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oVT HE JACKSON COUNTY )
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VOLUME I.
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
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J. A. B. MAHAFFEY. W. S. M’CARTY.
YfAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
ill ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
Will practice any where for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly
DR. C. R. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity*. Can be found at
the late residence of I)r. H. j. Long.
Jan. 22, 1876—tf
STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFERSON, GA.,
DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 19 ly
Medical Notice.
Dr. J. o. ■HJIN'T’ having located in Jeffer
son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
respectfully tenders his services to the citizens of
the town and county in all the different branches
of the profession. After a flattering experience
of nineteen years, he feels jnstified in saying that
he is prepared to successfully treat any curable
disease incident to our climate. Me is, for the
present, boarding with Judge -ft>hn Simpkins, but
*>!l move his family here soon.
Office with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
can be seen in the office of T. 11.
hiBLACK, Esq., C. S. C. octlS
"11-EY c. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
HOAV.VKD &. HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AT LA AY,
Jefferson, Ga.
'nil practice together iu all the Courts of Jack
ind adjacent counties, except the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
El wiluaiisoa.
• WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
hr. Wm. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
A (jiens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner,
‘M warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi-
H CASH. Julylo-6m.
]-! !'• WOFFORD, Attorney nt Ijiw,
HOMER , BANKS Cos., Ga.
Hill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
P 1 P ro mpt attention to all business entrusted to
, are - Collecting claims a specialty.
1875. ly
J 0 ®* OAKES,
v HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
‘and good buggy and wagon harness always
} Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c.,
peon short notice, and cheap for cash,
juneia —ly
J ‘ FLOYD, I J. B. SILMAN,
v. Covington, Ga. Jefferson, Ga.
pM>YD Jk SIL!IAX,
\ ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
. ’'ill practice together in the Superior Courts of
counties of Jackson and AValton.
JUnel2—ly
\\ I*IKF Attorney t Law,
p!V* . -JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
'-bees in all the Courts, State and Federal.
and thorough attention given to all
mV • kgal business in Jackson and adjoining
"“"ra- June 12, 1875i
per day at home. Samples
tO vb&U worth $1 free. Stinson &
Maine. marll
X 1 n <lay at home. Agents wanted. Outfft
and terms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta,
Ume - marll
F. P. TALMADGE,
DEALER IN
AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES,
CLOCKS, JE WELR Y, SIL VEB $ PLATED WARE,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C.
Batches, clocks jewelry repaired
In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornamental and Plain Engraving a Specialty.
LOCATION—CoIIege Avenue, one door from the Bookstore Corner, ATHENS, GA.
April Ist, 1876 ly
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Picture Grallery.
Up-Stairs, between the Fitly Thompson corner
and Stanley Pinson's.
A. H. BROCK,
RESPECTFULLY announces to the ladies and
gentlemen of Jefferson and vicinity, that his
Gallery is now open for the accomodation of all
m want of pictures, and that he is prepared to ex
ecute his work in the best style of the art. Call
and examine specimens. Rates reasonable. All
work warranted to give satisfaction. fl 2
SPRINGDALE NURSERIES,
ATHENS, GA.,
W. HUDGrIN, 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. HUGGINS
Sells goods cheaper now, 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 kinds of Crockery and Glass-ware, Lamps,
Chandeliers , Farmers' Lanterns, Kerosene
Oil , at wholesale and retail; Family and
Fa?icy Groceries , Dry Goods , Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Saddles, Harness
and Leather.
And also a large stock of EOIE, both for build
ing and fertilizing purposes, all very low for the
CASH.
When you go to Athens don’t forget to call on
J. H. HUGGINS. If you want KEROSENE OIL, at
wholesale or retail, he will supply* you at the low
est price. If you want CROCKER Y and GLASS
WARE, there’s the place to get it. If you want
TOBACCO , FLOUR , BACON, BARD, SU
GAR, COFFEE and MOLASSES, go there and
you will find it. If you want LIME, for building
or composting with fertilizers, go to
J. 11. HUGGINS’,
No. 7, Broad St., Athens.
B@"Remember the place. mar!B
TAX RETURNS
For 1876.
IN ORDER that I may get my Digests complet
ed and returned according to law, my* Digests
must be closed on the 10tn 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
lo all men.
I feel, fellow-citizens, truly* grateful to you for
placing me in the position I now occupy. * I feel
that the right arm which to-day bleaches on the
gory Jield of Bentonville, North Carolina . was lost
iu defense of the homes and ladies whom I now
love and respect.
I am, fellow-citizens. y*our obedient servant,
GEORGE A\ v . BROWN. T. R. J. C.
Below will be found the list of my appointments
for 1876. at which time and place I shall be pleased
to have the tax-payers make their proper returns :
Jeff erson. Tuesday, April 4th ; Saturday, April
22d ; Tuesday, May 2d ; Saturday. May 6th.
Thompson’s Mills. Yv r ednesday, May 3d.
Harrisburg, Wednesday, April 12th.
McLester’s Mills, Monday, May Ist.
Williamson’s Mills, Monday*, May 22d.
Clarksboro’, Monday, April 3d, and Monday
and Tuesday, May* Bth and 9th.
New Town. Thursday*, April 13th, and Thurs
day, May* 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 Tuesday and
Wednesday, April 18th and 19th.
Human’s Store, Friday, April 21st.
Appleby*’s, Monday, April 10th, and Thursday*,
April 20th.
Randolph’s Store, Saturday*, April Sth, and
Tuesday, April 25th.
Thompson’s Store. Monday. April 24th.
House’s, Friday, April 7th, and Wednesday* and
Thursday, April 26th and 27th.
Chandler’s, Thursday, Friday and Saturday*,
April 6th. 2Sth and 29th.
Sautafee, 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 he culti
vated in the various “ Crops planted” for this
vear.
“ marlS G. AY. BROAYN, T. R. of J. C.
Jackson Mortgage Sheriff’s
Sale.
WILL 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 by the
main street leading towards Gainesville, on the
South by J E Randolph’s home lot, on the AYest
by* a back street on the North by J E Randolph’s
clover lot and horse lot; said lot embracing the
lot known as the J R North office lot, and more
particularly* known as the R A Go wan house and
lot. Levied on as the property of P E Lamar, Sr,
by virtue of a mortgage ti fa issued from the Su
perior Court of said county in favor of Thomas R
Holder vs P F Lamar. Property pointed out in
said mortgage fi fa. Notice served on P F Lamar,
defendant, and C C Thompson, tenant in posses
sion. as the law directs,
marll (MO) J. S. HUNTER, Sh’ff.
Job Printing at reasonable rates
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 29,1876.
GLEANINGS.
Avery and McDonald joined Joyce in the
Jefferson City penitentiary, Sunday. Next
class, stand up!
Captain J. N. Montgomery*, of Madison
county, has the reputation of being the model
farmer of North Georgia.
Mr. David Rosser, of Eatonton, Ga., has
shown the editor of the Messenger an egg in
the shape of a gourd with a long, crooked
handle.
There are $1,000,000 worth of shoe pegs
made yearly in the United States, most of
them in Massachusetts, requiring 100,000 cu
bic feet of white birch.
The recent freshet carried the waters of the
Flint so high that the Clerk of Baker Supe
rior Court could sit in his office and catch
fish through the window with a hook and line.
The banana crop in Louisiana is the larg
est ever grown there. The fruit has grown
through the whole winter, instead of being
killed by frost as usual.
They are having the throat rot in Wash
ington. The Nashville American says “it
comes of the incessant discussion of the un
earthed corruptions at such short range.”
The meek-eyed Celestials are a plague to
the Californians, and the State being power
less to stop immigration, Congress is appeal
ed to for relief.
The Democrats in Congress are busily* en
gaged in cleaning out the Augean stables of
the Radical party. Every* day brings some
new fraud to light.
Secretary* Bristow is to be investigated.
Mr. Bristow and his friends seem confident
that his hands are clean. While Mr. Bristow
courts, Mr. Blaine avoids an investigation.
Mr. Thomas Farmer, of Franklin county,
is now ninety-one years old. He had thir
teen grandsons in the Confederate army, and
now has more than one hundred grandchil
dren.
Miss Emma Snyder, a revivalist, who has
been laboring with success in the towns of
Southern Illiirois, has adopted the original
expedient of publishing in the local newspa
pers the names of the new converts.
Ex-Attorney-General YYilliams gives some
very damaging testimony against President
Grant, who ordered him to pay $30,000 for
election purposes. Does not this look a lit*
tie like corruption ?
Professor Swing said in a recent sermon at
Chicago, that “ latterly wine had not done as
much harm as lace.” Lace is a very good
thing “ to point a moral and adorn a tail.”—
Nashville American.
The negroes brought to Brownstown, AA r est
Virginia, to take the place of the strikers
agreed to leave by noon to-day if unmoles
ted. The agreement has been ratified by the
whites and a bloody* riot averted.
AYoraen are allowed to vote in Wyoming
but they* are indifferent as to who or what
they vote for. At a recent local election
there a fellow running for town clerk bribed
eighteen female voters with one pound of
chewing gum.
The State’s Attorney* of a Vermont district,
when asked by the Judge whether he was
ready to proceed with a case, replied : “Yes,
—no —your Honor. The State is not—in a
state to try this case to-day ; the State, your
Honor—is drunk.”
Thomas Jefferson rode on horseback to
Washington, hitched his horse to a rail fence
and walked over and was inaugurated, but it
wouldn’t be safe to try* that now, as while he
was being sworn in one of his Cabinet offi
cials might steal the horse.
Hawkinsville Dispatch: The cotton crop
of Georgia for 1875 has been estimated at
four hundred thousand bales, and the average
cost of production at eleven cents per pound.
Calculations prove that the cost was more
than the sales amounted to.
A loaferish young Californian married a
servant girl, and after a day* or two deserted
her. Three months of dissipation in San
Francisco killed him ; but before his death
his mother died, leaving to him as her only
heir, about $150,000. Thus the girl gets a
fortune.
In Tuscaloosa, a negro who had entered
the room of the daughters of Mr. S. B. Curry,
and found there by them at a late hour, was
arrested. He escaped, and some days after
was again found by the young ladies in their
apartment. He had a drawu knife, resisted
arrest, and was killed.
A correspondent of the Abbeville (S. C.)
Medium says it is supposed that President
Jackson derived the sobriquet of Old Hicko
ry from his use of walking sticks of that
wood, cut by Dr. Eli S. Davis, from the vicin
ity of the old Block House in Abbeville, and
presented to him.
A decision said to be worth half a million
dollars to the photographers of the United
States has just been rendered in the Federal
court at Grand Rapids, Mich. The decision
is that the letters patent issued to Albert S.
Southworth for an improvement in plate hold
ers for cameras are void and of no effect, and
that Southworth is not the original discoverer
and inventor of the improvement he claims.
MISCELLANEOUS.
[by request.]
Letter to Ex-President Andy Johnson.
At the request of friends, both of The Forest
News and the writer, the following letter,
handed us some weeks since, is inserted. It
was in manuscript at the time of the decease
of the “Great Commoner,” and though near
ly a twelvemonth has elapsed since it was
written, still the evils portrayed are yet ex
isting to a greater or less extent, and in the
opinion of some who have perused it careful
ly*, it will prove interesting to the general
reader. Hoping this may prove true, we give
it a place “in the picture.”
Atlanta, Ga., July 25th, 1875.
To His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, Ex-Pres
ident of the United States :
Hon. and Dear Sir : —When yon became
President of the United States, on the death
of Mr. Lincoln, I addressed you live letters
through the public press of the country*, ad
verting to the little acquaintance I had with
y*ou in Nashville, when you were Governor of
Tennessee ; to your vetoing the unjust Rad
ical bills, which they* carried over your shoul
ders with two-thirds majority in Congress,
and to y*our retrieving y*our reputation in the
estimation of the South, in your going with
the North in the late war, and against them.
At the surrender, as I observed before to your
Excellency, Gen. Grant, the representative
of the Radical Government, promised to bury*
all hostilities in oblivion, and to establish
peace and mutual friendship between the two
sections, North and South. But. alas ! in
stead of peace, worthless characters, carpet
baggers came out; carpet-baggers with a few
old duds in them, a few old shirts, a razor
and a razor strop, with a few old bottles of
perfumery* to counteract the effluvia of their
sable brethren with whom they were to asso
ciate, to rule the South with the iron rod of
ignorance, cruelty and oppression. For the
last nine or ten years they have ruled it with
cruelty and oppression until they* so impover
ished them with oppressive taxation that the
people were not able to live under it, and
with their plunder they (the Radicals) went
back to the North, to live on their plunder
and robbery*. They had no more claim to
rule the South and oppress them, than the
Goths and Vandals had under Marie and At
tila, in the fourth and fifth centuries, to in
vade Rome.
There are two of the Southern States y*et
under Radical tyranny and oppression, that
is Louisiana and South Carolina. The col
lision in New Orleans last year between the
Democrats, who elected McEnery, and the
Radicals, who elected, unjustly, Kellogg, is
an indication that the Democrats will not
succumb much longer to Radical tyranny*, op
pression and injustice. Alas! New Orleans,
the great commercial city of the State of
Louisiana and of the South, ever since Picay
une Butler, of spoon notoriety*, planted his
vandal foot upon it to the present time, has
been under Radical tyranny* and injustice—
it has been robbed of every silver spoon in
it. If the notorious Picayune Butler had re
ceived a bullet m his back when lie was run
ning away* at the battle of Bull Run, the peo
ple of New Orleans would have been spared
their silverware.
AVith respect to South Carolina, the land
of the great John C. Calhoun, McDuffie, Rut
ledge and Butler, it is now disgraced and
ruled by* mean Radicals, carpet-baggers and
negroes, and by a little fellow of the name
of Frank Leslie, who represents Barnwell
county as Senator of that once noble State,
distinguished for so many great men. Of
Leslie, the editor of the New York Herald has
said that at one time he was employed at the
Five Points, in New York, a house of ill-fame,
at five dollars a week, with a club in his hand
to keep order among all the immoral charac
ters who visited it.
I am well aware that your Excellency en
tertains no favorable opinion of the two par
sons and politicians, Beecher and Brownlow.
The two parsons remind me of the twins
Castor and Pollux, recorded in classic story.
Castor and Pollux, par nobile fratrum, genite
ah eodem avo. Castor and Pollux, a noble
pair of brothers, born of the same egg, hatch
ed under the same chicken, and having the
same old rooster as a father—the Devil him
self. Alternately every Sunday, and for some
time before the last war, Parson Beecher de
livered two sermons, one against the Charles
town Nunnery, distinguished for its erudition
and the piety of its inmates, and the other
sermon against the slavery of the South. lie
continued his abuse, lies, falsehood and slan
der until he instigated an ignorant and savage
rabble at midnight to set fire to the convent,
and the holy women were forced to leave and
seek shelter in the open air, with no other
canopy to protect them but the open heavens,
till morning. An intelligent individual at the
North made an application to the Legislature
of Massachusetts for an appropriation to re
build it, and he failed in getting it; and yet,
the convent stood contiguous to the Bunker
Hill monument, which was erected to com
memorate one of the first battles fought for
American freedom. lie then turned his bat
tery, his lies and his falsehoods against the
slavery of the South, until he succeeded, with
the other abolitionists, in the election of Mr.
Lincoln as President, and dashed the Ameri
can barque a wreck, a second time, against the
celebrated Plymouth rock. “As the tree is
known by its fruits,” I discover his character
has been well developed in New York recent
ly. It seems he is dexterous or well skilled
in throwing tilts, or quoits; he is so dexter
ous that he tilted the Rev. Parson Tilton out
of his bridal bed, and squatted down like an
’possum, or raccoon, growing luxuriantly fat
upon his clandestine or stolen corn. With re
gard to Parson Brownlow, since I saw your
Excellency, I am informed he is indented
around the body with the shape of a snake or
serpent, visibly demonstrating that his fath
er, the Devil, has a bill of sale against him,
when his polluted breath leaves his filth}*
body. When he mounts the pulpit to preach.
Indian like, he is armed with a pistol and
bowie-knife, and frequently in the midst of
his singing and preaching he smells powder,
anticipating a fight with some of his belliger
ents. If his father, the Devil, could possibly
laugh, standing behind him, he must feel well
pleased with his darling boy*, Parson Billy*,
and exclaim, with great glee, “he is a well
disciplined soldier in all his diabolical mili
tary tactics.”
Your Excellency is aware of the new name
the prominent leaders of the Radicals have
assumed—that is, the Credit Mobilier party,
the roamiug or fictitious capital party*, or rath
er the wholesale plundering party, without
any* original capital. They* have embezzled
of the public funds three or four hundred mil
lions of dollars ; they* have appropriated fifty
millions of acres of the public lands to build
the North Pacific Railroad ; they have plun
dered several millions of the United States
funds ; they have cheated the Government
out of millions with the whiskey* ring; they*
have robbed the money that was appropriated
for the Indians; they have plundered the
Government in all the goods they* smuggled
into the country without duty*, with the cor
rupt Radical revenue officers knowing it with
out reporting ; they have robbed the Govern
ment of millions of dollars with their oppres
sive taxation of Internal Revenue ; they have
associated with Tweed in robbing the city
funds of New York, and whilst Tweed is re
ceiving his merited retribution at Sing Sing,
the other political plundering black-birds have
escaped. But there is a day before them in
the next world when they can not escape, un
less their sins arc washed away* with a timely*
repentance. They* have even associated with
the carpet-baggers and negroes of the South
in plundering the Southern States with their
wholesale system of robbery*. The civil rights
bill, introduced by* the late Sumner, and pass-
ed, is not only* equal to every other barbarous
act they* have done, but surpass it in ab
surdity. There are high and low. rich and
poor, servant and master, and will be till the
end of time. You may as well try* to change
the spots of the leopard, change black into
white, as to establish social equality between
the white and black people. Canute, of Den
mark, subsequently of England, in the early
part of the eleventh century*, placed his chair
upon the beach, to please his flatterers and
to arrest the waves of the ocean ; but he soon
found—poor, silly mortal—that he would have
been swept away by* the approaching tide if
he had not receded or moved back to that
designated boundary line to which Almighty
God lias said, “so far slialt thou go and no
farther.” In the Garden of Eden there was
peace till the tempter came, then came sorrow
and trouble on this land. In 1492. when
Christopher Columbus and iscovered the Western
or American continent, it gladdehed the
hearts of the people of Europe that there was
an asylum for the oppressed of all countries.
Subsequently, in 1620. the pilgrim fath
ers, the Puritans, landed at Plymouth Rock ;
they* and their descendants have been a curse
to this country. They and their descendants
imported slaves. They* encouraged slavery
until they* foun 1. from the vast tide of emi
gration and the coldness of the climate, they*
could dispense with it. They then sold them
to the South, put the money* in their pockets,
and built factories with it. They soon after
embarked in a crusade against the South with
as much zeal as Peter, the hermit, or Richard,
the lion-hearted of the eleventh or twelfth
century; but whilst the latter were carried
away with a laudable zeal, to recover Pales
tine—consecrated with the birth, life, suffer
ings and resurrection of our Saviour, the
former, the abolitionists, were carried away
with a corrupt zeal, to act in violation of one
of the commandments given by* Almighty
God to the Jewish legislator, Moses, on Mount
Sinai, to promulgate among the children of
Israel, “Thou shalt not steal.” They dashed
it, a wreck, as I said before, a second time
against that Plymouth rock, in the election of
Mr. Lincoln as President in 1860. In that
election, Hon. and dear sir. they destroyed
an institution which supplied their factories
with cotton, raised their proprietors from in
digence to prosperity* and affluence, fed and
clothed their poor people, yielded a large
revenue to the Government, enriched the
South, and afforded a market of two hundred
and fifty millions of dollars for their manu
factured goods and produce. They then
plunged the fatal knife into the heart of the
South, and whilst it is still reeking with blood,
and the crimsoned and clotted gore warm
around the blade, it recoils around their own
necks, inflicting a gash, or an orifice, which
is causing their own life blood to flow. It is
true that cotton is still raised with black and
white labor, but from the number of cotton
mills or factories springing up in the South,
resulting from the abolition of slavery, my
humble remark is still correct, that they cut
their own throats in regard to their cotton
factories, when they abolished an institution,
black labor or slavery*, which made the whole
country* prosperous—the North as well as the
South. It is presumable the two sections are
well satisfied with the massacre and carnage
of the last war ; the only and best alternative
that is now left is the ballot-box. Should the
Democrats and conservative Whigs combine
and elect such statesmen as Gen. Gordon and
Mi*. Stephens—if not of the same talent, of
similar principles ; should they avoid the cur
rency question in the next election for Presi
dent —that is, say nothing respecting specie
basis or expansion till the election is over;
should they elect a sound statesman as Pres
ident, they would remove the American barque
from that Plymouth rock, against which it has
been a wreck since 1860. Like another ark,
it would ride triumphantly over the turbid
waters of the deluge ; the angry billows would
soon subside, the sun of political liberty
would again shine upon us, and we would all
exclaim, like the Roman citizen of old, “ we
are American citizens, and a nation of free
men.”
I am, Hon. and dear sir, your most humble
and obedient servant,
John C. Sheehan.
Seasonable Rhyme.
Now, ladies, bare the snow white arms,
House-cleaning brings the tug ;
Exile the cockroach and the rat,
And shoot the grim bed bug.
A liar should have a good memory,
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Sweet Mary and the Hour of Prayer.
BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE.
The sunset's sweet and holy blush
Is imaged in the sleeping stream ;
All natures deep and solemn hush
Is like the silence of a dream ;
And peace seems brooding like a dove
O'er scenes to musing spirits dear—
Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of lore,
And I were blest if thou were here.-
The miriad flowers of every hue.
Are sinking to their evening rest,
Each with a timid drop of dew
Soft folded to its sleeping breast;
The birds within yon sileht grove
Are dreaming that the spring is near—
Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of love,
Andi were blest if thou were here !
On yon white cloud the night wind furls
Its lone and dewy wings to sleep.
And the sweet stars look out like pearls
Through the clear waves of heaven's blue doop
The pale mists float around, above.
Like spirits of a holier sphere—*
Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of love,
And I were blest if thou were here!
The pale, full moon in silent pride
O'er yon dark wood is rising now,
As lovely as when by thy side
I saw it shining on thy bfoW ;
It lights the dew-drops of the grove,-
As hope's bright smile lights beauty's tear—
Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of love,
And I were blest if thou were here !
Ah ! as I muse, a strange wild thrill
Steals o'er the fibres of my frame ;
A gentle presence seems to till
My heart with love, and life, and flame,
] I feel thy spirit round me move,
I know thy soul is hoyering near—
j Sweet Mary, ’tis the hour of love.
And I am blest, for thou art here !
Singular Occurrence.
AN UPHEAVAL OF EARTH. WATER AND FLSIL
Poughkeepsie. April 12. —At the foot erf
Sugar Loaf Mountain, on the east side of the'
Hudson, near the northern entrance to the
Highlands, is the summer residence of the
Widow Wade. Opposite, in the Hudson, is
Pollipell’s Island. The ground on which
the Wade mansion is located is eight hund
red or a thousand feet above the level of the
river, the back-ground being Sugar Loaf, rt
thousand feet higher. A strange occurrence
took place within a thousand feet of the
house yesterday afternoon. James Mc-
Manus is railroad flagman near the spot.
He was in the rock cut north at 3 o’clock on
the afternoon mentioned, when he heard a
singular noise, a sort of rattling or cracking.
He ran south to ascertain the cause, and
found the railroad track for 500 feet covered
with small stones and boulders, and snnflsh
and perch. He looked up the hill and saw a
hole 300 feet in width and 50 feet in depth,
and from it fully fifty thousand tons of dirt
and sand had to all appearances been lifted!
up and hurled into and across the cove
below. The cave is 500 feet in width, and
the avalanche swept through it and over it
to the Hudson River Railroad track, tearing
down fences and covering the track six inches
| deep with stones, dirt and fish. Huge trees
| were hurled in every direction, and the water
j the entire length of the cove was disturbed.
At 7 o’clock in the evening there was
another report, and another mass of earth
was hurled to the cove below. At eight
o’clock this morning there were two more
reports, and a quantity—perhaps much more
oart’n was displaced. What is stranger still,
almost immediately after the last report, rt
torrent of water burst from the bottom of
the cavern, from where the eartii had been
hurled, and plunged down the side of the
hill, cutting a ravine five feet deep in less
than no time, and the volume of water is
increasing hourly. Trees thirty feet in height
were carried to a distance of a thousand
feet. Scores of people visited the spot to
day, but not one could satisfactorily explain
the occurrence. It was not a land slide. It
certainly looked like an eruption, for to all
appearances the thousands of tons of earth
must have been forced upward and outward
to the cove below. The result of this
upheaval can easily be seen from the win
dows of passing trains. All around the
chasm the ground was undisturbed, except
where the immense mass of earth struck it
as it tumbled into the river. The indications
are that there will soon be another upheaval
! there, and the trakmen are watching the track
closely. The occurrence has revealed tons
of the finest sand where it was thought no
sand existed.
Muscle Against Brain.
When Jackson was moving on to strike
McClellan’s flank on the Chiekahominy, he
came to a stream that had no bridge, and
couldn’t be crossed without one. The
General had brought with him from the Val
ley, a rough uneducated man, full of energy',
who had served him in emergencies, and in
whom he had the utmost confidence. He
called In's man and told him that the stream
must be bridged immediately; the regular
engineers were advised of the fact. In a
short time the rough carpenter and the pol
ished men of science were at the stream, the
former had his plan, the latter theirs; he
wished to go to work at once without draw
ings, but they objected until they could per
fect the plans on paper. The engineers
retired to their tent to perfect a paper bridge ;
carpenter took his men and went to work to
make a real one. In a very short time ho
appeared at the General’s tent and reported
briefly, thus : “General, that bridge is done
but them pictures ain’t come yet.”
Variety in Feeding,
Experience has proved that variety is one
of the secrets of success ; not only in feeding
stock, but also in feeding the soil. No intel
ligent farmer would expect to maintain the
health and vigor of his family by confining
them to a single article of diet, and it is easy
to see that the same principle applies—
though not, perhaps, to the same extent—in
furnishing nutriment to his animals, or plant
food to his crops. All kinds of stock will
thrive better on a judicious variety of food,
however dissimilar, than on one or two kinds
only, however nutritious ; and it is clear be
yond a doubt that this law holds equally
true in the application of fertilizers to grow
ing crops.— Exchange.
Foi age and want save while you may.
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