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malcom Stafford'
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ftafcssimuif L lousiness (Ennis.
Bl\ IVOFFOIID, Attorney-aMjiw.
• Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos.. 6a.
IVill practice in all the adjoining counties, and
give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
his care. Collecting claims a specialty.
March 3d, 1877.
wiley c. How ard. rob’t s. Howard.
W. C. k 11. 8. HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AND COi NSELLORS AT
LA W,
f24 Jefferson. (4a.
Law Card.
MV term as Ordinary having expired, l am
devoting my time and energies entirely to
the practice of the law. Mr. Robert S. lfow
,uu> is associated with me. Either or both of us
can always be found at our office, except when
absent on business. Special and careful atten-
Jion will be given to all business entrusted to us.
and to advising Executors, Administrators and
Guardians in the management of estates. -Office,
up-stairs, over Billy Thompson store-room.
WILEY C. HOWARD,
feb‘24 Counsellor at Law, Jefferson. 6a.
Medical and Surgical Notice.
DU. W. A. WATSON respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of
Jefferson and surrounding country. Residence,
at the old “Watson Homestead,” Sycamore st.
Office, in Col. J. B. Silman's law office. When
not professionally absent, can he found at one or
the other of the above places. Jan 27 ly
DR. J. R. PENDERGRASS
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Jefferson and surround
tng country ; and by strict attention to his studies
anil profession, hopes to merit continued confi
dence. 11c can be found at his office, one door
north of Pendergrass A Hancock’s store, at all
times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th, 1877.
DU. W. 8. 41.1A i.ViDKK,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. * 6m
j- A. B. MAIIAFFEY. VV. V. M*CAKTY.
UAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
AJL ATTOR NE YS A T LA W,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to' all business entrusted to their
cart*. Patronage solicited. OctJO ly
lUL c. 1L GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the office recently occupied by Col. Mahatfey.
Jan. 22, 1876 — tf
J. J. FLOYD, | J. 11. BILMAN,
Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
A TTOILN E VS-A T-L AW.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts <m
the counties of Jackson and Walton,
june I*2—ly
\\’ I. PIliK, Allornev it Law,
yy . JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
Practices in all the Courts, State and Federal.
Prompt and thorough attention given to all
kinds of legal business in Jackson and adjoining
counties. June 12 1875
STANLEY A PINSONT
JEFFERS OX. GA.,
1 iF.ALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
* ' l ies. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 19 ly
( | ttOlUnl.t, Jncksou County.
Whereas, J. T. Wood makes application to me
n ‘ proper form for Letters of Administration, with
’•he will annexed, upon the estate of Andrew llaw
k'us. late of said county, dcc’d—
, ‘ Ids is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned,
k'udred and creditors, to show cause, if any they
* n - at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary
said county, to be held on the Ist Monday in
t Jy, 1877, why Letters of Administration, with
hr will annexed, should not issue to the said J.
T - Wood.
- Civen under mv official signature, this March
marlO H. W, BELL. Ord’y.
BLANKS.
At the Forest News Office.
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People tlieii own ltulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
Der Candidat.
Her tousand candidats for office, vhich
sometimes arise, yoost previously to some
elections, vas now in acdiful}', preparing to
to make var upon dhose who vas been in
dimes past gone, dheir supporters. Dhey
vas rising, and der dust vhich vas ackomba
ny efery flap of dheir immackulate vings, vas
being pushed der troats down of dose vhich
cirkumstances alone, vas compel em to lif in
dheir dishtricts. Not one mans could reform
some physikle impossibilities, dhen not one
vas unable to oxcape der sudden regard, tind
feltin heart feel, for vhich der candidat for
office enderdains to dhose vat vas ontitled to
a free use mit his election franchises.
A candidat’s coundenance vas inshtrumen
del in besenting for inshpecktion dirdeen
tifTerent und dishtinct shanges in about }*oost
so many seckonds, but der most gomplete
transformation of der facial expression vas
oxhibited immediately afdcr der elecktion
of the odder feller.
A shtandin candidat bosesscs vonderful
bowers of outsight der human frame in.—
Nadure vas efidently in cahooters mit him,
und endowed him mit dose vor.derful pro-
pensities for a burboses ; for mid dis singu
lar attributions he vas cabable of lookin
avay down, der most segret blaces of your
heart into, und got inflamations, vliile pressing
your hant, vat vas yuor oxact addidude about
him. Efen aldough you vas alwas demonsh
dradc in efery shapes und forms dot you
don’d like pooty veil him. neider socially nor
polidickallv, sukercessful in andedatin yous
feelings by sefernl seckonds.
Der candidat who vas always found in his
frent's hants, vas usually a sootpull in der
same hants, before der kampaine vas no more.
Dot feller nefer gits der pinacle of his aspi
rations up but yoost shtobs vhere her force
of der krand bouncer vas sent him ; here he
vas quiedly seddled himself down, hobefully
avaiting der obbordunidy of again findin a
soft seat—in der balms of his frents’ hants.
It vas a circular singleumshtancc dot vliile
nadure vas poodin some good gualidies der
candidat in, dot she coodn’t haf completed
der job.
Misther Solomon, in all his brisdine beau*
dy und lusdre, liefer vas arra} r e<l mit de"
same amount of cheek as vas found in der
face of der candidat, who always liafe der
nominashuns in his pandyloons bockets.
Yhen id is our misfordunes to come in con
duct mit a man like dhose, who vas inflickted
so badly mit inflation de bombosidg, we vas
feel yoost like a feller who vas come from
ner coundr}* out der ploughed grounds afer,
in der nite mit a tark landern (oxspecially
if it vas our desires to liafe annuder feller
eleckted.”)
Vile der summer sun vas go fool in around,
tropping her varm breath on der shleepin val
leys, she only vastes her shweetness on der
desert airs vhem she addempts to raise some
perspirations, by shedding a single ray on
her hard shock of a candidat dot nominades
his own self, don’d it ?
Put dot among der arkhives. —Carl Pretzel.
Life in Texas.
A newcomer in a Texas town always enjo3 r s
himself. After spending a short time looking
around the place, he grows wear}' and finally
asks clerk of the hotel if there is an}* chance
of having fun that day. And the clerk,
scratching his head a moment, sa}*s : “ Well,
I dunno; I reckon we can get up something
for you before night. Haven't been slot at
yet, have you ? No ! Oh, well, you will he
soon. Just loaf around the streets a little
while, and even if you ain't shot at yourself,
you can dodge the bullets intended for some
other person. Maybe you might object to its
coming in that way—sort o' second hand, you
know; and, if you do, why wait a little while,
and I'll go out with you, and I guess we can
get up something real lively.” Two minutes
afterward that man is studying the time table
for the leaving time of the next train, and
not even the clerk's promise to let him carry
the revolver t hat he shot a man with last week
can keep the guest in town over night. Scene
at a hotel—“ Good morning, stranger, it looks
like rain ?” Stranger —“I think not.” A
shot is heard, and the stranger is rolled out
of the back door.
Moral—Texas is a fine grazing country.
Useful Information.
We are sure of the grateful thanks of many
of our Benedict friends of this city for the
following valuable information. It is found
in the Chicago Tribune:
“Sec here, old fellow,” said his companion
to a married man about midnight on Saturday,
as they were engaged in making Rome howl,
•‘you’d better be going home, or you'll catch
fits from the old woman.” “Not much. 1
don’t go home till half-past 2 at the earliest.
What, ho there ! More wine ! If I was fool
enough to go home now, it's eight to seven
that the old woman would be laying for me
with a broomstick, or something ; but by 1
o’clock she'll get anxious, and by half-past
she’ll remember our courtship’s happy days,
and think with tears that if she had always
been as kind as she was during the first year
of our married life I wouldn't be going to sa
loons ; and by 2 she’ll wonder if I have been
killed and thrown into the river, and whether
I've kept up my life insurance, and whether
the corpse will be much bloated, and if she
will faint at the inquest, and soon, and then's
the time for me to go home. I tell you she
kills the fiitted calf every time. She’s just
clockwork, and I'm posted about her like a
regular old Prob. What, hojthere l Set’em
up again.” .
Try it on, boys, and report how it works
in this latitude.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. APRIL 14,1877.
Tax Fi. Fas—What Costs arc Legally Col
lectable.
Waynesville, Ga., March 13th, 1877.
Editor Morning A exes : An unusual number
of persons the past year were not able to
meet the payment of their taxes before the
Tax Collector closed his books, and have
since found themselves much embarrassed
by the additional costs, as it was doubtful
whether a Sheriff could legally execute a tax
fi. fa. The Legislature of 1876 passed an en
abling act authorizing them to do so, but
providing that when the sum was less than
one hundred dollars their fees should be the
same as constables, Which are prescribed in
the Code, as follows, to wit: For levying
and advertising a fi. fa., thirty-five cent 9;
for settling same before sale, thirty cents*—
making a total of sixtv-five cents, in addi
tion to the fee due the Tax Collector of fifty
cents Tor issuing the fi. fa.—making, in all,
one dollar and fifteen cents to be added to
the amount of the'tax. Instead of this mod
erate sum, many' hundreds of your readers
have been called upon to pay two dollars for
serving the fi. fa. and two dollars for settling
it, in addition to the Tax Collector's fee of
fifty cents—making, in all, four dollars and
a half; in plain language, swindled out of
the sum of three dollars and thirty-five cents.
Every person who has so suffered should pre
sent the sheriff to the nexl grand jury of his
county, and sue him. besides, for the recov
ery of that amount before the Magistrate’s
Court of the district in which the Sheriff re
sides.
The State is a heavy loser by such mal
practice, for many persons who pay only a
poll tax. and have no property to be levied
on, would be willing and able eventually to
pay legal cost, but are unwilling and unable
to pay the illegal demand. The act of 1876
also prescribes that the property levied on
shall be advertised and sold in the same man
ner as is done by constables, which is by
putting up notices in three or more of the
most public places in the district. By what
right, therefore, does the Sheriff entail an
additional cost of from five to ten dollars by
advertising in public print? thus forcing a
poor man whose whole tax may not amount
to more than two or three dollars to pay ten or
fifteen.
I am aware that the Sheriff claims that by
law he must so advertise all real estate, but
the act of 1876 says he shall not. Will not
someone learned in the law rise and ex
plain ? There is entirely too much obscure
and hasty legislation done than is good for
the pockets of the people. As very few per
sons are so situated that they can keep them
selves posted in regard to legal fees, you
will doubtless confer a favor upon very many
by publishing this article. Fair Flay.
We are not at all certain that the above,
which is taken from the Savannah Morning
News, has any application to our own locali
ty. But then, there are quite a number of
people—not excepting some legal officers—
who are, to a good extent, ignorant on many
important points of “every-day law,” and
for the benefit of all such, the communication
is re.published in these columns.—Ed. News.
Editor of the Journal o f Commerce : Will
yon kindly inform me who is the author of
the doctrine “ Ilell is paved with infant
skulls,” and in wLat book I may find it orig
inally expressed ?
Very respectfull3 r , t. a. w.
Reply. —The “author” of “Hell is paved
with infant skulls” it appears to be conceded,
was Lackington himself, although in his bi
ography he pretends to quote this and a
kindred passage, “Infants in hell but a span
long,” from “a deep author.” Who the au
thor is no one has yet discovered, and he is
90 “deep’’ that no one has ever fathomed the
source of the quotation. James Lackington
was an English bookseller, and published
this autobiography containing the pretended
quotation in 1791.
The saying of Baxter, “Ilell is paved with
good intentions,” is traced by St. Francis de
Sales in 1605 to St. Bernard. In writing to
Madame de Quintal he says : “Ho not be
troubled by S. Bernard's saying that “Ilell is
full of good intentions and wills.’ There are
two kinds of good will. One sa} r s ‘I would
fain to do well, but it is hard to do, so 1
shall not do it.’ The other says ‘I mean to
do right, but I have less strength than good
will, and that hinders me.’ The first of
these fills Ilell, the second Paradise.”
A Good Cotton Year.
There is every indication that the present
will he a good year in which to raise a very
large crop of cotton. We have had a very
severe winter, and that always leaves the
soil in a fine, mellow condition for the king
of staples. The laborers are reported work
ing better than ever before, and there is not
the remotest indication of an overflow of the
Mississippi valley, which produces an im
mense crop. In fact we have every reason
to believe that a huge crop will be made, and
we are greatly rejoiced at it. What the
world needs is a vast supply of low-priced
cotton, and the south is in a condition to
supply the need. We put the crop at be
tween twelve and thirteen millions of bales,
and the price at five cents. — Vicksburg Her.
A Kiss.
• A kiss,’ says a writer, ‘is a seal expressing
a sincere attachment —the pledge of future
union—a present taking the impression of an
ivory coral press—crimson balsam for love
wounded hearts.’ We had no idea, says the
Norristown Herald, that a kiss when dissect
ed, would prove such a simplething. Imagine
a young man, as he bids his girl adieu on the
front step at three o’clock a. m. on Monday,
darting back, as she is about to close the door,
to snatch some ‘crimson balsam for a love
wonnded heart.’ And a girl might ask her
lover for some of the balsam right before the
old folks, and they would think it was anew
kind of gum drop.
Woman.
A woman in a neighborhood is only exceed
ed by another woman. She can love truer
or hate worse than the men of ordinary cali
bre.
She can make of a home a little heaven or
a little hell, on less capital than any other
business can be carried cm.
She can make a ten or a hundred dollar
bill go up, 0 how quick.
She can drive a man out of a house, if her
tongue be working all right, quicker than
Beast Butler could get away with a set of
spoons,
She is better than pine or 9tone coal for
keeping a neighborhood boiling hot and home
more Unendurable than a burn on your first
thumb joint; all the time making you think
she is a package of refined innocence, a saint,
a favorable angelic advertising agent for Ga
briel.
She can kiss another woman sweeter and
then talk about her worse than one of those
Reform Republicans can talk about the Presi
dent.
And she knows more by intuition of all
the affairs of the neighborhood than Grant
knows about his relations or the post office
presents he receives, or is to,
She can be nicer to a woman she hates
than a scalawag politician is to a negro
before he has voted.
She can walk further to display anew drdS9
than a loyal or disloyal contraband could
travel for chickens in the night.
And God bless her, if she loves a man, she
will stick to him longer than the Dent family
did to the immortal speech-maker Ulysses !
Like dollars, good women are hard to get,
hard to keep, bothersome to look after, but
here is a conumdrum: llow can we get
along without them.— Pomeroy.
idPTopular suffrage has been put to a
singular test in a village of Awa, Japan. The
neighborhood was harassed by a midnight
robber, whom nobody could detect. The head
of the hamlet summoned the entire male po
pulation under his charge, and directed every
man to write the name of the person whom
he suspected and to deposit the ticket in a
box. Fifteen ballots bore the name of Abe
Tanihei, the rest being blanks. The man
whom everybody distrusted was so overcome
with astonishmentthat he made full confession
and went to prison. Never before in the
history of popular government was a thief
elected with such unanimity.
It was at a school not a thousand miles
fromNewberg. The teacher bad beengiving
out words which the scholars were to incor
porate into sentences. He gave to one young
iniss the word “obligatory.” He explained
that obligatory meant binding. The young
lady laid her head upon her hand and seemed
puzzled. Bnt in a moment or two her eye
rested upon her well-worn spelling book, and
her features brightened as a happy thought
seemed to strike her. The next instant the
astonished teacher read the sentence : “The
obligatory of my spelling book is worn out.”
He fainted.
A Book agent, who has retired from active
labor upon the hard accumulations of a life
of industrious cheek, says that the great se
cret of his success was that when he went
to a house where the female head of the fam
ily presented herself, he always opened by
saying ; “ I beg your pardon, miss ; “ but it
was your mother I wanted to see.” “ That
always used to get ’em. They not only sub*
scribed for my books themselves, but told me
where I could find more customers.”
A young man was teaching in a district
school when one day the following conversa
tion took place : Teacher (to a little girl
whom he sees weeping violently.) What is
the matter, Fanny ?” Fanny—“Je—Je—Je
—.Johnny’s tryin’ t—t—to kiss—” Teacher
(interrupting)—“Johnny, were you trying to
kiss Fanny?” Johnny—“No, sir.” Teach
er—“ But she says you were.” Fanny—“ No
—n —no, sir. He w—-w —w —was t—t—t—
tryin’ to kiss M—M—Maggie J—Jackson.”
Plants, like animals, differ much in their
habits, and the different sorts of food on
which they subsist. The broad-leaved clo
vers. turnips and mangolds abstract from
the air a large portron of their growth, while
the narrow-leaved grains and grasses par
taKe more largely of mineral food, which
they draw from the soil. The fact will ex
plain the great advantage of rotation of crops.
Zach Chandler Made Him President.
“Why,” said he, referring to Hayes, “the
damned fool wouldn’t have been President
at all but for me ; it was I that gave him the
votes of South Carolina, Florida, and Louis
iana.” And we guess Zach 9poke the truth.
—Springfield Republican ,
A late issue of the Houston (Texas) Age
says there arc 10,000 men in Texas out of
employment. This is rather poor encourage
ment to those who, because they have no
money here, think they can flv to Texas and
pick it off the trees. They had better remain
here and try to make the best of the situa
tion.
It is probable that the Teachers’ State Con
vention will be held in Atlanta this year, bttfr
the time will be August instead of May, as
usual.
A Modest Man’s Predicament.
Jennie June, in the Baltimore American,
9ays : “The‘no-sleeves’mania has created
quite a commotion in some circles, and is
fast consolidating two parties—one for, one
against. On a recent occasion, a gentleman
had engaged to take a young lady to a large
ball, with whom he was very well acquainted,
but raainlv to oblige her brother, an intimate
friend, who had been suddenly called out of
the city. The gentleman was decidedly op
posed to this fashion, considered it immodest,
had a long debate with his own sisters upon
the subject, ultimately persuading them to
overrule their dressmaker, and cover their
arms, at least to the elbows. What was his
horror, on calling for the sister of his friend,
to find her parading before the window in a
decollette and entirely sleeveless costume !
lie would have retired if he could ; be was not
sufficiently intimate to remonstrate ; besides,
the young lady, who was a large well-formed
blonde, was gotten up regardless of style,
and evidently proud of her plump shoulders
and large, round arms. “Are you not afraid
of taking cold ?' 1 he Ventured. But slie only
laughed. “O dear! no, I never take cold.”
Of course, there was nothing for him but to
face the music. Filtering the ball-room with
that awfully bare arm on his coat sleeve, the
first person he met was his sister. She glan
ced at the luxuriant proportions, then re
proachfnily at his face: he felt it growing
crimson. The torture of that evening was, he
asserts, almost insupportoble to his nerves,
Which seemed to have been bared like that
terrible arm. And now, if any little Puritan
comes along with ruffle to her ears and sleeves
to her wrist., she will stand a mighty good
chance of captivating the handsomest
most desirable match in New York, not
withstanding his somewhat exaggerated de
licacy in regard to ladies’ arms.'’
The Wicket-Gate. —We have seen many
a wicket-gate. The word wicket comes from
the Icelandic v:ik and Anglo-Saxon wic, a
recess, corner, port. Doan Ilowson, in his
preface to Rimmer's Ancient Streets and
Homesteads of England remarks; “The
wicket-gate of the Pilgrim’s Progress is com
monly represented as a garden gate, or a turn
pike gate ; but, really, the term denotes a
small doorway cut out of a largo door ; and
concealed behind a tree at the west end of
Elstow Church, is just such a small doorway
in the broad wooden surface of the great door.
Through this lowly opening Bunyan must
often have passed when a boy ; and if it Were
simply drawn and engraved. I believe we
should have a correct picture of that which
was before his imagination when he described
the early steps of Christian's pilgrimage.”
Importunate Prayer, —Mr. Moody says :
“When my little girl is playing on the floor,
and comes to me and says, ‘ Papa, I want
some water,’ and then goes right on with her
playing again, as if she didn't care anything
about it, I don’t go and get it. She may
come to me the second and third time, but
so long as she acts in that way I am in no
hurry to put down my book to go after it.
But when she leaves all her playthings and
comes to me and insists on having a drink,
and having it now, then I know she really
wants it, and I do not delay getting it any
longer.”
A minister asked a tipsy fellow leaning up
against a fence where lie expected to go to
when he died. “ If I can’t get along any bet
ter than I do now, I shan’t go anywhere.”
Jefferson Davis, with the assistance of
Mayor W. T. Walthal. of Mobile, Ala., is
writing a book to be called “Memories of
Jefferson Davis,” which Will give an account
of the part taken by him in the Confederacy.
Off the coast of Virginia, about five miles
from the mainland, is an island upon which
roam numbers of ponies as wild as the mus
tang. llow or when tiiey settled there is
not known.
The Medical Association of Georgia will
convene in its twenty-eighth annual session
at Macon on the 18th inst. The railroads
(except the Atlanta and West Point and At
lantic and Gulf Roads) will pass members
for one fare, and the hotels of Macon have
fixed special rates, as follows : Lanier House
$1.50. Brown Ilonse $2.00, and Byington
Motel $2.00 per day,
A contributor to a religious paper says :
“While we were singing the doxology I coun
ted sixteen persons putting on their over
coats. It would have been better had I been
worshiping instead of counting, but it was
almost involuntary, and did not take more
than ten seconds; while those stout worship
ers wrestled with their garments, and wrig
gling into them, finally stood erect in time
to come out with the words “by all in heaven 1”
Representative Lynch, colored, of Missis
sippi, called upon the President on the 2d
inst., and urged him not to withdraw the
troops from Smith Carolina, because it would
give the State into the power of the Demo
crats. Mr. Haves said that the Democrats
would then begin fighting among themselves
and the Republicans could come in and reap
the victory. “Yes.” replied Lynch, “but
there won’t be any of them alive to enjoy it.”
A Spaniard and an American were recent
ly dining together in New Orleans. The
former in passing a dish of brains to the lat
ter said : “ What you lack !” The American
offering the Spaniard a plate of tongue an
swered : “What 3’ou have a surplus of.”
Old Mrs. Simpleigh read that it cost sso r
000 to move “Cleopatra’s needle” from Egypt
to London, and now she would like to know
about how much it would cost to move Cleo
patra’s sewing machine the same distance.
] TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
There are 500 more lunatics in Georgia
than the asylum can accommodate*
A South Carolina man's nose was kicked
off by a cow,
Mrs. John Heffner, of Heading, Pa., ha*
just become the mother of her forty-fifth child.
It is said that cork-screws have sunk more
than cork-jackets have ever saved,
There is a fair prospect of another revolu
tion in Mexico.
A lace skirt, valued at $50,000, is display
ed at A. T. Stewart’s,
An exchange says : Now is the time to
plant cotton and buy corn and—become poor.
Hail stones four Inches in circumference
fell in Travis county, Texas, 22d ult.
The Legislature of Virginia has passed an
act paying the members $540 per session.
Insanity, once unknawn amongst the ne
groes. has become a great and increasing
affliction,
If is authoritatively stated there has been
no change nor likely to he in the date of the
extra session—namely, June 4th,
Mr. W. G. Knight, of Washington county,
lost a Valuable mule Thursday last, gored to
death by an ox.
Mrs. Eliza Strout, of Chelmsford, Mass.,
who was bitten by a dog some time ago, died
of hydrophobia after intense suffering.
Chamberlain admits that he is powerless
to maintain his administration in Smith Car
olina,
Colonel Rlack, commander of the troops
at Columbia, with his staff, were invited to
participate in Hampton's reception.
A California grower has raised four thou
sand boxes of raisins, worth SB,OOO, on twen
ty acres of land,
The author of ,4 Homo, Sweet Home,” nev
er had a home; and George McDonald, who
has eleven children, is the author of'‘An
nals of a quiet neighborhood/*
A lady at Woodstock. Ontario. Cart., thinks
she has sccceeded in keeping earth Worms
and insects from plants by burying a rnsty
nail in the earth,
Lynchburg Va., lias one hundred tobacco
factories in operation, and last .year twervtv
six million pounds of leaf tobacco Were sold
in her warehouses.
The Laurensvillc Herald says that box
toed shoes with blue glass bay Windows for
corns arc shortly to be introduced into that
town,
Mrs. Robb, of Corpus Christ!, annually
fattens fifteen thousand beeves for the mar
ket. She Is called the " Cattle Queen of
1 exas.
The Chicago Tribune proposes to have
Sergeant Rates. Eli Perkins and Private Dal
zell sent South, and to recognize the govern
ment that will kill them first.
A Bohemian likens our illegitimate Presi
dent unto the jackass that starved to death
between two fodder stacks before he could
determine on which to feed,
Brinkley, the Newman Wife murderer, Will
be re-sentenced to deatli at the next term of
Coweta Superior court, the Supreme Court
having affirmed the judgment of the court
below.
The New Hampshire man who married fiver
wives and tried to defend his action on the
ground that Solomon had a thousand, discov
ered that times had changed somewhat, lie
got a fifteen-year sentence.
The whiskey rectifiers of the country hare
entered into a combination Calculated to
place the price of their products on what may
be considered a profit aide basis, and at tluj
same time above suspicion of crookedness.
A fiend in human form set fire to the
clothes of a young girl in a house of bad
repute in Xew York Tuesday night, and hef
death from the burning took place yesterday,
The monster escaped,
A fearful holocaust is reported by cable
telegram from burning of a
school house at the Norwegian village of
Ellangsn, by which sixteen children perished
from the flames.
A jew-fish weighing three hundred and
forty pounds, was captured near St. Augus
tine last Thursday. It was the second spe
cimen of this fish caught in that vicinity, and
was hooked in the tail.
The editor of the Fort Gaines department
of the Cuthbert Appeal sa}s the farmers of
Clay countv sold corn at forty cents per
bushel in January, and are now buying it
back at one dollar and ten cents.
First Sambo—“ What's Oen’l Grant a doin'
now r Second Sambo—“Tie’s done ’tired
to make a crap on dat forty acres of land
wid dat mule you niggers spected you was
gwine to git.”
Seven cattle of the Rose of Sharon breed
arrived in New York recently from Kentucky,
for shipment to England. They are valued
at $5,090 each, and were purchased by A. F,
Fox.
A St. Louis school boy gave his teacher'
this excellent definition of “responsibility” i
“Bovs has two buttons for their s'spendcrs
so’s to keep their pants up. When one but
ton comes off, why there’s a good deal of
responsibility on the other button.”
Col. John K. CareW, one of the best known
citizens erf Charleston, S. C., is dead. He
was the owner and editor of the Charleston
Mercury for ten years, and was afterwards a
leading member of the South Carolina Legis-
| laturc.
The N. Y. Ecenlug Post says :—“A ewe
belonging to Mr. John Way. of East Lyme,
;Conn.. gave birth a few da} T s ago to four
lambs, weighing altogether twenty-eight lbs.
During each of the last three years this same
ewe had given birth to three lambs.”
NUMBER 41.