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The Peop,e their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
KNICK-KNAX.
An intemperate printer is a typographical
err-er.
If a man would set good examples they
might hatch better habits.
It is impossible to travel into a woman’s
affections by getting on her train.
W e don’t know of anything sweeter than a
seventeen-year-old girl-baby, after all.
The individual who was accidentally injur
ed by the discharge of his duty is still very
low.
Navy blue lips and cardinal red noses will
be the prevailing styles as soon as cold weath
er sets in.
Anew social philosopher says the art of flirt
ing is in its infancy. It will be a sad day
when the thing is grown up.
“Courtship is bliss.” said an ardent .young
man. “Yes, and matrimony is blister,” snarled
an old bachelor.
Young swell—“l should like to have my
moustache dyed.” Polite barber—“ Certai
nly. Did you bring it with you?”
The man with a hump on his back is sighing
for the day when a bustle will be a fashionable
article of dress for the male sex.
A city missionary was asked the cause of
his poverty. “Principally,” said he, “because
I have preached so much without notes.”
\\ hat is the difference between an accepted
and a rejected lover ? The accepted lover
kisses the Miss and the rejected misses the
kiss.
Women are presumptuous creatures. They
always ask for a lock of their lovers hair be
fore marriage, and take it without asking
afterward.
A young lady who lately “came out” in
Mississippi society took snuff, and was spoken
of as the “scenter of attraction” during the
evening.
A noted philosopher being asked by a friend
how he kept himself from being involved in
quarrels, replied, “By letting the angry per
son have it all to himself.”
“It was little three-year old who, when a
carpenter had been called in to ease the doors,
ran into an adjoining room to tell her mother
that he was “taking the skin off the door.”
“You write for money, but I write for honor,”
exclaimed an author in the fury of dispute
with another author. “Ah ! each writes for
what he most needs,” replied his companion.
A doctor recently gave the following pre
scription for a sick lady :—“A new bonnet, a
Cashmere shawl and a silk dress.” The lady,
it is needless to say entirely recovered.
No woman, however nervous she may be,
has any right to wake her husband from a
sound sleep, to tell him, on his inquiring what
is the matter, “Nothing, only I wanted to
know if you were awake.”
A negro witness in a trial the other day was
asked what he was doing in a certain liquor
shop at a certain time, lie explained that he
had gone there to “change his breff.” The
explanation was accepted.
Sister—“ Well, you know, Bobby, your eye’s
very inflamed ; you can’t go out with Tommy
Brown till that speck of dust's outofit,” Bob
by (anxious to be off) —“ I’m all right—l know
its out now ; I think I heard it fall!”
We’ve suspected for some time past that
measures would have to be taken to check the
alarmingly rapid growth of the Smith family.
And, sure enough, a Pennsylvania man ex
hibits at the Centennial a “Smith roller and
crusher.”
A young fellow eating some old Cheshire
cheese at a tavern one night exclaimed—
“ Now, I have done as much as Samson, for
I have slain my thousands and ten of thous
ands.” “Yes,”retorted the other, “and with
the jaw-bone of an ass.”
It is said that on a certain occasion a some
what celebrated English divine discovered,
but only when already in the pulpit, that he
had forgotten his manuscript. Whereupon
he called to the clerk, “Jones, I have left my
sermon at home, so hand up the Bible, and
I’ll read them a chapter from Job worth ten
of it.”
A few da}’s ago, as President Chadbourne,
of Williams College, during a lecture was tell
ing the freshmen class that the notion of al
lowing girls to enter the college for the sake
of their good influence on the boys was not
as sound as it might be, a freshman raised
his nand and inquired : “ Don’t you
think it would have a good influence on the
3’oung ladies ?”
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. NOY’R 25, 1576.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
What is Life.
A little crib beside the bed,
A little face above the spread,
A little frock behind the door,
A little shoe upon the floor.
A little lad of dark brown hair,
A little blue-eyed face and fair,
A little lane that leads to school,
A little pencil, slate and rule.
A little blithsome, winsome maid,
A little hand within her’s laid;
A little cottage, acres four,
A little old time household store.
A little family gathered round;
A little turf-heaped, tear-dewed mound,
A little added to the soil ;
A little rest from hardest toil.
A little silver in his hair:
A little stool, and easy chair;
A little night of earth-lit gloom ;
A little cortege to the tomb.
A Snake Interferes in a Duel.
A writer describing, in Forest and Stream ,,
the men and manners of Virginia sixty or
seventy years ago, incidentally mentions the
curious way in which a duel was ended by a
snake. Two gentlemen, Mr. Conway and
Maj. Randolph, arranged one of those wicked
and foolish methods of settling a quarrel, mis
named “an affair of honor.” The writer
says:
The place of meeting was an open glade in
a forest. Attended by the seconds and a
surgeon, the parties met early one morning,
and after courteously saluting each other, fell
back while their friends settled the prelimi
naries. These were soon finished, and plac
ing the rapiers in the hands of the principals,
they were ordered to set to.
Both were accomplished swordsmen. From
the first Conway acted on the defensive, and
slowly backed under the Major’s fierce onset.
The keen rapiers gleamed and flashed as they
cut through the morning air in the vicious
lunge or guarded parry.
The seconds soon saw that Conway was
winding his antagonist, who was already
breathing hard, and they saw, too, that as
soon as he was out. of breath Conway would
pick him in any spot he chose.
The end was near..
A furious rush of Randolph’s caused the
wily swordsman to retreat, parrying at the
same time the lunges of his foe ; but as he
was pressed back he felt a stinging sensation
on his ankle, and glancing down saw a cop
perhead snake, coiled and in the act of sink
ing his fangs into him for the second time.
With a cry of horror he threw down his
sword and leaped sideways.
The situation was understood at a glance.
In a twinkling the surgeon had him oil the
grass, cutting away the flesh from the punc
tured spot, and dosing him with whiskey, and
none worked over him more heartily than the
man who a moment before faced him in a
mortal combat.
This prompt treatment saved lus life, and,
beyond a swelling of the limb, no harm re
sulted. It was found out afterward that the
serpent had a nest near the spot, which ac
counted for its unusual boldness. Mr. Con
way never fought another duel after that.
Woodhull entertains the read
ers of the Boston Globe with a relation of
marvels. She tells Tilton’s story of her cure
for her child as follows :
“The boy was attacked with scarlet fever.
One day my mother met me at the door and
said, “Your boy died two hours ago.” With
out knowing what I did I stripped my clothes
open from my breast and clutched him to it
with all m3’ strength. As I did so the ceil
ing of the rooom disappeared from my view
and the form of the Saviour descended. I
stood fixed in the middle of the room with
him thus clasped in m3’ arms for seven hours.
When I returned to consciousness and releas
ed him from my arms, he was not only re
stored to life, but the disease was gone.” She
sa3’s that since then Christ has several times
appeared to her, and that the spirits of De
mosthenes and Alexander the Great are her
companions. Another of her credence wrench
ing narratives is this : “A woman given up
to die, was brought to my house. For ten
days and nights I never left her side, nor
tasted a morsel of food or drop of water, nei
ther did I sleep. At the expiration of the
tenth da3 r she was restored. I never admin
istered a drop of medicine or did anything,
save give her my presence. My flesh under-
went an almost transparency. I could see the
blood circulating in 1113" veins, and my face
had a light about it that was never so appa
rent before or since, although I have had ap
proximations to it on the rostrum when it has
been noticed by the audiences.”
Mr. Robert M. Howard says that his cow
heretofore has been “giving” three pounds
of butter a week, and on last Tuesda3% when
Tilden was elected, she gave four pounds at
one churning. Now, this is what our new
President is doing for 11s. He is restoring
confidence everywhere, and this cow didn’t
know her until she grazed under a
new administration. A general “reform”
will be seen everywhere, and in all stages of
life and industn% and America is again hap
py’.—Columbus Enquirer.
A Quick Juror.
We heard his honor, Judge Gibson, on Tues
day, tell an amnsing story of the way a juror
went for a conviction. He says he was trying
a murder case a few years ago, down in one
of the wire-grass counties, and experienced
great difficult}' in getting a jury ; that eleven
jurors had been sworn in, and in the next
panel that was brought in was a small, lean,
lank, cadaverous-looking fellow who had on
one shoe, his pants were nearly above his
knees, his shirt open both front and back,
and the aforesaid trousers were held up by a
single gallows. The solicitor proceeded to
ask the usual questions in such cases as fol
lows :
“Have yon from having seen the crime com
mitted, or heard any of the testimony deliver
ed under oath, formed and expressed any
opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the
prisoner at the bar?”
So the “single gallus” fellow, in a clear and
distinct voice, answered : “Not any.”
Second Question —have you any prejudice
or bias resting on your mind for or against
the prisoner at the bar?
Answer—l hain’t.
Third Question —Is your mind perfectly
impartial between the State and the accused?
Answer—Hit air.
Fourth Question —Are you conscientiously
opposed to capital punishment?
Answer—l i’snt.
The State did not like the juror much, but
it being late and jurors scarce, he was put
upon the prisoner in the usual manner, the
solicitor saying : “Juror, look upon the pris
oner ; prisoner, look upon the juror.”
The juror was quite near the prisoner, and
when this command was given he bent over
him scanning him from head to foot. The
juror looked the prisoner firmly in the face,
and then turning to the judge said, in a firm,
solemn voice, “Yes Judge, I think he's guil
ty.”—Augusta Const.
The End of a Diamond Wedding.
Some years ago there was a diamond wed
ding in a brown stone mansion close to Fifth
Avenue. It was in all respects a recherche
affair—the gifts were magnificent and costly,
and the young couple started prosperously
on the voyage of life. After a couple of sea
sons in Europe the young wife was taken
sick, and died in her mother’s house in this
city. Among the original presents was a
costly array of solid silver, duly marked with
the bride’s initials. This silver was valued
at over $5,000. It was handsomely encased,
and for convenience sake, after the woman’s
death, was placed in a common packing trunk
and stored in the vaults of a safe deposit
company.
The sequel to this story happened on Mon
day last, when the husband, now bankrupt,
pledged the whole of the silver to a profes
sional money-lender for a paltry SSOO. Those
who know him freely predict that he will let
the whole of it go when his obligation ma
tures, and that he will be unable to pay the
amount of the loan. A similar sequel was
reported last year to a stylish wedding in
Grace Church only twenty months before.
The presents and jewels of the wedding day
were sold for a mere pittance to buy bread
and butter, and to-day the parties are penni
less. In the other case, first mentioned, there
is not a shadow of a doubt that the silver
thus pledged will be sacrificed in a like man
ner.—New York Letter.
A Queer Condition of Things.
The fourth of March next comes on Sun
da3 r . It is the day when the President elect
should be inaugurated. This ceremon3’ will
doubtless have to be postponed until Monda3%
the sth. President Grant goes out of office
at 12 ra., March 4. Mr. Ferr) r , Presidentpro
tern, of the Senate, ceases to be a Senator on
the 3d of March, at noon. There will, there
fore, be neither President nor Vice-President
for at least twenty-four hours. It therefore
appears that the machine will run itself for
that time.
We presume if any grave question should
arise, the President elect could quietly be
sworn in by the Chief Justice, even if it were
Sunday, only there will be neither President
nor Vice-President, and it is doubtful wheth
er the term of office of the Cabinet would
hold. This is one of the queerest things in
this queer era.— N. 0. Times.
Wearing the Breeches.
Mr. Merriwether paused at the gate, as he
adjusted his continental oil-cloth, and gave
his torch the proper slant over his shoulder,
to shout to his neighbor across the way : “It
is a time that demands men ; men of nerve
and intelligence and courage, men of clear
ideas and pure convictions, and the citizen
who stands idly waiting when the country
calls him is heartless, and negligent, and un
patriotic.” And then Mrs. Merriwether’s
voice was heard floating over the front fence
like the song of a bird in the night: “ Erastus
Merriwether! If you go off without splitting
up wood enough for the kitchen stove, I’ll do
some hav’making in that carroty hairo’yonrn
that’ll make you wish this country never had
a President.” And it is just snch chilling
influences as these that shut so many of our
best men out of active public life.
“An Honest Man.”
One day about three weeks ago a strange
customer came into a Gratiot Avenue grocery.
He wanted some goods, and he paid cash
down. The next day he made another pur
chase and paid cash, and as the days went by
his face and cash seemed familiar. One day
he returned with the change given him and
said:
“ I l>elieve lam an honest man. Ytou paid
me twenty cents too much.”
The grocer received it and wa9 pleased.—
Two days after that the stranger returned
from the curbstone to say :
“ Another mistake on your part; you over
paid me forty cents.”
The grocer was glad to have an honest man,
and puzzled to know how he should have
counted so far out of the wax*. Three days
more and the stranger picked up a dollar bill
in the store and said : “ This is not my dol
lar. I found it on the floor, and you must
take charge of it.”
The grocer's heart melted, and he wonder
ed if the world was not progressing back
wards to old-time honest}’. A skip of one
day, and then the honest man brought down
a wheel barrow and ordered eighteen dollars’
worth of groceries, and would have paid cash
had lie not forgotten his wallet, lie would
hand it in at noon as he went past, he said,
and it was all right with the grocer.
That was the last of the honest man : morn
ing fades to noon, and noon melts away in
darkness, but he cometh not. There are no
more mistakes in change—no more dollar
bills on the floor, and the grocer's eyes wear
a way off expression as if yearning to see
someone for about two minutes. —Free Press.
A Specimen Case Simply.
A few years ago she married William Ilep
tenstall, she being only seventeen years of
age, and a comely-formed and more than or
dinarily good looking girl. Ileptenstall was
a cooper, and at the same time a drunkard,
and the poor girl soon found herself eking
out a miserable existence with a sot of a hus
band. When the hard times came on, the
condition of the IJeptenstalls was correspond
ingly worse. Only a few weeks ago, Mrs.
Ileptenstall called at the Mayor's office and
stated that her child was dead, and that she
had no means by which to procure its burial.
The Mayor went to the premises shortly after
to see about the burial, and found the poor
mother engaged in keeping the rats from the
dead body of her child. Not long after the
Mayor was notified that Ileptenstall had de
serted his wife, and that she was starving to
death. The Mayor paid another visit to the
premises, and found the woman in a most
miserable condition, produced by hunger and
inattention. The Mayor concluded to send
her to the county hospital, but on the way
she died, and her sufferings were at an end.
A short distance from the city the vehicle
passed her brute of a husband on the high
way, staggering from the effects of drink.—
St. Louis Times.
Going to Church in 1800.
In the biography of the late Rev. Dr. Good
ell, veteran missionary and oriental scholar,
he gives the picture of the way the}’ went to
church in Templeton, Massachusetts, his na
tive place, at the beginning of the century :
The old puritanical horse seemed to know as
well as the most pious of us that it was holy
time, and he stood at the door, saddled and
bridled, with his head bowed reverently down,
as if in solemn meditation upon the duties he
was expected to perform. My father, with
one of the children in his arms, rode before;
my mother sat behind on a pillion, and car
ried one of the children in her arms, and still
another child rode behind, clinging as close
ly to her as she did toiler husband. I recol
lect on one occasion, in ascending a steep
sandy hill, the girth of the saddle gave way.
and there was an avalanche of the whole
load, father and mother and three children,
with saddle and pillion, over the horse’s tail,
plump into the sand bank. The old rheuma
tic horse never seemed amazed at anything
that might happen, but this time he simply
opened his large eyes wider than usual, and,
wheeling half around, looked to see whether
lie could help us in any way.
screw worms are still shoving up
in people’s noses. A negro woman suffering
with catarrh had them in her nose, a few days
ago, and was relieved by Dr. J. 11. Blake.
He suspected what was the matter with her
as soon as he learned how she was affected,
and syringed her nose well, washing out one
or two. lie then gave her a solution for in
jection in her nose, and over two hundred
worms came from her nose. As death re
sults in three or four days unless relief is ob
tained, one cannot be too careful to avoid
them, nor too prompt in seeking remedies for
them if they appear.— Houston Telegraph.
During a thunder-storm a gentleman takes
a hack down the Champs Elysees toward the
Faubourg St. Germain. He noticed that at
every flash of lightning his driver seriously
makes the sign of the cross, and says : “I
observe that you cross yourself. You do well.”
“Oh, yes. It is always well where there are
so many trees, but once we get into the
streets, I don’t give a curse.” —Paris Figaro.
S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
I SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
The wells are drying np in Griffin.
In Griffin sweet potatoes can be bought at
thirty-three ami one-third cents per bushel.
The State Agricultural Society will hold its
next meeting in Milledgevillc next February,
T. he Democrats will have a good working
majority in the Missouri Legislature.
A white deer, the second of the kind re
ported in the State, was caught by dogs in
Tennessee, some few days ago.
There is a law in Virginia which forbids a
man from shooting a partridge on the ground
under severe penalty.
A t ort A alley cow gives seven gallons and
a half of milk a day, and even then the re
turns are not all in.
The Covington Star states that Elder W.
L. Beebee has left for Canada, whither he
goes to assume pastoral care of a number of
Baptist churches.
The North Georgia Conference of the M.
E. Church, South, holds its annual meeting
at Sparta, Ga., commencing the 6th of De
cember, 1876.
The Geneva Lamp says that Bob Toombs
telegraphed to Felton, beginning “Sans Deo.”
r l his looks like the General had been reading
Torn Paine instead of joining the church.
Official returns from ninety-three cities and
counties in Virginia show a majority for Til
den of over 40.000. The remaining counties
will increase these figures about 2,000.
One of the remarkable discoveries made by
the gallant Arctic explorers is that the length
of a polar night is one hundred and forty-two
days.
The Georgia Enterprise is the name of a
new publication, devoted to promology, horti
culture, husbandry and other home interests.
J. H. Seals, proprietor, S. T. Jenkins, editor,
Atlanta.
A bear recently appeared in the streets of
Helena, Shelby county, Ala., and seized and
carried off a little grand-daughter of T. I.
V infield. It was pursued and overtaken and
killed ; but a shot fired at it, killed the child.
The majority which Georgia gives for Til
den and Hendricks will reach "eighty thou
sand votes. Uncle Sammy should remember
the faithful when lie comes into his kingdom
next March.— Chronicle <s■ Sentinel.
“It looks like Sam,” said the New York
Herald yesterday. “It is Sam, most undoubt
edly,” said a majority of the voters on Tucs
(\ny last. “It will be Sam beyond all per
adventure on the fifth of March next,” say
the free and sovereign people of the country.
It is estimated that throughout the country
11,500 persons have died from diseases
brought on by being overworked, drinking
bad water, eating improper food and under
going unusual excitement while attending the
Centennial.
The Postmaster General has received the
resignations of John M. Watts, Postmaster at
LaFayette, Oregon, and of 11. N. Solece at
Bridgeport, Vt., both of whom were chosen
Presidential Electors at the late election.—
Their resignations has been accepted.
The President has signed the pardon for
William O. Avery, now confined in the peni
tentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., for complicity
in the whiskey frauds. The friends of Wm.
McKee express absolute confidence that he
will be pardoned within a day or two.
The Alabama Legislature met on tire 4th,
nearly every member being present, and tem
porary organization was perfeeted. The Dem
ocratic caucus has nominated S. W. Cobb for
President of the Senate and N. N. Clements
Speaker of the House.
The case of David Pounds, indicted for
murder in Hancock Superior Court, about ten
years ago, and afterwards transferred to
Wilkes county, was disposed of on Tuesday
of last week, by allowing the accused to plead
guilty to the charge of manslaughter, where
upon he was sentenced by Judge Pottle to
three years in the penitentiary.
A gentleman having charge of a store in
Savannah, telegraphed to his employer in New
York that his stock of fire crackers was ex
hausted, The employer telegraphed to in
quire how many boxes were needed, to which
answer was made : “If Tilden is clecterf, fill
the order ; if Hayes is elected, send only half
the order.”
The war cloud darkens in Europe. Russia
seems determined to make Turkey comply
with her demands, ami the Porte stands firm.
The mobilization of the Russian armies will
precipitate action of some kind. So mnch is
at stake that the other Powers will earnestly
strive to preserve the peace of Europe. A
few days will show whether there is to bo
peace or war.
A patriotic Servian has translated “Yankee
Doodle” into his native tongue, and the air
is so popular that it bids fair to become the
national anthem of that struggling race. It
runs as follows:
Ycnghiatoviffch Dhoodalovitski camcrowsk teto
vwnepki
Ridingelcnsk onovitch poneolowdosk ;
Stuckorelskcno f heatheromouk inter his hatovitch
Adensk colladarovask fnacharonitovenski.
In view of the possibility that the election
of President may be thrown into the Ilonse,
an examination has been made of the prob
able state of the vote, which shows that 22
States would vote for the Democratic candi
date, fonrteen for the Republican, and one
doubtful, each State being entitled to one
vote, and the majority of the State delegation
deciding the vote of the State.— Washington
Special to Cincinnati Commercial ,
Judge CTawford, at the Muscogee Superior
Court, charging the Grand Jury especially in
reference to the carrying of concealed wea
pons, said : *• It the veil could sometimes be
raised and the sorrows and agonies of families
be seen, when they are weeping over a way
ward son for murdering someone, and then
reflect such might have been prevented if the
Grand Juror had done his duty, he surely
would feel remorse.”
NUMBER 25.