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DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for (’ash. Call and examine their stock.
June 1!) ly
Medical Notice.
Hr. .1. O. EH'VF having located in Jeffer-
D son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
respectfully tenders bis services to the citizens of
the town and county in all the different branches
-t the profession. After a flattering experience
of nineteen years, he feels justified in saying that
hfisprepared to successfully treat any curable
disease incident to our climate. He is, for the
present, boarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
uiimove his family here soon.
with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
can be seen in the office of T. 11.
•'•BLACK, Esq., C. S. C. octlti
VILE Y C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
Hon in■> a iion iieo,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
. Jefferson, Ga.
"m practice together in all the Courts of Jack
's and adjacent counties, except the Court of
c.nary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
V L IVIU.U USOI,
i., watchmaker and jeweler.
.. Dr. \\ ni. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
ttnens. Ga. All work done in a superior manner,
‘“‘ Warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
kggAS][. e July 10-4)in.
! F. IVOJ i’OKIK Attorney at Law,
’ HOMER, BANKS Co s., Ga.
'ni practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
‘ ( prompt attention to all business entrusted to
4 V are - Collecting claims a specialty.
19th. 1875. ly
<• OAKES,
n ‘URXESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
. , an, l >ood buggy and wagon harness always
Repairing same, bridles, saddles, Ac.,
ii >hort notice, and cheap for cash.
Jnel2 —ly
‘ J 4D)YD, I J. B. SILMAN,
Di n Ov ‘ n ?ton, Ga. Jefferson, Ga.
|' u> 'h a su.n ti,
~, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
l' ra °d e e together in the Superior Courts of
.'j : ‘ties of Jackson and Walton.
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\\ *• I‘ilti:, Attornev sit I<uw.
Prs,,* JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
p r J e> "* !l b the Courts, State and Federal.
“ab '} ilnr * thorough attention given to all
' ' le gal business in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875 }
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SUROEON DENTIST.
J u i.. , Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
1875. 6m
aQ 4- f \ per day at home. Samples
n VV vf worth 81 free. SiiNSON &
"Diand, Maine. marll
F. P. TALMADGE,
DEALER IN
AND IMPORTED WATCHES,
'locks, jewelry, silver j plated ware,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C.
CLOCKS jewelry repaired
In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornamental and Ilain Letter Engraving a Specialty.
1 ION— College Avenue, one door from the Bookstore Corner, GA
\ April lst, 1876 ly
THE FOREST NEWS.
Ihe People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Picture Gallery.
Up-Stairs, between the'Billy Thompson corner
cind Stanley cfj- Pinson’s.
A. H. BROCK,
I) ESPECTL 1 LLA announces to the ladies and
J.A gentlemen of Jefferson and vicinity,*that his
Battery is now open for the accomodation of all
in 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. f 12
SPRINGDALE NURSERIES,
ATHENS, GA.,
AV. HTJDGrIN, Proprietor.
HAS now ready for delivery a splendid lot of
Pot-Grown Plants, suitable for Parlor or Con
servatory decoration, at New York prices. Nurs
ery and Green House, corner Rock-Spring Avenue
and Bobbin-Mill Street. marll tf
THE REASON WHY
J. H. HU&GINS
Sells r foods cheaper noiv, is because he
has adopted the
CASH SYSTEM!
The ready cash enables him to buy goods very
low, and consequently he is offering to the public
every thing in his line, such as
All lands of Crockery and Glass-ware , Lamps,
Chandeliers, Farmers' Lanterns , Kerosene
Oil, at wholesale and retail; Family and
Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods, Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Saddles, Harness
and Leather.
And also a large stock of IJLIIE, both for build
ing and fertilizing purposes, all very low for the
CASH.
AV hen 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 CROCK ERY and G CASS
AVA lIE, 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, lor building
or composting with fertilizers, go to
J. 11. HUGGINS’,
No. 7, Broad. St., Athens.
the place. marlS
TAX RETURNS
For 1876.
IN ORDER that I may get my Digests complet
ed and returned according to law, mv 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 required
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 value 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 all men.
I feel, fellow-citizens, truly grateful to you for
placing nie in the position I now occupy. I feel
that the right arm which to-day bleaches on the
gory Jield of Benlonrille, North Carolina, was lost
in defense of the homes and ladies whom I now
love and respect.
1 am, fellow-citizens, your obedient servant,
GEORGE AY. BROAVN, T. R. J. C.
Below will be found the list of my appointments
for 1870. 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 oth.
Thompson’s Mills, AYcdnesday, May 3d.
Harrisburg. AYcdnesday, April 12th.
McLester’s Mills, Monday, May Ist.
AYilliamson’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 11th.
White's Mills, Friday, May 12th.
Harmony Grove, Friday, April 14th ; Saturday,
May 13th; Monday, May loth.
AVilson’s, Monday, April 17th, and Tuesday and
Wednesday. May 16th and 17th.
Miller’s, Tuesday, April 11th. and Tuesdaj r and
AVednesday, 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 AVednesday 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, May 4th and sth.
Farmers will please come prepared to
make returns of the quantity of ‘‘Crops produced’’
last year, and of the amount of land to be culti
vated in the various “Crops planted” for this
year.
* marlß G. AY. BROAVN, T. R. of J. C.
Jackson Mortgage Sheriff's
Sale.
\vriLL be sold on the first Tuesday in May
'▼ 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 b) r the
main street leading towards Gainesville, on the
South by J E Randolph’s home lot. on the M est
by a hack 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 R A (lowan house and
lot. Levied on as the property of P F Lamar, Sr.
bv virtue of a mortgage li fa issued from the Su
perior Court of said countv in favor of Thomas R
Holder vs P F Lamar. Property pointed out in
said mortgage fi fa. Notice served on P I Lamar,
defendant, and C C Thompson, tenant in posses
sion, as the law directs. „
marll (810) J. 8. HI N TER. Sh IF.
job Printing at reasonable rates
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1876.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The Chinese Question.
The learned men who conduct command
ing Eastern journals cannot understand why
the people of this coast are opposed to the
influx of a race which all admit possess pa
tient industry and thrift; who, as a rule, are
peaceable citizens, and who ask for nothing
except what they can earn. They think it
is but a prejudice of education which makes
us inveigh against the Chinese, something
akin to that spirit which in the old slave
days made men of the South believe they
were right in -possessing property in man,
and in believing in classes. They can see
no taint in the presence of the Chinese, and
wonderingly ask why we, in a country where
the cheap labor of innumerable hands is
needed, oppose the very means by which our
wants can be supplied. A\ r e tell them that
white men cannot compete with the Chinese,
and they sneer at us, and as much as say, “if
you strong Anglo-Saxons will never compete
with this inferior and half barbarous race,
then the sympathy of the world cannot go
out to you if you are undone by Chinamen.”
And yet that is the point wherein the whole
trouble lies. The Chinese live on food which
the white man could not swallow if he were
famishing; he sleeps in cribs that would suf
focate a white laborer; and, with all restric
tions taken off, there is not a trade of the
white man’s that the Chinese could not in
five years monopolize. There is no inven
tion in the race, but their faculty for imita
tion is marvellous. Show them once how a
boot is made and they forever after will make
boots as nearly like their first model as one
bird’s nest is like another. In all the
western Pacific islands and on the Indian
coast they have driven every competitor away,
and they control the trade there; neither
English, German, nor Dutch—nor even the
Jews—can compete with them. For our
good, on this coast, we wish a dozen ship
loads of coolies could be landed in New
York—enough to make a Chinese quarter on
some street in that city. It would do some
Eastern editors good to see how they live
and to find out how one of their dens smells.
They would begin then to realize that if there
were a million of them, instead of a few hun
dred, New York city would be poorer instead
of richer for their presence. They would
begin to realize that no newspaper would
ever be subscribed for by even one of all that
million ; that no public work intended for the
health, prosperity, or intelligence of the peo
ple would ever be helped by them. They
would see their trades were falling into their
hands, but that the public somehow were not
prospering; see that from their quarter of
the city the other races were drawing away
as from a pestilence, and would understand
that in case of danger a million of these half
made men would be no defence. This is
simply a business look, but going further
they would see that every woman of the race
was both a harlot and a slave ; that they were
being bought and sold daily, and that every
effort of courts and officials could not check
the vice for a moment. This might be ex
tended indefinitely. It might be shown that
under our laws they but follow the law of
their own country in all their relations with
each other, and that there is not power
enough in either police or courts to change
this state of affairs for a moment. The
European soon merges with our people, and
it is hard to tell after a generation or two
whether a man is of English, German, or any
other European descent. But the Chinese
have not changed for thirty centuries, and all
other lands except China are to him and his
foreign shores forever. Their presence here
now, and the possibilities of the evils they
may bring to our people in the future, is a
more serious problem than the American race
have yet been called upon to decide. —Nevada
Enterprise.
How Indians Cure Meat and Dress Skins.
When her lord has killed a buffalo the wo
man’s work begins. She has to skin it, the
meat to secure, and all to pack upon ponies
or mules, and carry to camp, where the meat
must be cured. This is done by cutting it
into thin sheets and hanging it over poles in
the hot sunshine, where it is soon dried thor
oughly ; then it is packed fresh in packages
of about one hundred pounds each, and en
closed in a nice folding sack of thick buffalo
skin, prepared especially for the purpose.
This is not dressed down thin after being
fleshed, but well tanned, and of the full thick
ness of the skin ; the hair side nicely orna
mented with paint, for the outside of the sack.
This is cut out like a huge envelope, so that
the ends and sides will fold over whatever is
put in them, and secured by strong buckskin
strings, lty being thick it retains its form,,
and is very useful for earning other things
besides meat and tallow. After the meat is
taken care of the skin must lie looked after.
Those taken at this season of the year are
mostly dressed for lodges. They are first
staked on a smooth spot of ground and water
put upon them, when they are ready for flesh
ing. This consists in removing the flesh with
an instrument made of a straight bar of iron,
about a foot in length, flattened at one end
and filed to an edge. This being grasped in
the hand, and a succession of blows given, the
work slowly proceeds. The skin is then dried,
after which the hair is removed in a dry state,
and the skin reduced to the proper thickness
by dressing down on the hair side. This is
done with an instrument made by firmly tying
a flat piece of steel, filed to a beveled edge at
one end, and with the corners rounded, to a
large prong of a deer’s horn. This is so
trimmed, in connection with the body of the
horn, as to form an elbow, and is used a little
as a carpenter uses his adze. This work is
usually done in the cool of the morning. The
brains of the animal, having been properly
taken care of for the purpose, are now soaked
and squeezed by the hand until reduced to a
paste, and applied to both sides of the skin,
which is afterwards worked and rubbed until
flexible. The preparation of robes is from
winter skins, and differs from the foregoing
only in being dressed down on the flesh side,
so as to leave the wool and hair upon the
robe, and is more thoroughly worked and
scoured by means of a sharp-gritted stone.
The key to the Penitentiary—whisky.
Ingenuity of Burglars.
At the robbery of the Grafton (Mass.) Bank,
the tools used were so numerous and bulky
as to make a fair load for a horse to draw.
The burglar decides to try the drill, but the
metal walls of the safe are of such hard temper
that an ordinary drill is powerless on them,
lie is ready for this, and sets the “combina
tion blow-pipe” to work. This is a blow-pipe
which directs on the spot to be attacked a
flame of combined oxygen and nitrogen gases,
and the intense heat softens the metal to that
degree that the drill makes a speedy impres
sion upon it. The hole once made, the blast
is introduced, and the safe blown open. But
possibly even the combination blow-pipe fails,
but the modern burglar is read} 7 - with another
appliance. lie has an air-pump to which two
rubber tubes are attached. To the end of
these a metal trough, with flat edges, is join
ed. lie places this trough flat against the
safe, so as to cover the joint of the door in
the frame, and carefully fixes it there with
putty. AA'ith the same material he stops up
and makes air-tight the remainder of the
crack, only leaving one space uncovered at
the bottom of the door. The whole safe is
now practically a part of the air-pump, lie
begins to pump; the air in the safe is ex
hausted, and more rushes in through the un
covered space under the door. Here our
burglar holds a paper or card on which fine
gunpowder is spread, and the rush of air car
ries this inside the safe. The pumping is
continued till the requisite charge is intro
duced, and it is then exploded.
The blow-pipe and the air-pump are the
latest as they are the most dangerous tools
in flic burglar’s outfit, and as soon as they
were known, which has not been a great
while, it became evident that sales must have
some new appliance specially adapted to re
sist them. Safes made only to withstand the
attacks of steel wedges, crowbars, and sledges,
would give way at once before the more sub
tle and silent operations of these newest of
tools. Therefore the safe man reconstructed
the doors of his safe, and made them fit into
grooves which were packed with rubber, so
that between the doublings of the grooves
and the great weight of the door, when it
swung in and was locked, the elastic material
made the joint perfectly air-tight. Against
this the air-pump was useless ; but the blow
pipe was not so easily provided for.
To meet this it was necessary to discover
some new material, or some new combination
of old. The makers of safes claim that they
have found this in the metal called “Frank
linite,” a mineral composed of peroxide of
iron, oxide of zinc, and oxide of manganese,
in appearance much like the magnetic oxide
of iron. It is found in considerable quantity
only in Sussex county, N. J. The peculiarity
of the metal which fits it specially for the
walls of safes is that it hardens on cooling to
its original density : and thus the burglar is
a little better otf after using his blow-pipe
than he was before ; whereas other metals are
so softened that his drill goes right through
them. The use of Franklinite and the pack
ed joints are the latest of the improvements
in safes, and it is claimed that safes so con
structed are proof against anything that the
burglar can bring to bear on them, so far as
is now known. But it should he remembered
that if the safe-maker is ahead now, his friend,
the burglar, may pass him in the race again,
and, finding some new tools, rob the best safe
made. Then the safe-maker must start again
•from the new ground, and so it goes on.
The Duel Between Clay and Randolph.
The eccentric duel between Clay and Ran
dolph has had many different versions, but
the following are the facts : Randolph ap
peared bright and early on the ground, dress
ed in a morning gown and slippers. After
the distance was measured off and the an
tagonists had taken their positions, the se
conds said, “Are you ready, gentlemen?”
Then followed the usual “One—two —three.”
Clay, being an expert marksman, took deadly
aim and fired, carrying away a portion of
Randolph’s garment, in close proximity to
his back. At the same time Randolph dis
charged his pistol in the air, but, finding that
lie was not wounded, and seeing the rent
made in his garment, he ran up to his oppo
nent, and at the same time extending his
hand, and in his shrill, squeaking voice, said :
“Henry Clay! Henry Clay! you owe me a
new coat!” Clay accepted the proffered hand,
and in his elegant and dignified manner, re
plied : “ John Randolph. I thank God Al
mighty lam no deeper in your debt.” After
this event the great statesmen were fast
friends until the death of Randolph, which
soon after took place in Philadelphia, on
which occasion Clay was at his bedside, and
one of the chief mourners at his funeral.
writer in the Horticulturist buysbohes
of a butcher at a dollar the hundred pounds,
and considers them the cheapest fertilizer he
can obtain. lie transforms them into meal
by the following simple process : “I have a
large water-tight hogshead standing out of
doors, near the kitchen. In the spring I
cover the bottom about six inches deep with
dry soil. On this I put a layer of bones,
about the same depth, and cover them entire
lv with unleaehed ashes. On these
another layer of bones, then ashes, and so on
till the hogshead is full. I leave it then ex
posed to tlffi sun and rain all summer and
winter till the next spring. Then on remov
ing the contents of the hogshead, I find near
-1 v all the bones so soft that they will crum
ble to powder under a very light pressure,
and they give a nice little, pile of most
valuable manure ready for immediate use.
Any of the bones not sufficiently subdued I
return to the hogshead again, for another
twelve months’ slumber.”
Mary Walker was never heard to swear but
once, and that was when she got her pants on
wrong side before.
Take I‘artieular Notice.
We will be under lasting obligations to subscri
bers who from time to time want tlieir papers
changed from one office to another, if they would
state not alone where they want the paper sent,
but also at ichat office they have been receiving it
heretofore. This would save a great deal of trou
ble. of which the subscriber is not aware, perhaps.
Hon. Montgomery Blair’s Letter on the
Presidency.
Washington, March 18, 1876.
Dear Sir : I have your letter requesting
for publication the views expressed by me in
a recent conversation with respect to the
pending Presidential contest. The sum of
them was that we ought to continue the con
test as we began in 1872, when we agreed to
forego all other issues save that of reform in
the administration of the Government. The
adversary then struggled and still strives,
with the help of the lion. Pen. Ilill, to keep
alive the issues of the war for the purpose of
prolonging abuses which, however great, go
unchecked while sectional strife holds the
public mind. We did not carry the elections
in 1872, because we were not fully successful
in making the issue of reform. Put we made
such a beginning that the victory of our ad
versaries has proved a barren one. We so
far succeeded that a show of investigation
had to be made. The Credit Mobilier fraud,
which, though well known before to all public
men, could not command public attention,
now absorbs it. Spoliation was checked.
Jay Cooke & Cos., who had largely advanced
the money to carry the elections, could not
be reimbursed by Congressional indorsement
of the Northern Pacific Railroad bonds, and
therefore failed. The so-called investigating
committees, organized not to convict, were
experts in finding out how not to do it, and
the Departments helped them assiduously ;
but the Independent Press did the work so
effectually that a large Democratic majority
was returned to the present House of Repre
sentatives. Unfortunately this tide of suc
cess, which assured the reformers of the
Government, this year lias been arrested and
turned back by the intrusion into the can
vass, last fall, of another issue, of which the
Radicals have eagerly and successfully
availed themselves. And their effort is to
hold on to that issue, and make the Presi
dential election turn on the question of re
sumption, upon which they have won, instead
of upon the question of reform, upon which
they have lost the day. If they succeed in
this, the result will invariably be unfortunate
for ns. Our friends having been beaten on
this issue, last fall, in the States where anti
resumption was strongest, our vote in New
York, even (without which success for us
would be hopeless,) having been largely af
fected by the attitude of our friends in those
States, no rational mind can fail to see that
such an issue would defeat us.
It is plain, from this brief statement of the
situation, that our success depends upon our
ability to reinstate the issue of reform as the
issue of the canvass ; and it is equally plain
that this is not to be done by resolution, but
by such action as will not only proclaim it.
but will of itself verify it as the issue to all
men.
The nomination of Tilden will, of itself,
force this issue, and make the election turn
upon it. The frinds of other candidates
object to the nomination of a citizen of New
York and claim the nomination for the West.
But Jackson was not selected because he
was a citizen of Tennessee, or Jefferson be
cause he was a citizen of Virginia, or Grant
because he was for a short time in Illinois.
Selection on such ground has no political
significance, and ignores altogether the only
consideration upon which a candidate ought
to be selected, viz., as the representative of
the idea sought to be advanced. My prefer
ence for Tilden is only because his nomina
tion would of itself force on the issue of
reform, which is our sure card in the pending
canvass. I do not doubt that the other
gentlemen spoken of would prove vigorous
reformers, and I have no personal preference
for Tilden over one of them ; but neither of
them is so identified with “reform” in the
public mind as Tilden. They have either not
had the opportunity, or have not availed
themselves of it, to manifest the resolute pur
pose he has shown to purge the State of
fraud and jobbing. They have not joined
hands with political adversaries to overthrow
and arraign and convict as criminals the
master spirits of their own party whilst they
seemed to be impregnably intrenched in the
control of its organization, and have not by
such conduct been lifted into power by the
support of large bodies of political opponents,
even against a republican whose integrity
was not questioned, but who had not mani
fested the same zeal in the cause of reform.
Nor have they, after reaching power, so
signalized their administration by unsparing
war on jobber}'.
By this course Tilden has made himself,
more than any other man of our day, the
representative man of the idea to which the
Democratic party so emphatically pledged
itself in 1872, and his nomination would be
accepted, not only by the Liberal Repub
licans, who then acted with us, but by thous
ands who then held back, as a sure guarantee
that the pledge would be faithfully redeemed ;
and his war record and his financial views
would effectually prevent diversion by false
issues.
The active enmity which Tilden has pro
voked, in his own party, serves only to attest
his fitness for the occasion. No man ever
drove more men out of the Democratic party
than Jackson ; but no man ever recruited it
so rapidly from the true men in the ranks of
his opponents at the same time. And this
vitalizing process must be renewed. The
curse of the Democratic party has been its
Tweeds. The strength of its opponents, who
use Government for class aggrandisement, is
derived from vast expenditure, by corrupting
the peolple in one form or another with their
own money, and by misleading them with
false issues. But Old Bullion never said
anything more true than that “The demo
cratic party, to be strong, must be clean.”
Tilden is the type of the men who were
honored by the party in the days of its
strength ; aDd his nomination being a sure
bond for a return to their policy, will insure
its return to power.
Yours truly,
Montgomery Blair.
Samuel M. Shaw,
Ed. Freeman's Jour ., Cooperstoivn, N. Y.
A little West Point boy had his thighs dis
located the other day by attempting to ride
on the coupling-pole of a wagon.
S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
A Newark Man’s Food.
HOW HE BEGAN TO DIET ON DOGS AND WHY
HE CONTINUES TO DO SO.
Mr. Frank Scheuer lives at 24 Berlin street,
Newark. lie is a laborer in Blanchard’s
tannery, llis fellow-laborers for a time look
ed with envy upon the juicy fresh meat that
Scheuer had for his dinner every day, unable
to understand how he make his small wages
go far enough to support a family and fur
nish himself daily with fresh meat. One day,
in answer to an inquiry, he said : “That is
not mutton ; that is dog’s meat. It is good.
M ill you try it?” They did not try it, al
though they could hardly persuade themselves
that he spoke the truth. Scheuer smiled at
their scruples. He even asked some of his
fellow-laborers to visit him, and when they
did so he pointed to the kennels, in which
were several dogs fattening for the knife.
AY hen the facts were noised abroad they
created no little scandal. The neighbors
wondered how Scheuel had been able to keep
so many dogs, and why he changed them so
often, but none had suspected the truth.
They had very little to do with Mrs. Scheuer
and no feeling of friendship prevented them
from making as mudh talk as they pleased.
As Scheuer and his wife could not understand
the language and the scandalous reports, they
went on fattening, killing and eating dogs.
Complaint of Scheuer’s doings was made
to Newark's Health Inspector, who found
that all that had been alleged against Scheu
er was tfue. but there was no law forbidding
the use of dog’s meat for food. Scheuer told
him candidly that he ate dog meat not be
cause he was poor but because he liked it.
Frank Scheuer was found handling wet
hides in Blanchard’s tannery. He is about
five feet high and very slim build. He an
swered questions without embarrassment or
show of shame.
“Do you eat dog meat because you like it ?”
“Yes; it is the best meat.”
“How long is it since }'ou ate it first?”
“Oh, four or five years before I came from
Germany. A doctor told me to eat a dog
and it would cure my consumption. I did
so, and liked it so well that I have been eat
ing it ever since.”
“AVhat meat is it most like?”
“ Mutton or veal, That is. when the dog is
young. Ifit is old it gets strong, and I have
to season it high with pepper and vinegar.”
“AA'here do you get your dogs ?”
“AVhenever I see a stray dog that looks
hungry, I take it home and feed it until it
gets fat. Then, whenever a person gets tired
of his dog, and wants to get rid of him, I take
him.”
“ Your neighbors don’t seem to like living
alongside of a man who eats dogs ?”
“ Oh, if they don’t like it, let them go away.
They don’t have to eat it. Dog meat is bet
ter than pork, any day. I don’t quarrel with
them because they eat pork.”
A Concord (N. II.) man tried a long time
to open the first postal card he ever received.
The New York Mail says that many of the
brown stockings worn by ladies are so poison
ous as to endanger life. Those who wear
them assume an unlovely yellow color.
“ Don’t you think,” said a husband in a
mild form of rebuke to his wife. “ that wo
men are possessed by the devil ?” “ Yes,”
was the answer, “as soon as they are mar
ried.”
The Deputy Sheriff of Hancock comity will
wager that he can eat one hundred patridges
in one hundred days, with one hundred eggs
thrown in. Come to the scratch, Col. Thorn
ton ; never quail.
A popular entertainment in Thomnsvifleis
to give nickels to little negroes who will dip
their heads in a noggin of molasses and then
fish the money from a tub of flour with their
mouths.
At a little gathering the otfier evening some
body asked a man if he was fond of opera,
lie said he was. passionately. lie always
liked that part where the lad}' rides around
and jumps through the hoops.
Judge Erskine last week sentenced John
Jay. of Lumpkin county, late postmaster, to
the Albany penitentiary.for robbing the mails.
Jay is sixty years old, and the scene in Court
was deeply affecting.
The news from Connecticut gets better ns
it comes. Ingersoll’s (Dem.) majority is 3,-
708; his plurality is 7.310. The Democrats
have a large majority in the Legislature, thus
insuring the election of a United States Sen
ator.
Mr. and Mrs. William Edge, of Laurens
county, have only sixteen living children—
the oldest twenty-seven years of age and the
youngest a baby at the breast. The mother
Is not over thirty-five years old. This is no
Edgeaggeration.
o CIO
A North Carolina lawyer recently tried to
convict a man ofseventeen different offenses,
but he found he had too big a job on hand.
Murder, arson, burglary and robbery were all
the charges that could be proved to the satis
faction of the jury.
A young lady dressed in much false hair
was warbling at the piano, and when her
mother summoned her to assist in some house
hold duties, her rosy lips opened poutingly
and snapped out, “O. do it yourself?” And
then went on singing, “ Kind words can never
die.’ ’ — Norristov:n Herald.
We notice seventy-five cent shirts adver
tised in our city exchanges. We shall never
insult our manhood by getting into as cheap
a rag as that. No ! rather let us continue to
deceive an unsuspecting public with a paper
collar skillfully pinned to the crater of a
close-buttoned vest. —Franklin ( Ky.) Patriot ,
A traveler was lately boasting of the luxury
of arriving at night, after a hard day’s jour
ney, to partake of the enjoyment of a well-cut
ham and the left leg of a goose. “Pray, sir,
what is the peculiar luxury of a left leg?”—
“ Sir. to conceive its luxury, j'ou must find
that it is the only leg that is left!”
John C. Nichols, who procured a horse and
buggy from Dr. Cox, a year ago last January,
for a few hours, to go to a wedding, but who
ran away and sold the horse and buggy, was
arrested in Conyers, on Monday last, and
was brought to Covington yesterday, and
lodged in jail.— Star.
NUMBER 45.