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Jan. 22, 1876—tf
STILL ON HAND!
N. B. STARK,
>‘>(>T and Shoe maker, at the old and vrell-
I) known earner. Northwest of the Court House,
rider the Foßkst News office, is still ready to
lokc to order or repair lltfots ami' Shoes of all
uei. shapes and qualities. CHEAP FOR CASH.
January 29th, 1875.
STANLEY k PINSON,
JEFFERS OX. G\l. y
T\K.AbERS in Dry (foods and Family TJroce
i' ries. New supplies cm|.Stantly received.
' heap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
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Medical Notice.
T\r. ,|. o. HIEVT having located in Jeffcr-
J son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
L'pee tfuUv' tenders his services, tot he citixeivs of
fie town and county in all the different branches
0 : ’ie profession. After a Hattering experience
!' nm * , teen years, he feels jilstmed in saying that
i* is prepaid to successfully any curable,
>ease*meidefit to our climate. He is, for the *
T 'em. boarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
* . move his family here soon.
with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
WReference can be-Secii in the office of T. 11.
•Mbuck, Esq., C. S. C. octlC
MRS. T. A. ADAMS,
H r '>ad Street , one door above National Hank,
, ATHENS,
U ' , <-i S constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE millinery goods,
in part, the latest styles .and fashions
I lints, lloiiuHs, Et
Flowers, Cm loves, .V c.. which will be
‘ l at reasonable prices'. Orders from the coun-
tilled. Give her a call. dlS3m
v l{ - MAJIAFKEY. ~ W, 8. M'CAKTY.
MAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
, y Jkffekson, J ackson Cos. Ga..
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c 10X1 given to all business entrusted to their
solicited. OctJiO ly
U.KV c. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
]]°'V%uo A IIOIVYRI),
attorneys at law,a ia. JL
i Vi] , Jkffkrson. Ga.
, r 11 practice tojether in all the Courts of Jack
i '• * i ljacent counties, except the Court of
‘•nary of .Jackson county. Sept Ist *7'>
k ''VII.UAnMIA,
t- h\- Tc, J.-MAKKR AND JEWELER,
y,' y *■ r - ”m. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
i ns ' ,,a - All work done in a superior manner.
ran ted to give satisfaction. Terms, nosi
ash. JulylO-flm.
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BELTON, GA..
j ;v !l ' in all the adjoining Counties, and
i)!s ? rnin attention to all business entrusted to
arc Collecting claims a specialty.
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x 1 MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
• n " , aa 'l rt or >d luiggy and wagon harness always
<i 0n n<l, Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c.,
j'lnep) j rt not * ce ? an d cheap for cash.
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thePf. act iee together in the Superior Courts of
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\\ PlkL Attorney t Law,
IW;, JKKFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
p ro^ es ln *W the (Courts, State and Federal.
an d thorough attention given to all
'.'1(1,1 lc ?al business in Jackson and adjoining
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COMMUNICATION.
I* or the Forest News.
FROM THE HON. J. M. POTTS.
Kditor Forest News : —lt is a well known
fact that there was a difference between Mr.
Duke and myself, which I proposed to settle
when we returned home. I proffered to meet
him, together with five or six of his friends
and the same number of mine, and talk over
our differences, he refused, and said he had
nothing to talk over, or words to that effect.
I herefore, I beg to be heard through the
columns of your valuable paper.
Mr. Duke, you said I did not represent the
views of the people on the question of Con
vention ; I say I did, and that you are the
man who misrepresented them. Let the peo
ple tell their own tale.
Ton call me the golden-tongued orator of
the mountains. You know that lam no ora
tor nor public speaker, but I make this pro
position to you : I propose to meet you be
fore any number of men, from one to the en
tire voting population of the county, and let
you and myself discuss the politics of the day
publicly before them. Now, sir, if your re
marks on that subject were intended for a
burlesque and an insult, (which I must think
they were,) then accept my proposition like
a gentleman, or back down like a dog.
You said I did not deal in facts. My mem
ory is greatly at fault if I have ever falsified
my word, or failed to compl}* with any con
tract made between myself and any individ
ual that ever lived on this earth. If you can
not say as much for yourself, then be careful
in the future as to whose character you at
tack, for our characters are kept by others,
and not by ourselves alone.
You said the people would hold me respon
sible for what I said about your absence.—
Well, I think they consider me a responsible
man.
You gave me a question to answer when
we got home, it is this : Why did I not make
my speecli on the Convention question ? I
answer I was on the floor a number of times,
but there being so many desiring to speak on
this question, that I was not recognized by
the Speaker ; the previous question was call
ed and sustained, which deprived me and
many others the privilege of being heard. I
had my speech published : the Speaker said
to me next morning: “Potts, you would be
heard on the Convention.” 1 said, “ Yes ; and
that I would have been heard had it cost me
fifty dollars.” Now, does this satisfy your
mind ?
I am not surprised at your ignorance on
the subject, for you were not there, and the
truth of the matter is, you suffered yourself,
to some extent, to be hissed on to me by oth
er men who differed with me, but did not have
the moral courage to attack me themselves,
on that question. What caused the excite
ment-in the Legislature and among the peo
ple of Jackson? It was this: The giant
Representative from this county—the notori
ous trickster and wire-worker—the gentleman
who had his bills written by a law}’er before
lie left home, and expected to rush them
through while myself and the people were
napping—therefore, the first time his county
was called, he introduced a pocket-full of
bills, and while they were being read, he look
ed as though he thought he was THE man ;
but when his bills came round to the proper
place to be tested, the giant stumbled over a
little fellow and his bills were scattered to
the four winds. Ido not pretend to say that
they did not pass ; they passed. Yes, they
passed ; but I’m thankful to sav that they
passed out of existence for the present.
Mr. Duke got sick, he said. I knew he was
sick; yes, I did know it; he was heart-sick,
and has not got over it yet. That’s what’s
the matter.
Mr. Duke, I am informed that you circu.
lated a report that I tried to pass a law to
prevent hunting on other peoples’ lands. That
is not true ; I only desired to have the law to
apply to Jackson county which prevented
hunting and fishing on enclosed lands with
out leave, but you opposed it. You know
that is the law now. only we have to adver
tise before we can prevent it, while if the law
had passed it could have been prevented with
out advertising.
A report has been circulated that I desired
to change the Constitution so as to seriously
affect the condition of the freed man, which is
a wilful and malicious lie. I can’t say that
you circulated the report, but the proof is
very strong that your right hand man did
circulate it.
I have been advised by 7 some of ray friends
to watch for fear of a private injury. I do
not fear that Mr. Duke will do me a private
injury, but some of his friends I do fear be
hind my back, but not before iny 7 face.
Respectfully submitted to the people of
Jackson county. J. M. Potts.
LSP Here is an item of “society' gossip”
from the Indianapolis Sentinel: “The way
some of the Grangers waltzed their gayly
dressed girls up to the bar of the Occidental
Hotel last night, and threw ale into them,
would have astonished a camp-meeting and
made a lemonade stand at a circus sick.”
He lay in his little bed in northern Indiana,
lie read his little novel. He smoked his lit
j tic pipe. There was little left of him.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 18,1876.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
TO-DAY.
BY JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY.
Only from day to day
The life of a wise man runs ;
TV' hat matters if seasons far away
Have gloom or have double suns?
To climb the unreal path,
We lose the roadway here,
We swim the rivers of wrath,
And tunnel the hills of fear.
Our feet on the torrent’s brink,
Our eyes on the cloud afar,
We fear the things we think.
Instead of the things that are.
Like a ride our work should rise,
Each latfer wave the best;
To-morrow forever flies.
To-day is the special test.
Like a sawyer’s work is life ;
The present makes the Haw,
And the only field for strife
Is the inch before the saw.
A Good Story.
From Ohio comes a capital temperance
story. Judge Quay, the temperance lecturer,
in one of his efforts there, got off the follow
ing :
“ All of those who in youth acquire a habit
of drinking whiskey, at forty years will be
total abstainers or drunkards. No one can
use whiskey for years in moderation. If there
is a person in the audience before me whose
experience disputes this, let him make it
known. I will account fbr it, or acknowledge
that I am mistaken.”
A tall, large man arose, and folding his
arms in a dignified manner across his breast,
said:
“ I offer myself as one whose own experi
ence contradicts your statement.”
“ Are you a moderate drinker ?” asked the
Judge.
“ I am.”
“ How long have you drunk in modera
tion ?”
“ Forty years.”
“ And you were never intoxicated ?”
“ Never.”
“Well,” remarked the Judge, scanning his
subject close from head to foot, “ yours is a
singular case, yet I think it is easily account
ed for. lam reminded by it of a little story.
A negro man, with a loaf of bread and a flask
of whiskey, sat down to dine by the bank of
a clear stream. In breaking the bread, some
of the crumbs dropped into the water. These
were eagerly seized and eaten by the fish.—
That circumstance suggested to the darky the
idea of dipping the bread in the whiskey and
feeding it to them. He tried it; it worked
well. Some of the fish ate it, became drunk,
and floated helpless on the water. By this
stroke of strategy lie caught a great number.
But in the stream was a large fish very un
like the rest. He partook freely of the bread
and whiskey, but with no perceptible effect;
lie was shy of every effort of the darky to
take it.
“He resolved to have it at all hazzards
that he might learn its name and nature. He
procured a net, and after much effort caught
it, carried it to a negro neighbor, and asked
his opinion of the matter. The other survey 7 -
ed the wonder for a moment, then said:
‘ Sambo, I understand dis case. Dat fish is
a mullet-head ; it han’t got any brains.’
“ In other words,” added the Judge, “ alco
hol affects only the brain, and of course those
having none may drink without injury !”
The storm of laughter that followed drove
the moderate drinker suddenly 7 from the
house.
Thinking of Marriage.
When a young girl reaches the age of fif
teen or sixteen years, she begins to think of
the mysterious subject of matrimony, a state,
the delights of which her youthful imagina
tion shadows forth in the most captivating
forms. It is made the topic of light and in
cidental discourse among her companions,
and it is brought upon the tapis. When she
grows a little older she ceases to smatter
about matrimony, and thinks more intently
on the all important subject. It engrosses
her thoughts by day and her dreams by night,
and she pictures to herself the felicity of be
ing wedded to the youth for whom she cherish
es a secret but consuming flame. She sur
veys herself in the mirror, and as it generally
tells a “flattering tale,” she turns from it with
a pleasing conviction that her beauty will
enable her to conquer the heart of the most
obdurate, and that whosoever else may die in
a state of “ single blessedness,” she is des
tined to become, ere many years roll by 7 , a
happy bride. From the age of eighteen to
twenty is “the very witching time of female
life.” During that period the female heart is
more susceptible to the soft and tender influ
ences of love than at any other ; and we ap
peal to our fair readers to sav whether, if in
clination was alone consulted in the business,
more marriages would not take place during
that ticklish season than in any by which it
is preceded or followed. It is the grand
climacteric of love, and she who passes it
without entering into a state of matrimony
may chance to pass several years of her life
ere she is caught in the meshes of Hymen.
The truth is, that the majority 7 of women be
gin to be more thoughtful when they have
turned the age of twenty. The giddiness of
the girl gives way 7 to the sobriety' of the wo
man. Frivolity is succeeded by 7 reflection,
and reason reigns where passion previously
held undisputed sway. The cares and anxie
ties of life press themselves more, probably 7 .
They tend to weaken the effect of the san
guine anticipation of unmingled felicity in
the marriage state which the miud had form
ed in its youthful day dreams.
The Amador (Cal.) Ledger relates how
John Travis, an Austrian, having accumu
lated $1,300, started for his old home, tying
his gold around his body. At Hamburg, a
plank, laid for the passengers to go ashore,
broke ; Travis was immersed, and felt
that his gold was dragging him down. He
loosened and dropped it, and was rescued,
but the lost treasure was not recovered. He
had enough left to take him home and back
to California; so back he went to become
once more a miner at Amador.
Success consecrates the foulest crimes.
A Terrible Night in the Snow.
On Saturday of last week Thomas F. Wat
son, a young man of twenty-three years, who
had been in this valley on a visit, attempted
to return to his home in Round Valley, about
six miles north of this place. A lad named
Minor TV all ace, some fourteen years of age,
a nephew of J. P. Wallace, of Round Valley,
having been here several months at school,
and wishing to see his uncle and family, with
whom he had lived for years, concluded to go
with W atson, and the twain started on snow
shoes. They ascended the mountain north
of town without especial difficulty, but after
turning the summit one of Watson's snow
shoes got away from him, which left him no
other alternative but to wade in four or five
feet ot snow. This he did a distance down
the hill, until the boy lost one of his shoes,
when Watson took the remaining two shoes
and attempted to carry the boy, which he did
for a few steps only, when he found it impos
sible to proceed in that manner. Night was
now coming on, and Watson being consider
ably exhausted, appeared to give up, and
although they were but little more than a
mile from Wallace’s place, the hoy could not
induce him to make another effort to go there.
Sinking down in the snow he commenced to
beat himself, deplore his situation and im
plore the boy to lie clown by him that they
might die together. The bov. refusing to lie
down, told him that he would go to Wallace’s
and procure assistance. He accordingly
started off for that purpose, but after proceed
ing a short distance with much difficulty he
found a place where the uplifting of the roots
of a tree had formed a shed, under which
there was little or no snow. He then con
cluded to try to get Watson in there before
leaving him. He accordingly returned to his
companion, tramping down the snow to ena
ble him the better to get through ; but he
could not induce him to move, and after an
unsuccessful attempt to drag him, he watched
with him until he died, and day breaking he
started for home. About 9 o'clock Sunday
morning he had succeeded in reaching the
fence near the house, when he halloed and
Wallace came to his assistance. His hands
and feet were found to lie frozen, but Dr.
Snow, who was called to attend him, informs
us that lie will not lose any of his limbs.—
Lassen (Cal.) Advocate.
Curiosities of Vision.
Appleton's Journal contains the following
statement: *
“We presume that most of our readers
have a general notion of the structure and
working of the human eye. They know that
the little sphere, of an inch or so in diameter,
which forms the eyeball, is a camera, essen
tially like the one used by the photographer
to throw the image of external objects upon
the surface prepared to receive it and placed
within the apparatus. The mere forming of
the picture inside the eye is not, however,
seeing, The picture might as well be any
where else, if there were not some means of
making the mind aware of its existence. The
optic nerve answers this purpose—a branch
of the brain which enters the eve through a
small hole in the rear, and spreads out in
delicate net-work over the surface whereupon
the picture is formed. The impression made
by the rays of light upon this net-work of
nerves is telegraphed to the mind, which then
sees the object, rather, from seeing its image
in the eye, comes to recognize the existence
of the object itself outside the eye.
“ If the optic nerve should be severed, the
picture in the eye might be as perfect as be
fore. but we would nevertheless be blind to
it. If any portion of the net-work of nerves
just mentioned should be paralyzed, we would
cease to see part of the picture formed on the
portion of the eye's inner surface. If the
entire image of some small objects should
fall on the insensible spot, we could no more
see it, even though looking straight at it,
than if we had no eyes, or kept them shut.
It is a curious fact that there is such a “blind
spot” in every human eye ; and, what is more
curious, it is found to be just where the optic
nerve enters the eye—the very place which
we might suppose would have the keenest
sight of all.”
Case of Fillial Devotion.
Much of the current gossip of the day about
town turns upon executions, hanging bees
and hemp matinees. Apropos of this subject.
Judge Borden tells a story, which he vouches
for as true, and which will bear repeating.—
A few years since the Judge was presiding
over the trial of a man charged with commit
ting murder by the use of poison. The trial
took place at a small town not far from Fort
NVayne. The jury had been out some time,
and as the evidence was very conclusive
against the defendant, the general impression
was that the jury would find him guilty and
affix the death penalty. While the twelve
good and lawful men were yet deliberating
upon the verdict, a lad, about fifteen years of
age, called upon Judge Borden at his hotel,
when the following conversation ensued :
“You are Judge Borden, aren’t you ?”
“ Yes. my son*; what do you want ?”
“Well, rrty name is ; I am a son of
the man who is beiflg tried for murder.”
“Aha, and what can I do for you ?”
“ Won’t you have control of my father’s
body after he is hung f”
“ Well, ray son, why do j*ou think your
father is going to be hung ?”
“ Because every one says he ought to be.”
“ Do j’ou think he ought to?”
“ No, sir, I don’t. But if he is, and I guess
he will be. I want yon to give me the body.”
“Well,” said the Judge, touched with this
apparent instance of filial devotion. “ what
will you do with the body if yon get it ?”
“ Why, sir, two doctors in this town are go
ing to give me S4O for it.”
The Judge wilted, and the lad retired sat
isfied that he had gained his point.— Fort
Wayne Sentinel.
When a young lady stretches out a pretty
little hand and asks you to undo her glove
for her. isn’t she exercising an undo influence
on your feelings ?
A young man at Nashville killed himself
because he could not get another man’s wife.
It is terrible to love somebody and see her
washing windows for another man.
A Common Mistake.
Here is *, picture which some husbands
could study with probable advantage. We
find it in Life at Home, by Dr. Aikman :
Many a man seems to regard these house
hold duties of the wife as not to be compared
for a moment with those which engross his
attention. He expects, if business has per
plexed or made him anxious, to have his
wife’s sympathy when he comes home at
night, but never imagines that during the
day anything could have occurred to trouble
that wife. He returns from his workshop or
counting-room soured, perhaps, by some bad
bargain, annoyed by a stupid workman or
unreasonable employer, morose from some
ill-spoken word, and expects to be received
with smiles; it matters not how surly may
he his looks, his wife must be, in dress, in
countenance, in word, all sweetness and
amiability. He may have no pleasant word,
my take his place moodily at his table, but
his wife’s words must be affectionate, and his
wife’s looks full only of gladness. What,
he thinks, has she to trouble her? And this
when the poor wife has, through a long
and weary day, been toiling with family
work and vexatious care till her head is
aching, and foot and hand and heart are sore
with the worry. The tea is dispatched
silently, very likely with somber complaints
over the trials he had during the day. or the
badness of the times ; and then the evening
paper is taken in hand and pored over until
the very advertisements are devoured, or the
reader’s face is bowed upon the crumpled
page in sleep.
Or, if he be not weary enough for that, he
seizes his hat. and rushes for the reading
room, or more probably for the lounging
place where such as he do congregate ; there,
with a fragment of cigar in his hand and
desultory talk from his lips, he lingers till
the noise of the closing shutters warns him
to leave. He goes at last home again,
because lie can go nowhere else. Meanwhile
the wife has, with a heavy heart and tired
step, got the little ones into bed, and, as
best she Could, has worn away the long
hours of the evening in silence and loneli
ness.
Should a thought of his selfishness or injus
tice cross the mind of the husband, he
responds, with readj r self-complacency, “I
require relaxation, and mii9t see mv friends.”
The night is witness of the same or greater
lack of sympathy. Perhaps the babe is not
well, and is restless. But that is not his
business. It matters not that the poor pale
wife has had the child in her arms through
the long day—a day’s work with a sick babe,
one of the weariest of mortal toils—he must
not be disturbed. I have known such a
husband provide a distant sleeping apart
ment that he might not be disturbed, and lie
snoring in leaden unconsciousness while a
frail wife, with swollen eyes, and limbs that
almost refused to obey an iron will, was
walking to and fro with his child.
“Charge It.”
A simple little sentence is this, to be sure,
and yet it may be considered one of the most
insiduous enemies with which people have to
deal. It is very pleasant to have all the lit-
tle commodities offered for sale in the mar
ket, and it is something hard to deny one's
self of the same when they can be obtained
by saying “charge it.” But this habit of get
ting articles, however small the charge may
be, without paying for them, keeps one’s
funds in a low state most of the time.
“ I have no money to day. bnt should like
the article much,” says a young man who
happens to go into a store, and sees some
thing which strikes his fancy.
“Never mind,” says the clerk, “you are
goo 1 for it.”
“ Well, I will take it and you ma}* charge
it.”
And so it is that little accounts are open
ed at one place and another till the j*onng
man is surprised at his liabilities; which,
though small in detail, a*e sufficiently large
in the aggregate to reduce his cash materially
when settling day comes.
In many instances, if the cash were re
quired, the purchase would not be made even
had the person the money by him ; but to
some, getting an article charged does not
seem like parting with an equivalent.
Still, when pay day comes, as always it
does, this illusion vanishes, and a feeling is
experienced of parting with money and re
ceiving nothing in return.
If there is an actual necessity of making
a purchase, and the means are not at hand,
there is a reasonable excuse for obtaining the
same on credit; but when the article can be
dispensed with until payment can be made,
it is much to the advantage of the purchaser
to do so.”
“ We must have a nice set of furniture,”
says the yonng couple about to be united in
marriage, “but we have not the means, how
ever we will get it and have it charged.” And
so they start life with a debt hanging over
them for which there is no occasion.
Were there any certainty of health and a
supply of labor, it would place rather a differ
ent construction upon the matter. But con
sidering the fluctuations of business and the
uncertainties of life, “Charge it.” is a very
mischievous phrase.
his recent speech at Atlanta, Senator
Gordon defined his financial position as fol
lows : “I am charged with being an infla
tionist. lam not. lam charged with being
an anti-resumptionist. lam not. I am an
anti-contractionist, and in all that I have said
and written, I have maintained, and I main
tain to-da3’. that when resumption is reached
it must be on some line of common sense
and not by a course which insures universal
wreck and ruin. I have analyzed, criticised,
and denounced the absurd law passed by the
last Congress and called a resumption law.
and I denounce it now—as a fraud, a sham,
a falsehood, promising resumption when it
means nothing but contraction of one paper
currency directly and the other indirectly.”
A young man much enamored of a witty
young lady attempted to put his arm about
her waist, when she remarked, quickly:
‘‘Don’t you do it, there’s a pin-back there.”
Of course there was.
S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
To-Morrow. r • ,
1 sit and muse beside the faded coals,
AN bile nijrbt and silence hold their mvstieKWsv,
.\nd wh.le the world, with all its freight of soufs,
heels on through darkness to another day !
Across my spirrt ghostly fancies creep;
'' ho shall dare prophesy to-morrow’s light !
’’ hat lf unaccounted thousands, while they sleep
Are trembling on eternity to-night ? '
And still they haunt my heart, these dreams for
lorn,
N ague bats of fear that sunshine would dismay ;
* '\ ( ' u g h myriads of to-morrows have been born*
\ hat if the last had perished with to-day ? *
But no f the ancient ordinance vet reigns.
Hours afterward, while seated here,
1 dimly see, along my casement panes,
the first pale dubious glimmerings appear.
Once more the old fated ways of earth begin :
Some glad girl somewhere will soon awake and
sav.
While blushing from chaste forehead to sweet chin.
One lovely rose, ** It is my wedding day !”
And in some prison cell, perchance even now.
Some haggard captive Irom his sleep is drawn
lo hear them, while cold sweat-drops bead his
brow.
Nailing a scaffold in the ghastly dawn !
GLEANINGS
At 1 dint Reyes, Cal., there is a dairy farm
of 45,000 acres, on which there are 3,000
COWS. ■ m N.
. negro woman in Opelika, Ala., has given
birth to triplets, two of whom are black and
one white.
The Good Templars have 40,000 members,
and a further gain was shown at the meeting
of the Executive Committee in Atlanta.
Quitman, Ga., has at least two hundred ba
bies under two years of age. Two gals and
one boy are about the way they run.
A raid on a low gambling den in Washing
ton the other night surprised nearly a hun
dred department clerks playing keno.
An English gentleman has offered £25,000
toward starting a special fund for Presbyterian
Church extension in England.
The first white child was born in lowa
thirty-six years ago, and is now living. To
day there arc over 500,000 llawkeyes by birth.
Sunday week the congregation of the First
Methodist church, Atlanta, contributed $l3O
to the family of Rev. J. 11. Harris, deceased.
The New Hampshire temperance revival is
assuming vast proportions. Twelve thou
sand persons have signed the pledge since
the movement began.
A number of the old veterans of Lee’s army
living in Norfolk have formed a centennial
walking club and propose going to Philadel
phia on loot.
In a case in bankruptcy just, concluded in
the Southern District of Georgia, all claims
were paid in full, and a balance returned to
the bankrupt.
Julia Bernard, a variety actress, was killed
by a knife-thrower at Helena, M. TANARUS., the other
day. The knife was to be planted just above
the head, but it went a shade too low.
During the last thirty years 24,000 Sunday
Schools have been organized, aided and vis
ited in the Valley of the Mississippi, by the
agents of the American Sunday School Union.
Col. Ilenrv A. Rutledge, of Jacksonville,
Ala., is perhaps the only living representa
tive of two of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence. He is the grandson of Ed
ward Rutledge and of Arthur Middleton.
In Dalton, Ga., Professor Frank Ferrell,
while attempting to walk a wire stretched
from the top of the National Hotel to Trevitt’s
Hall, fell to the ground (fifty feet) and was
seriously hurt.
The President is honest, of course, lie
never took a dollar that didn’t belong to him.
Never ! There wasn’t the slightest suspicion
of a job in San Domingo, Black Friday, or
Seneca Sandstone. Oh, no.
A negro man purchased two sacks of oats
in Atlanta, and when he carried them home
was surprised to find the oats to be coffee.
He merchant by carrying the
coffee back.
Don’t bite your finger nails. Doctors say
that finger nails, bitten off. and swallowed,
often adhere to the tissues of the stomach
and ruin one’s feelings. Bashful girls must
take care.
It is now said that the negroes who have
been emigrating in large squads from Geor
gia into Mississippi are anxious to return,
wages not being as good as expected ami the
country proving unhealthy.
There is a watch in a Swiss museum only
three-sinteenths of an inch in diameter, in
serted in the top of a pencil case. Its little
dial indicates not only hours, minutes and
seconds, but also days of the months.
Benjamin franklin introduced broom corn
into this country. While examining an im
ported corn whisk he found a single seed,
which he planted in his garden. From that
seed the corn was propagated.
A rival of Tom Thumb has appeared in
Binghamton, New York, in the person of a
boy five years old. who weighs nine pounds
when fully dressed, is twenty-three inches in
height, is physically perfect and health}*, ami
who talks very distinctly.
A log that a boy named Shultz, living in
Limestone township, Illinois, was attempting
to cut up on a hillside, started down the hill
and rolled over his little sister, who was in
the path of its progress, crushing nearly every
bone in her body, and causing instant death.
A mother and her daughter, both residents
of Anderson county, S. C., recently entered
a store and desired to be weighed, when it
was ascertained that the elder weighed two
hundred and fifteen pounds and the younger
two hundred and eighty-five pounds.
A Paterson (N. J.,) woman lost a valuable
gold earring in the yard of a New England
farm house last summer and when the folks
recently killed one of the old turkey gobblers
they found it in his gizzard, not damaged in
the least.
NUMBER 41.