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oV THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ VOLUME I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, _ ,he JackNOß County litl>lihin& *' Com puny. jgFFBRSOIf, JACKSON CO., GA. iiff[Cß , V. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, managing and business editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION fO p V l2 months $2.00 •* “ 1.00 .. “ 3 “ 50 mjrftyr every Club of Ten subscribers, an cx incopy the paper will be given. Relating to Newspaper Subscriptions and Arrearages. The following laws in regard to newspaper sub options and arrearages have received the sanc ',n and are published as the decisions of the ' nited States Supreme Court: 1 Subscribers who do not give express notice to thf contrary, are considered wishing to continue thnr subscription. j If subscribers order the discontinuance of periodicals, the publishers may continue to until all arrearages are paid. I If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the office to which they are di eted. they are held responsible until they have their bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers move to other places without BOfjfvmg publishers, and the papers are sent to firmer direction, they are held responsible, i The Courts have decided that “refusing to tiiv periodicals from the office, or removing and Innng them uncalled for is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud.” _ * 6. Any person who receives a newspaper and Hikes use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, jsheld in law to he a subscriber. If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound thrive notice to the publisher, at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue taking it; otherwise, the publisher is authorized to send it on: wi the subscribers will he responsible until u express notice, with payment of all arrearages, i> sent to the publisher. j)rofcßßiiMaf ifc Jotisiiicss Cards. I. A. B. MAIIAFFEY. W. S. M’UARTY. UAHAFFEY & McCARTY, .U A T T O It NKYS AT LAW, Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga., Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at tmtion given to all business entrusted to their are. Patronage solicited. OctJOly Bit. C. 11. GILES OFFERS his professional services to the citizens of Jefferson and vicinity. Can he found at the late residence of l)r. H. D. Long. Jin.*”. 18715—tf STANLEY & PINSON, JEFFERS OX, (i A., D| EAI.ERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce ries. New supplies constantly received. • heap for Cash. Call and examine their stock. Jane 19 ly Medical Notice. jjr. .1. <l. IICVI’ having located in Jcft’er son for the purpose of practicing Medicine, tenders his services to the citizens of the town and county in all the different branches ■theprofession. After a flattering experience 1 nineteen years, he feels justified in saying that i ls prepared to successfully treat any curable ;:snse incident to our climate. He is, for the r eyut. boarding with Judge John Simpkins, hut v more his family here soon. (, ttice with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey. can he seen in the office of T. 11. WLAOK, Esq., C. S. C. octlG "ILK.V c. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD. HW AR|> A HOWARIh ATTORNEYS AT LAW, w Jefferson, Ga. "I practice together in all the Courts of Jack and adjacent counties, except the Court of binary of Jackson county. Sept Ist *75 V WHJJAMSON. J ' .MATCHMAKER and jeweler, .'M '■ r - um. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block, -nens. Ga. All work done in a superior manner, •W wiuranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi- CASH. * JulylO-Gm. ]l L lVOFI'ORl), Attorney at Law, HOMER, BANKS Cos., Ga. 'll practice in all the adjoining Counties, and P e prompt attention to all business entrusted to care, Collecting claims a specialty. OAKES, MAKER. JEFFERSON, GA. -and good buggy and wagon harness always and an< “ Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c., ' ■ f °n short notice, and cheap for cash. junel-i —i y ’ 1 ' I J. B. SILMAN, F * °vington, Ga. Jeft'ersou, Ga. 0, l> & r . ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. it, together in tlic Superior Courts of . 1 'Jntios of Jackson and Walton. junel*> —ly \\ *• I'HiK, Attorney at l-aw, K* . JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. p ICes ln all the Courts, State and Federal. li ru i' an d thorough attention given to all toiuit e * business i Jackstra and adjoining June 12, 1875 Nrv nfo worth $1 free. Siinson fc marll Mjin* and u ‘ rms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta, e ‘ marll F. P. TALMADGE, DEALER IN AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES, CLOCKS, JE WELR Y, SIL VER S' PLATED WARE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C. Etches, clocks .a-hste repaired In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction. Ornamental and llniu better Engraving a Specialty. AT ION— College Avenue, one door from the Bookstore Corner, ATHENS, GA. April Ist, 1876 ly ✓ THE FOREST NEWS. Die People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. SPRING AND SUMMER stock; or Milinery and Fancy Goods! O ** X. A. 1 DAVIS A NNOUNCES to the public that she is now re ce‘vlg a large and varied stock of Ladies’ Bonnets, Ifats. Laces, Ribbons. Trimmings, <tc., which she is offering at low prices. Call, exam ine and be convinced. Next door to the Bank of the U Diversity, Athens, Ga. April 15 BURKE’S BOOK-STORE, ATHENS, Q-AA. T %va, U ‘School Books, Miscellaneous Books, .. , , S* es Hy mn Books, Pens. Tnk and Paper, Goid Pens, Fine Pocket Knives. Picture Frames, Blank Books, Hat Racks, Brackets, or anything kept m a first-class Book-store, call on T. A. BURKE, marlS Bookseller and Stationer. Picture Gallery, Up-Stairs , between the Billy Thompson corner and Stanley <£> Pinson's. A. H. BROCK, RESPECTFULLY announces to the ladies and gentlemen of Jefferson and vicinity, that his Gallery is noiv 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. 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. HUGGINS Sells goods cheaper note, 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, Pry Goods , Boots, Shoes, Hats, Saddles, Harness and Leather. And also a large stock of IJL'HE, both for build ing and fertilizing purposes, all very low for the CASH. \\ hen 3 r ou go to A thens, 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 priee. If you want CROCKERY and GLASS \\ ARE, there’s the place to get it. If you want TOBACCO. FLOCK. BA COX, LARD, 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. the place. marlS Established, 1785! The Chronicle Sentinel. AUGUSTA, <3rJ±. One of the Oldest Papers in the Country. One of the LEADING PAPERS of the South. The Largest Circulation in Eastern Georgia. The official Organ of several Counties. PUBLISHED Daily, Tri-Weekly & Weekly. o THE DAILY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL IS filled with interesting Reading matter of every de scription—Telegraphic ; Local; Editorial; Geor gia, and South Carolina and General News; Inter esting Correspondence, and Special Telegrams from all important points. Subscription, 810. The TRI-WEEKLY Chronicle and Senti nel is intended for points convenient to a Tri- Weekly mail. It contains nearly everything ol interest which appears in the Daily. Subscription, $5.00. The WEEKLY CHRONICLE AND SENTI NEL is a mammoth sheet, gotten up especially for our subscribers in the country. It is one of the largest papers published in the South, and gives, besides Editorials, all the current news of the week, a full and accurate review of the Augusta Markets and Prices Current. The Commercial Reports are a special feature of the edition. Sub scription, $2. Specimen copies of any issue sent free. WALSH & WRIGHT, Proprietors, Augusta, Ga. Jackson County. Whereas, B J Whitmire, Administratrix of the estate of F M Whitmire, 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 II N Mitchell as a suitable person, qualified and entitled to. and willing to ac cept the said trust— Therefore, the said II 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 whj r 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. SEND 25c. to GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., New York, for Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing lists of 3.000 newspapers, and estimates showing cost of advertising. marll JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 27,1576. Reception of the Fraternal Messengers of the M. E. Church, South, by the North ern General Conference, at Baltimore. Quite an interesting feature in the pro ceedings of the (Northern) General Confer ence at Baltimore, last week, was the recep tion, by that body, of the Fraternal Messen gers from the church, South, a brief account of which is herewith appended : The hour for the reception of fraternal messengers from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, having come, that most inter esting ceremony took place. With the ex ception of the upper tier, which was filled, every part of the Academy was crowded. Many were standing. The desk in front of Presiding Bishop James, and all the tables of the Secretaries- and official reporters, ranged at the front of the platform, were dec orated with immense bouquets. The scene was a happy combination of Christian and floral welcome. Dev. Dr. Foss, President of Middletown University, and Rev. J. P. Newman, of Washington, formally introduced to Bishop James and the Conference, the fraternal messengers, Rev. Jas A. Duncan, of Ran dolph-Macon College, Va., and Landon Gar land, D. D., Chancellor of Y T anderbilt Uni versity, Nashville, Tenn. Bishop James welcomed the Messengers in an eloquent ad dress. The Secretary then read the credentials of the members of the Church, South, in which the Council was also notified of a commission of five persons to consult upon and adjust the legal points at issue between the two churches. A LETTER FROM DR. L. PIERCE. An address to the Bishops and delegates of the M. E. Church in conference assembled, written by Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce, was then read. The address reviews the progress of Methodism generally, and concludes as fol lows : “And finally let us as two companies of brothers, entrusted with a most precious patrimonial estate to enjoy as trustees and enlarge and increase as guardians for an in definite posterity, see which of us can so use onr portion of this Methodist capital as to make the percentage of income and test of comparative fidelity, industry and devotion to its policy, and its principles of operation as its founders and its fathers turned it over to us. Let us do this as brethren of one heart and one mind, of one great aim and end, and the future will prove that our divis ion into two general conference jurisdictions was a benefaction instead of a deprivation. We will watch each other only with godly jealousy for a faithfully propagation of one undivided Methodism. This is, in so far as it can be, my last will and testament, turning over to my successors my estate in Method ism. During the reading there were frequent manifestations of sympathy and approval. ADDRESS BY THE DELEGATES. Dr. Duncan then made an able address, saluting the Bishops and delegates in the name of his Conference as brethren in the name of Christ Jesus. He was followed by Mr. Garland. The remarks of both these gen tlemen were in the most fraternal spirit and cordially received. Resolutions of WELCOME AND REGRET At the absence of Dr. Pierce were unani mously adopted. The matter of appointing a commission to meet that appointed by the Church South to adjust the legal points at issue, was referred to a special committee of seven, to be appointed. Baby’s Legs. Bow-legs and knock-knees are among the common deformities of humanity ; and wise mothers assert that the crookedness in either case arises from the afflicted one having been put upon his or her feet too early in babyhood. But a Massachusetts physician, wjo has watched for the true cause, thinks differently. He attributes the first mentioned distortion to a habit some youngsters delight in of rub bing the sole of one foot against that of the other; some will go to sleep with their soles pressed together. They appear to enjoy the contact only when the feet are naked ; they do not attempt to make it when they are socked or slippered. So the remedy is obvi ous, keep the baby’s soles covered. Knock knees the doctor ascribes to a different child ish habit, that of sleeping on his side, with one knee tucked into the hollow behind the other. He has found that where one leg has been bowed inward more than another, the patient has always slept on one side, and the upper member has been that which has been most deformed. Here the preventive is to pad the insides of the knees so as to keep them apart, and let the limbs grow free ly their own way. All of which is commend ed to mothers who desire the physical up rightness of their progeny. MISCELLANEOUS. Saturday Evening. Again a calm and peaceful thought Pervades my troubled breast, F or time with fleeting steps has brougnt The eve of hallowed rest. Yes ! one more week of earthly life ! Plainer than e’er before, I view the end of daily strife, The crown and harp in store. I 11 take the record of the hours, And scan its page with fears ; For oft from memory’s secret bowers, There come remorseful tears. Have we not heard that He has said, M hen thou has pitying brought A pillow for the wanderer’s head, Thy soul of Me has thought ? O ! if we could but perfect live, Our heaven would be below ; But still our souls must ever strive Thy way of light to know. And when another week has closed, May we with thanks recall The pleasant word and deed bestowed, And sympathy to all. w. G. B. The Dance of Death. A MAN WHO FORCES ANOTHER TO DANCE AT THE PISTOL MUZZLE IS HIMSELF CALL ED TO TIME AND SHOT DEAD. At the quiet and somewhat unpretentious little village of Shaqisburg, bordering on our neighboring county, Montgomery, where reside many prominent and wealthy citizens, although it is more of a “cross-roads” town than a county scat, there have been during the past year or two a number of peripatetic “larks,” whose indiscretions have exceeded their judgment. These manifestations have been doubtless more the result of a tendency to be fast than possibly any outcroppings of any real criminal intent. We have just been placed in possession of the facts of a singu larly unfortunate and fatal event, ending in the death of one man and the punishment of another in most unwarrantable and peculiar circumstances. Thos. Fletcher was the name of the man killed, and it appears that he had been a transient resident between Irvine, Estill county, Mt. Sterling and Sharpsburg, he having lived in the latter place for some time, but more recently alternating between the other two towns. Irvine was the last place of his name and habitation. lie was musically inclined, and his last performance in that line proved a tune of hasty requiem and a dance of death ! A few days since Fletcher, in his festive mood, at Irvine, drew a pistol, and, with drawn bead and pointed muzzle, demanded of another young man that he* “dance or die.” Then at a disadvan tage the young man danced with the mur derous muzzle held to his head, the basilisk eye of his tormentor running along the bar rel, keeping it following his every movement. On he danced till his limbs grew lax and tie perspiration stood in beads upon his brow. “That will do,” grimly said Fletcher, lower ing and uncocking his pistol and putting it in his pocket, adding, “you may stop now.” With lightning eye and compressed lip the young man, whose name wo did not learn, said : “Yes, and you may stop, too.” Draw ing a pistol quick as a flash, he pulled the trigger and fired. “ Take that,” said he, as a hissing ball went through the heart of Fletcher, who fell over and expired. This was a little more dance and music than Fletcher had bargained for, and the tables were completely turned! The young man gavje himself up, as wc learn, and the matter will undergo the regular judicial investiga tion and legal proceedings. —Lexington ( Ky .) Dispatch. Got It at Last. For many days, says the Charlottesville (Va.) Jeffersonian , we have noticed an old col ored woman plodding her way to the post of fice, never missing a day, and invariably re turning as she came, without any mail. She had imbibed the idea prevalent among these people that the post office is a government institution, and she had a right to exercise her new privilege of “’qr.irin’ dar fur a let ter,” even though she expected nothing, and with a persistence that was commendable, her face appeared at the general deliver}’ as reg ularly as the mail was opened. Some person, getting tirdd of seeing her fruitless attempt to accomplish her desires, fixed up a letter in hieroglyphics, signed it Jeemes Higgins, stamped it, and left it to await her coming. She was there on time. When the clerk hand ed out the missive, she had no idea it was in tended for her, and looked all around the crowd, who are usually at the windows, ex pecting some of them to take it; but when the clerk insisted that it was for “Polly Brown,” it was a stud}' for a physiognomist to see the variety of expressions that her countenance underwent. She took hold of the precious thing and exclaimed, “Bress de Laud,” and as she backed out of the crowd, with the letter high above her head, her cOKKteiwuice open from ear to ear, she ejacu lated, “ Ise got it! Bress de Laud ! I knowed de guvvermint was gwine to gimme a letter ’fore long. I seed dat letter last night on de candle—dat I did,” and she waddled off down the street hunting for someone to read it for her. She finally got a gentleman to open it, but as the writing was entirely unintelligible, he could do nothing but tell the writer's name. She pondered a long time over the name, to remember who “Jeemes Higgins” was, and where she had known him. She tried several other gentlemen, but all failed to decipher the hieroglyphics. At last she said: “Well, dat Jeemes Higgins must be a mighty smart young culled pusson to write a letter what dese white gemmans can’t read. ’Spec he’s, some o’ dim ginruls in de army, who knowed me when I was a gal. An’ he 'membus poor ole Polly yit,” and she as sumed such an air of dignity as to make it excruciating to look at her. She took her letter and went home. She comes to the of fice no more now. A merchant of Jackson, Tenn., asked two men to keep store for him while he went out for a moment. They did so, and sold each other a large lot of goods cheap on credit. When he returned and was informed of what they had done he was anxious to pass it off as a joke, but they insist that they were his agents, hence that the transaction was a legal or.e, and the courts will have to pass upon the question. A Story that Ought to Live Forever. There comes to us from the Western dis trict a story on the details of which a Bret Harte or a Colonel Hay would found a poem. The other day a gang of laborers were em ployed stacking blocks of stone on a perma nent way of the Great Western railroad, be tween Keynsham and Bristol. In fact, the operation of stone stacking was carried on within a few yards of the Brislington tunnel. It was at the time of day when the most wonderful express train in the world, called the “Flying Dutchman,” was expected, and by some unlucky accident a large block of stone rolled down the embankment, lodging on the railway line. At this instant the roar of the “Flying Dutchman” was heard in the tunnel. Not a moment was to be lost, so swiftly down the bank sped one of the brave navvies to remove the stone and save hun dreds of innocent lives, or perish in the at tempt. He had a wife and family at home, but he never thought of them. His life was in his hand, but he never thought of that. Down the steep embankment sped the brave fellow, nerved with the combined strength of Sisyphus and Atlas, to move the stone and save his fellow-creatures. On sped the flying Dutchman! “Quick, for yonr life, Jim,” shouted the companion on the bank. Alas! it was just too late ; the stone was rolled out of the way, but the hero was cut to pieces by the fangs of the murderous train. This is as grand and noble a story as ever was told. It is finer than the tale of “Jim Bludso,” the moral of whose storey is told with such impetuous vigor and truth by the author of “ Little Breeches.” “ He kttow’d his duty, a (lead sure thing, And he went for it thar and tnen; And t’lirist. ain’t agoing to be too hard On a man that died for men !” If ever there was a brave fellow who laid down his life for the sake of his fellow crea tures it was this hero of the Brislington tun nel. llis wife and children ought to be look ed after, and have no doubt come under the consideration of the citizens of Bristol. But the story ought to live forever. —London Era. How She Manages It. “ Is my hat done ?” inquired a cold-looking lad}' at a Chicago millinery establishment one pleasant day this week. “ Yes, ma’am,” politely responded the shop woman. “it will be here in a moment.” An assistant soon brought up the bonnet, and while the customer was duly inspecting it, the store proprietress ventured to inquire: “How do you like it, ma’am ?” “It’s simply horrid !” was the reply. “ But it is just as you ordered it,” pleaded the maker of headware. “ Yes, something as I ordered,” was the short and sneering answer. “I’m real sorry, but—” “Well, never mind,” broke in the buyer, with set lips ; “ what’s the expense ?” “About seven dollars, I guess,” said the shopwoman, timidly.” The money was paid over, and the bonnet ordered up to the house, when the purchaser pranced out upon the street and immediately exclaimed to an accompanying lad}' friend : “ Isn’t it perfectly lovely ?” “ Yes,” replied the friend ; “it’s ravishing, but how could you talk so to that woman ?” “ Talk so ?” exclaimed she of the new bon net; “why, if 1 had let her know how much I liked the hat, that woman would certainly have charged me sls, but now, you see, I’ve got it for $7 !” The other woman said that she had never thought of that, but would profit by her friend’s ripe experience, and never like an article again until after she had bought it. A Cure for Colds in the Head. It would seem as if the cure for those worst of small nuisances, colds in the head, which Dr. Ferrier, of King's College, suggested in the Lancet, might prove to be a remedy of very great value. It is a snuff—a white powder—composed of the following ingredi ents : I Iydrochlorate of morphia, two grains ; acacia powder, two drachms; trinsitrate of bismuth, six drachms—the whole making up a quantity of powder of which from one-quar ter to one-half may be safely taken, if neces sary, in the course of twenty-four hours. Dr. Ferrier says that with this snuffhe has twice cured himself of very violent colds, once, indeed, by taking trinsitrate of bismuth alone, which is a very powerful remedy for catarrh of the mucous membrane, and is the most important ingredient in this snuff. Dr. Ferrier mentions two other persons who were cured of violent colds by the same snuff, and to these instances we may add that of the present writer, who, having a very violent cold coming on, with the sensation of weight in the temples and the usual disagreeable feeling in the throat, as well as ordinary catarrh, made trial of Dr. Ferrier’s remedy one evening, and got up on the? following morning completely free from cold, which has not since recurred. The snuff, instead of increasing the tendency to sneeze, almost immediately begins to diminish it.— London Spectator. Bell ear-rings are the latest. They are supposed to be the Independence Hall ringer in miniature, and arc made of gold and sil ver. $ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM } SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. GLEANINGS. The London authorities have finally de clined to name a street after Washington. Five thousand boxes of vegetables per week are shipped North from Savannah. A pet deer in Charlotte, N. C., attacked a little daughter of Col. J. L. Moorehead, beating her to the ground with hi 9 feet. Ex-President Polk’s widow has been invit ed by Col. Tom Scott to visit the Centennial in a special car placed at her disposal. There are seventeen periodicals published in the United States in the interest of the Young Men’s Christian Association. William H. Barnum was elected, on the 16th, United States Senator, to fill the unex pired term of the late Senator Ferry, of Con necticut. Two large dry-goods houses in London, have well-salaried private chaplains to con duct morning prayers and give addresses to the young men and women in their employ. Zack Bird, the negro who was to have been hanged in Forsyth last Friday, escaped the gallows—the Governor having commuted his sentence to imprisonment for life. The third annual national reunion of North ern and Southern soldiers, will take place at Caldwell, Ohio, on September sth, lasting three days. An Indiana man is slowly recovering from blindness, caused last August, by pressing ice to his forehead, while warm from over work. Mrs. “Stonewall” Jackson has been visit ed by a large number of citizens during her stay in Augusta, all anxious to pay their respects to the widow of the great leader. Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia, has re covered from his attack of paralysis so far that he is able to walk out. He is at his home in Lexington. The oxe-cye daisies on the new bonnets form a coronet in front, and a long trail of green wheat and small daisies tied in bunches fall over the back. It has been estimated that it costs two dol lars a minute to run the South Carolina Legislature, not counting stationery and gas and what the members steal. A substitute for the postal card, that is being considered by the Post Office depart ment, is a stamped sheet (about note-paper size,) with gummed edge, to serve as both paper and envelope, and to cost two cents. Gov. Coke, of Texas, who has just been elected to the United States Senate, is of genuine old Virginia stock, and bis father once had the honor of beating Henry A. Wise for Congress in the Accomac district. The Marietta Journal has discovered the real inventor of the sewing macine—Rev. Thos. R. Colliding, a native Georgian, a Presbyterian preacher, who lives in destitute circumstances, near Roswell, in Cobb co. The Khedive of Egypt provides a daily feast for the cats of Cairo, at the great Mosqe, and great is the tumult at the hour of prayer, when thej' all rush to the distributing priest for their allowance. Capt. T. E. Dudley, of Marlboro’, 8. C., has a singular ear of corn grown on his place. There are two separate and distinet kinds of corn on the same cob, about half being red and the rest white. Mr. D. C. Gist was riding near Joncsville, in Union. S. G\, when a pistol in his pocket was discharged, and entering the body of his horse, killed him. The horse was a valuable one. An lowa woman has a kettle cast in 1758. But unless that kettle was once tied to the tail of George Washington’s dog, it doesn’t possess enough historical interest to be sent to the Centennial.— Vicksburg Herald. Dr. J. J. Hickman. G. W. C. T. of the world returned from NewOrleanson the 17th inst. lie organized a Grand Lodge of Good Templars in Louisiana, which now makes a Grand Lodge in every State in the Union. The R. W. Grand Lodge of I. O. G. T. of the world meets in Louisville, Ky., this week. W. B. Thomas, representative from Wales reached here yesterday. Representatives from India, Ireland and Australia have also arrived.— At. Const., 18 th. The troubles at Salonica get no better. The infidels are determined in their fanatical crusade, and the great powers of Europe are quietly placing their gun boats and war forces in readiness to wipe the turbaned dogs from the face of the earth. Two men while scuffling on the cliff at the Passaic Falls at Paterson, N. J., last Mon day, accidentally fell over the precipice and tumbled a distance of sixty-five feet to the bottom. Fortunately they fell into deep wa ter and escaped with their lives. A fight occurred near Woodville, Miss., last week, between a band of negro thieves and a sheriff’s posse of whites. The negroes refused to disperse and a skirmish ensued in which twenty riegroes were killed and seve ral wounded. Mr. W. T. Graham, of North Alabama, re cently sheared twelve and a half pounds of wool from a single sheep, of only one year old. The entire flock averaged ten and two thirds pounds to the sheep. They are of the Cotswold breed. The public are cautioned against the pur chase of spurious Centennial medals. The genuine medal is authorized by act of Con gress, and was struck at the United States mint. To counterfeit it is a crime punisha ble by a fine not exceeding SI,OOO, and im prisonment not exceeding three years. Every year we hear the complaint that worms destroy Squashes, Cucumbers and other vegetables. An ounce of Saltpetre put into a pail of water and sprinkled over the plants, or a ring made around them with the finger or a stick, and the water poured into into it, is a sure preventive. It is a cheap and easy remedy. NUMBER 51.