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hY THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. g|l£ PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, , the J ckso " Con **J r Publishing Compiinj. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. jCSi jf, \V. CR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, managing and business editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION w, e copy 12 months 82.00 V G “ ~ 1.00 tl “ 3 “ 50 fc#*For every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex ranpt of the paper will be given. RATES OrDviRTISIIG~ OSK DOBLAR per square (of ten lines or less) the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents ~r each subsequent insertion. bs- yII Advertisements sent without specifica ■ m 0 f the number of insertions marked thereon, nil be published TILL FORBID, and charged ccordingly. teg-Business or Professional Cards, of six lines less, Seven Dollars per annum ; and where ihev do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Advertising. The following will be the regular rates for con tact advertising, and will be strictly adhered to n all cases: 1 xv. Im. 3 in. • in. 13m. w II $1 00 82 50 86 00 89 00 812 00 Two 200 550 11 00 17 00 22 00 Three 300 675 16 00 21 00 30 00 four 400 950 18 75 25 00 36 00 r, TC 500 10 25 21 50 29 00 42 00 ;, x 600 12 00 24 25 33 00 48 00 Twelve 11 00 21 75 40 00 55 00 81 00 lirhteen.... 15 00 30 50 54 50 75 50 109 00 [rentvtwo 17 00 34 00 60 00 90 00 125 00 jas®A square is one inch, or about 100 words of he type used in our advertising columns. Marriage and obituary notices not exceeding ten ines. will be published free; but for all over ten mes. regular advertising rates will be charged. Transient advertisements and announcing can lidites for office will be Cash. Address all communications for publication and ]1 letters on business to MALCOM STAFFORD, Managing and Business Editor. (tafmiimaf & business (Ennis. 1)11. C. It. GILES AFFF.RS his professional services to the citizens uof Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at the late residence of Dr. 11. j. Long. 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.