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aV THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, - Jackson County Publishing Company, JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. jjyPJCF- >'• W - COR * PUBIJC SQUARE, up-stairs. MALCOM STAFFORD, ' managing and business Editor. terms OF SUBSCRIPTION. (ino ronv 12 months <..52,00 “ - 1.00 a * 3 “ 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex {rlcopy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. ovr Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) f the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. *s\lll Advertisements sent without specifica innofthe number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and charged according!}'. or Professional Cards, of six lines !rleS' Seven lIoLiiARS per annum; and where thef do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Caatract Adverlising. The following will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to Sqlajiks. lav. Im. 3 in. in. ldm. ~ $1 00 $2 50 $G 00 $9 00 sl2 00 ’iy () 200 550 11 00 17 00 22 00 Three .. 300 G 75 16 00 21 00 30 00 Four " ... 100 950 18 75 25 00 3G 00 Fire •• 500 10 25 21 50 29 00 42 00 Slx ’ GOO 12 00 24 25 33 00 48 00 Twelve .- 11 00 21 75 40 00 55 00 81 00 Eighteen.... 15 00 30 50 54 50 75 50 109 00 Tvventytwo 17 00 34 00 GO 00 90 00 125 00 tfpk s'lHurc is one inch, or about 100 words of jittviie used in our advertising columns. Marriage and obituary notices not exceeding ten lines, will be published*free; but for all over ten lint., regular advertising rates will be charged. Transient advertisements and announcing can didates for otliee will be Cash. Address all communications for publication and all letters on to 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. XUMfcER 31.