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f THE JACKSON COUNTY ( COMPANY. \ (OtUMS 11. I\\t fottif prB LISHED EVERY SATURDAY, Jack*#* Connty Publlxhlng (’ontpany. jfj'FERSOX, JACKSON CO M GJ. % * W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRB. WALCOM STAFFORD, masaoing and business editor. TERMS Of SUBSCRIPTION. „ f onT 12 months . $*2.00 "•• 6 “ 1.00 “ 3 “ .. 50 rffoE ever/ Club of Ten subscribers, an ex- IJpy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. (K E Dollar per square (often lines or less) f [ht first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents rich subsequent insertion. Advertisements sent without specifics- I of the number of insertions marked thereon, rj he published TILL FORBID, and charged or Professional Cards, of sixlines Llfsi, Seven DoIJaARS per annum; and where (f Jo not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. ( ontruct Advertising. I The following will be the regular rates for con !Lct*<ivertising, and will be strictly adhered to liUcases : {CAKES. Iw. Im. 3m. ft m. 13m. El. $1 00 $2 50 s(> 00 $9 00 sl2 00 L 200 550 11 00 17 00 22 00 |ree 300 C 75 10 00 21 00 30 00 fcir 400 950 18 75 25 00 36 00 rt 500 10 25 21 50 29 00 42 00 - 6 00 12 00 24 25 33 00 48 00 reive 11 00 21 75 40 00 55 00 81 00 foitecn .... 15 00 30 50 54 50 75 50 109 00 frtntytwo 17 00 34 00 00 00 90 00 125 00 js*A square is one inch, or about 80 words of Ltvpe used in our advertising columns. ! Transient advertisements and announcing can- Uates for office will he Cash. I Address all communications for publication and Lj letters on business to MALCOM STAFFORD, Managing and Business Editor. [• jWWiumif Sc business Curds. ■a. b. maiiaffey. w. v. m'cakty. 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. I junel2—l y 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. j’unc 19 ly 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, DEALER IN AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELIt Y, SILVEIi $ PLATED WARE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, GUNS. PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, AC. "W'-A.TOHES, CLOCKS J±2sTT> JEWELRY REPAIRED In a neat and workmanlike manner, and warranted to give entire satisfaction. (Ornamental mid Plain Letter Engraving; a Specially. 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 ? .* iV . >4.0/ I- ■ , 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.