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! J, A. R. MAIIAIFKV. \V. S. M'CARTY.
\IAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
M A T T O K NEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, .Jackson Cos. (ia..
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
tire. Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly
WII.KY C. HOWARD. ROB*T 8. HOWARD.
HOW VICl> A IIOWAKD.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Jefferson, 6a.
Will practice together in all the Courts of Jack
son and adjacent counties, except the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist'7s
}} A. W KLLIAJISiOA
U WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
At Dr. Win. King’s Drug Store. Dcnprce Block,
. Athoas, (la. All work done in a superior manner.
, tad warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
, hr fly CASH. Julylo-6m.
“STANLEY'& BOSON,
JEFFERSOX, GA.,
INHALERS in Dry (foods and Family Grocc
-4 ' ries. New supplies constantly received.
[ (’heap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
•nine IP ly . a .1.
MRS. T. A. ADAMS,
Broad Street) one door above National Bank)
K ATHENS, GA.,
LEPS constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
in part, the latest styles and fashions
■ Ladies* Hut*. Koimetis RibbonK,
tatees l'lowers, (nlores Ac., which will be
4 a ( reasonable prices. Orders from the coun
r> promptly filled. Give her a call. dlß3m
|| *'• MOFFORH, Attorney at I Jin,
lf ' BELTON, GA.,
ill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
?' c P r °mpt attention to all business entrusted to
care. Collecting claims a specialty.
J ne 19th. 1875. ly
John g. o vkes,
w HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
nnd good baggy' and wagon harness always
;' UUf 6 Repairing same, bridles, saddles, Ac.,
" ac °n short notice, and cheap for cash.
JUUeI2— ly *
J - J- TLIYD, | j. B; su.MAN,
' Jefferson, Ga.
MYl> & WLJUA,
\... . ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
a. 111 practice together in the Superior Courts of
counties of Jackson and Walton.
JHnel2—ly
\\ *• I‘IKE, Attorney at Ijiw,
t> ' ' . JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
p ICes ln all the Courts, State and Federal.
an d thorough attention given to all
cotinu e ° al business in Jackson and adjoining
Ues - June 12, 1875
Medical Notice.
lJ J' HI IVr having located in Jetfer
respectf n*" le P ur P ose °f practicing Medicine,
lis ten ' * ten( 4crs his services to the citizens of
ortho 1 f count y bi a H the different branches
®oiini' rofess ' o “' After a flattering experience
h* j, 1 ' ;en years, he feels jnstitied in saying that
di s ,.. P r, ‘P ar ed to successfully treat any curable
Dtscilt ,l i culent to our climate. He is, for the
win • hoarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
his family here sooa.
vvith Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
Xij . ,/ e L enee can be seen in the office of T. H.
ibl ack, Esq., c. S. C. octlfi
I'EXDEHGRASS & HANCOCK,
M respectfully call the attention of the
1 'lie to their elegant stock of
R, D t ry &oods of all Kinds,
Fi\ IM " n 4 ~E CLOTH I TO,
K CASSLMERES, hats, caps,
Obtainim * Ladies’ Bonnets, Hats and
sJl*' Hardware, Hollow' Ware, Earthen
°Pes *pi 100 B°oks, Paper. Pens, Inks, Envel
t!l * all k'i Ur r i^ ea ß Bacon, Lard. Sugar Coffee,
Us, iaJJ v f 111 s .’*atent Medicines, in fact everything
lu a General Store. Prices to suit
Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf
■I IIE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
MIXED ITEMS.
It is said to be a sign of a submissive hus
band if his back is so sensitive that he can
tell when a fly lights on it.
The small boy is now saving his pennies
in order to purchase a horrible caricature
valentine to send to his big brother’s best
girl.
The Baptists of Scotland have doubled
their numbers in the past six years. They
now have seventy churches and three thou
sand members.
Gen. James Chesnut, of S. C., has been
chosen to deliver the annual oration before
the Literary Societies of Princeton College,
New Jersey, at the next commencement.
One hundred and thirty persons have been
baptized by Rev. Dr. Hatcher, pastor of
Grace street church, Richmond, Va., within
a few weeks.
Providence seems to watch over the little
man with a big wife, and teaches him that
one of the principal conditions of domestic
tranquility is to always keep his dander at
low tide.— Brooklyn Argus.
It is said that some people have what is
called “spontaneity” and some haven’t; but
nobody' ever sat down on a pincushion yet
without manifesting something surprisingly
like it. —Brooklyn Argus.
The Southern Presbyterian Assembly enu
merates 871 Sabbath-schools. Their united
contribution's amounted, lasty*ear, to $30,000 ;
the average attendance of teachers being
5,000 and scholars 35,000.
Preserve your walnut timber. A man who
recently purchased a farm of 250 acres near
New Albany. Ind., for SIO,OOO received an
offer of $9,600 for 120 large walnut trees
growing on the place.
There is a one armed negro in Cairo who
can cut his own timber and split 300 rails per
day. A blind negro makes a comfortable
living by tending the railroad tank here and
doing odd little jobs !—Thomasville Times.
Nashville is undergoing a general vaccina
tion crusade, a dozen medical men being
employed to go from house to house to look
ifter those who neglect the great preventive
through poverty or ignorance.
A school boy had just got his face fixed to
Jug, “Let us love one another,” when a
snowball hit him in the mouth, and so con
fused him that he yelled, “ Bill Sikes, just
do that again, and I’ll chaw your ear off.”
Washington was once asked to dine with
Judge Jones. The chair in which he would
have sat, if he had accepted this invitation,
will be exhibited at the centennial. —Norwich
Bulletin.
There was a curiosity' at the Union depot
yesterday, in the shape of a negro woman
with sixteen children, all her own. She came
from Alabama, and stated that she had five
more youngsters at home, making twenty-one
in all. —Augusta Chronicle.
*My son,” said a stern parent to a seven
year old hopeful, “I must discipline you.
Y'our teacher says y T ou are the worst boy in
the school.” “Well, papa.” was the reply',
“only yesterday she said I was just like my
father.”
Some parties seining in the Ocktahachee
Lake a few days ago, killed an old well
known alligator, which measured twelve feet
in length and weighed near four hundred
pounds. This is the largest one ever known
in this country.
“ Stranger will you try* a hand with us at
poker ?” “ Thank you, gentleman, but there
are seventeen reasons why I cannot accom
modate you now.” “ Seventeen reasons for
not playing cards ? Pray, what are they ?”
“ Why, the first is I haven’t any money”
“ Stop ! that’s enough ; never mind the other
sixteen.”
He sat in a railway car. His head was
thickly covered with a mass of red hair. Be
hind him in a seat sat a man with hardly any
hair on his head. He said to him. “I guess
y'ou wasn’t round when they dealt out hair.”
“Oh yes, I was,” replied bald head, “but
they' offered me a lot of red hair, and I told
them to throw it into the ash bin.”
No poor man in Michigan wants to be
Governor of that State because of the salary,
which is one thousand dollars a year. The
inaugural message always costs more than
that. The Governors of the State have for
some j*ears been rich men, to whom the glory'
acquired is worth the large amount which
their honors cost them.
The judge of a court in Maine recently
sentenced a culprit to twenty-five y'ears in
the State prison. The {Jact was communica
ted to the prisoner’s mother, who was struck
at the magnitude of the sentence. “ W hat
did they do that for ?” she exclaimed. “Twen
tv-five years! Why, he won’t be contented
there three weeks.”
A lady’ who had just lost her husband was
weeping and lamenting : “ Ah, mother,” she
cried, raising her eyes to Heaven, “I should
o-ladly give half my life to be eight days old
er.” “Why, my child?” asked her mother.
The bereaved one, regarding affectionately
the photograph of her dead husband, answer
ed, “Because, then I should no longer be
grieving over uiy loss.”
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, FEB’Y 5, 1876.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
Hill and Yancey.
THE TRUE STORY OF THEIR COLLISION IN THE
CONFEDERATE SENATE.
An article is finding free circulation which
states that Mr. Yancey did not die (as has
been supposed by Dr. Hill and others in
Montgomery,) of inflammation of the kidneys,
a disease from which he had been suffering
for years ; but that his death was produced
by a collision in the Confederate Senate with
Mr. Ben Hill, of Georgia, who, when assailed
by Mr. Y., in secret session, in a discussion
of the navy bill, for giving him the lie, broke
his back, from which he drooped away and
died, an utterly' disheartened and disappoint
ed man.
The man who got up that story, we modest
ly suggest, would be a model reporter for the
New Y r ork Herald , the Harpers, or the Illus
trated Neivs. His talents will be wasted on
the “ desert air” of this miserable Southern
land.
Mr. Yancey and Mr. Hill did have a diffi
culty in the Confederate Senate, not, how
ever, upon a discussion of the navy bill, but
of the Supreme Court bill. Mr. Y. had
spoken; Mr. Hill, in reply, reviewed Mr.
\ ancey’s record in a style which was regard
ed as offensive by Senators. Mr. Yancey
arose, when Mr. llill had taken his seat, and
remarked that as other Senators desired to
speak on the question, he would not consume
the time of the Senate then, but that at a
proper time he would endeavor to do justice
both to the Senator from Georgia and to him
self. He desired only to say then, that the
assertions of the Senator from Georgia in re
gard to what he was pleased to term his auto
biography were false, and he knew them to
be false when he made them.
Mr. IIUI responded quickly from his seat,
that he threw the falsehood back in his teeth.
Upon motion, the Senate went into secret
session. Mr. Y ancey' was then appealed to
adjust the matter, but reiterated what he had
said, and took his seat. Thereupon, Mr. Hill
threw a heavy glass inkstand, which struck
Mr. Y. on the side of his face, bruising it and
causing the blood to flow profusely, but not
knocking him down, or doing any serious in
jury. Mr. Yancey rushed at Mr. Hill, but
was prevented from striking him, and here
the fight ended.
A committee was appointed, and retired to
report what was due the Senate for a breach
of decorum. A\ hilst they r were out various
speeches were made to reconcile the parties.
Mr. Yancey was, for a long time, inexorable,
but when appeals were made to him as to the
effect such a rupture would have upon the
jause. he was disposed to yield to the impor
tunities of friends. To aggravate the matter,
the committee reported, censuring both par
ties—Mr. Yancey for the language he had
used, and Mr. llill for throwing the inkstand.
Mr. Yancey protested against the report to
the last; but it was finally accepted by the
Senate, and was afterwards re-considered,
and withdrawn, upon condition that he would
not prosecute his claim fyr personal redress
any further, lie reserving to himself the right
to reply to Mr. Hill’s speech in public, which
he afterwards did, in a powerful and most
overwhelming effort. The Senate was en
gaged from about noon till midnight in the
settlement of the affair.
Members were bound to secrecy, and no
correct statement could be obtained except
from some of them since the fall of the Con
federacy’ has made all things public. The
authentic report is probably among the pri
vate papers of Mr. Y.. but our statement is
sufficiently accurate for present purposes, be
ing had from the memory' of a Senator who
was an eye-witness, and is generally* careful
of facts.
It is thus apparent that this difficulty had
no effect on Mr. Yancey’s rapid decline in
health. In fact, abundant testimony could
be adduced, if necessary, from his physicians
here, to show that he had been a prey to dis
ease for y'ears. lie had a violent attack of a
spinal disease while he was canvassing for
the Washington Monument after the Presi
dential election in 1856, from which it was
long doubted whether he would recover, and
this completely racked and distorted his erect
and small but powerful frame. He was af
fected for many years with the disease of the
kidney, from which he died. During his last
illness his pains were most excruciating, but
he bore himself like a true Christian states
man, as he was, through all his sufferings.—
lie was at times delirious with internal agony,
and would make most eloquent speeches, and
imagine himself in line of battle charging
triumphantly on the enemies of his country.
He never despaired, or for once faltered in
his devotion to Southern independence ; but
thought Mr. Davis wanting in forecast, vigor
and popular sympathies for a great leader.
As to his continuously' crying to be put out
of sight, that is simply made out of whole
cloth, and very thin texture at that.
Mr. Y'ancey died, as he lived, loyal to his
convictions. He forgave his enemies, and
prayed God to forgive them for the miscon
struction of his motives and his conduct. A
simple marble slab was put over his grave,
not because he wished his resting place hid
from view, but because time was required to
erect a suitable monument. —Montgomery Ad
vertiser.
A Mississippi planter stopping at the
Arlington house, Washington, was bragging
about the very superior quality of some
grapes that he raised on his premises. Sena
tor Morton happened to be standing near at
the time, and carelessly putting in his oar,
observed : “May I take the liberty of ask
ing, sir, what kind of manure you use?”
The Mississippian surveyed his questioner a
few seconds, and then gravely replied:
“Dead niggers.” The horrified senator fell
back in good order, hauled a little blank
book out of his coat pocket, and promptls
made the following memoranda : “Speech—
amnesty* impossible—south unconquered—
democratic barbarities—Massacre of blacks ;
dead niggers—Hamburg grapes.” —Brooklyn
Argus.
A Hawkinsville man named Joe B. King
can play* the violin with his toes, pick the
banjo, and play upon a harmonicon at one
and the same time.
An Affecting Scene.
An exciting scene was witnessed in a New
Orleans court-room the other day, the leading
actors of which were a mother and her child!
and a charitable lady. Some five months
ago, Mr. Charles Astelle picked out of the
street a half-naked and half-starved little girl
of about seven years of age. This little waif
of humanity was seemingly drifting about the
city, without friends or a home.
She was kindly cared for by Mrs. Astelle.
and became warmly attached to her and her
family’. About three months ago the mother
of the waif came to the surface and visited
the child. At first she was satisfied to allow
her to remain in the home she had found, but
as time passed on she desired the possession
of the child.
Mrs. Astelle raised no objections further
than to advise that she be allowed to remain
where she was. The mother was inexorable
and determined to have her. In this she was
foiled, as the child refused to go with the
mother, and the mother was not strong enough
to take her by force.
Asa last resort, the mother, Pauline
Gravies, applied for a writ of habeas corpus
for her child, Cecile. During the hearing of
the case in court, last week, the child broke
out into violent sobbing, and, with tears
streaming from her eyes, begged the Judge,
in piteous tones, not to give iierto her mother.
The little one, through her tears, said that
her mother drank whisky and beat her, and
that she was afraid of her. The Judge’s sym
pathies were with the child, but he felt that
he must obey the law, and so decided that the
mother should have her child.
The child sprang from her chair and fled,
screaming with terror, to the Judge. She
grasped his arm and clung to him, sobbing,
begging, pleading that he would protect her.
The Judge could stand it no longer. Ilis
humanity overbalanced his respect for the
law, and he reversed his decision, and com
manded the child to be placed in the charge
of the young lady who had brought her into
court.
A Canadian Hermit.
The Toronto Globe describes a remarkable
character in that vicinity, who about forty'
years ago conceived the idea of leading a
hermit's life. The y r outh from his early' age
had showed symptoms of derangement, and
this proceeding on his part was not consider
ed strange by his friends. The chosen place
of his hermitage was about three-quarters of
a mile from his parental homestead, in the
recess of a dense bush, where he erected a
small hovel and furnished it with an old log
canoe, which he used as a couch to sleep in.
Divesting himself of all clothing he has ever
since remained perfectly nude, with the ex
ception of a tattered remnant of a shirt, which
his fancy leads him to retain. In this nude
state, for forty years lie has lived, walking in
the depth of winter through the snow, and yet
he has never been known to have received a
frostbite.! When he requires a drink he walks
deliberately into the river, it mattering not to
him what season of the year it may be, and
wades out till the water reaches his waist,
and then he stoops and quenches his thirst.
Ilis food is brought to him by his friends,
and when given to him is eaten with the
voraciousness of an animal, which lie now re
sembles more than man, Ins body being as
heavily coated with hair as that of a cow.—
He never shows a dangerous disposition, and
chatters in monosyllables. When people
cross his path he invariably’ begs for tobacco,
for which lie has an evident partiality, and in
chattering tones will utter “bacca” until his
request is granted. Ilis hair is long, gray
and unkempt, falling far over his shoulders,
and his beard, which is similar, reaches down
below his waist. He is now between sixty'
and seventy years of age, and is possibly the
only living being ever known to have lived
year after year perfectly naked and exposed
to all the inclemencies of weather which mark
the Canadian winter.
Giving Does Not Impoverish.
Christians might confirm their faith if they
were observant of God’s dealings with them.
For our own advantage, as well as the benefit
of others, we should record the goodness and
faithfulness of God as they come under our
observation. It is pleasant to record such an
incident as the following, which happened a
short time ago.
A gentleman sent five dollars to a benevo
lent enterprise at a time when he could
scarcely spare the money. The mail brought
back a letter which was not only an expres
sion of thanks, but a prayer that God would
bless the giver. The statement was also made
that prayer had been offered that he might
not be a loser on account of his generosity.
The thought that his little gift had awakened
prayer in his behalf stirred the heart of the
giver. lie felt it deeply*. He wondered if
the particular petition would be answered.—
This was toward the close of the week. On
Saturday* afternoon he arranged to pay his
hands according to his ordinary' custom. In
an envelop addressed to each he placed the
account of time and the money due. He hail
scarcely returned to his office after passing
through the shop, giving to each man his en
velop, when one of the men came in, saying
that he had, during the summer, at various
times, lost an hour or so, of which no account
had been taken. He had just reckoned up
and found that the total loss of time amount
ed to five dollars, which he handed over to
his employ'er and withdrew. Here was just
the sum given away, returned in an unexpect
ed manner, and from an unexpected source.
With his mind full of the praver, he could not
help feeling that the answer had come. —New
York Observer.
IhP’A Recent visitor to the Dismal Swamp
describes it, in Forest and Stream, as having
lost none of the characteristics which gave
it its name. Bears are not so plenty’ there
as when the region was rarely' penetrated by
man, yet they still afford sport for bnnters,
Lake Drummond, once believed by the igno
rant to be bottomless, is really not in any
place more than fifteen feet deep. Its water,
impregnated with the juices of juniper and
gum leaves, is of the color of wine, and is
drunk as a remedy* by oonsumptivos,
LdP’Stnve to learn from all things.
Do Not Sing That Song Again.
BY HUGH F. M’DERMOTT.
Do not sing that song again.
For it fills my heart with pain ;
I am bending to the blast.
And it tells me of the past,
Of the years of long ago,
M hen my days were young and fair,
And my heart was light as air—
When one feeling tilled the breast,
And one image gave it rest,
In the long, long ago.
Do not sing that song again.
I have lived nay years in vain.
And my* hair is thin and gray’,
And I’m passing fast a wav ;
On the dark and downward streams
I’m a wreck of idle dreams ;
And it puts me on the rack
At the weary looking back.
At the ebb and at the How
In the long, long ago.
Do not sing that song again,
There’s a tear in it’s refrain ;
It brings sadly back the time
AN hen my* manhood felt its prime;
AN hen the comrades, dear and true,
Closer, warmer, fonder grew.
In the hour of friendship's proof,
AN hen the false ones stood aloof.
And their friendship was but snow,
In the long, long ago.
Do not sing that song again,
It distracts my weary brain.
Ah, too well, alas ! f know
It is time for me to go.
And to leave to younger eyes
The nrld myst’ry of the skies,
And this mighty'world I tread,
And the grander age ahead.
There’s a mist upon the river.
And there’s bleakness on the shore.
And in dreams I pass forever,
AATiile soft music wafts me o’er.
“Stubborn Truth.”
The Talbotton Standard slashes at the
State Government in a very* indiscriminate
manner :
“Asa matter of stubborn truth we propose
to mention a few of the terrible extravagances
that characterize our “local self-government”
in Georgia, showing at once that we are
ahead of Egypt “or any other sea port town”
in that line : Beginning with our Governor,
we find that he occupies the chair at four
thousand a year, which was once occupied by
the best men the world ever saw at from two
to three thousand. He lives in a mansion
that cost the State SIOO,OOO ; but by a Rad
ical, tis true, yet the present government
does not seem inclined to sell out at a bar
gain and practice economy, becoming our peo
ple, by putting their servant in a smaller
house. The Attorney General, the grandest
sinecure ever perpetrated, wraps himself
around $2,000 a year, when before Bullock’s
reign such an officer was never heard of.—
l his was created to fill up by some thieving
Radical, and it is still retained by his econom!
ical (?) administration. Next we have the
Clerk of the Supreme Court with liis fat sal
ary of $4,000 a year, when there are thou
sands, as competent as he, would perform the
duties for SBOO. Then we have a keeper of
the public buildings witli a salary of $2,000
and an appropriation of $20,000 at his dis
posal to keep things in order. The public
printing has an appropriation of $20,000 a
year, which is outrageous. The most gigantic
frauds of all contain themselves in the De
partment of Agriculture, State Geologist, and
State Board of Health, which are supported
at a cost of $25,000 a y’ear, and are worth
about as much to the State as the office of
Attorney’ General. The next we mention is
enough to make any pure patriot cry out with
pain : the Public School Fund, which is $150,-
000 a year. A grander swindle was never
perpetrated upon any people, as it is operated.
A public school system properly' managed is
no doubt a beneficial thing, but the way ours
is operated, we defy any' man to show us the
good accruing from it. Our Legislatures cost
us jnst $115,000 per annum, and the last one
was not worth fifty cents to the State! The
members receive a salary of seven dollars,
when our best men once served for four, in
day's of marked prosperity'.”
Ahead of the Sea Serpent.
At the extreme southwest of the wild
coast of Clare stands the romantically situat
ed Loop-Head Light House, in the vicinity
of which are mighty rocks stretching ont
into the Attic. One of these awoke the
other morning to find itself famous (says the
N. Y. TVorld.) for from it was seen a creature
thus described :
Its head and neck resemble a horse, and
are of a reddish line ; it has short round ears
and flowing mane, and from the poll extend
two branching horns like that of a stag,
underneath which wore eyes glaring and
protruding. It made derectly for the narra
tor, who was on the side of the steep rock.
He at once ran out of reach of the monster,
whose approach looked anything but friend
ly. It then rose high out of the water and
plunged with such force as to cause the
water to fly so far and in such quantities as
to drench the observer to the skin, he stan
ding forty feet back from the water at the
time. It remained near thirty or forty* min
utes, never disappearing a moment from
view, but rearing its huge body partly* out of
the water, anrl giving a chance for further
observation. It was observed to have the
tail of a porpoise and two large fins from the
shoulders, and on the breast were two large
fatty lumps, which shook with every motion
of the extraordinary creature.
Young man, go to India ! It is the custom
there for parents to pay men to marry their
daughters. In Calcutta, recently, a rich Hin
doo paid a man who came from a family of
considerable distinction the sura of three
hundred thousand dollars to marry his daugh
ter. The fellow married the young girl, a
mere child in years, and pocketed the money*.
Within two years he had gambled away all
this money and was in debt besides. In this
strait he sent the girl to her parents’ home,
demanding one hundred thousand dollars
more as a condition of living with her longer.
The proposition was indignantly rejected, and
the discarded wife now remains at her pa
rental home. It is a stigma upon a Hindoo
family if the daughters are not married be
fore arriving at the age of thirteen.
S TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
Important Case In Alabama.
The following case, tried in the County
Court at Huntsville, as reported by the Hunts
ville Demodyti, will attract the attention of
land owners :
“ Sam Perkins, charged with removing
mortgaged property, was acquitted. In this
case, the question of the relation of landlord
and tenant, and of tenants in common, was
forcibly presented by Solicitor Davis for the
State, and Messrs. Paul Jones and Irvine
White for defendant. The evidence showed
that the owner of the land furnished defend'
ant work animals, farming implements ancf
provisions to make a crop on shares, the own
er of the land retained a mortgage on the
crop to secure his share, and defendant re
moved the crop without giving the owner his
share. The owner prosecuted him under the
statute forbiding tenants from removing crops
until they have settled with their landlords.
Solicitor Davis contended that the relation
of landlord and tenant existed between the
owner of the land and the defendant. Comv
sel for defendant maintained that,under their
contract, they did not occupy the relation of
landlord and tenant, but of tenants in com
mon ; and. therefore, one such tenant could
not commit the offense defined in the statute,
against his co-tenant. ,1 udge Pichardson sus
tained the latter view, and discharged the
defendant. The principle ts a very important
one to owners of land, and it will be well for
them to keep it in view in making contract*
With parties to work their lands.
We Must Act.
During the short and precious time that is
allowed us on earth, let us hasten to employ
ourselves. \\ hile it remains to us, let us not
fail to consecrate it to goodness. For, when
everything else shall have vanished forever,
the works of the just will follow them, even
beyond this life. “We have been created in
Jesus Christ unto good works, that we should
walk in them that is to say, pass a whole
life in this happy employment. Do good ac
cording to the means which Clod has given,
witli discretion ; because while charity ex
tends its efforts for the Glory of God, it also
regulates its exertions by the nature of the
work, and by the condition of him who un
dertakes it; it avoids disproportionate de
signs. A\ ith courage ; not to weary in well
doing. \\ ith perseverence ; for weak and
yielding spirits very soon begin to turn back
in their course. Occasions to do good are
everywhere ; they surround us : it is the will
that is needed. The deepest solitudes, when
we have the least communication with others,
will furnish means of doing good to our fel
low beings, and of glorifying God.
Home.
A man went out to India to live there. lie
had a very pleasant house, with a large gar
den, and he and his wife and children lived
very happily. At last, as the children grew
up, the heat made them ill, and they became
thin and weak, so that one day the doctor
said, “If you wish your children to live, you
must send them to England.”
The poor man could not, leave his work in
India, so he was obliged to send his wife and
children away by themselves, and lie was left
alone. The day after they had gone away a
friend called upon him and said, “ what a
pleasant house you have !”
“Yes,” said the poor man. “but it was a
home yesterday; now it is nothing but a
house. My home is where my wife and chil
dren are.”
Home is not bricks and mortar, nor stone,
but a place where our best friends are.—
Heaven is our home, because Jesus, our best
friend, and God, our Father, are there.
His Lucid Explanation.
A Chicago woman who had been reading
about the whisky frauds in the paper, turned
to her husband last evening and inquired :
“My dear, what do the papers mean by
saying that the man has ‘ squealed ?’ ”
“ M hy,” replied the man loftily, *• they
mean that some member of the ring has
‘peached’ on the rest.”
“ Peached on the rest?” exclaimed the wife ;
“ now what does that mean ?”
“ Why, it means that he's—lie's ‘ blowed*
on ’em.”
“ Plowed on them.”
“ Yes, you see he’s ‘given ’em away/"
“ Given them away ?”
“ W hy, of course—dammit! Can't yon
understand anything ? Do you think I’m an
unabridged dictionary ?” continued the hus
band impatiently. “It means he's—he’s "let
out on ’em'—‘gone back' or. his. "pals’—
‘ squealed’—you know ?”
The woman did not seem quite satisfied
with the man's lucid explanation ; but, not
wishing to appear ignorant in her hnsband’s
eyes, she remarked, “Ah, yes; I see L" and
forbore further questioning.— Chicago JonrmiL
Whose Child are You?
Two cousins were on their way to school.
It was a sharp morning : and the snow \fas
crisp under their feet. Do yon want to know
what they said ?
‘*l am going to try to do my best to-day,
and all the days,” said one little cousin.
“ I too,” answered the other; “for God
wants ns to, doesn't He ?”
“ W e are Satan's children if we are cross,”
said one.
“We are God's children if we are humble,
and love good,” said the other.
What a lovely temper to begin tfie day
with !
BP Uncle Ben, a pious but practical old
darkey preacher, with an eve to business, is
doing a lively trade at Jacksonville, Fla., in
the soap line. During his revival services,
he says to his sin-burdened hearers: “Hre
deren, dis unctions lubricator am called by
1 Laron Gill de Johnson’s patent borax soap.
It am no use a talking, yous can’t be good
Christians unless you am clean. De htb of
God ain't a gwyne to penetrate skins dat am
crusted wid de dust ob ages. Dis vea soap
will scrub dc barnaelesob sin from your dirty
hides, an wash you clean ashore on de rock
ob ages. So pass up your stamps, brederen,
and give de ole man a fair chance.”
Orange culture has been tried in Georgia
with success, and the fruit is said to rival
that of Florida.
NUMBER 35.