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Jan. 22, 1876—tf
STILL ON HAND !
N. B. STARK,
BOOT and Shoe maker, at the f old and well
known corner. Northwest of the Court House,
under the Forest News office, is still ready to
make to order or repair Boots and Shoos of all
sires, shapes and qualities. CUBA P FOR C ASH.
January 29th, 1875. £
STANLEY A PINSON.
JEFFERSON, GA.,
DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
t’hep fpr Cash. Call and examine their stock.
J’fnelMy •
Medical Notice.
Dr. J. O. lu;.NiT haying located in Jeffer
son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
I respectfully tenders his services to the citizens of
the town and county in all the different branches
°[the profession. After a Battering experience
f* nineteen years, he feels justified in saying that
Je is prepared to successfully treat any' curable
disease incident to our climate. lie is, for , the
I present, boarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
move-his family here soon.
Office with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
can be seen in the office of T. 11,
a (black, Esq., C. s. C. octlfi
SIRS. T. A. ADAMS,
Hroad Street , one door dborc National BanJc ,
yj. G^-,
| r.EPS constantly on hand an extensive stock
of reasonable millinery goods,
Misprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions
Ladi<v Hats, Bonnets Ril>lons,
*f**S Flowers Gloves „ which will be
. _ at re *sonable prices. Orders from the coun
• P r °niptly tilled-. Give her a call. dlß3m
J B- MAHAFFEY. \V. S. iI'CARTY.
JfAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
1 A T TOR NEYS AT LAW,
, Jefferson*. Jackson* Go. Ga..
* Practice anj where for money. Prompt at
. ‘OB given to all business entrusted to their
c * Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly
H' LEV C. HOWARD. BOB’T S. HOWARD.
°'VARV A HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
w-,. J.EFFERSOI:, Ga.
i(1 , u P rac bee together in all the Courts of .Jack
and adjacent couuties, except the Court of
of Jackson county. Sept Ist *75
,* T W ATCH MAKER AND JEWELER,
A* T ‘r m ' Kin ° s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
*nTvr S ’ l a ‘ work done in a superior manner.
l a y ran ted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
b JulylO-Gm.
]) "OFFORD, Attorney sit Law,
' BELTON, GA.,
Riv(> r P ractice in all the adjoining Counties, and
f r °mpt attention to all business entrusted to
j.,r Collecting claims a specialty.
• 187.5. ly
OAKES,
x JAiftESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
%Q ta- .i if bu an( l wagon harness always
d(m e ‘, c ‘P a > r ing same, bridles, saddles, &c.,
D otice, and cheap for cash.
-FLOYD, I J. B. SrLMAN,
n^ Vln 6 ton 'Ga. Jefferson, Ga.
f L °' IF A SHJLO,
Will „ ATTORNKYS-AT-LAAY.
the cr ~?r* ac *' lce together in the Superior Courts of
ju ne ] 0^ s Jackson and Walton.
1 ** HiK, Attorney at Law,
P r offi maR the Courts, State and Federal,
of | thorough attention given to all
Co untie- le^a bushes in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
THE HOMESTEAD ACT.
The McDaniel Daw tv A must the Rights o f
Parties where Homesteads have been Sold —
They Must Go to the Courts o f Equity with
in the next Six Months—And Must J Follow
the Maxim: “ lie Who Seeks Equity Must
Equity Do.”
A bill to be entitled an act to provide for
the adjustment of the rights of parties in
cases where property which has been set
apart under the homestead and exemption,
laws of this State, has heretofore been sold.
Section 1. Bo it enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Georgia, That from
and after the passage of this act, Courts of
Equity alone shall have jurisdiction of suits
for the recovery of property which has been
set apart under the homestead and exemption
laws of this State, and which has been here
tofore sold, or for the recovery of any inter
est therein, and that it shall be lawful for any
party to prove that the pure base money of
such property, or any part thereof, has been
invested in other property, or has been ap
plied to the benefit of the family for whom
such property had been set apart as afore
said.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, That in
cases where the proceeds of property soM~iw
aforesaid, has been.invested.in other property
ofjequjit value and fof fne “benefit of said
family, the Court shall confirm the sale and
fcho purchase, and therefore the property so
purchased shall be held by the family as a
ficMnestead and exemption in lieu of the prop*
eny so sold, which shall be discharged of the'
particular estate vested by said homestead
and exemption laws in said family.
-Section 3. Be it further enacted, That in
where all tlie proceeds of the sale of
property have been applied to the benefit of
said family, the Court shall confirm the sale,
and thereafter the property so sold shall be
discharged of the particular estate aforesaid.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, That in
cases where a part only of the proceeds of
property, sold as aforesaid, has been reinvest
ed as aforesaid, the Court shall take an ac
count of the proportion that the. amount so
invested hears to the entire value of the prop
erty so sold, and shall confirm the sale as to
that proportionate part of the property* land
confirm the purchase, and thereafter the prop
erty so purchased shall be held by said fam
ily as a part of their homestead and exemp
tion, in lieu of the proportionate part afore
said of the property so sold, which shall be
discharged of the particular estate aforesaid.
Section s. Be it further Xhjit in
cases: where a part only of the proceeds,‘-sold
as aforesaid, has been applied to the benefit
of said family, the Court shall take an ac
count of the proportion tnai are amount so
applied bears to the entire value of the prop
erty so‘sold, atuKshfUL confirm the-sate as to
that proportionate. junT aiicli
whiehjishall be discharged of (the parttfular
estate albi’estjvd-. ’-7 **■•<*t rrr,*pr : "
Section "'(>*. “Be*’it *furtliyjAenacted f * T ll at in
cases when auy..portion, of .the .proceeds of
property sold as aforesaid has neither - been
in vena in other.. property v nor applied to the
benefit of said family, the Court shall ascer
tain the amfofcn? thereof and 411$ interest of
said family therein, and shall moujd a decree
to protect? the rlglifcsYaffil fntirestfe bffsaid
family in4tW.prop^tV-sold, and 'at the
same time .to-protect the-rights and interests
of the purchaser in thy. re vers inn ofsuyh prop
erty after the particular estate aforesaid£hall
have been determined- and. shall requujgf par
ties oomplainarft to do complete equity i the
premises before obtaining equity B
Section 7. Be it .further ennoted, Tlrstt in
cases NvfierC dr pbTtibfi 0? Mr of 6 thrfe' puftjhase
money of property sb'sold ;ha@ nbhheebjmid,
the Court may oonfirm-the- wde and ordjeT the
re-in vestmeut of the proceeds, or may cancel
and set aside the sale, and compel the restora-
tiou of any pact of.the purchase money which
Min<y have heen paid, and may grant relief to
the parties according to the principles of
equity. t *
Section 8. Be it further enacted* That all
suite herein provided" for, shall be brought
within six months after the passage of this
act>, qr the right of the party complainant,
and all right of suit for its enforcement, shall
be forever barred.
Section 9. Be it further enacted, That in
cases where suits are now pending in Courts
of law or equity for the recovery of property
sold as aforesaid, parties defendants shall he
entitled to the defenses and equitable relief
provided for in this act.
Section 10. Be it further enacted. That all
laws and parts of laws in conflict with the
provisions of this act be arid the same are
Rereby repealed. ______
How to Buy Good Meat- t
In order to make sure as much as possible
to buy gopd, meat, the following rules should
be observ ed in tliie purchasing, to distinguish
good wholesome meat from that obtained
f-rom diseased and bad animals. Good arid
wholesome meat should neither be of a pate
rosy or pink color, nor of a deep purple.
The first denotes the diseased condrtiOß, the
last proves that the animal has died a
natural death. Good meat has more of a
marble look, iri consequence of the branch
ings of the veins which surround the adipose
cells. The fat, especially of the inner
organs, is always firm and suety and never
moist, while in general the fat from diseased
cattle is flabby and watery, and more often
resembles jelly or boiled parchment. A\ hole
some meat will always show itself firm and
elastic to the touch, and exhibit no damp
ness ; while bad meat will appear soft and
moist, in fact, often more wet, so that the
liquid substance runs out of the blood when
pressed hard. Good meat has very little
smell, while unsound meat has a dissagreea
ble, cadaverous smell, and diffuses a certain
medicinal odor. This can be distinctly prov
ed by cutting the meat through with a knife
and smelling the blade, or pouring warm
water over it. Lastly, bad meat has the
peculiarity that it shrinks considerably in
the boiling, wholesome meat rather swells
and does not lose an ounce in weight. —The
National Food and Fuel Reformer. ( j
If you can't make both ends meet mak6
one.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, FEB’Y 26, 1876.
Origin of “He has an Axe to Grind.”
We owe more of our common sayings and
pithy proverbs to Dr. Franklin than many of
us think or know. We say of one who flat
ters or serves us for the sake of some secret,
selfish gain or favor, “ lie has an axe to grind.”
In the doctor’s “Memoirs” is the following
story, (much after the manner of the “ whis
tle" story,) which explains the origin of the
phrase:
Franklin says : When I was a little boy,
I remember, one cold winter's morning, I was
accosted by a smiling man, with an axe on
his shoulder. ... .*
“My pretty boy?’' said he, has your fath
er a grindstone ?” 'A
“ Yes, sir,” said I.
“ You are a fine little fellow,” said he.—
“ Will you let me grind an axe on it ?”
Pleased with the compliment of “a fine
little fellow,” “ O, yes, sir,” 1 answered ; “ it
is down in the shop.”
“And will you, m3’ man,” said he, patting
me on my head, “get me a little hot water ?”
llow could I refuse? I ran and soon brought
a kettle full.
“ llow old are you, and what’s your name ?”
continued he, without waiting for a reply.—
“I'm sure you're one of the finest lads that
ever I have seen. Will you turn a few min
utes for me r”
Tickled with thg. flattery*Jike a fool I went
to work, and bitterly did I rue the day r . It
was anew axe, and I toiled and tugged till I
was almost tired to death. The school-bell
rang, and T. could not get away. My hands
were blistered, and it was not half ground.
At length, however, the axe was sharpened,
and the man turned to me with, —
“ Now, you little rascal, you’ve played the
truant; scud to school, or you'll get it.”
Alas! thought I, it was hard enough to
turn a grindstone this cold day, but now to
be called a little rascal, was too much. It
sunk deep in my mind, and often have I
thought of it since.
When I see a merchant gyer polite to his
customers, begging them to take a little
brandy, and throwing his goods on the coun
ter,, thinks .1, that man has an axe to grind.
When I see a man flattering tlie people,
making great professions of attachment to
liberty and prating loudly about economy,
who is. in private a tyrant, methinks, look out,
good people, that fellow would see you turn
ing a grindstone.! .
When I? see a man hoisted into office by
party spirit, without a single qualification to
render him either respectable or useful, alas !
methinks, deluded people, you are doomed
for a season to turn the grindstone for a
booty. ; - . i
Useful Knowledge.
A man wjilkq t.Lroo „i!loo or, Knrrte
trots seven ; steamboats run eighteen ; sail
ing vessels, ten ; slow four ; rapid
rivers, seven; moderate wind blows seven X
storm moves thirty-six ; hurricane, eighty ;
a rifle ball, one thousand ; soimd, seven hmv
dred and forty-three ; light, oiic hundred and
ninety thousand; electricity, two hundred
and eighty thousand. A barrel of flour weighs
one hundred and ninety-six, pounds ; barrel'
of pork, two hundred ; barrel of ried, six hun
dred ; barrel of poVder, twenty-five ; firkin of
butter, fifty-six; tub of butter* eightv-four.
Wheat, beans and cio-ver seed, sixty pounds
to the bushel; corn, rye and flax seed, .fifty -
six; buckwheat, fifty-two ; barley, forty-eight;
five. Forty drops make a drachm, eight
drachms ru ounce, ounces a gill, four
gills a pint; forty drops a teaspoonful, four
teaspoon fills a tablespoonful or half an ounce,
two -tablespooiifbls a€ ounce, eight taHle
spfidttrtiT's a‘ gtft, YwA *k
tumbler, six fluid dumjes a teaeilpful. Four
thousand eight hundred and forty square
yards an acre; a square mile, six hundfe'd
acl forty acres. To measure an acre: two
hundred and nine feet on each side, making
a square acre within an inch. There are two
thousand seven hundred and fifty languages.
Two persons die every second. A genera
tion is fifteen years ; average of life, thirty
one years. The standing army in Prussia,
war times, one million two hundred thou
sand ; Russia, one million; Austria, eight
hundred and twenty-five thousand; Italy,
two hundred thousand; Spain, one kuudred
thousand 5 Belgium, ninety-five thousand;
F.ngland, seventy-five thousand; United
States, twenty-five thousand.
A Remarkable Murder Trial.
Pesach N. Rubenstein, for several days on
trial in New York on the charge of murder
ing Iris cousin, Sabah Alexander, was recent
ly found guilty and sentenced to be hanged.
The evidence against the prisoner was alto
gether circumstantial. On December 12th.
the woman called at Rubensteiu’s, having
previous to that, date been staj’ing with a
brother. She said she was going to a tailor’s
to get work. She was not seen alive again.
On the 14th hpr corpse was found in a corn
field on Long Island, her throat having been
cut. There were marks of a desperate strug
gle, and prints of a man’s foot in the soil.—
Near by was discovered a knife, such as is
used by cigar makers. It was covered with
blood. The body, which had not been recog
nized, was taken to the Morgue. On the 16th
it was identified hyJfsrael Rubenstein, the
father of the prisoner, who visited the Morgue
with some of her relatives. He had gone
there before the body arrived, in consequence
of a dream which Pesach claimed to have had.
He said he dreamed that he hajfl seen Sarah.
She came to him and' told hirfi she had been
killed eight miles outside of New Yohk, arid
she said, “ Pesach ! Pesach ! Come to me !
Come to me and bury me !” or words to that
effect. Pesach was at once sent for, and
when he saw the corpse, paler and trembling,
he threw up his hands and with a look of hor
ror TeJl back against the wap. , He was token
to jail. His boots were found to fit the tracks
in the field exaetty, and the person who sojd
the cigar knife identified him as the purchaser.
On this evidence he was convjotod, although
up to the very last protesting his -innocence.
• — Exchange. . •<> * > * • - •. * •
A number of milkmen in New York have
been indicted by the Board of Health for
selling adulterated milk. Several were fined
SSO, and one SIOO.
The Philosophy of Reform.
It is most interesting and instructive, we
repeat, to observe how all the patent methods
that have been adopted outside of, or in op
position to, Christianity, for the reformation
of society, have, one after another, gone to
the wall, or gone to the dogs. A dream, and
a few futile or disastrous experiments, are all
that ever comes of them. Societies, commu
nities* organizations, melt away and are lost,
and all that remains of them is tlieir history.
Tet the men who originated them, fancied
that they’ were radicals, while they never
touched the roots either of human nature or
human society. The most intelligent of those
who adjure Christianity have seen all tins,
and have been wise enough not to undertake
to put anything in its place. The}’ content
themselves with tlieir negations, and leave
the race to flounder along as it will.
We suppose it is a matter of wonder to such
men as these that Mr. Mood}’ and Mr. Sankey
can obtain such a following as they do. They
undoubtedly attribute it to superstition and
ignorance, but these reformers are simply
eminent radicals after the Christian pattern,
who deal with the motives and means furnish
ed them by the one great radical reformer of
the world—Jesus Christ himself. They are
at work at the basis of things. To them, pol
itics are nothing, denominations are nothing,
organizations are nothing, or entirely subor
dinate. Individual reform is everything.—
After this, organizations will take care of
themselves. No good society can possibly be
made out of bad materials, and when the ma
terials are made good, the society takes a
good form naturally, as a pure salt makes
its perfect crystal without superintendence.
They are proving, day by day, what all Chris
tian reformers have been proving for eighteen
centuries, viz : that Christian reform, as it
relates to individual life and character, pos
sesses the only sound philosophical basis that
can be found among reforms, Christian re
form. with all its motives and methods, is
found to be just a9 vital to-day as it eyer was.
It is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.
There are a great many dogmas of the church
whose truth, or whose importance, even if
true, it would be ddficwifr to prove; but the
great truths, that humanity Is degraded, and
can only be elevated and purified by the ele
vation and purification of its individual con
stituents, are evident to the simplest mind.
Men know that they are bad, and ought to be
better; and a motive—or a series of motives
to reformation, addressed directly to this con
sciousness, is not long in achieving results.
The radicalism of Christianity holds the se
cret of revival's, of the stability of the church,
(if the growth and improvement of Christian
communities. All things that are true- are
divine. TlVete can be no one tiling that is
move aivineiy true amu uny otner filing uuii
is true. Christianity is divine, if for no oth
er reason than that it holds ahd monopolizes
the only radical and philosophical basis of
fefornV. The criticisms of all those who ig
nore thefee facts are necessarily shallow and
unworthy of consideration—just as shallow
and just as worthless as the dogmatism inside
the church which attributes the power of
Christianity to those things which afe not
sources of power at all. Christianity must
live and triumph as a system of reform, be
cause it goes to the roots *of things, and be
cause, by so doing, it proves itself to be di
vinely and eternally tru e:—Scribner's Monthly.
J.. _ T
Looking Up a Teacher for Linda.
She was at, One of the union school houses
half an hour before school opened. She had
“Linda” with her. She was a tall woman,
forty years of age, with a jaw showing great
determination, and “Linda” was sixteen, and
rather shy and pretty good looking. The
mother said that she had not been in the
city long, and that it was certainly her duty
to get Linda into school and See that she
was properly educated.—When the teacher
came the mother boldly inquired :
“ You know enough to .teach, do you?”
“I think I do,” rejplied the teacher, blush
ing deeply.
“And ybu feel competent to govern the
scholars, do you?”
“ Y'es’m.”
“Do you pound ’em with a ferrule, or
lick ’em with a whip?”
“We seldom resort to punishment of any
kind here,” replied the embarrassed teacher.
“That’s better yet,” continued the mother.
“I know that if Linda should come home all
pounded up I’d feel like killing someone.
I suppose you are of a respectable character,
ain’t you?”
i“ Why—ahem—why*—” stammered the
teacher, growing white and then red.
“ I expect you are,” continued the woman.
“It’s well to know who our children are as
sociating with. Now, then, do you allow the
bo3 r s and girls to sit together?”
“No, ma’am.
“ Tiiat’s right. They never used to when
I was young, and I don’t think Linda is any
better than I am. Another thing : Do you
allow any winking?”
“Any what?” exclaimed the puzzled
teacher.
“Do you allow a bo} r to wink at a girl?”
asked the woman.
“ Why, no.”
“ I was afraid you did. Linda is as shy
as a bird, and if she should come home some
night and tell me that she had been winked
at I don’t know what I’d do. Now, another
thing—do 3*ou have a beau?”
“ Why—wl)3 r —’’was the stammered repty.
“ I think you do!” resumed the woman
severel} r , “I know just how it works. When
you should be explaining what an archipela
go is you are thinking of your Richard, and
your mind is way, way off.”
“ But, madam—”
“Never mind any explanations,” inter
rupted the woman. “I want Linda brought
up to know joggerfry, figures, writing and
spellography, and if you’ve got a beau and
are spooking to the theatre one night, a can
dy pull the next, a horse race the next and
so on, your mind can’t be on education.
Come, Linda, we will go to some other
school house.”
How much pain have those evils co6t us
which never happened! Wait, then, till
trials come.
Knee-Work.
BY ItKV. EDWARD A. RAND.
I did pity my friend. He had been trying
to stand up against the temptation to drink,
and Satan had knocked him down again.-i-
Ile was blue, discouraged, heart-sick, when I
found him after his fall. He was lying away
down in “the depths.” Ilis success in stand
ing up had been owing to prayer. “Have
you prayed ?” I asked. No, he had not.—
Here was something to be done at once.
“ Let's get right down and go to work,” I
said. We knelt. So I prayed. I heard him
sobbing. The prodigal was coming back.—
Then he prayed. 1 heard his cry for forgive
ness. AY e rose, and at the same time a down
cast soul got up out of the depths of its de
spair. llow he smiled as he said afterwards,
“I am saved !” Knee-work had done it.
And knee-work will do wonders in every
direction, simply because it makes a connec
tion with the source of all power—God. He
bends in blessing as we bend in prayer. If
we want to take onr own hearts in hand, do
it with a bent knee. Penitence, peace, strength;
will be the result. If we want to take in
hand the heart of someone else, let there he
knee-work. On your knees, plow up the hearts
of sinners. On your knees, sow in the truth.
In the day of harvest how the yellow sheaves
will stand about us.
\\ e get hints as to success in serving God
when we look through his word. Moses was
a man of great knee-power. So were Samuel.
Elijah, Elisha, Daniel—all the Bible worthies.
It is said that Peter's knees were worn rug
ged and callous through praying. It must
have been after his fall. He wouldn’t have
tumbled if he had had that ruggedness on
his knees. It would have made a good coat
of mail for his soul.
One of our religions papers said that if we
wanted to understand Moody’s success, we
must look at the knees of his pants. He knows
something about knee-work. It is a good
sign when a Christian man’s pants need
patching on the knee.
A minister leaving a house one day where
he had been praying, noticed dust on his
knees. It was nothing to be ashamed of.—
Dust on the knees when a man comes down
from his chamber in the morning, when he
leaves the vestry at night, when lie goes out
of the sick room—is a good sign. It is the
badge of power. It is a mark of the King's
service. It tells of knee-work. —New York
Observer.
fiPThe editor of the Pioche (Nev.) Record
cannot tell a lie, but after recounting the
journey of a contractor with a drove of mules
from Belmont to Iliko, where no water was
to be had for two days, he thus describes the
effect of the scent of the water at Logan
* *-• mic whofe body
began to move forward at a good pace, in
creasing it as .the smell of water grew.strong
er until the whole band was in a keen run.
The spring was reached, but the water had
to be dipped up in buckets, and it became
necessary to knock down a number of mules
with clfibs in order to allow the men to get to
the spring. One mule, crazed with thirst,
got away with thirteen buckets of water, and
had to be clubbed away in order to allow
some other possessor of a pair of long ears
a chance. He went out and took a roll, came
back, diid wanted more. The bucket held
fohr gallons, and he could get away with one
at a gulp.”
The Macon Telegraph says that near Co
lumbus, Mississippi, Mr. G. D. H.‘ whose
father was from the vicihity of Athens, Ga..
and married in Burke county, recently sold
his farm and furnished residence to one of
his former slaves, for the handsome sum of
ten thousand dollars cash down. Having oc
casion shortly afterwards to visit the premi
ses again, his old setvant provided an excel
lent repast for him, and, as in days of yore,
took his station, waiter in hand, at the back
of his master’s chair and attended to his every
want. In the same TieigTfborhood another
servant purchased a part of his employer’s
plantation, paying four thousand dollars in
cash for it. Such cases are rare and should
be recorded.
Cumous Legal Complication. —The New
York Tribune gives the history of a suit now
pending in one of the Courts of that city, in
which a negro born to slavery in Wheeling.
W. Ya., sues to recover the estate of his half
brother, a New York merchant, named John
D. Lewis, who all through his business career
in this city was supposed by his friends and
associates to be a white man. It seems likely
that the strict construction of the law will
give the property to this unrecognized black
relative of the dead white man. whom the
latter probably never knew or loved, to the
exclusion of all those nearest and dearest to
him in life.
Murrell.
John A. Murrell, the great western horse
thief and pirate, died near Sparta, Tennes
see, a reformed inan and a member of the
Methodist Church, in good standing. He
denied on his death bed ever having commit
ted a murder. lie was will educated and
had a splendid library. A few nights after
he was buried, the grave was re-opened, and
his head taken away, by whom it was never
known.
A boy. could not see why the “leaves’’ of
tables, not resembling the leaves with which
he was familiar, should be so-called. At last
he found it out. “ I know !” he cried ; “they’re
called so because you can leave them up, or
you oon leave them down.”
“ What size do you wear, sir ?” blandly
inquired the hatter. “ I think,” said the cus
tomer, “about—Just then in backing to
ward the mirror he stepped on a piece of or
ange peel and sat down suddenly—‘about a
cap-size’ I think.”
‘Charles,’ said a young wife to her hus
band, as they sat at the window watching the
fashionables on their way to church, * when
you die and I get hold of the insurance mo
ney, I intend to have a fur cape and muff jnst
like that lady has on over there.’
A good wife is a good thing, but a bad
husband beats her.
$ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
It is said 166 men'perished in ft colliery
explosion in Belgium last week.
The average salary of Methodist preachers
in North Carolina is $535.
A Jewish Rabbi has been preaching in a
New Haven Methodist ptilpit,
Mrs. Anderson, the widow of a soldier, has
been elected enrolling clerk of the Kansas
Legislature.
In 1776 the Baptists had one oollege and
twenty-five thousand members j now they
have forty colleges and two million members.
A little girl in Newberry, S. C., has been
using constantly the same needle in her sew*
ing machine For nearly flvej'ears.
The Republican State Convention has been
called to meet at Nashville on the 17th of
May.
The population of California increased
69,172 last year, of which 18,144 wore Chi
nese.
M bile boring for oil lately at Seavillc, some
men struck a piece of oak timber at a depth
of forty-seven feet.
There is a family in Newburyport, Mas*.,
occupying a house so situated that when din
ing at the same table the father eats in one
town and the mother in another.
A St. Louis woman, deprived of all the
ordinary means of suicide, was caught swal
lowing a handful of pins that she had taken
from her clothing.
It may not appear of any particular per
sonal interest to any of us, but it is a fact
that there will be a total eclipse of the sun on
the Hth of August, 1999.
The Supreme Court admitted John D.
Lewis, colored, to the bar, on Wednesday,
lie is the first negro lawyer ever permitted to
practice in the Courts of Pennsylvania.
The oil trade on the Philadelphia and Erie
railroad has averaged sixty cars per day for
a week past. Fifty cars passed East Friday
night. The oil is from the Low Grade road*
Georgia has. through a number of her most
prominent citizens, requested the Executive
Committee of the International Sunday -school
Convention, to hold the Convention of 187$
at Atlanta.
The Rhode Island House of Representa
tives has passed a bill providing that land
occupied or owned bj' churches, schools, col
leges an,d charitable institutions shall no
longer be exempt from taxation.
Mrs. Livermore says there are 5,500 super
fluous women in this country. But they want
seai-sKin sacques, puu-ojicg silks, lour-bntton
kids, and striped stockings just the same a*
if they weren’t superfluous.
Michael McFadden and Michael Burns, o t
Fall River, quarrelled in the presence of Me*
Fadden’s dog ; the dog may not have under-,
stood the affair, yet the next time he met
Burns he attacked him savagely, inflicting
dangerous wounds.
D. M. Pfautz, of Philadelphia, has just pa
tented what he styles a “Flying Bridge,” a
model of which will soon be exhibited to th
public. It will doubtless prove- Jo be view
able. Mr. Pfautz is the inventor of a num
ber of machines now in profitable use.
Reports from Captain Eads, at the mootfo
of the Mississippi, who is conducting dire work
of jettying the king of rivers, are, that he ha*
already had a gratifying deepening of the
channel, and has no doubt of complete
cess. This consummation will break up thw
tow-boat monopoly, and revive New Orleans.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., has made a
series of investigations and compiled statis
tics showing that only one railroad passenger
in 7,000,000 is killed, and only one to 1.500,-
000 is even so much as bruised. Intheyear
1874 only one person was killed on all" the
Massachusetts railroads, wile 76 were killed
by accidents in the city of Boston,
A man .and wife in Katouton,. Ga., were re
married after two years’ of matrimony, The
ceremony having been in some way informal,
and the inheritance of a large amount of
property depending upon the validity of their
marital relations, they called their friend#
together, had a brilliant wedding, and went
off on a honeymoon tour.
Cincinnati has granted the $6,000,00(7 ad
ditional subscription to the Chattanooga Kail
road. which sum will secure its completion.
It gill relieve Cincinnati of the exaction* of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroarl, in
seeking a market for her product* fn the
Southern States, and the readiness with which
that city has invested $16,000,000 in it, indi
cates confidence in her position.
A few weeks since a clergyman, seventy
three years old, was found dead In bis room
at Lemington, England, having died from
lack of the necessities of life. The Coroner’*
inquest revealed the fact that for many year*
he had subsisted on an income of eight-pence
a day, his food being bread, milk, cheese and
cocoa. Had he heen a man of “true inward
ness” and and cheek like Brother Beecher, be
might have served the Lord at a salary of one
hundred thousand dollars per annum, '
An exchange publishes the following ad*
vice as to how to become a lawyer: “Be po
lite to old people, because they have cash.
Be good to the boys, because they are grow
ing up to a cash basis. Work in with re
porters and get puffs. Go to church for the
sake of example. Don’t fool any time away
on poetry, and don’t even look at a girl till
you can plead a case. If you can follow
these instructions you will succeed. If yon
cannot, go and learn to be a doctor and kill
your best friends.”
A single grain of barley was planted by
an agriculturist in the Isle of Man in 1862,
and the same year produced three hundred
grains. These were sown, and the second
year's produce was abont half a pint. These
were again sown, and the third year's pro
duce was fourteen pounds, which being again
sown have realized this year about seven
bushels, covering a space of one hundred
yards by five. Thus there have been pro
duced in four years seven bushels of barley
from a single grain.
NUMBER 38.