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DR. C. R. GILES
AFFF.IIS his professional services to the citizens
v/ of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
th late residence of Dr. 11. -J. Long.
Jan. 22, 1876—tf
STILL ON HAND !
N* £s• ST-AJEUlil*
BOUT and Shoe maker, at the old and well
known corner. Northwest of the Court Mouse,
under the Forest News office, is still ready to
make to order or repair Boots and Shoes of ail
sites, shapes and qualities. CUE A P FOR CASH.
January 29th. 1875.
"STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFERSON. GA .,
TAF.ALF.HS in Dry Goods and Family Groce-
L" ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 19 ly
Medical Notice.
1 |r. ,1. o. I3L VS’ having located in Jelfer-
F' son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
rtspectfullv tenders his services to the citizens of
: Jtown and county in all the different branches
°j the profession. After a flattering experience
nineteen years, he feels justified in saying that
is prepared to successfully treat any r curable
disease incident to our climate. lie is, for the
present, boarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
* i move his family here soon.
with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
S®“Referencc can be seen in the office of T. H.
‘"BUCK, Esq., O. S. C. octl
MRS. T. A. ADAMS,
Rroad Street . one door above National Bank,
K , 55 constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
®®pnsing, in part, the latest styles and fashions
■ ilals Bonnets, ICibbonw,
Flowers Gloves, Ac., which will be
'at reasonable prices. Orders from the coun
• P roi nptly tilled. Give her a call. dlß3m
" L B- mahaffey. w. s. m’cakty.
\UHAFFEY & McCARTY,
A T T 0 R NEYS AT LAW,
y. ~ Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
‘•(practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
„ ' on J ? lven to all business entrusted to their
solicited. Oct3o ly
1 ‘" Kv c * HOWARD. ROB'T S. HOWARD.
|| °W AR|> Sc '?mVAKS>,
attorneys at la ay,
*; . Jefferson. Ga.
s, a “ Practice together in all the Courts of Jaek
ftyj! n “ adjacent counties, except the Court of—
ary of Jackson county. Sept Ist '75
Atn'\r TC l I . MAKER - VN[) jeweler,
At!i,. n m - King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
J nd w '' 1 ,a - All work done in a superior manner,
Ranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi-
JulylO-bm.
I], "OFFOBD, Atlornej' sI Law,
w BELTON, GA.,
?iv e n _ P ract ice in all the adjoining Counties, and
hy and om J >t attention to all business entrusted to
.j Uri ; e - Collecting claims a specialty.
1875. ly
OAKKX,
-Ve!r A !, NESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
*n I^-, an jS°°d buggy and wagon harness always
doife same, bridles, saddles, Ac.,
notice, and cheap for cash.
I J. B. SILMAN,
Jefferson, Ga.
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Win ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
the conr.r actlce to e et her in the Superior Courts of
junei >^ S y and Walton.
\\ , h F*IKkT Attorney at Law,
~PromDf Ula | fhe Courts, State and Federal.
e 2 a l business in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875
THE FOREST NEWS
1 lie People tlieir own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
A STIRRING ADDRESS.
Call for a National Democratic Convention.
CO-OPERATION INVITED IN THE EFFORT TO
SECURE TIIE BLESSINGS OF GOOD
GOVERNMENT.
Washington, February 23, —The National
Democratic Committee, to whom is delegated
the power of fixing the time and place of
holding the National Democratic Convention
of 1876, have appointed Tuesday, the 27th
day of June next, noon, as the time, and se
lected St. Louis as the place of holding such
Convention. Each State will be entitled to
a representation equal to double the number
of its Senators and Representatives in the
Congress of the United States, and the terri
tory of Colorado, whose admission in July as
a State, will give it a vote in the next elee
torial college, is also invited to send dele
gates to the Convention. The Democratic,
Conservative, and other citizens of the Uni
ted States, irrespective of past political asso
ciations, desiring to co-operate with the Dem
ocratic party in its present efforts and objects,
arc cordially invited to join in sending dele
gates to the National Convention. Co-ope
ration is desired from all persons who would
change an administration that has suffered
the public credit to become and remain infe
rior to other and less favored nations, has
permitted commerce to he taken away by
foreign powers, has stifled trade by unjust,
unequal, and pernicious legislation, has im
posed unusual taxation and rendered it most
burthensome, has changed growing prosper
ity to wide-spread suffering and want, lias
squandered the public monies recklessly,
and defiantly and shamelessly used the power
that should have been swift to punish crime
to protect it. For these and other reasons
the National Democratic party deem the pub
lic danger imminent, and, earnestly desirous
of securing to our country the blessing of an
economical, pure and free government, cor
dially invite the co-operation of their fellow
citizens in the effort to attain this object.
Thomas A. Walker, 8. R. Cockrill, Frank M.
MeCoppin, William 11. Barnum, Charles
Beasten, Charles F. Dyke, A. R. Lawton,
Cyrus 11. McCormick, Thomas Dowling, M.
M. Ilam. Isaac F. Eaton. Henry D. McHenry,
Ilenrv Ogden, L. D. M. Sweat, W. Leo Knott,
Win. A. Moore, Win. Lockren, J. 11. Sharp,
Jno. CL. Driest, Geo. L. Miller, Thomas H.
Williams, M. Y. B. Fdgerly, Theo. F. Ran
dolph, M. W. R ansoms, John G. Thompson,
James K. Kelly, Janies D. Barr. Nicholas,
Van Slvck, Thomas Y. Simons. William B.
Bate, F. S. Stookdale, B. B. Smalley, John
Goode, Jr., John Blair Iloge. Geo. 11. Paul,
Thomas AT. Patterson. Augustus Schell.
Chairman ; Frederick O. Prince, Secret an*
National Democratic Conimitte.
WHERE TIIE LATCH-STRING HANGS.
'Washington, February 23. —The national
democratic committee lias resolved to con
tinue its headquarters at Washington, and
take such steps as may be necessary to se
cure the organization of the several states,
and chairmen of committees in their respec
tive states are requested to co-operate.
a safe hill.
Washington, February 23.—1 t was said
by some of the western members of the na
tional democratic committee yesterday that
the financial platform which will be prepared
by the house caucus committee based on
Representative Payne’s bill, will be such
that the democracy can safely present it to
the voters of the west.
Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar.
This famous legend is still found among
the Egyptians of to-dav, but in a somewhat)
different form from that of the Biblical narra
tive. M. De Lesseps, the distinguished en
gineer and savant, who has resided much in
the East, gives this as to the Egyptian tradi
tion. Potiphar was not a very tender heart
ed man. lie imprisoned his wife, as also
Joseph, although the lady and Joseph assert
ed their innocence. The judge ordered an
inquiry ; and the wife of Potiphar, in her de
fence, urged that her passion for Joseph had
been awakened by his personal beauty, which
she declared no woman possibly could resist.
Others, she said, would have done as she had,
an assertion, she was invited to prove. On
being set at liberty she invited a number of
her female friends to meet her at her house,
without informing them of the purpose for
which they were assembled. To each guest
an orange and a golden knife were given, and
they were requested not to cut the oranges
until the lady of the house had given them
the signal so to do by pronouncing the word
“Now.” The ladies, with their orange in one
hand and their knife in the other, were gaz
ing with surprise at their hostess, when sud
denly the door opened and Joseph made his
appearance, standingon the threshold. “Now,”
cried the wife of Potiphar, but her guests,
captivated by the beauty of the Hebrew, paid
no attention to what they were doing, and
consequently cut their fingers. The party
were called before the judge on the following
morning; everyone of the ladies, save one,
hid her wounded hand in the folds of her gar
ment. while the one whose hand was unhurt
declared that she had escaped the common
fate by throwing her knife away the moment
she saw Joseph ; and on being further press
ed with questions declared that, had she not
thrown her knife away, she should have stab
bed herself to the heart, because she could
not bear to look upon the Hebrew and know
that she could never possess him as a hus
band.
PF’Twclve years ago, upon the floor of the
House, Conkling received an unmerciful par
liamentary punishment at the hands ofßlaine.
From that moment to this they have never
spoken, and now since both of them are loom
ing up as Presidential candidates mutual
friends are anxious for a reconciliation, but
all efforts thus far in that direction have been
futile, and though frequently in company
these two Republicans Titans coolly ignore
each others existence, and never exchange
courtesies.
A Sacramento beet-sugar factory turned
out 3,000,000 pounds of white sugar in 1875.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. MARCH 4, 1876.
Clay and Bowie.
Henry Claj- used to tell a story of his own
experience, which was repeated to me years
ago by Ansen B. Burlingame. If ever it has
been in print, it will hear printing again.
Upon a certain occasion, in his earlv man
hood, Mr. Clay was traveling in a public
stage-coach in Tennessee. His fellow pas
sengers were a young lady and her husband
—the latter evidently an invalid—and a man
in the front corner so muffled up in a fur-lined
cloak that his features were concealed. He
appeared to be rather under than over the
medium size, and was evidently enjoying a
refreshing slumber. By and by a big, brown
faced, brawny Kentuckian got into the coach,
smoking a rank, coarse-grained cigar. He
gazed around fiercely, as though he would
impress upon the minds of his new compan
ions that he would chew up and swallow any
one who dared to interfere with him. In short,
lie was “half horse and half alligator, with a
goodly sprinkling of panther and grizzly bear
thrown in.” He puffed forth huge volumes
of smoke without the least concern for the
comforts of his companions.
Presently the lady, who seemed to be grow
ing sick, whispered to her husband, and the
husband, in the politest manner possible,
asked the stranger if he would not throw
away his cigar, as the smoke greatly discom
moded his wife. With an impudent, swag
gering stare the fellow replied, interlarding
his speech with several oaths :
“ , 1 reckon I've paid for my place.
I’ll smoke as much as I please.
I’d like to see anybody stop me 1”
He looked dangerous as he glared around,
and it was very evident that he was used to
quarrel and strife, and furthermore, a struggle
with him might have been a deadly one. The
young man who had spoken to him shrank
back, and was silent. The lady lowered the
sash by her side for a breath of fresh air.
Mr. Clay felt every gallant instinct of his
soul aroused, lie considered for a moment
whether he should interfere, and found him
self reluctant to draw upon his own head the
brutal violence of the gigantic ruffian. In
that then lawless country he knew that his
life might be sacrificed unavenged. He knew
himself to be physically unequal to the con
test, and he thought, after all, it was not his
business to risk his life in so Quixotic a man
ner.
Clay was settling back, with pity for the
insulted, and disgust for the insulter, when
suddenly, but very quietly, the cloaked fig
ure in the corner assumed an upright position,
suffering the furred mantle to fall back with
out a particle of excitement, thereby reveal
ing the small, but well-knit, nmscu’ar frame
of a man plainly dressed in a closely button
ed frock coat, with a face rather pale, and a
pair of bright gray eyes that gleamed like
polished steel —and those strange eyes quick
ly attracted the attention of the ferocious
Kent uckian.
W i t!i a terriblocalm ncss this a uiet man pass
ed his hand under his collar at the back of
his neck, and deliberately drew forth a long,
glittering and ugly-looking knife from its
sheath in that singular place.
“ Stranger,” he said, “my name is Col.
James Bowie, well known in Texas and Ar
kansas. If you do not put that cigar out of
the window in less than fifteen seconds, I'll
put this knife through your heart as sure as
death !”
Clay said he never could forget the expres
sion of the Colonel’s eyes at that moment.
They told as unmistakably as signs can tell
that the threat would certainly be fulfilled :
and this conviction evidently impressed itself
upon the mind of the offender. During a
very few seconds his eyes met those of Bowie.
With all his brute strength, he was the weak
er man. and he quailed. With a muttered
curse, he threw his cigar away, upon which
Col. Bowie coolly returned his knife to its
sheath, and without another look or word re
folded his cloak about him and lay back as
before. At the next stopping-place the Ken
tuckian got out and took a seat with the dri
ver.—S. C., Jr.
A Great German Battle.
The other day a simple-minded German
called on a grocer to pay a bill, giving him a
$lO nfrt'e 1 . The grorcr examined it and said :
“Hullo, where did you, get this note?’ 5 “Vot
is der Tsafcfm mit ikies,-noff)?” replied the
honest Teuton *donVshe vas good, hoin?”
“Good!” answered the grocer; “why, you're
a lucky man---that note is worth $10.50.” Ish
dat so? Why for?” “You see that signa
ture over here, don’t you?” “Dose things
like a corkscrew mit de worms? Yah.”
“Well, thafS Mr. Spinner’s signature.”
“Veil.” “Well, Mr. New is now Treasurer
of the United States:’ “You don't tele me
so! Yell?” “Well, and notes signed by Mr.
Spinner are getting scarce, and people pay
five per cent, more for them than the new
issue.” “By shiminy, is dot so?” “Yes.
Lemnie see your bills. Why, every one of
them is a Spinner. Man alive, your fortune
is made.” I,u pursuance of the grocer's
advice. Mr. Schneider called at thy Sub-
Treasury, Saturday afternoon, to get the
premium on bis bills. What success he had
it is impossible to state, but he was seen
later in the evening lurking around the street
by which the. grocer must go home, and
being accosted Dy an accpiaintaryce, the fol
lowing conversation took place: 4 Der peoples
von Sharmany fights well, hein?” “Oh, yes !
the Germans are unquestionably a military
nation of Hie first cTass.” “Some big fights,
hein? Leipsic?” “Yes.” “Und Sadowa?”
“Yes.” “Und Koeniggratz!” “Certainly.”
“Und Worth, und Mars-la-Tour, und Grave
lotte, und Sedan?” “Of course, of course !”
“Dose was all big battles, und der Deutsch
licked?” “Yes.” “Veil, you shust vait till
dat grocery store shuts himself and you saw
a Deut3ch victory vot makes you forgot all
dose littles ones.” —Chicago Tribune.
The other day, when a couple were holding
an angry argument, the husband raised his
hands and exclaimed, “O, consistency, thou
art a jewel!” The wife at once broke down,
and as she sobbed, she gasped out: “ Yon
saw her at the opera, I suppose, but if she
had to split wood, wash dishes, and take care
of six children, she wouldn’t look any better
than I do—boo !”
The Appeal.
I come to Thee to-night
In my lone closet, where no eye can sec.
And dare to crave an interview with Thee !
Father of love and light!
If T this day have striven.
M ith thy blest spirit, or have bowed the knee
To aught of earth in weak idolatry,
I pray to he forgiven.
Tf in my heart has been
An unforgiving thought, or word, or look,
1 hough deep the malice which I scarce could brook,
M ash me from this dark sin.
If I have turned away
1 rom grief or suffering which 1 might relieve,
Careless the “cup of water” e’en to give,
Forgive me, Lord, I pray.
And teach me how to feel
My sinful wanderings with a deeper smart,
And more of' mercy and of grace impart,
My sinfulness to heal.
And now, 0 Father ! take
The heart I cast with humble faith on Thee,
And cleanse its depths from each impurity
For my Redeemer’s sake.
Poor Land.
It is never profitable to cultivate poor land,
and especially is it not profitable to cultivate
it with hired labor. Let the owner of poor
land, says the old Georgia Plantation, pay
good wages to laborers working by the month
or year, and it will often happen that the en
tire crops raised will not sell for enough to
pay their wages. Results like this drive the
owners of such unproductive soils to sell for
what they can get, and remove to anew coun
try, where fresh land may be bad at a low
price. But is there no way in which old
fields, and naturally thin soils, may be greatly
improved, and, at the same time, pay good
wages for labor ?
It is precisely at this point that science
comes in to assist the farmer where he most
needs assistance to keep him, his wife and
children, out of tlieir far-off wilderness.—
Science tells him that all agricultural plants
are formed of air and pure water, to a large
extent; and that common air and water are
as useful for making crops on and over poor
land, as on and over ricli land. If every
owner of a poor farm understood these two
important facts, the information would help
him wonderfully to supply the few lacking
substances to make good crops, and an inde
pendent living on the old homestead.
An acre of earth, such as is cultivated with
the plough, weighs a thousand tons, if taken
up to the depth of ten inches. It often hap
pens that from three hundred to six hundred
pounds of agricultural salts applied to an
acre of poor land, add four-fold to the harvest.
The salts contain no vegetable mold, and
nothing to make it; and the solid matter
which they add to earth in which corn, cotton
or wheat grow, is only one part to seven or
eight thousand. The spring and summer heat
and sunshine, the rain and dew, and the at
mospheric gases, over and in poor soils, are
substantially the name that, they, the ocean of
gases and vapors, in which all agricultural
plants grow, in forming said plants, will be
carefully studied, and universally known.—
In manuring the ground at, the bottom of this
vast ocean of air, in an unscientific manner,
farmers throw away millions of dollars in
labor misapplied, and impoverish a great,
deal of land to their injury, and the public
loss. Sound agricultural education will, one
day, put, an end to this error in farming.—
Prof. J. P. Stelee, in Mobile Register.
Iced Juleps.
Perley, of the Boston Journal, tells the fol
lowing story of an incident which occurred
while the corpse of a distinguished citizen of
the old Bay State was on its last journey
homeward, quite a number of years ago :
“There was an unusually large delegation
of Congressmen as an escort, together with
the usual staff of officers and correspondents.
It was a warm, early spring day, and when
the train stopped for a few moments at Mag
nolia Station, just beyond Baltimore, one of
the House clerks, noted for his bibulous pro
pensities. was delighted at finding a negro
boy on the platform, with a bundle of fresh
mint, which was immediately purchased.
When the train started, the owner of the fra
grant flavoring herb at once began to concoct
whiskey juleps ; but, although there was no
lack of Old Rye, there was no ice—that lux
ury not having been introduced into the wa
ter-tanks of cars. All at once M exclaim
ed, ‘I can get some ice in the baggage car.’
and went forward, to return soon with some
large lumps of the cooling material. He was
greeted with a welcoming shout, and soon the
ice was being rattled in glasses from which
the juleps were approvingly drained, until a
South Carolina Representative, as if sudden
ly struck between the eyes, exclaimed, ‘I be
lieve you took this ice from the box under
the coffin.’ There was a dead silence; no
more juleps were drank: and at Havre-de-
Grace, M quietly left the car. Had a
pledge never to drink any more whiskey ju
leps been then and there presented, it would
have received numerous signatures.”
Franklin Steam Printing house, Atlanta,
Georgia.
In the language of a coteraporary, 44 The
Franklin very, rightly claims to be the largest
and best appointed publishing house in the
state. We have recently had occasion to ex
amine specimens of its work, such as hotel
registers, blank books, ruling, etc. An impe
rial blank, with intricate ruling, the most
complicated we have ever seen, was executed
for the Green-Line, in all its parts, by The
Franklin, and beautifully done. The state
work, which has been done at The Franklin,
is equal to the best ever given to the state,
and has been highly complimented by the
state officials.”
“With its present facilities, The Franklin
can accommodate the public with first class
work at the most reasonable prices. All who
call are cordially received. We heartily en
dorse this magnificent printing house and
bespeak for it a constantly increasing share
of public patronage.”
FACTS AND FANCIES.
When the spider left the ftl'k, did he walk
or take a fly ?
Why is a man eating soup with a fork like
another kissing his sweetheart ? Because it
takes so long to get enough of it.
Gail Hamilton advises girls to pick out
husbands as a shrewd boy chooses his apples.
She tells them to take to good-looking, plump,
lively fellows, or none.
It doesn't follow because the knees of a
man’s black cassimere trousers are shiny,
therefore he is devout. The same might be
caused by frequent friction against the legs
of a billiard table.
“Have you any nice fresh fanner’s eggs??”
inquired a precise old lady at a grocery
store. “No, ma’am,” replied the practical
clerk, “but we have some very good hen’s
eggs.” She took three to try.
Some careful and deep-thinking student
has discovered that the word d-e-b-t is com
posed of the initials of "Dun everybody twice.”
('-r-e-d-i-t is formed of the initial letters of
“Call regularly every day ; I'll trust.”
A young printer having occasion the other
day to set up the well-known line : “Slave I
have set my life upon a cast!” astonished the
proof reader with the following version :
—“Slave, I have set my wife upon a cask.”
A cheering evidence that the rising youth
of our land are not being neglected by their
parents and instructors comes in the an
nouncement that the American Whip Compa
ny has just declared a dividend of ten per
cent.
A Hillsdale boy who had found a pocket
book containing eighty-five dollars, and re
turned it to it’s owner, refused a reward of
five cents for his trouble, explaining that many
a man had been ruined by suddenly becoming
rich.
A raptured writer inquires: “What is
there under heaven more humanizing—or, if
we may use the term, more angelizing—than
a fine black eye in a lovely woman ?” “Two
black eyes” is the only answer thought of at
present.
The “leap year necktie" for gentlemen is
out. We have not seen it. but suspect that
it is a young laly’s sleeve, with an arm in il,
and goes all the way around the neck. Every
enterprising young gentleman should have
one.
Willie was saying his usual prayer at his
mother s knee at bed-time, and having got as
tar as “If I should die before I wake,” hesi
tated. “W ell, what next ?” asked his mother.
“Why, mamma, I suppose the next thing
would be a funeral.”
An old farmer said to his son 4 *. “Boys,
don't you ever spekerlate, or wait for some
thin' to turn up. You might jest as well go
and sit down on a stone in the middle of a
medder with a pail twixt your legs, and wait
for a cow to back up to you to be milked.”
A riifenix deacon took his son to church,
having heard hard stories about him, but
while the deacon prayed the son persuaded
two of the young sisters to <y< riding with
him, and they went off with the old" man’s
horses, leaving him to find his way home on
foot.
A lady of Rockville, Conn., received a note
the other day, asking if a few friends could
have a surprise party at her house. She said
yes. and took up her carpet and made ample
preparations. The evening came and passed
with nbt even a caller. That’s where the
surprise came in.
“This is my last call,’'remarked a flippant
young gentleman to a young lady who was
soon to be married, on a recent occasion. “I
never call on married women or unmarried
ladies after they have reached twenty-five.”
“You do well, sir;” gravely remarked an el
der lady present.- “At that age, and after
marriage, they begin to know the value of
time, and do not like to waste it.”
In a crowded horse car,- the other evening,
a gentleman who was seated resigned his
place in favor of a pale, slender woman, who
carried a large child in her arms, and who
was being jostled this way and that with the
motion of the car. To the gentleman’s sur
prise, a burly individual took the seat before
the lady could reach it. “ I meant this lady
to have the seat'” said the gentleman angri
ly. “Yell,” replied the other, settling com
fortably back in his seat, “dot lady ish my
wife.”
Bruce and Spencer. —A Herald corres
pondent relates a little by-play of the color
ed rebellion which may be of interest down
here. After Bruce had made his speech in
the secret session, Spencer, of Alabama,
came to his seat to mollify him, and told
him that he must not let Senator Alcorn,
who was a mishief maker and disorgaizer,
persuade him and carry him away from
his true friends.
“ Stay by us ; we are your true friends,”
urged Spencer.
Bruce, who listened in some excitement,
replied :
“Governor Alcorn is a gentleman, sir. I
know him. lie is a gentleman. As for you.
Senator Spencer, you are a carpet-bagger
and a boot-lioker for Grant. Go and lick
your master's boots, but don’t call on me to
do it.”
The conversation abruptly ended at this
point.
Scriptural Quotations/ —A boy came
in to his mother the other day with two yawn
ing rents in his trowsers. His patient
mother sat down, after administering the
necessary counter-irritant, to repair the
garment, and was shocked to hear her dar
ling tell his sister that “Mother was an old
devil.” “Harrv,” she cried, “what did you
sa} T ?” “I didn't say nothing, mother,” “Yes
you did, Harry. You said that I was a
devil. What did you mean by that?”
“Well, it’so, mother ; cause my Sunday school
teacher told me that nobod}' but the devil
sowed tares.”
The Richmond Dispatch says that the work
of enlarging General Butlers “Dutch Gap
Canal” has nearly been completed, and that
hereafter there will be eighteen and twenty
one feet of water in the cut.
S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
Each red man cost's the government $2,000
a year.
They arc still eating strawberries id
Tallahassee, Fla.
Orange trees are now blooming in thd
vicinity of Snnfbrd, Fla.
The P resilient and senator Bruce don’t
miscegenate remarkably well.
A fifteen year-old girl in Cambria county
weighs 400 pounds, and is steadily adding to
her weight.
M. Dawson, a I‘resbyteriati minis
ter ot Sari Franciscb, is accused of Beecher*
ism.
The fafmers around Clear Water Ilarbof*
Ila., according to the Timas, have corn nearly
knee-high, and have planted watermelon seed.
Law is an expensive luxury in Brooklyn.
Mr. Beecher stated before the advisory counts
eil last week that the expenses of the late
trial on his side amounted to SIIB,OOO.
The trial of Lieut.-Gov. Davis, of Missis
sippi has been set for March 3. He is repre
sented before the senate, sitting as a court
of impeachment, by three Vicksburg lawyers.
In Kansas Where a year ago the people
were suffering for bread, the railroads Catlndt
furnish ears enough to transport the surplus
grain which the farmers want to sell.
An Illinois girl wrote to the School Com
missioners of Chicago that she “had bin out
of employment for a yeare, and wud teech
for $lO a month and bord round.”
The inventor of fine cut chewing tobacco
is said to have been a lady of NeW York
named Mrs. Miller, who flourished about half
a century ago.
Beecher told the Advisory Council they
were “called to a joint question, the roots of
which run back to a personal question.”
That's what's the matter'.
Rockwall county Texas, boasts a man who
rivals the man who stole a sawmill. Thd
Rockwall man stole about two hundred yards
of his neighbor's fence, and actually got away
with it.
Col. Fred sayS i “Father has hlid enough'
of the Presidency.” It’s a wise son that
knows his own father, and We mean no disre- -
sped to Fred, When we mildly suggest that
the country has had enough of his father*.
At Dayton, 0., last Friday, a beautiful Ital
ian marble monument, bearing a life-like me
dallion portrait of Hon. Clement L. Vdllan
digham, was placed over his gravejin \Voodland
Cemetery.
A Frenchman, returned home from art
American, tour says of us: “When they
build a railroad, the first thing they do is to
break ground. This is done with great cer
emony. Then they break the stockholders.
This is done without ceremony.”
A little Kentucky girl utterly refused to
weep at her mother’s funeral Unless she was
furnished with a lle'W black dress and black
veil. \\ hen the articles were furnished she
pitched in and did the best job Of crying that
was dene that day.
The interest of the entire Protestant world
has been directed toward the opening of a
Methodist church in the city of Rome, beneath
the very Walls of the Pope's magnificent pris
on (?) % the Vatican. Methodists will especi
ally rejoice to know of the completion of tbs
building and the prospective opening of art
avenue to successful evangelical effort )ii the
very centre of the Papal >See.
He was a minister from the country, tall/
self-conscious and with a tuft of pale" beard
on his chin. She. liis wife, held his arm in a
buoyant way that told of a once gleeful gift
hood. .She was glancing at a candy window,
when he said, “We must not think of worldly
affairs.” She thought of the five children at
home and sadly replied, “Dear; you nrealwayrf
right.
Whiskey production in the United Stated
for the last six months of 1875 was less by
more than 2,000,000 gallons, than during the'
corresponding six months of 1874. Thiaf
decrease is attributed to the seizure of distil
leries at the West. Consumers of fbid
popular fluid will not suffer any serious
apprehensions so long as the present stan
dard of production is maintained, which id
more than 20,000,000 gallons for the last six
months of 1875.
Mr. Snow, of Montgomery. A fa., has irt
charge a child neither of whose arms are'
composed of more* than otoe bone, the length?
of one being seven and a half, and the other
ten and a half inches, measured from the
arm pit to the tips of the fingers. The cellar
bones and shoulder blades are - al so rival form
ed and are not provided with the usual com
plement of muscles. The bone of the arm
is not joined fo £he‘ shoulder blade, as
usual, by means of a ball and socket joint,-
but very similar tcTthe elbow joint, ordina
rily.
The most pitiable spectacle* tb be seed
upon the streets of Washington City is an
old negro; Jerry Gordon, by name. who lost
both legs at the knee in the second battle of
Bull’s Run, and who has suffered fr6m a
partial deprivation of his eVe sight. He 1
deposited his fittle all in the Freediftan’s 1
Bank, trusting in the integrity of those'
“highly moral” Radical directors who man
aged the concern. They stamped him with
many thousands of his race, and while this
poor wretch hobbles about the streets selling
a few matche’s. these swindlers sweep past
in. the gaifdy equipages bought with his
money.
Singular Seals.— The State seal of
Indiana is not by any means the most
remarkable' of the devices employed for that
purpose. Georgia offers something' more’
astonishing in a picture of an absurd summer
house 1 , supported by three pillars and guard
ed by a Continental soldier with we'ak legs i
and Kentucky actually presents a figure of
Gen. Washington in the act of holding up
an intoxicated friend, in order to keep him
from falling against a book-case in the back
ground. After this, California's deVice of
Minerva sitting on a stone, White* titin ••
mon bear nibbles her left leg, seems artistic
and nice.
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