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Qct. 21, 1876.
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The People then ov, n Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
KNICK-KNAX.
Young-Man-Afraid-of-his-mothcr-in-law re
presents the largest tribe in the United States.
Several efforts have been made to put him
upon a reservation, but he won’t stay put.
Says Seth Green : A No. 1 mackerel is a
better temperance lecturer than John B.
Gough ever was. At least it will make a
person drink more water.
It has been discovered that a hen held up
by one leg will not squeak half as much as
when both legs are grasped. The American
mind is ever marching on.
There is no place that wc remember of now
when a huckleberry seed seems larger than
when it is wedged in between two of your up
per teeth.
A western chap, in describing a gale of
wind, says: A white dog, while attempting
to weather the gale, was caught with his
mouth open, and turned completely inside
out.
Huxley, my boy 1 you haven’t come a bit
too soon, for when we hear of a man up in
Reading, Penn., being beaten at euchre by a
learned hog, its about time to ask whither we
are drifting.— Des Moines Register.
“ Daddy, I want to ask j t ou a question.”—
“ Well, what is it my son ?” “ Why is neigh
bor Smith’s liquor shop like a counterfeit
dollar ?” “ I can’t tell, my son.” “ Because
you can’t pass it,” said the boy. The old man
was carried off on a shutter.
A Massachusetts girl having rebuked her
brother for using the term “ sweat,” the lat
ter bitterly remarked, “ When it’s a horse,
he‘s sweaty; when it’s a man, perspire is the
word ; but when it is a young lady, like you,
she only glows.”
A Massachusetts man has invented and
obtained a patent for a noiseless shoe. It
enables the wearer to go to church late, after
the contribution box has been passed around,
without disturbing the congregation and
waking those who are asleep.
“ Mother.” said a little urchin when he
came home, “ I have seen such a smart
preacher. lie stamped and made such a
noise, and then, lie got mad ; he shook his
first at the folks, and there wasn't anybody
dared go np and fight him.”
A wag tried to annoy a popular preacher
by 7 asking him whether the fatted calf of the
parable was male or female. “ Female, to be
sure.” was the reply; “ for I see the male,”
looking the questioner full in the face, “yet
alive in the flesh before me.”
Two ounces of kerosene oil to six gallons
of water is said to be a first rate fertilizer,
and in addition, will prevent the ravages of
insects, when applied between the rows of
plants, and around the trees, with a watering
pot.
It was twelve o'clock at night when Mr.
Berger, of Macon, Ga., discovered a colored
preacher in his stable untying his horse, and
the preacher observed : ‘.Jess what I said all
de time. Mr. Berger; your horse is bay sure
enuff, and dat ’spute 'tween me an’ brudder
Jackson is settled.’
“ Sambo, is your master a good farmer !”
“ Oh, yes, massa fusrate farmer—lie makes
two crops in one year.” “ How is that, Sam
bo ?” “ Why he sells all his hay in de fall,
and make money once; den in de spring he
sells de hides ob de cattle dat die for want
ob de hay, and makes money twice.”
“ People can say what they please about
country air being so good for them,” said
Mrs. Partington, “ and how they get fat upon
it; for my part, I shall always think it is owin’
to the vittles. Air maj r do for camamiles
and other reptiles that live on it, but I know
that men must have something more sub
stailer.”
Mr. Lincoln heard a dispute between Ro
bert, his oldest son, and Tad,” a small boy,
very self-willed, like Mr. Kelly. “ What is
the mattor?” said the father. “Tad is wor
rying because I want my knife,” said Robert.
“Oh, let him have the knife to keep him qui
et,” said good Mr. Lincoln. But the practi
cal Robert replied, “No, sir; it‘s my knife,
and I need it to keep me quiet.”
A Irishman who was employed on the ca
nal last spring, was observed one day watch
ing a red-headed woodpecker while it was
tapping a hollow beech tree. On being ask
ed what attracted his attention so marvelous
ly—“ lam speering,” said he, “at the strange
beast on yonder tree, for sure enough the
silty creature has knocked his face against it
till his head is all a gore of blood.”
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, NOV’R 4, 1876.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The Honest Man Who Pays.
There is one among the many.
Can you tell me where he stays ?
He’s an old. old-fashioned party,
Called the honest man who pays ;
Yes, the honest man who pays
Every dollar he may owe,
Keeping up the good old ways
That so many scarcely know.
If he gives his word of promise,
‘Tis a bond as good as gold;
If he hold a post of honor,
Not a trust is ever sold.
By the honest man who pay 7 s
Every debt he may incur,
Yielding each a just reward,
And no grudging or demur.
And I’m told this rare old party
Lives within his income, won
By the fairest, squarcst dealing
We see bcneatrti the sun.
And the honest man who pays
Always hold it good and right
For the rich to help the needy
When the times are tough and tight.
Next United States Senate.
The terms of twenty-five United States Sen
ators expire on the 4th of March, 1877. —
They are Messrs. Golclthwaite of Alabama,
Clayton of Alabama, Saulsbury of Delaware,
Norwood of Georgia, Logan of Illinois, Wright
of lowa, Harvey of Kansas, Stevenson of
Kentucky, Morrill (or rather Blaine) of Maine,
Boutwell of Massachusetts, Ferry of Michi
gan, Windotn of Minnesota, Alcorn of Mis
sissippi, Hitchcock of Nebraska, Cragin of
New Hampshire, Frelinghuysen of New Jer
sey, Ransom of North Carolina, Kelly of
Oregon, Anthony of Rhode Island, Robertson
of South Carolina, Cooper of Tennessee,
Hamilton of Texas, Johnson of Virginia,
Davis of West Virginia, and llowc of Wis
consin.
Of these nine are Democrats, who will with
out doubt be succeeded by Democrats. Clay
ton, West, Alcorn and Robertson, Republi
cans, will almost certainly be replaced by
Democrats; the vacancy now existing in
Louisiana will be filled by a Democrat, and
Hamilton, of Texas, Independent, has a Dem
ocratic successor. As the Senate now stands
forty-two Republicans, twenty-nine Demo
crats and two Independents, the change above
noted would, if no others were made, leave it
very 7 nearly balanced—thirty-eight Republi
cans, thirty-five Democrats and one Inde
pendent. But the following States also elect
new Senators this winter : Illinois, Kansas,
lowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Min
nesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. Of
these, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and perhaps
Michigan, arc among the doubtful ones. If
two of these should send Democrats the Sen
ate would stand thirty-six Republicans and
thirty-seven Democrats, with one Indepen
dent. It will be seen, therefore, sa3 T s the
New York Herald, that it is by no means im
possible that the next Senate shall have a
small Democratic majority. If the Republi
can managers continue to make arbitrary ar
rests in the South they will probably so
greats alarm the North as to fling even the
Senate into Democratic hands —Savannah
Neics.
Georgia-South Carolina.
* * * * Now, next to the Republi
canism of South Carolina is the Conservatism
of Georgia. Both States present conditions
worthy of study. We believe they are being
studied by reflective men. South Carolina’s
bonds are not worth a dollar a thousand.—
Georgia’s creditis stable and excellent. South
Carolina is the theatre of turbulence. Geor
gia is completely at peace. The negro in
South Carolina is a tramp, a highwayman, a
beggar, an idler, or a “ soldier,” unless he has
protected himself against the carpet-baggers
by procuring protection from the white na
tives of the State, and exposing them to ar
rests for protecting him. The negro in Geor
gia is buying land, pursuing all the trades,
schooling himself and his children, and choos
ing his politics as freely as any man here
chooses what he will eat. Agriculture, man
ufactures, and exchange thrive in Georgia.
The only fully employed and overworked men
in South Carolina are the Bankruptcy Regis
ters and the auctioneers at sheriffs’ sales or
under foreclosure proceedings. Taxes in
Georgia are less than in Queen’s county.—
Taxes in South Carolina are seventeen per
cent. Georgia sells and buys lavishly in
every Northern market. South Carolina is
stretched on the Procustes bed of poverty,
anarchy, and outrage. South Carolina is
ruled by thieves, Georgia by honest men, and
the North is asked to warrant the diversion
of the army by the Administration to the
purpose of perpetuating the thieves of South
Carolina in power.— Brooklyn Eagle.
Tiie Widow and the Bouquet. —A pret
ty widow, whose husband has been dead for
several years, received a beautiful bouquet
the other day. The man that sent it had
been flying around her with an earnestness
worth} 7 of a dry goods clerk, and it was with
extra delight he saw her pass his store that
evening with the bouquet of flowers in her
hand. ‘
“Am so pleased to see you with them,”
said he, and a thousand little cupids dimpled
in his smile.
“ Yes,” she replied, “ it was very kind in
you ; I always knew you liked him ; I am
taking them to his grave.” —RcUeigh Sentinel.
Fall plowing is now in order. Turn under
everything green that you can, and then by
applying plaster or lime, yon will greatly ben
efit your soil.
A Witty Lecture.
The following extract from the report of a
committee on Hogs, read before an agricul
tural society down East,” contains some
excellent hits.
“Again. Some folks accuse pigs of being
filthy in their habits, and negligent in their
personal appearance. But whether food is
best eaten off the ground, or from China
plates, is, it seems to me, merely a matter of
taste and convenience, about which pigs and
men may honestly differ. They ought, then
to be judged eharitably. At any rate, pigs
are not filthy enough to chew tobacco, nor
to poison their breath by drinking whiskey.
And as to their personal appearance, you
don’t catch a pig playing the dandy 7 , nor the
female amrhig; them picking their way up this
muddy village, after a rain, in kid slippers.
Notwithstanding their heteradox notions,
hogs have some excellent traits of character.
If one chances to wallow a little deeper in
some mire hole than his fellows, so carries
off and comes in possession of more of this
earth than his brethren, he never assumes an
extra importance on that account; nor are
they stupid enough to worship him for it.
Their only question seems to be, is he still a
hog? If he is treat him as such.
And when a hog has no merits of his own,
he never puts on aristocratic airs, nor claims
any particular respect on account of his fam
ily connections ; and yet some hogs have de
scended full well, the common sense maxim
“every tub must stand on a bottom.”
A Little Game of “ Draw.”
It was a pleasant and right sociable little
party that sat around a little pine table in
the rear of an O street grocer night before
last. There were five men in the party’, and
the3’ sat on candle boxes, end up. A candle
illuminated the board, enabled the reporter
(who had dropped in to get a pound of sugar)
to see that each man had a number of white
beans in front of him. They were playing
cards, and kept pushing from one to another
a big jack-knife, which they called “the buck’”
probably from the fact that it had a buck
horn handle, may be, perhaps. One man
seemed to he doing most of the talking. His
name was Sam. Griggles. He talked like a
philosopher, and the reporter sat down on a
beer keg and listened to him.
“ITfcll you there’s no use talkin'. The
best thing a man can do is to git married.
Gimme three and bet 3’ou five beans. Bein’
single has its advantages. See it and raise
you six. But the comfort a man takes in
havin’ a wife and home of his own can't be
told. Raise me ten, eh ! See it an’ call.—
Dammit you've got the pot again, Jim. Put
a bit of ice in mine and a dash o’ bitters.
Yes, boys, a wife’s a good thing, 3 r oubet3’our
bottom dollar. Whew! Ten to come in !
All right, Jim, straddle your blind. Now,
when a man gets through his day’s work, and
feels tired an’ worn out, what’s nicer’n to 20
home an’ find a nice little wife waitin for you,
ready to throw her arms round 3’our neck an’
—Oh, Lord!”
A hush fell upon the corner grocery as she
walked in with her shawl over her head, and
brought him one on the side of the head that
sent his cards flying and upset his cocktail.
Neither of them spoke a word, but he looked
as if he had lost one foot of his six as he fol
lowed her out. Even the subdued snicker
behind him couldn't make him look meaner.
The Rule of the Bayonet.
it is to 'be applied to other southern
STATES BESIDES SOUTH CAROLINA.
Washington, October 19.—Reports are in
circulation that the South Carolina policy of
the administration is to be applied to the
states of Mississippi and Louisiana, and per-,
haps other states of the south. Some time
ago the republican managers gave up both
Mississippi and Louisiana to the democrats,
and it was understood that no serious fight
would be made lor them in November. At
that tipne Indiana, New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut were all confidently counted
on as sure for Hayes and Wheeler, and it was
supposed that the south could be dispensed
with and Hayes still be elected. The unex
pected loss of Indiana and the almost certain
loss of New York, which the republicans
here see is going for Tilden, have induced a
change of policy, and the programme now
seems to be to make up for the loss of New
York by using the army to take possession
of at least four or five of the southern states.
The general feeling, however, in official cir
cles is one of general and increasing despond
ency in regard to the election. —Special clis.
to the World.
# Ii • __
Edward S. Stokes, who killed James Fisk,
jr., was discharged from Sing Sing prison
on the 28th instant. He is nearly utterly
broken down physically; he suffers severely
from asthma and, though only 38 years of age,
he is quite gray. Though his long fight against
the gallows cost §300,000, he will be a com.
paratively rich man when he leaves his cell,
as his oil refining works, which have been
cared for by his mother during his imprison
ment, have done a good business and are
quite valuable. Misery has accumulated upon
the wretched convict's head since his crime;
his father is dead of grief, and his wife has
freed herself from him by divorce and all the
fair-weather friends of his gilded days have
forsaken him.
Dr. Felton, who entered the canvass m the
Seventh with such a hallalujah, hell-roaring
flourish, has thrown up the sponge and virtu
, ally retired from the contest. —Rome Courier.
Hiccoughed to Death.
Dr. Elton says he was called to see a man
named Henry Hoskins, a slate miner, aged
45 years. Hoskins said that he had gone to
work without breakfast, as he had not felt
well. About 8 o'clock he had drank some
cold water, and the hiccough set in, violently
at first, but subsequently he did not mind it
as much, thinking it would soon disappear.
It did not, however, and he then tried several
local remedies, such as drinking nine swal
lows of water, putting a cold piece of slate
down his back, and such like cures. He be
came alarmed, for he felt he was getting
weaker every minute. It continued with re
newed violence, and Hoskins was advised to
go home by the boss. His wife made him hot
coffee, and he tried to eat breakfast, .but his.
appetito was entirely gone. lie began to
shiver, and the hiccough still continued as
bad as ever. The doctor was then sent for.
He at once administered twent3’ drops of sal
volatile and fifteen drops of ether in a wine
glass full of camphor water, hut that did not
do any good. The doctor tried to divert the
man’s mind from it, but it was all to no pur
pose. lie then gave the man thirty drops of
laudanum, and drove back to his house to
procure other medicine. Still the hiccough
continued, and in fifteen minutes after the
doctor left, the man was a corpse. Iloskins
seemed to be perfectly healthy in every 7 re
spect. Ilis throat swelled a great deal before
he died, and he seemed to strangle before
his sufferings were over. —Pottsville Miners'
Journal .
The Turf Champion.
The peerless racer Ten Broeck is beyond
all question the champion of the American
turf, if not of the world. Ilis achievement
on September 23. at the Louisville track, when
he made three miles in 5 :2G^—a second and
a quarter faster than fleet Norfolk's time in
this state in 1865, and which had ever since
stood unparalleled—placed him at once in
the championship ; and his more astonishing
performance, September 27th, over the same
track, of running his four miles in 7 :15| —
four seconds less than famous Lexington’s
time at New Orleans in 1855, and seconds
faster than Fellowcraft’s wonderful time two
years ago—confirmed him in that rank. And
inasmuch as the noted Kentucky turfman,
after whom the champion racer is named and
Mr. Sanford have both been defeated in their
efforts to match or beat English races on Bri
tish soil with these crack American flyers, it
would be interesting to have Mr. Harper try
conclusions with the best racers of England
at the Derby or the Oaks next year with his
freshly and doubly-crowned American cham
pion Ten Broeck. But a horse for which his
owner has refused $120,000 may be altogether
too highly prized to risk him on a double
crossing of the Atlantic, even for the glory to
be achieved in winning for himself the proud
distinction of the turf championship of the
world. lie has already contributed his full
share toward the several great events of the
centennial year to adorn the figurative brow
of the nation with the wreaths and glory of
victory over all competitors. In yachting and
rifle-shooting our representative contestants
have demonstrated their superiority above all
others, and Ten Broeck’s marvelous perform
ance at Louisville, on Wednesday, is as proud
a feather in the turf-cap as was the victory of
Creedmoor in the cap of the matchless Amer
can team, who there outshot their skilled ri
vals. —San Francisco Chronicle.
Danger in Lampblack.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin makes
the following rather startling statement:
Within two years there have been three shoe
shops lost in Massachusetts, so the records
state, from lampblack. A hand damp with
perspiration, a drop of water, a bit of grease,
or a sprinkle of oil, will create the combustion
which will start lampblack aglow like charcoal,
and so ignite the package; and hence the
blaze. In lampblack factories, while great
precaution is taken to prevent fires, a rainy or
a sharp frost}' day may start a dampness upon
the inside of a window pane, and the flying
particles of dust lighting upon this creates
the spark, which, communicating to the pile,
sends a glow of fire with wonderful rapidity
through the galleries of the shop. In cleaning
up the smoke galleries if the men let a drop
of perspiration fall into a pile they instantly
scoop up the black in and about where it
lodges and take it out of the house.
are three great flying machines
in process of construction, and all nearly
ready for trial. One is at Portsmouth, Eng
land, and should have made a voyage on
the 10th of October across the channel and
back, but was not quite ready. Another is
now completed at San Francisco, and its pro
jector supposes that he can make a trip to
New York at the rate of one hundred miles
an hour. A third is about to be built in New
York by W. I. Lewis, its inventor. It is said
that a bod}' of scientific men have examined
the model, its principles and operation, and
pronounced them perfect for their purpose.
Mr. Lewis will use a powerful steam engine,
and expects to attain two hundred miles an
hour. Bishop Berkley said the time would
come when a man would order his flying ma
chine as commonly as he would call for his
boots. The New Orleans Times suggests
that perhaps that time has come.
A Thomas county negro amused himself
one day last week by beating a brother dar
key with a fence rail because he wouldn't
vote the Radical ticket. It only cost him
SIOO or one year in the chain gang.
$ TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
A negro woman was arraigned before tlie
Mayor of Raleigh accused of bewitching a
child, but he Would not entertain the charge,
A railroad from Anderson, S. C., to con
nect with the Northeastern at Harmony
Grove, is talked about.
The people of Augusta are thoroughly
aroused on the subject of the Hartwell and
Augusta Railroad.
During the year ending with September,
954 railroad accidents occurred in this coun
try, bv which 219 persons were killed and
939 injured. Three accidents a day !
A fowl, half turkey and half guinea, at
tracted considerable attention at the Rock
dale Fair last week. Also a gourd over fifty
years old that holds over a bushel.
From the official count it is ascertained
that during the yellow fever epidemic in
Brunswick there were 112 deaths, of which
111 were from yellow fever and 1 from con
sumption.
General Colquitt's majority, as shown by
the official returns at the office of the Secre
tary of State, is 73,836. Four counties to
hear from, which unofficially give Colquitt
2.500 majority. Grand total, 76,336.
The New York Herald correspondent pre
dicts that Carolina will give Tilden from
2.500 to 10.000 majority without any disturb
ances, and Hampton a majority greater by
one-half.
Not content with eclipsing John Robinson
at Rome. Senator Norwood broke up a Meth
odist meeting at Newnan, the other night,
Mr. Norwood is an exceedingly demoralizing
campaign Ist.
The London Milk Journal says that a pint
of milk heated a little, but not boiled, taken
every four hours, will check the most violent
diarrhoea, stomach ache, incipient cholera,
and dysentery.
Two negro candidates in Meriwether coun
ty run for the Legislature on economical
grounds. One was pledged to vote to repeal
the Internal Revenue act, and the other to
abolish the President of the United States.
Because an Oglethorpe county young lady
couldn't tell “why the hind wheels of a wag
on are the largest,” she was refused a situa
tion as school teacher by the committee. This
is a warning to pedagogues to keep them
selves better posted on such affairs,
The Cherokee Georgian modestlj r warms
its preacher friends to be a little more care
ful about pounding the pulpit while preach
ing, as it is not the sweetest thing in life to
be waked up in the middle of a good snooze
in church.
The Columbia Register says that the color?
ed Democrats of Aiken carried barbecued
meats to their white friends who had been
imprisoned by the blood-hounds, and that
one act will be and is appreciated by. every
true son of the State, be he black or white.
Sitting Bull continues to feel a deep inter
est in the federal campaign in South Caroli
na. He compliments Grant for his kindness
of heart in preferring this field of army ope
rations to the Indian territory, and adds t
“The mortality among the troops will not bo
so great.” —Brooklyn Argus.
The difference between Washington and
Grant is as follows : “Washington was first
in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts
of his countrymen.” Grant was “first in war,
first to cry ‘Let us have peace,’ and is him
self, the heart ofthe whiskey ring of the coun
try !”
How is this as an evidence of the early ex
tinction of the African race : A negro wo*
man in Harris county gave birth to three
healthy children, and eleven months after*
wards gave birth to two more. To add to tlie
remarkability, the woman was only fifteen
years old at the birth of the last two.
It was the desire of the late Francis F,
Blair that the bearers at his funeral should
be chosen from among his grandsons. In com
pliance with his wish, eight sons of the later
Gen. F. P. Blair, of the late James Blair, aittf
of the lion. Montgomery Blair acted in t‘HB6-
capacity.
The Styles-Lawshe emeute is not a dear!
issue just yet. In Thursday's Commonwealth
Col. Styles has the following: “It is proba
bly nobody's business to know what action I
shall take in response to Mr. Lawshe's last
and most, villainous publications. lie alone
is interested and will find out soon enough.”
The contest for United States senator says
the Gwinnett Herald , is beginning to warm
up. Norwood is in the mountain counties
addressing the people, Ben Hill 19 down
among the gopher hills of southern Georgia
rallying the masses, and Gov, Smith is qui
etly laying pipe and husbanding his strength
for the big fight before the legislature^
Thirteen cents and a toothpick were 1 found
in a Washington monument donation box on
the centennial grounds. And now there can
be no further excuse for not vigorously push
ing the work forward af. once. The m#n who
deposited the toothpick should not be per
mitted to want for the necessaries of life the
coming winter.
The English policy in the Eastern ques
tion, a3 shadowed forth in the telegraphic
news, is exceedingly hard to define. They
call it the policy of abstentation. To us,
thus far removed from the influences which
prompt her action, it looks like double deal
ing. Like the predestinarian's policy, she
can and she can't; she will and she won't;
she'll be d—-d if she does, and site'll be d—d
if she don’t.— Sav. News.
It will probably be a sad experiment for
the Deputy Marshal who draws the first
“Remington pistol” on the 7th, at any pre
cinct in Georgia. We are for law, and or
der, and peace, and a fair election ; but we
are not prepared for the pistol programme,
and the Deputy Marshals may as well under
stand in advance that Georgians will not
“hear their breasts” and take the bulleta
with the complaisancy of despair or the wil
lingness of martyrs.— Commonwealth .
NUMBER 22.