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<r T HE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING company. \ volume 11. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, ,1,0 Jackson County l ß ul>liliing l>J' Company. javkson co ., ga. VICE. >• " • COK - PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. MALCOM STAFFORD, MANAGING AND BUSINESS EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. (B , C opy 12 months $2.00 Z - 6 “ 1.00 .. -3 “ 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an cx ,fcosy of the paper will be given. a ws Relating to Newspaper Subscriptions and Arrearages. fl,e following laws in regard to newspaper sub options and arrearages have received the sanc , and are published as the decisions of the ted States Supreme Court: 1 Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered wishing to continue Iheir subscription. I If subscribers order the discontinuance of hew periodicals, the publishers may continue to nil them until all arrearages are paid, j, If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their rriodicals from the office to which they are di eted. they are held responsible until they have settled their bills and ordered them discontinued. 4, If subscribers move to other places without ,Atifving publishers, and the papers are sent to .' M former direction, they are held responsible. 5, The Courts have decided that “refusing to ute periodicals from the office, or removing and ; jring them uncalled for is prima facia evidence intentional fraud.” i Any person who receives a newspaper and Bikes use of it. whether he has ordered it or not, b held in law to be a subscriber. I If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound pve notice to the publisher, at the end of their : hr. if they do not wish to continue taking it; ilienrise, the publisher is authorized to send it ami the subscribers will be responsible until ia express notice, with payment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. Wcssimutf & business (Ennis. J. A. !!• MAHAFFEY. W. S. M’CARTY. \|AHAFFEY & McCARTY, iU A T Toil XE VS A T LA W, Jefferson, Jackson Cos. (la., Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at tention given to all business entrusted to their care. Patronage solicited. Oct JO ly DR. C. K. GILES / 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 I )cr Hay at home. Samples f HI worth $1 free. Siixsox & or tland, Maine. marll SI *7 51 <lay at home. Agents wanted. Outfit -'lain and tcnus free - TRUE & CO., Augusta, e * marll F. P. TALMADGE, DEALER IN AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES, CLOCKS, JE WELR Y, SIL VER Sf PLATED WARE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C. Etches, clocks jewelry repaired In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction. 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’, No. 7, Broad St., Athens. J&Sar'Remcmbcr the place. inarlS Established, 1785! The Chronicle Sf Sentinel. AUGUSTA, Gr-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. 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 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. $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 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.