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„v THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING COMPANY. \ yOfiUME 11. s6e §t>m% iltius, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, the Jacksnn County PubUshinc Company. JEFFERSON,, JACKSON CO., GA. OFFICE. W. w - cob, public square, up-stairs. IfIALCOM STAFFORD, ~ managing and business editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy 12 months - $2.00 “ “ o “ 1.00 .. “ 3 “ 50 jgfFor every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex trJ copy of the paper will be given. Laws Relating to Newspaper Subscriptions and Arrearages. The following laws in regard to newspaper sub options and arrearages have received the sanc tion and are published as the decisions of the United States Supreme Court : I. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered wishing to continue their subscription. I If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publishers may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. j. 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B. MAHAFFEY. W. g. M’CARTY. 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 EstablTshed, 1785! The Chronicle Sf Sentinel . AUGUSTA, GA. 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 r PIIE DAILY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL IS filled A 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 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, s*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 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. f 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 9 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.