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I UAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
1 )[ ATTOK NEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga..
Till practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
intiou given to all business entrusted to their
l ire. Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly
Dll. C. R. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can he found at
she office recently occupied by Col. Mahalley.
Jan. 22, 1870—tf
U FLOYD, I J. R. SILMAN,
Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
Ploy if a nilnay,
I ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts i
to counties of Jackson and Walton.
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fL PIKE, .lllornev at Law,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
Practices in all the Courts, State and Federal.
Prompt and thorough attention given to all
ads of legal business in Jackson and adjoining
tnunties. June 12. 1875
*ILKY C. HOWARD. ROII’T S. HOWARD.
aOWAKII Ac HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson. Ga.
Will practice together in all the Courts of Jack
in and adjacent counties, except the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county. Sept Ist ’75
STANLEY & PINSON,
j JEFFERSON, GA..
HEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
\ ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
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DR. W. X. AMAAYDKK.
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th. 1875. flm
(|EoRGIA, Jackson County.
a (ill whom it mag concern — Greeting:
lou are hereby notified that, after the publica
: i of this notice for thirty" days, an order will be
establishing anew road, commencing at
•*ap's Mill and running to J N Thompson's store,
■ r,lts ssome valid objections is made to the con
*y. WM. SEYMOUR.
W. J. HAYNIK. Sr..
W. G. STEED.
dcc23 Comm'rs of Roads and Revenue.
JF. P. TAIMABGE,
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LOCATION— No, S, Granite Row, south side Broad Street, ATHENS, GA.
April Ist, 1870 ly
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Ruleix; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
ODDS AND ENDS.
“ I think I will have autumn leaves on mv
new hat,’ said she. “I am glad of it," re
turned he, “for autumn leaves are falling."
There is one advantage in having false
teeth. If they begin to ache you can take
them out and lay them on the mantelpiece
until they become more reasonable.
It is a pitiful sight to see half a dozen
lodgers in a cheap boarding-house gathered
at the breakfast table, eyeing the last hot
biscuit on the plate and waiting for someone
to grab it.
TV hen a country editor, not long in the
harness, read in his fashion exchange that
“many English ladies wear full suits of cha
mois," he grabbed his dictionary to see if
that was the right way to spell “chemise,"
At the opening exercises of Abbott Acad
emy, Andover, Mass., Professor Smith told
the young ladies that, while he was not “pre
pared to send them forth as captains in the
social ship, there would never be any difficulty
in their finding situations as first mates.”
A Bit of Texan Humor. —“A young man
atKember’s Bluff, in this State,” says a Texas
paper, “acquired the habit of tossing a cock
ed and loaded pistol in the air, and catching
it by the muzzle as it fell. The last time he
caught it was just a moment before he died.”
A couple of hoodlums attended a revival
meeting at Peoria, Oregon, and upon a call
of the pastor rose and walked to the altar,
where they indulged in a rongh-and-tumble
fight for possession of a cushion to kneel up
on.
This is a story of what happened not long
since in the Pine Tree State : Anew Baptist
convert wished very much to be baptized by
one minister and to join the church of another.
She went to the first, and asked him if it could
be done. “Yes"he replied, “I could do it;
but I don’t take in washing.”
“May they always live in peace and har
mony.” was the wav a Yankee marriage notice
should have wound up ; but the compositor,
who couldn’t read manuscript very" well, put
in type and horrified the happy couple by
making it read “May they always live on
peas and hominy’.”
In Michigan a Justice of the Peace having
been hunted up with some difficulty by’ a
telegraphic messenger, with a dispatch an
nouncing his father’s death, refused to pay
the charge of $1 for delivery. lie said : “I
ain’t a-goin’ to pay for that news, for I’ve
been expectin’ the old man to die for some
time.” f
Times are so hard and money so close that
the managers of church fairs have resolved,
in pity for a suffering public, to reduce the
price of worsted dogs and flannel pin cushions
to six dollars and thirty cents a piece, while
a chance in the prize cake will not cost more
than three dollars. Pen-wipers will be abso
lutely’ given away at from two to five dollars
each.
A distinguished politician, while convers
ing with a lady’ the other evening, became
piqued bv her attention to a beautiful dog
that was resting its head confidingly’ in her
lap. and impatiently asked : “How is it that
a lady of vour intelligence can be so fond of
a dog?’’ “Because lie never talks politics,”
was the prompt reply.
LTTTiiosk whoknew the late John 11. Floyd,
of Virginia, will remember that his complexion
was dark, and his hair, although of fine texture,
very curly, clustering in close ringlets all
over his head. He always dressed inexceed
ing good taste, and wore the best of broad
cloth, so that he presented an exceptionally
fine appearance. During the administration
of Mr. Buchanan, a reception was given at
the White House to a delegation of Indians
from the plains, and Governor Floyd attend
ed, as secretary of war, to receive the gentle
savages and present them to the president.
He was arrayed in full evening costume,
swallow-tail, choker and white kids, in order
that the occasion might be as impressive as
possible. The aborigines were gotten up in
most extravagant display of paint, feathers'
and gewgaws. After the eeremom’ had been
concluded, Governor Floyd, by wav of diver
tisement, proudly touched his own manly
breast and remarked to one of the chiefs, in
the usual vernacular : “ Me Indian —Virginia
Indian blood—Pocahontas !” The chief gazed
at him from head to foot, looking very doubt
ing and then putting his hand on the govern
or’s head and feeling his curls, gravely an
swered : “No Indian —no Indian! Hair
heap like nigger!” “Old Buck” roared at
the sally, in which Governor Floyd, who
loved ajoke even at his own expense, heartily
joined. But historian* say he never sub
sequently claimed Indian blood.
The way some old fellows watched the old
year out at Medway, Mass., was by opening
and drinking a jug of Medford rum, which
was scaled up by them twenty years Yjefore.
There were thirty-five of them then, and, their
meeting being so boisterous as to provoke po
lice interference, the jug was corked up, and
the meeting adjourned for twenty years. On
ly nine remained to finish the liquor.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JAN’Y 27, 1877.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
Salicylic -Acid in the Household-
Dr. Von Heyden gives the following direc
tions for using this newly introduced antisep
tic in the preservation of food, and for other
purposes in domestic economy :
l.'Raw meat: It frequently happens, es
pecially in the warm season, that meat which
is otherwise faultless emits an unpleasant
smell on boiling. This is often the case with
certain kinds of meat, like tongues, etc.,
which contain readily decomposing particles
of fat and blood. This is easily remedied by
laying the meat, before cooking, in warm
water which contains from half to one tea
spoonful of salicylic acid to the quart; or by
putting a little acid in the water in which it
is boiled.
To protect meat from spoiling for a few
days either of tiic following methods may be
employed: Place it in water containing
from \ to 1 teaspoonful of acid in a quart of
water; or rub it with dry salicylic acid, es
pecially near the bone and fat. The manner
of keeping it, as well as the previous cleans
ing, is as usual. Although raw meat, when
treated with salicylic acid, loses its fine red
color on the surface, it suffers no change
within. The meat also cooks soft in a short
time. It is also advantageous to add 1£ tea
spoonful of the acid to a quart of brine used
in pickling meat 9.
2. Pure cow's milk: The addition of |
to 1 teaspoonful to a quart (or about | to 1
gramme per liter ) of dry cry’stalized acid—
not in aqueous solution—prevents curdling
for 36 hours longer than otherwise, and yet
it retains the property’ of yielding cream and
butter perfectly’.
3. Butter : If butter be worked with wa
ter containing one teaspoonl’nl of acid to the
quart, and kept in such water, or packed in
cloths soaked in an aqueous solution of the
acid, it keeps much longer. Even butter
which has began to be rancid can be improv
ed by carefully washing with salicylic water,
2 or 3 teaspoonfuls to the quart, and washing
in clean water.
4. Preserved fruits: Cherries, currants,
raspberries, plums, apricots, and peaches
may, as experience has proved, be very ad
vantageously’ treated in the following man
ner: The fruit is placed in a preserve jar.
with not a very wide mouth, layers of fruit
alternating with layers of sugar, but no wa
ter; and strewing over it a pinch of salicylic
acid (| gramme to the kilogramme, or 3|
grains to the 1b..) and covering the jar with
parchment paper which has been softened in
salicylic acid solution, and then boiling as
usual in a water bath. Bilberries, or blue
berries, are better boiled without sugar, al
lowed to cool, and put into narrow-mouthed
bottles (some crystals of salicylic acid being
strewed over them), corked and sealed. Fruit
preserved in this way’ has kept well for two
seasons. Others have recommended cover
ing the fruit in the jar with a close-fitting
strip of blotting paper, which has been satu
rated with a solution of salicylic acid in rum.
For cucumber pickles, and those put up
with vinegar and sugar, a corresponding pro
cess is recommended ; the acid being boiled
in the vinegar, and when cold poured over
the pickles. For salted cucumbers, salicylic
acid is put in the water during the boiling (J
--to 1 teaspoonful to 1 quart), and otherwise
treated as usual. It is also recommended to
sprinkle salicylic acid in the barrel on the
surface of the pickles.
5. Boiled vegetables: An equally’ small
amount of dry salicylic acid may be added
to these to prevent their spoiling.
6. For disinfecting and purifying the air
and walls of closed rooms, salicylic acid may
he evaporated on a hot sheet of iron or tin.
7. Vessels, corks, etc., which have a disa
greeable odor or taste, will be rendered per
fectly sweet by washing with a solution of
salicylic acid, a fact that deserves special at
tention.
The best method of preparing these salicy
lic acid solutions is to put 2 or 3 teaspoon*
fills of acid in a quart of water, heat rapidly
to boiling, and let cool. What separates on
cooling is an excess of pure acid, which may
be kept for subsequent use, or it may be well
stirred up and used in suspension when more
of the acid is wanted than will go into solu
tion.
In this connection we may add that the
purest form of salicylic acid is that obtained
by it is impossible to remove all
the tarry and resinous matter by recrystalli
zation. — Scientific American.
A Parable. —A popular preacher recently
quoted the dream of a seer, who saw a man
in great torment in every limb but his right
foot. He asked why that was released. “This
man,” was the answer “is being punished
for his selfishness and indolence, and was
never known to do a good deed, except that
he once kicked a turf of fresh grass toatethered
ox, standing in the hot sun, and for this one
act that foot is saved from torment.”
Howe’s London Circus was levied on under
attachments by the United States. The cir
cus and menagerie are now in the hands of
the Sheriff and will be sold in Augusta, Ga.,
on January 29th.
Getting Out of Debts-
Several instances of dealings with credi
tors have lately been mentioned in the news
papers, worth potting on record, to be imi
tated if they are right, to be condemned if
they are wrong- •
In Boston, the publisher of a Roman Cath
olic newspaper, the Pilot, failed in business
about a year ago. Donohue, the proprietor,
was then in debt SIOO,OOO to depositors in
the savings bank which was one of his busi
ness enterprises. Donohue’s paper was bought
by its editor, Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly, in
connection with Archbishop Williams. Al
though in no way legally or morally respon
sible for the losses suffered by Mr. Donohue's
depositors, the new proprietors of the Pilot
assumed the debt. Mr. O’Reilly has so man
aged the finances of the paper that he Is now
able to declare a first dividend of ten per ct.
to the depositors. The course of the new
owners of the Pilot is so honorable, and, un
fortunately, so unusual, that we cite it for
special commendation ; an example to be im
itated by Protestants as well as Catholics,
we would be glad to see it added that Dono
hue applied the money’ he got for the paper
to the payment of his debts, hut it is proba
ble that he had no choice in the matter.
Another example is this: A Protestant
church, in a neighboring city, was embarrass
ed with a heavy debt. Two mortgages, a
first and second, pressed upon it. Under
foreclosure of the second mortgage, the church
was sold, and was bought in by one of the
church for about the face of the first, leaving
the second mortgage a total loss to its holder.
Then the church co potation dissolved, reor
ganized, bought thv church of the purchaser,
and thus, by a change of name, the same
church and people become the owners of the
property, subject only to the debt that was
covered by the first mortgage. In other
words, they wipe out the second mortgage by
this change of their corporate name, and the
transfer of the property from the old to the
new corporation.
We would be pleased to have any one of
the parties show us that it is right.. If we
misjudge in regarding it, as an illustration of
the old adage about “whipping the devil
around the stump,” we would gladly have our
erroneous impression corrected, and if we
can learn that this is the right and proper
way to pay off church debts, we will com
mend it as an admirable, as it is certainly an
easy, mode of slipping off a heavy burden.
It, however, appears to us that the obliga
tion of a debt is both legal and moral. The
law may release one from legal liability to
pay a debt; moral obligation is perpetual.
Religious corporations are morally responsi
ble for their debts, and there is no discharge
in that war.
In the two cases we have cited, the Roman
Catholic parties were not under legal or moral
obligation to pay the debts of the concern
they bought: but, as they expected to profit
by the purchase, they resolved first to pay
the old debts of the former proprietor; the
Protestant parties voluntarily took measures
by which they could be legally released from
their indebtedness, and their creditors left
without security or redress.— N. Y. Observer.
Who are the Blessed?
Blessed is the man who minds his own bu
siness.
Blessed is the woman who never says to
her husband, “I told you so ”
Blessed is the man who can sew on his
bottonswhen the baby is crying.
Blessed is the woman who won’t marry a
widower—providing he’s your father.
Blessed is the mother-in-law who never
reminds you that you married above your
station.
Blessed is the rich relation who never looks
down on you—when you are in the gutter.
Blessed is the poor relation who never
looks up to you—for money.
Blessed is the old maid that don’t hate old
people and children.
Blessed is the old bachelor that don’t hate
cats and pincushions.
Blessed are the married people that don’t
wish they were single.
Blessed are the single people that are con
tent to remain so.
Blessed is the husband who never says liis
mother’s pies were better than his wife’s are.
Blessed is the wife (formerly a widow) who
never calls up the virtues of the “dear depar
ted” for No. 2 to emulate.
Blessed is the man who gives his wife ten
cents without asking what she i9 going to do
with it.
Blessed is the woman that don’t scold when
the stove-pipe falls down on the dinner table
and —blessed is the man that can fix it up
without swearing.
Blessed is the friend who never requires
the loan of your umbrella.
Blessed is the neighbor who is so busy
about his own affairs that he has no time to
pry into yours.
Where are the blessed ?
Echo answers, “Where ?”
In the published list of the alumni of the
University of Georgia, there are 11 Claytons
and 13 Cobbs.
Tennessee Speaki,
On Wednesday last, Gov. Porter, of Ten
nessee, sent bis Message to the Legislature.
He uses this language in referring to Federal
outrages and the Presidential muddle :
‘The representatives of tlie people of Ten
nessee cannot disregard the recent action of
the Federal authorities in certain States of
the South, notably in Florida, Louisiana, So.
Carolina and Virginia. In three of them towns
and districts have been garrisouad with troops
of the United States at a time of profonnd
peace, without any proper demand being
made for assistance by the local authorities,
and the State House of South Carolina was
subjected to an armed occupation by Federal
troops. The army was made the arbiter of a
disputed election and has been prostituted to
the base purpose of organizing a partisan
Legislature. The order of a subaltern exclud
ing the represenativesof the people from the
State Capitol was made, impudently and
without shame, in the interest of judicially
declared fraud, and against the judgment of
the law as rendered in its highest court. The
represenatives of the people of Tennessee
should protest against these accumulated out
rages with the utmost solemnity and energy.’
When Men are at their Best.
Dr. Beard states that from an analysis of
the lives of a thousand represenntive men in
all the great branches of the human family,
he made the discovery that the golden decade
was between forty and fifty, the brazen be
tween twenty and thirty/, the iron between fif
ty and sixty. The superiority of youth and
middle life over old age in original *work ap
pears all the greater when we consider the
fact that all the positions of honor'and pres
tige, professorship and public stations, arc
in the hands of the old. Reputation, like
inone}’ and position, is mainly confined to
the old. Men are not widely known until
long after they have done the work that gives
them their fame, l’ortraits of great men are
delusions ; statues are lies. They are taken
when men have become famous, which on
the average, is at least twenty-five years af
ter they did the work which gave them their
fame. Original work requires enthusiasm.
Men are at their best at that time when en
thusiasm and experience are almost evenly
balanced. This period, on the average, is
from thirty-eight to forty. After this the law
is that experience increases, hut enthusiasm
decreases. —London Family Journal*
An Important Discovery.
M. Siroy, a member of the Valparaiso So
ciety of Horticulture, has made the discovery
that the leaves of the tomato plant are a sure
protection to fruit trees against the attacks
of insects. A fine orchard of peach trees
was attacked, just after budding, by the cur
culio, and afterwads by ants. While the trees
were thus infested, the idea occurred to M.
Siroy that by placing leaves around the trunks
and branched he might ward off the rays of
the sun, which were very powerful. For this
purpose he happened to chose tomato leaves.
On the following da}' he found the trees en
tirely free from their enemies, notone remain
ing except here and there where a curled leaf
prevented the tomato from exercising its in
fluence, these leaves he carefully unrolled,
placing upon them fresh ones from the toma
to vine, with the result of banishing the last
insect, and enabling the trees to grow with
luxuriance. Further experiment showed that
a decoction of the tomato leaves was equally
efficacious in freeing roses, orange trees and
other plants from destructiveinsects.
Do not be Afraid of the Bible.
Its triumphs are certain. The owls may
hoot at the rising sun, but the sunshine creeps
on notwithstanding. Tribes may perish,
priests may die, altars may crumble into ruin,
but this blessed Book advances at apace that
never oeases; and if it ever retreats, with a
greater glory than it advances. This Book,
inspired by the Spirit of God, climbs steep
hills and crosses broad rivers. It is found
under the sailors pillow, and it soars with a
wing that is not numbered by polar snows,
or relaxed under equatorial suns. It carries
with it an earnest of its ultimate and everlast
ing victory. And this Book tells ns what the
real disease of man is. It lavs its fingers on
the very spot, and tells us the blessed truth
that there is no chance or accident; that all
is settled and perfectly arranged, even that
ripple of sorrow that sometimes comes to the
sensitive heart, as you will find if } t ou trace
it backward, comes from no earthly spring to
fret us, but from the fountain of living waters,
to strengthen, cheer and encourage us.
A Springfield butcher was invited the other
night to attend a ftiinstrel show but positively
declined, even when a free ticket was offered
to him. When pressed for a reason, he replied
“If I should go, I should see so many people
who owe me for meat, that it would spoil all
my fun.”
Italy has declared its seventeen uni*
veraitie9 open to women. The like action
has been taken by Switzerland, Norway,
Sweden and Denmark. A ministerial order
has been issued in Holland opening every
university and gymnasium to women. France
has opened the Sorbonne to women, and
Russia its highest schools of medicine and
surgery.
* TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
) $l.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
G-LEANtNG-S.
' '
Hoar ha* been elected to the United States
sonnte from Massachusetts and Hailey front
Tennessee.
The friends of Hon. A. H. Stephens are
very much alarmed at his late illness, and it
is very much feared that he will be compelled
to return home before the winter is over.
The majority for Gov. Porter, of Tennessee,
on his re-eTection. was so great that the
legislature declared him to bo the governor
without consulting the votes.
Over eight hundred cigar makers tffe out
of employment in New York city, on account
of their inability tp obtain licenses as maim*
facturers.
A buzzard has been seen a few miles front
Cartersville Hying through the air withasmaU
bell attached to its neck, and tho Express
Wants to know who hasjost a. belled buzzard.
The Montgomery Adi'aftinet says the Tom-*
bighee river was frozen over, from hank to
bank, recently. Think of a man weighing
two hundred pounds walking across a rivef
on ice in Alabama or Mississippi 1
Last year 20.211 deaths acctifred in New
York city, an average of 80 each day. Tho
number of births reported during the same
time was 23,744. which is greatly at variance
with the generally accepted theories regarding
the relative proportions of births to deaths
The Rome Courier wishes the Legislature
to amend the election laws; provide for A
registration of voters, require each te vote in
his own precinct, and make illegal voting art
offense punishable with three years hard
labor in the penitentiary.
The Young Men’s Christian Association
of LaGrange. Ga,. have se.t apart Friday. tho
9th da}' of February nest,, as day of fasting
and prayer, and fall, upon kindred associa
tions in this and other States to join with
them in its observance.
.\f ■ ■ • . ,
Prof. G. A. Orr, the State School Commis
sioner. visited over forty counties of this
State last year, made public addresses in
each one of them, spent eight months in the
work, at an expense to the State of not eij
ceedi ng foi'ty dollars.
A remarkable phenomenon is reported aft
having occurred at Memphis during the rain
storm which prevailed there on Monday, being
the falling of a shower of snakes, varying itt
length from one foot to eighteen inches. The
question to be answered is, where did they
come from ?
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The situation in New Orleans is quiet and
hopeful. All danger of collision between the
Nicholls and Packard governments has pass
ed, and the statu quo will be preserved until
the report of the Congressional committee*
have been made to their respective house*
and acted upon*; ~
In Newark, N. J., last week, a poor woman
left her infant child, eighteen months old,
alone in the kitchen, where, on the floor, was
a large boiler of scalding water, from which
had just been taken some linen. Upon hep
return her horror may be imagined upon find
ing the child drowned in the boiler.
A Kentucky man has answered, in a very
common sense way the question, “What i#
the injured husbapd to. do.” Ills bride har
ing eloped, he punished her by promptly mar
rying a better looking woman. If this rem
edy be fully considered, it will be Touud to
be superior in most resjiccts to suicide, mur*
der, or a suit for damages.
Methodism in Georgia is in a flourishing
condition, as will appear from the following
figures taken from the minutes of the North
Georgia Conference of the M. E. Church
South; “Number of traveling preacher*,
175 ; number of traveling preachers on trial,
23; number of members, 56,184; increase
during the year 1876, 1,984 ; number of local
preachers in North Georgia Conference, 429 ;
value of church property, $783,944.”
A sad example of the fatal nature cfdiph
theria has just occurred in Paris. A whole
family, consisting of father and mother and
two children, were attacked with R and car
ried off in a short time. Dr. Regfiatilt, who
attended them, caught the malady, and if*
spite of the care of one of his colleagues. Dr,
Bi3et, died also in twenty-four hours. Dr,
Biset was then attacked in his turn, and he
expired.
One difference between the Reformed and
Protestant Episcopal chnrchcs is this : The
Protestant Episcopal church discourages the
use of extemporaneous prayer in the stated
services of the church, prohibiting It by can
on. The Reformed Episcopal church allow#
and encourages the union of extempore pray
er with its liturgy, and values meetings for
social worship, in which the laity participate,
as promoting the spiritual growth of churches.
KF'SoruLTHiNG new in men and women
has been discovered by a missionary. Jfc
appears that real cannibals still live and
prosper, and that a race of people with tails
still exist in an ont-of-the-way place. These
statements roust be accepted as facts, of
course, because they are made by a missionary.
The wonders have a being on the islands of
New Britain and New Ireland, off the north*
east coast of New Guinea. These natives
are nude savages of the Oriental negro type,
who live more like beasts than humanbeings.
The Rev. George Brown, a Wesleyan mis
sionary, reports that he saw women roasting
the leg and thigh of a man who had been
killed in a fight. In another hut smoke-clrted
human flesh was hanging. In anotlicr he
counted thirty-five jaw bones of men and
women. Cannibalism seems to be common
throughout the islands, not as a religious rite,
but as an ordinary means of subsistence.
The natives assured the missionary that the
accounts heretofore published of a race of
tailed human beings were true, and were cer
tain that these strange creatures were not
monkeys, and, as already remarked, no one
must doubt this story of cannibals and tale
of tails, for the account comes from the
guileless lips of a missionary man,— Ckron,
Sent.
NUMBER 33.