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Jackson County Publishing Company.
M. W 11.1,1 AMSOV, |N. 11. Pendergrass,
President. | I ice President.
*T. It. XiuLACK, Secr'y Treas.
Executive Committee.
XV. (’. Howard Cli'm.
(J. .). N. Wilson, f K. J. Hancock,
JEFFERSON, GA.
NITI KDAV nORVCi, AI*KII,n, IM.
Democratic majority in the House,
says the Nashville American, should vigorous
ly continue their investigations and expo
sures of official corruption. But that this will
change a Republican vote in any State, North
or South, is beyond our belief.
The Baptist convention will meet in Thom
a.sville on Thursday, the 20th of April, inst.
The delegates number something over two
hundred, besides the visitors who will attend.
Thomasville Enterpriso.
The Daily Commonwealth.
Among the exchanges” brought by' the
mail of Saturday last, wc find a copy of the
Atlanta Daily Commonwealth. We hope it
will continue to show itself, and as a “ quid
)>ro quo* we promise to give its conductors
the ,‘beiTefifof any reasonable fraternal cour
tesy they may desire at our hands. The fact
that it ” emanates” from the establishment of
J. l\ Harrison &, Cos., is a sure guarantee of
its fine mechanical execution.
Belle Leltres.
One of the “ chiefs’* of our “staff editorial”
hands us the following:
[From the Chronicle it Sentinel of March 29th.]
This wise old Censor, speaking of Senator
Stewart, says: “ Who did he introduce
Schenck to, we wonder ?” What would Goold
Brown think of that who / and what would
Blair think of that straying proposition, to,
we wonder ?
Again he says : “ The Rev. Lee, who cit
ified the State of Georgia,” &c. 'Phis is
surely vilifying the dictionary’, (see Webster)
and with two l’s at that. It is “too trooN as
our old friend again writes, that all of us, as
well as the Macon Telegraph, need a dictionary
in our offices.
He says again: “The Grand Jury of
Green county endorses the action of their
Representatives,” &c. Come, come, Father
Chronicle, you have been reading only revieivs
of Goold Brown. We are not half through
Kirkham yet, but we know better than that.
Like a little boat, we dare not leave the shore
and it would seem that there are too many
faulty timbers in y>ur great craft to venture
out on the treacherous sea of criticism.
The Decision of the Supreme Court
On the Homestead question, to be found on
our first page, deserves to be read by al!—
male and female—as all are concerned. With
it is also published some interesting and per
tinent comments from the Atlanta Constitu
tion. Already can we discover ail unusual
activity in business circles arising from the
effects of this decision on the public mind.
Let us hope “there is a better day a’coming !”
An Atlanta correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle iS' Sentinel expresses himself thus
ly concerning this important decision :
THE HOMESTEAD DECISION.
You would be astonished to see what a
feeling of relief has been sent abroad through
out this entire community by the recent de
cision of the Supreme Court in regard to the
legality of waiving the homestead exemption.
Everybody breathes freer, and debtors and
creditors look upon each other with more
cordial feelings. Thousands of farmers who
were without supplies and without credit,
under this decision are enabled to establish
the latter and thereby procure the former. In
the present distressed condition of the coun
try no one can measure the vast benefits that
must flow to all classes of our citizens through
the operations of this decision. It. may. and
doubtless will, be an injury to some few reck
less and improvident men. but to the honest,
hard-working masses, to whom credit is ne
cessary to success in their operations, it will
prove an incalculable blessing.
•
SjF’ There could probably be no better
illustration of the darkened state of the public
mind about the causes of our present politi
cal disease than the approbation with which
the present rage for cutting down the sala
ries of public officers is regarded, as a meas
ure of economy. Far from being a measure
of economy, it is one more step in the pro
cess by which a middle wall or partition has
been erected between the honesty, capacity,
and energy of the American people and the
Government it dearly loves and would fain
be proud of. —New York Nation.
Nonsense. The larger the salary, the
larger and less scrupulous will be the crowd
to covet it—the more money will be spent to
bribe and cheat. Large salaries lead to
large campaign expenditures. A man who
cannot earn SI,OOO in anv private station,
will spend $4,000 to secure an office worth
so.ooo. If he overdoes the thing and spends
more than the salary, lie is tempted to save
himself by a little official stealing. The
rapid spread of corruption in office during
the past fifteen years has been simultaneous
with a general and notable increase in sal
aries.—Nashville Amer.
IjF’The news from the Pennsylvania Re
publican Convention is conflicting, but it is
believed that Simon Comeron has secured a
good share of the delegates. This makes the
State anti-Blaine, and-the triumph will inure
to the benefit of either Conkling or Morton.
It is certain that Conkling is rapidly gaining
strength,. -v
ili? The Pennsylvania delegation to the
National Democratic Convention will sup
port, almost unanimously, Hendricks as first
choice. Tilden will get but one vote from this
large delegation,, and'Thurman and Hancock
not many.more.. They are going to St. Lou
is strongly inclined towards Hendrieks and
Curt hi.
The Investigations—What Will Come of
Them?
To the reading public who have, within the
past month or so, perused the newspapers of
the day with anything like wonted attention, ;
such,expressions as “Corruption in Washing
ton,” “Pierrepont on Babcock and Grant—
new revelations,” “More Radical Rascality,”
“Post Traderships,” “Another Ring Expos
ed,” &c., have become familiar as “household
words,” and the inquiry has been, no doubt,
very naturally. What will come of all this ?
What will be the result of all this appa
rent furor ? And will the unearthing
of all this political deviltry have a tendency
to aid in bringing about that “revolution” so
much desired and so devoutly prayed for in
the management of the affairs of the Federal
Government ? It will be seen from the fol
lowing extract, taken from the Macon Tel
egraph <5- Messenger that our worthy cotem
porary advances the opinion that, “so far as
inciting anything like a political revolution,”
the exposures of the frauds and stealings of
the party in power will not amount to much.
We, however, hope for something better. At
the same time, the extract is pointed and in
teresting, discussing as it does the “stand
point” from which everything is viewed by
most if not all our •Northern brethren.” and
the “line” on which they “run” “govern
mental affairs” as well as wooden nutmeg
manufactories.
The Investigations.— There is interest
ing gossip in the telegrams from Washington
—abundant in promise of further disclosures ;
and we feel well assured that, before the ses
sion and the investigations are over, it will
be quite apparent that all official life, of late
years, in Washington, has borne but one col
or; and all officials from the President down,
in some form or'other, have been prostituting
official position to private gain. All may not
have been guiily of impeachable offences, or
rather such guilt may not be fixed upon them,
but a moral conviction will have been estab
lished to all minds accessible to that feeling,
that all have been "on the make” by sinister
practices.
And what will come of it? Not much, so
far as inciting anything like a political revo
lution. In fact, the practical effect thus far
has been only to incite increased sectional
bitterness against the Southern people, be
cause so many of their representatives are
concerned in these exposures. While the
Northern people do not particularly affect
public plunder in officials, they do certainly
and cordially detest the men of the South
who have been active and influential in fas
tening shame on a public administration which
is felt to symbolize and represent Northern
ideas and policy.
Furthermore, let us remember that North
ern political theories and action in relation to
the Federal Government have traditionally
all taken a strictly utilitarian shape. They
all look to making money out of it. They
never bother then selves about the revolutions
of ”18 and ’99 —about any themes of public
or private right:—about the relative spheres
and rights of tl c States and the General
Government, or about any question of polit
ical rights and powers, except in so far as
they may disable the Government from being
put to a good available use as an instrumen
tality, immediate or more remote, in the way
of money-making.
They want the Union, more than anything
else for the general uses of trade, and really
objected to sect r sion, more on the ground
that it would injure the trade and commerce
of the country th: non any other. They have
always been hen\y on every kind of legisla
tion which looke • to pecuniary and trade re
sults—protective tariffs. et id omne genus;
and if a protective tariff in some of its sharp
est phases, be any l etter than office broker
age it is hard to see.
For example : Butler starts a wooden screw
company, aud then as Representative in
Congress, procures the enactment of a heavy
tariff on foreign wooden screws for his own
benefit—is that morally better than if he had
sold an office or a cadetslvp ? Again : seces
sion breaks out, and every Northern man
must fly the old flag or perish. Butler starts
a company for the manufacture of bunting,
and then as Representative in Congress, con
trives to put through a tariff amendment sub
stantially prohibiting the importation of for
eign-made bunting—is that any better than
trading in offices and appointments?
What we mean is to say that the style and
idea of Northern politics—that of running
government with a leading idea to money
making—is essentially’ a bad one, and blunts
public sensitiveness to grosser and more di
rect uses of its power and influence for pri
vate ends. It is not a good use of govern
ment to work it in the interests of trade and
dickering. It ought to be restricted to its
pure moral uses of defending rights and lib
erties, and punishing wrongs. But one can
easily see how, with an all-pervading idea
among a people of working up trade and
money-making through government—a na
tional administration gets to using it on its
account for those ends, and no great surprise
or abhorrence grows out of the discovery.
Departed for Texas.
Some months since a young man named
Nathan Batts, living in Washington county,
succeeded in gaining the affections of a young
woman, Miss Pen roe, of Jefferson county,
and seduced her under promise of marriage.
Ascertaining that he was about to be prose
cuted for seduction he married her, but im
mediately afterwards abandoned her and left
for Texas. The matter was brought before
the Superior Court of Washington county
and a verdict in favor of the unfortunate wo
man was rendered by the jury for SIO,OOO.
The Sandersville Georgian says in reference
to the subject: “Let this be a warning to
all those who boast of feats of fiendish victo
ry over female innocence. But what is SIO,OOO
compared to a wrecked reputation ? It is a
poor equivalent for the millions of bitter tears
shed by heart stricken parents. For the more
than millions that have already been shed,
and for the briney current of unavailing re
pentent tears that must continue to flow from
the eyes of the poor girl, until fehe ‘crosses
the river to rest under the shade of the trees/
in the land where tears are unknown. What
is SIO,OOO compared with the buffeting, scorn
and derision that awaits the illicitly father
less child, at the hands of a cold and charit
less world ? The law is not, cannot, be too
severe against this terrible crime, compared
with which even murder itself pales, and
hightoned robbery, and all other abomina
tions, couched in the catalogue of crime, are
completely overshadowed.*’
Mr. Worley in town. Quarterly
Meeting Saturday and Sunday.'
Correspondence of the Forest News.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Washington, D. C., March 31, 1876.
GRANT STILL IN THE FIELD—WIIAT MOSEBY
SAYS ABOUT IT.
I have just seen Col. Moseby, who is, as
you know, one of Grant’s right bowers. He
had just come from a conference with the
President at the AY bite House, and he says
that Grant, is still in the field as a candidate
for re-election that he considers the New
Hampshire election an endorsement of his
administration, and is determined, if possi
ble, to secure a third term. If this is true,
we may expect some lively times with Blaine,
Morton and Cos., who thought the Boss was
out of the race. They may not be willing to
take back seats now.
THE PRESIDENCY.
Montgomery Blair has created a very per
ceptible stir in political circles in Washing
ton, by the publication of a letter on the
Presidency. The fact that Mr. Blair has no
personal preference, but bases his arguments
upon what he conceives to be party necessi
ty, gives more weight to his views than they
would otherwise have. One thing is noticea
ble in connection with this subject the
growing disposition to consider the interest
of the part}’ as a unit, rather than the inter
est of any one section or faction. The man
who can carry the most States will be the
nominee, if these wise counsels prevail; and,
whoever he may be, Hendricks, Thurman,
Bayard, Tilden, Davis or Parker, he will
receive the united support of a party organ
ized for success, and not to be defeated by
internal dissension. And to insure success
beyond the chance of failure, the nominee
must be the man who can draw the largest
support from the ranks of the enemy.; Mr.
Blair say’s that Tilden is the man, and offers
a strong argument to prove it. Let Mr.
Blair’s letter be taken for what it is worth.
Anything that emanates from that, distin
guished gentleman is entitled to respectful
consideration. There are men here in
Washington bitterly opposed to Tilden, be
cause of his attitude on the money question.
I believe, however, from the tone of conver
sation during the past few days, that there
is a determination to do nothing that will
imperil our success in the coming election.
“ senator” spencer.
Among other things going on at the Capi
tal. and claiming public attention, are the
proceedings had by the Committee investiga
ting Spencer, the. notorious carpet-bag Sena
tor misrepresenting Alabama. This investi
gation, ordered by his own resolution, has
been conducted under the shameful ruling of
Morton, the Chairman, with sole reference to
the acquittal of Spencer, and regardless of
common decency ; declaring Spencer entitled
to his seat, although he committed numerous
frauds to obtain it, drugging one poor fellow
almost to death to break a quorum in the
State legislature. The case has been manag
ed for the State of Alabama with consum
mate skill by Gen. John T. Morgan, who.
by his professional ability, fine tact and
temper in the conduct of the case, and his
genial and brilliant social qualities, has
made an exceedingly favorable impression.
When a lawful Legislature of Alabama
elects a man to represent her in the United
States Senate, the distinguished and patriot
ic services of General Morgan in this ease,
together with his admirable qualifications,
point 1o him as the man to afford a striking
contrast to the incompetent and profligate
Spencer. General Morgan would adorn any
place to which his people ma}’ call him.
Frauds are coming to light so frequently that
exposure of official corruption has ceased to
afford a sensation ; but their constant recur
rence must at .length make an impression
upon public sentiment that will lead to
healthy’ action at the polls.
Pardon of Illicit Distillers.
Telegrams in the city papers last week, an
nounced the gratifying intelligence .that
through the efforts of lion. B. 11. Hill, at
Washington, assisted, in a great measure, by
Gen. Gaktkell, there was a probability that
all parties now under charge of illicit distill
ing in North Georgia, would be speedily par
doned by the President’ provided, Judge Kr
skine and the LT. vS. Attorney would both so
recommend. It was reported that these offi
cers had acquiesced, and that it was quite
probable pardons would be forthcoming at
once. Vice versa , however, the Atlanta cor
respondent of the Augusta Chronicle A Sen
tinel, has this to say in the issue of that paper
of the 2d inst.
THE NORTH GEORGIA PRISONERS.
Nothing later has been heard from the
President in regard to the pardon of the
North Georgia offenders against the revenue
laws, and it is now pretty generally believed
that the pardon will not be granted. lion.
Amos T. Akerman, ex-Attorney-General of
the United States, in a conversation yester
day with the correspondent of the Savannah
Neics, among other things, said the granting
of the petition would establish a precedent
that might become a source of great annoy
ance and trouble to President Grant, as
similar petitions would pour in from all.parts
of the country. While Mr. A. expressed
himgelfin sympathy with the purposes of
the petition, he felt sure that the plan adopt
ed for the relief of these unfortunate men
was not the best to insure success. 1 doubt,
therefore, if the amnesty or pardon asked
for in behalf of those who have already been
sentenced (someone hundred and forty more)
will be granted : but I do anticipate that the
President will authorize some plan of relief,
by local action of the Federal officials here,
for those offenders who have not yet been
tried and sentenced.
The Methodists—North.
Philadelphia, March 30. — The Methodist
Episcopal conference committee on the pro
posed changes in the economy and discipline,
presented their report. Among the most im
portant modifications is that the ordination
of bishops be henceforth and ever hereafter
discontinued as illogical, inconsistent, and a
vain misleading, in view of the fact that we
recognize but two orders in the ministry—
that of deacon and presiding elder, and that
the bishop holds ofily an office, no ordinations
shall occur where no additional order is con
ferred.
Philadelphia, April I.—The Methodist
Episcopal Conference adopted the following :
Resolved, That we reaffirm the doctrine al
ways held by the Methodists, viz : That the
Episcopacy is not a third order, and we re
quest the General Conference to consider
what modification, if any, should be made in
the service for the installation of our general
superintendent.
ITP’One idiot was killed and another mor
tally wounded in a duel in Virginia, a few
days since. The cnstomarj r .female was the
cause of the quarrel. *
Congressional.
Washington, April I.—By special request
on their part the Confederate members of
Congress were excnsed from serving on the
board of managers against Belknap.
The Secretary of War and General Sher
man agree that army headquarters should be
here. An order to that effect will probably
be issued next week.
The debt statement shows million dol
lars decrease. Coin in Treasury, 3f millions ;
six millions of currency.
Washington, April 3.—The Real Estate
Pool Committee had their powers increased
so as to enable them to investigate the mis
conduct of officers of the Government and
members of the present Congress in any re
spect.
The State Department has advices that
England will not surrender Winslow except
npon a guarantee that he shall only be tried
for the offence set forth in the extradition pa
pers.
Mr. Bright, of Tennessee, intends, if he can
be recognized to-day, to propose a resolution
committing the Democratic party to the Penn
sylvania Democratic platform ou the financial
question.
A special to the Times says a renewed ef
fort will be made by a combination of Demo
crats and Republicans to pass some kind of
a currency bill. Messrs. Chittenden and
Willis, of New York, have taken the matter
in hand, and Friday night gave a dinner, at
which the subject was canvassed.
The impeachment articles against General
Belknap were adopted and managers appoint
ed without debate, and the Clerk ordered to
inform the Senate.
General Gordon reported a bill to the Sen
ate authorizing the Secretary of War to re
open and re-adjust the claim of the State
Road against the Government.
INIr. Morton introduced a bill amending the
2d, 4th and sth sections of the Enforcement
act. He said the object of the bill was to
amend the act to enforce the Fifteenth
Amendment so as to bring it within the de
cision of the Supreme Court.
Senator Thurman’s new bankruptcy bill
passed the Senate.
Mr. Hunter, from the Committee on Revo
lutionary Pensions, reported a bill amending
the pension law for the war of 1812. It pro
vides pensions of eight dollars a month for
all officers and enlisted and drafted men,
without regard to color, including militia and
volunteers who served ten days in the mili
tary or naval .services in the war of 1812, and
to their surviving widows who have been mar
ried prior to 1850. It also directs the restora
tion to the pension rolls of pensioners struck
from the rolls on account of the rebellion.—
This restoration is to date from May first,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five. In cases
where pensioners have died since their names
were struck from the rolls the widows are to
have the arrearages from May Ist, 1865. An
amendment strikingout arrearages, was adopt
ed, and the bill was passed.
Subterranean Streams.
On the outside of this week’s paper will be
found an account of the sudden subsidence
of lakes in Lowndes county, and the ques
tion is asked whether these lakes have not a
subterranean outlet and communication with
each other? The Macon Telegraph dj- Mes
senger, noticing this phenomena, adds the fol
lowing interesting comments on the subject:
There can be no reasonable doubt that
Southern Georgia and Florida rest upon a
substratum of marine limestone, which is
permeated by subterranean streams, often
intersecting and communicating with each
other.
This is shown in the great number of so
called ‘dime sinks.” which form suddenly—
evidently by a break in the limestone crust,
and remain years filled with pure and limpid
water, which never stagnates, though with
out visible connection with any current.
These sinks vary greatly at different times
in their depth of water —sometimes they are
almost empty, and again full to the surface
of the earth without the smallest visible
affluent.
One of them sunk immediately under a
six-mule wagon team driven by an old Afri
can acquaintance of ours, who escaped with
his charge by a violent exercise of the whip,
and left behind him a sink which in a few
minutes contained a depth of water he could
not fathom with all his leading lines.
AVe have known wells to be sunk both in
Southern Georgia and Florida, in which,
after drilling at this limestone crust with a
crowbar, the bottom would suddenly give
way—the crowbar disappear and the water
rush up in such volume that the well would
nearly fill in a few seconds, while the noise
of a rushing current below was distinctly
heard.
The same phenomena the Times speaks of
—the disappearance and refilling of lakes,
has repeatedly occurred in Middle Florida
on a much large scale. Lake Jackson, near
Tallahassee, has disappeared and reappeared
twice within our recollection, and neighbor
ing lakes have varied greatly in their volume
of water independently of all surface contri
butions.
It is well known that one, anfl we think
two rivers in Florida discharge into the Gulf
by subterranean channels, miles beyond the
coast line, while one of them disappears and
reappears before reaching the coa3t, until it
sinks finally to debouch by a subterranean
outlet into the Gulf of Mexico. The great
Silver Springs of the Ocklawaha and Wa
kulla are nothing but the sudden upburst of
subterranean rivers; and finally we can ac
count for the fact that no stagnant water is
visible in the thousands of little pools and
ponds and lakes in that country, which are
without visible iidet or outlet, only on the
theory that they all find change and circula
tion by subterranean channels.
New Era in the South.-—The New York
Herald thinks that the recent decision of the
U. S. Supreme Court in the “Grant Parish
Case,’’ from Louisiana, declaring the enforce
ment law unconstitutional, “not only annuls
the enforcement act, but puts that provision
of the Constitution in abeyance which
authorizes Congress to . pass laws for the
protection of negro equality. After the
unscrupulous abuses of legislation practised
by the Republican party under color of that
authority, and which the Supreme Court has
condemned, the Democrats are not likely to
to consent to any further legislation on the
subject. The negroes, for the ensuing two
years at least, will have to depend for protec
tion on the State Governments. There will
be no further interposition of Federal authori
ty supported by Federal bayonets to support j
their rigthts or redress their wrongs. This ;
important decision marks the begining of a !
new era in the political relations of the |
negro race in our Southern States.”
RPGreat damage has been done by the
recent storms in Alabama.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Toceoa Herald calls for street lamps for
that city.
A Gilmer county man named Milton killed two
hundred and twenty-eight squirrels m three
months last year.
The annual meeting of the Georgia Press Con
vention will be held in Savannah on Wednesday,
May 10th, at 12 o’clock M.
The Covington Star wants Judge Floyd nomina
ted for Congress, and wants the nominating con
vention to meet in Covington.
Jackson, Miss., March 30. —Aares has resigned,
and the impeachment proceeding* have stopped.
Col. J. M. Stone. President pro tcm. of the Senate,
is in the Gubernatorial chair.
The orphan child of David F. Mills, deceased,
late associate edtor of the Toccoa Herald , it is
said, will receive two thousand dollars from the
knights of Honor, a society of which he very re
cently became a member.
A Remarkable Case.— There are five highly
respectable ladies in Oconee county—sisters—who
are widows. We do not remember to have’ heard
of a similar case. — So. Watchman.
“ General” Joe Morris, who was sent from
Burke county to Stephen’s Pottery, was suddenly
seized on Tuesday by a number of men, supposed
to be colored, and taken off into the woods. It is
supposed he has been liberated.
The young ladies of the LaGrange Female Col
lege have unanimously resolved to wear .no kind
of dresses but calico at their next commencement.
Nine cheers and a tiger for the LaGrange girls.
Boys, that’s the place to go for a wife.
The daughter of Rev. Jordan Flanders, of Eman
uel county, on Saturday last went into the field
where her brother-in-law was felling timber. Un
conscious of her danger, she nan under the falling
tree, and was so terribly bruised and mutilated
that no hopes of her recovery are entertained.—
Sandersvitle Herald.
The Hamilton Journal says :—A little negro
died on the plantation of Mr. ffobert Johnson a
few days ago, who was thirteen months old and
weighed only one pound. It was once a healthy
child and weighed twelve or fifteen pounds, hut
was stricken with paralysis and dwindled down
to a perfect skeleton.
The Georgia Republican Executive Committee
met in Atlanta last Thursdav night. There was
a full attendance of the members. A call was
issued for a Convention to he held in Macon, May
3d. to nominate a candidate for Governor and an
electorial ticket, and to select delegates to the
National Convention at Cincinnati.
The Journal says that Mr. Welch, of Hamilton,
proposes to swim a mile against any man in the
United States. He proposes to swim only in
fresh water, and says he will wager one thousand
dollars on each swim, and will meet any man on
the half way ground. He also proposes to dive
against any one who may feel disposed to show
his pluck, and will also go one thousand dollars,
or any other amount on that.
A minister residing in our midst, was compelled
to give up his horse and walk to his appointments,
because the members failed to furnish corn to feed
it. They sing beautifully :“I want to go to hea
ven. when I die, when I die !” Just imagine how
St. Peter will look when one of these close-fisted
roosters comes making a fuss at the gate up yon
der ! It is not improbable that he will hit that
loathsome and mean professor of religion with a
key under the ear. It would be just like him. for
he’s notoriously quick tempered.— Ellijay Cou
rier.
Mr. E. K. Corley left his home, five miles from
Camilla, on Tuesday of last week, in the after
noon, with his axe upon his shoulder for the pur
pose of felling some dead trees near his fence that
had taken fire from the woods being on tire. After
cutting down several it is supposed that he must
have sat down or reclined near a log that had ta
ken fire, when a large dead tree, the top of which
had been previously broken off by some storm,
fell upon him and mashed the body into the
ground. The dry sap upon the tree which had
fallen upon him took fire, and although the body
was forty odd feet from the root of the tree, be
fore his body was discovered the fire had reached
and burned it into a crisp and unrecognizable
mass.
New Daily Paper.
On Sunday morning next, the daily Atlan
ta Times will make its first appearance. It
is said Col. J. I). Waddell is to he the politi
cal editor, and Col. C. F. Hoge and Hope
Smith Esq., with other gentlemen not named
are to control the other departments. It is
to be an independent Democratic paper, not
pledged to an}' candidate for Governor.
Mind Your P’s.
An exchange tells its readers how “to mind
their p’s” in the following paragraph : Per
sons who patronize papers should pa} r prompt
ly, for the pecuniary prospects of the press
have a peculiar power in pushing forward
public prosperity. If the printer is paid
promptly, and his pocketbook kept plethoric
by prompt paying patrons, he puts his pen
to his paper in peace, his paragraphs are more
pointed, he paints his pictures of passing
events in more pleasing colors, and the pe
rusal of his paper is a pleasure to the people.
Paste this piece of proverbial philosophy in
some place where all persons can perceive it.”
the giving way of a reservoir dam
at Worcester, Mass., last week, several mills
and many houses were swept away by the
flood, which rushed down the ravine twenty
leet high in a solid mass. The narrowness
of the ravine emptied the reservoir gradually,
requiring three hours to exhaust it. No lives
lost. The losses to the city of Worcester are,
dam and reservoir. $125,000; besides the
summer supply of water. Other losses,
$220,000. One man and two boys are miss
ing.
“ The Lost Cause.”—A magnificent picture
14 x 18 inches in size, beautiful in design and ar
tistic in execution. It represents a confederate
soldier after the war returning to his home, which
he finds lonely and desolate. In front of the
ruined cottage," telling a sad tale of the miseries
of war, are two graves with rude crosses, on one
of which some friendly hand has hung a garland.
To the right the calm river and the rising moon
indicate peace and rest. The stars, seen through
the trees, represent the Southern Cross. It is a
picture that will touch every Southern heart, and
should find a place in every Southern home. One
copy sent by mail, mounted on a roller and post
paid, on receipt of 25 cents, or three for 60 cents.
Address John Burrow & Cos., Bristol. Tenn.
Agents wanted everywhere to sell our :heap and
popular pictures. $> to 810 perdav easily made.
No money required until pictures are sold. Send
stamp for catalogue and terms. April-8-Gt.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
Wl LL bo sold, on the first, Tuesday in May
next, before the Court House door, in the
town of Jefferson, within the legal hours of sale,
the following properly, to-wit :
five hundred acres of land, more or less, on the
waters of Curry's creek, adjoining lands of J E
Johnson, Johnson Freeman. J W Nicholson, and
others ; lying on each side of the road leading from
Jefferson to Athens; three miles from the former
place. Supposed to be about 150 acres of said
land in cultivation, the balance in old fields and
forest land, with a splendid dwelling and neces
sary out-buildings thereon. Levied on as the prop
erty of the defendant, E M Thompson, by virtue
of a fi fa issued from the Superior Court of said
county. M W illiamson vs E M Thompson. Prop
erty pointed out by plaintiff. Notice served on E
M Thompson, tenant in possession, as the law di
rects, ap!B J. S. HUNTER. Sh’ff.
STILL ON HAND!
N. B. STARK,
BOOT and Shoe maker, at the old and well
known corner. Northwest of the Court House,
under the Forest News office, is still ready to
make to order or repair Roots and Shoes of all
sizes, shapes and qualities. CIIEAP FOR C ASH.
January 20th,1875.
Jleiu Jliluerfecniptih
IMPORTANT Notion
CALLAWAY HOUs*
No. Iff} and IT Broad Sfrref ™
Atlanta, G-a.,
HAS changed hands, and re-fnmih*,i ,
of rooms and first-class hoard St
visiting Atlanta, will find it to their adv* ,
patronize this house, as it will be kept in e h
style at reasonable prices. Everythin*?**
done to make it the home of euests T*]! l*
Porters at all trains. C Mill in
April Bth, 1870. ld U * V ' '
ESTRAY NOTICE AND Ifni;
GEOJR GIA , JA CKSON CO UNTY.
AGREEABLY to an order of the Ordi
said county, the following proper tv . - v *
ed as estrays by J S P Ritchey and I) M'
holders, in 255th District, G M, will be
the premises of LII Shankle, the taker n • 0,1
county, on Friday, April 14th, to the hiehll!?*
der, to-wit: Three barrow hogs • two* ot\
marked with a crop and hole in right ear iS
crop in left ear—the right ear mark suddcHlM
be torn out by dog ; one spotted black and wK **
the other two of a dark or smutty color whh llt ’
white about the neck and shoulders - soni j **
years old. Valued by appraisers at’sio V
cash. apl 8 J. S. HUNTER, Sh’f?*’
Q.EOKOU, Jackson C ounty
George Gathright vs. Sallie Gathright—lik-i,
Divorce. Rule to Perfect Service * or
It appearing to the Court that the defend
does not reside in this county, and it fnrth
pearing that she does not reside in this St*?
is, on motion of counsel, ordered that said dj ’ j'
ant appear and.answer at the next term of or
Court, else that the case he considered in def& i
and the plaintiff allowed to proceed. \ n A , '
further ordered that this Rule be publishedia*!
Forest News once a month for four months '
suant to the next term of this Court Thku .
3d, 1876. M. M. PITTMAN, ITff’s At?!*
Granted : * I*
GEO. D. RICE, Judge S. C.
A true extract from the minutes of Jackson >
perior Court, February Term, 1876.
march2s T. H. NIBLACK, Clerk.
500 Hides Wanted
TO ON SHARES.
HAVING one of the best Tanneries in a.
State, a good supply of Bark, and a first-rate
Tanner employed, I want all the hides I can gto
Tail on SharcM, onc-linli for the etkrr
hide will be carefully marked and bookec
and satisfactorily accounted for. Hides bough
at Athens prices. I have no partner, nor a fen*
process.
1 am sawing every day, the very best Pine and
Poplar Lumber, of all dimensions, cheap for Cash
Citizens of Jackson county, give me a trial, md i
will guarantee satisfaction.
F. S. SMITH.
Jetierson, Ga., March 18, 1876. ] m
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY. W. H. M'CARTY,
XT AHAFFEY & McCARTY,
Iyl a t tor neys at LAW,
J EFFERSON, JACKSON Cos. Ga.,
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt.
tention given to* all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. OctSOlv
BIXBY’S
“BEST”
BLACKING.
A COMBINED POLISH BLACKING ANO LEATHER PRE
SERVATIVE.
Experts and Professional Bootblacks in New
York, and all other large cities where this Black
ing: has been introduced, acknowledge iUsvptmn
ity over all imported or domestic Blackings in use,
as an Elegant Polish and CoNSERVEK of Leather,
NOTICE.
Bixby’s “ Best” Blacking lias a Red and Him
Label. Do not he deceived by accepting oar
“Standard” Blacking in place of “Best.” The
Standard has the label stamped into the tin cow.
This brand is made to compete with other Ameri
can and French Blackings, but is inferior to oar
“ Best.”
Bixhy’s “ Best” Blacking will sore its (ntin
cost in the wear of your hoots and shoes.
HOUSEKEEPERS TRY
Bixby’s French Laundry Blue,
IN SIFTING BOXES
The most convenient and economical package,
and the only combined Bleaching and Blueing
Powder in use.
S. HUE. BIXBY Sc CO.,
Ulan u tincturing: ClirmUt*.
Nos. 173 & 175 Washington St., New York.
April Ist.
PURE TEAS—IN SEALED PACKAGES,
Direct from China and Japan.
DELIVERED at YOUR OWN DOOR, fresh from
the GARDENS of their GROWTH.
Imported direct by
THE "W" ELLS
TEA COMPANY,
201 Fulton St., New York.
— :0:
The difficulty of getting pure Teas of really w
quality in the United States, has induced T®
V\ ells Tea Company to ship their Teas in seal
ed packages direct from the gardens in which the)
are grown, and as a further guarantee of their m
ing delivered in their genuine state, they entru>-
the sale of them only to reliable Agents—then*®*
of the nearest Agent to you is printed at the i OO,
of this advertisement—so that the Teas
through none hut responsible hands, and will
delivered at your own door as fresh as when tW
left the gardens of China and Japan ; thepn#
so is printed on each package, so that no error tL
occur.
Everybody buys Tea. kf
Everybody wishes to buy it at first hands—
best qualities at the lowest prices. i
Everybody desires—when they find a Tea &
able to their tastes—to be certain of getting ,D
same article always. .
You can have all these advantages by bur®?
THE WELLS TEA COMPANY
Because they import their own Teas. an<l
them at wholesale prices—without the six or fl ?
intermediate profits usually charged. _ . t
; Because the quality is better at the price
j is sold by any other house. „ .
Because their long experience in Chm*
-Japan enables them to make better selections " j
ordinary Dealers—and to import them withgw
advantages. o,
Because they absolutely guarantee the <|
of all their goods—and keep them to one ®
able standard, so that you can always re.
i them. * jd
Because they do business for cash
therefore make no extra profit from good cus
ers to cover losses by bad debts. j
Because their Agents arc responsible
liable men—who deliver Teas precisely as n
from the Company. ir jll
Because having once tried these Teas. y oU
not need to go elsewhere hereafter. _. f r-
WANTED— A Druggist, or other first-c
chant, in every town and city in the I n,t ,wW for
to whom will be given the SOLE AGD 1
that localit}'.
Address, for terms and full particulars.
THE H Eli> TEA
P. O. Box 4560. 201 Fulton St., New * or
April Ist. -
SEND 25c. to GEO. P. ROWELL *
York, for Pamphlet of 100 pages, co ° ho inf
lists of 3,000 newspapers, and estimates jj
cost of advertising. *
-—.— yftißii 1
WlOa day at home. Agents wanu'U. (} ,
- * ami terms free. TRIE £ PP-,
Maine. * “• ' ma