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THE FOREST NEWS. : THE JACKSON COUNTY ) publishing company. \ VOLUME 11. I¥ r n:USHKI> EVERY SATURDAY, lhf JckN* County Publishing U 1 t'oiiipnuy. jH'PERSON, JACKSON CO ., GA. V-rE. >• 'V? COK * HUBI4C SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, jianaoing and business editor. terms OF SUBSCRIPTION. , n nv 12 months $2.00 6 “ - 1.00 3 “ ; 50 w 7*Fo r every Club of Ten subscribers, an cx of the paper will be gui| , w 5 Relating to Newspaper Subscriptfohs and Arrearages. following laws in regard to newspaper sub - ~iis anl arrearages have received the sanc unlare published as the decisions of the J states Supremo Court: ulscribers who do not give express notice to jutrary, are considered wishing to continue 1 tf Subscribers order the discontinuance of • periodicals, the publishers may continue to them until all arrearages are paid. S If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their , r (iicals from the office to which they are di - ;d. they are held responsible until they have their bills and ordered them discontinued, if subscribers move to other places without afring publishers, and the papers are sent to jormer direction, they are held responsible. ■ fhe Courts have decided that “ refusing to ukf periodicals from the office, or removing and a rr them uncalled for is prima facia evidence jfintentional fraud.” Any person who receives a newspaper and :ii ,v use of it. whether he has ordered it or not, j m law to be a subscriber. • if subscribers pay in advance, they are bound ■ ?ive notice to the publisher, at the end of their me, if they do not wish to continue taking it; wise, the publisher is authorized to send it : ; and the subscribers will be responsible until a express notice, with payment of all arrearages, ■.sent to the publisher. 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 Established, 1785! The Chronicle Sf Sentinel. AUGUSTA, G A.. 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 HP he daily chronicle and sentinel is filled JL 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, $lO. The TRI-WEEKLY Chronicle and Senti- NKL is intended for points convenient to a Tri weekly mail. It contains nearly everything oi 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. 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.