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nY THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. $ VOLUME I. V % , 1 tT I, * j prBLTSHKD EVERY SATURDAY, rtr the j ack NO n County PubliMhing ” Coinpany. ' rtfFKnSOX, JACKSON CO., GA. . r „ rrr >. W. COR. I'UBLUC SQUARE, UP-STATRS. or>K * MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING and business editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ■—— ■ - ~ >; . t . * \ T f i One copy 12 months w U**2.W .. •• <i *i r ** r .^ v . u l.oo it ’* •••.!.. ;j0 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tn ropy of the paper will be given. RATES OrADVERTisiN^,' <i NK Dolt.aß square (of ten lines or less) for the first insertion, and Seventy-Five CENTS fr each saHseqaent insertion. jjjfAfl Advertisements sen! without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published till FORBID, and charged tccnrdingly. or Professional Cards, of six lines orless. Skvkn DOLLARS per annum; and where thev do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Alvei-lisi*g. 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Ga.. Wifi*practice anywhere for money. Prompt at tention given to all business entrusted to their rare. Patronage solicited. Oct3o fv ttll.KY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD. Tloivakb a IIOM AKI). 11 ATTORNEYS AT LAW,*.* J KFFKUSOX, Ga. f., ~, i, hill practice together in all the Courts of -Jack **n and adjacent counties, except the (’ourt of Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75 DU. W. Ki. AMAWDIdt. SURGEON DKNTTST. Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga. July 10th, 1875. 6m ; 1’ A. n iLU lIISOA, G. M ATVIIM VKF.R AND JKWBLKR, At Df. Win. King’s Drug Store, Deuprbe Dldck, Athens. Ga. All work done in a superior manner. and warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi~ Urfhf CA S ff. July 10-6 m. STANLEY & PINSON, JEFFERSON, GA., DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groco •4* ries. New supplies constantly received. (■heap for Cash. Call and examine their stock. Jnc 1!) W * 1 - ir * * * * 1 • '** 1 * BE. JYOITOItIK Attorney at liinv, • HOAIER, BANKS CO., GA., 'Fill practice in all trie adjoining Counties, anj Dv prompt attention to all busiiuiss entrusted to care, Collecting claims a specialty, June 19th, 1875. * ly John u. o vi4iv<s ” harness maker, jf.fferson, ga. -gw and good buggy and wagon harness always 1 " Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c., l ' l 'anrvshort uotieft. and cheap for cash. jinel'2—jy 1 I. FLOVIX, J J. B. SILMAN* D Covington. J Jefferson,; Ga. ATTORNEYS-AT-L AAV. * ill practice together in the Superior Courts of . Col *nties of Jackson and A\ r alton. junelg—l y * \\ 1- Altomcv at Law, p T • JEFFERSON. JACKSON CO.. GA. prices in all the Courts, State and Federal. and thorough attention given to all "as of legal business in Jackson and adjoining ■untie*. June 12, 1875 Medical Notice. J- O. Hli.liT having located in Jeffer r SOtl I( >r the purpose of practicing Medicine, tenders his services to the citizens of of ' >Wn and county in all the different branches of I 1 ’ Profession. After a Battering experience Unote 9h years, he feels justified in saying that o ' s Prepared to successfully tryat any curable incident to our climate. He is, for the ' hoarding with Judge John Simpkins, but his family here soon, with Col. J. A. B. Malmffey. Hefereuce can be seen in the office of T. H. *-black, £sq., C. S. C. ' octlfi PENDERGRASS & HANCOCK, Vy LB respectfully fall fhe attention of the Public to their elegant stbek of Dry G-oods of all Kinds, K|:a ■* V-H ADE CIiOTIIINGy k FIXE LASS I MERES, HATS, CAPS, WS an ,} Eddies? Bonnets, Hats and Hardware, Hollow AA'are, Earthen nn... Pf°k§. Paper, Pens, Inks, Envel- Bacon. Urd. Sugar Coffee, "siall f Patent Medicines, iu fact everything the t, UUU< I in a General Store. Prices to suit jßes. Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf i , Notice to Debtors. Xk ‘f l l( '*’ sons in any way indebted to the under rota,. ! yrn,H '- ar e most respectfully requested to their accounts on or he at. .1 1 instant—and thereby do me a favor Gave trouble. JJ L. BAIIEY. 4 <Jt flic People their own Itulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. dldecrtiseiiieiiis. Jackson Sheriff’s Sale. be sold on the first Tuesday in Fehru- T t before the Court Douse door, in JeffcTson, Jack3oii County, Ga, within the local hours of sale, the following property, to wit: luo certain tracts of land in said county, one now u a$ i part ojf thq Overby tract, adjoining lands of T L Haxristtn. J N Pi us on,. and other*, Containing according to plat, 234£ acres, more or css, and the other tract known as the Jacksan Dell place, adjoining lands of Stephen Roberts, es tates of R Carithers arid J D Long, and others, containing 172 acres, more or lesri. The former t ract of land has a good dwelling house and rioces iSary out-buildings thereon. On both places there is.about 125 acres in cultivation, ten of which is bottpm laricß the balance original forest and old field—-on the waters of the Oconee river. Said land sold for purchase money. Pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney. All levied on as the property of the defendant, by virtue of a ti fa issued from the Superior Court. Samuel P Thurmond vs, G C Thompson. Controlled by Hhnter & Beusse. A Iso, at the same time and place, will be sold, nine hundred acres of land, more or less, on the waters of the artjvrining lands of T L Harrison, J N Pinson, Stephen Roberts, and others ; well improved, good buildings, about 200 acres of land in cultivation, 75 of which is bottom land, the balance.original, Corest and old field,— Levied on as the property of C C Thompson, by virtue of a -tax -fi fa ramted by J- L W illiamson. Tax Collector, vs. sqid Thompgo/i, in favor of the coun- ty of Jackson. and* Stajte of (Sepfgia. Property pointed out by defendant. Levy made and return ed to me by W F Hunter, LU. Also, at the same time and place, fifty acres of land, more or less, on the Walnut Fork of, the Oconee river, adjoining lands ofA'M Park, Jere miah Murphy and others. Said land is all origi nal rorest, except fouri acres of old field, with'two log cabins thereon. Levied on as the property of E M Mize, by virtiio'of n tax fi fa issued by j L AY illiamson, T C, in favor of the county of Jack son and State of Georgia, vs. said Mize. Property pointed out by defendant. Levy made and re turned to nfc by 1) M lloherts, L 07 janß ; r J, S. HUNTER, Sb'fti Money for Some People! GEORGIA , JACKSON COUNTY—In the Court of QrAuiwy, January Term, 1676. IT appearing to the Court by the application of Alfred Smith and Noah AY Pittman, adminis trators of Charles Smith, late of said county, de ceased, for a discharge from their administration of said deceased’s estate, that the distributive shares of William Smith, deceased, who was a brother of said deceased, and of Nancy Pittman, dcc’d late the wife of Martin H Pitman, late of Randolph county, Ala., who was a sister to the deceased, are not paid over because the heirs at law of each of these distributees have failed to file their claims and identify thetrisclvts as such, arid that the residence and some of the names of said parties are unknown to said Administrators— Therefore, it is ordered, that said parties be and they are hereby notified to come forward and claim their respective interest in the said Charles .Smith's estate ; and that this order be published for three months in The Forest News, a newspa per published in said county of Jackson. Given under my official signature, at office, January 3d, 1876. janS WILEY C. HOWARD, Ordinary. NOTICE. “ The Court House Repaired. r |MiERE will be let out to the lowest bidder, bc- L tween 11 and 1 o’clock, on Wednesday, the 19th dav'-of January, 1876, before the Court House door, in Jefferson, at public out-cry. the follow ing contract, te-wit Repairs ori the Court House of Jackson county. Ist. The Court room to be plastered where the plastering is off. 2d. The ceiling overhead, window casings, fire-boards, front of the -Judge’s seat and bar to be painted, and the walls white-washed, and two seats made. 3d. The sash and blinds repaired, new glass put in wherever broken out, blinds painted, doors to the Court room to be re-hung and adjusted, and knobs put’on the doors to the four rooms below stairs. A copy of the above specification may be found in the office of the Clerk Superior Court,— This December 23d, 1873. WM. SEYMOUR, AY. J. IIAYNIE, AY. G. steed; Commissioners of Roads and Revenue dec2s of Jackson County. Executor’s Sale. AGREEABLY to an order of the Court of Or dinary of Jackson county, will be sold be fore the Court- Jlon>ie door at -Jefferson, in said county on the first Tuesday in February, 187(5, within the legal hours of sale, at public outciy, to the highest bidder, the following property, to wit: Lot of land known and distinguished as number one hundred and sixteen (11(5) in the fourth Dis trict of originally Lee county, containing two hun dred and two and a half acres, more or less. Sold as the property of Jonathan Martin,“late of said county of Jackson, dcc’d, for the purpose of dis tribution. Terms, Cash. T. N. H Kill FILL, Executor jan 8 t J. Martin, dcc'd. 1 FOItGIA —Jackson County. Whereas. Alfred Fmith and Noah AY Pittman, Administrators of Charles Smith, late of Said county, dec'd, represents to trie Court, by their petition duly filed, that they have fully administer ed said Charles Smith's es'tate according to law, and ask to be discharged from the same and for letters of dismission— Therefore, all persons interested are hereby no tified and required to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in April, 1876, at the reg ular term of the Court of Ordinary, to he then held in and for said county, why said Administra tors should not be discharged and said letters of dismission be granted, as prayed for by applicants in their jietition. Given under my official signature, at office. Jan. 3d. 1876. AYILEY C. HOWARD, jan 8 Ordinary. Jackson County. AYhercan. D G Y'eargin, administrator de hnnis non ci im testamento annexo of B J Yeargin, dec’d. represents to the Court in his petition dulv filed and entered on record, that he has fully adminis tered B J Yeargin’s estate— Therefore, all persons concerned are hereby no tified and required to show cause, if any they can, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary, to be held in and for said county on the first Monday in April. 1876. why said Administrator should not he discharged from his administration and recievc letters of dismission according to law. Given under my t hand officially, at office, Jan. 3d, 1876. W. C. HOWARD, jan 8 Ordinary. QEORGIA —JackNOu County. John G. Oakes makes application to me for Ex emption of Rf?rao*i|Uy and setting apart and val uation of Homestead, and 1 Will pass upon the same at 11 o'clock, a in., on the 11th day of Jan uary, 1876* at my office in Jefferson. Given under my official signature and seal of office, this Ist of January. 1876. janS WILEY C HOWARD, Ordinary. MAGISTRATES’ BXECUTIONS, PRINTED AT SHORT NOTICE, At the Forest News Office. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JAN’Y 15, 1876. GLEANINGS. It is proposed by tlve Legislature of Cali fornia to punish illegal wife-whipping by legal husband-whipping. Edward H, Johnson, a noted thief and ex press robber, has escaped from the Tennessee penitentiary through means of bribery. Four members of the Nashville Medical Association spoke at the late meeting in favOr of the revival of bleeding in the treatment of diseases. • A majority of the members of the lower house of the Legislature of Kentucky are re ported to be identified with the “ granger ’ movement. It is said that if Speaker Kerr’s health should prove too poor to enable him to pre side to be probable that Mr. Lamar will be chosen as Speaker pro tern. The Cincinnati Times says that “ Spinner, who is in Florida, writes his signature in the sands of a bayou, and the alligators come up to look at it and immediately get the jim jams.” The last words of the San Jose (Cal.) Ad- vertiser were : “We entered the journalistic field on a business proposition ; and on the same proposition, we know when it is time to die, and we are dead.” St. Valentine's day comes on Monday this year. And it’s leap year, too. All Fool’s day, May day and Christmas day also occur on Monday. The Fourth of July occurs on Tuesdaj 7 , as also does the anniversary of the birth of Washington. There is considerable talk in Mississippi of amending the Constitution, so that no citi zen can vote unless he can read and write, and the Democratic press is calling upon the Legislature to prepare such an amendment for submission to the people. Supkkmk Coitirr.—The month of January promises to be an important one in the Nu preme Court. The decision in the Grant parish cases, which involve the constitution ality of the enforcement act of 1872, is ex pected to be rendered about the middle of the month. A supposed inadvertence in the revision of the Illinois statutes raises the question wheth er quit-claim deeds in that State are not con verted into warranty deeds, the statute mak ing use of the words “grant, bargain and sell,” or cither one of them, equivalent to a warranty. A friend of Senator Norwood approached him the other day, and said : “ Colonel, I would like very much to have some soft posi-. tion in Washington.” “ The softest place 1 know of,” said the Senator, “is on the roof of the ex-Attorney-General’s head. Would you like the place ?” The friend didn’t think he would. —Sdvanwih News. A New Orleans negro, recently arraigned on the charge of murder, promptly pleaded guilty, aud said : “I do not care alxmt any trial; there is nothing to save me. If I am tried I will be kept in prison for years and hung at last, I would rather have it over at once.” 11 is younsel found it futile to reason him out of this opinion. Remahkaulb Flea.— ln an adjacent coun ty nearly every resident of a Militia District petitioned the Ordinary to grant a license for a bar-room, or “ doggery,” as it is commonly termed, on the novel ground that it was “ a public benefit.” Heretofore it has been only considered a private benefit to the owner.— The names of the petitioners were duly re corded by the Ordinary. It would be an in teresting thing to ascertain the number of members of the church whose names appear on the petition. —Atlanta Constitution. The Nimble Sixpence.— A few days ago our cashier started a five dollar city bill, with a white back pasted on it, requesting an en dorsement by every person through whose hands it passed in payment of debt. On the fourth day it had changed owners twelve times, showing that it paid sixty dollars in debtedness. Keep the money moving. There is so little of it that it must be made active. —Macon Telegraph Messenger. If the following, from the Newnan Star , be true, it is the first time any one was ever able to play such a game upon Seago: “It is told of AA'est, Edwards & Cos., that the da}" before their failure they bought two car-loads of meat from Seago on thirty days time. A few hours afterwards they employed a A\ res tern meat dealer, who happened to be in the city, to go and sell the same meat back to Seago for the cash! Seago supposing, of course, that it was a newly arrived cargo from AVest. The negroes are dying out. The report of the Board of Health of New Orleans for the year 1874, which has just been printed, gives these figures, which show the annual death rate among the negroes in that city to be nearly double that of the whites : The pop ulation of the city is 210,000 —white, 155,000 ; colored, 55,000. The percentage of mortality per 1,000 population, according to race, is in the case of children under two years of age, 45(5.93 of the white race, and 299.48 of the colored race. In the total mortality, from all causes, the death rate is 28.06 among the j white people, and 45.53 among the black 1 people. SELECT MISCELLANY. Flying Machines. The new flying machine, the invention of Mr. Simmonds, and intended for use in mil itary operations, was subjected to a public trial by the inventor on Chatham lines to-day, the experimental trial being attended by a large number of the officers of the royal erigi neers, among whom were Major V. G. Clav toft; Secretary of the Royal Engineer Com mittee; Captain M. I’. Sale, one of the in structors in field fortifications, and other heads of departments Connected with the school of military engineering. A number of non-com missioned officers and men of the royal engi neers had been placed at the disposal of Mr. Simmonds, to assist him in carrying out the experimental trials. The machine, which may be said to consist of the two independent parts, is nothing more than a huge, square shaped, light canvas covering, stretched on four slight but strong ash poles, or arms placed at right angles to each other, the cov ering being further attached to a centre pole —resembling nothing so much as the handle of an enormous umbrella—by means of light galvanized wires, the entire machine being°in appearance an enormous square-shaped um brella, the largest of the two parts, or, more properly, machines, weighing about one hun dred weight, and the other, which is smaller, somewhat less. From the extremities of each of the four arms is attached a rope of consid erable length, the four ropes being brought to a point—somewhat similar, in this respect, to a parachute—so as to support a man, the ma chine being intended for reconnoitering ob servations in connection with an army in the field. During the experiments to-day sand bags were employed to represent the weight of a man. The smallest of the two machines was first tried, but owing to there being lit tle wind it attained an elevation of but a few feet only, a number of sappers of the Roynl Engineers running away with the rope* to which the machine was attached, much in the same way as that adopted by children when flying their kites. After repeated attempts in this way, Mr. Simmonds only succeeded in inducing the machine to rise up about twenty feet, when it would immediately fall with great force to the ground. After some time spent in these fruitless efforts, which oc casioned much impatience among the specta tors, it was decided, at the reguest of the royal engineer officers present, to try to raise the largest of the two machines, which had been lying during the former part of the ex periments in the centre of Chatham lines, where it was swaying backward and forward with the little wind blowing. The same method of raising the larger machine as that adopted tewJthe previous experiments was again employed, a number of men of the royal engineers being stationed at the end of the rope, about three hundred yards away, the machine itself being held up to face the wind by several other sappers. At a given signal from Mr. Simmonds a run by the men was made, when the machine rose to a height of about fifty or sixty feet, and then came to the ground. A re-adjustment of the four guiding ropes and wires having been made, a further attempt to raise the machine was tried; but, although an altitude of rather mpre than one hundred feet was obtained, the flying machine obstinately refused to remain in the air, but fell with a crash to the ground, breaking one of its four-arm poles, and sustaining other damage. The cause of the collapse of the machine was stated by Air. Simmonds to lmye been occasioned by the ballast attached to it not being of sufficient weight, arid the four ropes which were connected with the ends described not being of the proper length.— After a consultation it. was decided to abandon any further trials on the occasion with the large machine, as some time woufcl be.requir ed to substitute anew arm-pole for that broken, and the machine was at once strip ped of its Canvas covering. A second series of attempts to raise the smaller of the ma chines was then made, but with little or no better results than those previously achieved, and, after upward of two hours had been con sumed in carrying out the trials, the experi ments were for the present abandoned.— Chatham Correspondence {Dec. 15 tJi) London Netes. “Give Me an Easy Shave.” A man who had been nearly talked to death by loquacious barbers, went into a shop the other day which he had never patronized be fore, and handed one of the artists a card bearing the words, “ Give me an easy shave.” The barber motioned him to a chair, and then turning around, winked at his fellow-laborers, and said: “Here’s a deaf and dumb un, boys ; wants an easy shave.” “ Well, if you gash him he can’t talk back,” replied one who was lolling in liis chair, waiting for “next.” “No ; you bet he can’t,” returned the first. “An easy shave be blowed I AATiy, he’s got bristles on him like a Texas boar, and his skin looks tougher than a canal mule’s.” The boys laughed, and the opera tor, who in the meantime had lathered the man’s face, indulged in further comments as he urged the razor over the facial territory before him. “ AATiat a nose that is,” said he. “ If he should sneeze, whe*e would I be ? A\~ell, his cheek is harder than a razor hone.” “ I)o you want us to help hold his nose back while you go over his lips, Johnny ?” asked another of the idle razor-wielders. “Don’t know but I will want a little help.” “Be careful and don’t drop your razor down his ear, or you'll lose it,” admonished another. “ AV r hat a dirty head he‘s got,” observed John ny, as he ran his fingers through the man’s hair. “I say, some of you fellows write a card and ask him if he don’t want a shampoo.” The card was written and presented to the man, who shook his head at it, and the job being finished, he rose from the chair. “ It’s all right, boys*” said he, as he laid down his fifteen cents. “I didn’t mind your talk any. I could stand it first rate so long as you didn't say anything about the base-hall, third term or the whiskey ring frauds.'’ He disap peared, and those barbers sat down and thought about him. —Chicago Times v Seeing that it's centennial year, why don't you make your husband swear-off for 100 years ‘i It's just as easy as for one. THE OLD YEAR. A ou co*Tin to us joyfully, poor old year. W ith singing and ringing and hearty good cheer, And the cet rosy lips of children young. Lisped “Happy New Yeftr !’* in their soft baby tongue, J And grey-headed sites, laughed loud at j our birth. And glad mothers and daughters jolitfed in the mirth. A hundred dimpled hands rose high in gl<?tq To clap a joyful welcome, old year to thee ; And many 4 hearthstone long had been stiii, here oncri little feet pattered round at their Wilt* but you brought back the sunshine, poor old year, lhe absent ones gathered round tlie hearth so dear. How loudly the bells pealed forth their sweet chimes, A nd the school boy shouted his merriest rhymcS The streets were all stir, and bustle, and noise, ' A\ lth the j oiliest voices of girls and boys. And many a young girl, pretty and bright. Smiled over hen journal, on that “ New Year’s Night,” As she wrote with high hopes feeling so strong. ” Now this year, I'll be good and do nothing wrong. “ I 11 study to improve this bright young mind, i’ll try hard to be good, and gentle and kind, AN herever duty calls, I’ll go with joy. And one thing is sure, I'll not flirt with a boy." Dear girl! hearts much older than your's, felt strong*. And hopefully thought they would give up the wrong, Now, old year, unfold thyself, let us see. Before we shall say, our last good-bye to thee* Well, where are the lips, so rosy and bright. 1 hat chattered and smiled, to see the New Year's light, Some of them still lisp in their baby way, But the rest are talking in Heaven to-day. And the round dimpled fingers, where are they 1 Some of them are busy, with their dolls at play' But some grew fired , and now tliey are still, In Heaven, 1 guess, they are doing IJis will. T hero arc mothers who complained, of the noise Made by the boots of the merry footed boys, But now they would give worlds, to hear once more A boy's muddy tramp on their nursery floor, 1 he fair young girls—let us see—there are Some N\ ho forgot the sweet claims of mother and home, They kept their word, ** did not flirt With rt But said yes, and stuck to it, much to their joy, And (he hcarts of the old folks now are sad, NN hich at this year's birth, were so merry and - gbub 1 hey miss a light step in parlor and hall. And no daughter answers to poor mother’s call. And the still small voice “has whispered to some.” And the Spirit has echoed the sweet word “come!” But alas! like the gentle dew at morn, NN hile they were busy here and there it was gone. A Southern War Secret Revealed. As has already been announced, Hon. A. 11. H. Stuart and J. N. Opie, of Augusta coun ty, A r a., are rival candidates for the Legisla ture of that, State, and made speeches at a political meeting held in Staunton recently. A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch says that, among some personal reminiscences related by Mr. Stuart in his speech, was one connected with the peace negotiations of the late Confederacy that has never been made public, lie read a note from Hon. Judah F. Benjamin, dated March 25, 1864, asking him to come to Richmond for an interview with President Davis on business, the subject of which was too important to be committed to paper, lie went, and was informed by Pres ident Davis that the Confederate Congress had voted a secret service fund of $3,000,000 in gold, to be used in creating a peace senti ment at the North. After looking over the whole country, the “President” had selected Mr. Stuart as the man for the mission. He was to sail for Nassau, and thence for Hali fax. and there, from the border of Canada, ~ could operate on prominent men. The fund ol $3,000,000 was to be at his absolute dis posal, and he Was not to be required to fur nish vouchers for its disbursement. Mr, Stuart declined the tender, and C. C. Clay, of Alabama, and two other gentlemen were ap pointed. The Greeley correspondence and the “ To whom it may concern” of President Lincoln followed this mission, Christmas—A Monstrous Paradox. The Nashville American has this squib in its issue of the 26th ult: “The boys had a high old time, if not a High old drunk, yesterday. But then it was Christmas,” AV r hat a ghastly paragraph that is! The advent of the Child Jesus is celebrated wflfe a “high old drunk” and a very carnival of crime, The natal day of the Prince Of Peace is turned into a Saturnalian orgic, as shock ing as it is disgraceful. AY hen we contemplate the riototfs manner in which Christmas day is passed by only too many persons, it need not be marvelled at that the infidel is hardened in his want of reverence for those who pretend to be Chris tians. Surely there can be n<y particular joy in heaven over the way thousands of the so called followers of Jesus celebrate his first appearance on earth for the redemption of the world. If it Were fret for the sanctity thrown round the day by those who piously and decently regard it, we should be inclined to believe that its abolishment as a licentious holiday would be a credit to the legislation of any common-wealth or country Where scan dals so grievously aboffud as they do in the United States. —Augusta Constitutionalist. A Man Disemboweled by an Infuriated Hog.— One of the most horrible and loath some deaths any one can imagine' occurred at Lansingville yesterday morning'. The Vic tim was AA illiain P. Baker, a Well-known wagon maker of that village. He Was missed sometime during the forenoon, and search was made, when he was found in the hog-pen dead, with his bowels torn out. llow he eatne to be in the pen is not known, but it is sup posed he was attending the pig when he faint ed, aud the animal attacked and killed him. lie was not in very good health. There was but one pig in the pen. and that not a very large-sbied one. There was blood on Mr. Baker's hand, showing that lie must have come to Ins senses sufficiently to try to drive the hog off]. There were marks on his face where the voracious animal had bitten him, —lthica {N. Y.) Herald* $ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM) ( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. FACTS AND FANCIES. Stealing a dress to he baptized fii is ond of the eases in w hich the end rides hdt justi* fy the Tlidaririessj “ Go ottt, yfcMlng tnan * she’s nttt here*’ said a Pennsylvania poacher tfisf Sunday, itl th# midst of his sermon, to a ydiith Wlidifi he 9a# standing hesitatingly in the doorway. I he St. Louis jß+j)it?>firrm records the casd Of a family traveling eighty miles to see A circUs* During the last year many a circa# has traveled that far to sec a family. Success iti iife is very apt to make us for get the time when We Were Hot much. It i just so with the frog on the jump : he can’t remember when he was a tadpdld, htii Other folks can. An Towa farmer, who has five girls, take# each one in turn Sunday afternoon and rubs her teeth with an onion, and, as he qnictly remarks, “none Of’em ever hfis a beau a m> corn! time.’’ A dish-washing machihc is the latdst fit? vention. I hey will continue to invent wash* wringers, ironers, sewers and one thing and another, till women won’t be worth fifteen cents a dozen for any purpose. A lady applying for ndmissioil to thd jlinlof class of an eastern seminary, being question* ed by the president as to lier qualifications* replied: “I ain't milch of an arithmetickef but I am an elegant gfttmtllarist.” A young man asked hi# bachelor uncle f h ft t advice would you give to a young man who was contemplating matrimony ?” “ I should advise him to keep on contemplat* ing it.” “ My son. said a dying grocer to his prob* able successor to the business, “never put sand in the sugar. Cherish a reputation fof fair and honorable dealings with your felloW men, rind Use terra alba instead ; it’s quite a# heavy and don't grit on the teeth.” The gossips tell a story of a West Albany woman who Was purchasing some cups and saucers last Week, trt fhd effect that wheil asked what color she Would have, replied, “Why, t ain't particular, ail} 4 Cbltfr that won’t show dirt.” Yes, women are unreasonable, and yOii inky have remarked that when one of them sits down in anew silk dress on a chair where a neighbor’s child has carelessly deposited tw(f cents’ worth of taffy, she will go on abottt It just as bad as if it were two dollars Worth, they were talking of a death recently* when one man asked : “What Wefe his last words?” “lie didn’t say artything,”' Was tilt? reply. “That Was jnst like him',’ 7 said th# first mart, with an approving nod ; “there watf ho gis about him. lie was all business.” When you see a man wearing a glossy ne# hat, and a 1 the same time, having on a rag* ged coat and broken shoes, pants with twfl much spring at the bottom, and too littln thickness at the knees, yOn may khOMr that lie has been betting on the election. there may be, and doubtless is a wide dif ference of opinion as to the time in life at which a person should begin church-golrtg f but we have never been able to see eternal fitness in the attendance of a young lady at the lascinating age of two months. A Chinaman at Truekee, California being detected the other day in an attempt td etebt a piece of rubber hose, was kfcfeed around the entire block by the irate owner, and aft er lie had thoroughly exhausted himself and worn out the seat of the Celestial's pantaloons# John calmly propounded the following ques tion : “ You no likee lendum ?* TWo boys Wefe enjoying the sun on postoffllce steps in Detroit, on Saturday, when one of them asked : What yer going to git your dad for Christmas ?” “That’s all fixed/' replied the other. “Dad hates candy, and I'm going to put a pound in his stocking/ He'll take a bite or two and give the rest to me, and that's the way that tiling’ll work/’ Save Dat Pocket-Book. A negro planter came tfp to the other day, sold his cotton, put his money in his pocket-book and started dhow thtf river. Leaning too far over the guards • the boat backed btit, he' fell overboard/ m* portemonnaie whicli was in'Ms- sid* pocket floated out and rode with his hat Oh the snr> ■ face of the water, while the current cafffatf the negro away. The yawl Was lowered/- assistance at once started towards* thcf drowning man, who,-perceiving Ilfs' treasure floating off, raised his voice ami HiOuted > “Save dat pocket book !” 11 is- head went under and be disnp-- peared. As lie rose up again,- he gasped “Dar’s sflB m dfalv pocket-book !’’ Scarcely had be uttered the words,- before he sank a second time/ The yawl eanx; within feach just in* jto rescue the drowning African as he c&to# to the surface for the’ last time. As soon a# the water was wiped from his nose antf mouth so that he could see and speak,, he asked : ! “Did—did you save dat po;ket-b6bf£? /r "No!" was the' response, i “A\ sli den,'’ said tdie n-egFC? regretfuffy/ “what de dCbbil was de use ob savin’ mer* | BiXCK Thieves Caught in a Deadfall/ —The Norfolk Vifgiriun has learned 6f are-' marka’bl'e Occtfrre’nce ifr fcsMftd, ire which IVfr. Clarence MeeTfins acted- sh6‘ pffft' cipal part, and by wbkvb five negro thieve* lost their lives. It appears that a few even*’ ings since Mr. Meekins was awakened front Jiis steep by hearing a noise on bis premises/ and on getting up and going t<Vli'ftp ddtff fomxf I some parties Were attempt#*/ id rob hi# j smoke-hotkey lie immediately secured hi# ;guf>,- and advanced cautiously towards the sinokeJiouse, when he' discovered ft tfftlrl aetd' ed on- a pry on which fefctcd one end df the buildbig/ faking airit, he fired, ami the party fell to the grorthd mortally woimded. On ex-' aminatioif, Mr. TPfeekins discovered MW to W a negro, and,- farther, that by the bYdMfng falling back it ImVt crushed to death four oth er negroes who haf<f cretJ nntferf the raised part, and were engf&fevt in abstract??!** the contents. Mr. Meekin's Once' f£p6Yt&rt the circumstance to the authorities Mtk{ Was by them honorably acquitted. NUMBER 32.