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J.O. HUNT. M. T>. J. B. PENDERGRASS, M. D. ,
Dks. esi yr Sc
Having formed a partnership for the pur
h' of practicing medicine in all the various
ranches of the profession, respectfully tender
their services to the citizens of the town and sur
ri’uuding community. Office at Col. W. I. Pike's
old stand. july29
J. A. H. MAHAFFEY. W. S. M'CARTY.
\JAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
U A T T O R NEYS AT LA W,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
'Till practice anywhere for money. Prompt at- i
- itiou given to all business entrusted to their
■are. Patronage solicited. Oct3o 1y
lUI. C. B, GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson ami vicinity. Can be found at
! ; ■ office recently occupied Gy Col. Mahalfey.
Jan. 22, 1876—tf
J.J. FLOYD, I J. B. SILMAN,
Covington. Ga. I Jefferson, Ga.
PLOY!) A MILIIAY,
I ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts oi
■ counties of Jackson and Walton.
junel2—ly
\\ I. I'llill, Attorney :*t I .si w,
O . JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
i -u tiers in all the Courts, State and Federal.
Prompt and thorough attention given to all
dnds of legal business in Jacksou and adjoining
Muuties. June 12, 1875
WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB'T S. HOWARD.
HOU Altl> A HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Ga.
b 11 practice together in all the Courts of Jack
50n and adjacent counties, except the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist *75
STAN Ij E Y & FINSONT
JEFFERS OX, GA
TV.ALF.RS in Dry (roods and Family Grocc
* ’ ries. New supplies constantly received,
(-heap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June H) ly
Du. w. s.
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. Gm
Fall and Winter
STOCK OF
Millinery and Fancy Goods!
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AISSS. 'l'. A. AWAJIS
VNN OUNCES to the public that she is now re
ceiving a large and varied stock of Ladies*
h nets. Hats. Laces, Ribbons. Trimmings, Ac.,
she is offering at low prices. Call, exam
:!le and be convinced. Next door to the Bank of
in- l niversity, Athens, Ga. Oct 1
Special to Debtors.
Vkb persons indebted to the undersigned, who
do not settle their accounts by the Ist of No
' vtnber. will thereafter have to dance to the music
: ’ the County Court. “ A word to the wise,*’ I
ho l'c will be sufficient. J. B. DUNNAHOO.
Jackson Cos., Oct. 21, 187 G.
Waivers Printed at this Office.
F. P. TALMADGE,
DEALER IN
AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES,
CLOCKS, JE WELR Y, SIL VER S' PLATED WARE,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, iC.
Batches, clocks
In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction.
Ornamental ami IMain Letter EngrnTlng a Specialty*
LOCATION—CoIIege Avenue, one door from the Bookstore Corner, ATHENS, GA.
April Ist, 1576 ly
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
KNICK-KNAX.
Prison life has but one side—and that the
inside.
“ W hat is the worst side of naval warfare?”
asked a school teacher. “ The broadside,”
replied the boy in the back-seat. lie went up
head.
When troubles o’erpress, and the future
appears vague and dark, how painfully does
a man realize that a short night-shirt is insuf
ficient to keep out the chilly evening zephyrs !
This is a world of change. The girl who
is now engaged in picking up autumn leaves,
may be picking up chips next fall to “bile”
turnips for a short haired young man with a
wart on his smeller.
A bright little three year old, in Hartford,
having become a little mixed between her
religious instruction and her nursery rhymes,
gravely recites : “The Lord is my shepherd,
and lie has lost llis sheep; and lie don’t
know wliere to find them.
Asa gentleman was nearly run over in a
narrow street, by a dray, he shouted to the
driver, “Do you want to kill me ?” whereup
on the intelligent driver replied, “ If I had
knowed you was coming this way I would
have sent you a postal card !”
An elderly darkey was inquiring of a po
liceman if he knew anything of his son Pete.
The policeman replied that there was ayoung
darkey in the lock-up for breaking up a pray
er-meeting with an axe-handle. “ Dat’s him,”
exclaimed the over-joyed parent. “ lie told
me he was gwine to ’muse hisself.”
A saloon-keeper in Baltimore takes the
following original method of advertising to
attract customers : “ Should you sour on the
homoeopathic steak of your boarding-house,
or its stereotyped mackerel, or its herculean
butter, or the Spartanic simplicity 7 of its pud
ding, then sweeten your temper with a busi
ness dinner,” etc.
A young lady at a boarding school commu
nicates to a female friend the following: “In
my last letter, you remember, I told you that
I thought Charley S. and Mary’ were engaged
to be married. Well, now I know they are.
They sat in the gallery last Sunday night, and
I saw Mary throw her head back while Char
ley 7 scraped a gum-drop off the roof of her
mouth.”
There was a little gathering the other even
ing, and a lady, with a desire to chasten the
conversation, asked a young man if he had
never felt a deep‘and subtle thrill, a fullness
of feeling so to speak that reminded him of
another life, lie said he had once. It was
when lie was in the country, and the doctor
called it cholera morbus, and charged him
four dollars a visit.
“ Ah,” said the worthy old Mrs. Stubbs, as
she stood staring at a placard on which was
inscribed, “Youth wanted”—“yes, I dessay.
Most on us who have got a bit oldish, as you
may 7 say, might carry a ticket about with
‘ Youth wanted’ printed on tt. But what with
old Father Time, and what with troubles and
trials, most on us will have to go on saying,
* Youth wanted,’ I expect, for a long time to
come.”
Many proverbs admit of contradiction, as
witness the following : “ The more the mer
rier.” Not so—one hand is enough in a
purse. *’ Nothing but what has an end.”—
Not so—a ring has none for it is round.
“Money 7 is a great comfort.” Not when it
brings a thief to the gallows. “ The world is
a long journey.” Not so—the sun goes over
it in a day 7 . “It is a great way’ to the bot
tom of the sea.” Not so—it is but a stone’s
cast. “A friend is best found in adversity.”
Not so—for then there is none to be found.
“The pride of the rich makes the labor of the
poor.” Not so—the labor of the poor makes
the pride of the rich.
Special Notice to Debtors!
'THIOSE who arc in debt to the undersigned on
JL accounts or notes for last year and the fore
part of the present, are earnestly solicited to come
forward and settle up at once. For the conveni
ence of any so disposed. I will receive cotton, or
any other marketable produce, at Athens prices,
for all accounts now due. All above mentioned
outstanding dues, if not settled bv the loth of No
vember. will be lodged with the County Judge for
collection. oct*2B 2t J. L. BAILEY.
SEND 25c. to GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., New
York, for Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing
lists of 3,000 newspapers, and estimates showing
cost of advertising. marll
WT'ANTED.— ANY PERSON CAN MAKE SSOO A MONTH
v T selling our letter-copving book. Any one
that has a letter to write will buy it. No press or
water used. Send stamp for circular.
Excelsior Cos., 17 Tribune Building, Chicago, 111.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. NOY’R IS, IS7G.
ORIGINAL.
For the Forest News.
ESSAY.
BY -M. C. A., MAYSVILLE, GA.
44 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
All that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Await alike the Inevitable hour ;
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
How many of the great, the noble, the
haughty and the beautiful of earth has the
grave covered over ? The exalted and the
mighty cannot escape it. Amid its cold, dark
recesses are names greater than any the living
can boast.
Ah ! the pale spectres which now inhabit
the Empire of Death, once possessed and
ruled this world of ours, but now they mingle
with the dust beneath our feet, and the vulgar
tread over them unconscious that they ever
lived. Many of the heads which humbly rest
in those narrow mansions, once wore the
crowns of Kingdoms and Empires, while their
hands swayed golden sceptres over the chil
dren of men, causing them to bow at their
feet and proclaim their glory. In life, the
world, with all its pomp and its treasures,
could not satiate their thirst for power and
homage, but long since they have lain down
together with the humble and lowly.
Earth's greatest heroes sleep there, too—
who proudly wore war’s blood-stained laurels,
and awakened war's firey thunders ’til dis
tant nations heard and trembled. How many
there we find who in gayety, youth and beau
ty, have suddenly slept the sleep of death ;
dainty feet which trod the shining paths of
earth, while wealth and pleasure strew before
them their richest, rarest flowers ; glowing
hearts, where pride, ambition and aspirations,
high and noble, held their empire; bright
eyes where joy and light did sparkle; fair,
lofty 7 brows, where grace and beauty rested
once.
Great, grand and gloomy is the Empire of
Death; and there the terrible Monarch sits
mocking those relicts of human power and
fame. Scattered around him are the skulls
of those whose wonder-working brain first
discovered the rudiments of science and the
elements of philosophy. How many oratori
cal tongues rest silent therein, whose words
of burning eloquence have stirred the hearts
of thousands, and caused them, with wild en
thusiasm, to grasp the sword or embrace the
cross.
Beneath the dust of the “Eternal City” lie
the kingly heads of the haughty imperious
Caesar’s; in life, they wore the crowns of
every kingdom, their warriors stood at the
gates of every city, while their eagle banners
proudly floated over every capitol of the civil
ized world.
We are told that the ashes of Alexander
the Great have been scattered to the winds,
and his empty sarcophagus the mere curiosity
of a museum. Y"es, he who conquered the
world and wept because he found no other
field for his ambition, finds not now a resting
place for his ashes. In life, every’ land brought
forth her bays, dripping in the blood of her
sons, whom the sword of Alexander had slain
and placed them in humility upon his warrior
brow. But at last he bowed before the “ King
of Terrors,” and to him yielded his sword and
crown. Ah ! the hand of Death is relentless,
and the grave is never satisfied with the strong
and the great, but he also gathers’round him
the delicate, the beautiful, and the innocent.
Among all the fair and lovely of earth, Marie
Antonette was considered the peer. More,
almost than any other woman, was she re
nowned for her grace and beauty. She was
said to have had the smile of a Hebe, with the
glance of a Juno—a very Goddess. Once we
find her ascending the Throne of Grace,
*' while the nation, inspired by her goodness
and extreme loveliness, burst forth in one
loud acclamation of joy 7 and applause.” But
a little while and we see her bereft of friends,
deprived of position, then last in prison and
the scaffold, where she bowed her queenly
head in deep humility, and the executioner’s
axe severed it from the body.
A similar fate awaited, too, the lovely Queen
Mary of Scotland. Once we find her sport
ing in the high and flowery’paths, rejoicing in
beauty, youth and happiness ; a little longer,
and we behold her fleeing her throne to find
a prison and a grave—doomed to die by Eng
land’s cold, ambitious Queen.
Awav on a lonely isle of the Ocean is a
desolate grave, and in it for years rested the
hero before whose sword Kings and Empires
quaked ; whose feet trod the burning sands
of Egypt, and climbed through snow o’er Al
pine's dizzy heights —the conqueror of Italy 7 ,
the hero of Vienna.
“ Listen to the sounds that greeted him,
When he from Egypt came,
Applauding Paris echoing back
The army’s wild refrain.
Yet, louder rolled the strain.
As from red Morengoc's plain
lie stepped to a loftier Empire
O’er the Austrian heaps of slain.”
With his mighty arm he carved his way to
the Imperial Throne of France, and with his
own hand grasped the crown from the de
scendants of Kings and placed it on his
salient brow.
His fame was borne on every breeze, his
glory was proclaimed by every tongue. But,
on the ill-fated field of Waterloo, he fought
his last battle ; in the gilded, stately dome of
the Inralides, he sleeps his last sleep ; no
more will his might}’ arm turn the tide of bat
tles ; no more will his bugle-call arouse his
sleeping battalions to fierce struggles, blood}’
conflicts and grand victories. Ah ! how vain
a thing is human pomp and power ! how wan
ing is the light of earthly glory and fame ! !
for ’tis literally but a step from the throne to
the grave.
“ The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
All that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour;
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
In Carroll county, near Villa Rica on Sat
urday last. A little son of Mr. Thomas Moore
was found dead in a pile of cotton seed. He
was seen about an hour before he was found
and he said he was going to play in the cot
ton seed. He is supposed to have made a
hole in the pile of seed and they fell in on
him and smothered him. —Neicnan HeroM,
Oth inst.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
Advertisement.
The Sandersville Herald declares that the
following is a verbatim copy of an advertise
ment found posted on the door of a country
store not twenty-five miles from Sandersville :
Friends and Neighbors: Having just open
ed a commodious shop for the sale of “ Liquid
Fire,” I embrace this early opportunity of in
forming you that, on Saturday next, I shall
commence the business of making drunkards,
paupers and beggars, for the sober, industri
ous and respectable portion of the community
to support.
I shall deal in “familiar spirits” which will
excite men to deeds of riot robbery and
blood; and, by 7 so doing, diminish the com
forts. augment the expenses, and endanger the
welfare of the community 7 .
I will undertake, at a short notice, for a
small sum, and with great expedition, to pre
pare victims for the asylums, the poor houses,
the prisons and the gallows.
I will furnish an article which will increase
the amount of fatal accidents, multiply the
number of distressing diseases, and render
those which are harmless incurable.
I shall deal in drugs which will deprive
some of life, many of reason, most of prop
erty, and all of peace : which will cause the
fathers to become fiends, wives widows, chil
dren orphans, and all mendicants.
I will cause many of the rising generation
to grow up in ignorance, and prove a burden
and nuisance to the nation.
I will cause mothers to forget their off
spring, and cruelty to take the place of love.
I will sometimes even corrupt ministers of
religion, obstruct the progress of the gospel,
defile the purity of the church, and cause tem
poral, spiritual and eternal death ; and if any
should be so impertinent as to ask why I
have the audacity to bring such accumulated
misery upon a comparatively happy people,
my honest reply is, money.
The Spirit Trade is lucrative, and some
professing Christians give it their cheerful
countenance.
I have a license; and if I do not bring
these evils upon y 7 ou somebody else will.
I live in a Land of Liberty.
I purchased the right to demolish the char
acter, destroy the health, shorten the life and
ruin the souls of those who choose to honor
me with their custom.
I pledge myself to do all I have herein
promised. Those who wish any 7 of the evils
above specified, brought upon themselves or
their dearest friends, are requested to meet
me at ray bar, where I will, for a few cents,
furnish them with the certain means of do
ing it.
What Solomon Wanted.
Even the best Sunday School scholars some
times are so interested in earthly things that
the spiritual meaning of their lessons escape
them. 1 here was Miss Slumm’s smartest
boy. They were studying the history of Sol
omon, and Miss Slumm wanted to show that,
in spite of all his splendor and wisdom, his
lapse into idolatry in his old age left him
without the pure religious devotion needful
to perfect peace. So Miss Slumm said, ” And
now, William. Solomon had more wisdom and
knowledge than any one else in the world ;
was far richer than any other king ; he built
the most magnificent temple that was ever
seen ; he lived in a gorgeous palace ; he had
fine clothes, and horses, and chariots, and
thousands of servants, and all the other mon
archs of the earth looked upon him with ad
miration and envy. And yet he was not per
fectly happy. lie needed but one thing to
give him absolute contentment and felicity,
and what do you think it was, William ?”
William paused fen- a moment, and then sud
denly exclaimed : “ I know !” Miss Slumm
said : “ And what was it ?” “ Why, he want
ed to learn how to whistle on his fingers.”
Then William all at once went down to the
foot of the class. lie had been putting in his
spare time during the preceeding week prac
ticing that musical accomplishment, and he
thought Solomon certainly must have had
yearnings in the same direction.—Philadel
phia Bulletin.
New York Central Methodist Con
ference, by a vote of 112 to 1, adopted a re
port at its late session declaring that ‘‘the
Commissioners of the Methodist Episcopal
Church transcended their powers” in agreeing
with the Southern Methodist Commissioners
on a basis of fraternity. The most impor
tant of the resolutions adopted is the follow
ing : “That in our judgment the basis of
fraternity adopted, by going back to the past
and recognizing the legitimacy of a distinct
ecclesiastical organization which had no oth
er justification for its origin and separate ex
istence than slavery, is in violence of the his
tory and principles of the Methodist Episco
pal Church.”
John Allread, of this county came in yes
terday and paid his State and county tax.
He says he never swore an oath : never gave
his note ; never bought any thing on a credit,
or went in debt; never was drunk ; never had
a cross word with a neighbor; never used to
bacco in any form ; never had a law suit; ne
ver was a witness in any suit, civil or crimi
nal, and always voted just as he pleased.
He is 52 years of age.— Romo Courier , Ith.
Important Medical Discovery.
The details of the following, and other
cases, we find in a late number of the New
York Medical Journal: “An American doc
tor of medicine having heard of the discovery
made in France, that pain could be relieved
by hypodermic injections of cold water, re
solved to try the experiment. His first case
was a woman, who during three years, had
suffered so much from lumbago that she cried
out with pain on the slightest movement of
the muscles of the back. The doctor injected
ten drops of cold water under the skin in the
lumbar region on each side of the spinal col
umn, and in less than a minute the patient
felt relief. She stood up without pain, sat
down without assistance, and in less than
five minutes after the injection, picked up a
pin from the floor with ease. Some time
afterwards the pain returned, but was miti
gated the next day by a puncture without
injection, and the woman who had been so
long crippled was able to work at a sewing
machine.
“Another case was rheumatism of the an
kle joint, cured by the injection often drops
of cold water ; and a third was nodular rheu
matism, involving the shoulder, elbow, wrist
and knee joint of the right side. Here again
the injection of cold water, gave relief within
five minutes. I repeated these injections,
says I)r. Dessau, two days after, when the
left knee was attacked, with like favorable
result. In all these cases, slight complaint
was made at the moment of injecting the wa
ter, of a burning sensation, bnt not more I
imagine, than when any other fluid i3 used
for a like purpose. In this last case, I in
jected ten syringefuls of water at one visit,
so there is no danger from the quantity em
ployed. It certainly is a most valuable and
ready means of relieving pain, particularly
in rheumatic cases.”
What He Wanted.
“ I bought some bologna sausage here this
morning,” said a round shouldered individual,
with a mole under his left ear, on entering
Buck's store, Tuesday night, “and when I
got it home not one of my’ folks would
touch it.”
“ What was the trouble ?” politely’ inquired
the dealer, putting on an anxious look.
“ There was a cat’s paw, with four toes at
tached, in it,” said the man.
“ Is it possible ?” queried the dealer, with
surprise. “ Well, all I can say is that I have
bought my sausage of the same firm now for
fifteen years, and never had anything of the
kind happen before. How much did vou nay
•or it ?”
“ Eighteen cents,” replied the man.
“ Well,” said the dealer, making for the
money drawer, “ I am very sorry, and will re
fund the price of it if that will be satisfac
tory ?”
“ Oh, no,” said the man, “I didn’t speak
of it expecting to get my money back. I
know it wasn't your fault. I came up to see
if I could get the piece that has the other loe
on it; my daughter wants to have it stuffed.”
Sbeep and Wool.
We copy an interesting article on sheep
husbandry, compiled by the Atlanta Consti
tution from facts obtained at the State De
partment of Agriculture. We believe that
sheep and wool growing is the key to agricul
tural prosperity in Georgia. Cotton planting,
in the old method, has had its day 7, and if per
sisted in will only add to the poverty and de
pression of the State. With sheep, and prop
er crops to sustain them, such as grass, clover,
turnips, carrots and small grain, our lands
would be restored and kept in heart without
expense, so that our cotton patches would
produce one and two bales to the acre, and
the farmer would pocket the result of one fine
crop in the spring another in the fall, while
the land would teem with the most succulent
and nutritious of animal food. The question,
therefore, is how best and most speedily to
introduce and extend sheep culture in Geor
gia.
Not one person in a dozen can tell the
name of those whose busts are found on post
age stamps. As an item of interest, we fur
nish all the information we have upon the
subject: The bust on the one-cent stamp
represents Franklin ; twos, Jackson ; threes,
Washington ; fives, Taylor; sixes, Lincoln ;
sevens, Stanton; tens, Jefferson; twelves,
Clay ; fifteens, Webster ; twenty-fours, Scott;
thirties, Hamilton; nineties, Perry. The
seven, twelve and twenty’-four cent stamps are
not now issued, but many of them are in cir
culation.
A Smasher. —The trials at Spezaia the
hundred-ton Armstrong gun, made for the
Italian Government, have been highly suc
cessful, and give some astonishing results.
A charge of one hundred and thirty-four
pounds of powder gave a ball a velocity of
one thousand and five hundred feet to the
pound, smashed solid wrought iron plates
twenty-two inches thick, completely piercing
the strong backing and the thirty-inch 3kin
of a target. The heaviest blow of the ball
was equal to thirty-one thousand two hundred
/.nd fifty tons.
•‘Are these eggs poached ?” inquired a cus
tomer of a colored restaurant keeper, at an
Alabama station. “Yes, sah,” replied Sam
bo. “Deyis—dat is, de chicken wat laid
’em war.”
S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
I SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
Ocn. Grant, has set apart the 30th of this
month as a day of thanksgiving.
The chestnut and apple crops of Georgia
is the largest for many years.
There are in New York 229 white women
married to negroes. The women howevor
are of the very lowest class.
The Board of Physicians of Georgia
open its annual session in Milledgeville on
the first Monday in December.
Elder Jacob Tate, of Rome, has baptized
nineteen hundred and seven persons during
his ministry.
A pair of shoes made of rattlesnake skin,
tanned into leather, attracted much attention
at the New nan F air.
A monster balloon, to contain accommoda
tion for fifty persons, is to be constructed for
the Universal Exhibition of 1878.
Mrs. Phoebe A. Ilunaford, Universalisfc
preacher of Jersey City, performed the mar*
riage ceremony at the marriage of her own
daughter last week.
J. T. Lumpkin, Esq., of the editorial staff
of the Atlanta Times has retired from that
paper, and the Times has lost an able and
faithful adjunct.
A colored man who polled a Tilden ticket
near Macon was assailed b}" his wife, when
he returned home, who struck him in the head
and inflicted serious injury.
A mound near Kansas City, Missouri, has
yielded up two human skeletons which the
local scientists consider to be pro-historic,
and which are of giant size.
A Mexican woman, living near Los Ange
los, California, has been married twenty years
and has twenty children, her age being under
thirty-five.
A bee farmer in California shipped his this
years crop of honey to market a few days
ago. It took ten cars to haul the honey, each
car containing twenty thousand pounds.
A remarkable contest took place in Hart
county last week between a small dog and a
rattlesnake as large as the calf of a man's
leg. in which the dog came off victor and
killed the serpent.
A prominent citizen of Atlanta having
cursed and circulated derogatory reports
about two young attorneys, who had brought
suit against him in a damage case, will be
sued for SIO,OOO ; so says the Sunday Herald.
The show business seems to be playing
out. Dan Castello's circus and Menagerie
was sold in Indiana by a Bailiff. Camels
sold for S2OO and calico trick horses for from
SSO to SIOO.
Two boys and two girls, neither over 1G
years of age. and theyonngost only 12, eloped
from Council Bluffs. They tooks7oo from a
savings bank on a forged order, and are sup
posed to have gone to California.
We grieve to say it, but membership in a
state legislature does not entitle a man to the
seductive prefix of “lion.” This fact, how
ever,should not induce any candidate to with
draw.—Memph is Avedanch e.
The outlook for cheaper tea is good. This
plant was only introduced into India forty
years ago, and already 2,000 acres are cover
ed with it on the slopes of the Neilgherry
hills. The yield of the current 3*ear has been
over 17,000,000 pounds, value $10,000,000.
A young lady in Chase City woke up with a
terrible dream one night recently. She dream
ed that a young man with a soft beard was
pressing his face against her's ; when she woke
she found it was only the cat. Then she was
mad.
The following churches of Dalton have a
membership, to-wit: Presbyterian, 80 ; Cum
berland, 50 ; Methodist, 180; Episcopal. 40 ;
First Baptist, 175 ; Second Baptist, SO; Cath
olic, 65 ; Total church membership, 610.
Dalton Enterprise.
We have the painful duty to perform of
announcing the sudden death of Major Peter
J. Shannon, who died from an attack of apo
plexy on Friday morning last, living only
about three hours after his attack, and appa
rently unconscious during the time—Ether
ton Gazette , Bth.
Chattanooga was treated to a rare specta
cle the other day, by the burning of the woods
and grass on Lookout Mountain. At one
time the top was all ablaze, and afterwards
the fire crept below the precipice. The Times
says the mountain was literally a pillar of
cloud by day and of fire by night.
A correspondent desires to know what sort
of a thing a “pocket gymnasium” is that he
sees advertised in the papers. Well, a pock
et gymnasium holds from a pint to a quart,
and is made of glass covered with leather;
but we can’t recommend It. We once saw a
young man have one in good working order,
and after practicing with it a short time he
found it mnch easier to stand on his head
than on his feet, and he couldn’t find his way
home.— Atlanta Commomcealth.
Why V/e Cough.
An Italian investigator has been studying
the cause of coughs, and lias come to the con
clusion that they arc the result of the pres
ence of a p/arasitic fungus in the air passagos.
In severe cases the parasite multiplies and
takes possession of the lung celis. Quinine
is said to possess the power of stopping the
microscopic fungi, r.nd is therefore recom
mended as a remedy. The Italian doctor has
successfully used a powder composed of the
chlorhydrate of quinine, one part; bicarbo
nate of soda, one part; gum arabic, twenty
oarts. The soda is intended to dissolve the
mucus, the gum arabic to increase the ad
herence of the powder on the bronchial pas
sages. The blowing in of the powder should
take place during a deep inspiration of the
patient, so that it may penetrate the wind
pipe, the chief seat of the microscopic fungus.
NUMBER 24.