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UAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
ill A TTUKNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. OctJO ly
Bit. C. R. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the office recently occupied by Col. Mahaffey.
Jan. 22, 1870—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 1j
Medical Notice.
Dr. .1. o. UJ.W having located in Jeffer
son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
respectfully tenders his services to the citizens of
th<' town and county in all the different branches
the profession. After a flattering experience
| i nineteen years, he feels jnstitied in saying that
ne is prepared to successfully treat any curable
nsease incident to our climate. He is, for the
present, hoarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
Wl 'i move his family here soon.
Office with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
can be seen in the office of T. 11.
Mblack, Esq., C. S. C. oct!6
"’ILEY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
HOWARI> A: HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Ga.
" ill practice together in all the Courts of Jack
in and adjacent counties, except the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
V A. W ILLI AHSOY
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
At Dr. Wm. King’s Drug Store, Deupree Block,
Athens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner,
nd warrauted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
tgyCJSff. JulyKMJm.
BP* WOFFORD, Attorney at Law,
HOMER , BANKS Co s., Ga.
A ill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
f lTe prompt attention to all business entrusted to
, care, fgy Collecting claims a specialty.
June 19th, 1875. ly
,T°HA . OAKES,
v HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA.
and good buggy and wagon harness always
* n hand. Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c.,
Qo . ne °n short notice, and cheap for cash.
junel2- —ly
J - J. FLOYD, I J. B. SILMAN,
F Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
LOVl> A SILn VA,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
practice together in the Superior Courts oi
1 e counties of Jackson and Walton.
Junel2—ly
\\ 1* DIKE, Attorney at l4iw,
• . JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
'•‘ctices in all the Courts, State and Federal,
k J ora ant l thorough attention given to all
■mis of legal business in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875
SIO s * Hay at home. Agents wanted. Outfit
u 1 a ud terms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta,
Ule * marll
Cfr Ofh P cr day at home. Samples
vr worth $1 free. Stinson &
1, - "ortland, Maine. marll
F. P. TALMADGE,
DEALER IN
AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES,
CLOCKS, JE WELR Y, SIL YER $ PLATED WARE,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, SC.
Batches, clocks and jenelet bepaibed
In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornamental and Plain Fetter Engraving a Specialty.
•April Ist, 1876 ly
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Mannfiictures.
SPRING AND SUMMER
STOCK OF
Millinery and Fancy Goods!
o
. MRS - T. A. ADAMS
\ A OUNCES to the public that she is now re-
XA ceiving a large and varied stock of Ladies’
xJk! k• atß b. L^ ces ’ Rll >l>ons. Trimmings, &c.,
which she is offering at low prices. Call? exam
rae and be convinced. Next door to the Bank of
the University, Athens, Ga. April 15
BURKE’S BOOK-STORE,
ATHENS, O-A..
wan *'School IBooks, Miscellaneous Books,
~ CT™ H^mn Pens, Tnk and Paper,
Go!d Pens Fine Pocket Knives. Picture Frames,
Blank Books, Hat Racks, Brackets, or anything
kept in a first-class Book-store, call on
io T. A. BURKE,
n,ar f ,s> Bookseller and Stationer.
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 kinds of Crockery and Glass-ware, Lamps ,
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 LJIVIE, 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
WARE, 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. 11. HUGGINS’,
No. 7, Broad St., Athens.
agTAlcmeiuber the place. marlß
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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.
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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 auty promptly, in
accordance with law, I shall proceed to discharge
mine. WILEY C. HOWARD, Ord’y
May 27, 1876. of Jackson County.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 1,1876.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The New Cotton Manufacturing Process.
A gentleman at Corinth, Miss., in answer
to a letter from Mr. H. W. Clark, of this city,
sends the following statement of what is
claimed for the new Clemens’ attachment,
for spinning cotton yarns direct from the seed.
By the new process of converting seed cot
ton directly into yams only four machines
are used, viz : the card, drawing frame, speed
er, and spinning frame (such as are now in
common use) the card only is changed, and
that slightly, by substituting an attachment,
for the lickerin, at a cost of about §3OO. The
attachment receives the seed cotton, gently
removes the seed, combs out the dust, trash,
motes, etc., and delivers the filaments untan
gled and parallel to the card. Thus super
seding the gins, press and compress, (which
are only intended to render cotton transport
able) the willower, lapper, double lapper,
breaker and four-fifths of the cards, which
are only intended to try to remedy the inju
ry done by the gin. press and compress. It
also saves or supersedes the railway and R.
W. drawing head, also jack frames, all slub
bers, mules, twisters, evenners, etc., etc., to
gether with all the buildings, motive-power,
and operatives to hold, drive, and attend said
discarded machinery. It saves one-half the
usual waste and produces better and strong
er slivers, rovings, and thread, than can be
made of baled cotton, thereby enabling oper
atives to attend more machinery, and each
machine to do more work, especially in the
spinning and weave-rooms.
The reason why the card will do four times
more by this process, using the same motive
power, is the filaments are not permitted to
leave the machinery, fly, or become tangled,
but are kept straight, and carding is but the
straightning of the cotton filaments. The
extra strength of the thread, is, owing to the
working of the cotton fresh from the seed,
the oil of which has kept it alive, light, elastic
and flexible, with all its attenuating qualities
perfect, and to the fact that it has never been
napped, cut or tangled by the gin, pressed,
compressed, and permitted to become dry,
seasoned and brittle in this tangled condi
tion, nor has it been injured by the willower,
lapper, double lapper, breaker and cards,
where the damage done by the gin press and
compress, are sought to be remedied. This
small attachment, only 30 inches long, by 18
inches square, supersedes the above mention
ed light machines, simply because the first
three are intended to render cotton transport,
able, and theJast five are intended to render
the damage done by the first three. But these
advantages, great as they are, are not half
that are claimed for the new process. The
ginning, seed, bagging and ties are saved.
Let me take a bale of cotton here, and see
the expenses on it. 1. Hauling to Corinth,
sampling, weighing, deduction of from two to
four pounds from weight, profits of purcha
ser, freight and insurance to Memphis, draj'-
age to cotton shed, storage, insurance, deep
sampling, commissions for selling, brokerage
for buying, deep boring. 2. Weighing, re
pairs, dray age to compress, compressing,
drayage to steamer or railroad depot, freights
and insurance to Northern cities and mills.
To these add waste, loss, drayage and steal-
age, all the expenses, speculations and pec
ulations of the guerrillas of the South and
the great cotton rings of the North, and also
the expenses in our seaport towns, (where it
is recompressed to be shipped to Europe)
the expenses and profits of the shipment,
and the expenses after its arrival there, un
til it is sold to the manufacturer, who buys
only the net cotton, (not the bagging and
ties) at his own price. Liverpool, Manches
ter, Leeds, etc., etc., take the surplus crop of
the world, fix and control the price, not only
there, but in every cotton mart. Europe,
China and India pay gold for cotton and cot
ton fabrics shipped from Fall River, in Mas
sachusetts, and other places. The planter
gets receipts from his merchant for a year’s
supply of provisions, farm tools, and is for
tunate if the receipt is in full to date. The
negro for his share, over and above his scant
food and clothes, get jews-harps and ginger
cakes. Who gets the difference in exchange
between the nations, the margin of 14 per
cent, between gold and national bank notes ?
I opine it is one of the perquisites of “middle
men,” except in such instances as the Fall
River Manufacturing Company. The South
has many and important natural advantages
over the North, East and England in manu
facturing cotton, such as short, wild winters,
more reliable water power, cheaper land,
building materials, fuel, food and labor, ex
emption from strikes, and direct reclamation.
It would furnish pleasant, remunerative em
ployment to her indigent women and chil
dren, unwilling to enter the field in compe
tion with the negro ; assembling them in vil
lages around the factories would afford much
greater facilities for physical, mental and
moral training of children, producing a mar-
ket for edibles, and an incentive to farmers
around to diversify their products. Now, if
to all these 3*oll add the expenses, profits,
etc., of the manufactured goods returned
South, you will have some idea of what “mid
dle men” receive, and what the “new process”
will save to our impoverished, but still be
loved Southland.
One attachment with the necessary ma
chinery to convert seed cotton into yarns,
put up in bales, will require ten or twelve
horse power to drive and from six to eight
operatives,) mostly boys and girls), to attend
it and work up from three-fourths to one
pound of seed cotton per minute, or 200 to
220 pounds of yarns per day, and will cost,
with royalty, $4,400, two will cost $7,500
and three about SIO,OOO, this is exclusive of
sholting, pullies, hangers, cans and belts.—
There can be no competitive away from the
cotton fields, for seed cotton will not bear
transportation and none other can be used.
Above please find a description of the mill,
its performance and savings. I have run it
for five months steadily to my entire satisfac
tion, making first quality of yarns, which sell
readily in our market here, for twenty-five
cents per pound, and paying for seed cotton
from two and a half to three and a half cents
per pound. The only objection I have seen
to it is that on the first of January, we have
to hold eight months supply of seed cotton,
this requires capital, but pays a big interest
on it, for the seed cotton lying in bulk six
or twelve months, greatly improves by the
absorption of oil from the seed by the fil
ments, rendering them more attenuating or
workable, giving them a rich cream color,
and saving waste from flying in working,
enhancing the value of lint cotton, fully one
and a half cents per pound, whilst baled cot
ton deteriorates nearly as much in the same
time. These are facts which I have long
known, and profited by as a planter.— Mont-
Advertiser & Mail.
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Extraordinary.
A SUICIDE ALMOST WITHOUT PARALLEL IN
TRUTH OR FICTION—A MAN CONSTRUCTS A
SELF-ACTING MACHINE FOR BEHEADING MIII
SELF.
Lafayette, Ind., June 1 1.—James A. Moore,
aged about 35, living on a farm near the
Farmer’s Institute, about 15 miles south of
this city, committed suicide at theLahr House
in this city last higlit. No cause is known
for the deed. The manner in which it was
accomplished is. perhaps, unparalleled in hor
rid ingenuity. He came to the Lahr House
Saturday, said he was perfecting an inven
tion, ai*d would probably stay a week, but
would visit his home Monday, and prepaid
his bill till that time. He called at the ma
chine shop of HardiDg & Sons, had a lame
new broad ax and two bars of 3-inch wide
by 1-inch thick iron, 16 inches long, which he
had rived to the head of an ax. On either
side, fastened to these bars in the shape of a
handle to an ax, he had a system of wooden
bars 8 feet long, the extreme end of which
was fastened to a cross piece, secured to the
floor by hinges. The ax was raised and held
to its nearly perpendicular position by a
double cord, fastened to the wall. Between
the cords stood a candle, arranged so that
when the candle burned down to the cords it
would burn them off, and the ax fall. Where
the ax would strike he placed a small box,
open on one side, in which when found, was
his head with some cotton, which had been
chloroformed. His chin was held up from
his neck b} r a stick put across the box, through
holes on either side, holding his head firmly
in position. He was strapped tightly to the
floor with two straps, one around his legs,
another about his arms and breast. The
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straps were both screwed to the floor, render
ing it impossible to move. It is supposed
that he set his ax, lit the candle, and strap
ped himself to the floor, put his head in the
box with the chloroformed cotton, and was
probably insensible when the ax fell. The
ax and fixings would weigh about 50 pounds,
and would fall a distance of from 10 to 15
feet. His head was completely severed from
the body, and the ax buried in the boards
beneath.
Soap on the Stairs.
A gentleman residing on Aberdeen street
was, until Friday last, inclined to favor fe
male suffrage. Ilis wife had prudently de
layed moving till after the first, so as to take
advantage of the fall of house-rents. The
house to which they moved had a tremendous
ly stee£ flight of stairs, and an oil-clothed
hall. The wife had the stairs scrubbed down,
and left the soap on the top step. Her hus
band was up-stairs, with a basket full of
clothes-pin3 in one hand and a clock under
the other arm, when his wife, who was down
stairs, saw a mouse, and shaking her skirt
madly, bounded up on the table and let off a
series of shrill shreaks, beginning on high
ZZZ above the clef. Her husband, thinking
the house was on fire at the very least, start
ed to run to her rescue, and stepping on the
pieces of soap that she had so thoughtlessly
left on the stairs, sat down vehemently at the
top of the flight, and slid down with the speed
of thought. Fire flew from his false teeth as
he hit the edge of each step, volleys of clothes
pins were discharged into the air, and fell
rattling and rebounding on the oil-cloth, and
the clock shed its inwards over the universe.
The injured husband had little time for re
flection when he reached the glare oil-cloth of
the hall and shot across it with scarcety di
minished velocity, literally making the oil
cloth and the seat of his pantaloons smoke
with friction, and finally bringing up against
the door with a violence that threatened to
burst the side out of the house. The fearful
concussion startled his wife, who turned a
back somersault from the table into a tub of
soap suds, in which she was so tightly wedged
that she had to throw a handspring and canter
on all fours like a turtle with a tub on her
back and cataracts of suds inundating her.
Meanwhile, the hired woman fell off the step
ladder with a crash like a pile-driver, and
jarred down most of the plaster cornice.—
When the man's wife had sloughed her tub,
she sauntered calmly into the hall, and re
marked, “Well, men are the clumsiest—and
the hall had just been washed, too.” Her
husband didn’t say much, but he thought a
good deal; and now, he says, just let Susan
B. Anthony come and lecture here again, and
if no other man has the courage to hiss, he
will, so help him Jasper Packiemorton.
A man at Warrington. Eng., recently sold
his wife for half a gallon of beer.
The Prevalence of Suicide.
Our exchanges by the mail of Saturday
last, contained accounts of the “suiciding”
of three people within the limits of the State
during a period of less than a week. Two
of these were men—in the prime of manhood,
we believe ; the other was a young and highly
cultivated lad}\ just budding into womanhood,
All acted in the premises, with the coolest
determination, and yet neither, as far as we
could learn, assigned any reason for their
course. The following, in which the writer
seems “at home” with his subject, is from the
Atlanta Constitution :—
Suicide, like nearly everything else, has
its ebbs and flows. At recurring periods it
assumes an epidemic form, as statistics prove.
It has been stated as a general law, by a
writer, that “in a given state of society a
certain number of persons must put an end
to their own lives.” That this may be true
may seem plausible when statistics prove, as
a general law that a certain number annu
ally forget to write the address on letters.
This general law seems to be so powerful
that the maiden just blushing into woman
hood who naturally should wish to live, as
well as the man in full vigor of life surround
ed by a loving wife and children, completely
ignores the endearments of home, the love of
life and the fear of death, and ru3h coolly
and deliberately to death. The philosophy
of suicide is one not understood. Could one
return to life after thus taking his life and
give us an analysis of his feelings before and
after the act, we might get a deeper insight
into the subject.
Climate, race and the distinguishing poli
ty of different societies, affect to a certain ex
tent the number of suicides to the popula
tion. Carefully prepared statistics show in
round numbers that in Sweeden there is one
suicide to every ninety-three thousand inhab
itants ; in Saxony, one to every nine thou
sand ; in Russia, one to every thirty-five thou
sand ; in the United States, one to every fif
teen thousand ; in Paris, one to every twenty
seven hundred ; in St. Petersburg and Lon
don, one to *y twenty one thousand.
above remarks and extract were
put in type for last week’s paper, but were
“ crowded out” at the time of “ making up.”
A Romance of Chicago.
Yesterday evening a pale, thin woman,
meanly clad, was seen shivering on the door
step of a fashionable mansion on Ashland
avenue. Her whole appearance betokened
poverty and misery. The master of the house,
a young man, clad in a costly
fur overcoat, ran up the steps at the same
moment and gave the poor creature a quar
ter, which she received with profuse manifes
tations of gratitude. It seems romantic, but
it is a fact that eleven ago that young
woman lived in that same mansion, the beau
tiful, accomplished and idolized daughter of
wealthy parents. Two suitors sought her
hand—one was a fashionable } T oung man, the
other a plumbers apprentice, who, while vis
iting her father’s lordty mansion to thaw out
the water pipes, saw and loved the beauteous
apparition. He preferred his suit in a blunt,
manly style, told her that his time would
soon be out, and told her how the bills
were made out to meet her objection to his
lack of fortune. The haughty and infatuated
girl rejected his suit and married the fash
ionable young man, with whom she set up
housekeeping in a costly mansion on Ash
land avenue. Wonderful are the alternatives
of fortune ! The plumber rose steadily, be
came wealthy, and purchased the family man
sion when the young husband was compelled,
through going short on No. 2 spring at an
inopportune moment, to sell out his property.
The young husband took to drink, and final
ly was buried in a pauper’s grave, and last
evening his starving widow asked and receiv
ed alms on the doorstep of a house formerly
her own from the hands of her discarded
plumber-lover, now its owner and a million
aire.—Chicago Times.
Adventures of a Steel Trap.
Mr. Mark Crowder, who resides a few
miles south of Greenville, has a small steel
trap which he placed in his chicken house
several months ago to catch the mink3 that
were troubling his poultr}'. One or two
minks being caught by it, the trap disappear
ed without any one on the place being able
to explain the cause. A week or ten days
after the trap was missed the dogs caught and
killed a mink in the swamp near Mr. Crowd
er’s dwelling, that had the missing trap fast
ened to one of his legs. After the rninks.
the owls becoming troublesome, Mr. Crowder
placed the trap upon the top of a tall pole,
owls usually alighting upon the tallest object
in the vicinity when meditating a descent
upon the poultry yard. Ten finds were caught
by this arrangement when the trap again dis
appeared. About a week afterwards Hal
Crowder, who lives three miles from his fath
er, Mark Crowder, heard an unusual commo
tion in his poultry house. Repairing thither
he found an owl in the house, which on being
killed, the missing trap was discovered hung
to one of his feet. Mr. Crowder has his trap
again, and rogues of all sorts will do well to
give his premises a wide berth. —Meriwether
Vindicator.
The New Orleans Bulletin says about six
or eight months ago, every other man you met
announced his firm determination to go to the
Centennial. Now. if you want to see a man
who is really going, you will have to step
around lively for several hours.
$ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNTJM.
} SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
A Pennsylvania man owns a farm in which
he can fell a tree so that it will lie in three
counties.
They expect to make $20,000 worth of silk
in Kansas in 1876. Last year they made
$7,000 worth.
There is a place in Alabama named Loacli
apoka. Gen. Schenck will probably take up
his residence.— Sun.
Miss Martin, of Cincinnati, had her bustle
shattered by three bullets shot from a re
volver by her lover.
Five men have been hung by the regulators
at Mount Pleasant, La. No explanation of
the tragedy has yet been received.
Congress, according to the best opinion
that can be formed, will not adjourn before
the first of August.
“The girls of Fulton county, 111., had a
sheep-shearing match the other day, and the
winner sheared thirteen sheep in two hours.’*
A negro woman in Macon county, Ala., has
had triplets three times in succession and
twins twice.
A daughter of Gen. D. H. Hill has been
married in Charlotte, N. C., to a nephew of
Stonewall Jackson.
The Centennial baby made its appearance
in East Tennessee recently—weight, twenty
and a half pounds—father doing well.
In Greene county, Ga., the wheat crop has
not been as seriously damaged as it was fear
ed, and an average crop will be harvested.
Senator Twitchell, who was shot in Coushat
ta Parish, La., some time since, has entirely
recovered, and is in New Orleans. Both arms
have been amputated above the elbows.
California has more sheep than she can
pasture, and the owners are beginning to kill
them for the fat and pelts, the flesh being
thrown away or fed to the liQgs.
Henry W. Grady is snggested as the 4th of
July orator for Fulton county. They say
he’s worse than fireworks on such an occa
sion.—Harris.
The State of North Carolina holds her elec
tion in November, under the new Constitu
tion and the tar-heel chickens will not crow
prematurely this year as they did in 1872.
The first prize in English composition at
the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven,
Connecticut, has been taken by Spencer Lai
son, a Chinese lad.
“Py Schiminy, how dot poy studies de
languages !” is what a delighted elderly Ger
man said when his four-year-old son called
him a blear-eyed son of a saw-horse.
A Berlin dispatch says all danger of war
is over for this summer. That is a good idea.
Winter will give them a better temperature
for war in those latitudes.
The most violent and destructive hail storm
ever known has passed over the Canadian
frontier. The stones were as large as a hen
egg.
There is a minister in North Carolina who
has in the past seven years officiated at the
marriage of eighty-five couples, and has been
the recipient of less than fifty dollars. No
comment is necessary.
The latest insidious attempt to destroy
“the yankee nation” by the southern rebel
has been discovered in a shipment to the
north of eleven tons of cucumbers, from Jack
sonville, Florida.
The Texas Senate has passed a jury bill
requiring that no man shall act as a juryman
in that State who cannot read and write the
English language. There were only five dis
senting votes.
A writer in the Augusta Chronicle $ Sen
tinel sa)’s the damage of the recent freshet,
at a minimum calculation, in the county of
Richmond alone, has been at least eighty
thousand bushels of corn.
A lot of cotton shipped recentlj r from Ches
ter to New York, over the Narrow Gauge and
Piedment Air-Line, cost only $2 75 per bale
freight. Four dollars and seventy-five cents
per bale has been the cost heretofore.
The Supreme Court of lowa decides that
bank depositors are not subject to assessment
for taxation ; also, that life insurance policies
are only exempt from debts of the party in
sured.
A Lancaster hen has won notoriety by lajr
ing an egg which closely resembles a pear in
its shape. But this is not as remarkable as
if the fowl had laid a pear closely resembling
an egg in its shape.
Bob Toombs doesn't seem to be failing as
fast as some people think he is. Alluding to
Joe Brown's cuteness in a law case the other
day, the General said : “ It’s damned hard to
track a spider across water.”
Dr. Mary Walker thinks the scheme of
making gentlemen's trousers so voluminous
in the nether limbs this year is to force her
into abandoning them ; but she sayß she in
tends to hang on to them as long as she don’t
have to slip ’em over her head.
Mr. Charles Carson, living near Richard -
sonville, S. C.. has gathered four hundred
bushels of oats (Mexican oats, he calls them)
from ten acres, without using a particle of
manure of any kind. Who shall sa} r there is
not life in the old land yet ?
Mr. Robert Kite, of Chesterfield, S. C., has
a meat stand, tub-shaped, with strong wooden
hoops, which is a revolutionary relic. The
wood has in time become thoroughly impreg
nated with salt. Mr. Kite's grandmother fed
the British, the Americans and Gen. Wash
ington out of it.
General Grant has informed the House
of Representatives that he considers the re
lease of Winslow an abrogation of the extra
dition treaty and that without further action
by Congress he will not honor the requisition
of Great Britain for criminals.
A scholar in a country school was asked,
‘ How do you parse ‘ Mary milks the cow ?’ ’
The last word was disposed of as follows:
‘Cow, a noun, feminine gender, third person,
and stands for Mary.’ ‘Stands for Mary!
How do you make that out V 4 Because,’ add
ed the intelligent pupil, 4 if the cow didn't
i stand for Mary, how could she milk her ?’
NUMBER 4.