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OY THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. ( VOLUME I. s|]£ fife, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, ll„. Jackson County l*ubli><liiii Compsiiiy. JEFFERSON , JACKSON CO., <?A. t HIT- >*• w * COB - PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING and business editor. terms OF SUBSCRIPTION. one copy 12 months $2.00 a. q “ 1.00 u 3 u 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tr4copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ovk Dollar per square (often lines or less) f r ,he first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents [Jr each subsequent insertion. Advertisements sent without specifica- the number of insertions marked thereon, yjlj | )e published TILL forbid, and charged accordingly. or Professional Cards, of six lines erless. Seven Dollars per annum; and where thev do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Contract Adyrrlisiii^. The following will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in &U cases: SH ARKS. IW. 1 ill. :t ill. <> ill. 12 111. 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Jin. 22, 187b—tf STANLEY & PINSONT JEFFERSON O'A.. 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. Jnel2—j y \\ *• 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 } [) R - ", *. AViE\.AIDLIt, 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.