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Jan. 22, 1876—tf
STILL ON HAND!
N. B. STARK,
BOOT arrd Shoe maker, at the old and well
known corner. Northwest of the Court House,
under the Forest News office, is still ready to
mke to order or repair Boots and Shoes of all
sites, shapes and qualities. CHEAP FOR CASH.
January 29th, 1875.
STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFERSON , GA.,
DEALERS in Dry Hoods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
f'Hcap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 19 ly
Medical Notice.
TV '!■ O. ll|"\T having located in Jeffer
y son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
respectfully tenders his services to the citizens of
trie town and county in all the different branches
the profession. After a flattering experience
ain vteen years, he feels jnstitied in saying that
, IS prepared to successfully treat any curable
fi! ’ ease Incident to our climate. He is, for the
present, boarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
* ■ move his family here soon.
'Office with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
tejI*Reference 1 *Reference can be seen in the office of T. H.
•'IIU.ACK, Esq., C. S. C. octl6
MHSTt. A. ADAMS,
hroad Street, one door above National Bank ,
rFFD< A - T:H:;E3srs
K r 'constantly on hand an extensive stock
Of SEASONABLE: MILLINERY GOODS,
uprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions
, '“die*' lints. Bonnets, Riblmii*,
Flowers, <lovcs &c., which will be
■ ti reasonable prices. Orders from the coun
proniptly filled. Give her a call. dlS3m
" v B - MAHAFFEY. w. s. m’carty.
Mahaffey & mccarty,
4 ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
, v Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
w; >r * e^ce any-where for money. Prompt at
cvy" 1 'n lven to a B business entrusted to their
at run age solicited. Oct3o ly
C. HOWARD. ROB'T S. HOWARD.
sc I IOWA HI I,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
frji, . Jefferson, Ga.
sn- ,P ra 9^* c e together in all the Courts of Jack-
Orii-'l 1 ari J acen t counties, except the Court of
' Lr -' °f Jackson county. Sept Ist ’7n
]' lU| I.UtnNOY
At n rC,r -MAKER AND JEWELER,
Athens r* m * king’s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
and a a ' work done in a superior manner.
titdu / r , :U ! t ,f 1 to give satisfaction. Terms, posi-
JulylO-Gm.
]|, A* Hhl'fXPRB, Attorney at l-aw,
w BELTON, GA.,
giv e l ,r,^ rac : t * ce * u the adjoining Counties, and
ois .Mention to all b usiness entrusted to
JirtJ .' Collecting claims a specialty.
ly
OAKES,
\ej- MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
•o h in ,j !i(1 g°°d buggy and wagon harness always
4n f 0n " , Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c.,
notice, and cheap for cash.
J. B. SILMAN.
pLOvVfc l^ton " a * Jefferson, Ga.
W r iu nr. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
count; lc s to g et her in the Superior Courts of
junel 2—Ti'y ac^Bon and Walton.
Attorney at law,
Alices J , F F EIISON ' JACKSON CO., GA.
. f r ottir>t a J 1 , ie Courts, State and Federal.
% i a , , thorough attention given to all
<o untics. in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1870
THE FOREST NEWS.
T~**i- | r t j * ;
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The New Tariff Bill.
The new tariff bill introduced by Mr. Mor
rison. Chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, on Monday, has been pre
pared with great care, after consultation with
the leading men of the majority, and it is be
lieved that it will be adopted by the commit
tee with but little alteration. ' The bill pre
scribes an average reduction of the tariff on
wool of 33 per cent., (a reduction of one-half,)
and cottons of al>out 30 per cent., with a sub
stantial reduction on iron, but not enough to
interfere with the production in this country.
The tariff on liquors remains untouched, while
a tax of ten cents per pound is levied on tea
and three cents on coffee. Silk goods, ex
cept those in which silk is the principal ele
ment, are not touched, while on fabrics com
posed principally of silk the tax is reduced
33 per cent. The tariff on tobacco not stem
med is increased four per cent. Bituminuous
coal and salt are put on the free list, which is
made quite comprehensive, and will, it is be
lieved, satisfy the demands of the free traders.
The tea and coffee provision is put on the
last section of the bill by itself, so as to avoid
the incidents of the fight on the Schenck bill
in 1869.
The principle of the bill is, in the first place,
to abolish all combined duties, simplyfying
the tariff by fixing a specific rate of duty, and
making that specific rate a fixed rate, twenty
five or thirty per cent., ad valorem; and sec
ondly, to reduce in general the duties on
those articles the importation of which is now
prohibited by the high duties that are im
posed upon them.
It places on the free list every article, with
the exception of raw wool, including dyes,
etc., which is used in manufacturing, the con
sumption of which now amounts to $3,000,-
000 annually. This is chiefly in the interest
of the manufacturers.
The duty of four and ten cents imposed on
coffee and tea, it is estimated, will yield a rev
enue of $19,000,000 per annum.
Its most important rates, as fixed by the
bill, are as follows :
Manufactured cottons, not exceeding one hun
dred threads to the square inch, 3£ cents pel
square yard.
Bleached ditto, 3J cents.
Colored and stained ditto, 3$ cents.
Finer goods, unbleached, 3 cents.
Bleached ditto, 3£ cents.
Colored ditto, 4J cents.
Goods of the same description and lighter, un
bleaced, 3 cents.
Bleached ditto, 2£ cents.
Colored ditto, 4£ cents.
Finer goods, not exceeding two hundred threads
to the square inch, unbleached, 4 cents.
Bleached ditto, cents.
Colored and printed ditto, 5 cents.
Goods of lighter description, exceeding two hun
dred threads. 41 cents.
Unbleached ditto, s.cents and "1 cents.
Yarns, a uniform rate of duty, 10 cents, 20
cents, 30 cents and 40 cents per pound.
Spool thread, 6 cents per dozen and 9 cents per
dozen. H ? r/y \ —_: „. r t* ]
Gimps, galloons and laces, 30 per cent.
Cotton shirts and drawers and hosiery, 30 per
cent. InonobooH lotsSl
Cotton braids, laces and trimmings, 30 per cent.
Wool of the lirst quality, 6 cents per pound and
10 cents per pound.
Wool of the second class, 5 cents per pound and
10 cents per pound.
Wool of the third class, 3 cents per pound.
Woolen cloths and shawls, 70 cents per pound.
Flannels and woolen fabrics, 20 cents, 30 cents,
40 cents and 50 cents per pound.
Italian cloths, 9 cents and 15 cents per square
yard.
Carpets, 90 cents, 65 cents and 40 cents per
square yard.
Pig iron, $5 per ton.
Bar iron, 1 cent. 1 cent and f cent per pound.
W ire, 3 cents, 4 cents and 5 cents per pound.
Sheet iron, 1 cent per pound.
Railroad iron, $lO per ton.
Steel rails. sls per ton.
Cigars, 83$ per pound.
Leaf tobacco, 40 cents per pound.
Silks. 25, 30 and 40 per cent.
Coffee, 4 cents per pound.
Tea, 10 cents per pound.
An Important Decision.
CAN A HUSBAND ASSIGN IIIS WIFE HIS PROP
ERTY.
In the Supreme Court at Washington City,
last Wednesday, two cases were decided
involving the right of a husband to assign
property to his wife, the decision being the
same in both cases and of considerable
general interest.
The first was that of Flo}’d vs. Fulton,
on appeal from the Circuit Court for the
Northern District of Georgia. The question
in this case was whether a settlement, made
by the husband upon the wife, if made when
flic husband was able to pay all his indebt
ednes, was void as against previous creditors.
It is held that while by the old rule of law
such deeds as against previous creditors
were void, the rule now is that prior indebt
edness is only presumptive and not conclu
sive proof of fraud. And this presumptive
ma} 7 be explained and rebutted. If no fraud
appears there is no defect in the deed.
Every case depends upon the cirumstances
which surround it and is to be carefully
scrutinized. In this case it is said that
there is no evidence which would warrant
the Court in holding that the transaction
was not In good faith. The grantor was
able to pay his indebtedness and offered to pay
in Confederate money, the medium in circu
lation in that State, and which was then but
little depreciated, and continued able to pay
long after the making of the deed. No taint
of a dishonest purpose is found. Affirmed.
Mr. Justice Swayne delivered the opinion.
Chronicle ts* Sentinel.
“Was it a nice party ?” asked Mrs. Whifet
when her daughter returned at 3 a. m., from
Mrs. Struggles’ “at home.” “No, awful,”
said the Whifet girl, yawning and lifting up
her skirts to examine the braid on the bot
tom ; “awful ma: the chicken salad was made
of veal, there was a lot of queer sticks there,
nobody was dressed decent, there was no
oysters, the champaigne gave out, and some
awkward idiot walked up the back of my
dress as far as the waist, and then only stop
ped because he was too stupid to climb !
And these are the young ladies for whom
“rosebud” and debqt parties are given. N,
Y. Mail,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, FEB’Y 19. 1876.
One Hundred Years Ago.
One hundred years ago wedding tours
were not fashionable.
One hundred years ago farmers did not
cut their legs off with mowing machines.
One hundred years ago our mothers did not
worry over disordered sewing mchines.
One hundred years ago horses which
could trot a mile in 2 :14 were somewhat
scarce.
One hundred years ago it took several
days to procure a divorce and find a oonge
nial spirit.
One hundred years ago there were no
disputes about the impoliteness of street car
drivers.
One hundred years ago every young man
was not an applicant for a position as a
clerk or bookkeeper.
One hundred years ago kerosene lamps
did not explode and assist women to shuffle
off this mortal coil.
One hundred years ago men did not commit
suicide by going up in balloons and coming
down without them.
One hundred years ago there were no
third term millionaire bishops to stir up the
waters of partisan politics.
One hundred years ago there were no
Turkish harems at Salt Lake, and no Ann
Elizas suing for the nineteenth part of a
divorce.
One hundred ye&rs ago England was not
very far behind the United States in all that
goes to make a nation powerful and progres
sive.
One hundred years ago the Dutch had
taken Holland, but they had not made
France “come down” with a handsome pile
of “smart money.”
One hundred years ago a youug woman
did Rot lose caste by wetting her hands in
dish water or rubbing the skin off her knuck
les on a washboard.
One hundred years ago a physician who
could not draw every form of disease from
the system by tapping a large vein in the
arm was not much of a doctor.
One hundred years ago men were not run
ning about over the country with millions of
fish eggs to be hatched to order. Fish
superintended their own hatching in those
days. **
One hundred years ago the condition of
the weather on the Ist of January was not
telegraphed all over the continent on the
evening of December 31. Things have
changed.
One hundred years ago people did not
worry about rapid transit and cheap trans
portation, but threw their grabi crops across
the*backs of their horses and uncomplaining
ly “went to the mill.”
One hundred years ago every cut his
coat according to his cloth, every man was
estimated at his real value, shoddy was not
known, nobody had struck “ile” and true
merit and honest worth were the onty
grounds for promotion.
New Inventions.
An ingenious Californian has made an
engine for street cars which is designed to
so resemble a horse in appearance as not to
frighten those animals. The resemblance is
confined to the head and shoulders, and it is
believed that it will not impose on equine sa
gacity as intended.
A man in lowa is credited with having
built the smallest steam engine on record.
The little beam weighs one pennyweight and
seventeen grains, is completely symmetrical,
and when steam is applied it runs smoothly
and sings sweetly.
Anew branch of industry is being set on
foot in Nova Scotia. Several fish-packing
houses, finding their occupation gone for the
winter, are now at work in packing rabbits,
partridges, and other game. A good market
is expected in England for this class of can
ned goods.
A California inventor has patented a
contrivance for driving sewing machines,
which does away with the treadle. A num
ber of springs are moved by clockwork and
governed by a lever so nicely that the needle
may be made to move at any desired rate of
speed. The machine will run for about an
hour and a quarter with one winding up.
A German inventor, named Eichbaum, of
Chicago, claims to have invented a machine
for making gas from live and black oak and
crude petroleum, precisely the constituent
parts which compose coal, only in a different
period, or state of formation. The retorts
arc differently constructed, and no non-com
bustible element let in to make the meters
move indicate a larger number of feet
passing through than is actually consumed.
Capitalists have tested the machine at the
Tremont House, in Chicago, and works for
making the machines have been started in
Detroit and Racine. The patentees claim
that they can make gas at *2B| cents per
thousand feet. — Man. Trade Jour.
BPIt might naturally be expected when
people are found surviving the effects of a
bullet in the brain, that a broken neck would
come to be regarded as a trifling disorder,
and we are not at all surprised, therefore, to
hear of a case where a man who has sustained
such an injury is expected to “be around” in
a few da3 r s. The case comes from Omaha,
and is as well authenticated as anything can
be from that locality. All the physicians in
the place pronounce the case one of actual
fracture of “the bone connecting the head to
the body,” and warn the patient that if he
moves his head a hair’s breadth he will per
ish. If he lies perfectly still they promise
him restoration in two months.
“Mr, Pittman it was in 1828 that we
had a warm Winter like the present; nearly
all the meat spoiled that Winter, but it only
cost three cents per pound ; com was only
thirty cents per bushel, no wheat made and
no fruit that year. In those days everybody
spun and wove their own cloth for male and
female. It only took five or six yards of cal
ico to make a dress, and when the boys and
girls went to church they took their shoes
and stockings in their hands until they got
in sight, then put them on, and then took
them off when they started home, In those
days everybody was on an equality, and were
independent.” —Marietta Journal,
Indian Jugglers.
The Prince of Wales is being amused in
India after the manner of the country, and
the wonderful skill of theMadrassees has been
exhibited for his benefit. One of their tricks
is to make the dried skin of a cobra live.
They allow the beholder every opportunity
to see how it is done, and at the last stage of
jugglery but one he may examine the basket
to Bee that nothing but the serpent-skin is in
it. A white cloth is taken by the juggler and
placed over the basket, after having been well
shaken so that you may lie assured nothing
is in it. A pipe is produced, and with it a
horrible noise, similar to that always made
by snake chamers, and not unlike the sound
a cracked and badly made bagpipe would
emit, is made. No one goes near the cloth
or basket except the almost naked man, who
cannoLllftesibly hide any live snake in his
sleeves, for the simple and sufficient reason
that lie has neitlier sleeves nor jacket. The
sheet is lifted, and. on the lid being opened,
a most distinctly energetic serpent is discov
ered. No sooner is it stirred than it rises on
its tail, spreads out its hood, and strikes with
its fangs and tongue at the charmer. No one
would care to examine that basket now, with
a cobra four feet long making vicious snaps
at the juggler. The snake gone, a stout.
Strong girl comes forward, makes a deep obe
isance, and then, stepping back, throws a man
weighing full 150 pounds over her shoulders.
Nor does she stop here, for she seizes her
victim once more, places him crosswise on
her back, and then tosses him into the air as
though he were made of feathers, and not a
hroad-shouldered human being. Turning
backward on her feet, she picks up straws
with her eyelids, throws somersaults and
lifts weights which would astonish the ordi
din ary acrobat. While she is thus perform
ing jugglers are changing pebbles into birds,
birds into eggs and eggs into plants ; men
thread beads with their tongues, join innu
merable pieces of cotton into one long cord,
keep half a score of sharp knives in the air
at once, throw cannon balls with their toes
and spin tops on the end of twigs.
Power of Prejudice.
Some years ago there resided in G'incinnati
a member of one of the learned professions
remarkable for his original view of men and
things. According to his views, man was a
bundle of prejudices—a manifestation of
prejudice was the holding of any animal
unclean—all were proper food—the rat and
the eat were created as much to be eaten as
the rabbit and the chicken.
In pursuance of his theory, he one eve
ning invited some gentleman friends to a
squirrel supper, served in his chamber
Tl*vs*ble ♦ was well laid, the squirrels
nicely cdtfked, the wines excellent, and they
enjoyed the meal.
The dishes removed—while smoking their
cigars the guests expressed their satisfaction,
and the delighted host heard that his squir
rels were tender, fat. juicy, sweet.
Their commendations concluded, he tilted
his chair, rested his feet upon the mantle
piece, and while he pulled the end of his
cigar ere lighting it, he said, with a smile of
exultation :
“Well, gentlemen, do you know what you
have been eating?”
“Squirrels,” one answered with a sudden
qualm.
“ Rats!”
They sprang to their feet.
“ Rats!” (he brought his chair to the floor
and stood up) “fat. tender, sweet, juicy rats
that I myself caught in a trap and fattened.
What do you think of prejudice now?”
One, with convulsion of face and hands on
his chest, sought the door. Another collared
the entertainer, but released his hold, turned
pale and was attacked with sudden faintness.
Confusion ensued ; loud words and energetic
epithets followed, and blows would have
been given had not one of the guests, less
affected and wiser than the others, stepped
between. —Cincinnati Times.
RPThe Quitman Reporter tells a world of
truth in the following brief article on buying
for cash:
At no time since the close of the war have
we of the cotton States labored under like
difficulties of the present, cotton selling un
der the cost of production, labor uncertain
and non-productive, immigration only in
name, whilst from our roll of merchant princes
daily are dropping, here and there, veterans
who have long stood the shocks of crises and
adversities.
Ttlfe pftnic of’73 has not vet filled its mis
sion, and not all the centennial shows of a
thousand Philadelphias can relieve us of the
sunny South. Contraction is what we want,
but it is the contraction of the cost of living ;
the lessening of the demnition total, as Mr.
Mantalini has it, of our annual expenses.
The people are prone to buy anything the} 7
see, from a hand-saw to a duck-legged horse,
and to pay any price for it, provided the} 7 can
get time. Now there must come a dav of
settlement, and ’tis an old maxim of trade,
“ the greater the risk the greater the profit.”
Therefore put a stop to this universal time
buying, which in the end “ stingeth like a
serpent and biteth like an adder”—what you
can’t pay for do without, and what you can
do without don’t buy.
How Could I 7
He carried my satchel to school,
And me through the drifts carried too ;
Could I think why he hugged me so closely?
If I couldn’t, how could I?—could you?
At eve he tied under my chin
My hood, with its ribbons so blue ;
Why he gazed in my face could I tell ?
If I couldn't, how could I?—could you?
He told me my eyes were quite black,
And the brightest of any he knew ;
I blushed and looked down—could I help it?
If I couldn't, how could I?—could you?
He left on my cheek a warm kiss,
Then off’ with the lightning speed flew ;
If I could I’d have scolded him soundly ;
If I couldn't, how could I ?—could you ?
’Twas long years ago ; and since then
He has spoken words loving and true ;
And now I lean close, as his wife.
To his breast, Oan I help it?—could you?
Laziness travels so slowiy that poverty
soon overtakes her.
The English Language.
A pretty dear is dear to me,
A hare with dewy hair,
A hart I love with all my heart,
But barely bear a bear.
’Tis plain that no one takes a plane
To have a pair of pears :
A rake, though, often takes a rake,
And tears away the tares.
A writ in writing “right,” may write
It “wright,” aud still be wrong,
For “write," 1 and “rite” are neither “right,”
Aud don’t to wright belong.
Beer often brings a bier to man,
Coughing a coffin brings,
• And too much ale will make us ail,
As well as some other things.
The person lies who says he lies
When he is not reclining,
And when consumptive folks decline
They all deoline declining.
A quail don't quail before a storm ;
A bough will bow before it;
We cannot rein the rain at all;
No earthly powers reign o'er it.
The dyer dyes awhile, then dies ;
To dye lie’s always trying,
Until upon his dying bed,
He thinks no more of dyeing.
A son of Mars mars many a sun ;
All deys must have their days,
And every knight should pray each night
To Ilim who weighs his wmj^s.
’Tis mete that man should mete out meat
To feed misfortune’s son ;
The fair should fare on love alone,
Else one cannot be won.
A lass, alas ! is sometimes false ;
Of faults a maid is made;
Her waist is but a barren waste
Though stay'd, she is not staid.
The springs spring forth, in Spring, and shoots,
Shoot forward, one and all;
Though Summer, kills the flowers, it leaves
The leaves to fall in Fall.
I would a stor}- here commence,
But you might find it stale ;
So let’s suppose that we have reached
The tail end of our tale.
The Innocent Father.
Hundreds of people yesterday remarked
that it seemed jnst like spring weather. The
rain, and mist, and fog, and the public ex
pressions probabty put the idea into the
Starling boy’s head. He came down town
and bought a stuffed robin at a bird store,
went home and placed it on the limb of a
shade tree, and when the father catne home
to dinner his attention was called to the fact
that the spring birds had returned.
“ Good gracious me!” he exclaimed, as he
put on his spectacles and saw the robin.
“ Winter is over, isn’t it ?” inquired Mrs.
Starling.
“Of course it is. Well, that beats me.—
You might as well take that money I laid by
for more coal and fix the children up with
new shoes.”
While the old man was combing his hair
for dinner Tom put the bird on the gate-post,
and the father saw the second robin and ex
claimed :
“ Eliza, if any poor folks come around here
give ’em half those ’taters in the cellar, for
the weather’ll be hotter’n blazes in less than
a month.”
Before the innocent man shoved back from
the table the bird was roosting on a shrub,
but careless handling had pulled all the tail
feathers out.
“That can’t be a robin,” mused the old
man, and he put on his hat and went out and
lifted the bird from the limb. While he was
lifting, Tom was flying down the alley. How
he came out last night the public may never
know. —Detroit Free Press.
How to Calculate Interest.
The following rules are so simple and so
true, according to all business usages, that
every banker, broker, merchant or clerk,
should post them up for reference. There be
ing no such thing as a fraction in it, there is
scarcely any liability to error or mistake. By
no other arithmetical process can the desired
information be obtained by so few figures :
Six Per Cent.—Multiply any given number
of dollars by the number of days of interest
desired; separate the right hand figure and
divide b}' six; the result is the true interest
on such sura for such number of days at six
per cent.
Eight Per Cent.—Multiply any given amount
for the number of days upon which it is de
sired to ascertain the interest, and divide by
forty-five, and the result will be the interest
on such sum for the time required, at eight
per cent.
Ten PerCent.—Multiply the same as above
and divide by thirty-six, and the result will
be the amount of interest at ten per cent.
Best thing to do when you go shopping
with ladies. Take notes.
“.You can’t even tell who made the monkey
for all } T ou pretend to know so much,” said
an impertinent fop to a clergyman, who had
reproved him for profanity. “ Well then who
did make the monkey?’’ “lie who made
you!”
A little three-year-old girl was riding in the
cars with her mother, a few' days since, when
a lady remarked, “That’s a pretty bab} r !”
The little girl's eyes flashed fire as she drew
herself up to her fullest height, and replied, “I
ain’t a baby—l wear boots and hoops.”
“My son.” said a doting father, who was
about taking his son into business, “what
shall be the style of the new firm V' “Well,
governor,” said the one-and-twenty youth,
looking up to find an answer, “I don’t know ;
hut suppose wc call it John 11. Samplin &
Father.”
“Why don’t you wheel that barrow of
coals, Ned ?” said a learned minor toone of his
sons. “It is not a very hard job ; there is an
inclined plane to relieve .you.” “ Ah.” replied
Ned, who had more relish for wit than work,
“the plane may be inclined, but hang me if I
am.”
Miss Long, a girl of quick and fearless
wit, asked Moses if he knew a certain young
man. “Know him? Oh, yes, I ought to know
him, I raised him from a pup.” “Ah !’” said
Miss Long. “I didn’t-know you were so old
a cur.” Moses wilted.
$ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
I SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
The day on which idle men work and fools
reform is— to-morrow.
In the employment or under the control of
the Post Office Department alone, there are
51,000 persons.
Minnesota produced last year 28,000,000
bushels of wheat, 15,000,000 bushels of oats,
and 12,000,000 bushels of corn.
The Georgia Railroad will henceforth use
coal in “ firing up” and propelling its pas
senger engines, instead of wood.
Iverson Smith is the champion rail-splitter
of Georgia. He lives in Harris county, and
“ busts’’ open 155 in an hour.
Franklin county. Georgia, claims the three
oldest brothers in the State. .John, William
and Jesse Thomas—aged respectively 81, 79
and 75 years.
Ah! A German chemist has obtained
ferroevanide of tetramethylammonium bv
saturating ferrocyanic acid with tetramethy*
lammonium-bydrate.
The richest woman in America is Miss
Kitty Wolfe. Iler income is put down at
SI.OOO a day. That’s one Wolf a fellow would
not work very hard to keep away from his
door in these moneyless times.
A murderer named Smith, in Milam
County, Texas, was recently taken out by
a mob and burned to death. This has excit
ed great, indignation, and the officers of the
law are after the miscreants.
A gentleman, near Angnsta. has a gobbler,
which, as regular as a conductor’s watch,
when the Georgia night express starts from
the Union Depot, commences and gobbles
until the train passes.
A hunter of Brainerd, Minn., while out in
the woods recently, discharged his gun to
clear out the barrel, and unknown to him a
fine buck happened to be in range and was
shot though the heart.
Mr. T. S. Wilson, of Walker county, Ga. t
has a dog about eight months old that ascend
ed a ladder on rounds twenty inches apart
and got on top of the dwelling house. All
this he did without aid from any one.
The Supreme Cotirt decided that homestead
allowed under the amendment of the bank
rupt act was not good against a judgment
founded on contracts made before the Con
stitution of 1868, the creditor not having gone
into the bankrupt court.
On the 21st day of March the centennial of
Methodism in North Carolina is to be cele
brated in Raleigh. Many eminent speakers
have been invited, and will be present. A
grand time is expected, and doubtless will be
realized.
Matrimonial alliances arc now reoommend
ed as an excellent means of enabling persons
to withstand the intense cold of a winter’s
night. St. Paul says “it is better to marry
than to freeze ; therefore choose the less of
the two evils. *
A negro in South Carolina, who was com
plaining of the hard times, declared they
were the hardest ever known. “Why,” said
he, “ I works all day. and steals all night, and
yet, I m blest if I kin make an honest living.”
I he National Democratic Executive Com
mittee meet in Washington City on the 22d
of February, to determine the time and place
for holding the convention to nominate can
didates for the Presidency and Vice Presi
dency.
Sam Bard says the Republicans have sub
scribed for 500,000 copies of the speech of
Hon. B. 11. Ilill. The Northern readers will
learn something. The intelligence that the
speech is to be so generally circulated is
gratifying.
The new census of Texas shows that the
State has a population of about one million
two hundred and seventy-five thousand, as
compared with a population of eight hundred
and eighteen thousand five hundred and nine
teen in 1870.
\ anderbilt has just bought one hundred
and forty thousand tons of steel rail at sixty
three dollars per ton, and purposes laving all
the railroad lines he controls with theuT in
time for the Centennial. A few months ago
he could not have bought these rails for
double the money.
Near Mount \ ermon, 111., a man named
Jaekson got up before daybreak, and acci
dentally stepped on the chest of his fifteen
year old daughter, who was sleeping on the
floor. Ilis weight being two hundred and
twenty pounds, he crushed in her chest and
killed her almost instantly.
Baltimore, t ebmary 10.—I lon. Reverdy
Johnson, the distinguished statesman and
jurist, was found dead this evening, at 8:15.
in the grounds surrounding the Executive
Mansion at Annapolis. Mr. Johnson was
the guest of Gov. Carroll and dined this
afternoon with other gentlemen at the Execu
tive Mansion. He was found dead in the
yard bj 7, a servant.
Mr. Lincoln used to tell in his inimitable
way a story of a Winchester converted Con
federate, who was so overjoyed at receiving
his pardon that he exclaimed : “Thank you,
Mr. President! Thank you ! Now I'm par
doned, I s’pose I’m as good a Union man as
any of you—emphatically one of you again.
Bnt didn't Stonewall Jackson give ns hell in
the valley ?"
Corn for Fuel.— A letter of a recent set
tler in Nebraska says : “We are burning
corn in our cook stove, and it makes the best
fuel I ever used for a quick, hot fire. I pay
eighteen cents for seventy pounds, and I
think it fully as cheap as wood at $6 a cord.”
This seems a pity, when so many people want
bread—but it is evident it won't pay to bring,
that corn to the people who need it, hence
the people ought to go to the corn.
There is a sect in Scotland “ calling them
selves Christian Israelites, who claim to have
received a revelation from God that they are
descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, whom
the Lord is thus gathering from among the
nations, according to His promise by His
prophets. They keep Sixth-day night, and
also the hour from 10 to 11 a. m. of First Day
as sacred time, by special revelation. They
practice circumcision, and will not use mixed
clothing, food and seed.”
NUMBER 37.