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THE FOREST NEWS.
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jtofcssiiimif & business (Tunis.
U. B. MAHAFFKY. W. S. M'CARTY.
UAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
Jl ATT () R NEYS AT LAW,
Jkkfekson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
1 practice any where for money'. Prompt at
ntion given to all business entrusted to their
are. Patronage solicited. OctflOly
DR. C. H GILES
ijFFKRS his professional services to the citizens
oof Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
f late residence of Dr. 11. J. Long.
•lan. 2*2. 1876 —tf
STANLEY A PIXSOX,
JEFFERSON, GA.,
T\KALERS in Pry Goods and Family Groce
f rie>. New supplies constantly received.
'heap fur (’ash. Call and examine their stock.
Jw 10 ly
Medical Notice.
hr. J. O. IIUAT having located in JefFer
-1 sun fur the purpose of practicing Medicine,
'Wtfnlly tenders liis services to the citizens of
ovn and county in all the different branches
J ’profession. After a flattering experience
Mcen years, he feels jnstified in saying that
prepared to successfully treat any curable
>e incident to our climate. lie is, for the
'it. hoarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
1 move his family here soon.
with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
can be seen in the office of T. H.
Mack, Esq., C. S. C. octlG
5 F V r. HOWARD. ROB*T S. HOWARD.
HW’AR A lIOWAItD,
u ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
,Jefferson, Ga.
" - practice together in all the Courts of Jack
•l: adjacent counties, except the Court of
wy of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
r A- WILUAMSOX,
, " atchmaker and jfaveler,
>r - m. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
'■ 6a. All work done in a superior manner,
‘ ‘panted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
i; I S H- Julylo-6m.
ji Attorney t Ijhv,
HOMER, BANKS Cos., Ga.
'•practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
"upt attention to all business entrusted to
arc. c o n ec tj n „ claims a specialty.
ly
J°H> <*. O VKI.S,
HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
' *n<l good buggy and wagon harness always
' ! Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c.,
■'‘short notice, and cheap for cash.
Jnel2— ly F
r f', OY P I J. B. SILMAN,
p., ' lVln ol°n. Ga. Jefferson, Ga.
P<>Yl> 4c MIJIAA,
w ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
practice together in the Superior Courts of
' •nties of Jackson and Walton.
*• I'llil', Attorney at
V JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
ln a H the Courts, State and Federal.
!'t and thorough attention given to all
C ot , legal bu sincss in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875
j•) • day at home. Agents wanted. Outfit
!ai and terms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta,
marll
l)h "f \ per day at home. Samples
. p A VV worth*sl free. Si inson &
' ' n *and. Maine. marll
F. P. TAIMADGE,
DEALER IN
A M ERIC AN AND IMPORTED WATCHES,
CLOCKS, JE WELR Y, SIL VER S’ PLA TED WARE,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C.
Etches, clocks jewelry repaired
In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornamental and lMain better Engraving a Specialty.
(
‘Vil Ist, 1876 ly
Tin People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SPRING AND SUMMER
stock; OF
Milincry and Fancy Goods!
O
HRS. T. A. AIUTDS
A NNOL NCES to the public that she is now re-
C( i ala and varied stock of Ladies’
Bonnets Ilats, Laces, Ribbons. Trimmings, Ac.,
yhichsheis offering at .low prices. Call, exam
me and be convinced. Next door to the Bank of
the Lmversity, Athens, Ga. April 15
BURKE’S BOOK-STORE,
ATHENS, GrJ±.
Sehool Books, Miscellaneous Books,
hIJ n S an<l Hy mn Books, Pens. Ink and Paper,
, i ns ’ B° c kct Knives. Picture Frames.
Blank Books, Hat Racks, Brackets, or anythin"-
kept in a first-class Book-store, call on
T. A. BURKE,
marlß Bookseller and Stationer.
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 lands of Crockery and Glass-ware , Ramps,
Chandeliers , Farmers' Lanterns , Kerosene
Oil , at wholesale and retail; Family and
Fancy Groceries , Dry Goods , Boots ,
Shoes , Hats , Saddles , Harness
and Leather.
And also a large stock of LDIE, 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 CROCKERY and GLASS-
M ARE, there’s the place to get it. If you want
TOBACCO. FLOUR , BACON. LARD , SU
GAR, COFFEE and MOLASSES, go there and
you will find it. If you want LIME, for building
or composting with fertilizers, go to
J. H. HUGGINS’,
No. 7, Broad St., Athens.
J&aTßemember the place. marlS
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A Proclamation.
GEORGIA.
By JAMES M. SMITH,
Governor of said State.
Whereas, Official information has been re
ceived at this Department that a band of horse
thieves have been operating recently in the coun
ties of Oglethorpe and Jackson, committing divers
thefts therein, and that they have hitherto eluded
the vigilance of the civil authorities—
I have thought proper, therefore, to issue this
my Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of
Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars
each for the apprehension and delivery of said
thieves, with evidence sufficient to convict, to the
Sheriffs of said counties and State.
And I do moreover charge and require all of
ficers in this State, civil and military, to be vigi
lant in endeavoring to apprehend said thieves, in
order that they may be brought to trial for the of
fence with which they stand charged.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the
State, at the Capitol in Atlanta, this the twenty
fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-six, and
of the Independence of the United States of
America the One Hundredth.
JAMES M. SMITH, Governor.
By the Governor :
N. C. Barnett, Secretary of State. mayl3
NOTICE TO ADMINISTRATORS, EXECUTORS, GUAR
DIANS AND TRUSTEES.
MAKE YOUR RETURNS.
IT is my duty, under the law, to compel all Ad
ministrators, Executors, Guardians and Trus
tees, managing estates or trust funds under my
jurisdiction, to make annual returns of their act
ings and doings as such. The law directs these
returns to be made by the first Monday in July
of each year. I hereby notify all such parties
that unless they perform this duty promptly, in
accordance with law, 1 shall proceed to discharge
mine. WILEY C. HOWARD, Ord’y
May 27, 1876. of Jackson County.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. JUNE 24,1876.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
A Good Prescription for “Hard Times.”
Dr. Talmage, in a recent sermon appro
priate to the times, says :
“A good prescription for the alleviation
of financial distresses is proper Christian, in
vestment. God demands of every individual,
State and Nation, a certain proportion of
their income. We are parsimonious. We
keep back from God that which belongs to
Him, and when we keep back anything from
God, lie takes what we keep back, and He
takes more. lie takes it by storm, by sick
ness, by bankruptcy, by any one of the ten
thousand ways which lie can employ. The
reason many of you are cramped in business
is because 3 r ou have never learned the lesson
of Christian generosity. You employ an
agent. You give him a reasonable salary :
and, lo ! you find out that he is appropriating
your funds besides the salary. What do
j r ou do ? Discharge him. Well, we are
God’s agents. He puts in our hands certain
mone3 r s. Part are to be ours; part to be
His. Suppose we take all, what then ? lie
will discharge us ; He will turn us over to fi
nancial disasters, and take the trust away
from us. The reason that great multitudes
are not prosperous in business is simply be
cause they have been withholding from God
that which belongs to Him. The rule is.
give and 3'ou will receive ; administer liber
ally and you shall have more to administer.
I have tried it personally on a small scale.
When I have been mean and stingy towards
the cause of Christ, 1 have been perplexed in
financial things. When I have been com
paratively liberal, it has come right back up
on me. I never yet gave God one dollar but
He returned five. If a man give from a su
perabundance, God may or He may not re
spond with a blessing ; but if a man give un
til he feels it, if a man give until his selfish
ness cringes and twists and cowers under it,
he will get not only spiritual profit, but he
will get paid back in hard cash or in con
vertible securities. We often see men, who
are tight-fisted who seem to get along with
their investments very profitably, notwith
standing their parsimony. But wait. Sud
denly in that man’s history everything goes
wrong. He fails, or his reason is dethroned,
or a domestic curse smites him, or a mid
night shadow of some kind drops upon his
soul and upon his business. What is the
matter ? God is punishing him for his small
heartedness. He tried to cheat God, and
God worsted him. So that oneof the recipes
for the cure of individual and national finan
ces is more generosity. Where 3 T ou bestow
one dollar on the cause of Christ, He gives
you two. God loves to be trusted ; and He
is very apt to trust back again. He sa3 r s :
“That man knows how to handle money; he
shall have more money to handle;” and ver3'
soon the property that was on the market for
a great while gets a purchaser, and the bond
that was not worth more than fifty cents on a
dollar goes to par, and the opening of anew
street doubles the value of the house or in
any way of a million God blesses him. Once
the man finds out that secret, and he goes on
to fortune. There are men whom I have
known who for ten years have been trying to
pay God one thousand dollars. They have
never been able to get it paid, for just as they
were taking out from one fold of their pocket
book a bill, mysteriously somehow in some
other fold of their pocket-book there came a
larger bill. You tell me that Christian gen
erosity pays in the world to come. I tell
you it pays now, 1876—pays in hard cash,
pays in Government securities. You do not
believe it ? Ah, that is what keeps you
back. I knew you did not believe it. The
whole world and Christendom is to be recoil,
structed on this subject, and as you are a
part of Christendom, let the work begin in
jmur own soul. “ But,” says someone, “ I
don't believe that theory; because I have
been generous and have been losing money
for ten years.” Then God prepaid you, that
is all. What became of the money that you
made in other days ? You say to your son :
“ Now I will give you five hundred dollars
every year as long as you live.” After a
while you say : “Well, my son, you prove
yourself so worthy of my confidence I will
just give 3’ou twenty thousand dollars in a
single lump.” And you give it to him and
he starts off. In two or three years he com
plains against you : “Father is not taking
care of me. I ought to have five hundred
dollars a year.” Y'ou prepaid your son, and
he does not complain. There are thousands
of us now who can this year get just enough
to supply our wants ; but did not God pro
vide for us in the past, and has he not again
and again and again paid us in advance ? In
other words, trusted you all along—trusted
you more than you had a right to ask ?
Strike then, a balance for God. Economize
in anything rather than in your Christian
charities. There is not more than one out
of three hundred of you who ever give
enough to do any good, and when some cause
of Christianity—some missionary society or
Bible society or church organization comes
along and gets anything from you, what do
you say ? Y'ou say :“I have been bled
and there never was a more significant figure
of speech than that used in common parlance.
Yes 3'ou have been bled,’and you are spirit
ually emaciated, when if you had been cour
ageous enough to go through X’our property
and sa3 f ; “That belongs to God, and this
belongs to God, and the other tiling belongs
to (tod,” and no more dared to appropriate
it to your own use than something that be
longed to your neighbor, instead of being
bled to death b3 r charities, vdu would have
been reinvigorated and recuperated.
Oral Slander.
THE LAW AS DECLARED BY THE UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT.
At the late session of the United States
Supreme Court, the following decision was
rendered in the case of Maria A. N. Pollard
against Jacob L^’on —Error to the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia :
“ Words, both false and slanderous, it is al
leged, were spoken by the defendant of the
plaintiff, and she sues in an action on the
case for slander to recover damages for the
injury to her name and fame. Controversies
of the kind, in their legal aspect, require pret
ty careful examination.
“Definitions of slander will afford very lit
tle aid in disposing of any question involved
in tliis record or in any other ordinarity aris
ing in such a controversy, unless where it be
comes necessary to define the difference be
tween oral and written defamation, or to pre
scribe a criterion to determine, in cases where
special damage is claimed, whether the pecu
niary injury alleged naturally flows from the
speaking of the words set forth in the declara
tion. Different definitions of slander are
given by different commentators upon the
subject, but it will be sufficient to say that
oral slander, as a cause of action, may be di
vided into five classes, as follows :
“ 1. Words falsely spoken of a person which
impute to the party the commission of some
criminal offence involving moral turpitude,
for which the party, if the charge is true, may
be indicted and punished.
“2. Words falsely spoken of a person which
impute that the party is infected with some
contagious disease, where, if the charge is
true, it would exclude the pariy from soci
ety, or,
“ 3. words falsely spoken of a
person, which impute to the party unfitness
to perform the duties of an office or emplo3’-
ment of profit, or the want of integrity in the
discharge of the duties of such an office or
emplo3 7 ment.
“4. Defamator3 r words falsely spoken of a
party which prejudice such party in his or her
profession or trade.
“5. Defamatory words falsely spoken of a
person which, though not in themselves ac
tionable, occasion the party special damage.
“ The decision in tliis case is affirmed.”
Useful.
As but few are aware of the cleansing and
medicinal properties of ammonia, we publish
the following from an exchange :
“No housekeeper should be without a bot
tle of spirits of ammonia; for besides its
medical properties, it is invaluable for house
hold purposes. It is nearly as useful as soap,
and its cheapness brings it within the reach
of all. Rut a teaspoonful of ammonia in a
quart of warm soapsuds, dip a cloth in it and
go over your soiled paint and see how rapidly
the dirt will disappear; no scrubbing will be
necessary. It will cleanse and brighten won
derfully. To a pint of hot suds add a tea
spoonful of the spirits, dip in your forks and
spoons (or whatever you have to clean), rub
with a soft brush and then finish with a cha
mois skin. For washing windows and mir
rors it has no equal. It will remove grease
spots from every fabric without injuring the
garment. Put on the ammonia nearly clear ;
lay blotting paper over and set a hot iron on
it for a moment. Also a few drops in water
will cleanse and whiten laces and muslin
beautifully. A few drops in a bowl of water,
if the skin is oily, will remove all greasiness
and disagreeable odors. Added to foot
bath, it entirely absorbs al. noxious smells,
and nothing is better to remo/e dandruff
from the hair. For cleaning hair and nail
brushes it is equally good.
For heartburn and dyspepsia, the aromat
ic spirits of ammonia is especially prepared ;
ten drops of which, taken in a wine-glass of
water, will give relief.
For house plants, five or six drops to every
pint of water, once a week, will make them
flourish. It is also good to cleanse plant
jars.”
E. G. Tobin, of Orangeburg, S. C., was
practicing with his rifle a few days since at a
mark set up in the middle of the railroad
track, when one of his shots, after passing
through the object at which he was shooting,
ricocheted up and killed a buzzard that was
passing over the railroad about thirty or forty
feet in the air.
A negro woman who had not for some time
had enough to eat. was employed last week
on Mr. \V. O. Cromer’s place, some three or
four miles from the village of Abbeville, S.
C., to help hoe out his cotton crop. Owing
to her reduced condition from lack of food
and the large amount eaten when the oppor
tunity presented itself, she died in four or
five days.
The body of Miss Lillie, daughter of Rev.
Dr. Wm. P. Harrison, of Atlanta, was found
on the afternoon of the 14th inst., after being
fifty-one hours in the water. The form was
swollen and blackened beyund recognition.
She suicided Monday. She was buried at
Columbus. The body had floated a mile and
a half down the river.
A Country School.
Pretty and pale and tired
She sits in her stiff-back chair,
While the blazing Summer sun
Shines on her soft brown hair,
And the tiny brook without,
That she hears through the open door,
Mocks with its murmur cool
Hard bench and dusty floor.
It seems such an endless round—
Grammar and A. B. U,
The blackboard and the sums ;
The stupid geography •;
When from the teacher to little Jem
Not one of them cares a straw,
Whether “John” is in any “case,”
Or Kansas in Omaha.
But Jemmy's hare brown feet
Are aching to wade in the stream,
Where the trout to his luring bait
Shall leap with a quick, bright gleam;
And his teacher’s blue eyes stray
To the flowers on the desk hard by,
Till her thoughts have followed her eyes
With a half-unconscious sigh.
Her heart outruns the clock,
As she smells their faint sweet scent;
But when have time and heart
Their measure in unison blent?
For time will haste or lag,
Like y'our shadow on the grass,
That lingers far behind
Or flies when 30U fain would pass.
Have patience, restless Jem,
The stream and the fish will wait;
And patience, tired blue eyes—
Down the winding road by the gate,
Under the willow shade,
•Stands some 011 c with fresher flowers ;
So turn to your books again,
And keep love for the after hours.
“A Lesson of Charity.”
Some few 3 r ears since, a Mr. J. K. Daniel,
of Americas, Ga., went out to Texas. He
located at Waco, in that State. For a while
he done well; but contracting the habit of
opium-eating, he became careless and indif
ferent—soon losing all self-respect. Efforts
at reformation proved fruitless; lower and
lower he sank in the scale of degradation, till
on the 26th of Ma3', lie was found dead in an
old stable in the town above named, and
his side was a mucilage bottle about one
fourth filled with chloral. The supposition
was that he had taken all the contents of the
bottle except what was remaining. Daniel
was a 3’oung man, comparative^’—of a good
famiy ; well educated and reared amid many
advantages. The verdict of the Coroner’s
inquest was as follows: “We the jury, find
from the evidence that the deceased, J. K.
Daniel, caine to his death by the continued
use of opiates, and an over dose of chloral.”
The Reporter, published at Waco, in com
menting oil this sad event, has “somewhat
to sa3’,” and we copy some of the remarks of
that paper, simph’ because in connection we
find related an incident from which, many of
us who profess to be “shining lights.” ma3’
draw some wholesome conclusions :
“It was a pitiable sight, as we stood in the
wretched shanty where the dead man lay, on
a rough plank, surrounded by a curious
throng of gazers, and looked at the still na
tural features of the poor unfortunate, who
had died such a miserable, and yet such a
quiet death, for not a trace of distortion, not
a sign of agony marked the face—which was
as calm as in sleep. There is only one more
episode about this sad affair, and we will tell
it as briefly as possible. It teaches a lesson
that lle taught, eighteen hundred }'ears ago
—the lesson of Charity, that should never
grow old. For some hours after the coroner's
inquest, the body of Daniel still lay in the
old stable, untouched. No doubt the county
or city authorities would have given it burial,
but before they took any steps to that end,
they were spared the trouble. There lives in
this town a woman who knew Daniel and his
old home in Georgia—in his boyish daj T s,
and as he grew up, when he was a young
man of pride and promise, prospering and fa
vored by friends. She came down town yes
terday morning, and heard of his tragic death.
She went to the shanty where he lay and saw
his squalid poverty, even in death, when
naught but a pauper’s burial remained for
him on this earth. This woman did not cast
a hurried glance at the dead clay and pass on.
but went straightway and hired men to re
move the remains to a respectable locality,
and prepare them for the grave. She pur
chased a complete suit of neat, new clothing,
bought a handsome metallic casket, hired a
grave dug at the cemetery, hired the hearse,
paid for all with her own money, and j’ester
day afternoon gave the body Christian sepnl
ctire. This woman’s name is Mrs. Davis,
and she keeps a house of ill-repute on Fourth
street. But her deed was the broadest ex
emplification of that charity which is taught
us in the Bible, and is worthy of commenda
tion bv all men.
Judgment Rendered.
A fond father sent his .young hopeful of
four into an adjoining room to get a book.
The boy came back and said it wasn’t there.
“Yes, it is, my son,” said the father, “it’s on
the table.” The boy went back and report
ed again that there was no book there. The
father got impatient and sent another child
for the book, and in the meantime the moth
er brought the book from a different room
with the remark, “ Here’s your book ; it was
on the mantel-piece.” The gentleman com
posed himself to read, and about ten minutes
afterward discovered young hopeful still
standing by his chair and regarding him in
tently. As he raised his eyes the boy broke
out solemnly, “ Father, there’s a fib about
somewhere; and I didn't tell it.”
Since the commencement of the season,
1,800 barrels of peas have been shipped from
Nashville, Tenn., to Northern markets. By
one train, a few days since, 3,500 pounds of
snap beans, or 325 barrels, were forwarded
to Louisville, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
This was the largest shipment of snap beans,
or of vegetables, ever made from that city.
$ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
I SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
A judge in Memphis decided last week,
that it is no crime to steal a dog.
The Democrats have nominated W. 11.
Miller for Governor of Arkansas.
Zebulon Vance has been nominated for
Governor of North Carolina by the State De
mocratic Convention.
A Chicago jury has rendered a verdict that
Mrs. Lincoln is restored to reason and capa
ble to manage her estate.
In the event of a general European war,
with no market for cotton, there will be no
money to buy corn and wheat.
The white stocking is now discarded b.Y
ladies of fashion. Colored stockings, to
match the dress, are now in great vogue.
_ Negotiations between the United States
and England having failed, Winslow, the
forger, has been released.
The Spencer delegation from Alabama wrs
excluded from the Cincinnati Convention
and the Bristow T delegation admitted.
Whisky taken internally and kerosene oil
applied externally is a sure cure for the bite
of a rattlesnake.
A band of boy burglars, the oldest not over
twelve 3 r ears of age, has been discovered in
Boston.
Delaware has instructed her delegates to
vote for Bayard as long as there is any pros
pect of his nomination.
The new Sultan of Turkey has a sixty
thousand dollar wife. At least that’s the
sum he paid for her before the war. She's a
Georgian at that.
Belknap’s counsel have given the Senate
notice that they will summon nearly two hun
dred witnesses for the defense in the im
peachment trial.
Under clothing of even’ description, com
plete and ready for wear, is now as common
ly sold for ladies as ready made shirts for
gentlemen. And why not ?
Very useful bonnets and jaunty, youthful
hats are of black French chip, trimmed with
a commingling of black, clear rose-colored
gros grain silk.
When Prince Bismarck was asked his opin
ion of the hard times in Germany he replied :
“Too man} r men holding chairs down—too
many folks too proud to work.”
Samuel Bingham, who died recently in N.
York, was the oldest printer in the United
States, having been bound to the trade in the
year 1800, when eleven years of age.
The Thomasville Enterprise quotes oats in
Thomas county at fifty cents a hundred in
the sheaf and thirty cents a bushel in the
grain.
John Goodwin, a white farmer in Ilawlett,
Va., shot and killed the negro lover of his
daughter, and a Coroner’s jury gave a verdict
exhonerating him.
A woman in Cumberland, Ky.. while in
bed, felt something moving across her body.
She sprang up, made a light, and saw that
the object was a rattlesnake.
The mortgage for two millions and a half
of dollars on the Port Royal Railroad has
been foreclosed, and a sale ordered in default
of payment.
The report of the Agricultural Department
shows a decrease of three per cent, in the
average of cotton. The crop is in good con
dition, except where affected by local causes.
The Government forces in Mexico are
forcing the insurrectionists to the wall, and
peace has been restored in the State of Que
retero.
Pinchback said that he was not allowed to
take his seat in the Senate because Gen.
Grant, Senator Conkling and others feared
he would bring his wife to the capital and
force her on Washington society.
“Bose,” a mongrel yellow dog, is the mail
carrier between Minnesota and Dakota, six
ty miles. He makes the trip for nothing*
boards himself and never fails. There are
no competitors for the position.
Miss Laura Spence, of Georgia, is six feet
two and half inches high, and when her
young man sings “Thou art so near and yet
so far,” he can throw more feeling into the
song than any other man in the State.
In the Methodist General Conference at
Baltimore, a resolution was offered to expel
ministers who rent houses for the sale of in
toxicating liquors. Why not expel members
for a like offence ?
“Mother.” says a Talbotton girl about this
season. “ please pass me the onions. Charles
Augustus will not be here until to-morrow
night, and I don’t expect to kiss anybody
this evening.”
An observing South Carolina farmer saj's
the cotton crop is 10 per cent, better than
last year; that 25 per cent less goods have
been bought up to this time, and that cotton
will go down to 6 cents.
The nation is spending more for intoxicat
ing drinks than for all the bread it eats, and
all the clothes it wears, all the books it reads,
or all the churches it has ever built. This
explains hard times.
“ Mrs. Spinks,” observed a boarder to his
landlady, “ the equal adjustment of this estab
lishment could be more safely secured if
there was less hair in the hash and more in
the inattrasses.”
The Indiana Grand Lodge of Masons has
reinstated the clause in its regulations against
Masons using or selling spirituous liquors,
and have forbidden subordinate lodges to
receive into membership those addicted to
their use.
The rumor that a scolding letter from her
father, caused the death of Dr. Harrison’s
daughter, is cruelly false. No such letter
was written. The universal opinon in the
city of Columbus is that the child was tem
porarily deranged.
There is a female engineer in Philadelphia.
The steam engine which works four looms
and the printing press in the woman’s pavil
ion is run bv a woman “in light brown dain
ty-trimmed dress.” The maiden's name is
Allison, and she is from St. Catharine’s. On
tario. Her father was proprietor of a large
grist mill.
NUMBER 3.