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■ JEFFERSON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
NEW MAIL SCHEDULE.
Bn)?,! Jefferson to Athens—William 11. Bird,
Ontractar.
I Leave Jefferson, 'Tuesday, Thursday and
■ •■if,lav At 2 I*. >t. Arrive at Athens by
■r. m.
I Athens, Monday, Wednesday and
Ktiav at 7A. M. Arrive at Jefferson by 12 M.
Kvttt Jefferson to Gainesville — J. N. Twitty,
Contractor.
I Leave Jefferson, Monday, Wednesday and
■rjfUy at IP. M. Arrive at Gainesville by
|P. M.
■ Leave Gainesville, Tuesday, Thursday and
itnrday at 7A. M. Arrive at Jefferson by
|l>. M.
■jrgi/i Jefferson to Lawrenceville — William. P.
Betts, Contractor.
I ’eave Jefferson Saturday at IP. M. Ar
te at Lawrenceville Monday, by 12 M.
■ Leave Lawrenceville Friday at 1 P. M. Ar
■■re at .Jefferson Saturday by 12 M.
I yit'lPA L OF PICK US OF JEFFERSON.
I W. I. Pike. Mayor; .1. P. Williamson, Sr., G.
J.X. Wilson, It. .J. Hancock, F. M. Hailey. .Ai
rmen; T. 11. Niblack. Esq., Clerk & T rea.su r
r; W. F. Hunter. Marshal.
PROFESSIONS.
Physicians...J. .J. Poster, N. W. Carithers,
1 1. Hunt, (' It Giles, \V 11 Grcenwade. (Indian
Mr.)
Atty's at Law... J. H. Silman, W. I. Pike,
\. 15. Mahaffey, W. C. Howard, M. M. Pitman,
K. Hinton, It. S. Howard.
MERCHANTS.
!' n'ierjniss .V Hancock, F. M. Hailey, Stanley
. Pinson.
MECHANICS.
' vui'KN'TMKS...Joseph I*. Williamson, Sen’r;
j. I*. Williamson, Jr.; Warwick Wilson, Ed.
fil-m. Mitchell Few, (col.)
laknkss '1 akkk...John G. Oakes.
Wauon M.vkkus... Win. Winburn, Monroe
Iti'itiiv M \ki:us...L. A: A. J (lillcland.
T. Story. James Montgome
-I'i.v.v:!K—U. Uhapman.
I K. A. it. .1. Randolph, F S Smith.
"i vvi) Siii>K-M.vKKits...N T . B. Stark, umler
hr V. r.v olliee; Seaborn M. Stark. .1 \V
faw. 'iiop> in the " Billy Thompson'” corner
'(nrr-housc ; Henry Evans, (col.)
‘ritviiTiii-; Makers... Warwick Wilson, A -1
iillelami.
HOTELS.
yvnuoi.i’h House, by Mrs. Randolph.
Wm-Kastkkx Hotel, by John Simpkins.
Mil' hoarding House, by Mrs. Elizabeth
'brdiain. M
Wrous. Skaks, Acc...J. L. Bailey.
•m v.v i> Saw-Mill and Gin... Long &
Eudolph.
Hw-.Miu, and Gin...F. S. Smith.
corsry school directory.
i Martin Institute. —J. W. Glenn, Principal; S.
[*• 1 ( rr. Assistant; Miss M. E. Orr, Assistant;
Myrtie McCarty, Music.
r '*trr Hill Academy. —A G Strain, Principal.
<! *M" Academy. —Rev. P. F. Lamar, Prin.
Il'irmnm/ Croce Academy. —R. S. Cheney, Prin
cipal.
X'irk Academy. —J. H. McCarty, Principal.
ho fi Creek Academy —Mrs. A. C. P. Riden,
irinripal.
Church. —J. J. Mitchell. Principal.
wi'ivylcr's Mill. —W. P. Newman, Prin.
Tompson Academy, J. J. Boss. Principal,
and Ornamental Penmanship—Col. A. L.
A *K, Instructor.
CO I XT V OFFICERS.
C. HOWARD, - - - - Ordinary.
.M. PITTMAN, - - Judge Cos. Court.
SJW.II. Nl BLACK, - - - Clerk S. Court.
S/NS. IIUXTER. Sheriff.
A. WORSHAM, - - - Deputy “
r I.J.JOHNSON, ----- .Treasurer.
oIKSL. WILLIAMSON. - - Tax Collector.
y'V, BROWN, “ Receiver.
L. JOHNSON, - - County Surveyor.
‘.Wallace. - -•- coroner.
WILSON, County School Cominiss’r.
Sessions County Court, 2nd and
11 Mondays each month.
< "Mmissionkks (Roads and Revenue.)—'Wm.
ymour. w. J. Ilaynic, W. G. Steed. Meet on
v , ;st Fridays in August and November. T. H.
7 1 **, Hs,; Clerk.
h O| M y B*d of Education. —Robert White.
\vfir' *'• McLester, James L. Johnson. J. L.
Medical Card.
I)B W. P. DeLAPERRIERE having complet
, e, l his Medical course of studies at the L ni
■ 'iiy of Georgia—his native State—locates at
Y . Cher's old stand, where he will practice
''ii' iny in all its branches, and will treat dis
.L'os w ith the most approved remedies known to
Profession. Returning thanks for the eonfi-
V l !* manifested by the liberal patronage bestow
j, '‘ring his past course of practice, he hopes by
arcful and constant guarding of every possible
of patients, on his own part, together
jjk the assistance of his father, to merit a con
'lanc>* of the same. BfesT*Special attention giv
-0 diseases of children and females. apls
F. P. TALMADGE,
DEALER in—
AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES,
CLOCKS, j EWE LB Y, SILVER $ PLATED WARE,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, AC.
Batches, clocks ant> jewelry repaired
In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Oriiaiiiental and Plain Letter Engraving a Specialty.
AT, °*—College Avenue, one door from the Bookstore Corner, ATHENS, GA.
A pnl Ist. 16IG ly
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
fkofessigtmf & business dunk
J. O. HUNT, M. D. J. B. PENDERGRASS, M. D.
Dlts. Ml .-yr Sc PKlftß H 42 RAIN
Having formed a partnership for the pur
pose of practicing medicine in ail the various
branches of the profession, respectfully tender
their services to the citizens of the town and sur
rounding community. Office at Col. W. I. Pike’s
old stand, july29
J. A. B. MAIIAFFEY. W. 8. M'CARTY.
Af ahaffey & mccarty,
IYX A T T O It NEYf/ AT LA W,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
\\ ill practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. Octdftly
DR. C. It. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the office recently occupied by Col. Mahaffcy.
Jan. 22, IH7G—tf
BF* IVOFFOKD, I toraivv *it Ijiw,
. HOMER, BANKS Cos., Go.
\N ill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and
give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
his care. Collecting claims a specialty.
June 19th, 1875. ly
J. J. FLOYD, I J. B. SILMAN,
Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
FV.OI 1> Sc BILMA.Y,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts oi
the counties of Jackson and Walton.
junel2—ly
WI- PIKE, Attorney sit I.:tvr,
. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
Practices in all tt\e Courts, State and Federal.
Prompt and thorough attention given to all
kinds of legal business in Jackson and adjoining
counties. June 12, 1875
WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
Howard a iiowakd,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Ga.
TV 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 & IMNSON,
JEFFERSON, GA.,
DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
J une 19 1 y
I
Die. W. SSI. Vl.i:\A\DElt.
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th. 1875. Gin
SPRLXG AXB SUMMER
stock: or
’]IS!inPT,Y Hiid Fancy Goods!
o
>IKS I'. A. ADAHSI
VNNOI'NCKS to the public that she is now re
- ceiving a large and varied stock of Ladies'
bonnets. Hats. Laces. Ribbons. Trimmings, Ac.,
which she is offering at low prices. Call, exam
ine and be convinced. Next door to the Bank of
the Cniversity, Athens, Ga. April 15
THU REASON WHY
J. H. HUGGINS
Sells tjoods cheaper now, is because he
ha# adopted the
CASH SYSTEM!
The ready cash enables him to buy goods very
low. and consequently he is offering to the public
every thing in his line, such as
All kinds of Crockery and Glass-ware, Lamps,
Chandeliers, Farmers' Lanterns, Kerosene
Oil. at wholesale and retail; Family and
Fancy Groceries. Dry Goods, Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Saddles, Harness
and Leather.
And also a large stock of I.IYfR. 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, lie will supply you at the low
est price. If you want CROCKifRY and GLASS
WARE. there's the place to get it. If you want
TOBACCO. FLOUR. BACON. LARD, SU
GAR. COFFEE and MOLASSES, go there and
you will find it. If you want LIME, for building
or composting with fertilizers, go to
J. 11. HUGGINS’,
No. 7, Broad St., Athens.
BST'Remcmber the place. marlß
DOBBINS’ STARCH ROUSH!
A GREAT DISCOVERY,
By the use of which every family may give their
Linen that brilliant polish peculiar to tine laundry
work. Saving time and labor in ironing, more
than its entire cost. Warranted.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND GROCERS EVERYWHERE.
ASK FOR DOBBINS'.
DOBBINS. BROS. & CO.,
june!7 13 N. Fourth St., Phila.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, SEPT. 23,1876.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
Saturday Night.
Placing the little hats all in a row,
Ready for church on the morrow you know;
Washing wee faces and little black fists.
Getting them ready and tit to be kissed;
Putting them into clean garments and white ;
That is what mothers are doing to-night.
Spying out holes in little worn hose,
Laying out shoes that are worn thro’ the toes,
Looking o’er garments so faded and thin—
Who but a mother knows where to begin ?
Changing a button and to make it look right—
That is what mothers are doing to-night.
Calling the little ones all ’round her chair,
Hearing them kiss forth their soft evening prayer.
Telling them stories of Jesus of old
W ho loves to gather Lambs to his fold ;
\V atching them listen with childish delight—
That is what mothers are doing to-night.
Creeping so softly to take a last peep,
After the little ones are all asleep.
Anxious to know’ if the children are warm,
J ucking the blankets around each little form ;
Kissing each little face rosy and bright—
That is what mothers do, night after night.
Kneeling down gently beside the white bed.
Slowly and meekly she bows down her head,
Praying as only a mother can pray.
“ God, guide and keep them from going astray.”
Dead to the World.
This city is teeming with romance and
tragedy, if one only knew just where to look
for it. I was walking up Fourteenth street,
yesterday, with a lady; and as we passed an
elegant brown stone house, surrounded by a
large garden, between Fifth and Sixth ave
nues, she said : “Do you see that house ?”
“Yes,” said I, “and I have often noticed it,
and thought what fun it would be to live in
such a place.” “The people who live there
don’t find it such fun,” she replied, and con
tinued, “in the back bed-rooms of that house
lives a lady who has not seen the light of day
for years.” “ Poor thing,” said I, “is she stone
blind ?” “No ; she is not blind at all, but
sees as well as I can,” and she turned a pair
of the brightest brown eyes in the world up
to mine. “ Explain yourself, pray,” said I.
“what is the mystery ?” “There is no mys
tery—only, the lady I speak of, who is still
a young woman, lost her only child some
years ago, and before she had recovered from
the shock her husband died. Since that time
she has not left those rooms—the shutters are
closed and the gas kept burning, just as on
the night of her husband’s death, so tfrat she
may take no note of time ; and there she sits,
waiting patiently for the voice that shall call
her to that county where there is no night.’’
“What a very sad story,” said I, as I looked
back over my shoulder at the house, which
seemed to gather the shadows as they passed ;
“it is a Miss Ilaversharn in real life.” “The
onlj’ difference,” said my friend, “ being that
this lady’s mind is as clear as the noonday
sun. She is only dead to the world because
her world is dead.” — N. Y. Correspondence of
the Boston Gazette.
His Mule.
“Speaking about mules,” remarked a six
footer from Harnett county, as he cracked
his whip at the market yesterday morning,
“I’ve got a mule at home which knows ns
much as I do, and I want to bear soraeboddy
say that I’m half fool.”
No one said so, and he went on :
“I’ve stood around here and heard men
blow about kicking mules till I’ve got disgus
ted. When you come down to kicking, I
want to bet on my mule. A preacher came
along and took dinner with me the other day,
and as he seemed a little down-hearted I took
him out to see Thomas Jefferson, my cham
pion mule. I was telling the good man how
that mule would flop his hind feet around,
and he said he’d like to see a little fun. He’d
passed his whole life in the South, but had
never seen a mule lay hi 9 soul into a big time
at kicking.”
“Well,” he continued, after borrowing some
tobacco, “I took Thomas out of the stable,
backed him up agin a hill, gin him a cuff on
the ear, and we stood back to see the amuse
ment. It was a good place to kick his darn
dest, and what d’ye’sposehe did? In ten
minutes by the watch he was out of sight.
In five more we couldn’t feel him with a
twelve-foot pole, and—and—”
The crowd began to yell and sneer, and
the old man looked around and added :
“Does anybody think I’m lying ? Would
I lie for one mule? —Raleigh Sentinel.
Our Army on a Wild Goose Chase.
The United States posse comitatus, under
Deputy Marshals Crook and Terry, are in
pursuit of the ignis fatv.us of the plains. Fail
ing to find Sitting Bull and his warriors, the
posse comitatus are about to commence the
erection of winter cabins. Well, even a win
ter residence on the banks of the ice bound
Rosebud would be more to the taste of a true
soldier than posse comitotusing around through
the South, domineering over unarmed citizens
and looking after negro votes.
Augusta Chronicle is informed
that when Mr. Jonathan Norcross, the RadU
cal candidate for Governor of Georgia, ran
away from Atlanta in 1864 and joined the
Federals, his first act was to purchase a ves
sel to be employed in blockade running. A
government detective found him out. and
thi9 trulj* loyal man was mulcted in the sura
of two thousand dollars before he got clear
of the courts.
The rich man fasts because he will not eat
A Narrow Escape in Wakulla County.
Dr. Kirkscey, of Columbus, Ga., an intelli
gent and clever citizen, was recently on a
business visit to Crawfordsville, Wakulla
count.}’, and was resting during the heated
hours of the day in a convenient store, when
there approached a little, wiery, sallow-faced
man. Upon reaching within a few feet of
the doctor, and looking him straight in the
eye, lie exclaimed :
**l can whip any man that ever swam the
Ocklockonee!”
The Doctor paying no attention to the re
mark. the stranger continued :
“I can whip any man that ever came to
Wakulla county!”
Doctor was still silent, and the stran
ger getting excited, fiercely yelled :
“ Stranger. I can whip you /”
This pointed remark of course aroused our
Columbus friend, and in mild and gentle
tones he responded :
“ I am a man of peace ; but even if I de
sired to fight, would avoid a contest with you,
my friend—for you appear to be a wicrv, de
termined man. and I believe you can whip
me!”
This did not satisfy the Wakulla pugilist,
and lie resumed :
“Stranger, I’ll bet you ten dollars I can
whip you !”
“I believe you ran. my friend.” replied
the Doctor, “ but as money is scarce I be
lieve I will try your muscle for $lO. provided
you get someone to hold the stakes.”
The stranger hurried off after a st ake-hold
er, and the Doctor, jumping into his bnagv.
advised the store-keeper to tell the man he
had gone to Tallahassee, and if he would
meet him there the next day, he would be
accommodated with a fight. The next even
ing the Doctor was seated in front of the
hotel, and to his surprise who should walk up
but the Wakulla pugilist. There was no
chance for a retreat—this time he thought he
would have to fight, when the stranger qui
etly remarked:
“Are you not Dr. Kirkscey, of Columbus?”
and receiving an affirmative answer, he con
tinued: “Well, I reckon you took me for a
h—l of a fool on yesterday—and therefore, I
have come all the way to Tallahassee to make
an explanation. Doctor, you must excuse
me, bnfc really 1 believed yon to be ‘ Beast
Butler,' of Santa Rosa county, and I had de
termined to give you a Wakulla burial.”
Our Delinquent.
Chap. I.—The subject of this sketch was
bom at a very early age. of respectable pa
rents. who are now ashamed of their son’s
financial delinquencies. As an infant he
attracted a great deal of attention. The
young ladies carried him around in their
arms and said, “Oo is muzzer’s bezzv dar
lin, and a sweety, ’eety,'ittle thing." It was
nice, though he wasn’t old enough to appre
ciate it. He’s a healthy, big old darling now.
He has failed to pay his subscription for
years to the Press 4- Banner, but always sus
tained a good moral reputation, and was ne
ver a railroad director or class-leader. He
loves onions and fried chicken. He is an
early riser, but don’t do much after he gets
up. He has considerable fears of sun-stroke,
and will not work in hot weather. He could
pay for his paper if he did not spend his time
in fishing and hunting the shady side of the
street, and did not buy whisky or tobacco.
These are all of the peculiarities we can re
collect at this time. Further particulars will
l>e given at another time.
idP'An excellent and honored citizen of
Louisville was going home one night tips}',
for the first and last time in his life, as lie
protests, and no doubt truly, when he met
Prentice reeling from one side of the walk to
the other. “ Prentice,” exclaimed the elated
novice, I’m drunk !” Staggered anew by
this amazing announcement, the veteran
slowly drew himself up, with the aid of a
neighboring picket, and surveying his dis
guised friend, then said, severety: “Well,
Josh, I have been guilty in my time of many
scandalous things, and some outrageous ones,
and some d— and mean ones, but, thank God, I
never was drunk!”
CF’There is truth in this paragraph, which
is taken from the Edinburgh Ladies' Jour
nal:—“ The man who has sisters has a
better opportunity of selecting a wife than
the man who has none, but he is. in nine
cases out of ten. much more diffieultto please.
In daily contact with members of the other
sex, who display all their little foibles before
him. he is apt to judge his sisters’ friends by
the same standard wherewith he daily judges
his sisters—not a very logical method of pro
cedure, but I think not an unnatural one.”
Madge ?” asked one very stylishly dressed
young lady of another, in a Highland car the
other day. “Oh, he is just splendid.’' she
replied, with animation. “ You ought to see
him, Maud. He is so handsome and prays
so beautifully, and reads the hymns in such
a lovely way; and besides, Maud, there was
a great scandal about him in the place where
he preached before he came here.”
The poor man fasts because he has no
meat.
Little Zarate.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MEXICAN LILLIPU
TIAN.
Senorita Lucia Zarate is just twenty Inches
in height, is twelve years old, and weighs ex
actly five pounds. She is holding levees daily
at Tony Pastor’s theatre, on Broadway, op
posite the Metropolitan Hotel. She is small
er than the smallest lady I ever saw, is per
fectly formed, and lively as a cricket. Her
voice sounds like a crying doll as she talks
no end of Spanish with lightning like rapidity.
Being one of a circle waiting for the senorita,
who was out at dinner, my attention had for
a moment been occupied by chatting with
my neighbor, when “There she is!” caused
me to turn quickly to. behold what looked
like a doll wound up and moving about. “Is
it alive ?” came involuntarily from my lips.
The LillipUts may have existed, I said, as
the little creature put out her perfect hand
with a ring on one finger to grasp the end of
my siln umbrella. She had no hesitation in
showing her preference for men, going about
to greet them in the circle. She was not
asked to perform in any way for her aston
ished visitors, but acted simply as a child
would, playing with a wagon, turning its
wheels, drawing it about and sitting in it to
be pulled across the room. Tom Thumb is
a giant, beside Miss Zarate. She showed
considerable intelligence,
And as we looked the wonder grew,
that she could by a possibility know so much.
Her dark brown hair is short and curly, her
complexion dark ; her features are dark and
very homely ; her eves, while dark and bright,
have not a pleasant expression. A lady gave
her a fan. With genuine Spanish coquetry
she turned the fan up and down beside her
face and peeped from behind it as only a
Spanish girl can. The Zarate is from Mexico.
Her parents are common working people, re
siding near the city of Mexico. She was
small at birth, and has never grown since,
but is perfectly health}’ and well developed.
I could only realize her smallness by seeing
a young girl pick her up from the floor and
hold her for a few moments; then she seem
ed indeed a living and only a tolerable sized
doll. This position was not agreeable to the
senorita, as she struggled to be put down, and
once free ran to Tony Pastor (who addressed
her in Spanish) and jumped into his arms.
A livelier, merrier little minx could not be
found, nor one vainer of her pretty blue dress
trimmed with white Valenciennes lace. She
had ear-rings, bracelets and a locket.
RPAndrew Jackson was once making a
stump speecli out West, in a small village.
Just as he was concluding, Amos Kendall,
who sat behind him, whispered. “Tip ’em a
little Latin, General. They won’t be content
without it.” Jackson instantly throughtupon
a few phrases he knew, and in a voice of
thunder wound up his speech by exclaiming,
“ E pluribus unum—sine qua non—ne plus
ultra—multum in parvo!” The effect was
tremendous, and the shouts could be heard
for many miles.
Saving hkr Favorite Minister. —Not
many years ago a minister was called in to
see a man who was very ill. After finishing
his visit, as he was leaving the house, he said
to the man’s wife. “ My good woman, do you
not go to any church at all ?” “Oh, yes, sir,
we gang to the Barony Kirk.” Then, why in
the world did you send for me; why didn’t
you send for Dr. Macleod ?” “ Nn, no, sir,
deed no ; we wadna risk him. Do ye no ken
it’s a dangerous case o’ typhus ?”
S'F 3 ” Is it becoming to me ?” asked she, as
she paraded in the costume of 100 years ago,
before the man who is not her lord and mas
ter, but is her husband. “Yes, my dear,”
he said meekly. “Don’t you wish I could
dress this way all the time T she asked.
“ No, my dear,” he answered, “ but I wish
you had lived when that was the style.”
the base ball grounds, yesterday,
says the Burlington Hawk-Eye, a red-hot ball
struck the batter just where his mother used
to feel for him with her slipper, ami the
umpire shouted, “dead ball.” “ Dead ball!”
retorted the striker struck, “if there’s a live
ball on the grounds, that’s it.”
{HpWe learn from a responsible source that
a very strange freak in nature occurred at
Rock spring. Walker connty, Georgia, last
week. A ladv gave birth to a child with two
heads, which had apart of two bodies, joined
together at the shoulders, two hearts and only
one set of bowels. Protruding from between
the heads was an arm. attached to which was
a hand with ten fingers. The other two arms
on either side of this double-headed child were
perfectly natural and very symmetrical. It
had only two legs, which were also well-formed
and natural in appearance. The heads of
this wonderful child were perfect in shape and
the faces exceedingly beautiful. It was a
female and did not live.— Dalton Citizen.
A robin fell while building a nest in a Xew
burvport tree, and his legs caught in a web
of twine in which he became entangled. An
interested crowd assembled, and the bird was
rescued ; but one of its legs was broken, and
a physician, after trying to set it, performed
an amputation. The robin is now as well as
ever, and again at work on the nest.
Spanish capitalists have agreed to loan
the Government of Spain money to prosecute
1 h i war in Cuba.
*> TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
gleanings.
fix-Govern or Henry A. Wise, of Virginia*
is dead.
All tie old liiefnbers at Congress ttatn Geor
gia have been re-noniinted, except Felton iri
the Seventh district.
Mr. Seymour positively declines the nomi
nation.for Governor of New York, on account
of ill liealth.
has forty cotton mills, employ
ing 56,376 spindles and consuming 14,443
bales of cotton.
A Kentuckian whipped his wife because
she attended her sister s funeral without his
permission.
" The melancholy days, the saddest of the
year," will come to the fradichla about the 6th
of November.
The notorious Brinkley case was Concluded
Thursday morning at Coweta Superior Court,
the jury finding him guilty of murder.
Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of Muscogee, an
nounces himself in a card as an independent
candidate for Congress in the Columbus Dis
trict.
Now that the craps have been laid bv and
the crop prospects cheering to the heart of
the planter, camp meetings are becoming com
mon in upper Georgia.
The September reports to the Department
of Agriculture show a decline in the average
condition of the cotton crop from the remark
ably high figures of July.
They have a campaign song beginning,
“Come all ye honest Republicans,” and the
Courier-Jour mil wants to know why they thus
leave the bulk of the party uninvited.
At the Democratic ratification meeting in
Anderson, S. C.* on the 2d instant, it is esti
mated that one thousand colored men were
present out of the six thousand in attendance.
And now come the Macon clerks, and de
mand a Representative from their class from
Bibb county in the Legislature. What will
Atlanta do now ? this is a " huckelberry above
their persimmon.”— Commonwealth,
Over one hundred negroes voted with the
Democrats at the election for lutendant and
Wardens and Abbeville, S. C., which resulted
in a complete triumph for toe straight-out
Democracy b}' a large majority.
One person out of every 2.VJ in Cincinnati
dies by suicide. Sixty-tWo per cent, of the
self-murderers are German. The proportion
of the sexes is five men to one woman, and
the most popular method is hanging.
In Nortli Carolina, cows have become ah
most the medium of exchange, and rated from
eight to thirteen dollars a head. They are
sold, here, at fifteen cents a pound, exclusive
of hide and tallow.— Atlanta Commonwealth ,
A negro by the name of Yardley ta an “ tt
dependent” candidate for Governor in Tcti*
nessee. He is treated kindly by the Demo
crats and abused by the Radicals, In Geor
gia the "independents” are kissed by the
Radicals and cussed by the Democrats.
There is a large crowd of people from the
Northern part of the State in attendance oit
the United States Court, now in session in
this city. A few are jurors, while the largef
portion of them are witnesses and defendants
as illicit distillers.— Atlanta Commonwealth.
A little miss, writing to her father on the
first day of her entrance at boarding-school,
says: “The first evening wc have had pray*
ers, and then a singing, and a passing around
of bread, which I did not take, because, not
being confirmed, I thought I had no right to
take communion. Afterward I learned that
I had lost my supper.”
It is estimated by those who have paid
special attention to the matter, that 13,483
patriotic citizens of Georgia have, up to the
first of September, signified their willingness
to serve the people "to the best of their abil
ity,” in some official capacity.
An old colored preacher in Columbus was
lecturing a youth of his fold about the sin of
dancing, when the latter protested that the
Bible plainly said. "There is a time to dance.”
" Yes, dar am a time to dance,” said the dark
divine, “and it's when a boy gits a whippin'
for gwinc to a ball."
At several recent Democratic barbecues ill
Mississippi the negroes formed a very con
siderable part of the attendance. Isi a pro
cession of Tildcn and Hendricks Clubs of
Hinds county, 522 colored men were in the
line, and one gray-haired veteran among them
remarked. "Well, our home folks arc our only
friends after all.”— Alabama Herald.
In the case of Payne, Treasurer, vs. Pei kel
son, Sheriff, carried to the Supreme Court
from Fhlton county. Judge Warner said, in
rendering the decision of the Coßrt, *■ This
judgment is, in one respect, like the peace of
the mind of which we read : it ••jt surpasseth
all understanding—especially all syd under
stand mg.” — Atlanta Com mo n iron Uf!.
J. 15. McKinney,' who was arrested on a
charge of stealing the Bible, silver pitcher and
cup from the Baptist church of Forsyth and
incarcerated, has been released. 11 is plea
that he committed the crime white under the
influence of narcotics, in which lie habitually
indulged, prevailed with the good people of
the church, and they consented to his release.
A Cmncu Wiijiteu.—The South Carolina
negroes seem to have started anew office
bearer in the church. The Spartanburg Herald
says : “The colored Baptist church of Lime
stone Springs has an official Called a " whip
per.” whose duty it is to give a thorough
castigation to all parties violating the rules
of the church or the proprieties of private life.
The present incumbent is an old woman about
sixty, who wields the rod with a vim that
strikes terror to all evil doers. From the
way we saw her slinging an ox whip over the
shoulders of a young African on Saturday,
her whipping is no child's play. She whip
ped four grown persons, and children not
enumerated, during the past week. The
"whipper” is not resisted, but the stontest
black stands as meekly as if his salvation de
pended on it.”
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