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THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their on n Rulers; Advancement ill Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
pcofessimiaf & business (Ennis.
T} F * WOFFOBD, AUorneyHt>l4tw.
wii Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
VV ill practice in all the adjoining counties, and
gi\c prompt attention to all business entrusted to
Ins care. Collecting claims a specialty.
March 3d, 1877. J
WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
w. c. & R. s. HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS ANI) COUNSELLORS AT
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"\T term as Ordinary having expired, lam
J-Tx. devoting my time and energies entirely to
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can always he found at our office, except when
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and to advising Executors, Administrators and
< i uardians in the management of estates. Office,
up-stairs, over Billy Thompson store-room.
WILEY C. HOWARD,
feb24 Counsellor at Law, Jefferson. Ga.
Medical and Surgical Notice.
DR* W. A. W.II'.SOV respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of
Jefferson and surrounding country. Residence,
at the old ** \\ atson 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 plaees. Jan 27 Iv
_ DR. J. B.PENDEKGKASS
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Jefferson and surround
ing counjyry ; and by strict attention to his studies
and profession, hopes to merit continued confi
dence. He can be found at his office, one door
north of Pendergrass & Hancock’s store, at all
times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th, 1877.
Dr. w. s. ai,kxaa
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. Cm
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY. w. S. M'CARTY.
TVTAhaffey & McCarty,
Ivx A T T O R NEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. OctJOly
DR. c. R. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can he found at
the office recently occupied by Col. Maliaffey.
Jan. 22, 1870—tf
J. J. FLOYD, I J. B. KILMAN,
Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
I7LOY1) A KimAA,
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ill practice together in the Superior Courts or
the counties of Jackson and Walton,
j une12—ly
WI. Pllil!, Attorney al B.stw,
• JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
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counties. June 12 1875
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June 19 ly
JarkMon Comity.
Whereas, J. T. Wood makes application to me
in proper form for Letters of Administration, with
the will annexed, upon the estate of Andrew Haw
kins, late of said county, dec’d—
This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned,
kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary
of said county, to he held on the Ist Monday in
May, 1877, why Letters of Administration, with
the will annexed, should not issue to the said *J.
T. Wood.
Given under my official signature, this March
7th, 1877. marlO H. W. BELL. Ord’y.
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1877.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
1 rom the Southern Cultivator.
Work for the Month of May.
CHOPPING OUT COTTON.
M itli the usual method of sowing cotton
seed thickly in the drill, it is very important
to chop and thin out at the earliest possible
moment. It is very desirable that the young
plants should grow off rapidly, but it is im
possible for them to do this if crowded to
gether. They struggle against each other,
grow up tall and slender, and when finally
thinned out, are disposed to fall over. When
ever this happens some time elapses before
growth fairly begins. Go over rapidly, then,
and thin down, not to a final stand, but as
near to it as can be safely done. Chop out
with a wider hoe than that subsequently
used, that the spaces between hills may be
wide enough to admit the hoe without danger
of bruising the plants. It takes both increas
ed care and time to hoe between two hills
just far enough apart to admit the hoe be
tween them. If the ridge is sharp enough,
and soil sufficiently loose for the hoes to
chop advantageously, it may be done before
ploughing the cotton ; but if the ground is
hard it is well to “run around” the cotton in
advance of the hoes. It is thought bv many
that “barring off” and leaving the cotton on
a rather high and narrow ridge has a two fold
good effect—the first to make the soil about
the plants warm up more rapidly. This is
probably true, as in the spring the air is gen
erally warmer than the earth, and the more
the latter is exposed to the former, the warm
er it will get. The 2nd advantage is, that
the roots of the plant are thereby forced to
run deep —and this guards the plant measu
rably against subsequent drought. The chief
objection to “barring off” is the increased
liability” of the young plant, not yet strongly
rooted, to fall down when the cotton is chop
ped out. We repeat the remarks made in
connection with first working of corn : if the
land is hard, run close to the cotton, and
plough deep and thorongly; if it is friable
and loose, use any plough that will facilitate
work and kill the young grass—the terrible
May grass which will now spring up, and is,
by long odds, the most troublesome to con
tend with in working the crop. Go over the
cotton very rapidly at this working, as it is
very important to give corn its second plough
ing and get back to the cotton again at an
early day. The second working of cotton is
the important one, requiring unusual care,
and demanding more time, which must be
secured by hurrying over quickly at its first
working.
SWEET POTATOES.
Put out “slips” as fast as they come, and
make them come rapidly, if the weather is
dry, by watering the beds copiously. Those
set out early are surest of making large tu
bers ; but they ought to be consumed in fall
or early winter—they will not “keep” as well
as those from later settings out. The usual
plan of putting out slips just after a rain and
packing the dirt around the plants is not a
good one. Just before a rain is the best
time, but, as one cannot risk its coming, it is
well to wait until the earth is sufficiently dry
not to get hard from working it. Dip the
slips in a grout of clay or clay and dung,
press the dirt to the roots, and fill in lightly
around the stem, and there will be no diffi
culty. They are readil}* set out in dry wea
ther by following above plan, with the addi
tion of pouring a gill of water into each hill
before the loose dirt is thrown around the
stem. Always set out in the latter half of
the afternoon.
MILLET —DRILL CORN.
This is the favorite month for sowing mil
let. Frost is over and the warm weather
forces it forward rapidly, making it get a
start of grass and weeds. It is a very good
time also to sow corn for fodder. Opinion
seems to be drifting in favor of not sowing
it too thick, letting the stalks bear nubbins,
and cutting wheu the grain is passing into
“dough.” With the aid of these crops no
farmer is justified in being short of an abun
dant supply of long forage.
TEAS.
It is well to plant a portion of the pea crop
now. Let it be an earhj variety, that will
mature and be ready forgathering by the Ist
of August. There is comparative leisure
then and good dry weather—hence, good
sound seed. We are in the habit of gather
ing such as we need for seed purposes at that
time, putting them away in the hull, in bar
rels ; the}’’ will thus keep well until planting
time.
HARVEST.
Look well ahead and make arrangements
to be ready for harvest. See to it, that it
does not catch yon in such a “push” that you
will be c ompelled to hire extra labor at exor
bitant rates. Hire the extra labor, if neces
sary, in advance, and get your crop in good
condition beforehand.
L. E. Bartlett, a young man living in Wal
ton county, was killed recently by the acci
dental discharge of his pistol, lie had the
pistol in his pocket, and white building a fire,
it fell out and was discharged by striking the
hearth. The bullet struck him in the breast,
causing death in about five minutes.
A Noble Revenge.
Ihe coffin was a plain one—-a poor miser
ble pine coffin. No flowers on its top; no
liningof white satin for the pale brow; no
smooth ribbons about the coarse shroud.—
The brown hair was laid decently back, but
there was no crimped cap with its neat tie
beneath the chin. The sufferer from cruel
poverty smiled in her sleep; she had found
bread, rest and health.
“I want to see my mother,” sobbed a poor
little child, as the undertaker screwed down
the top.
“You can’t; get out of the way ; why don’t
somebody take the brat ?”
'* Only let me see her one minute,” plead
ed the helpless orphan, clutching the side of
the chariot box ; and as he gazed into the
face, agonized tears rapidly streamed down
the cheek on which a childish bloom ever lin
gered. Oh, it was painful to hear the cry.
“ Only once, let me see ray mother, only once !”
Quickly and brutally the hard-hearted mon
ster struck the boy away, so that he reeled
with the blow. For a moment the boy stop
ped, panting with grief and rage, his blue
eyes distended, his lips sprung apart, a fire
glittering through his tears, as lie raised his
puny arm, with a most unchildish accent
screamed, “when I am a man, I will kill you
for that!”
There was a coffin and a heap of earth be
tween the mother and the poor forsaken
child. A monument much stronger than
granite, was built in his boy heart to the mem
ory of the heartless deed.
*******
The court-house was crowded to suffoca
tion.
“Does any man appear as this man’s coun
sel ?” asked the judge.
There was a silence when he had finished,
until, with his lips tightly pressed together,
a look of strange intelligence blended with
haughty' reserve upon his handsome features,
a young man stepped forward, with a firm
tread and kindly eye, to plead for the erring
and friendless. lie was a stranger, but from
his first sentence there was silence. The
splendor of his genius entranced—convinced.
The man who could not find a friend was
acquitted.
“May God bless you, sir, I can not.”
“I want no thanks,” replied the stranger.
“I—l believe you are unknown to me. sir.”
“Man! I will refresh your memory.—
Twenty years ago you struck a broken heart
ed boy away from his mother’s coffin. I was
that boy.”
The man turned livid.
“Have you rescued me, then, to take my r
life ?”
“No I have a sweeter revenge. I’ve saved
the life of a man whose brutal deed has ran
kled in my breast for twenty years. Go and
remember the tears of a friendless child.”
The man bowed his head in shame, and
went from the presence of magnanimity as
grand to him as incomprehensible.
What Goes With It?
I mean all the calico and other fabrics ladies
buy to make their dresses.
“ Longtime ago,” when I was young, it seems
to me a lady hardly ever bought more than ten
or twelve yards for a dress, and then it took
their best to squeeze three of them into a
church pew, and I remember seeing a picture
in Harper's Weekly of a fashionable lady
walking down the aisle of a fashionable church
with a great billow of masculine hats rolling
down before her, her voluminous skirts keep
ing them in motion. Now the}' buy no less
than eighteen }-ards, and sometimes twenty
odd, and yet four or five of them, with atten
dant masculines, can sit very comfortably in
an ordinary church pew, and four can very
easily walk abreast down the aisle. I hap
pened to overhear a conversation not long
since between two ladies. One of them had
on a calico dress made of two different sorts,
not a bit alike, and the other lady was (wo
man like) admiring, commenting and asking
questions as to price, where it was bought,
number of yards, &c. The happy possessor
of the dress answered all questions and said
there were eighteen yards in the pattern.
“ Then you made two dresses of it, instead
ofone ?”
“No, I didn’t; it is all in this dress.”
Well, then, you had enough left to make
one of your children a garment?”
“No; it is all in this dress, but some little
scraps, too small for anything, but to put in
a quilt.’’
Then I. with boyish curiosity, looked to see
the mammoth dress, and saw what appeared
to me a rather scanty affair, and I asked my
self the above question : “ What goes with
it ?”
The amount a man generally buys for a
pair of pantaloons is three yards, and it seems
to me a lady ought to get one pant out of the
same it takes to make a man a pair of pants
—-then allow three yards for body and sleeves,
and what goes with the other twelve yards ?
But you might as well try to stop the wind
as the fashions, and, to quote the words of
somebody else, the shrinkage in size has not
lessened the value of women—on the con
trary, the smaller she is, the more she costs.
But, hang the expense ; how could we get
along without her? Roland P. S.,
of Dadeville, Ala., Aged 1 5.
— -Ejcqmrer-Sun..
A Lawyer’s Duty in his Profession.
In a recent letter in reply to a paper that
had criticised his appearance as one of Til
den’s counsel, Hon. Matt. 11. Carpenter thus
gives his views of a lawyer’s duty in his pro
fession :
“ It is well settled that an advocate should
not devote Ills services exclusively to himself,
his family, his relatives, his neighbors, his
party or his church, but that he should serve
all men in the interest of truth and justice.
No lawyer can be disgraced by a bad cause,
but only by his management of it. The cause
is his client’s, the management of it his own.
The constitution of the United Status and of
every State of this Union provides that every
criminal—the foulest traitor and the bloodiest
murderer—shall have a fair trial ly an im
partial jury, process to compel the attendance
of his witnesses and the assistance of counsel.
It is a part of a lawyer's oath that he will sup
port the constitution. If one lawyer ought
to refuse to appear fora criminal all should ;
and this provision of the constitution would
be defeated by those who have taken an oath
to obey it. The oath amciently administered
to the advocate of England was that they
should fight for their clients. ‘Make war’
was the injunction. Of course no advocate
is cit Her required or permitted to contend for
a proposition of law which he does not believe
to be sound, nor to misrepresent a fact. But
it is his duty to press every principle of law
favorable to his client, and every fact in his
favor upon the consideration of the judge,
who alone is charged with the duty of decid
ing. And, as Chief Justice Marshall once
said, it is a dreadful case that hasn’t some
tiling right about it.”
American Inventive Progress.
Under the above heading, the Scientific
American of May 7th, 187 G. has a long and
interesting article, from which we make the
following extracts :
To show with what rapidity inventors made
improvements on inventions embodying*ori
ginal principals, says the writer, it may be
noted that in the early days of the sewing
machine 116 patents were granted for im
provements thereon in a single year ; and out
of the 2,910 patents issued in the year 1857,
152 were for improved cotton-gins and press
es, 101 for improvements on the steam en
gine, and 198 for novel devices relating to
railroads and improvements in the rolling
stock. In the year 1848. three years after
the publication of this paper was commenced,
but 660 patents were granted ; but under the
stimulus of publishing those inventions as
they were patented, ten years later, in 1858,
the number had increased sixfold, reaching
3,710, while up to January 1, 1850. as alrea
dy stated, the aggregate of patents issued
amounted to 17.467 ; since that time and up
to the present the total is 181,015.
And curiosity here leads us (adds the editor)
to review our own work, extending back, say,
twenty years, or to 1857, a period during
which 170,745 patents have been issued. We
find, by actuat count, that 62,062 applications
have been made though the Scientific Ameri
can Patent Agency for Patents in the United
States and abroad. This averages almost ten
applications per day, Sundays excluded, over
the entire period, and bears the relation of
more than one quarter to the total number of
patents issued in this country up to the time
of writing.
Not Much Ahead.
A man with the most lonesome expression
any artist ever conjured up for canvas halted
at an eating stand on the Central Market yes
terday and said :
“My good woman, I have been robbed of
eight thousand dollars in this city.”
“Poor man 1” she promptly sighed.
“Yes, robbed of eight thousand dollars, and
I am a hundred miles from home, and hun
gry and penniless.”
“And you want something to eat ?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“You shall have it. Sit right down here.”
lie sat down and she gave him some coffee,
apiece of meat and a biscuit. When he had
finished eating he said :
“ Madam, did you really believe my story V
“A'o, sir,” she answered.
“You thought I lied, did you ?”
“ I knew j'ou did.”
“But you gave me food.”
“So I did. My boy found a dog j-ester
day, and gave him more than he could eat.
I simply gave you what was left, to save fill
ing up the slop-pail.”
“ Madam,” began the man as his mouth
commenced to draw around; “madam. I I
don't see whether I'm ahead of the dog or the
dog ahead of me on this thing; but T know
you’re ahead of both, and I feel sick. You
played it well, and if there’s any dying de
claration in mv case I won’t mix you in. Bve
bve, old gal—l’m failing fast.”— DpJftnt Free
Press.
Watermelons.
Mr. Em la Johnson says the wav to make
watermelons is to pTant them in rows 10 feet
apart, 4 feet in the drilT, mrannre them highly
and suffer but one vine to the hill, and as
soon as it forms a melon, cut the vine off at
the next joint past the melon, and keep all
the runners off. This will certainly make
one large fine melon to every vine.
V TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM.-
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
gleanings.
Cattle are dying rapidly in South West
Georgia. The people do not know from what
kind of disease,
I here are fifty-one Young Men’s Christian*
Associations in Georgia, with a merrtbcrshiir
of about 5,000.
A gentleman of Atlanta calculates that lie’
will this year clear SI,GOO off a lot of 500’
liens i\ow on hand.
An author says that one of the uses of ad
versity is to bring us out. This is true, par
ticularly at the knees and elbows.
Asa Lawson, colored, an old offender and
veteran criminal, who followed Sherman’s
army after the war, has returned to Sauders
villc in irons to answer for various offenses.-
Omaha, April 27.— Snow in the West with
low temperature. It is hoped that the sever©’
weather will entirely destroy the grass
hoppers.
M hen the Reformed Collegiate church in
New York gives a minister a call it is for life.
If disabled by sickness or old age its pastors
receive an annuity of $5,000.
The largest Presbyterian Sunday-school in
the United States, is that of Dr. Nicholls’
church, in St. Louis, which numbers 1,535'
children.
Arrangements arc about complete for flic’
great Presbyterian council of the world which
is to commence in Edinburg during the first
week of July.
llertba Yon Ilillern. the female pedestrian,
has a long, steady and determined stride,
like a woman swinging down the hall to let
her husband in at the frontdoor at 1 :30, a. m.-
I lie accounts of Dr. E. T. Baird, manager
ol the Presbyterian Publication Committee of
Richmond. Ya., arc complicated to the ex
tent of $22,000.
1 ritz Dine and William Harrison, two prin
cipals in the recent diamond robbery at Nash
ville, were arrested at Dayton, Ohio, and half
of the property found on them.
Cincinnati, April 25.—Two young girbr
from Indianapolis were found in their roonf
at the hotel. They had fatally poisotieif
themselves. One dead and the other hope-'
less. No cause.
The United States Government will take'
no formal notice of the state of war which
now exists, but it has been decided she may
furnish arms and munitions of war to cithev
belligerent, treating each alike.
1 he 15razil Mail .Steamship Company pro-'
pose to run a line of magnificent steamers
between Savannah and Liverpool, and bring
emigrants to Georgia for about sl4 apiece'.
It now costs nearly $45 for emigrants frour
Europe to reach our State.
The tranquility and content among the/
colored people in South Carolina act like gall
and wormwood upon the stalwart Republic
cans at the East and West. The lie has
been practically given to the whole Recon
struction infamy.
John Morrissey, State Senator of New
York, and a descendant of Pharaoh (some-'*
times spelled with an F). has introduced a
bill in the Legislature to prevent pool selling.-
John has grew virtuous as lie grew rich, but
there will still be cakes and aM.
New Orleans April 25.—The legislature
in joint session yesterday elected Judge Spot
ford Tuited States senator. Many republi
cans, after patriotic speeches, voted for Staf
ford. The ballot stood : Spofiord 140, Wilt#
1, blank 12 ; total 153.
A horrible deed of infanticide has lately
been committed, near Flat Rock, DeKaliv
Cos.. Ga., by a young unmarried woman, win*
killed and mangled the body of her newly
born babe, then attempted to conceal it, iiv
order to escape her own personal disgrace'/
The time of year has come when a man’s'
wife asks him to take a length of stove pipe
tenderly through the hafl, gently down the'
front stoop, coyly across the walk, and knock
all the soot out of it at one bust without hin
ting his toes.
Anew wrinkle in army affairs is the report-'
ed organization of a regiment of Indians to 1
be commanded by Col. Spotted Tail, to be
paid and uniformed like regular soldiers, and
to form a part of the rcgu'htr United States
Arm}'.
New 4 ork cit} v ha’s at Tehst seven daily'
; prayer meetings, four of them distinctively
'meetings for business men. Of the latter
class, the oldest and of world-wide fame, is
the Fulton Street meeting, established near
ly twenty years ag</; which has never been 1
once omitted.
There has just bsetf placed in position, at'-
the rear of the altar in Trinity Methodist
Church, Savannah, a very neat and handsome
tablet to the late esteemed past of, Rer. Dr.-'
M}’ers. The tablet is of the finest marble’
and has a border of black, being surmounted
by a hand holding an open bible. The de
sign is appropriate and very neatly executed.
The Tax-Collectors are stirring 1 up liquor'
dealers. The collection of a tax of twenty-five'
dollars last year on all dealers in liquor was
suspended by Gov. Smith, until the meeting
of the Legislature, to enable parties interest
ed to have an act passed relieving them ; but,-
as no action Was taken on the subject, Gov.-
Colquitt has instructed the comptroller to
collect that tax. AH parties who sold spir
ituous liquors, in any quantity, as we under
stand the instructions, arc liable.
<*oot Advice.'
Xow is the time of year for Pneumonia, hung
Fever. &c. Everyfamily should have a bottle of
UueJCHKE’s German Syrup. Don't allow for one
moment that cough to take hold of your cliild,-
your family or yourself. Consumption, Asthma,
Uneumonia. Croup, Hemorrhages, and other fatal
diseases may set in. Although it is true Herman -
SYRUP is curing thousands of these dreaded dis
eases, yet it is much better to have it at hand
when three doses will cure you. Ono Bottle will
last your whole family a winter and keep you safe
from danger. 1 fyou are consumptive,-do not rest
until you have tried this remedy. Sample Dottles
10 cents. Regular size 75 cents. Sold by Render
grass it Hancock, Jefferson, Ha., and S. Seegar,
Harmony Grove. Ha. • marl7-3m-co\v
NUMBER 47.