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JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
NEW MAIL SCHEDULE.
From Jefferson to Athens—William 11. Bird,
ontruetor.
Leave Jefferson, Tuesday, Thursday and
Mtnnitty at 2F. M. Arrive at Athens by
IT. M.
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From Jeffcvson to Gainesville — J. N. Ticitty,
Contractor.
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IT. M.
Leave Gainesville, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday at 7A. M. Arrive at Jefferson by
IT. M.
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Betts, Contractor.
Leave Jefferson Saturday at 1 I*. M. Ar
rive at Lawrenceville Monday, by 12 M.
Leave Lawrenceville Friday at 1 P. M. Ar
rive at Jefferson Saturday by 12 M.
WXIPWA L OFFICERS OF JEFFERSON.
" I. Pike. Mayor; J. P. Williamson, Sr., G.
1 N. \\ ilson. R. J. Hancock, F. M. Haile)'. Al
rown: T. H. Xihlack. Esq., Clerk & Trcasur
fr: W. V. Hunter. Marshal.
FROFESSrOXS.
■’uvsiciAXS...J. J. Poster, N. W. Carithers,
■ Hunt. C R Giles, W II Green wade. (Indian
K’tor.)
Itty’s at Law... J. B. Silman, W. I. Pike,
B Mahaffcy, W. C. Howard, M. M. Pitman,
"t. Hinton, R. S. Howard.
, MERCHANTS.
ndergrass & Hancock, F. M. Hailey, Stanley
1 Pinion.
MECHANICS.
, vrpexters... Joseph P. Williamson, Scn'r;
• Williamson, Jr.; Warwick Wilson, Ed.
Mitchell Few, (col.)
‘Urxkss Maker... John G. Oakes.
"agon Makers... Wm. Winbum, Monroe
y. (eol.)
jjroGY Makers...L. &A. J Gilleland.
blacksmith...C. T. Story, James Montgome
?•
j!N'XER...John TI. Chapman.
J-vxxkrs... J. E. & H. J. Randolph, F S Smith.
lot and Shoe-Makers...N. B. Stark, under
Fetes office; Seaborn M. Stark, J W
‘" re ' shops in the “ Hilly Thompson” corner
’['-house; Henry Evans, (col.)
■ RNiTritE Makers... Warwick Wilson, A J
Wldvid.
p HOTELS.
“■vxbOLiMi House, by Mrs. Randolph.
~ astern Hotel, by John Simpkins.
; ’lie Hoarding House, by Mrs. Elizabeth
'"rshaa.
J quoits, Secjars, &C...J. L. Bailey.
n 1 ■ k is t a xd Saw-Mill and Gin... Long &
“ s Jmolph.
-•Hv-Mill and Gin...F. S. Smith.
COUNTY SCHOOL DIRECTORY.
Institute. —J. W. Glenn, Principals.
, '’t. Assistant; Miss M. E. Orr, Assistant;
" Myrtie McCarty, Music.
‘"[re Hill Academy. —A G Strain, Principal.
-•xhlee Am demy. —Rev. P. F. Lamar, Prin.
Croce Academy. —R. S. Cheney, Prin-
AatJemt/. —J. 11. McCarty, Principal.
Cn clc Academu —Mrs. A. C. P. Ridcn,
tr meipal.
Church. —J. J. Mitchell, Principal.
MiR. —AV. P. Newman. Prin.
;"unpson Academy, J. J. Boss, Principal,
p 1111 and Ornamental Penmanship—Col. A. L.
4. per day at home. Samples
'**'*-’ AO worth 81 free. Stinson &
1 • marll
F. P. TALMADGE,
DEALER IN
AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES,
CLOCKS, JEWELB Y, SILVER S' PLATED WARE,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C.
Batches, clocks jnistid jewelry repaired
In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornamental and l*lain Letter Engraving a Specialty.
LOCATION—CoIIege Avenue, one door from the Bookstore Corner, ATHENS, OA.
THE FOREST NEWS.
cople tlieii ow n Rulers; Ad a ancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
iWessitmol & business Sards.
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY. W. S. M'CARTY.
IVTAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
iU A T T 0 II NEWS AT LAW,
. Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
W ill practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. 1 atronage solicited. OctJO ly
DR. C. R. GILES
FERS his professional services to the citizens
Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the othce recently occupied by Col. Mahaffey.
Jan. 22, 1870—tf J
B* • MOl’I’Oltl), Attorney at l,a\v,
• HOME It, BANKS Cos., Ga.
AN ill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
gu c prompt attention to all business entrusted to
his care. Collecting claims a specialty.
June 19th, 1875. ly
J. J. FLOYD*. I J. B. SILMAN,
F Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
LOVD A: XiILMAA,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
AN ill practice together in the Superior Courts oi
the counties of Jackson and Walton.
junel2—ly
WL Attorney at Law,
• JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
Practices in all the Courts, State and Federal.
Prompt and thorough attention given to all
kinds ot legal business in Jackson and adjoining
counties. June 12, 1875
WILEY C. HOWARD. KOB'T S. HOWARD.
Howard a Howard,
ATTORNEYS AT LA AY,
Jefferson, Ga.
AA r ill practice together in all the Courts of Jack
son and adjacent counties, except the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
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 lj r
Du. w. s. aij:xa\di:r,
SURGEON DENTIST.
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
J uly 10th, 1875. Cm
Medical Notice.
Dr. •!. O. IU NT having located in Jeffer
son for the purpose of practicing Medicine,
respectfully tenders his services to the citizens of
the town and county in all the different branches
of the profession. After a flattering experience
of nineteen years, he feels justified in saying that
he is prepared to successfully treat any curable
disease incident to our climate. He is, for the
present, boarding with Judge John Simpkins, but
will move his family here soon.
Office with Col. J. A. B. Mahaffey.
EfesT'Referencc can be seen in the oflicc of T. 11.
Niblack. Esq., C. S. C. octlC
SPRING AND SUMMER
STOCK OIF 1
Millinery and Fancy Goods!
o
jnass. T. A. ADAMS
ANNOUNCES to the public that she is now re
ceiving a large and varied stock of Ladies’
Bonnets, Hats, Laces, Ribbons. Trimmings, &c.,
which she is offering at low prices. Call, exam
ine and he convinced. Next door to the Bank of
the University, Athens, Ga. April 15
BURKE’S BOOK-STORE,
ATHENS, GJA.
IF you want School Books, Miscellaneous Books,
Bibles and Hymn Books. Pens. Ink and Paper,
Gold Pens, Fine Pocket Knives. Picture Frames,
Blank Books, Hat Racks. Brackets, or anything
kept in a first-class Book-store, call on
T. A. BURKE,
marlS 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 hinds of Crocker;/ and Glass-icare, 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 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 CLASS
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.
the place. marlS
City Barber Shop.
!In the Old Matthews Corner , Up-Stairs , Broad
Street , Athens, Ga.
I) Ell) & HARRIS, Fashionable Barbers. Hair
X Cutting, Hair Dressing, Shaving, Shampoo-
I ing, etc., done in the latest and most improved
i styles. julyl
Uj 1O a. (lav at home. Agents wanted. Outfit
IZj and terms free. TRUE & CO., Augusta,
I Maine. marll
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 29,1876.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The Champion Suicide.
The Boston Globe thinks, and justly, that
the ingenuity of the century seems to have
culminated in original and startling methods
of self-slaughter. Not long ago a misguided
man of genius, Moon by name, set up a con
trivance in his room at a hotel in Lafayette,
Ind., for chopping off his own head. Now a
youth of equally original turn of mind has
committed suicide in a Chicago hotel in a
manner that shows a contempt for the ordi
nary and uncertain methods usually adopted,
and quite characteristic of the “Centennial
year.” And the purpose of the young man,
whose name was Jefferv, was to celebrate the
Centennial Fourth of July in a way entirely
unique and to reflect glory on Chicago as the
scene of the great achievement. Ilis modus
operandi is thus described by himself in a
letter which he left behind ;
“ When night comes on I shall draw a piece
of wire across the bath tub lengthwise, its
use to be soon explained. The wire will be
properly adjusted, the pistol loaded, and with
the razor conveniently hung on strings, where
I can readily reach them. The poisons will
then be carefully fixed and marked. The
rope, understand, is to come where it will
suspend my body, when attached, exactly
over the middle of the tank. Directly over
this rope, and on the wire before mentioned,
I shall attach cotton or something else which
will burn well when alcohol is poured ou it.
The noose will have been made in # the cord
and above my head on the rpe shall # be
placed a like torch, which, when ignited, will
burn the cord and let me down. I will then
pack everything but the clothes which I am
to wear, and then, being all ready, I’ll fill the
tank with as hot water as I can get. Then
mount the tub, with a foot on each side of it;
carefully pour the liquor over my pants legs
and coat and shirt; will allow a rope of some
soft material to fall from the torch above
down my back ; will then light the prepared
torch on the wire which I then will be stand
ing over ; will raise myself upon tip-toe and
fix the rope about my neck. It shall be well
soaped, so that, when my feet leave the sides
of the tank and my full weight comes upon
it, it will draw up pretty tight. One thing I
had almost forgotten to mention : I am going
to put a mirror before me just to see if I will
be frightened. I think it is more likely that
I shall laugh, but as I want to enjoy it all I’ll
put the glass up anyhow. Next I reach for
the tumbler of poisons, conveniently near,
and swallow its contents entire, probably
shall ‘sigh for more.’ AVcll, at this point I
shall hurry up, for deadly acids work de
struction quickly. I next grasp my pretty
little dirk and send it with all my force into
my breast as near to a blackened spot show
ing where the heart is as possible. The ra
zor and pistol are all ready, and suspended
by cords, it must be remembered. So after
plunging the dagger in I do not want to with
draw it, but take the razor in my left hand, and
as firmly as I am able under the circumstan
ces to do, while I grasp and cock my little
silver mounted pistol; this I place to my head
and pull the trigger as I draw the keen blad
ed razor across my neck. My feet must slip
from their places by this time, and my legs
will come in to contact with the wire and the
fire upon it, which will of course immediately
set my clothing alight. I intend the flame
shall run up the rope I shall allow to hang
down my back to the place where the other
torch will hare been prepared. This must
sever the strands of rope, and I can but fall
into the water below to cook and drown.”
This programme w r as not precisely carried
out, as the dagger was found unused ; but
poisoning, shooting, cutting of the throat,
hanging and drowning were found quite suf
ficient to extinguish life, and doubtless the
young man discovered in the course of the
experiment, that it was not practicable to
combine all tlie methods of previous investi
gators in one act of self-destruction. The
cremation feature of the experiment was a fail
ure, as it proved difficult to make fire and
water work together. Notwithstanding these
serious drawbacks the exploit was on the
whole a brilliant one. The purpose of Mr.
Jeffery to celebrate the completion of tlie
first century of our national existence and
cast distinction on his favorite city at the
same time, is shown in another letter in
which lie says:
“ In the first place Chicago is the city of the
West. St. Louis is good enough in many
matters, but Chicago suits me better in ev
ery particular than all the Western places
put together. And Chicago is lively and
fond of excitement, and always gets ahead of
St. Louis when she can. There is an emula
tion and generous rivalry between the two
cities which I like, and Chicago being my
favorite I shall help her, in my humble way,
and knock the spots off St. Louis in cele
brating the Centennial Fourth. St. Louis
may get up something in the same line for
the next Centennial, but until then Chicago
will be ahead. She can claim originality, if
nothing more. lam the only Frederick Ad
dison Jeffery who will do this act first, and
the only one who will do it on the 4th of
July, 1876. I fire but one shot, yet that one
puts Chicago so far out of St. Louis’ sight
that it will take a hundred years to put her
near Chicago again. Then, too, you know
that this is a chance to die which can never
come again. Think of skipping out along
with the last stroke of the midniglit bell,
which proclaims the death of one hundred
years of independence and the birth of the
second Centennial of freedom. I could not
let this pass without suitable recognition,
anyhow.”
Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.
Fish Culture.
A LETTER FROM A VETERAN FISH BREEDER —
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE METHODS.
I sec tlvat the people of my native State,
Kentucky, are beginning to take considerable
interest in fish culture, and as I have been
engaged in it for twelve years, being the fifth
man in the United States to practice artificial
propagation, I feel at liberty, with your ap
proval, to oflcr through your journal a few
suggestions to those who wish to engage in it.
Up to this time fish breeders have not met
with much success in propagating in artificial
ponds any other fish than the brook trout
(Salmo Fontiualis); other fish, like the Sal
mon, shad, white fish and salmon trout, have
been produced in larger quantities, but they
require larger bodies of water than can be
artificially controlled, so are turned into the
rivers and lakes for the public; but where
trout can be raised no other fish need be want
ed, either for game or the table.
It was long thought, as trout were only
found in limited districts, that it was owing
to the neighboring streams not being suitable
to them ; but this theory has exploded, as
the} r are now being* successfully raised in
some portions of the sources of nearly every
river in the United States.
While trout will live in water that is fre
quently roiled or even muddy, a good portion
of the time it requires pure, clear water to
hatch their eggs ; they will live in water that
runs up to seventy or seventy-five degrees, or
that gets so cold as to freeze over in winter,
but an even temperature like that of spring
water is preferable ; in fact, would not ad
vise any one without springs to attempt their
cultivation. Although naturally a wild fish,
they are easily domesticated, and will become
so gentle as to be handled and fed from the
fingers.
Persons living at a distance from where
live trout can be had, better start by getting
the impregnated eggs ; they can be sent a
thirty-days’journey and seventy-five or ninety
per cent, of them hatched. Different fish
breeders have different preparations for hatch
ing ; some using the bracket-tray system,
others grills, and some still use the primitive
gravel-beds, but the trough, preferred by all
who have tried it, is made by making a box,
say twelve feet long, eighteen inches wide
and six inches deep, lined with sheet zinc,
and every eighteen inches of its length solder
across it a piece of zinc one and a half inches
high ; if the strip is cut three wide and doubled
in the shbpe of the letter A it is better, a9
the water won’t spring it; place the upper
end of the trough an inch and a half higher
than the lower end ; let as much water run
through it as will not move the eggs; this
will be about half an inch ; put a cover over
the box, as bright rays of light injure the
eggs. This trough will hatch twenty-five
thousand eggs, and everything is ready for
them, but December is the earliest period
they can be obtained. They are sold from
four to six dollars a thousand. They are
sent out when about half done hatching. The
length of time hatching is governed by the
temperature of the water. Water of fifteen
degrees hatches in sixty days. The work of
hatching is verj* simple. About all there is
to do is to pick out the bad eggs, which is
easily told.
Trout live the first forty to fifty days from
the abdominal sack. When this is absorbed
they rise to the top to look for food. My
method of feeding is to take a little sweet cream
and freeze it. The freezing causes it to break
up into small particles, which they savagely
seize. After a few days meat or liver may
be substituted for it; or, if put out in the
brooks or ponds, and not too many in a place,
they will find their own living. Fish, like
snakes, can live a long time without food ;
they are cold-blooded, and waste no food in
keeping up the heat of the body. Another
advantage the}’ have over land animals is
that the water is a living pasture the wdiole
year. I carry an average of full fifty .thou
sand fish, large and small, on less than a half,
dollars’ worth of food per day.
Boscobel, Wis. A. Palmer.
LiP“I ain’t wotin’ dis year, boss,” said a
venerable darkey to a gentleman from whom
he had solicited ten cents ‘‘jes’ ter get de ole
nigger a dram”—“ I ain’t wotin’ dis year,
cause I see dey gwine take de comman’ fum
Giuer’l Grant. I ain’t foolin’ wid politics no
how. De mo’ I woted de mo’ money I los’
in dat Freedman Bank. Dey wuz jes a milk*
in me righterlong.” “ Why didn’t }*ou make
a fuss about it ?” queried the gentleman.—
“ Lor’, boss ! W’at de reezin’ de pullet don’t
cackle w’en de nigger come ’long an’ liff’ him
offen de roos’ ?” The gentleman couldn’t
face the conundrum. —Savannah News.
Cremation in Marion.
Practical Illustration of a Forgotten Topic —
A Funeral Pyre From Which the Ashes of
the Dead Were Scattered to the Winds.
Marion, S. C., July 17.— Mr. Henry Ber
ry, who died on the 9th instant, was known
for a number of years to entertain views look
ing to the oremation of his body after his
death. The last will which he made bears
date of 1862, several additions having since
been made, so as to make it correspond with
the changes incidental to a person of his
wealth. The cremation clause was inserted
in the original will, and wa3 entrusted to his
son, James Berry, who, it appears, had prom
ised to comply with his father’s request.—
The subsequent action of Mr. Ilenry Berry
shows that he entertained no confidence in
the sincerity of his son’s promise, as he de
signated a man named Wm. Union, who was
to act in the capacity of an extra guardian
over this provision of the will, and sec that
it was strictly enforced, and for his trouble
lie was to receive a piece of land worth seven
hundred dollars, besides a pair of mules.
On Tuesday morning, the third day after
his death, preparations were made for carry
ing into effect his desire. The spot had been
selected by him several years previous, as
was also a number of trees which he had
marked, to be cut up for fuel for the occasion.
On the ground was placed a number of logs,
of immense size, on which a large quantit}’
of kindling wood, and the corpse, enclosed in
a box covered with velvet, placed thereon,
after which the pile was increased by the ad
dition of more wood—the most inflamablc
kind being used—in order to destroy tlie
corpse as soon as possible. This immense
pyramid presented the appearance of a Hin
doo funeral pile, measuring fifteen feet long,
ten feet wide and fourteen feet high. At
precisely 8 o’clock, a. m., Union, the person
who had been entrusted with this part of the
performance, advanced to the spot and set
fire to the pile on all four corners, and owing
to the combustible nature of the wood, the
funeral pile was soon enveloped in a mass of
flames, the smoke of which could be seen for
miles away.
As the flames destroyed the wood more was
added. This operation continued for about
six hours. The bones were then raked to
gether among the ashes, and every vestige
of what was once a human form lost forever
from view. Over three hundred persons wit
nessed the burning, and more would have
been present had it been generally known
that it would really occur. Sir. Berry had
been a w idower since 1856, and lived alone
up to two years ago, when he moved to the
residence of his son, James Berry, who re
sides twelve miles north of this town. Al
though in his eighty-first year, he possessed
the activity of one much younger, and read
without glasses. lie was one of the few rich
men of our days, his wealth being equitably
divided among his five children, all of whom
are well advanced in years. He particularly
desired that no mark should designate tlie
spot on which his body was destro} T ed, and
in addition to the various precautions taken
to insure the cremation of his body, he pro
vides in his will that should no one be found
willing to make that disposition of his re
mains, his entire property was to bo devoted
to charitable purposes. In this community
there exists a feeling of condemnation in re
gard to the matter, and in the community
where he lived, every one condemns, in the
severest terms, the action of his relatives, in
allowing the remains of the old man to be
disposed of in the manner they were. The
Baptists, of which denomination he was a
member, are disposed to blame the officiating
clergyman for performing the funeral services
over the remains on the previous day. Ilis
heirs are all in good circumstances (pecuni
arily), and could have well afforded the loss
of liis wealth, had they refused a compliance
with the old man’s strange fancy.
— Chron. 4r Sent. Palmetto.
|sF*The Macon Telegraph 4* Messenger
published, a few days since, an account of a
fox chase in a neighboring county in which
the statement is made that a gentleman was
riding a mule with a saddle without a girth.
On the saddle was a sheepskin, and while the
hunters were in full chase after the fox, this
mule suddenly sprang to one side and threw
the saddle from under the man, leaving him
and the sheepskin on the mule’s back.
A correspondent, in a more recent issue of
the paper above mentioned, sa}'s : That is a
good story, but I can tell one that will beat it
It was when 1 was just old enough to visit
the sirls. The general custom was for both
boys and girls to ride to church, horseback, in
company, and on the return the young man
generally stopped and took dinner with the
young lady, whom he accompanied. On one
occasion (Sabbath) a young man, riding a
spirted mule, stopped at my mothers house,
took dinner with the family and spent the
afternoon in conversation. When the time
came for leaving, he saddled his mule, mount
ed and rode off in a gallop. After going
about a hundred yards, the mule threw down
his head, elevated his heels, and threw the
rider, saddle, blanket and bridle over his
head without breaking or loosing the girth.
I saw the whole affair and can vouch for the
I truth of it.
$ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
} SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
A Significant Fact. —Massachusetts has
disbanded her only militia company of ne
groes.
They must have careful kitchen girls in
China. That country sends to the Centennial
some plates and dishes a thousand years old.
A negro while ploughing in a field near
Cartersville the other day was snnstruck and
died in a few minutes.
Americus has produced a cucumber that
measured three feet six inches and a half in
length, and eight inches around.
The President has vetoed a valuable bill
amending the post office laws, becauso of a
defect in the title and enacting clause.
The Reformed Episcopal church now num
bers fifty congregations, sixty clergymen and
four bishops.
Dio Lewis says a lady will eat four times
as much corn beef when alone as she will in
the presence of other people.
A ranchero near Santa Fe owns 80.000
head of cattle, pastures them on 16,000 ad
joining acres of land, and employs 200 “va*
gueros” to herd them.
Judge James Jackson, of Atlanta, is to
deliver the alumni address at the approach
ing Commencement of the University of
Georgia.
It is all right to laugh and guffaw at the
antics of a drunken man, but just think how
terrible his w ? ife and children suffer over what
gives you such amusement.
The number of visitors at the Centennial
exhibition since the opening aggregates 2,-
254,074, and the cash receipts, $743,576 50.
The number of dead-heads, therefore, is
760,921.
Grant's healt h is said to be undergoing the
strain of excessive smoking, the black bottle,
worn out and prostration, debilitating influ
ences, prostrating effects, restlessness and
imperiousness.
A portion of the Egyptian army has gone
to Turkey to help fight the rebels, and, as
many of the officers arc Americans, the spec
tacle will be presented of Christians aiding
Mohammedans in subduing Christians.
The greatest surprise to a country gentle
man is to step into a city clock store to set
his watch, and discover that out of an array
of several hundred, no two hands point to
the same hour or minute.
A blighted being, whose nose should serve
as a beacon of warning to the youth of our
land, says the ladies’ dresses this year are
laboring under a violent attack of delirium
trimmings.
Here is what the Quaker says about the
Centennial: If thee wonldst see a goodly
show, to Philadelphia thee must go; then
thee can tell a eentuty hence how ranch thee
saw for fifty cents.
“ It is better,” says a placard in a store in
Seabrook, N. 11.. “ to wear a calico dress with
out trimmings, if it is paid for, than to owe
the shopkeeper for the most elegant silk, cut
and trimmed in the most bewitching manner.”
Colorado, having adopted her Constitution*
is now ready for admission into the Union as
the thirty-eighth State, the President’s proc
lamation being the only act necessary to com
plete the admission.
First chapter of Birchard’s Epistle to the
Co-Ring-thians: “ Brethren, endorse ye the
Administration and stand by its noble army
of 80,000 office-holders in the noble work of
Reform.”
A negro who was arrested at Clinton, 8.
C., on Wednesday evening, by Town Marshal
McCrary, resisted arrest, and was shot twice
and instantly killed by John McCrary, a
3 r ounger brother of the Marshal.
A Waynesboro sow fell in a well Rome time
ago and celebrated the event by giving birth
to a litter of pigs. It was several days before
she was found, but the entire family was
rescued.
Condensed eggs have been added to the
list of prepared foods. The eggs, by anew
process, are dried and reduced to meal, and
in this shape are sealed in tins, after the
manner of “canned goods.”
The colored people of Early have met and
organized a Reform Society to promote the
welfare of their race. The suppression of
thieving is one of the principal planks of the
platform. They ask the assistance of white
citizens.
John Kellett. a planter of Laurens county,
S. C., while on the way, Wednesday morning,
to his plantation, and when at a point ten
miles from Laurens Court House, was fired
upon from ambush and instantly killed. The
unknown assassins escaped.
“ Doctor,” said a gentleman to a physician,
“my daughter had a fit this morning, and af
terward remained for half an hour without
knowing or understanding” “Oh,” replied
the doctor, “never mind that; many people
continue so all their live3.”
Under the law recently passed in Congress,
the postage on third class mail matter is now
one cent for every tiro ounces or fraction
thereof. This includes transient newspapers,
periodicals, magazines, &c. Merchandise is
still one cent per ounce.
The Catholics of Charlotte, North Caroli
na, are much mortified at the flight and mar
riage sf the Rev. Father Hands, of that city,
to Miss Cora Bradshaw. Bishop Gibbons,
anticipating this event, had silenced Father
Hands several weeks ago.
Winterville, Ga.. had quite a sensation s
few weeks since. A marriage was on the
tapis, the supper ready, bride dressed, and
guests in waiting. But the groom failed to
put in an appearance, and all hands were
compelled to go home disappointed.
“ Mr. ,” bawled a Crawford clerk the
other day, when a customer demurred at the
price of an article, “ can I sell this hat any
lower—it is marked four dollars and a half,
but cost fifty cents ?” The merchant replied
no ; that he couldn't sell goods without some
profit.— Echo.
NUMBER 8.