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THIP FOREST NEWS.
nr THE JACKSON COUNTY >
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jWessimml' k Jousitiess dunk
DR <’. R. GILES
OFFFiRS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the late residence of Dr. 11. .J. Long.
•lan. 22, 1876 —tf
STILL ON HAND !
N. B. STARK,
DOOT and Shoe maker, at the old and Weil
ls known corner. Northwest of the Court House,
under the Forest News office, is still readv to
make to order or repair Roots and Shoes of all
"K<. shapes and qualities. CHEAP FOR CASH.
•January 29th, 1875.
STANLEY A PINSON,
JEFFERSON , GA.,
n HALERS in Dry floods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
•bine 19 ly
Medical Notice.
Dr. .1. O. miiVT having located in Jeffer
son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
respectfully tenders his services to the citizens of
town and county in all the different branches
(the profession. After a flattering experience
u nineteen years, he feels jnstitied in saying that
wis prepared to successfully treat any curable
iKease incident to our climate. He is, for the
Fi esent. hoarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
' : - move his family here soon.
"fiioe with Col. J. A. B. Mahaff’cy.
.te*“Reft rence can be seen in the office of T. H.
Mb Lack, Esq., C. S. C. octl6
MRS. T. A. ADAMS,
fJ oad Street, one door above National Bank,
K athens,
F.KPB constantly on hand an extensive stock
of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS,
in part, the latest styles and fashions
Lidies’ llals Bonnets, Kil>lons,
s Flowers, Gloves Ac., which will be
' •<t reasonable prices. Orders from the coun
promptly tilled. Give her a call. d!B3m
A - K - maiiaffey. \v. s. m'carty.
AfAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
1 A T TOR XEYS AT LA W,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga..
(, *!• Practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
'i >'n jjiven to all business entrusted to their
I'atronage solicited. Op WO ly
t IL| v c. Howard. roh't s. Howard.
IfOWARi* a iiotVARIK
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
n- Jefferson. Ga.
> ~Pr together in all the Courts of Jack
- af ljaeent counties, except the Court of
,I: ‘ry of .Jackson county. Sept Ist '75
k ' '' u.u tMsoir,
J u ATCIJMAKER AND JEWELER,
Ith - ' m * King's Drug Store, Deupree Block.
~j n '‘ (, a. All work done in a superior manner.
, '[ran ted to give satisfaction. Terms, poat-
JulylO-Em.
R *• MOlTOltit, Attorney at l^siyv,
' HOMER. RANKS Co s., Go.
siv P rac tice in all the adjoining Counties, and
s l' r,Jrn pt attention to all business entrusted to
•Ji -^ ( j, Collecting claims a specialty.
R-UtNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
, an good buggy and wagon harness always
, Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c.,
jon.'ij not '* ce ’ cheap for cash.
' I J. B. SILMAN,
pi bfpngton, Ga. j Jefferson, Ga.
f ’'*> AMMIAA,
Win ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
pn„^ r * cA * ce together in the Superior Courts of
juie i-I* le j ß J ftc kson and Walton.
\\ *• i*IK.E, Attorney at Law,
Pr lctop . JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
P romn Y n & h the Courts, State and Federal,
of i thorough attention given to all
' j’lntu C^H ’ ; business in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875]
The People tlielr own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Picture Gallery.
Up-St cur 8, between the, Billy Thompson corner
and Stanley <s• Pinson's .
A. H. BROCK,
I > LSPECTF L LLY announces to the ladies and
J * gentlemen of Jeflferson ami vicinity, that his
Gallery is now open for the accomodation of all
m want of pictures, and that he is prepared to ex
ecute his work in the best style of the art. Call
and examine specimens. Rates reasonable. All
work warranted to give- satisfaction. fl 2
SPRINGDALE NURSERIES,
ATHENS,
W. HUDGTN, Proprietor.
HAS now ready/or delivery a splendid lot of
Pot-Orown Plahts, suitable for Parlor or Con
servatory decoration, at New York prices. Nurs
ery and Griym House, Corner Rock-Spring Avenue
and Bobbin-Mill Street. marll tf
TTIE REASON WHY
J. H. HUGGINS
Sells goods cheaper note, is beceiuse he
has adopted the
CASH SYSTEM!
The ready cash enables him to buy' goods very
low, and consequently lie is offering to the public
every thing in his line, such as
All kinds o f Crockcrjf and G/ass-icare,yJ,ahips.
Chandeliers, Farmers' Lanterns, Kerosene
Oil. at icholesetle and retail; Family and
Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods, Bools,
Shoes, Hats, Saddles, Harness
anil Leather.
And also a large stock ofLIME, both for build
ing and fertilizing purposes, all very low for the
CASH.
When you go to Athens, don't forget to call on
J. H. HUGGINS. If you want KEROSENE OIL, at
wholesale or retail, he will supply you at the low
est price. If you want CROCKER Y and GLASS
WARE, there’s the place to get it. If you want
TOBACCO. FLOUR, BACON, LARD, SU
GAR, COFFEE and MOLASSES, go there and
you will find it. If you want LIME, for building
or composting with fertilizers, go to
J. 11. HUGGINS’,
No. 7, Broad St., Athens.
SST’Remember the place. marlß
TAX RETURNS
For 1876.
[N ORDER that T may get my Digests complet
ed and returned according to law, my Digests
must be closed on the 10th of June. Tax-payers
will please make a note of this, and govern them
selves accordingly. Each tax-payer is inquired
by law to make their returns in person, unless ex
cused on account of sickness or non-residence.—
One giving in as agent is required to procure a true
statement of the v alue of the property returned.
under oath. lam desirous, as a public servant of
the citizens of Jackson county, to perform all the
duties of my office with direct reference to justice
to alt men.
I feel, fellow-citizens, truly grateful to you for
placing mo in the position 1 now occupy. I feel
that the right 'trin which to-day bleaches on the
gory field o f Bentonville, North Carolina, was lost
in defense of the homes and ladies whom 1 now
love and respect.
I am. fellow-citizens, your obedient servant.
GEORGE TV. BROWN. T. R. J. O.
Below will he found the list of my appointments
for 1376. at which time and place I shall be pleased
to have the tax-payers make their proper returns :
Jefferson. Tuesday, April 4th ; Saturday, April
22d ; Tuesday, May 2d ; Saturday, May ttth.
Thompson's Mills, Wednesday, May 3d.
Harrisburg, 'Wednesday,' April 12th.
McLestcr's Mills. Monday, May Ist.
Williamson's Mills, Monday, May 22d.
Clarksboro'. Monday, April 3d, and Monday
and Tuesday, May Bth and 9th.
New Town, Thursday, April 13th, and Thurs
day, May 11 tli.
White's Mills, Friday. May 32th.
Harmony Grove. Friday, April 14th ; Satnrda\*,
May 13th ; Monday, May 15th.
Wilson’s, Monday, April 17th, and Tuesday and
Wednesday. May 16th and 17th.
Miller's, Tuesday. April 11th, and Tuesday and
Wednesday, April 18th and 19th.
Human’s Store, Friday, April 21st.
Appleby's, Monday. April 10th, and Thursday,
April 20th.
Randolph’s Store, Saturday, April Bth, and
Tuesday, April 25th.
Thompson's Store. Monday, April 24th.
House’s, Friday, April 7th, and Wednesday and
Thursday, April 26th and 27th.
Chandler's, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
April 6th. 28th and 29th.
Santafee, Wednesday, April sth, and Thursday
and Friday, Mav 4th and sth.
marlS G. W. BROWN. T. R. of J. C.
Jacli son Mortgage Sheriff's
Sale.
VITILL be sold on the first Tuesday in May
v v next, before the Court House door, in Jef
ferson. Jackson county. Ga. within the legal hours
of sale, the following property, to wit :
One house and lot in the town of Jefferson, con
taining three-fourths of an acre, more or less, with
a good dwelling house and necessary out-buildings
thereon, bounded as follows : On the East by the
main street leading towards Gainesville, on the
South by .J E Randolph’s home lot. on the \\ est
by a back street on the North by J E Randolph's
clover lot and horse lot; said lot embracing the
lot known as the J R North office lot, and more
particularly known as the It A Gowan house and
lot. Levied on as the property of P F Lamar, Sr.
bv virtue of a mortgage fi fa issued from the Su
perior Court of said county in favor of Thomas R
Holder vs P F Lamar. Property pointed out in
said mortgage fi fa. Notice served on P F Lamar,
defendant, and C C Thompson, tenant in posses
sion. as the law directs.
marl! (*R>) J. S. HUNTER, Sh’ff.
Y WliniSTß ATOK’S Sale.
Agreeably to an order of the Court of Ordinary
for Jackson county, will be sold within the legal
hours of sale, before the Court House door of said
county, in Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in April
next, the following property, to-wit: One tract
of land, belonging to the estate of Elizabeth Pharr,
deceased, lying in said county, adjoining lands of
Wyatt Bailey, J M Stockton and others, contain
ing sixty-eight and three-fourth acres, more or
less. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors
of said deceased. Terms, cash.
March 11 C. L. PHARR, Adm'r.
Jackson County.
Whereas, T. J. Stapler applies to me in regular
form, for Letters of Administration on the estate
of LA Stapler, late of said county, clec’d—
Therefore, all persons concerned, are hereby
notified and required to show cause, if any they
can before the Court of Ordinary to bo held in
and for said county, on the Ist Monday in April,
1876 why Letters of Administration should not
be granted as prayed for by the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this March
3d 1876 WILEY C. HOWARD,
' March 11 Ordinary.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. APRIL 1, 1576.
POETICAL.
For the Forest News.
MA MIE.
(AFTER THE FRENCH.)
On peaceful lakes the ripples sleep,
They mirror summer skies ;
But fairer far than these to me.
My darling’s azure eyes.
How sweet to dream ’neath sylvan shades.
And list to trilling birds ;
But sweeter far titan this to nie,
My darling’s gentle words.
Oblivion buries every joy,
All love is past but thine ;
But what care I, if still I kiss
Thy lips dear angel mine ?
Gay Folly flits on gaudy wing,
Her fancies glow and die ;
But deep within my inmost heart,
My angel lives for aye.
Jefferson, Ga., March, 1876. ERIN.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The Battle of Manassas.
WIIAT BEAREUGARD HAS TO SAY.
New Orleans, March 7,187 G.
Dear Sir —l avail myself of the first op
portune moment to answer your letter of the
17th nit., inquiring of me, as in command at
the time, why the pursuit of the Federals im
mediately alter their rout at the battle of
Manassas, July 21, 1861, was suddenly
checked and the Confederate troops recalled
towards Manassas.
I will first state that, though with Gen. Jo
seph E. Johnston’s consent I exercised the
command during the battle, at its close, after
I had ordered all the troops on the field in
pursuit, I went personally to the Lewis House
and relinquished that command to him. 1
then started at a gallop to take immediate
charge of the pursuit on the Centreville turn
pike, but was soon overtaken by a courier
from Manassas, with a note addressed to me
by Col. T. G. Rhett, ofGen. Johnston’s staff,
who had been left there in the morning to
forward that General's troops as they might
arrive by rail from Winchester. Col. Rhett
thereby informed me that a strong body of
Federal troops had c r ossed the Bull Run at
Union Mills Ford, on our right, and was ad
vancing on Manassas, our depot of supplies,
which had been necessarily left very weakly
guarded. I hurried back to the Lewis House
to communicate this important dispatch to
Gen. Johnston, and both of us believing the
information to be authentic. I undertook to
repair to the threatened quarter with Ewell’s
and Holmes’ brigades, at that moment near
the Lewis House where they had just arrived,
too late to take part in the action. With
these troops I engaged */> attack the enemy
vigorously before he could effect a lodgment
on our side of Bull Run, but asked to be re
inforced as soon as practicable by such troops
as might be spared from the Centreville pur
suit.
Having reached the near vicinity of Union
Mills Ford without meeting any enemy, I
ascertained, to my surprise, that the reported
hostile passage was a false alarm growing out
of some movements of our own troops (a part
of Gen. D. R. Tone's brigade), who had been
thrown across the run in the morning, pursu
ant, to my offensive plan of operation for the
day’, and upon their return now to the south
bank of the run, were mistaken, through their
similarity of uniform, for the Federals. I
returned to intercept the march of the two
brigades who were following me towards
Union Mills, and as it was quite dark when
I met them, and they were greatly jaded by
their long march and countermarch during
that hot July day, I directed them to halt
and bivouac where they were. Hearing that
President Davis and Gen. Johnston had gone
to Manassas, I returned and found them, be
tween half-past 0 and 10 o'clock, at my head
quarters.
This will explain to you why the partial
“retrograde movement,” to which you refer,
was made, and why no sustained vigorous
pursuit of McDowell’s army was made that
evening.
Any pursuit of the Federals next day, to
wards their rallying point at and around the
Long Bridge, over the Potomac, could have
led to no possible military advantage, pro
tected as that position was by a system of
field works. No movement upon Washington
by that route could have been possible, for,
even if there had been no such works, the
bridge—a mile in length—was commanded
by Federal ships of war, and a few pieces of
artillerv or the destruction of a small part of
the bridge could have made its passage im
practicable.
Our only proper operation was to pass the
Potomac above, into Maryland, at or about
Edwards’ Ferry, and march upon the rear of
Washington ; with the hope of undertaking
such a movement, 1 had caused a reconnois
ance of the country and shore (south of the
Potomac), in that quarter to be made, in the
month of June, but the necessary transpor
tation, even for the ammunition essential to
such a movement, had not been provided for
inv forces, notwithstanding my application
for it, during more than a month beforehand,
nor was there twenty-four hours’ food at Man
assas for the troops brought together for that
battle. G. T. Beauregard.
Hon. John C. Ferriss, Nashville Tenn.
Poll Tax Law.
Asa matter in which all are interested, to
a greater or less extent, we clip from an “ex
change” and insert the law in regard to poll
tax and fees for collection, when fi. fa. is in
hands of bailiff. “Upon each and every in
habitant of this State on the first day of April,
between the age of twenty-one and sixty
years, a poll: tax of one dollar for educational
purposes. Fee and costs due for serving fi.
fa's, by bailiff, eightv-five cents.”
Last year the town of Winter. Cal., was a
wheat field, and a crop was gathered from it.
To-day it has 1,200 inhabitants, and town lots
arc worth six hundred dollars.
A Desperate Duel.
A FIGIIT WITH NAVY REVOLVERS AND BOWIE
KNIVES IN A PIT.
It is now over thirty years since one of
the most remarkable, desperate and mur
derous duels that ever took pLace was fought
in \ icksburg- One of the parties was for
merly a New York boy, a graduate from one
of the M all street banks. After filling all
the desks of that insitution with singular
ability, from a collecting cierk np to the
position of first teller, while still quite a
young man he w (is appointed cashier of a
bank in Vicksburg, which gave offense and
caused much jealousy among the senior
clerks of that institution, and they took
every opportunity to oppose and insult him.
This became so marked and unbearable in
itacharacter that the President finally told the
cashier that he must resent it, and that he
Mould stand by him. lie had occasion soon
after to give one of the tellers a specimen of
his skill in the art of self-defense. This re
sulted in a challenge for a duel, which was
accepted, and after three days of constant
pistol practice resulted in the death of the
teller. lie had numerous relatives that, one
after another, came forward to avenge his
death, unitil four duels were forced upon the
cashier from the natural consequences of the
first duel, and “still there were more Rieh
monjls in the field.”
A relative of the first victim, an editor
and successful duelist, gave out a threat that
he was coming to town to avenge the death
of his cousin. Ilis great courage and des
perate fighting qualities had been frequentlv
successfully tried, and were so well known
that something desperate must be done to
meet the emergency, and if possible to stop
any and all future challenges. The editor
arrived in town, and lost no time in sending
his message, which was as promptly respond
ed to. Early in the morning of the same
day all of the arrangements wore made for a
meeting at 6 o’clock the next morning.
After making sovne necessary arrange
ments in case of death the cashier went to
bed and slept until 4 a. m., having all this
time forgotten the almost worshipful love
and devotion of his wife and only child, who
were in profound ignorance of his desperate
enterprise. lie silently kissed them, and
then the husband and father stole away to
attend the bloody business. On arriving at
the appointed rendezvous he found a trench
dug six leet deep, two feet wide, and twelve
feet long. Into this double grave the two
principals descended, each armed with six
shooting navy revolvers and having bowie
knives, u’ith instructions to commence firing
at the word advance and finish the bloody
work with their knives, if their pistols failed
to accomplish it. At the first shot the editor
was mortally wounded, lie drew his knife,
and with the ferocity of a tiger sprung for
ward at his opponent just as lie had fired his
second shot. lie warded off the blow with
his pistol, which had a deep cut in it made
by the heavy knife, showing what, a desperate
blow had been aimed at his life by his adver
sary. who fell dead at his feet. The cashier's
mind was so much diseased that he
could not attend to business, and by the
advice of his physician took a vacation and
change of scene. He came to this city and
died in a lunatic asylum a month after.
Blind Tom..
AN IDIOT AVTTII TU'ETTIOVKN S INSPIRATION AND
GOTTS< IfAT.K'S TOTH If.
Nature plays many high old quips and
quirks; kicks up her venerable heels in
countless can-can pirouettes and whirligigs :
shakes her omnium gatherum apron-pockets,
and scatters here, there, everywhere, innu
merable monstrosities, ridiculosities and lu
dicrosities; perpetrates incomputable mad
cap botherations, and mental, moral, and
physical cranks, and curliqnes; inflicts upon
her unfortunate step children unending va
ried and hig-gledv-piggledy “lnns”-es.
Look where you will, what a laby-rinthine
world of tangles and misfits. Everything
jumbled, lop-sided, ill-assorted, muddlety
flummixed. Here, a President-wit,h a peanut
peddler's soul; there, a scavenger beneath
whose ragged waistcoat throbs a hero’s heart.
Here, a Senator’s or a Governor's wife, whose
rich brocades and laces envelope a galvan
ized oyster-wench, or worse : there, a smutty
phizzed char-woman whose dingy tatters en
close the spirit of a saint or a martyr. Here,
courage, gratitude, and affection wrapped in
the hide of a dog : there, brutality and base
ness swaddled in broadcloth and fine linen.
Two legged donkeys braying in all our le
gislative hulls and dining at our Delmonicos :
and their infinite superiors in every worthy
quality and qualification, munching coarse
straw in a thousand unchinked country sta
bles. Quadrupedel men and bipedal swine.
Every fellow married to the wrong wife ; the
mole mated with the eagle, the hedge hog
with the swan. Pshaw, pshaw! It’s all
blind luck, the whimsies of fate's shaken
dice.
And of nil these wild and unaccountable
freaks of our common granny, few are more
marvelous than the one which was exhibited
at Tucker Hall last evening. A poor, blind,
nigger idiot, with snatches of the inspiration
of a Beethoven, and the touch of a Gotts
chalk. Less mind than a Newfoundland
dog. and gleams of the artist fire of a Paga
nini or a Thai berg. Not soul enough to be
saved or dammed, yet enough to thrill with
seraphic harmonies, and tingle with the pure
enhancements of a superhuman art. What
philosopher can unfold the mystery ? Who
can read us the riddle ? The hall was jam
med till corsets became a superfluous luxury.
The constant outbursts of laughter and ap
plause showed a warmth of appreciation
which must have been gratifying even to the
ebony caricature on ordinary idioeity that
elicited it. —Raleigh Sentinel.
The limit of good land has been reached
in the northwest. From the 100th parallel
to the western side of the Sierra Nevadas
there is a belt 1,200 miles long and 1.000
miles from north to south that is practically
rainless and valueless. It is nearl\ r half the
surface of the United States, and yet it con
tains only 3,500 square miles of arable land.
Lands that are cheap and valuable will &oon
be found only in the south.— At. Ctnst f'vffor.
War Time in The South.
FAMILIAR REMINISCENCES OF CONFEDERATE
MAKESHIFTS.
The following picture oflife in the South
during the war will be painfully familiar to
thousands of our readers :
In the last days of the Confederacy a yard
of calico brought forty dollars in Confederate
currency, a spool of sewing cotton twenty
dollars, and other dry goods were propor
tionately dear. Flour rose to twelve hun
dred dollars a barrel: a ham of bacon cost a
hundred and fifty dollars ; sugar was seventy
five dollars a pound, and black pepper three
hundred. * * Every household became a
nest of domestic manufacturers, every farm
had its cotton patch and sorghum field.
Spinning wheels and looms, which in former
days had been used for clothing the slaves
on large plantations, but which, during the
era of cheap dry goods were comparatively
idle, were again set going. Ladies whose
white hands were all unused to such labor
learned to card, to spin, and to weave.
Knitting became as fashionable ;n Southern
parlors as it is in German homes. Home
spun drosses were worn by the first ladies
in the land, and she who was cleverest to
contrive and deftest to execute had highest
praise from her associates. Foreign dyes
were wellnigh unattainable, and the woods
at home ransacked for the means of
coloring Ihe home-grown tlax, wool and cot
ton. Black walnut bark furnished a rich
brown, varying in intensity with the strength
of the die ; swamp maple, a clear purple ;
poke! terries, a sol ferine, bright but not dura
ble : wild indigo gave a tolerable blue, and
elderberries an unsatisfactory black. In
deed. no experiment, with bark, root, leaf or
berry ever resulted in any substitute for log
wood ; and as black was the dye most need
ed for Southern garments in those dark
days, the blockade runners learned to make
it part of their regular cargo. * * * Cof
fee was a luxury seldom enjoyed, and for
which rye or wheat, toasted and ground, was
the usual miserable substitute. Some quick
witted person conceived the idea of using
sweet potato chips instead. These made a
more palatable drink, but were after all,
only a hollow mockery. Dried raspberry
leaves were used for tea. and some people
fell back upon sassafras, the North Carolina
beverage, grimly assuring those who scorned
it that it was good for the blood and would
save doctors’ bills. Not a few eschewed all
these transparent deceptions—if that may
be called a deception which deceived nobody
—and when unable to afford milk, drank
cold water with patient heroism. * * *
In view of the scarcity of bread-stuffs, the
use of edible grains in the manufacture of
spirituous liquors was forbidden, under
heavy penalties of fine and imprisonment, in
addition to the confiscation of such liquors
and the implements used in their distilla
tion. Fruit brandies, apple, peach, and
blackberry, and the rum distilled from the
juice of the sorghum cane, became almost
the sole intoxicating beverages of the Con
fed racy. These brought high prices, and
much of the fruit crop was converted into
brandy. From this, also, the alcohol for
medicinal purposes was distilled. The wine
of the scuppernong and of the common wild
grape was also extensively manufactured. *
* * A volume might be written on the
ingenious contrivances of the ladies to re
plenish their wardrobes. Homespun dresses
were among the least of these. They made
everything they wore, from hats to shoes,
and some of the work was exquisitely done.
Such articles as were beyond their skill—and
they were few —were substituted some way
or another. Large thorns, with the heads
tipped with sealingwax, did duty as hairpins.
Common brass pins, imported from Nassau,
sold near the close of the war for §4O a
paper, and needles and thread were used in
stead wherever such use was practicable.
Economy was an obligatory virtue in those
days, and nothing was wasted which could
possibly be turned to account.
The Power of Kindness.
A Cadiz letter says: “Notice had been
posted on all the public places that on a cer
tain day the bull called El Moro would be
introduced into the arena, and that, when he
should have been goaded to the utmost fury,
a young girl would appear and reduce the
animal to quiet subjection. The people of
Cadiz had heard of El Moro as the most
magnificent bull ever brought into the city,
and it soon became known that the girt thus
advertised was a peasant girl of Espara, who
had petted the bull and fed it. and cared for
it during the years of its growth. On the
appointed day the vast amphitheatre was
filled with an anxoius, eager crowd. The
bulls had been killed and dragged away, and
then the flourish of trumpets announced the
coming of the hero of the day. With a deep,
terrific roar El Moro entered upon the scene.
He was truly magnificent, a bovine monarch,
black and glossy, witli eyes of fire, dilating
nostrils and wicked looking horns. The
picadores attacked him warily, hurled their
banderillos (small dartlike javelins, orna
mented with ribbons, and intended to jade
and infuriate). The bull had killed three
horses off-hand, and had received eight
banderillos in his neck and shoulders, when,
upon a given signal, the picadores and mata
does suddenly withdrew, leaving the infuriat
ed beast alone in his wild parox}’sm of
wrath. Presently a soft, musical note, like
the piping of a lark, was heard, and directly
afterwards a girl not more than fifteen 3-ears
of age, with the tas’teful garb of an Andalu
sian peasant, and with a pretty face, sprang
lightl}’ into the arena, approaching the bull
fearlesaly, at the same time calling his name,
‘Moro ! Moro ! Yavoy 1’ At the first sound
of the sweet voice the animal ceased his
fury and turned towards the place whence it
came, and when he saw the girl he plainly
manifested pleasure. She came to his head
and put forth her hand, which lie licked with
his tongue. Then she sang a low, sweet
song, at the same time caressing the animal
by patting him on the forehead, and while
she sang the suffering monarch kneeled at
her feet. Then she stooped and gently re
moved the cruel banderillos, after which,
with her arras around *E! Morn’s’ npek. she
led him toward the gate of the torril.'
TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
'( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
A clever pickpocket in the Hippodrome at
New York observer! a detective watching him,,
called for Mr. Moody and became converted
on the spot,
A negro hor nearly bled to death iu Mobile
from the bite of a monkey. He was feeding
it, when it bit him ami severed the radial
artery of his right arm.
A colored woman at. Hodges* gave birth to
two children last week—one white and the
other black. This is vouched for npon good
a nthori ty . —A bhev ille Mecli um .
\\ hen we remember that fifty years ago 3*oll
could buy four cigars for a cent, all this en
thusiasm about national progress seems to be
a very grevious error .—MonticeUo Banner.
I)r. E. A. Dugas, of Augusta, extracted
from the nose of a girl three l’ears of age a
brass button as large as an ordinary vest but
t-on, which contained the usual small ring for
holding the thread.
A Baiabridge man bought a side of meat
and had a photograph taken with it on his
head, for the reason he expected to have no
more, and wanted to prove that lie once own
ed meat.
Dio Lewis says if a man will eat blackber
ries for a year he will be able to lift a horse,
lie may be right, but blackberries are hard
to get at certain seasons, and no one wants
to lift a horse anyway.—A. 0. Republican.
Sensible Georgia. She postpones her State
Fair till next year on account of the “ hard
times, the Presidential election, and the Cen
tennial.’’ Three good reasons, those.
A man in Green Bay is said to have lived
with his wife twenty-three years without a
cross word. Is it necessary to sa} r that this
man made the fires and (lid the washing and
ironing ? —Rochester Democrat.
N. B. Goddard, of Marion, S. C., has built
a modern gin house, one feature of which is
the location of six tanks of water, holding
one hundred and thirty-five gallons each, on
the roof, for use in case of fire.
The consolidation of the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad and the Georgia and North
Carolina Railroad has been effected, and the
branch to Ducktown, Tenn., is only a ques
tion of time, and that not long.
The little daughter of the Democratic can
didate for a local office in Saratoga county,
N. Y.. was told to run and tell her aunt that
“Mr. Young has got the nomination.” and
the little one eried out: “O, mamma, do thej'
ever die of it ?”
It is reported from Nevada that live fish—
eyeless, of a blood-red variety, and resembling
the “gold variety”—have been taken from
springs of the warmth of 128 degrees. They
died on being put in cold water.
The Cincinnati Enquirer remarks : “ When
a Cabinet Minister’s wife can earn §40,000 a
year while her husband can toil away for only
§5,000, we fancy we are able to see the dawn
of woman’s rights.”
Last Saturday Mr. Beicher emotionally
stated that he “stood like a man walking at
midnight in a menagerie of serpents who
could not step on the right because of an asp
or an anaconda.” That has a jim-jamy flavor.
A little boy in Rome, Ga., while playing
with a ring suspended from the grape arbor,
last Sunday, accidentally got his head into
the ring, and was choking to death, when a
servant happening to step out into the } T ard
saw and saved him.
A number of clergymen in Augusta, Ga.,
have invited the evangelists, Whittle and Bliss,
to hold services in that city. They have ac
cepted. and are expected about the first of
April, in the meantime visiting Mobile, Selina
and other places.
General Sherman left St. Louis for Wash
ington last Wednesday night, in response to
an invitation from Secretary of War Taft, who
desired to consult with him. It is thought
that there is a possibility of the removal of
rrray headquarters back to Washington.
Thanks, an 1 a thousand of them, to the un
known genius who entrusted a trunk, with a
hive of bees in it, to the tender mercies of a
Syracuse baggage-master the other day. The
company will pay for the bees, and the doc
tor thinks his patient will be around again in
a fortnight or so.
A Divorced woman of Danbury recently
married ajzain, and shortly lost her second
husband by an accident. A neighbor, on
hearing the shocking news, observed : “It’s
awful, awful indeed ; but then,” she added,
with an encouraging nod, “it is not so bad
as it might be. She has another husband.
It tain’t as bad ns if she had lost the only
one she had.” The friends took comfort.
Wade Hampton Rolton, ofTennessee, late
ly deceased, left the following provision in
his will: “I give and bequeath the widow
and children of Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jack
son. known as ‘Stonewall Jackson/ who fell
at the battle of Chaneellorsville. Virginia, ten
thousand dollars, as history tells me his wid
ow’s furniture was sold after his death for
debt.”
Senator Gordon showed from the records
of the Treasury Department the startling fact
that the Government has been robbed of not
less than $1,000,000,000 in the past thirteen
years, no matter what has been the political
stripe of the several administrations in power
during that time. Th Radical Senators, be
cause he did so, called him an unrepentant
rebel.
Henry W. Grady writes to the Angusta
Constitutionalist: “There is a rumor that a
short passage-at-arms took place between a
Northerner and an Atlanta lady, though I
suspect the rumor is winged rather by the wit
there is in it than by veracity. On hit , that
a Michigander (I like the ending of that word)
remarked to the lady that “all he had seen
down South that he liked was the balmy air
and genial sunshine.” “Ah,” she replied,
encouragingly ; “ well. }’ou see. I’m glad 3*oll
like our *air and sunshine/ It’s all we have
that the Yankees didn’t burn up orstcaldur
in 0 * cr since the var/ ”
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