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knick-knax.
Thomas, of what fruit is cider made ? Don't
know, sir. Why, what a stupid boy ! What
did you get when 3 r on robbed farmer Jones’
orchard ? I got a thrashing, sir!
“Did you do nothing to resuscitate the
body ? was recently asked of a witness at a
coroner’s inquest. “Yes, sir; we searched
the pockets,” was the reply.
All hair-pins look alike to men, but let a
wife go off on a visit and come home and find
a hair-pin near the gate and she can’t wait a
minute to grow red in the face.
There is a growing conviction that two
pictures of the same fellow in a young lady’s
album mean something more than friendship
for the old man.
It is eminently proper about this date to
discover that the Winter's supply of fuel is
exactly half gone and the other half dissolv
ing like a lump of sugar in a pail of water.
A girl who was one of our first loves was
one night lighting us out, after having a de
lightful evening. In bashful trepidation she
blew us out and drew the candle behind the
door and kissed it. —Cleveland Plaindealer.
A Washington lady, hearing a great deal
about preserving autumn leaves, concluded
to put up a few jars of them. She told a
neighbor yesterday that she didn’t think they
would ever be fit to eat, and she might as
well have thrown her sugar away !
Death improves some men in value. A
Pittsburg woman, whose husband fell into a
cellar and was killed, has sued the city for
$25,000 damages. And yet last week she
told him to his face that she would gladly
give a thousand dollars to get rid of him.
What three words did Adam use when he
introduced himself to Eve, and which read
the same backward and forward ? Madam,
Fin Adam. Ami Eve's polite reply is said
to have been :
I trust the time will never be.
W hen I'll not care Adam for thee !''
“A Florida negro was running down the
swamp with the election returns when lie was
shot at. lie swallowed the returns, and then
an alligator, under the orchids, swallowed
the negro. It will be some days before we
arrive at the result of this election.” —Netc
York Herald.
Somebody remarks that 3*oll ng ladies look
upon a boy as a nuisance until lie is past the
age of sixteen, when he generally doubles up
in value each year until, like a colored mcer
diaum pipe, he is priceless. —Buffalo Ex.
nress.
A man rushed into a Alain street restau
rant, the other day. in an awful hurry, and,
Hopped into a clmir. called for “calf s head
soup.” “Calf said what, sir?” inquired the
waiter. “Calf's head soup!” roared the im
patient guest. Admonished by the wrath
ful tone, the waiter moved away, but paused
to inquire, as a kind of appendix, “You
didn’t hear him say what kind of soup, sir?”
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. DEC’R 9, 1876.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The Letters at School.
One day the letters went to school,
And tricdTo learn each other ;
They got so mixed 'twas really hard
To pick out one from t’other.
A went in first, and Z went last;
The rest all were between them—
K. L and M, and N, O, P
I wish 3*o u could have seen them !
B, C. D. E and J. K. L,
Soon jostled well their betters ;
Q, R, S, T—l grieve to sav—
Were very naughty letters.
Of course, ere long, they came to words—
What else could be expected?
Till E made D, J. C and T
Decidedly dejected.
Now, through it all the Consonants
Were rudest and uncouthest.
While all the pretty Vowel girls
Were certainly the smoothest.
And simple U kept far from (J,
With face demure and moral,
“ Because,” she said, “we are, we two,
So apt to start a quarrel!”
But spiteful P said, “ Pooh for U !”
(Which made her feel quite bitter).
And, calling O. L, E to help,
He really tried to hit her.
Cried A, “Now, E and C, come here I
If both will aid a minute,
Good P will join in making peace,
Or else the mischiefs in it.”
And smiling E, the ready sprite,
Said. “Yes, and count me double.”
This done, sweet peace shone o'er the scene,
And gone was all the trouble !
Meanwhile when TJ and P made up,
The Consonants looked about them,
And kissed the Vowels, for, you see,
They couldn't do without them.
HOAG’S VISION.
WIIAT A MINISTER OF TIIE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
FORESAW IN 1803.
Some of our readers have perhaps seen
“Joseph lloag’s Vision” in print, but to those
who have not, it will prove interesting. Jo
seph Hoag was years since, and until
his death, an eminent minister in the Society
of Friends. His son. also named Joseph, is
likewise a minister in the same society, a
resident of lowa, we believe, and a member,
of the Indian Commission. lie visited this
city recently, and thereby revived the memory
of his father's vision, which we are requested
to publish. A perusal of the singular docu
ment will demonstrate that many of his proph
ecies have been fulfilled. Are the remaining
ones to be ? That’s the question. The vision
is as follows :
‘•ln the year 1803, probably in the eighth
or ninth month, I was one day alone in the
fields, and observed that the sun shone clear,
but a mist eclipsed the brightness of its shin
ing. As I reflected upon the singularity of
the event, my mind was clothed with silence
the most solemn I ever remember to have wit
nessed, for all my faculties were laid now, and
unusually brought into silence. I said to
myself, what can all this mean ? Ido not
recollect ever before to have been sensible
of such feelings. And 1 heard a voice from
heaven saying : “This that thou seest that
dims the brightness of the sun, is a sign of
the present and coming times. I took the
fathers of this country from the land of op
pression, and planted them here among the
forests. I blessed and sustained them and
while they were humble I fed them and they
became a numerous people. Hut they have
now become proud, and lifted uf), and have
forgotten me, who nourished them and pro
tected them in the wilderness, and are run
ning into every abominable and evil practice
of which the old country was guilty, and taken
quietude from the land, and suffered a divid
ing spirit to come among them !’
“I lifted up mine e3 r es. and saw them di
vided in a great heat. This division began
in the church on points of doctrine. It com
menced in the Presbyterian Society, and went
• hrongli various religious denominations, and
in its progress and close its efforts were near-
ly the same. Those who dissented went off
with high heads and taunting language, and
those who kept their original sentiments ap
peared exercised and sorrowful; and when
the dividing spirit entered the Society of
Friends it raged in as high a degree as any
I had before observed, and, as before, those
who separated went with lofty looks and cen
suring language, while those who kept in their
ancient principles retired by themselves.
It next appeared in the lodges of the Free
Masons, and set the country in an uproar
for a length of time. Then it entered politics
throughout the United States, and did not
stop till it produced a civil war, and an abun
dance of blood was shed. In the course of
the combat the Southern States lost their pow
er, and slavery was annihilated from their
borders. Then a monarchical government
arose, and established a national religion,
and made all societies tributary to support
its expenses. I saw them take property from
friends, to a large amount. 1 was amazed at
beholding all this, and I heard a voice pro
claim : ‘'This power shall not always stand,
but with this power 1 will chastise my church
and this people until they return to the faith
fulness of their forefathers ! Thou seest what
is coming on thv native land for their iniqui
ties, the remembrance of which has come up
before me. This is yet for many days.’
“ I had no idea of writing it for many years,
until it became such a burthen that for my
own relief I have so written.”
( I T THIS ©I T !
IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE!
There is no person living but what suffers more
or less with Lung Diseases, Coughs. Colds or Con
sumption, yet some would die rather than pay 75
cents for a bottle of medicine that would cure
them. Dr. A. Boschee’s German Syrup has
lately been introduced in this country from Ger
many. and its wonderous cures astonishes every
one that try it. If you doubt what we say in print,
cut this out and take it to Pendergrass Hancock,
Jefferson, Ga.. or to S. Seegar. Harmony Grove.
G*., and get a sample bottle for 10 cents and try
it. Two doses will relieve you. Regular size, 75
cents. oct2l 3m—eow
A Washington lady says if death loves a
shining mark, it is singular that he has not
aimed at her husband’s nose before this.
The Curse of the Hour.
There is too much lying. On every hand
we meet with exaggeration, equivocation and
deception. We call it all lying, and every
man or woman who varies one iota from the
strictest truth is indeed a liar.
The expressman agress most solemnly to
deliver a trunk for 3*oll at a certain place l)3 T
a certain hour. He delivers it a dav T after
the time promised and thus lies. The grocer
promises to send 3*oll the best tea in the mar
ket. lie takes the first his hand falls upon
without an3* care for the quality*, and dispatch
es it to you without a twinge. He is a liar.
The printer promises to do your work cheap
er than it can be done elsewhere in town. He
forgets his promise—charges you what he
pleases and lies. The tailor agrees to deliver
a suit of clothes without fail by six o’clock
in the evening. You get them in the morn
nig, and the tailor is a liar. The dentist
pledges his word that your teeth as filled b)*
him will be all right for a dozen years. The
filling comes out in six months, and the den
tist lies. A man over the way is in need of
a temporar}* loan, you lend him a small sum,
which he promises by everything to return at
a given time, and is a liar. An auctioneer
tells 3'ou that a certain picture is painted by
a first-rate painter. He lies and is not worthy
of trust. A salesman lies about his goods.
A boot maker lies about 3*oll r hoots. The
jeweler lies about The gossiper
at the dinnes-table tells exaggerated stories
to astonish the ladies, and is nothing else
than a liar. The florist assures 3*oll that his
flowers were picked in the morning, when the}*
are nearly two days old. He lies, and will lie
about anything. The book publisher adver
tises that his books are selling b}* the tens of
thousands, when he has not sold a thousand.
He is a liar and one door ofl from the murder
er.
Everywhere, everywhere, we hear of lying,
l} r ing. Men and women who would knock
you down if 3*oll called them liars, lie e\evy
hour. Deception is the rule rather than the
exception. Canvassers lie about insurance
companies. Brokers lie about stocks. Ed
itors lie about polities. Exaggeration and
misrepresentation rule the hour and are its
curse.
Gentlemen—ladies—wh}* cannot the truth
be told alwa}*s and ever ? Why all this de
ception and lying ? Wh}* so much falsif3*ing
and cheating ?
Feeding Without Eating.
The Hartford Conrant says that the pro
cess of feeding a person b} r introducing his
victuals direct!}* into the stomach from the
exterior has never been regarded with favor.
Besides the prejudices against having an in
cision made in the stomach, it has been main
tained that the process of digestion was facil
itated b}* chewing and the mixture of the
gastric juice with the food ; and this, in spite
of the known fact that man}* people bolt their
food with little mastication, throwing down
a large dinner in five or'ten minutes. But a
successful experiment pen-formed in the latter
part of July, by Dr. Verneuil, at the Hospital
de la Pitie, in Paris, will (end to set aside
this prejudice. The patient was a lad of
seventeen, who in February last inadvertent
ly swallowed a quantity of the solution of
caustic potash, the effect of which was such
a constriction of the upper orifice of the reso
pliagus that death by starvation must have
ensued without a surgical operation. This
was performed, and with apparent success;
on the 14th of September the boy was in good
health, remained up most of the time, and
even helped the hospital stewards at their
work ; and he had almost as much strength
and energy as before the accident. Ilis diet
is soups, fine chopped meat, hashed vegetables
and drink, injected through a large elastic
tube inserted in the incision made in his
stomach. Between the 18th of August and
the 14th of September he gained ten pounds
in weight. At the moment of the injection
of the food a flow of saliva in the mouth is
produced in the ejection of which a motion
curiously resembling the action of chewing is
remarked. One point is in the absence of
that fastidiousness of appetite which is apt
in guests to hurt the pride of the housewife ;
the boy can distinguish between warm and
cold substances, but he is indifferent to the
quality of the food. He would be an inesti
mable boarder. This operation has, it is said,
only been attempted once before, in Stras
burg, in 1849, and then it was not successful.
The champion liar of the State is in the
Ware county jail. A kind hearted clergy
man asked him how he came to be there.
The fellow said, with tears in his eyes, that
he was coining home from prayer meeting
and sat down to rest and fell asleep, and
while he was asleep there the county built a
jail around him, and when he awoke the jail
or refused to let him out. There are indict
ments against him in ever3 r county east of the
Chattahoochee, and he has already served
one term in the Dade coal mines.
A Chicago woman had her husband’s fu
neral procession stop at the door of the Pre
sident of an insurance company that he might
be satisfied that the man was really dead.
1 No Jawsnite for her.
Treatment of Pneumonia.
Charles E. Owens. M. D., M. R. C. S.. in
the Macon Telegraph, gives the following ad
vice in reference to the treatment of tenile
pneumonia, which we take the liberty of
transferring to our columns :
“ Wh}* does pneumonia so often terminate
fatalty? Because, alas, a great number of
ph\*sicians. instead of using means to pro
mote strength, when the system requires it
most, viz : during the pyrexial period, almost
invariably use depletive measures, and death
ensues in consequence. The treatment used
by the writer during an epidemic in the city
of London, in the year 1869, which was pro
ductive of the most satisfactory result, was a
cooling and sustaining one. The internal
administration of simple salines, w*ith beef
tea, milk and oat meal, and if an intense feel
ing of heat were present, small quantities of
ice were allowed to be swallowed from time
to time. Over the affected parts t always
ordered a large poultice to be applied, “com
posed of equal parts of corn meal and slip
pery elm. and renewed every two or three
hours, and when the period of crisis had ar
rived. 1 recommended moderate and strictly
medicinal doses of stimulants in order to as
sist nature. I would remind the reader that
moderate doses of stimulants are no longer
considered by the most eminent of the medi
cal profession as productive of fever, but as
a remedy whereby febrile conditions may be
reduced. Stimulants, then, are capable of
reducing the temperature of the body, and at
the same time of imparting artificial strength
just when required, so that the system is en
abled to recover from its impaired vitality,
and the sufferer is restored to perfect health
instead of being consigned to a premature
grave b}* depletive measures.
To Drive Away Rats.
A lady writer, in a recent number of a
New Y'ork journal, discourses in the follow
ing style concerning her treatment of rats
and mice : “ \Ye cleaned our premises of these
detestable vermin by making a whitewash yel
low with copperas, and covering the stones
and rafters to the cellar with a thick coating
of it. In every crevice where a rat might
tread, we put crystals of the copperas, and
scattered the same in the corners of the floor.
File result was a perfect stampede of rats and
mice. Since that time not a footfall of cither
rat or mouse has been heard about the house.
Every spring a coat of yellow wash is given
to the cellar as a purifier as well as a rat ex
terminator, and no typhoid, dysentery or fe
ver attacks the Tamil}'. Many persons delib
erately attract all the rats in the neighbor
hood b}* leaving fruits and vegetables uncov
ered in the cellar; and sometimes even the
soup scraps arc left, open for their regalement.
Cover up everything eatable in the cellar and
pantry, and you will soon starve them out.
These precautions, joined to the service of a
good cat. will prove as good a rat extermina
tor as the chemist can provide. We never
would allow rats to be poisoned in our dwel
ling; they are so liable to die in the wall,
and produce much annoyance.
The Election Goes to the House.
“ My son," said a pious father out on South
Ilill to his hopeful son, “ you did not saw any
wood for the kitenen stove }*esterdoy as I
told you to, you left the back gate open and
let the cow get in, you cut off 18 feet from
the clothes-line to make a lasso, you stoned
Mr. Robinson’s pet dog and lamed it, you put
a hardshell turtle in the hired girl’s bed. you
tied a strange dog to Mrs. Jacobsen's door
bell, and painted red and green stripes on
the legs of old Mrs. Polaby’s white pon}*, and
hung your sister's bustle out in the front win
dow. What am Itodo ? what can I do to
you for such conduct?” “Arc all the coun
ties heard from ?” asked the candidate. “No
trifling, sir; no, t have yet several reports to
receive from others of the neighbors."—
" Then,” replied the boy, “3*oll will not be
justified in proceeding to extreme measures
until the official count is in.” Shortly after
ward the election was thrown into the house,
and before half the votes were canvassed it
was evident, from the peculiar intonation of
the applause, that the boy* was badly beaten.
Burlington Hawkeye.
It is amusing to watch a young lady in
church arrange the feather in her hat, pull
her veil ever}' now and then over her face,
the next moment brush it away and fix a curl
on her forehead. One young lady, who was
timed at this operation in church last Sun
day, took one hour and twenty-two minutes
to arrange everything satisfactorily, and af
ter five minutes rest she was at work again.
— Aug. Chron. <s• Sent.
A W estern paper publishes a poem on the
“ Butis of Nacher. ’ There were sixty-three
stanzas. The paper contents itself with giv
ing the first, as follows :
Go see what I have sawn.
Go feel what I have felt,
Walk in the fields at earl}' dawn
And smell what I have smelt.
Their little girl gets confused. After be
ing tenderly tucked up in her crib, mamma
said: Now, your prayers Janet. The re
sponse came from the little one, half asleep :
Now I la}' me down to sleep, when the wind
i blows the cradle will rock. Amen.
V TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
'( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
Two hundred Georgia lawyers are apply*
ing for about fourteen Solicitorships.
It is possible that the Illinois Legislature
may elect a Democratic Senator.
A white girl of Atlanta, of sixteen summers,
sentenced to the chain gatlg for vagrancy,
has been pardoned by Gov. Smith,
A large area in rice will be planted the
coming season. The crop this year has been
very encouraging.
Some carrier-pigeons recently flew the twen*
ty miles between Mansfield and Provideneo
in seventeen minutes.
The I legislature of Xorth Carolina has re*
elected lion. Matt. W. KanSoin, Democrat, to
the United States Senate.
The fish and oyster business of Savannah
has assumed large proportions since the ce*
sation of the yellow fever.
Land—good land—with very good improve*
ments, can he purchased in the counties of
Miller. Baker and Early, at from $1.50 to
$2.50 per acre.
The Presbyterian church. South, has ovet*
fifty missionaries (male and female) laboring
in Italy, Greece. China, Brazil, the great In*
dian Territory, and elsewhere.
The Minnesota Supreme Court decides that
an inebriate asylum law which assesses ten
dollars from each liquor seller for support of
the asylum is constitutional.
The St. Louis Times resolves the situation
into tins : “ The Democrats have the law and
the facts on t.lioir side, while the Republicans
have the Administration and the army.”
Gen. Henry R. Jackson is spoken of ns a
suitable person to represent Chatham countv
in the next Legislature, in place of Hon, J,
L. Warren, resigned.
The Georgia State Grange meets in Atlanta
on December 12. Col. James E. Owens, of
flie Markham House, has kindly tendered
them the use of his hall free of charge.
The withdrawal of Hon. H. 11. Carlton
from the contest for Speaker of the House of
Representatiyes narrows the contest down to
Messrs. Bacon, of Bibb : Price, of Lumpkin j
Mid, possibly, Moses, of Muscogee.
The Dalton Enterprise, thinks it is very
strange why so many emigrants are leaving
this State. In one (lay last week sixty cm*
grants left for tl*? West by way of the State
road.
The yearly consumption of the Eagle and
Phcenix Factory and the other four factories
of Columbus, is estimated at 14,085 bales of
cotton. Next year the consumption will be
22.000 bales.
Boss Tweed has arrived in New York, and
has been assigned his old quarters in Ludlow
street jail. Tweed is undoubtedly a great
criminal, but there are worse men than he
now in high places in our government.
There is truth, much truth, in this thought
of a correspondent of the Augusta Constitu
tionalist: “The negro lias a legal right to
vote—let him exercise it; hut no man aspir
ing to represent the people in Georgia should
even think of soliciting his influence.”
The wages of colored laborers in the De*
mocratic State of Georgia are sl2 a month,
while in some other Radical-ridden States tho
wages are SB. The colored “man and broth
er” can readily see on which side his interest
lies.
At Social Circle, on Wednesday, the 29th
ult.. while Robinson's circus was exhibiting
at that place, an affray occurred, in which
two white men—Dick Smith, or Jasper, and
Mark Ilardin, of Rutledge—were killed. So
says the Atlanta Constitution.
The deaf mute, the Rev. Henry W. Syle,
recently ordained by Bishop Stevens, of Penn
sylvania. to the ministry in the Protestant
Episcopal church, has learned nnder the new
system of deaf mute education to repeat aud
ibly the form of baptism and the administra
tion of the Lord's Supper,
Near Baker’s creek, on the Southwestern
Railroad, twenty-two miles from Columbus,
a man, 55 years old, and his son, eight years
old, were both run over by a cCtfTStructrtm
train anti killed. The man. who was drunk*
started to get out of the way—holding to the
boy —when both fell and were run over be
fore the engineer could stop his train, which
was running down grade.
Some curious statistics, just published,
show that out of a population of more than
33,000,000 in France there are 37,927 blind
and 20.512 deaf and dumb; so that in 950
inhabitants there is one blind, and in 1.220
there is onedeaf and dumb person. In Paris
alone there are 7.333 mad people, while in
all France there arc 17,123 male and 14,964
female lunatics.
The Columbia Register shows a specimen
of the manner in which District Attorney Cor
bin manufactures Ku-Klux testimony in South
Carolina. The Register says that "among
the numerous warrants issued in the county
of Aiken for citizens charged with intimida
ting American citizens, was one for Dr. J. W,
Turner, Jr., a former resident of that county,
who has been dead for eleven years.
A (Georgia farmer who emigrated to Arkan
sas. writes back : “ This is a rich country to
farm in, but a poor country to lire in. Crops
are good, but no one can hold out to gather
them. M'e have all lost all we had when wo
came here, and the only thing wc hare to
show for it is the swamp fever, I wish I was
back in Georgia. I never would come back
here, and I would go now if I could get rid
of this Infernal swamp fever.''
A Rome correspondent of the Summerville
Gazette of November 23d, says : “ Rev. A,
G. Normally, who was elected pastor of the
Baptist church at this place, arrived here last
Saturday, and has taken charge of the church,
and preached his first sermon as pastor yes
terday (Sunday), to a very large and appre
ciative andience. He is quite a young man,
and has the reputation of being an able and
a talented minister.
NUMBER 27.