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aV THE JACKSON COUNTY )
PUBLISHING COMPANY. \
VOLUME I.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
- Jackson County Publishing
Company,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
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MALCOM STAFFORD, '
managing and business Editor.
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M A LOOM STAFFORD,
}iiin'/!ny an>l /justness R<lifor.
frofcssiuuiil' Jo (business (units.
J. A. Ft. MAHAFKKV. \V. S. -U’CAKTY.
UAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
ill A TTO KNEYB AT I.AW,
Jefferson, -1 aukson Cos. Da..
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
trition given to all business entrusted to their
are. Patronage solicited. Oct:?!) 1 y
WII.KY- C. HOWARD. ROB*T S. JIOWARI).
IIOWiKI) *V IIOH IKS),
1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Ua.
Will practice together in all the Courts of -Jack
ion and adjacent counties, except the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
DK. tv. S. AU
SURD EON DENTIST,
Harmony Drove, Jackson Cos., Da.
July 10th, 1575. Gm
V tAVIIJJVISOY
1 * WATCI ]MA KER AND .JEW F.EER,
At Dr. \V m. King’s Drug Store, Deuprce Block,
•Lhens. (ia. All work done in a superior manner,
‘fi warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, ]>osi-
CASH. JulylO-Gm.
STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFERS OX, GA
fjEALEUS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
, r * e s. Now supplies constantly received.
/ !nap for Cash. Call and examine ►their stock.
June 19 ly
]] *’• W'OPPORB, AtforncT at I-aw,
HOMER, BANKS CO., GA.,
practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
prompt attention to all business entrusted to
care, Collecting claims a specialty.
June Tilth.. 1875. ly
J°!P • OAKES,
J harness maker. Jefferson, ga.
‘A* ail( l buggy and wagon harness always
un 'f Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c.,
"" Hiort notice, and cheap for cash.
jnneli—iy
JJ - FLOYD, j j. B. SI DM AN.
Dw Kington, Ga. Jelierson. Ga.
} I OY ® A NIEILVA,
r ,, . ATT() RX E YS- A T-LA AV.
.I practice together in the Superior Courts of
-'-'unties of Jackson and Walton.
\\ *• I'IKE, Attorney sit lunv,
p • JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
p !Ces Hi all the Courts, State and Federal,
le ,i, iK a,) H thorough attention given to all
Rgal business in Jackson'and adjoining
< June 12, 1875
Medical Notice.
JJ I*' 1 *' ,B * O. HITWT having located in Jeffer-
n r lt P ur P oSe of practicing Medicine,
thg. aiU y tenders his services to the citizens of
ofu " u an J county in all the different branches
of n,j P ro “-‘ssioh. After a flattering experience
be j. fcteen years, he feels justified in saying that
di Sn ‘ r VP ar *-‘d to successfully treat any curable
PffSMi* 1 k Cl<^ *° our climate. He is, for the
' J ® ar ding with -Judge John Simpkins, but
(L® family here soon.
w,th Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
i e^ ence can He seen in the office of T. H.
* Uci v Esq., C. S. C. octlO
\\ * HB respectfully call the attention of the
P u die to their elegant stock of
G-oocls of all Kinds,
liv ll V ’ H 1 B> *' T■! 1N G,
B <llit XK iiats, caps,
Shoes; Ladies’ Bonnets, Hats and
V .Hardware, Hollow Ware, Earthen
f !Pes lm 11,0 Hooks. Paper, Pens, Inks, Envel-
H'a. Bacon, Lard. Sugar Coffee.
usujU .‘‘fids Patent Medteines, in fact everything
the tiimJ Jl ' * u a General Store. Prices to suit
- '• Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf
iu NOTICE.
\ ! S /i >ns are Hereby notified not to hunt,
i" e ! v er gun or dogs, on my premises. Any
■ lu J o,u £- will be dealt with to extremity of
'*-•121 lm C. C. THUMI 802*.
THE FOREST NEWS.
Hie People their own Rulers; Advancement In Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
GLEANINGS.
Earthquake shocks were felt at various
points in Virginia on the night of the 22(1
Dec.
The papers announce the death of Mrs. C.
C. Bowen, the daughter of the late James L.
Pettigni.
Queen Victoria personally conducts a Sun
day-school for the children connected with
Windsor Castle.
The California race has been once more
postponed, this time until the 22d of Febru
ary, Washington’s birthday.
The Wyoming legislature referred a bill
for the support of illegitimate children to the
committee on bridges.
The French eat 85,000,000 rabbits every
year. That’s what makes them such a liare
’em scare’em people.
Some of the Washington correspondents
are predicting the early resignation of Sec
retary Fish.
General Lane, candidate for Vice Presi
dent in 1860,is now a farmer in Oregon. His
son is a Representative in Congress from the
same State.
The Episcopal Church at Williamsburg, Va.,
has a very heavy communion service, which
was a present from George 111. It will be
exhibited at the Centennial.
It takes eighty-two columns of the Mem
phis Avalanche to print the list of delinquent
taxes for Shelby county and the city of Mem
phis.
It is a bit of forgotten history that Jeffer
son was formerly nominated to the Presiden
cy for a third term by the Legislatures of
Massachusetts, Vermont and Rho le Island,
lie promptly declined the nomination.
Over 197,000 trees were planted in Min-
nesota during the tree-planting season, by
contestants for certain premiums which had
been offered to those planting the largest
number.
Some Norwegians have discovered a large
lake, about fifteen miles from Beaver Pass, in
which the fish are so thick that a man could
walk across the lake on their backs; at least
the discoverers say.
Do not grumble. It is bad winter and ev
erything is expensive ; but you ought to be
thankful that you are not a little man with a
big wife, and no other capital than a pair of
weak lungs and nine girl children.
A Montgomery (Ala.) man says it is hard
to keep track of a sermon when you sit in
the back part of the church, but then you can
get out first and have the best chance to se
lect a good umbrella from the pile at the door.
Did you ever come down stairs on Sunday
morning, and ask your wife to put a button
on your wristband, but what she lifted her
eves to heaven, and with clasped hands as
sured you that “when that shirt was put away,
there was a button on it.”
A western lad}- gives the following advice
to girls looking up husbands: “Look out
for physical health and beauty for the sake
of the race. Do not bestow a glance on the
pale, dyspeptic, cadaverous biped ; shun him
as you would a pestilence.”
A Boston clergyman advanced the idea in his
sermon, last Sunday, that striped stockings
are destructive to female modesty. “ But a
little while ago,” said he, “young ladies re
fused to go up stairs in advance of gentle
men. Now they seem anxious to do so !”
On Saturday of last week, a Mr. Hampton
was attacked by highwaymen, while on the
road to Anderson Court-house, S. C., and
robbed of his horse and nine hundred dollars
in money. A posse of the citizens have gone
out to arrest the robbers.
It costs the people of the United States
about SIO,OOO a day to support the House of
Representatives. A session of the House
consumes from three to four hours. Every
hour’s work is done at an expense of $2,500.
Every minute of the session costs S4O.
Mrs. Schnevly, of Pennsylvania, is 103
years old, and remembers seeing A\ ashing
ton in 1790 looking at ground for a national
capital, and seeing in 1791 a snow storm
which was so deep that people rode over the
tops of houses.
The Abbeville S. C. Medium says: The
Bible agents in Columbia have been furnish
ing the editors with Bibles. Ibis is “carry
ing the war into Africa.” An appropriation
of this kind for the benefit of the editors in
this County might very properly be made by
our home agents.
“How’s this for red-tape? When two
young Chinamen, now being educated in a
Lowell factory-, made application the other
day for permission to cut off their pigtails
for fear of their catching in the machinery,
the request had to be first ’forwarded to the
authorities in China.
An Indianapolis wife caught her husband
kissing the family dressmaker, a woman
repulsive in form and features, and instead
of flyinn into a rage or fainting away she
simply remarked, in a touching sad tone of
voice : “ Johu ! I must say that your taste
is more to be condemned than your morals.”
should always be milked regu
larly and clean.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JAN’Y 8, 1876.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER
Of Jackson County.
Previous to the year 1873, teachers of Pub
lic Schools were employed by Boards of Trus
tees in the various Militia Districts, and all
payments arising from the State School Fund,
were made by the County Treasurer. But
by an Act of the General Assembly, approv
ed Aug. 23d, 1872, the County School Com
missioner is made the custodian of the School
Fund ; and as all sums set apart by the State
for school purposes in Jackson county since
the above date, have passed through my
hands, I wish, as an item of public informa
tion, to make the following statements; re
marking, however, that all my actions have
been in oonformity to the law in so far as I
was able to understand it, and to the instruc
tions of a State School Commissioner, ac
knowledged, both at home and abroad, to be
as able, honest, and faithful, as any in the
United States, as well as to the directions
and immediate supervision of a Count}- Board
of Education, composed of some of the best
men in the county, and who have, on all
reasonable occasions, faithfully and efficiently
discharged their whole duty.
That I have made mistakes in a business
so varied and difficult to perform, I do not
pretend to deny ; but having a written in
dorsement of my actions by the State School
Commissioner, and the County Board of Ed
ucation having on two different occasions
during the last year, carefully examined
all my papers, and found them to be correct,
I am led to indulge the hope that while I
know none of my errors have been intentional,
none of them have been sufficiently material
to retard the cause of universal education,
the success of which, some of our best men to
the contrary, notwithstanding, is the chief
hcj£e for the salvation of this country, both
socially and politically.
I would further remark in this connection,
that my statements must be general; for to
itemize all my proceedings would be so
voluminous as to make tlieir publication im
practicable in a common newspaper.
1873.
Whole number of schools, white. 12
“ •* “ colored, 00
Average daily attendance per school, 28.98
Average monthly cost of Tuition, $52.50
No. of pupils not higher than Orthography, 25G
“ ■* “ “ Reading, 129
* 4 .A* “ “ Writing, 75
44 41 44 44 Eng. Grammar, 51
“ 4i 4 ‘ 44 Geography, 27
“ “ 44 44 Arithmetic. 124
Total school debt, $2,490.00
Amount received from tjie State, $1,974.90
Left for payment by patrons, $515.10
1874.
By the passage of a law, approved March
3d, 1874, and the concurrence therein of the
Grand Jury sitting at August Term of Jack
son Superior Court for the same year, the
current State School Fund was, after deduct
ing my salary and other contingent expenses,
applied to the payment of school officers and
teachers who did service in 1871—the cur
rent school fund of that year having been di
verted to other purposes by Bullock and his
associate minions.
It will thus be seen that the foregoing ac
tion of the Legislature and Grand Jury, threw
the disbursement qf the school funds both for
1871 and 1874 on my hands at the same time ;
and by the passage of an Act, approved March
28th, 1874. left only the poll tax, less the Re
ceiver's and Collectors commissions, for pay
ment of the current school debt. This, to
gether with the large number of teachers who
legally applied for tlieir pro rata shares, fully
accounts for the reason why so small a pro
portion of the school claims was paid in 1874.
Amount received of current
school fund from the State,... $2,252.75
When the debt of 1871 came
into my hands. I found it
to be, 3,195.34
My own salary, expense of
conveying the fund to the
county, blank books, sta
tionarv and postage. $ 600.0*0
Paid on debt of 1871 _ _ 1,652.75
Leaving unpaid (1874) 1,542.59
STATISTICS.
Number of white males between the ages of
6 and 18 years, in the county, 1.291
Number of white females, same ages, L 044
“ colored males, “ “ 494
“ “ females, “ “ 435
Total white, 2,338
• “ colored, 929
“ white and colored, 3,267
Confederate soldiers under 30 years of age, 55
Number of whites between the ages of 10 and
18 years unable to read, 329
Number of colored children of same ages un
able to read, 092
Total, 1,0*21
Number of whites over 18 unable to read, 3G9
“ blacks “ “ “ 702
Total, 1,161
Number of parents found who did not know
the ages of their children, 77
Number of families found who did not have a
Family Bible, 34
Number of public schools attended by chil
dren of the county, white, 31
Colored, 1
Total, 32
Number of white pupils, males, 713
“ “ “ females, 547
“ of colored pupils, males, 51
“ “ “ females, 36
Total whites, 1,260
“ blacks, 87
“ white and black, 1,347
Average daily- attendance, 772
No. of pupils not higher than Orthography, 428
“ “ ■“ Reading, 212
“ “ “ Writing, 76
“ “ “ “ Eng. Grammar, 190
“ “ “ * “ Geography, 150
“ “ “ “ Arithmetic, 291
Total school debt, $3,958.46
Ain’t of poll tax received and paid out, $1,499.08
Number of counties in the State that had a
greater school population than Jackson, 23
Number of counties in the State that had more
schools than Jackson, 6
Number of counties in the State that had
more children in school than Jackson, 11
Number of counties in the State that had a
larger school debt than Jackson in 18<1, 9
1875.
The law regulating the disbursement of the
current State School Fund involves action
taken by the State Legislature, the Grand
Jury, the County Board of Education, and
the State School Commissioner. The instruc
tions given by- the latter being familiar to
only o’ comparatively small number, I here
give part of the decision of the Commissioner
bearing upon the payment of the school debt
of 1871, as an item of public information;
presuming that the law itself, and the action
taken by our constituted authorities, are al
ready generally known. The decision refer
red to is embraced in the following words :
“ Whatever patrons may have paid (on the
debt of 1871) must be considered as so much
paid on the claims, leaving only the unpaid
balance to be provided for.”
During the present year I have
received from the State School
Fund,., $1,291.53
My own salary, postage and sta
tionery* $450.00
Paid on debt of 1871 841.53
The amount paid by patrons, the item re
ferred to above, was furnished to me by the
teachers themselves, and I have good reasons
to know that their statements are correct.—
By a careful examination of the matter, I
found the figures as below:
Unpaid balance of debt of 1871, $1,542.59
Paid by patrons $192.48
Paid as above stated 841.53
Unpaid balance (1875).. 508.58
Having thus disposed of the current fund
received from the State, only the poll tax was
again left to pay the current school debt of
this year. And as this matter is now imme
diately before the people, and as many in
quiries are made in regard to it, I will give
all the figures in my possession, so that all
who are interested can see and calculate for
themselves.
Total school debt of 1875, $4,098.82
Poll tax received up to date, 1,500.0 ft
APPORTIONMENT.
: fcui
; - Teacker s Teachesr ’ s
Teachers. : L-:
: St accounts, pro rata.
|
J C Edwards, 14 $ 63 00 $ 23 05
J B Pattman. :16 72 00: 26 34
A M Sale, 10 43 12; 15 78
J N Hill, 16 72 00; 26 34
WII Hill, ;22 99 00: 36 22
JII Gunter, !20 j 92 25! 33 73
M Morrow, ;23.\ 105 75: 38 70
J A Park, ;30 ! 135 00; 49 44
S E Bedingficld, ; 3 13 50i 4 94
W P Newman, ;31 143 10: 52 34
J L Park, :20| ; 92 25; 33 75
Mittie E Boon, ;2l“ 94 50 34 55
G Mack, col. |52 | 234 00; 85 63
R T Langford, j 8 I 36 00; 13 17
L M Lyle, 28 ! 127 7L 46 73
W C McLester, col. ; 14 : 63 00- 23 05
AC P Riden, fl4|i 66 00: 24 15
II L Nance, col. 129 : 130 501 47 75
J T White, j 9 ; 41 85; 15 31
E E Owen, ;8 ! 36 00; 13 17
G G Sale, ;21 : 99 63 ! 36 46
II W Jarrett, iSljj 142 50! 54 58
JII McCarty, !22§! 102 36! 37 45
M C Lanier, ;19 85 50; 31 04
RII Johnson, col. |l3|! 60 75: 22 23
N J McCombs, col. :53 \ 238 50! 87 27
Maggie Wilson, :24u 108 54! 39 72
W W McElroy, |lO j 30 00; 10 97
Fannie Oakes, 23 i 103 50: 37 87
R S Cheney, 38 ; 171 00 62 57
D J Matthews, 23 . 106 26: 38 88
AG Strain, jl7 ' 80 16; 29 33
S J Perkins, Ilsj{: 70 50 ; 25 80
P Moon, col. =82" : 144 63: 52 92
A L Barge, !31 ; 139 50! 51 05
W H Morrow, col. ;32 145 71; 53 32
ML Lay, jlB ! 81 00: 29 66
Emma Eberhart, ;22 99 00! 36 22
JW Glenn, !47 | 21150! 77 37
Jennie Lane, 10 45 75: 14 79
P O Pittman, 116 { 72 00: 26 34
Total, 1884 SIO9B 82;$1500 00
Note. —For want of space and proper “ marks”
some of the fractions in “Average Attendance.”
(such as “eight twenty-sevenths,” fcc.) are omit
ted in the above table.— Printer.
The average daily attendance, 884, was
made as follows:
White schools, 34
Colored “ 7
Total, 41
White males, 732
“ females, 501
Total white, 1,233
Colored males, 160
“ females, 182
Total colored, 342
“ white and colored, 1,575
No. of pupils not higher than Orthography, 630
“ “ “ “ Reading, 311
“ “ “ “ Writing, 208
“ “ “ Eng. Grammar, 116
“ “ “ “ Geography, 76
“ “ “ u Arithmetic, 234
Average monthly cost of tuition, per pupil, $1.50
All of which is most respectfully submitted.
To that prince of educators, the State
School Commissioner, I am under many ob
ligations for assistance given to carryout the
wotk assigned me to do : to the County Board
of Education I am equally indebted for the
faithful manner in which that body’ has dis
charged its varied duties : to those teachers
who have treated me with such uniform kind
ness and attention, I offer my sincere thanks :
and to those who have sometimes found fault
with any of my- official actions, I will say that
a careful examination of my- duties under the
law, and of my books and papers, will con
vince them that no wrong was intended, nor
no error intentionally committed.
Respectfully, G. J. N. W ilson,
School Commissioner , Jackson Cos.
January 3d, 1876.
GF’The following lines are very simple,
and possess but little intrinsic literary merit,
y-et they strike a chord in the heart of every
absentee who, called away from home and
fireside by the imperious demands of duty,
still bears with him the fond images of a be
loved wife and children. The true genius of
poesy is truth and nature, and these are here
faithfully delineated :
How sweet to think when far away
From home and those I love.
That there is one who day by day,
With me in thought will rove.
How sweet to think, before the grate
Is drawn an easy chair,
A vacant chair in silence waits
For one who is not there.
How sweet to think that in the heart
Of that dear one at home,
There is a void, a vacant spot
When I’m compelled to roam.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
[Correspondence Chicago Tribune.]
A WAR REMINISCENCE.
THE STRANGE SEQUEL TO A STRANGE DUEL.
On the 12th day of July, 1863, I wit
nessed a duel between a Captain Jones, com
manding a Federal scout, and Captain Fry,
commanding a Rebel scout, in Greene coun
ty, East Tennessee. These two men had
been fighting each other for six months, with
the fortunes of battle in favor of one and
then the other. Their commands were
camped on either side of Lick creek, a large
and sluggish stream, too deep to lord, and
too shallow for a ferry boat; but there a
bridge spanned the stream for the conven
ience of the traveling public. Each of them
guarded this bridge, that communication
should go neither north or south, as the rail
road track had been broken up months
before. After flighting cacli other for several
months, and contesting the point as to which
should hold the bridge, they agreed to fight
a duel, the conqueror to hold the bridge
undisputed for the time being. Jones gave
the challenge, and Fry accepted. The terms
were that they should fight with navy pistols
at twenty yards apart, deliberately * walking
towards each other, and firing until the last
chamber of their pistols was discharged,
unless one or the other fell before all the
discharges were made. They chose tlieir
seconds, and agreed upon a Rebel surgeon
(as he was the only one in either command)
to attend them in case of danger.
Jones was certainly a fine-looking fellow,
with light hair and blue eyes, five feet ten
inches in height, looking every inch the mili
tary chieftain. He was a man that soldiers
would admire and ladies regarded with
admiration. I never saw a man more cool,
determined, and heroic under such circum
stances. I have read of the deeds of
chivalry and knight-errantry in the middle
ages, and of brave men embalmed in modern
poesy ; but, when I saw this man Jones come
to the duelists’ scratch, fighting, not for real
or supposed wrongs to himself, but, as he
honestly thought, for his country and the
glory of the flag, I could not help admiring
the man, notwithstanding he fought for the
freedom of the negro, which 1 was opposed
to.
Fry was a man full six feet high, slender,
with long, wavy, curling hair, jet black eyes,
wearing a slouch hat and gray suit, and
looking rather the demon than the man.
There was nothing ferocious about him; but
he had that self-sufficient non-chalance that
said, “I will kill you.” Without a doubt, he
was brave, cool and collected, and, although
suffering from a terrible flesh wound in his
left arm, received a week before, he manifes
ted no syraeptoms of distress, but seemed
ready for the fight.
The ground was stepped off by the sec
onds, pistols loaded and exchanged, and the
principals brought face to face. I shall
never forget that meeting. Jones, in his
military, boyish mood, as they shook hands,
remarked that—
A soldier braves death for a fanciful wreath,
When in glory’s romantic career.
Fry caught up the rest of the sentence and
answered by saying :
Y r et he bends o’er the foe when in battle laid
low,
And bathes every wound with a tear.
They turned around and walked back to
the point designated. Jones’ second had
the word “fire,” and as lie slowly said, “One,
two, three—fire !” they simultaneously turned
at the word “one,” and instantly fired.
Neither was hurt. They cocked their pistols
and deliberately walked toward each other,
firing as they went. At the fifth shot, Jones
threw up his right hand, and, firing his pistol
in the air, sank down. Fry was in the act
of firing his last shot, but, seeing Jones fall,
silentty lowered his pistol, dropped it to the
ground, and sprang to Jones’ side, taking
his head in his lap as he sat down, and asked
him if he was hurt.
I discovered that Jones was shot through
the region of the stomach, the bullet glan
cing around that organ, and coming out to
the left of the spinal column; besides, he
had received three other frightful flesh
wounds in other portions of his body. I
dressed his wounds, and gave him such stim
ulants as I had. lie afterwards got well.
Fry received three wounds—one breaking
his left arm, one in the left, and the gthcr in
the right side. After months of suffering he
got well. Neither of them asked for a dis
charge, but both resumed their commands
when they got well, and fought the war out
to the bitter end, and to- lay are partners in
a wholesale grocery business down South
doing a good business, and verifying the
sentiment of lfyron that “A soldier braves
death,” etc.,
Trusting that the above truthful narrative
will be a lesson to some people North and
South, that stayed on the outside and 3 r elled
“seek dog !” and are still not satisfied with
the results of the war, let, me subscribe
ni} r self a reconstructed
Confederate Soldier.
Pay You it Small Dubts. —One of the
great evils of the times is the general
omission and indifference of people to pay
small debts, say from fifteen cents to five
and ten dollars, as if these sums were noth
ing to withhold from tho3e they are due,
whether printer, merchant, mechanic or
farmer. Tlie mighty ocean and great rivers
are formed b} r rain drops, as cents are the
fractional part of dollars and millions. The
large number of dealings among men are in
small amounts, and for that reason the pay
ment of small debts is equally, if not of
more importance than the liquidation of
larger sums to those whose means may be
sufficient to afford indulgence.
A boy once complained of his brother for
taking half of the bed. “ And why not,’* said
his mother ; “ he is entitled to half, is he not ?”
“ Yes, ma,” said the boy, “but how should
you like to have him take all the soft for his
half? lie will have his half out of the mid
dle, and I have to sleep on both sides of
him.”
TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
/ SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
THE OUTLOOK.
Ever since Jacob made a failure in his
crop and was forced to send his sons into
Kuypt to get a supply of corn, and perhaps
before that, time, there has been periods of
hard times. In onr country many of us are
superstitious enough to believe that all years
ending in seven are sure to develop failures,
disasters, want and suffering. Such a state
of affairs has no doubt been experienced irt
1837, ’47, ’57, and ’fi7. But none of these
years have produced as liard times as result
ed from the panic of 1873. The outlook,
early in the fall of 1873, was never better.
Everything was bright and prosperous. The
failure of Jay Cooke & Cos., a house of sup
posed immense wealth, and that, lmd the
confidence of the whole people; a house
composed of “Christain gentlemen, staggered
the entire country, and everybody whispered
to himself, who next? If Jay Cooke & Cos.
could fail, anybody and everybody could and
would fail. But to the surprise of everybody,
only a few weak houses succumbed—and
many of our leading financiers predicted a
clear sky in a few weeks. But alas ! their
predictions were untrue. More heavy failures
were announced and scarcely a month, since
1873, has passed but the telegraph flashes
the news that some house, of hitherto un
doubted standing, has failed. While these
large failures have been going on, thousands
of smaller ones have occurred. The conse
quence has been that confidence has not had
time to be re-established, and has given
away and given away until there is none
left.. Everybody is afraid of everybody.
There is no predicting the life of any firm or
corporation. The best have yeilded, and on
investigation, have, in many cases proven a
laxity of morals unthought of. If a Christian
gentleman like Jay Cooke devetope fraud
and rascality, what can be expected of the
ordinary man? If such corporations as the
Tall as see Manufacturing Company of Ala
bama. managed by the purest of men, devel
ops into the defrauder of widows and
orphans, what can be expected of ordinary
corporations? Such a condition of things
cannot result otherwise than impairing the
confidence in any and everything. Such a
continued state of affairs have produced the
hardest times known in the past half century,
aid the future is far from having a cheerful
look. All industries, all pursuits, have
resulted only in loss for the past two years.
This-continued loss lias caused the capitalist
to haul off, and now our mills are stopped or
working short time. Our workshops have
discharged employees until the largest do
not muster a corporal's guard. The cPuntrjv
is full of idle capital and idle men and
women. Neither can stand such a state of
affairs long—for one will dwindle into noth
ing and the other will starve. It is onr duty
to prevent bdth. Capital must come out of
its shell and give to labor bread and vneaf.
How is tins to be done? By economy and
conjilence, Let people in town and country
exercise a rigid economy in the purchase of
food and raiment ; buy nothing that is not
aotuall}' needed banish luxuries ; pay the
cash and not burden ourselves with further
and ibts ; have faith in one another. If we ean
e icon rage or aid each other, do so. Don’t
let our money remain locked up in the
banks. Take it out and give it for the labor
of those who are begging for work, Who riitist
have work or they will starve, or perhaps do
worse. Let us not wait for Congress to do
something, or the legislature to do some
thing. Let us do something ourselves, and
we will soon see our fields in cultivation ;
our mills and shops filled with busy work
men ; our merchants witlk happy faces, and
our wives and children a blessing instead of
a burden to us. Our extravagance and
folly, no doubt, has tended greatly toward
bringing about our present distress. Shall
we curse ourselves and onr neighbors for the
folly of the past? Oh, no! Let us only
look to the future and work it out. — Colum
bus Enquirer.
A Shining Example.
The New York Herald contrasts the actum
of the members who are scrambling for a
share of the appointments in the House with
the patriotism of Senator Gordon, as disclos
ed below :
His son, who is studying law, wished to
to relieve his father from the financial em
barrassment of supporting him during hvs
studies, and he secured one of the best posi
tions in the gift of the doorkeeper. Senator
Gordon, who believes that nepotism is the
curse of our govrnment, promptly informed
his son that he must not accept tlie office,
and made him send a letter to Mr. Fitzhngh,
thanking him for his frendship and his offer,
but positively declining any office whatever.
What is more remarkable about this is tiie
fact that Senator Gordon, who was one of
the most active and influential advocates Mr,
Fitzhngh had in canvassing for the position,
is not rich, and the salary tendered young
Gordon would have been great assistance to
him. Hut, unlike the majority of the so
called great men of this country, the father
refused to countenance his son’s aspirations
for office, even for his own personal benefit.
It Works that Way.
Yesterday, while fifteen or twenty men
were sitting in a saloon at the ferry dock,
toasting their shins aud lamenting the hard
times, a man opened the door, and called out:
“W ho wants work at twenty shillings a
day ?”
Not a person made answer. Some shut
their eyes and pretended to be asleep, and
others were busy looking out of the windows.
In about five minutes another man opened
the door and shouted :
“Who wants an easv place in the City
Hall?” . ~ '
“ I do r was chorused in tones that made
the decanters jar, and every man jumped to
his feet.
“So do I!” said the man, as he shut the
door and walked away.— Detroit Free Press.
Providence seems to watch over the little
man with a big wife, and teaches him that one
of the principal conditions of domestic tran
quility is to always keep his dander at low
tide. —Brooklyn Ary ns.
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