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nYTHE JACKSON COUNTY } PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. PIMWSIIEI) EVERY SATURDAY, the Ju<*k?* OM County lHl>li*liing W 1 Company. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. OFflCk N. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING AND BUSINESS EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. on copy W m0nth5.......... $2.00 U 3 “ 50 l”For every Club of Ten subscribers, an cx trtcopy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. OvK Dollar per square -(of ten lines or less) for the first insertion, and .'Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. ■vrAil Advertisements sent without specifica twn of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and charged iccordiMly jo** Business or Professional Cards, of six lines or less&VEN Dollars per annum; and where t.vy do at exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. v Contract Advertising. TWMovNfV.-iU be the regular rates for con tractadvertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases: ; . „. iISQUAR®. •". 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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. r ov,) a sn.v, v >. 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. NUMBER 39,