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/ jFFKRS his professional services to the citizens
'' of .leff'erson and vicinity. Can be found at
the office recently occupied by Col. MahatFey.
Jan. 22, 1870—tf
STAN LEY & PINSON,
JHFFEItSOX, GA.,
DKALKRS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. Xew supplies constantly received.
(heap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 1!) ly
Medical Notice.
1 Jr. I. o. ivi'.vr having located in Jeffcr
t' son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
ipcctfnlly tenders his services to the citizens of
tietowu and county in all the different branches
Mhe profession. After a flattering experience
• nineteen years, he feels jnstifled in saying that
is prepared to successfully treat any curable
case incident to our climate. lie is, for the
Nnt. boarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
1 move his family here soon.
Office with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
can be seen in the office of T. H.
■MBL.VCK, Esq., C. S. C. octlfl
W,LKY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
H01V.1IU) *V HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Ga.
''ill practice together in all the Courts of Jack
ed adjacent counties, except the Court of
"anary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
p A. WIIA.E AIISOY
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
At Dr. Win, King's Drug Store, Deupree Block,
‘Miens. Ga. All work done in a superior manner,
warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi
gy CASH. JulylO-Gm.
P E WOFFORD, Attorney at Ijuv,
HOMER , BANKS Co s., Ga.
J' ill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
• 1 prompt attention to all business entrusted to
m care. ggy* Collecting claims a specialty.
J ne 10th, 1575. ly
<*• OAK ES,
harness maker, jefferson, ga.
\°' v a, id good buggy and wagon harness always
'and. Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c.,
M on short notice, and cheap for cash.
Junel2—ly
J J-FU>YD, I J. B. SILMAX.
. t ovington, Ga. Jefferson, Ga.
pLOV|> A
... A TTORNE Y S-AT-L A W.
practice together in the Superior Courts oi
counties of Jackson and Walton.
Junel2— ly
\\ •• I*IKF, Attorney sit
n ; • JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
• 1 Uees in all the Courts, State and Federal.
'''npt and thorough attention given to all
' legal business in Jackson and adjoining
June 12, 1875
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e * marll
F. P. TALMADGE,
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AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES,
CLOCKS, JE WELR Y, SIL VER Sf PLATED WARE,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C.
Etches, clocks jewelry repaired
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Ornamental ami Plain fueller Engraving a Specialty.
LOCATION—CoIIege Avenue, one door from the Bookstore Corner, ATHENS, GA.
April Ist, 1876 ly
THE FOREST NEWS.
Ihe People tlieir own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SPRING AND SUMMER
STOCK OIF
Millinery and Fancy Goods!
O
MRS- T. A. VIFVMS
A NNOLNCES to the public that she is now re
ceiving a large and varied stock of Ladies’
Bonnets, liats, Laces, Ribbons, Trimmings. &c.,
winch sue is offering at low prices. Call, exam
me and be convinced. Next door to the Bank of
the University, Athens, Ga. April 15
BURKE’S BOOK-STORE,
ATHENS,
wan t School Books, Miscellaneous Books,
A Bibles and Hymn Books. Pens. Ink and Paper,
Gold Pens, Fine Pocket Knives, Picture Frames.
Blank Looks, Hat Racks, Brackets, or anything
kept in a first-class Book-store, call on
T. A. BURKE,
mar!B 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 kinds o f Crockery and Glass-ware , Lamps ,
Chandeliers , Farmers' 1 Lanterns , Kerosene
Oil , at wholesale and retail; Family and
Fancy Groceries , Dry Goods , Roots ,
Shoes, Hats , Saddles , Harness
and Leather.
And also a large stock of LU(E, 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. FLOOR , 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’,
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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 eonvict, 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 he vigi
lant in endeavoring to apprehend said thieves, in
order that they may he 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. may Id
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 he made hv the first Monday in July
of each year. 1 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, 187 G. of Jackson County.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. JULY 8,1876.
OUR CANDIDATE.
Sketch of the Democratic Candidate.
Governor Tilden was born at New Lebanon,
in the county of Columbia and State of New
York, in the year 1814—the year which ruin
ed the fortunes of the great Napoleon. Y'oung
Tilden entered College in his eighteenth yean
He had not been long at College before
his health gave way, and obliged him to leave.
After some rest he was enabled to resume his
studies, and in 1834 entered the University
of New Y r ork, where he completed his aca
demic education. He then entered the law
office of the late John W. Edmunds, in the
city of New York, where he enjoyed peculiar
facilities for the prosecution of his favorite
studies of law and politics.
Upon his admission to the bar, Mr. Tilden
opened an office in Pine street, in the city of
New York. In 1844, in anticipation and
preparation for the election which resulted in
making James K. Polk President and Silas
Wright Governor of the State of New York,
Mr. Tilden, in connection with John L. O'Sul
livan, founded the newspaper called the Daily
News. In the Fall of 1845 he was sent to
the Assembly from the city of New York, and
while a member of that body was elected to
the Convention for the remodelling of the
Constitution of the State, which was to com
mence its sessions a few weeks after the Leg
islature adjourned. In both of these bodies
Mr. Tilden was a conspicuous authority, and
left a permanent impression upon the legisla
tion of the year, and especially upon all the
new Constitutional provisions affecting the
finances of the State and the management of
its system of canals. The defeat of Mr.
Wright in the Fall of 1846, and the coolness
which had grown up between the friends of
President Polk and the friends of the late
President Van Buren resulted, fortunately for
Mr. Tilden, if not for the country, in with
drawing his attention from politics and con
centrating it upon his profession. lie in
herited no fortune, but depended upon his
own exertions for a livelihood. Thus far his
labor for the State, or in his profession, had
not been lucrative, and, despite his strong
tastes and pre-eminent qualifications for po
litical life, he was able to discern at that early
period the importance, in this country at least,
of a pecuniary independence for the success
ful prosecution of a political career. With
an assiduity and a concentration of energy
which have characterized all the transactions
of his life, Mr. Tilden now gave himself up
to his profession. It was not many years be
fore he became as well known at the bar as
he had before been known as a politician.—
Ilis business developed rapidly, and though
he continued to take more qrAess interest in
political matters, they were not allowed, after
1857, to interfere with his professional duties.
Since the year 1855, it is safe to say that
more than half of the great railway corpora
tions north of the Ohio and between the Hud
son and Missouri rivers have been at some
time his clients. The general misfortunes
which overtook many of these roads between
1855 and 18G0 called for some comprehensive
plan for relief. It was here that his legal at
tainments, his unsurpassed skill as a financier,
his unlimited capacity for concentrated labor,
his constantly increasing weight of character
and personal influence found full activit} 7 , and
resulted in the reorganization of the larger
portion of the great net work of railwa} T s, b}-
which the rights of all parties were equitably
protected, wasting litigation avoided, and a
condition of great depression and despondenc3 r
in railway property replaced by an unex
ampled prosperit}L
Till the war came, Governor Tilden made
every effort to avert the rebellion. When his
efforts, combined with those of other promi
nent patriots, had proved abortive, his con
victions of duty were perfectly decided and
clear. They were to maintain the integrity
of our territory, and the supremacy of the
Constitutional authorities. He had been ed
ucated in the school of Jackson, and had been
a diligent student of the lessons taught by
the nullification controversy of 1833. He had
studied carefully and profoundly the relation
of the Federal and State Governments, and
of the citizens of those Governments. He
had thus early formed perfectly clear and
settled opinions, about which his mind never
vacillated. During the Winter of 18G0-61
he attended a meeting of the leading men of
both parties in the city of New Y'ork, to con
sider what measures were necessary and prac
ticable to avert an armed collision between
what were then termed the free and the slave
States. To the North he urged reconciliation
and forbearance, appreciating, as he did,
more clearly than most of them around him
the fearful and disastrous consequences of a
civil war, whatever might prove its ultimate
result. To the South he urged a deference
to the will of the majority and a respect for
the provisions of the Federal Constitution,
Within which they would be sure of adequate
protection for themselves and for their prop
erty ; but he warned them that outside of the
Constitution they could expect protection for
neither. When the war did come Mr Tilden
associated himself with and was the private
adviser of Mr. Dean Richmond, then at the
head of the Democratic party of that State,
and who was accustomed on all important
questions to visit Mr. Tilden in his retire
ment and seek his counsel. At a meeting
held at the house of General Dix, just after
the first call of President Lincoln for 75.000
troops, Mr. Tilden was present and partici
pated in the discussion which took place.—
He then and there expressed the opinion that
they were on the eve of a great war, and
maintained that instead of 75,000 troops Mr.
Lincoln should have called out at least 500.-
000, half for immediate service and the other
half to be put in camps of instruction and
trained for impending exigencies. Unhap
pily that generation had seen so little of war
and had such limited means of comprehend
ing the rapidity with which the war spirit,
once lighted, will spread among a people, that
it was not competent to appreciate the wis
dom of this advice, which, if adopted, would
probably have prevented the necessity of any
further increase of military force. To Secre
tary Chase and his friends Mr. Tilden insist
ed that the war ought to be carried on under
a system of sound finance, which he did not
doubt people would cheerfully sustain if
the Government would have the courage to
propose Jt. At a later period of the war he
was mYited by the Government at Washing
ton to give his advice as to the best methods
for its further conduct. He said to the Sec
retary of War; ,
“ have no right to expect a great mil
itary genius to come to your assistance. The} 7
only Appear once in two or three centuries.
\ou will probably have to depend upon the
average military talent of the country. Under
such Circirmstanees 3'our only course is to
avail yourself of your numerical strength and
3’onr superior mil it ary resources resulting from
3'our greater progress in industrial arts and
3'our greater producing capacities. You must
have reserves and concentrate }’our forces on
decislVe points, and overwhelm your adver
saries disproportionate numbers and re
serves.”
His advice was not taken, but he had the
satisfaction, within a 3'ear after it was given,
of hearing the Secretary of War acknowledge
its wisdom and lament his inability to secure
its adoption. With the peace came to Mr.
Tilden the most important political labor of
his life. With the assistance of Ch as. O’Conor,
who followed the members of that band of
conspirators with all his usual vigor and
adroitness until it was not only broken up.
but its leading members scattered to the four
quarters of the globe, he assailed and over
threw the combined Republican and Demo
cratic Ring which ruled and ruined New York.
This “ ring” had its origin in an act passed
by the Legislature of the State of New York
in 1857, in connection with the charter of
that year, which provided that but six per
sons should be voted for hy each elector and
twelve chosen. In other words, the nominees
of the Republican and Democratic party cau
cuses should be elected. At the succeeding
session of the Legislature their term of office
was extended to six years. This gave a Board
of Supervisors, consisting of six Republicans
and six Democrats, to change a majority of
which it was necessary to have control of the
primary meetings of both of the great National
and State parties for } 7 ears in succession—a
series of coincidences which rareh r happens
in a generation.
Early in September he issued a letter to
sevent}’-six thousand Democrats, reviewing
the situation and calling upon them “ to take
a knife and cut the cancer out by the roots.”
But before the meeting of the Convention an
event happened which could not have been
foreseen, but which was pregnant with the
most important consequences. To the eternal
honor of the Democratic party of the citv and
State, on the issue thus made up by Mr.
Tilden the} 7 gave him their cordial and irre
sistible support. The result was overwhelm
ing, and notonty changed the city representa
tion in the legislative bodies of tlic State, but,
in its moral effect, crushed the “ring.” Mr.
Tilden was one of the delegates chosen to
represent the city in the next Legislature.—
In deference to the views of his principal co
adjutors, Mr. Tilden devoted the six weeks’
interval between his election and the meeting
of the Legislature to the prosecution of its
investigation in the city departments and in
preparing the vast mass of accurate informa
tion which was the basis of nearly all the
judicial proofs that have since been emplo3’ed
successfully in bringing the members of the
“ring” to justice or driving them into exile.
Mr. Tilden gave his chief attention during
the session of the Legislature to the promo
tion of those objects for which he consented
to go there, the reform of the judicial and
the impeachment of the creatures who had
acquired the control of it under the Tweed
dynasty. Mr. Tilden had thus by his bold
acts made himself prominent in the work of
reform, and recognized as the man to lead it
in the State. Prominent friends of reform
urged him to accept the nomination for Gov
ernor. They said he could be nominated
without difficult} 7 and elected triumphantly,
and in his triumph the great cause of admin
istrative reform would receive an impulse
which would propagate it not 011I3' over the
whole State, but over tliQ Union. Mr. Til
den ultimately consented to take the nomi
nation for Governor.
lie was nominated and elected, and what
ever lessons or eloquence could be expressed
in big majorities were not wanting to lend
their eclat to his triumph. Mr. Tilden’s plu
rality over John A. Dix, the Republican can
didate, was 53,315. Mr. Dix had been elect
ed two years previously by a plurality of
53.451. Mr. Tilden is now in the sixty-third
year of his age. He is five feet ten inches
in height, and he has what physiologists call
the purely nervous temperament, with its
usual accompaniment of spare figure, bine
eyes and fair complexion. Ilis hair, origi
nally chestnut, is now partially silvered with
age. At the Utica Convention resolutions
were passed presenting his name as a can
didate for the Presidency, and requesting the
delegates to vote as a unit.
Important Decision.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has recently
made the following decision. In these days
of poor fences, it is an important one :
1. In this State the burden of keeping the
premises is generally on the landlord, but
patent defects existing at the time of the
renting, are to be amended by him, or at his
own expense, without a special understand
ing. On the other hand, the tenant is not
obliged to amend them without a like under
standing on his part.
2. Where the rent reserve is one-third of
the corn and one-fonrth of the cotton raised
on the premises in the given year, and at the
time of renting both parties knew the fence
to be in a very bad condition, too low or too
weak to keep ordinary stock from trespassing
on the crop, and nothing is said about build
ing it|higher or repairing it, there is no legal
obligation upon either to make the fence bet
ter. The crop is at the mutual risk of the
landlord and tenant, each to the extent of his
interest, and whatever part of it may be de
stroyed by stock, in consequence of the fence
not being good, is a common loss. The land
lord is entitled to his proportion of what is
saved, but nothing of what is lost, and so of
the tenant.
GFThe early bird catches the worm.
Mr. Potts Looking for a Light.
THE MOST ASTONISHING CIRCUMSTANCE THAT
EVER CAME UNDER Ills NOTICE.
One night during the recent troubles in the
Pennsylvania coal regions, Judge Potts’ broth
er, Thomas Potts, was round at a meeting of
mine owners, and after the adjournment he
stepped into a tavern. "While there he met
some friends, and in the course of an hour or
two he got very intoxicated. On his way
home he lost his hat, and a miner, who knew
him, felt compassion for him, cl ipped on his
head a miner’s hat; and in order to make the
dark street look brighter, he lighted the lamp
in front of the hat. When Potts reached the
house his wife had gone to bed and the lights
were out; but Potts felt certain the lhmps
were burning in the hall, but he couldn't for
the life of him tell where it was.
lie looked at the regular lamp, and it seem
ed to be out; then hunted in every direction
for the light, but was unable to find it, al
though it seemed to shine brightly wherever
he went. Presently he Happened to stop in
front of the mirror in front of the hat rack,
and then he saw precisely where the light was.
After a brief objurgation on Mrs. Potts for
leaving a light burning in such a place, he
went to the mirror and tried to blow it out.
He blew and blew, but the flame burned as
steadily as before.
“ That," said Potts, “ is the most extraordi
nary lamp’s ever been Ixl3- misfortune t'en
counter.”
Then he took off his coat, and holding it in
front of him, crept cautiousl} 7 up to the mir
ror, and tried to crush his coat over the lamp,
which still burned bright!}*. He said :
“ That's cer’ainly very extra’nory ! Moz*
stonishin’ circumstanz ever come un’er m> r
observation. Don’o how to’count for it!”
It occurred to him that perhaps he might
smash the lamp with an umbrella. Seizing
the weapon, he went up to the hat, and. aim
ng a terrible Mow at the light, he brought
the umbrella down. lie missed, and smashed
his Sunday hat into chaos. lie took aim
again, and caught the umbrella in the lamp
overhead, bringing it down with a crash.—
Then he tried a third time, and brought the
ferrule of the umbrella through the mirror,
smashing it to atoms. lie felt exultant for
a moment as the light disappeared from his
vision, but he was perplexed to find that there
was another light somewhere, he did not know
exactl}’ where. So he sat down on the stairs
and remarked :
“Moz’stonishin’ circumstanz ever come
un’er m3’ observation. "W baton thunder doz
it mean, an}- how ? Light’s gone, an’ 3’et*s
shinin’! Perfectly incomprehensible! "Wish
to gracious Mrs. Potts ’d rise up an’ ’splain
it. Durn if I know what I had better do?”
Then Potts took off his hat to scratch his
head, in the hope that he might scare up an
idea, and the truth flashed upon him. Gazing
at the lamp for a moment, until he drank in
a full conception of the trouble it had caused
him, he suddenl} 7 smashed it down on the
floor in a rage, and extinguished it after cov
ering two yards of carpet with grease. Then
he went to bed, and in the morning Mrs. Potts
informed him that some of those horrible
miners had broken into the house the night
before, and left one of their hats with a lamp.
Potts turned over in bed so that she could
not see his face, and said if the stern hand of
the laxy was not laid upon those ruffians soon,
nobody’s life would be safe.— Green Mountain
F 1 •eeman.
What a Weak Woman Can Do.
She can sit at the open window of a rail
way carriage with a stiff northeast wind blow
ing in, that chills everybody in the vicinity
to the marrow, for two hours, in a thin muslin
dress, without flinching.
She can dance or waltz down the captain
of a marching regiment, and at the 11 o'clock
supper put away lobster salad, ice cream,
champagne, cake and coffee without flinching,
sufficient for a week's nightmare to a strong
man.
She can comb her hair all back so as to
leave the roots to the full play of a December
breeze, and wear a bonnet on top of a chig
non, leaving ears and head exposed with im
punity with the thermometer at ten degrees
below zero.
She can pull over a thousand dollars’ worth
of dr} r goods for the investment of fifty cents.
She can study music for ten years suffi
ciently to enable her to perform excellently,
when not in the presence of those who desire
to hear her.
She can balance herself on the ball of her
great toe and a shoe heel the size of a dime
all day in the public streets without falling.
She can occupy three seats in a horse car,
and be utterly oblivious that any of her own
sex are standing up.
She shows unusual strength and firmness
in the holding of real estate, solitaire dia
monds, and other valuable property which her
husband places in her hands previous to his
compromising with his creditors at twenty
cents on a dollar.— Boston Com. Ad.
A young lady, of Paducah. Ky.. last week.
“ went for” a young man. who had slandered
her. with a stout hickory stick, and gave him
such a beating that his life is despaired of.
She was prosecuted and fined one cent, while
her victim had to pay $5. Good !
$ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
I SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
The Beaufort Tragedy.
THE SEQUEL OF TILE SUICIDE— A SCOUNDREL’S
PUNISHMENT.
Asa sequel to the sad tragedy which re*
cently occurred here, it may now be stated
that the officers of the squadron lying off Port
Royal, as soon as they heard in a direct and
authoritative way of the cause leading to the
death of the wife of Commander Smith, put
in motion the only machinery in their control
to punish one of the persons who had been
implicated in the event. The person alluded
to happened to be attached to the monitor
Ajax, under the command of Commander T.
H. Eastman. His fellow-officers, as soon as
a correct statement of the case had reached
them, placed the culprit in coventr}*, isolating
him so rigorously that his position became
unendurable, and he attempted to offer to the
captain an explanation which was at once so
disingenous and unsatisfactorj’ that it was
worse than a confession. lie was promptly
told that his presence longer in the navy
would not be tolerated by his fellow-officers
after the double violation of the rules of hon
or and decency as a physician and officer.—
Thereupon he wrote out his resignation, which
was approved by iiis commanding officer and
by Commodore Clitz, commanding the station*
and sent to Washington. He was granted
leave of absence, and before sundown was
ashore, bag and baggage, ffnd thereafter prac
tically ceased to be an officer of the navy.
The Department at Washington lost no time
in accepting the resignation, and the navy
was relieved of the disgrace of an acting as
sistant surgeon whose conduct brought death
and dishonor in a once happy family. The
prompt and high-toned manner in whieh the
officers of the squadron vindicated the honor
of the service is commented upon most favor*
abl}' in all circles. It shows that the bright
fame of an honest profession cannot be tar
nished by any member without his speedy
and conclusive disgrace. As the coroner’s
jury in the case of Mrs. Smith had returned
an open verdict, the testimony was turned
over to the Grand Jury for consideration, and
that body, after hearing some evidence, unan
imously concluded that the deceased came to
her death by her own hand, thereby relieving
any one else of all suspicion. The case al
ways was very clear, but the action of the
Grand Jury finally places it in its true light.
—Beaufort Letter to New York Herald.
How He Screwed Him Up.
Jim has been working in the country, and,
on coming to town, was regaling his friends
with his experience on the corner. “ You
know de man what I went to work wid ?
Well, 3'ou see, he told me he would do better
by me dan any of his neighbors was doin’ by
der bans; he would give mo de third of de
crap, and I find myself. Well, 3*oll see, I
went to church and gits ’quainted wid de
neighbor’s bans. Dur's Mr. Washington, he
is workin’ on young Billv Smith’s place, and
lie’s gittin’ de fourth and find hisself, and
dar's Mr. Linkum, he’s workin’ on old man
Jones’ place, and gittin’ de fifth and is found
besides. Well, you see, when I gits homey
and was a working in de crap, I got to stud}'-
in’, and de more I studied de more I come to
dc conclusion dat de third wasn’t gwine to do
me. So I goes to de boss and says I—l says r
“ 3'ou told me \’ou was agwine to do better by
me dan an} r dc neighbors was b}’ der bans.”'
lie sa}'s he’s been talking to ’em, and dat fie
was, and I says dat I’se been havin’ some
constination wid de neighbors-’ bans myself.
Dat Smit h’s bans gittin’ de fourth, and Jones’
bans was gittin* de fifth, and found, and I
wasn't gwine to stand no third. So he sa}'s
he would resinge the old one;, and make a
new contreck. and we bef come to town ’fore
’Squire Robinson and made it; here’s de pa
per now, and dat’s de wa} T I screwed him up
to tie fourth. I tell you what’s de fact, boys,
3*ou can’t trust one of dem white folks.” And
Jim mounted his mule and rode off.
A Spider Epidemic.
Last Sunday, Mr. Thomas WaTsft, master
mechanic at the Louisville Railroad shop at
this point, was bitten by a spider. The wound
inflamed, and last evening Mr. Walsh was in
a critical condition on account of the poison
injected into his system by the venomous in
sect. To-day he was much better, and is out
of danger. This morning, Mr. J. D. Danbury,
a well-know citizen, was bitten also by a
spider, and he had to summon medical aid,
as he was suffering intense pain from the ap
parently slight wound. It is reported that
he also is seriously ill from the effects of the
poison. On Saturday last, a little daughter
of Captain S. S. Garrett, while attending the
Templars’ pic-nie down the Mississippi and
Tennessee Railroad, was bitten on the face
by a black spider. Her face became terribly
swollen, but no dangerous effects became ap
parent. The spider whose poison is so venom
ous is a small black one, which generally has
red specks on its body. Its bite is exceed
ingly poisonous, and from it many persons
have died on account of not attending to the
wound in due time. —Memphis Appeal.
A bold rascal on an Illinois railroad train
pretended to be the conductor, collected all
the cash fares in two cars, and jumped off
with the mdney.
NUMBER 5.