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JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
NKAY MAIL SCHEDULE.
.hjfi-rson to Athens—fVtllium H. Bird,
on tract or.
I Leave Jefferson. Tuesday, Thursday and
HSaturday at 21\ M. Arrive at Athens by
■ ;i’M.
I Leave Athens, Monday, Wednesday and
■ Friday at 7A.M. A rrivc at Jefferson by 12 M.
Mfrum Ji'jfrrsoti to Gainesville — J. N. Tivitty,
Contractor.
I Leave .leiferson, Monday, Wednesday and
■ Friday at 1 I*. M. Arrive at Gainesville by
I Leave Gainesville, Tuesday, Thursday and
Bnturday at 7A. M. Arrive at Jetferson bv
■ if.
■ J<jfrrson to LawrenccvtUe—William 1\
Betts, Contractor.
I Leave .leiferson Saturday at 1 P. M. Ar-
Hrive at Lawrcneevi lie Monday, by 12 M.
I Leave Lawrenccville Friday at 1 P. M. Ar-
IMe at Jetferson Saturday by 12 M.
Xlrri'M OF Fit'BßS OF JEFFERSON.
I "■ I. Pike. Mavor; J. P. Williamson, Sr.. G.
L Wilson. It. j. Hancock, F. M. Bailey. Al-
L lb Niblack. Esq., Clerk & Treasur-
IV. F. Hunter. Marshal.
PROFESSIONS.
I i lii 'su'iaxs...J. J. Poster. N. AY. Carithers,
"■ Fhmt. C It Giles, AY 11 Grecnwade. (Indian
■ Ifctor.) V
Ii vs at Law... J. TL Silman, AY. T. Pike.
■ Mahalfey. AY. C. Howard, M. M. Pitman,
■ r. Hinton, 11. S. Howard.
I MERCHANTS.
I Hiulergrass & Hancock, F. M. Bailey, Stanley
I t Pinson.
MECHANICS.
■ 1 \i;i*KX | KKs...,j°. S cph P. Williamson, Sen'r;
I j, 1 • Williamson, -Jr.; AYarwick AYilson, Ed.
I n > son. Mitchell Few, (col.)
I A'ttEss MAKKit...John G. Oakes.
I auox Makers...AYm. AYinburn, Monroe
I “)'• (col.)
Jb’ooY Makers... L. & A. J Gilleland.
I Ucksmith...C. T. Story, James Montgomc-
I L ,N *N’KR...John 11. Chapman.
I v\xKus...J. E. & 11. J. Randolph. F S Smith.
I Ih H)t and Siiok-Makers...N. B. Stark, under
[7 7 office; Seaborn M. Stark, J AY
"" shops in the “ Billy Thompson” corner
“’re-iiouso ; Henry Evans, (col.)
I Ukmtfkk Makers...AYarwick AYilson, A J
I ( "lleland.
In HOTELS.
I ‘Axuolph House, by Mrs. Randolph.
I p" RTi t-H astern Hotel, by John Simpkins.
In 1 > c hoarding House, by Mrs. Elizabeth
f *Nham.
L'vious. Sugars. &C...-J. L. Bailey.
I VNI) Saw-Mill and Gin... Long &
I “Waolpli.
and Gin...F. S. Smith.
( <)rxry school directory.
Hi A ,u Institute. —J. W. Glenn. Principal; S.
\. ), ' r - Assistant; Miss M. E. Orr, Assistant;
;r - R-rtie McCarty, Music.
'Ci'' Mil Academy. — A G Strain, Principal.
''itder Academy. —Rev. P. F. Lamar, Prin.
mony Croce Academy. —R. S. Cheney, Prin
‘"A Academy. —T. H. McCarty, Principal,
i) ’ ' I reek Academy- —Mrs. A. C. P. ltidcn,
J
Church. —T. J. Mitchell. Principal.
iteylcFs Mill. —AV. P. Newman. Prin.
‘"unpson Academy, J. J. Boss. Principal,
s., 1,1111 a, 'd Ornamental Penmanship—Col. A. L.
Instructor.
X{\ A _ per day at home. Samples
worth $1 free. Stinson &
" 1 ortland/Maine. marll
F. F. TALMADGE,
DEALER IN
AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES,
CLOCKS, je welr i; silver $■ PLATED ware,
MUSICAL INSTRUIVIENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, &C.
Batches, clocks jewelry repaired
In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornamental and IMaiu ISdler Engraving a Specialty.
1 lON—College Avenue, one door from the Bookstore Corner, ATHENS, GA.
the forest news.
ThC Pe ° PlC t,lCn OMn Rnlers 5 Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
jMessitnml & (Business Curds.
T~\ D ' J ‘ Is> I>END ERGRASS, M. D.
I)"* JV 1 ' & I*Iv\DEUGIMSS
Having formed a partnership for the nur
r>?anch f es P o? C the nS in ~
thdrsS-,V f , hc * t t,rofeSKlon ' re - s pcctfully tender
t u. SCI \ ices to the citizens of the town and sur
old stand COmßUlnity * oftice at Col - W. I. Pike's
1 ‘ tan(l - * july29
J. A. 15. MAHAFFEY. W. S. M'CARTY.
IVTAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
" T 1 ATT O R NEYS AT LA AY,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
’ll P racticc anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. Oct.TO ly
DU. c. U. GILES
/~\FFERS his professional services to the citizens
IF ol -Jelterson and vicinity. Can be found at
the office recently occupied by Col. Maliaffey
Jan. 22, 187G—tf J
BI*• WOFFORD, Altoruev sit law,
• HOMER , BANKS Co..' Ga.
AYill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
his care. Collecting claims a specialty.
June 19th, 1875. J ]y
J. J. FLOYD, I J. Ji. SILMAN.
Covington, Ga. Jetferson, Ga.
T?LOYD a SILII tX,
-L ATT ORNE YS-A T-LAW.
A\ ill practice together in the Superior Courts oi
the counties of Jackson and AYalton.
junel2—ly
PIKK, Allonicv sit liiuv,
• JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA
Practices m 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. ROR’T S. HOWARD.
Koaviim) a mm ard,
ATTORNEYS AT LA AY,
Jefferson, Ga.
AYill 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,
JEFCEIISOX, GA.,
DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 1!) ]}'
DUS. W. K. tMAAYmiIt.
SURGEON DENTIST.
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th. 1875. 6m
SPRING AND SUMMER
stock: ok
Millinery and Fancy Goods!
o
MRS. T. A. \E> VAIS
VNXOI XCES to tlie public that slie is now re
- ceiving a large and varied stock of Ladies’
Bonnets, Hats. Laces. Ribbons. Trimmings, Ac.,
which she is ottering at low prices. Call, exam
ine and be convinced. Next door to the Bank of
the University, Athens, Ga. April 15
BURKE\S BO()K-STORE,
ATHENS, GA.
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.
TIIE REASON WIIY
J. H. HUGGINS
Sells goods cheaper now, is because he
has adopted the
CASH SYSTEIYI!
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 both for build
ing and fertilizing purposes, all veiw low for the
CASH.
AYhen you go to Athens, don't forget to call on
J. H. HUGGINS! If you want K K ROSEN J'l OIL. at
wholesale or retail, he will supply you at the low
est price. If you want CROCKERY and GLASS
AY A RE, there’s the place to <ret it. If you want
TOBACCO. FLOCR , BACON. LARD. SC-
G.iR. COFFEE and MOLASSES, go there and
you will find it. If you want LIME, for building
or composting with fertilizers, go to
J. 1L HUGGINS’,
No. 7, Broad St., Athens.
fl®**Remcmbcr the place. marlS
Jackson Comity.
AYhcreas. AY J Roberts. Administrator of Mat
thew M Haines, late of said county, deceased, rep
resents, in his petition duly filed, that he has fully
administered said Matthew M Haines’ estate—
This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, why said Administrator should not be dis
charged from his administration, and receive Let
ters of Dismission on the Ist Monday in November.
IS7G.
Given under my signature, officially. July 17th.
IS7G. ‘ AY 1 LEY C. lIOWfRD,
july29 Ordinary.
1 n day at home. Agents wanted. Outfit
and terms free. TRUE & CO.. Augusta,
Maine. marll
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. AUG’T 5, 1876.
GLEANINGS.
The House lias passed the Senate bill for
the completion of the AA r ashington Monument.
A wedding cake 160 years old is preserved
as a sacred relic by a Spencer county family.
Commodore Vanderbilt’s condition is ver}*
critical. lie has fallen into a stupor, and his
death is expected at any moment.
Mr. Hendricks is an Episcopalian, and goes
to church with his wife. Mr. Tilden also
goes to church, but not with his wife.
Half a million cans of strawberries have
been put up in California this year. They
will be put down next year.
A physician in California recently broke
his leg in trying to put on a tight boot, by
stamping.
There is nothing that will turn a lady's
head so quick as anew bonnet—on the head
of another lady.
A little girl who had a tooth pulled, being
assured it would come again, inquired if it
would come before dinner.
Hon. AYm. Markham, of Atlanta, is a Re
publican candidate for Congress from the sth
District.
Ihe Columbus Enquirer threatens to re
view the Kendrick case. Kendrick’s friends
in that section are showing a lamentable lack
of discretion.
It may be interesting to the doctors to
know that quite recently a negro man in
Quitman extracted a live, fibrous worm from
a-bone-felon on his hand.
Burke county has somewhat surprised the
public by going for Colquitt. It was thought
that Johnson could carry this county, lying
as it does next door to him.
The National Liberal Republican Conven
tion, which was called to meet in Philadelphia,
July 26th, did not meet. The movement col
lapsed.
There is an affair of honor vibrating be
tween Gen. G ary, of Edgefield, S. C., and Mr.
Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and
Courier.
The number of Christian ministers of all
denominations in the United States is said to
be 43,866. In England and AYalcs the num
ber is 31,942.
A young man in Germany committed sui
cide because his parents wanted him to study
theology. He had set his heart on bcimj a
carpenter.
A Powerful Team.— A brother and sister
in Reading, Pa., weigh together 1,407| pounds
—the boy 600, the girl 807i. Their name is
Powers.
The American Bible Society published last
3 r ear 850,470 copies of the Bible, which makes
the total number issued by the Society since
its establishment 33,125,766.
The AVashington Republican says it cost
$1,000,000 to whip the Seminoles, and it will
cost us $2,000,000 before the present war is
ended.
Ben Briscoe, a silent partner of the firm of
New York last week on the charge of cheat
ing and swindling in connection with
firm. He was confined in Ludlow street jail.
Rev. T. A. Vaud ra} 7 , a Catholic priest, of
New Orleans, has married, and is sustained,
it is said, by 500 people of his parish in his
infraction of one of the most important rules
of the priesthood.
A cow was shipped on the Philadelphia
steamer, on Saturday, to the Centennial. It
had a perfect calf growing out of its shoulder,
the body being about eight inches long, with
two hind legs and a tail.
There can be no doubt, says the Mont
gomery Advertiser, that immense crops of
corn and wheat will be made in Alabama this
year. These great blessings are assured, and
the people show in their faces unmistakable
indications of gratitude and pleasure.”
A Michigan lady was recently bitten b} r a
rattlesnake. Her mouth and back turned
perfectly black in a few moments, but a
physician packed her body in salted mud and
administered antidotes in large quantities,
and she will recover.
Augusta, Ga., July 27.—0n Thursday, the
20th, a negro, at Red Hill, Edgefield county,
South Carolina, committed a rape on a little
white girl, five years of age, the daughter of
Louis Presscott, inflicting fearful injuries.—
Last Tuesday evening a party of men took
the negro into the woods and hung him.
A Murray county matron, who deserted
her children and eloped with a strange man
some time ago, returned the other day. Her
reception, however, was the reverse of hos
pitable. Her former neighbors sheared her
head and in other unmistakable ways gave
her to understand that the climate was not
suited to her health.
The whitj girl whose elopement with a ne
gro was recently telegraphed from Charlotte.
N. C., has returned to her family, and wishes
to be legalty separated from her husband.
She declares that he “charmed her” with an
apple that he had obtained from a witch, and
that after eating it she had no power to say
no when he asked her to marry him.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The Impending War in Europe Familiarly
Treated.
A correspondent writes, asking, “ AAHiat is
the cause of the present war-cloud in Europe,
and what is the probable result of it upon the
five Great Powers ?” AYe must really beg
our correspondent's pardon if we fail of o\ y .
ing him all the information he desires on the
subject, but wc will endeavor to briefly point
out some of the causes which have led to the
present complications and to hint at some of
tiig results which may be expected to come
from a general war in South-eastern Europe.
This is all that we can undertake to do. To
enter inio all the minutiae of those causes, or
to follow the ramifications of the possible ef
fects of a war, would take more time and
space than we have at our command. In a
nut-shell, it may be stated that the Christians
of Scrvia are in rebellion against their master,
the brutal and oppressive Turk.
To enter into details, we may remark that
Turkey in Europe is a piece of property very
much like an estate in a Chancery Court. It
is of little or no value to the Ottoman Em
pire, just as that Empire itself is of little or
no value to the world at large. Its once fer
tile plains are no longer productive, its cities
are in decay, its inhabitants impoverished.
Like all other estates in Chancery, it is stricken
with a dry-rot. Either one of the five Great
Powers would like to add it to its territory,
but each one knows that by so doing it would
be disturbing the equilibrium in Europe—in
other words, it would be like a man going in
to Court and buying a lawsuit. AA'lictlier
Herzegovina or Montenegro should acquire
the additional independence and the religious
liberty enjoyed by Scrvia is a matter of no
importance to the Powers, but it is a matter
that affords a pretext for interference, and a
pretext is a great thing in these national
affairs.
Russia, in 1853, went to war with Turkey
to obtain control of the outlet to the Black
Sea, the Dardanelles and Constantinople.—
England stepped in and took up the fight be
cause she could not permit her highway to
India to be imperiled by a hostile Power's
presence. The Crimean AYar followed, and
Constantinople was preserved to Turkey and
the Dardanelles kept open as a highway,
while the Czar Nicholas, the most ambitious
of the Romanoffs, was compelled to abandon
the ambition of a lifetime. That ambition is
again revived in the mind of his son Alex
ander, and that is really the cause of the
present complications. It is the European
AYar of 1853 repeating itself. Austria is an
interested party in the preservation of her
outlet by the river Danube. AYith Constan
tinople, a Russian city, Austria's commerce
with the world would lie under embargo and
her navy at the mercy of a hostile Power.—
Still, Austria can not afford of herself to go
into a war with Russia, because in so doing
she would lose her very existence. Russia is
a compact Power, knit together by one re
ligion, bound b\’ one national ambition, and
controlled by one absolute will. Austria, on
the other hand, is a confederacy of diverse
nationalities, formed from States which had
been at war for centuries before they came
under the dominion of the House of Ilaps
bury. In case of a war with Russia t hese old
nationalities would be almost certain to re
assert themselves, and the old feuds would be
revived.
Then Germany is to be accounted in the
coining conflict, if the conflict really comes.
Germany would doubtless like to remain a
neutral Power in such an event, but the
trouble is she can not and at the same time
retain her position. Austria can make no
claim upon her, because she is her old enemy.
In 1866, Prussia went to war with her needle,
guns and whipped Austria with her cliasse
pots. At that time Russia stood aloof and
kept France from interfering. In 1870, when
Prussia, or Germany, went to war with Franee.
Russia again stood aloof and prevented
Austria's interfering, and rescuing the Na
poleon dynasty from annihilation. These
two services makes Germany the natural ally
of Russia, if she should be dragged into the
fight. But Germany is desirous of being a
pacificator, and Bismarck will doubtless urge
tiiat they exhaust the resources of statesman
ship before the}' come to a trial of arms.—
That being done, however, her affiliations will
naturally be with the stronger Power, because
she has less to fear after the war is over from
Russia on the north and east than she has
from Austria on her southern border.
France may be said to be fairly out of the
contest, and so is England as yet, though the
latter can not afford to allow her connections
with India to be imperiled, and she will doubt
less enter the lists if it becomes necessary to
retain Constantinople on Moslem Territory*.
Turkey itself is scarcely to be taken into ac
count. The Sick Man of the East is too
prostrate to take part in the contentions.
And this, we take it, is all there is of the Eu
ropean war at present. It is a Chancery suit
in the Court of Nations ; a Chancery suit in
which the claimants still hesitate about com
ing in to claim the property at issue.—Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
i ii
seldom spoils when water boils.
Dying Like a Brute.
THE TERRIBLE DEATH OF A MAN WHO AT
TEMPTED TO “ CIIEW UP” A BI'LL-DOO.
Port Jervis, July 20.—1n 1869, John Con
nolly was a member of the construction <r anf r
of the Monticello and Port Jervis Railroad
lie was a large, powerful man, and so brutish
in his instincts that he boasted of his skill
in killing rats like a dog, and stood ready at
any time ro match himself to fight with dogs.
AVord has been received here of the death of
this man in St. Clairville, Penn., after a ter
rible fight witli a bull-dog in that place, July
8. It seems that Connolly, partially intoxi
cated, entered a saloon kept by one AA'av.
While there he seized in his teeth the ear of
an old hound which was sleeping on the floor,
and raising the dog clear off the floor, shook
it a while, and then let the animal drop by
biting the car off. The dog ran howling and
bleeding out of the room. Connolly chewed
up the ear and spat it out on the floor, with
the remark, “I can chew up any dog in this
town just like that.”
Soon afterward he went into Bryan Fog
arty’s saloon. Fogarty owned a full-blooded
English bull-dog. It was inoffensive, and
spent most ot its time in the bar-room. AA hcn
Connolly entered the place it was dozing
under a small table. Connolly got on his
hands and knees and crawled under the ta
ble, seized one of the dog's ears in his teeth,
and dragged the animal out into the centre
of the room. The dog tried to get away, but
Connolly held tight, and rising to his feet
shook the dog until its weight tore the car
°ff- The bull-dog, thoroughly aroused, made
a savage dash for its assailant. Connolly
dropped on his hands and knees and knock
ed the dog away with his fist. The clog rush
ed at him again and caught him by the fore
arm, lacerating it fearfully before Connolly
could choke it loose. There were two men
in the place beside Fogarty, and they made
a move to interfere. Fogarty exclaimed:
“Let him alone! The man’s to blame, and
I hope the dog will kill him.”
After several attempts to fasten himself on
Connolly, by which the latter was badly torn
the dog at last caught him in the left shoul
der, and sunk his teeth to their full length,
crunching the bones and securing ahold that
Connolly could not break. Connolly in turn
seized the dog's foreshoulder in his month,
and then for over a minute the two chawed
one another, the man besides striking the
dog with his fists. They rolled around on
the floor, and the blood that flowed from their
wounds mixed with the dust and covered
them with a reddish mud. Sick at last of
this brutish amf disgraceful exhibition, the
spectators tried to pull the dog away. They
twisted its legs, hammered it, poured hot wa
ter on it, Iml all to no purpose. It maintain
ed its hold, its eyes glaring in savage satis
faction. At longtli Fogarty drew his pistol
and remarked that it was a shame to have to
save the life of the worst brute of the two by
taking that of the least, he placed it
against the dog's side, and shot it through
the heart. Even then they had to pry its
jaws loose.
Connolly, although nearly exhausted and
weak from loss of blood, had not uttered one
cry of pain, nor given a sign of succumbing.
When the dog was taken away, lie tried to
rise to his feet, but fell back almost uncon
scious. lie was given a glass of brandy, and
a doctor was called. Connolly’s right fore
arm was terribly lacerated, the bone being
exposed in some places. The large muscle
of the same arm was half bitten off, and hung
by the skin. His shoulder was a pulpy mass
of flesh and bone. His wounds were dress
ed. and he was taken to his quarters in the
barn of the tavern where he was hostler. lie
was at times delirious, and July 11th he was
seized with convulsions, in one of which he
died.— N. Y. San.
The Wisdom of Joshua.
Go slow, young man ; if you tap both ends
of your cider barrel at once, and draw out of
the bung-hole besides, your cider won't last
long.
I had much rather be told that a man is
virtuous and honest than to hear that his fath
er is a member of Congress, or even that his
grandfather fought in the revolution.
You can't hire a man to be honest, if you
do he will want his wages raised every morn
ing.
Stick and hang, young man ; it is the last
six inches in a race that always wins the
money.
Competition in business is wholesome ; but
from a moral standpoint and in point of
meanness, the difference between telling a
lie to make a dime and robbing a hen-roost is
very slight.
A wound made by a knife or other sharp
instrument is best healed by bringing the
edges together and putting on a bandage
which will not exclude the air. Nature will
work the cure, if the person be health}’, bet
ter than any salve or ointment.
Mind and Mattkr.— Augustus (poetical):
“ Look, Edith ; how lovely are these fleecy
cloudlets dappled over the —” Edith (prosaic):
" Yes, exactly like gravy when it’s getting
cold. Isn’t it ?’’
quit certainty for hope.
\ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM,
( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
The Heat in Washington.
Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial,
is a firey, scorching writer, and makes things
pretty warm all about him, lie knows what
heat is, and here is his candid opinion in fa*
vor of the temperature at Washington :
“The notion that Washington city is srt
dreadfully hot that no one can live and work
there all summer long is a humbug, ft is a
fashionable affection. The average Congress
man is persuaded by the Ann key ism of those
about him in Washington that he is of per
sonal importance. He begins to feel that
his health is a subject of grave public concern,
lie becomes indisposed at times, and sees his
name in the newspapers with a sense of
grandeur, lie complains of the heat and
walks about under an umbrella, meditating
the value of insensible perspiration. He be
gins to need salt air or mountain breezes.
It wouldn t seem delicate and vast to be go
ing about Ins own business. He had none of
these troubles before he became a great man.
Greatness has made an ass of him. If he
manages to prostrate himself by deluging his
stomach with ice-water and filling his skull
with brandy, he gets credit for a dreadful
amount of intellectual labor. President
Grant’s system, we are told, cannot endure
the Washington climate. Bosh ! Washington
is not a hotter place than St. Louis, and it
isn t one hundred years since Grant spent
the summer at St. Louis without knowing
that it hurt him much.
Two Wives.
Not very long ago I was riding on the cars
and an incident occurred that semeed so
beautiful that I want to tell it for the encour
agement of woman kind. There were two
old men sitting behind me, strangers to each
other, but like little children comparing
and their lives. They were seventy and sev
enty-five years old, both farmers, and both
had recently lost their wives—one so recent
ly that his heart was fulUof his sorrow and
his eyes overflowed as lie talked. They arc
uncultured men, and of course used no fine
language. Said one : ‘‘She never spoke an
unkind word to me in all the fifiy years I
lived with her. I have been visiting my chil
dren and going from place to place, but I am
lonely all the time, and T miss her so much!”
1 he other old man said “ his wife was sick
for many months ; hut, sai's he, my success
in life is as much hors as mine. She was a
faithful, true wife, always busy, always doing
her part, and now she is gone. lam so rest
less all the time and can stay nowhere long.
I hope I shall soon go to her, for life is so
dreary and lonely.” And so they talked, com
forting and sympathizing with each other.
W hat a testimony to the lives of two women,
farmers’ wives, who had lived quiet, humble
lives, performed their daily duties, brought
up their children and left this monument in*
the hearts of their husbands.— CJucnjo Trib.
A Mixed Family.
The following is told by the Los Angelos
Republican: —“There is a family in this town
with nine varieties of children. The husband
and wife have each been married twice before,
and had one child at each former marrage,
which makes four children, each one having
different parents. The present wife’s forme r
husbands had each been married before,
leaving a child bv former wives, which makes
six children of different parents. The present
husband’s two former wives had been previ
ously married, leaving each one child, mak
ing eight of different parents. The present
husband and wife by this marriage have one
child, making nine, all living and no two
having the same parents.
The 9th District.
What has become of the Executive Com
mittee of the 9th Congressional District? We
have heard nothing from it yet, and it is get
ting to he high time that some action was ta
ken in reference to the holding of a District
nominating Convention. It has been ens
tomary for the committee to have a meeting
and agree on a time and place for holding
the convention. It will take at Tcast two
weeks to get the committee together, and
then ample time should be allowed for the
counties to nominate delegates. It is alwrvvs
desireable that these moetings should be held
on the first Tuesday in the month, in order
to get a full meeting and the people properly
represented. Major Ilockenlndl, of Dawson„
is, we believe, the chairman of the committee'..
—Gwinnett Herald.
By private advices from St. Louis, sny*.
the Titusville Pres*, we learn. that a prodigal
son thought he would quit eating husk and
corn-stalk free lunches and go home to his:
father's mansion in that city. But,, instead
of having veal for dinner,, and making the
young man’s brother take a back seat, the
old man waited until he could get a tight grip,
on the young one. and then gave him such a
“ bouncing*' he won’t “ prodigal’' again for
six weeks. Tins energetic parent says he
rejoices more over one boy that runs awav
and stays, than the whole family who*sponge
their living off him at home.
They attempted to kill a book agent in
Omaha last week. lie was robbed, thrown
into the river, knocked off the cars, pitched
from a high bridge into the river again, but
in two hours after came around with anew
illustrated edition of the Bible, and tried to
get a subscription from the leader of the at
tacking party.
Responses to prayers and sermons may
be good if they come in at the right place.
Not so, however, came in a response recently
to a minister in an African clinrch. He had
come down from the pulpit to invite a stran
ger in one of the pews to preach for him, but
was unsuccessful. “ Brethren,” said Ire, “ I
invited Brother S to preach, but he
declines.” “ Thank God !” roared out a man
from the middle of the church.
FdPlt having been asserted that Gen. Cus
ter was the youngest person ever commis
sioned as a Major General, being appoint
ed at the age of 23, a correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution announces that Gen.
Jo. Wheeler, late Confederates States
army was appointed Major-General when 22
years of age.
NUMBER 9.