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THIP FOREST NEWS. nr THE JACKSON COUNTY > PUBLISHING- COMPANY. $ VOLUME I. He PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, . ,hc JiU-knon County Publishing 1 Company. fEFFERSOX, JACKSON CO., GA. o kKICE , X. \V. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING and business editor. terms OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months .“ . *2.00 y a " 1.00 t . :i “ 50 tj*-For every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tracopy of the paper will be given. ADVERTISING. Osk Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) , r the first insertion, and SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS t ach subsequent insertion. ggyAll Advertisements sent without specilica tj,i;i u f the number of insertions marked thereon, •aill fie published till forbid, and charged accordingly. or Professional Cards, of six lines r j cs s. Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Advertising;. The following will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases: <<Stares. IW. 1 ill. 3 111. 6 111. ISni. TANARUS„ o 200 550 11 00 17 00 22 00 Three 300 675 16 00 21 00 30 00 Four 400 950 18 75 25 00 36 00 Five 500 10 25 21 50 29 00 42 00 MX 600 12 00 24 25 33 00 48 00 Twelve 11 00 21 75 40 00 55 00 81 00 Eighteen.... 15 00 30 50 54 50 75 50 109 00 Twentvtwo 17 00 34 00 60 00 00 00 125 00 jfctTA square is one inch, or about 100 words of the type used in our advertising columns. Marriage and obituary notices not exceeding ten lines, will be published free; but for all over ten lines, regular advertising rates will be charged. Transient advertisements and announcing can didates for office will be Cash. Address all communications for publication and all letters on business to MALCOM STAFFORD, Managing and liu.sinc.ss Editor. 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/ ” NUMBER 43.