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nV THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, (he County l>ul>li*liiii{ "• Uompany. JEFFERSOX, JACKS OX CO ., GA. o orr iCß >• w - COB - PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAJRS. NALCOM STAFFORD, -■ - ~ MANAGING and business editor. " TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months $2.00 U u 6 “ 1.00 “ 3 “ y :. 50 ajv-por every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tr* copy of the paper will be given. RITeToF ADVERTISING. Osk Dollar per square (often lines or less) for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cent’s fo r each subsequent insertion. Advertisements sent without specifica tMii of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and cliarged accordingly. or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where th(T thrnot exceed ten lmes,-¥N Dollars. 4’ontract Advertl^iyt. The following will be the'regulaf rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases: *' Shakes, tw. i in. :c in. a in. ltim. 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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.