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THE FOREST NEWS. * oV ,the JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. gfrJEyiri ffirfug. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, jnckHOH ( unly PiibllHking UCompany. tyj'fKJtSo .V, JACKSON CO., Ov4. COR. PIT BMC SQUARE, UFHBTAIRS. MALCOi STAFFORD, MANAGING and business editor. TEHiS OF SUBSCIWTIOW. ~ ti 3 “ 50 ~ For every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex the paper will be given. TuteTof advertising. ()vk Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) i r the first insertion, and SEVENTY-FIVE Cents (,retch subsequent insertion. ill Advertisements sent without specifica- J of the ni'tiber of insertions marked thereon, Jj published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. . or Professional Cards, of six lines lets Seven Dollars per annum; and where thev do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. (Mtirnet AdTerlixing. The following will he the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to m all case?: ' - ; j * t SqCARBS. 1i ?> 1 lU * 3m. Hhi. 12 m. ,Z “$1 00 $2 60 $0 00 $9 00 sl2 00 T " 0 200 550 11 00 17 00 22 00 i 300 675 16 00 21 00 30 00 }* 1. 400 950 18 75 25 00 36 00 L 00 10 25 21 50 29 00 42 00 tfelTe" _ 11 00 21 75 40 00 55 00 81 00 Kirhteen .. 15 00 30 50 54 50 75 50 109 00 Tfeotytwo 17 00 34 00 60 00 90 00 125 00 square is one inch, or about 100 words of tktrpe used in our advertising columns. Marriage and obituary notices not exceeding ten ln>, will be published free; but for all over ten lues, regular advertising rates will be charged. Transient advertisements and announcing can didates for office will be Cash. Address all communications for publication and ill letters on business to MALCOM STAFFORD, Managing and Buxines* Editor. jtafcssiimnf & business lords. J.A. B. MAHAFFKY. W. 8. M*CARTY. UAHAFFEY & McCARTY, JA A T TO K NEYS AT LA W, Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.. Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at tnupn to all business entrusted to their nra Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly *4y f. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD. l|tl.4R * HOWARD, II ATTORNEYS AT LAW, J Jefferson, Ga. ill practice together in all the Courts of Jack in and adjacent counties, except the Court of Mmary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75 L. M. M. ALEAAADKR. D SURGEON DENTIST, Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga. duly 10th, 1875. 6ni Ra. wiiaiamnoa WATCHMAKER and jeweler. /tDr. Wm. King’s Drugstore, Deupree Block, *ens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner, w Granted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi- WjICASH. July 10-0 m. Stanley & pinson, > JSFFJSSSOIT, GA., jy<ALER( ia Dry Goods and Family Grocc nt*. supplies constantly received. Ui'ie *9 f )f and examine their stock. [I *• WOFFORia, Attorney at Law, IIOMEU, BANKS CO., GA., R 11 in all the adjoining Counties, and rom Pt attention to all business entrusted to C,-r~ tins cW “ llßpccialty - ly oaken, v d-WISS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA. „|V K°°d buggy and wagon harness always u. n * Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c., j n otice, and cheap for cash. J I J. B. SILMAN, PiA^li n^on ' Ua. Jefferson, Ga. J,LOY* * Kli^ Will ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. tk,„ P rictl ce together in the Superior Courts of Jackson and Walton. B *• Attorney at I^iw, • WFKRBON, JACKSON CO., GA. Cl*** the Courts, State and Federal, lug, /, sn d thorough attention given to all w., business in Jackson and adjoining -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. Esq., c. S. C. octlO B res pectfully call the attention of the c to their elegant stock of *rfy Goods of all Kinds, F |. M, HA|)E ILOTHHO. Root, . j CAs NMERES, hats, caps, Ladies’ Bonnets, Hats and " lrt . n r^ Ware ' Hollow Ware, Earthen JK s<>o5 <>0 i llß \> I>aper ' Pen8 ’ Inks ’ E "l el ' ■ *Hkind Bacon, Lard. Sugar Coffee, >llv f ol , *. “atent Medicines, in fact everything n a General Store. Prices to suit 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. ißisceffmieous ', 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. NUMBER *#v