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Jackson County Publishing Company.
M. Willi am*j>X I N. 11. Pendergrass,
President. | Vice President.
T. 11. NIBL.YCK, S'er'y fy Treas.
Executive Committee.
W. G. IiOWAKD !...Ch'ra.
n. J. N*. Wilson, | K. .J. Hancock,
JEFFERSON, O-A.
N. AI*KIL <‘2, ’7O.
Col. John H. Christy.
It having been suggested by a cotem
porary. that each congressional district of the
State present a name for delegate from the
State at large to the St. Louis Convention,
we take pleasure in offering the name ofllon.
John 11. Christy. Asa member of the State
Democratic Executive Committee from the
ninth district, Col. Christy would prove a
most suitable man, and as a delegate to the
National Convention would doubtless reflect
credit both upon himself and his .State.—
Athens Geor tjinn.
While perhaps, as suitable a gentleman
for the position mijht be ’‘picked up” else
where. it is very doubtful whether a better
nue could be found—we therefore second the
motion. — Man. Ed*. News.
Mood}’ and Sankey are certainly doing
a good work. Nettlcship, the secret service
man who helped organize the safe burglary
conspiracy, is a Moody convert, and inter
lards his confession before the investigating
committee with exhortations. lie has made
a general confession of tnanv crooked things.
Hester, the great Ku-Klux detective in South
Carolina and Alabama, is also a convert, and
is studying for the ministry. What a blessed
.thing it would be for the country if Moody
and Sankey couh.l get hold of Grant, Babcock,
Shepherd and the rest of the Radical ban
ditti.
The terms of twenty-six Senators ex
pire with Grant's administration, and of these
seventeen are Republicans and nine are Dem
ocrats. Of the seventeen States now repre
sented by Republicans, the New York Sun
estimates that the following will elect Repub
licans Senators, viz: lowa. Kansas, Maine,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota. Ne
braska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South
Carolina and Wisconsin, while the six others
are reasonably certain to elect Democrats,
viz: Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, Texas and New Jersey. The nine
States in which the terms of Democratic Sen
ators expire in March next are equally cer
tain to return Democrats. By this calcula
tion the Republicans would have thirtv-eMit
Senators and the Democrats thirty-six, so
Shat a loss of one by the Republicans would
produce a tie. and if the Democrats should
elect a Senator in Wisconsin and South Car
olina they would have a majority. In any
event it promises to be close.
TheNewnan Herald thinks there is some
thing "at the bottom" of the colored emigra
tion from Georgia to Mississippi and Louis
iiana, and remarks." Georgia is hopelessly
gone, so* far as radical party success is con
cerned 1 . Rut the thousands of Georgia ne
groes in Mississippi and Louisiana would be
a welcome and powerful auxiliary to the re
publicans in the approaching elections. After
all. then, may not this emigration scheme be
simply a political movement, wherein the re
publicans are seeking in the future to do what
fhey have always done in the past, make
tools of the negroes to help themselves into
office. \\ e venture that every emigrant
agent sent here is the paid emissary of re
publican political aspirants. Could these
states be regained to the republican party, it
would not only help the republican nominee
for the presidency wonderfully in the count
of cleetorial votes, but it would restore to
power a crowd of hungry leeches who have
heretofore imposed themselves upon the hon
est and oppressed people.”
Judge Floyd for Congress.
The above named gentleman, who has ma
ny friends in Jackson county, having been
suggested as a suitable candidate for Con
gress- from, his District, seems to meet with
quite a favorable endorsement from the peo
ple—that is. if brother Anderson of the Cov
ington Star is not mistaken in his ideas on
the subject. Here is what he says :
“dV e arc gratified to find our nomination
of Hon. John J. Floyd for Congress, week
before last, is meeting with hearty responses
*f approval from other parts of the district.
The campaign is beginning to open in earn
est,. and if the friends of Judge Floyd in the
lower part of the district will do their duty,
his nomination by the convention will be a
sure and easy thing. The upper end of the
district may be counted on as being solid for
him, while his- friends in the lower counties,
we believe, will carry such a weight of influ
ence into the convention as will insure his
selection as the standard bearer for the dis
trict. The ball is opening. Let the friends
©f Judge Floyd be up and doing.”
We notice this matter not that we would
interfere in-the least with the political affairs
of the 6th. district, hut simply because, as
first n&mnrked, the Judge has man}’ friends
among ocr readers in Jackson and couuties
adjoining, who would, no doubt, be gratified
at his nomination-and election.
i The recent decision of the Supreme
Court on the homestead qusestion is very
unfortunate for the women and children, and
we regret that it is a law. No doubt it was
the honest intention of the constitution ma
kers to protect the women and children who
have no voice in law making against rapa
cious creditors on one hand and thriftless
and improvident fathers and guardians on the
other. —Fort Vulley Mirror.
Messrs. W kittle & Bliss, two Evangel
ists, have been creating quite a sensation: in
Augusta-—in. their way—holding religious
services three times a day, morning, after
boon and evening.
Correspondence of the Forest News.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Washington. I). C., April 15, 1876.
. AN ADMINISTATIOX THUG.
The labyrinth of Crete, with all its my
riads of meanderings and deceitful snares to
mystify and eonfnse him who wa9 90 unfor
tunate as to penetrate its depths, would be a
fitting symbol of the tortuous and dangerous
path now travelled by General Babcock, late
Private Secretary of the President. It is
but a few weeks ago that this precious
scoundrel, aided by Pierreponfs letter to
Dyer, and the moral influence of the Admin
istration. escaped the just punishment of his
connection with the whiskey frauds in St.
Louis, and returned here, confident that the
skeletion of his past sin was buried beyond
resurrection, and blindly secure in the cer
tainty of future immunity. But he is already
brought face to face with another crime, a
thousand-fold darker than the former; and
for which he will be likely to pay the severest
penalty. The developments in the celebrat
ed and infamous “Safe Burglary case,” as
brought out before the committee of investi
gation. point to Babcock, beyond the possi
bility of a doubt, as the author and prime
mover in a plot which, in all its phases,
would do credit to the malice and ingenuity
of a race of Thugs. Whiteley, who was for
merly Chief of the U. S. Treasury Detective
Force, swore before the Committee that he
was sent for by Babcock, and commissioned
to employ men for the job of blowing open
the safe in the District Attorney's office, and
abstracting the records therefrom. The de
tails of the burglary have already been given
to the country, and it is gratifying to know
that two or three of this gang have been
induced, at last, to give the facts in the case,
and to fix the crime where it belongs Take
it altogether, I do not know of an individual
who stands a fairer chance to spend the
remainder of his days in the Albany Peniten
tiary than this same “Sylph,” unless his
chum, the President, should interpose with
the executive pardon. Harrington, the Asst.
District Attorney at the time ofllie burglary,
was also proved to be “particeps criminis ,”
and will be indicted.
A HUNGRY ASPIRANT FOR PRESIDENTIAL
HONORS.
The paralytic blood-besmeared shirt-waver
from Indiana is probably the most eager of
all the Presidential aspirants. It is believed
here that, he was mainly instrumental in the
publication which appeared on the 12th,
charging Blaine with having improperly and
corruptly received $64,000 from the Pacific
railroad company. The fact that this charge
was published on the 12th inst., and that
the Virginia convention to nominate dele
gates to the Republican convention at Cincin
nati was held on the same day. gives color to
the statement; as the delegates were about
equally divided between Blaine and Morton.
The latter takes every occasion to manufac
ture capital for himself in this contest. He
writes and dictates articles for the press
calculated to show his superior claims to the
honor of a nomination, and. in fact, omits
no opportunity to sav a good word for O. P.
M. In order to secure the influence of the
delegates from the District of Columbia, he
vehemently advocates suffrage here: and, to
that end, introduced into the Senate a joint
resolution, on the 12th inst. It is almost
needless to sav that the lower class of
Republicans, who preponderate here, are in
favor of suffrage; while the respectable
portion of the citizens, without regard to
party, don’t want that sweet .boon at auv
price.
IILATNE KILLED OFF.
Mr. Pendleton is not to be alone, it seems,
in the ruin of bis presidential aspirations.
It. appears that Mr. Blaine, so good, so irre
proachable. who comes from the Prohibiton
State, has been soiling his immaculate fingers
with filthy lucre. On December 16, 1871,
$64,000 of money belonging to the Union
Pacific R. R. Cos. found its wav into the
hands of some mysterious individual, who.
according to a prominent banker of India
napolis. was no less a man than the ex-
Speaker. The particulars are published in
the Indianapolis Sentinel of April 11; and
the article concludes thus :
"Mr. Harrison, the banker in question, lias
been asked for a statement of facts; but
declines to say more than that, if brought
before a Congressional committee, he will
tell all he knows about it, without conceal
ment.”
Here we have a Democratic Roland for
the Republican Oliver, and, in view of all
the circumstances, and the assumption of
such extraordinary purity” above other men,
on the part of Mr. Blaine, two texts of Scrip
ture would seem to be appropriate : “Many
shall be called but few chosen,” and “Let
him who is without sin, cast the first stone.”
Blaine is not the first victim, “by a large
majority,” of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company. In fact, these railroads have a
manner of killing off politians which is quite
artistic, and is much to be preferred, on
philanthropise principles, to their horrible
boiler explosions, running over embank
ments. and plunging through bridges.
In Close Quarters.
On last Tuesday a man rode into the town
of Elberton and put up at the hotel. He re
gistered his name as William Jones, of North
Carolina. During the day he unwittingly
let it be known that ne was a revenue official
on business. He at first said he was a horse
trader. That night a number of men took
Jones, or, as his real name proved to be, Car
ter—from the hotel, and after shaving his
head pretty closely, put him in a hogshead,
and heading it up, wrote a lot of fancy letters
on the head and .covered the barrel with hie
roglyphics, &c. He remained in this fix
nearly all night and was released the next
morning and sent on his way rejoicing. In
the meantime his horse had been taken from
the stable and its mane and tail shaved as
close as a young mule’s, lie pledged his
word that the next time he came on business
he would come properl}’ clothed and backed,
and not sail under false colors. He was re
ally not air officer, but a spy, or informer,
who received fifty dollars, he said, for each
person he could convict of either illicit dis
tilling or crooked tobacco and cigars.— Aug.
Constitutionalist.
War’s Desolation.
PROBABILITY OF A GENERAL EUROPEAN
CONFLICT.
Vienna, April 13. —The Bosnian insur
gents have organized three columns of 2,500
men each, which are moving in the direction
of Banjaluka. The Roman Catholics, who
have hitherto abstained from action, are now
joining the* insurgents.
Paris, April 13. — The Messenger de
Paris, discussing yesterday’s panic on the
bourse, says it is apprehensive of the immedi
ate outbreak of an European war in which
we will be fatally involved. The market
could not have more utterly lost self con
trol.
Extraordinary Surgical Operation.
The Charleston “special” correspondent of
the Chronicle 4’ Sentinel , Augusta, gives the
following particulars of a remarkable surgical
operation performed in the first named city
some week or so since :
An extraordinary and successful operation
was performed last Wednesday, in presence
of the medical faculty of this city, and some
four or five young students. The subject
was a young lady nineteen years of age, who
for the past four years has been afflicted with
a tumor in the stomach. It had grown to such
a size of late that at times she could scarcely
breathe. An examination was made, and
she was told it would kill her, for the inward
growth of the tumor was pressing against
the heart so much as to lessen the flow of
blood through the natural channels, and in
some instances completely closing them. Her
appetite was ravenous, and could not be satis
fied. Last Tuesday, complaining greatly of
a difficulty in breathing, the physicians were
sent for, and ; after consultation, it was
agreed to operate on her to remove the tu
mor. She was informed of the fact; told
that it was a delicate and dangerous opera
tion. one that had never been performed here
before, and required the greatest medical
skill: that if successfully performed she might
recover, but the chances w’ere against her.
She consented, and on Wednesday last she
prepared herself, and getting on the table,
inhaled the chloroform, first bidding her
mother and sisters good-bye. At ten o’clock,
a. m., Dr. Middleton Michel, assisted by Drs.
Kinlock and Geddings. in the presence of
the Medical Board, commenced operations.
She was cut from the armpit of the right
shoulder around the stomach, down the side
to the groin, the whole stomach being thrown
back, and the entire inner portion exposed,
which was a fearful sight to behold, for the
entire stomach seemed covered with tumors,
from the size of marbles to that of a man's
head, the largest being the most dangerous,
that being or tying between the heart and
womb. These tumors were all successfully
removed, great care being taken to get at the
roots of them ; there being in all twenty-six ;
the stomach carefully cleansed, replaced and
sewed up, and at a quarter past twelve the pa
tient recovered, when, on being asked if she,
felt any pain, replied, yes, in my side. She
commenced to sink, apparently, from the
time she became conscious, from loss of
blood, when it was proposed to inject blood
into her veins, according to the French theo
ry. A young and healthy sheep was pro
cured. and an incision being made in its
throat, its blood was injected into the body.
The young lady is, at this present time, much
better, but still very ill and prostrate, but her
physician has hopes of recovery. The tumors
taken from her have been examined by hun
dreds of the College with astonishment. As
this has been one of the greatest operations
ever performed here, I have no doubt it will
be greatly noticed and spoken of throughout
the medical world.
“A Texas Incident.”
The following carries with it its own sug
gestion, and is quite pertinent to “surround
ings” just at the present time :
A Texas Incident. —The Waco (Texas)
Examiner of the 4th inst., has a paragraph
headed, “Neatly Done,” which reads: “A
young man living some ten or fifteen miles
above the city was awakened one night re
cently by the suspicious barking and growl
ing of his dogs in the yard. Rising lightly
from bed, he peeped out through a window
pane, and there sure enough he discovered
the cause of the disturbance. Dimly outlined
in the moonlight stood the form of a man.
With one hand he was evidently untying the
gentleman’s fine horse, which stood haltered
for the night, while with the other he held a
six-shooter, pointing directly at the front
door. Taking in the situation at a glance
our young friend gently reached for his shot
gun, and passing out at the back door and
round the corner, opened the attack from an
unexpected and wholly unguarded quarter.
Under this skillful generalship the enemy
came down while just in the act of mounting,
and without even so much as responding to
the first fire. The deceased was buried with
out the honors of either peace or war.”
ldF*We regret to see a disposition to con
demn the Hon. B. H. Hill, in regard to his
great speech on the amnesty question. We
repeat what we said at the time, that he could
not have well remained quiet and listen to
the defamation of the Southern people by
Blaine and his Radical cohorts. Mr. Iliil
gave the other side some truths that will have
the more influence in the enlightenment of the
Northern mind on the conduct of the late war
by the South as time comes on apace. For
this he deserves the thanks of our people.
There may be some things he said that might
have been better to have left unsaid ; but of
this we are not so certain. It is always best
“to tell the truth and shame the Devil,” and
we think Mr. Hill has shamed many of the
Radical devils and put them to confusion.—
Cartersville Express.
• Mexico.
TIIE REYOLUTON PROGRESSING.
Galveston. April 17.—A News special
from Brownsville says a Government force
has occupied Victoria, the capital of Ta
maulipas, and demands of Gov. Corales
whether he has pronounced for Dias. He is
at San Gernando, together with the State
Legislature. Gov. Escobedo reached Mon
terey yesterday, with six hundred Gorvern
ment cavalry. The revolutonists are exact
ing forced loans from the merchants of New
Laredo, Mexico. The Consular officers are
understood to be endevoring to obtain mili
tary assistance to resist. Diaz seized sever
al hundred stand of arms in Matamoras
yesterday.
Silver Currency.
TWENTY MILLIONS READY TO LOAD DOWN
LUCKY POCKETS.
Washington, April 15. —Regulations will
be made Monday for an issue of silver at
the treasury department. The silver will be
issued only in substitution for the fractional
currency delivered at the department. It
has not yet been determined whether the
department will bear the expense of the
transportation of silver to bankers and other
parties applying therefor. There are twen
ty millions of silver and bullion now in the
vaults of the treasury and subtreasury, that
can be drawn upon, and enough will be
provided to redeem all the fractional curren
cy as rapidly as may be presented.
The silver bill will be signed Monday.
The Belknap impeachment case commenc
ed in the United States Senate on the 17th.
Danville Ky. April 17.—Jim Turpin
colored was taken from jail and hanged for
assaulting a little girl.
(lommunicutuwiß.
Harmony Grove Correspondence.
Harmony Grove, Ga., April 19, ’76.
Editor Forest Neves: —lf it is true that there
is nothing new under the sun, then we may
certainly he excused for writing when there
is really nothing new to write about. But we
go upon the principle of the man who didn’t
eat because he was hungry, but lest he might
be ; hence, having nothing new to write about,
we merely do so to hold up our end of the
county ; to let the balance of mankind know
that the head of the dog is in Harmony Grove,
instead of Jefferson. Haven’t 3'our people
over there heard our bark yet? Just wait
until we get well balanced on our hind-legs,
and we’ll give 3*oll a 3 r elp that will scare the
little Jefferson ring of county politicians into
“duck-fits.”
By-the-way, speaking of that Jefferson ring
over there, can y-ou give us light on that
“ grand mass meeting” held over there the
other day ? They appointed delegates to the
Gainesville Convention, which meets on the
26th inst., to elect delegates to the St. Louis
Convention. The rest of the county knew
nothing about it until the thing was done.—
You’ve heard of that “Indian’s gun,” have
you not ? It was a long gun, which the own
er bent so as to throw shot around the ha3*-
stack, and thus sweep up the black-birds.—
Well, it was bent a little too well, and the
load went clear round the stack and pepper
ed the holder of the gun in the rear. Tell
those Jefferson manipulators that as the gun
is bent so will it shoot, hence they had better
put their breast-plates behind in the future.
Our people are becoming interested in the
matter of Legislative representation. Their
present Representatives are in a bad fix.—
Potts has pulled off Duke’s tail, thus leaving
us a bob-tailed Representative, which we
didn’t elect, and now the said bob-tail, in the
last issue of your paper, gets up an everlast
ing smash in the pottery. There are no Potts
left that will hold water (or votes either, as
for that, matter.) worth a cent. It’s an ugty
row. but. like the fellow who sat on the fence
and watched a fight between a hedge hog and
blacksnake, we don’t care a stiver which
whips. Its none of our funeral, but to help
out the rest we’ll help bury ’em both.
There is a big laugh in Harmony Grove to
day, at the expense of your correspondent.
It has leaked out that he had the wrong sow
by the ear. It was “Gann,” and not “Spinks,”
who was the champion guzzler in Athens dur
ing the da3’s of “Auld Lang S3 T ne,” We
make this correction in justice to the im
mortal Gann, whose swigonomic powers still
live in song and story. The song is illustra
tive of the old story of the tin wash-basin
which the boys in the office used as a beer
bowl. in the absence of anything better.—
That basin full of foaming lager generally
held enough to “ liquor all round.” giving each
typo a good square drink. The story" goes
that it started around the office one da\* and
didn't get any further than Gann, who stood
at the head of the row. He held it up until
the last bubble disappeared down his cavern
ous throat. The typos held an indignation
meeting and put the “beer on him.” The
poet has illustrated the incident in verse full
of truth and pathos, as follows :
O. think of the bowl, the beer-foaming bowl.
That never was emptied by man.
Till up it was turned by the guzzling chap.
Well known by the surname of “ Gann.”
Gambrinus himself was never so drv,
And lager so fast never ran
Down the throat of mortal, as did
That beer down the windpipe of “ Gann.”
This is only one out of ninety-nine verses,
which. Bill Goss says, will indicate the right
sow this time.
Our town is considerably exercised over a
new discovery, upon which a patent is soon
to be applied for. One of our well-known
citizens has discovered that by standing on
his head and vigorously rubbing the stomach
the worst case of colic can be cured in five
minutes! It has stood the test in a number
of cases, and now the rule’is. when ever you
feel a slight uneasiness in your bread-basket,
shin it feet foremost up a tree, or in a fence
corner, and the poor Doctor loses a case forth
with. Who ever ii fringes on this patent will
be prosecuted to the full extent of the colic.
Gentle spring has come, and now the song
of the turtle dove and red chigger is heard in
the land, rendered all the more charming by
the perfume of the fragrant guano. Some of
our farmers have so much faith in guano we
are surprised they have put none on their
heads. If it will make common sense sprout
we would be in favor of lathering the entire
State with it. Beppo.
Note by Printer. —Friend “Beppo,” ask
“ Bill” to give 3*oll an authenticated history
of a certain never-to-be-forgotten sociable held
just on “ top of the hill, the other side of the
branch”—the number of jugs “ hid out,” and
by whom? and what did Mrs. R. “remark”
on that occasion ?
G. R. Duke’s Reply to “ Beppo.”
Mr. Editor: —The statement of your Har
mony Grove correspondent that I attempted
in the last Legislature to “force” liquor upon
the citizens of said town, does me great in
justice.
If “ Beppo” did not know, he might have
known that I attempted no such thing. I
never wished to force liquor or any thing else
on any community regardless of the voice of
the people. A petition, signed by respect
able citizens, asking for the repeal of the act
of the preceding session of the Legislature,
prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors in
Harmony Grove, led finally to the introduc
tion of my bill to have Harmony Grove em
braced in the general local option law, which
leaves the whole question of liquor or no
liquor, exclusively with the people. Now,
when “Beppo” says that I wished to “force”
liquor upon him and others, must he not be
understood as affirming that m3' local option
bill, leaving the whole question with the peo
ple, would have resulted, at the ballot-box, in
a majority for the liquor party? His state
ment admits of no other construction. I wish
ed to leave the whole question with the peo
ple, which would have resulted, according to
“ Beppo,” in forcing liquor upon them. All
this my bill would have done. Now, what
becomes of “Beppo*s” overwhelming anti
liquor majority ? Why permit the little cor
poral's guard to out-vote the whole regiment ?
O, Beppo ! Beppo ! Beppo ! much learning
hath made thee mad.
Writing under an assumed name, and not
dealing in facts, I hesitated to notice a squib
so palpably contradictory and utterly false,
and have only to say, in conclusion, that I
have a very great aversion to skunks, for
however fascinating their outward appearance
may seem, within they must surely be full of
all rotten ness. To encounter a skunk in open
day-light might well make the stoutest heart
quake, while to encounter one in the dark,
with his sknnk eyes fixed upon 3'ou, without
the possibility of your seeing him, and he
throwing mud, in the skunk’s peculiar
way of throwing ft, is simply intolerable.
Green It. Duke.
Editor Forest News :—Please publish a
short article in reply to a card to the people,
from Hon. G. R. Duke, which appeared in
your last issue. I have considered the mat
ter well, and deem it a duty to reply. I Will
not publish Mr. Duke to the world, as he is
but little known in his true light outside of
Jackson county. He expected to assail ray
character, and then boast in the future of his
great success, but I will disappoint him in
his fond anticipations. He admitted there
was a difference between us. I proposed to
settle that difference privately with him ; he?
refused. I then proposed to settle it before
the people of the county, in public debate ;
he refused to do that. Is there anything un
gentlemanlv* in that ? lam prepared to prove
every assertion which I have made ; then the
gentleman’s nefarious epithets reflect back
with terrible weight upon himself. Ido not
accuse any gentleman of writing Duke’s last
card to the public. Himself and another
very inferior fellow are the daddies of the
(w li e r e a s) article. J. M. Potts.
April 19 th, 1876.
Editor Forest News : —Some time since
we noticed an article in 3*our columns, from
Clarkesboro’ District, signed “Curry’s Creek.”
Some ma3 r be unable to understand why a
gentleman signs his name, or closes by saying,
j “ Yours, sweetly.” Now, if yon want to fiud
out how it is, just ask some of the bo3 r s be
low town, and they will tell 3*oll “circumstances
make the man.” So, 3 011 see it’s no
wuf a cent. Cedar Slope.
Hero JMperHsemeiits.
Genuine Herlong
COTTON SEED FOR SALE, AT
50 Cents per Bushel!
By PENDERGRASS & HANCOCK.
earty or they’ll ail be gone ! a22
CtEOHCJU, Jackson County.
Whereas, 13 J Whitmire, Administratrix of the
estate of F M W hitmire, late of said county, dec’d,
makes application to me tendering her resignation
of said trust as such Administratrix, and recom
mending the name of H N Mitchell as a suitable
person, qualified and entitled to, and willing to ac
cept Ihe said trust—
Therefore, the said H N Mitchell, and all and
singular, the next of kin of said deceased, are here
by cited to be and appear, on the Ist Monday in
June, 1876, at the regular term of the Court of Or
dinary, to be then held in and for said county, to
show cause why the resignation of said Adminis
tratrix should not be accepted, and said II N
Mitchell appointed Administrator in her stead.
Given under my official signature, at office, this
April 17th, 1876. WILEY C. HOWARD,
apl22 Ordinary.
NOTICE TO TEACHERS—IB76.
the information of PUBLIC SCHOOL
teachers who may have claims on Jackson
county for services rendered during the year 1876.
the Board of Education most respectfully calls
| their attention to the following particulars, which,
i in addition to general instructions that will be
furnished by the State School Commissioner, must
be strictly complied with in all their details.—
Those failing to do so will not be entitled to any
j part of the State School Fund, and
need not apply for it :
j 1. All schools for the same race will be located
at least Jour miles from each other, except in cases
where satisfactory reasons arising from natural
causes require them to be nearer.
2. Pupils will he regarded as belonging to that
sub-school district which contains the school near
est to their place of residence. They may, how
ever, attend the school of their choice; but after
entering such school they can not leave it to at
tend another.
3. All teachers who expect to receive their pro
rain of the school fund for teaching resident pupils
of Jackson county must, in person, make a writ
ten contract with this Board of Education.
4. The Board will meet in the Court House, in
Jefferson, at 8 o’clock. A. M., on 27th of May and
29th of Jul}' next, for the purpose of examining
applicants ior license to teach, and to make con
tracts with teachers. For schools located in this
county no applications need he made at any other
time ; hut contracts with teachers who may have
schools in other counties containing pupils from
this, may he made on either of the above days, or
on the Ist Tuesday in November next, hut at no
other time.
5. All teachers who, from any other cause than
protracted sickness, discontinue their schools be
fore the expiration of a full three months term,
will not receive any part of the public school fund,
and need not apply lor it.
6. Public schools may begin on any school dav
in the month of July next, but at no other time. *
7. Teachers of the first grade will he paid their
pro rata of the school fund at the rate of $1.50 per
month per scholar. Those of the 2d grade, $1.25 ;
and those of the 3d or lowest grade, SI.OO.
8. Pupils under 6, or over 18 years of age, will
not, on any terms, be admitted into schools con
taining more than 25 students : hut schools with
a less number may admit pupils not of school age,
provided the teachers give their public school ac
counts credit for the amount of such pupils’ tuition.
9. No one will be allowed to take the place of a
teacher employed by the Board, either for the en
tire term or any part of it.
10. Teachers are required to make their reports
to the County School Commissioner by the 15th
of November next; otherwise, they will not be
received.
11. Teachers are required to employ an assist
ant teacher for such length of time as is necessary
when their schools contain more than 30 pupils.
By order of the Board of Education.
apl22 G. J. N. WILSON, Sec’y.
BURKE’S BOOK-STORE,
ATHENS, GA,
IF von want School Books, Miscellaneous Books,
Bibles and Hymn Books, Pens. Ink and Paper,
Gold Pens, Fine Pocket Knives, Picture Frames,
Blank Books, Hat Racks, Brackets, or anything
kept in a first-class Book-store, call on
T. A. BURKE,
marlß Bookseller and Stationer.
Medical Card.
DR. W. P. DeLAPERRIERE having complet
ed his Medical course of studies at the Uni
versity of Georgia—his native State—locates at
his father’s old stand, where he will practice
Medicine in all its branches, and will treat dis
eases with the most approved remedies known to
the profession. Returning thanks for the confi
dence manifested by the liberal patronage bestow
ed during his past course of practice, he hopes by
a careful and constant guarding of every possible
interest of patients, on his own part, together
with the assistance of his father, to merit a con
tinuance of the same. fcgfSpecial attention giv
en to diseases of children and females. apls
Wring and summer
stock: op
Millinery and Fancy Goods!
JIRN. T. A. A DARK
ANNOUNCES to the public that she is now re
ceiving a large and varied stock of Ladies’
Bonnets, Hats, Laces, Ribbons. Trimmings, &c.,
which she is offering at low prices. Call, exam
me and be convinced. Next door to the Bank of
the l niversity, Athens, Ga. April 15
STILL ON HAND V~
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
inake to order or repair Boots and Shoes of all
sizes, shapes and qualities. CHEA P FOR C YSH
January 29th, 1875.
Dr. w. aleiander,
SURGEON DENTIST
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos „
July 10th, 1875. 6m to< ’ G.
IMPORTANT isrOTlcj.
CALLAWAY HOUsu
No. 15J and 17 ltrond Street
Atlanta, G-a.,
HAS changed hands, and re-furnished n
of rooms and first-class board St
visiting Atlanta, will find it to their
patronize this house, as it will be kept in e .
style at reasonable prices. Everything w*ii 1
done to make it the home of guests and v •
Porters at all trains. C. MILI ICav* o *-
April Bth, 1876. Propf^
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale
WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday ii, u
next, before the Court House door V
town of Jefferson, within the legal hours ’J n **
the following property, to-wit:
Five hundred acres of land, more or less
waters of Curry’s creek, adjoining lands
Johnson, Johnson Freeman, J W Nicholso *
others ; lying on each side of the road leading
Jefferson to Athens; three miles from the f
place. Supposed to be about 150 acres
land in cultivation, the balance in old held
forest land, with a splendid dwelling and § **
sary out-buildings thereon. Levied on as
erty of the defendant, E M Thompson, bv
of a fi fa issued from the Superior Court’ at*
county. M Williamson vs E M Thompson i>S?
ertv pointed out by plaintiff. Notice served
M Thompson, tenant in possession, as tho 1
rects. nplß J. S. HUNTER
Q.EORCiLi, Jackson County ~
George Gathright vs. Sallie Gathright-- f ,
Divorce. Rule to Perfect Service W
It appearing to the Court that the defend.,
does not reside in this county, and it further‘
pearing that she does not reside in this Stat
is, on motion of counsel, ordered that said defLf
ant appear and answer at the next term of
Court, else that the case be considered in def 1
and the plaintiff’allowed to proceed. And ?'
further ordered that this Rule be published inti!!
Forest News once a month for four months
suant to the next term of this Court This Mi
3d, 1876. M. M. PITTMAN, Pl’fPs AttV
Granted :
GEO. D. RICE, Judge S. C.
A true extract from the minutes of Jaclum,
perior Court, February Term, 1876.
march2s T. H. NIBLACK, Clerk
500 Hides Wanted
TO OIST SHARES.
HAVING one of the best Tanneries i n the
State, a good supply of Bark, and a tirst-rm
Tanner employed, I want all the hides I can getto
Tnn on Shares, one-half for the other
Every hide will be carefully marked and booked
and satisfactorily accounted for. Hides bought
at Athens prices. I have no partner, nor patnt
process.
1 am sawing every day, the very best Pine ud
Poplar Lumber, of all dimensions' cheap for Cuk.
Citizens of Jackson countgive me a trial, andi
will guarantee satisfaction.
F. S. SMITH.
Jefferson, Ga., March 18, 1876. ] 0
BIXBY’S
“BEST”
BLACKING.
A COMBINED POLISH BLACKING AND LEATHER PRE
SERVATIVE.
Experts and Professional Bootblacks in New
York, and all other large cities where this Black
ing has been introduced, acknowledge its superior
ity over all impoiied or domestic Blackings inum.
as an Elegant Polish and CoNSEItVER ofLtathr.
NOTICE.
Bixby’s “Best” Blacking has a Red and Blue
Label. Do not he deceived by accepting our
“Standard” Blacking in place of “Best." Tht
Standard has the label stamped into the tin coTtr.
This brand is made to compete with other Amen
can and French Blackings, hut is inferior to our
“ Best.”
Bixby’s “ Best” Blacking will sare its entiri
cost in the wear of 3’our hoots and shoes.
HOUSEKEEPERS TRY
Bixby’s French Laundry Blue,
IN SIFTING BOXES
The most convenient and economical packigr.
and the only combined Bleaching and Blueing
Powder in use.
S. 3VE. BIXBY Sc CO.,
Nlauufsic-turing: Chemist*
Nos. 173 & 175 Washington St., New lork-
April Ist.
PURE TEAS--IN SEALED PACKAGES,
Direct from China and Japan.
DELIVERED at YOUR OWN DOOR, fresh fro*
the GARDENS of their GROWTH.
Imported direct by
TIHipB W ELLS
TEA COMPANY.
201 Fulton St., New York.
The difficulty of getting pure Teas of really fw
quality in the United States, has induced TI
Wells Tea Company to ship their Teas in s'
ed packages direct from the gardens in which**!
are grown, and as a further guarantee of their
ing delivered in their genuine state, they entruf*
the sale of them only to reliable Agents—the die
of the nearest Agent to you is printed at the M”
of this advertisement—so that the Te*s P*
through none but responsible hands, and will
delivered at your own door as fresh as when w.
left the gardens of China and Japan ; the price
so is printed on each package, so that noerrorc
occur.
Everybody buys Tea. u
Everybody wishes to buy it at first hands
best qualities at the lowest prices. "1
Everybody desires—when they find a Tea
able to their tastes—to be certain of getting 1
same article always. -.j
You can have all these advantages by,buy®S
- THE WELLS TEA COMPAQ
Because they import their own Teas,
them at wholesale prices—without thesis0 ft,r
intermediate profits usually'charged. .
Because the quality is better at the pn ce
is sold by any other house.
Because their long experience in lh ,D * '
•Japan enables them to make better selections
ordinary Dealers—and to import them withg re
advantages. i,,r
Because the}* absolutely guarantee the (
of ail their goods—and keep them to •*** '?
able standard, so that you can always re -
them - ' .
Because they' do business for cash on l. .
therefore make no extra profit from good c
ers to cover losses by bad debts. j
Because their Agents are responsible n
liable men—who deliver Teas precisely as ,e
from the Company. „ *j!l
from the Company.
Because having once tried these Teas. J°
not need to go elsewhere hereafter. ,
WANJED-A Druggist, or other
chant, in every town and city in the l for
to whom will be given the SOLE ALIA
that locality*.
Address, for terms and full particulars.
THE WEIJLK TEA
P. O. Box 4560. 201 Fulton St., New
April Ist. ..
SEND 25c. to GEO. P. ROWELL & '
York, for Pamphlet of 100 pages. con .
lists of 3,000 newspapers, and estimates jj
cost of advertising. 11
Warning to Trespassers*
ALL PERSONS are hereby warned
Hunt, I'isli or otherwise Tr*sp „/ Y
the lands of the undersigned, i n '^ rr 1
of the Late. [U>j S. D. MlTt