled
Even, where Sorrow her secret tells ;
Laughter's alive in the little one’s eyes,
Hollyrbuds brighten the maiden's hair,
And over the forehead of Age there lies
The crow r n that only a saint may wear.
There are feuds forgotton and foes forgiven ;
There are words of healing to sing and say ;
And the angels, jubilant, hear to heuv.cn
The ioy of our joy in the Christmas Day.
—Golden Age.
A Truthful Sketch.
Let a man fail in business, what an effect
it has on his former creditors! Men who
have taken him by the arm, laughed and chat
ted with him by the hour, shrng their shoul
ders and pass on with a cold “How do you
do ?”
Every trifle of a bill is hunted up and pre
sented that would not have seen the light
for months to come, but for the misfortunes
of the debtor. If it is paid, well and good ;
if not, the scowl of the sheriff, perhaps, meets
him at the corner. A man that has never
failed knows but little of human nature.
In prosperity he sails along gently, wafted
by favoring smiles and kind words from ev
ery body. He prides himself on his name
and spotless character, and makes his boasts
that he has not an enemy in the world. Alas !
the change. He looks at the world in a dif
ferent light when reverses come upon him.
He reads suspicion on every brow. He hard
ly knows how to move or to do this thing or
the other; there are spies about him; a writ
is ready for his back. To know what kind of
stuff the world is made of, a person must be
unfortunate, and stop paying once in his life
time. If he has kind friends then they are
made manifest. A failure is a moral seive,
it brings out the wheat and shows the chaff.
A man may thus learn that words and pre
tended good will are not and do not consti
tute real friendship.
Heavy Weights and Big Lengths.
Overton count}' has a family by the name of
Copeland, all of whom stand high, The to
tal length of the six sons is 38 feet and 8
inches, respectively as follows : Richardson,
6 feet 5 inches ; Wilkerson, 6 feet 4 inches ;
Harrison, 6 feet 7 inches ; Anderson, 6 feet 4
inches; Ellison and Addison, 6 feet 7 inches.
Their weights range from 180 to 290 pounds.
Their father, Joseph Copeland, stood 6 feet 6
inches, and weighed 312. They are all alive
and doing well. Who can cope with the Cope-
Lands ?—Nashville American.
KF" “Speaking of large corn stalks,” said
Deacon Smith, of Wilkinson county, the
other day, to a party of farmers, “speaking
of large corn stalks reminds me of the crop
I made on my new ground in Commissioner
swamp, in 1872. That was a prwerful year
for truck to grow, and my new ground was
the richest spot in the county. I planted it
with the Thompson gourd-seed, and, gen
tlemen, it would a done ye good to seen that
corn. I aint gwine to tell 3*oll how big the
stalks was, for yc might dispute it, but one
Sunday me and Mehaly went down to look
at it, and old Itat, my old hound, went along
with us. Rat fooled around ontwell he
started a rabbit and into the field they went.
Presently I heard him barking and Isa) r s to
Mehaly, ‘He's treed/ Me and her got over
into the field and went to him, and, gentle
men, he was balking up a corn stalk, and
scratching at the root. I examined the stalk
and found that the wood-ants had gutted it,
and that it was hollow, so I jest jerked out
my knife and cut a hole into it, and reached
my arm down and pulled out three big old
swamp rabbits, and 1 am able, with the help
of God, to whip any son-of-a-gnn who dis
putes it.” —lricinton Southerner.
The Texas civil rights case, recently tried
in a United States Court in Texas, referred
to in the American a few da3*s since, result
ed in the acquittal of Mr. Foley, the defend
ant, who was charged with refusing a colored
woman admission to a ladies* car. This had
been looked upon as a test case, consequent
ly the trial was watched with a great deal of
interest. Had the defendant been convicted,
similar cases would have been worked up all
over the State. As it is, the verdict will doubt
less put a quietus to similar experiments.—.
Nashville American.
There is a j r oung lady in Georgia who
weighs 203 pounds and is 6 feet 2. She is
also accorded the palm of beauty throughout
the State. A proper reserve withholds her
name but inquiry of aii3* one at Camilla, Ga.,
will fetch it.
'(TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
Three thousand physicians graduated in
the United States last year.
Extensive revivals of religion are in pro
gross in many of the towns in East Tenues*
see. h fr
it is now supposed that about 140 person*
were lost by the disaster to the steamship "
Deutschland.
Spain still continues to send troops to Ca
lm. Fifteen thousand left Madrid for that
island on the Uth. v *
The San Francisco four-mile heat race will
come off Christmas Day. accord ing to latest
dispatches.
At inter oats throughout East Tennessee
are in a remarkably promising oyjer
which the honest fanner rejoigeth exceedingly^, >
The , ; reeeripts of hogs at Cmcinaati aifd., .
Chicago are ranging, in the aggregate, from m
20,000 to 3Q,000 per day. ,
The indications are> from n Washington
stand-point, that the next Democratic
tional Convention will be held in Bt. Lout*.
Miss Annie E. Law reports beets ih 'Cali
fornia that weigh one hundred pounds, And I
pumpkins which pull down two hundred *hd
fifty pounds. : ; r
In Baltimore an extensive agency* for tak
ing young ladies from Northern cities to va
rious cities in the South has been discovered
to be a trap for wicked purposes. ' v< ‘
You can’t depend on Kansas flour. A loaf
of bread passed into Leavenworth jail con
tained two files, a knife, a bottle of acid, and
a roll of money.
The President is said to be preparing a
special message on the interoceanic canal
report, which he will send to Congress at an ,
early day.
There is a bullfrog farm in Southeastern
Wisconsin, thirty acres fenced in, and the
proprietor sends thousands of tliesc feather
less birds to New York annually. „
The new Chaplain of the House ha* mads
anew departure be appearing in gown and p
kneeling on a cushion, offering prayer Cron#)!'*
the Episcopal prayer-book.
The Republican National Committee will
meet in Washington Jan. 13. for the purpose
of fixing the time and place of holding the *
next Republican National Convention.
The Catholic churches of New York are or
ganizing to support the parochial schools* by
taxation, the voluntary contribution plait be*
ing a failure.
If you see a man with a big diamond on
his shirt front, follow the advice of the Chi
cago Times , and have him arrested. It riiay
not be Tweed, but it will serve him right apj
way.
When a sweet little child skips up careless
ly and rests its molasses-smeared fingers on
3 r our light cassimeres, it is well enough for
you to remember that of such is the Kingdom
of Heaven. —Brooklyn Argus.
No less than eight different bills were itir
troduced in the House on Tuesda}* to repeal
the resumption act. The feeling among the
Democratic members is admitted to be large
ly in favor of the repeal of the oppressive act.
When a Chinese bank fails all the ofhecra
have their heads cut off and flung into •
comer with the assets : and it has been five
hundred }*ears since there w*as a bank failure
in that countr}*. , , _
A Cnban woman cvmmauds a< detach
of the rebel arm}'. A paper ip
forms us that she leads the insurgent** in
person, dressed in a rilling habit and mount
ed on a fine horse, and is as brave as a
lion.
If a man is found drunk in Vermont lie
committed to jail and kept there until! ho
reveals who supplied the liquor. Sevcraß
are now lying in jail at Rutland because they
refuse to tell.
Someone stole a carpenter's bench, about
twenty feet long, from the front of a house
in Savannah, Tuesday night, and as soon as
the litte ripple of excitement blows over,
they are going back for the remainder of the
shop.
The Hand that Rocks The WorflcL
BY WIIiLIAM KOHS WALLACK.
Blessings on the hand of Woman !
Angels guard its strength and grace,.
In the palace, cottage, hovel,
O, no matter where the place !!
Would that never storms assailed it j
Rainbows ever gently curled
For the hand that rocks the erad'e
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Infancy's the tender fountain ;
Power may with Beauty How ;
Mothers first to guide the streamlets—
From them souls unresting grow j
Brow on for the good or eviT.
Sunshine streamed or darkness hurled ;
For the hand that rocks* the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Woman, how divine your mission
Here upon our natal sod T
Keep, O keep the young heart open
Always to the breathrof i fod !
All the trophies of the Ages
Are from Mother Love impearled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Blessings on the hand of woman !
Fathers, sons and daughters cry,
And the sacred song is mingled
With the worship in the sky,
Mingles where no tempest darkens,
Rainbows evermore are hurled ;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
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