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L- THE JACKSON COUNTY ) r p \ffeMSHINO COMPANY. \ l-OLUME I. 3|i PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, (ht . Jarkxvn County DaMUhinit *' €mpiuty. jiirFfinboN, fAt'kxb¥c&., ga. f r n<T. N- W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE. UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, ~~~ M VNAOING AND BUSINEtJS EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. , ne copy H months *'->-00 .. e “ .. i.oo .. JLu.i so every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex rcopy of the paper will be given. rateTof advertising. li Sh; Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents ; r ac h subsequent insertion. bj?*All Advertisements senl without specitica ■„ 0 f t he number of insertions marked thereon, ’ : be published TILL FORBID, and charged rcordirtpy- or Professional Cards, of six lines ,rless, Sevk.v Dollars per annum; and where hev do uoi exceed ten lines* Ten Dollars. ('on tract Advertising. 3 The fd|(jwing will be the regular rates for con nct idtwfesmg. and will be strictly adhered to n all clles’i 4f* 1 1 IJ | | Sguaßß. [1 . 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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. June 19 1 v r I \l' !' / ■ m rr - ■ 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.. , >v '' ra, 'dcc anywhere for money, Prompt at - 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. ) *'• "Ol ldui), All im*V at Ijiw, 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. .J Une K*h. 175. W g CH V*Ta ly <*• OAK KM, 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. J f p )Y P’ I J. B. BIL.MAN. pi ' ,v "'£ton, Ga. Jetferson, Ga. r ,v su.,itA , ... . A TTORXE YS- A T-LA W. thePf. act iee together in the Superior Courts of jun! p * C j S ac^-son and Walton. \\ 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 J une LJ. lS7o* — " " ■ — ■ Tpip FHRIi’QT XTt?WQ iruii runnel i\ W^ I lie People tlieir own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures, 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.