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I) F. WOFI’OIW, Af lorucy-nl-l.jt\v.
J) llarmonvr}rove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
Will practice in all the adjoining counties, and
I give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
I his care. Collectingfclaims a specialty.
March 3d, 1877. f .
WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
W. C. & l. S. HOWARD,
ATT OR NETS AND COUNSELLORS AT
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fi>4 Jefferson, Ga.
Law Card.
MY term as Orcinary having expired, 1 am
devoting my tine and energies entirely to
the practice of the law. Mr. Robert S. llow-
P AKI) is associated with me. Either or both of us
| can always be found at our office, except when
s absent on business Special and careful atten
-1 tion will be given t* all business entrusted to us,
and to advising Executors, Administrators and
i Guardians in the management of estates. Olfice,
? up-stairs, over 13ilU Thompson store-room.
WILEY C. HOWARD,
| feb‘24 Coinsellor at Law, Jefferson. Ga.
Mdical uul Surgical Notice.
Dig w. a. uatsoa respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of
Jefferson ami surounding country. Residence,
at the old “ Watson Homestead,” Sycamore st.
Office, in Col. J. 13. Silman’s law office. When
not professional!) absent, can be found at one or
the other of the aoove places. Jan 27 Iy
DR. ,1. It PENDERGRASS
RESPECTFUL jY tenders his professional ser
vices to the ciizcns of Jefferson and surround
ing country ; and by strict attention to his studies
and profession, h>pes 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 13tl, 1877.
DK. W. K. iIAAAADKR,
SURGEON DENT IST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 18T5. 6in
J. A. B. MAHAIFEY. W. S. M'CARTY.
ATAHAFFE’ & McCARTY,
AL i T T O R NEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
practice aiywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given b all business entrusted to their
■c*re. Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly
DR.. C. R. GILES
{ YFFF.US his professional services to the citizens
' * o.f (Jerffersoi and vicinity. Can be found at
i l|te,office-recently occupied by Col. Mahaffey.
•Jim. 22, 18704-tf
L J,. FLOYD, I J. B. BILMAN,
Covingtai, (la. | Jefferson, Ga.
A’ TOH NEVS-AT-LAW.
'Till practice together in the Superior Courts 01
the counties of Jackson and Walton.
junel2— l3"
\V I. Attorney at l<aw,
’f . .JEI PERSON, JACKSON CO., GA.
Fractiecs in all the Courts, State and Federal.
Prompt and,thorough attention given to all
kinds of legal business in Jackson and adjoining
counties. June l*i 1875
JEFFERSON , GA.,
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ries. New supplies constantly received.
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JEFFERSON TOWN GOVERNMENT.
W. 1. Pike, Mayor; Col J. A B Mahaffey, G.
J. N. Wilson, J ft Randolph, F. M. Bailej'. Al
dermen ; R S Howard, Esq., Clerk & Treasur
er ; H J Randolph, Jr. Marshal.
I’nited Stsite* Coverninent,
EXECUTIVE.
President—Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, to
March 4, 1881.
HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS.
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of Treasury—fohn Sherman, of Ohio.
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Secretary of Interior—Carl Schurz, of Missouri.
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,of New York.
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California.
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J. Randall, of Penn.
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Hon. Noah 11. Swayne, of Ohio.
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LOCATION —No, 3, Granite Row, south side Broad Street, ATHENS, GA.
April Ist, 187 Gly
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. MAY 19, 1877.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
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A Case of Spontaneous Combustion-
A most horrible and sickening death occur
red ih Kernan's saloon. In the hack yard of
the City Ilall, at a quarter past ten o'clock
this rooming, being ho less than the sponta
neons combustion of a human body. The
victim was a man who lias not been more
than a month in the £ity, but during that
time had frequently arrested for drunk
enness. He Wandered about alone, seeming
ly demented, occupying his whole time in
drinking the vile poison of the city front and
Barbary Coast dens. He has twice been
treated l\v I)r. Striveres for delirium tre
mens, and was fehMMnorning discharged after
a longer time than usual. With a seemingly
insane desire for drink, he continued from
thirty minutes past seven o'clock drinking
steadilv at the various bars in the vicinity,
and the large size of each potation promised
to speedily send him hack to the hospital.—
About the time mentioned he staggered into
the room nearly insensible, and feebly asked
for a drink. This was refused him, he stag,
gered toward the gas jet to light the stump
of a cigar he carried, while the barkeeper
turned away to attend to his duties. A mo
ment afterward he heard a low moan and no
ticed a flash of Are, and turning around he
saw Harley falling to the floor, his head en
veloped in black, thick smoke, while flames
issued from his mouth and ears. A horrible
smell of burned flesh filled the air. Not a
moment was lost in attending to the sufferer.
He was beyond relief, however. Ilis face was
perfectly black, partly charred and partly
covered with moist soot. Ilis eyes were open.
Ilis mouth was completely roasted on the in
side, but, with the exception of his head and
hands, no part of his body bore marks of his
horrible death. A letter found in his pock
et, a leressed to M. Ilarley or Hartley, fur
nishes the only clue to his identity. —San
Francisco Post, April 15th.
A Fish Story.
A remarkable operation was performed up
on a colored woman at this place on Thurs
day last, by one of our voting physicians, as
sisted by one or two citizens. The woman
had been complaining for a long time with a
pain in her left leg just above the ankle. She
described it as a lizzard or snake crawling
forth and backward from the knee to the
ankle, and would trace with her eye the swell
and fall of the skin as the reptile moved along.
She called in a physician who made an ex
amination, and after obtaining the woman's
consent, with the assistance of the persons
named, he made an incision in the most in
flammable part, and gently pressing it, a
crawfish with a small quanitity of pus fell on
the floor, to the astonishment and delight of
the patient. It lived but a few moments—
The woman immediately expressed herself as
feeling much better. She has the fish preserv
ed in alcohol and something under a thousand
of the colored people have been to ‘ sec it
with their own eves.’ —Lancaster Ledger.
Importance of Home Papers.
The importance of home papers to the
village or county where published cannot he
estimated. The home news is something that
people cannot dispense with and which they
cannot buy elsewhere. An exchange thus
fairly presents the question :
“ For reasons the large cities can send out
their news at quite low prices. Families can
furnish with knowledge, of all the world for
two dollars a year and postage. But there
is something they cannot buy in New York
or Boston —local matter out of which home
interests and enterprise grows—it is the local
newspaper which gets at the knowledge ol
particular necesities to the value of individu
al persons and means. All the improvements
begin in our small centres —become important
forces by personal application and of public
value by the fostering care and attention of
the local press. The local press is such an
individual power as cannot be easily swung
into line to the help of selfish out-side purpose.
A town’s interests are all cldsely interwoven
with those home organs of individual expres
sion and country enterprise .Persons that
neglect these for the large bids of city dailies
are like the house-wife who neglects her own
fireside for the cares of other people.
The following is the report of Mr. B. R.
Folsom, chairman of the committee of the
grand jury, upon the poor house, which we
take from the Albanj r News: “I have visited
the poor house daily and find it in a nourish
ing condition. I find there the following in
mates : One old widow lady with the follow
ing family: one small boy twenty years old,
one little girl twenty-one years old, one baby
girl fifteen 3'ears old, one baby infant eight
years old, which are only allowed nine
pounds of bacon, one bushel meal, flour and
other delicacies, each per week. I recom
mend that we authorize the Judge to buy two
cows for those infant children. We further
recommend that a mansard roof be erected
over the house this family occupies.”
A man out on Pine street has eight daugh
ters, and when they cleaned the house last
week the woman raked 9,724 quids of chew
ing gum down from the window casings, chair
backs, door panels and sofa backs, the ac
cumulation of the past winter. And this does
not inolude the wads which the man, at var
ious times, sat down on and carried away on
the tails of his coat, for which no accurate
returns have been made.
Touching Incident.
A correspondent writing to the Atlanta Con
stitutionL from Gainesville, during the recent
session ©f the Baptist State Convention, re
ported a| follows:
Rev. Jj. B. Hartwell, missionary to China,
on Sat til ay. related to the convention a
touching incident. While in South Caroli
na, recoatly, he was engaged in collecting
funds frit he benefit of foreign missions, and
met witp some Christians who made great
to aid the cause. A Baptist preach
er dona ted a fine hymn book, stating, that he
wished to help the cause, but had no money,
and he give his hymn book that it might be
sold anrSUie proceeds given to the missiona
ry fund In the same State Mr. Hartwell
visited ;pi old widow lady. After talking to
her foriiwne time about missionary Work,
without a thought of asking a contribution
from her, she went out of the room a moment
and returned with a peart card ease wrapped
in an old handkerchief, and told the missiona
ry that it was a treasure which had belonged
to her daughter, long since dead, and she had
clung to it as a precious memorial, but she
felt that she must give something to Christ's
cause, and she begged the missionary to take
it and sell it to somebody for what he could,
and to send the money to spread the gospel
in China. With her daughter's card case she
placed another of her own, a souvenir of her
happy youth. Mr. Hartwell showed both
cases to the convention, and asked if he could
find a purchaser. Mr. James 11. Low, of At
lanta, immediately gave $5 for the two, ta
king the old hankerehief too. lie imme-
diately put them in a package and sent them
with charges paid, to the noble old woman
who had made such a sacrifice for the gospel
of Christ. Who knows the pain of that sac
rifice to her, in spile of the consolation which
must have come to her when she thought of
the cause in which she made it? And who
can tell of the joy she now feels when she re
ceives again, from the hands of a good, ten
der-hearted man. her lost treasure, redeemed
and made more precious by one bitter sacri
fice.
The hymn book was sold at once for $5, and
given back to bj sold again. It brought
another $5, and was again given hack. It
may prove a fruitful source of revenue, if
future purchasers have the liberality of those
at the convention.
He Loves the Girls.
Claude Cochran, in the Ellijny Courier.
rattles off this:
A Dutchman, who was about three sheets
in the wind, was staggering along on the
streets yesterday, and chanced t see a bon
net hanging, as a sign, on a post. Going up
to the post he threw his arms around it and
said:
“Ish you nod cold oud ’ere, mine pooty lit
tle gul ?’*
‘‘That is not a girl,” remarked a gentleman
who was passing by.
“Der dunder you say !” replied the Dutch
man, at the same time gazing at the post.
“ No, it’s nothing but a post with a bonnet
out. Don't you see ?”
“Veil, py shiminy criminy ! Ish (hie) dot
zo. I dort all the time (hie) dot it vas a lee
dle gul. I tole you my friend yoost how it
vas. I liges ennydings (hie) mitkaligo on it.
Of you pud kaligo on per beer keg (hie) I
loves it all der zame.”
And he walked off wandering why that
post wasn’t a girl.
A Woman’s Rebuke of a Tobacco Chewer.
The latest and most effective counterblast
against tobacco was delivered by a New York
lady in a Sixth avenue car recentW. One of
those noble specimens of manhood who chew
the weed, and with impartial mind distribute
saliva upon everything and everybody within
range, was sitting opposite the lad)’. From
his capacious mouth, at regular intervals, a
stream of amber juice fell upon her dress.
Her look of blank amazement soon gave place
to one of wrath ; a frown blacker than mid
nightgathered upon her face.—Patience ceas
ing to be a virtue, she at last rose, carefully
gathered up her dress so as not lose a drop of
the fragrant liquid, and leaning toward her
vis-a-vis wiped his face with the garment he
had desecrated, and then deliberately resum
ed her seat. The astonished man roared with
rage and pain, vainly tried to wipe the tobac
co juice from his smarting eyes, and at last
rushed from the car, followed by roars of
laughter from the passengers.
Mr. Stephens Before the Supreme Court.
A Washington special says: “For about
the first time in the history of the Supreme
Court, it was addressed to-day by a counsel
sitting in his chair. The oldest usher had
not seen nothing like it. The seated counsel
was Alexander H. Stephens, who was wheel
ed in his big chair, and sat over an hour argu
ing in his thin, piping voice, one long skele
ton finger waving and gesturing before him
as he thoughtfully felt his way through a
knotty point, rubbing the big tired wheel at
his side, and then suddenly raising his voice
and his finger together as he emphasized his
conclusion. The case was a peculiarly knot
ty one, in which the maker of a promissory
note subscribed during the war insists that
dollars meant Confederate dollars.
Aunt Emily—“ Why, Nellie, don’t you know
it is unkind to catch hold of your sister and
pul! her hair ?” Nellie (who doesn’t see it) —
“Well, auntie. I saw you holding Cousin
Frank round the neck quite tightly, yesterday,
when mamma was out, and pulling his hair,
and he didn’t say anything.”
War Maps.
Schedler’s Topographical Map of the Do
brudsha (Eastern Bulgaria), Central Roiima*
nia and Bessarabia, the valley of the Lower
Danube from the Transylvania Mountains in
the North to the great Balkan Mountains in
the South, and from Sistova in the West to
tho Months of the Danube in the East. Col
ored. Scale, 1 : 000,000. Size. 23x24 inches.
Price, folded and in cover, $0.40,
This is the best and most complete Map
of this important section of country, yet is
sued. It has been prepared with great care
and with a view to minute accuracy, giving
the location not only of all the cities and
towns, but also of almost all the villages;
railroads and highways are distinctly shown,
while many, even, of the less important roads
are also indicated. The lakes, lagoons,
swamps and marshes of this region which
will prove of great importance in the military
movements, are given, and the Map is also
very accurate and reliable in regard to all
water-courses, as well as to mountains, hills,
etc. This Map is, in fact, so faithful as to
detail that it might be safely used by officers
in the field. It will, therefore, be of great
value to all who desire to trace the move
ments of the opposing forces understandingly
and minutely.
These remarks apply, also, to the following
Map. viz.:
Schedler's Topographical Map of Western
Bulgaria, Western Roumania. and Eastern
Strvia. Colored. Scale. 1 : 600.000. Size,
23x24 inches. Price, folded and in cover,
$0.40.
Both these Maps are drawn in the same
style and on the same scale ; they fit into
each other so closely that, united, they form
one large Map of Roumania, Bulgaria, etc.,
that is, the valley of the Lower Danube from
Milanovatz and tho “Iron Gate” to the Black
Sea. Size, 23x41 inches. This combined
Map presents, at one view, the principal
scene of the contest between the Russian and
the Turkish armies.
Published by E. Steiger, 22 & 24 Frank
fort Street. New York, by whom copies will
be promptly mailed upon receipt of price.
The same publisher will keep the market
fully supplied with all other War Maps that
may be needed, and which we expect to
mention in these columns.
Stonewall Jackson and His Sister.
Stonewall Jackson and his sister vrere
orphan children, and were brought up togeth
er until he went to West Point. Like most
orphan children they were unusually attached
to each other, She married and settled in
Beverly, West Virginia, where her husband
carried on a large farm or plantation. Her
brother, the General, frequently visited her.
and during these visits he would invariably
go to the quarters of the slaves for the purpose
of exhorting them on the subject of religion.
Frequently the soldier would be 9ecn on his
knees in the midst of the children of Africa,
offering earnest prayers for their salvation.
When the war broke out the brother espoused
the cause of the South and became the great
est of all Confederate Generals, with a world
wide reputation for consummate military abili
ty, and laid down his life on the bloody field
of Chancellorsville. The sister, in spite of
the opposition of her brother, uninfluenced
by his brilliant achievements and the opposi
tion of her husband and her relatives, sided
with the cause of tiie Union and remained
true to that cause to the end of the war. So
great was the feeling engendered against her
that she eventually separated from her hus
band and moved to Springfield, Ohio, and
resided with a daughter who had married a
Union ollicer.
Wanted to Share the Blessing.
A little bright-eyed three year-old was
seated in his high chair at the dinner table.
Mamma had arranged theuncasy boy, while for
the moment his sprightliness and fun had
made him the observed of the family. She
had placed him snugly up to the table, pin
ned on his bib, and succeeded in getting the
little mischievous hands quiet and making
him hush, when his father proceeded to ask
the blessing. While this was in progress
our little chubby made a discovery. It was
that the plates on the table, except his own
little plate, were in one pile at “papa’s place,*’
and, as it seemed to him, were put there to
get the benefit of the solemn ceremony. So,
scarcely waiting for the “Amen,” he held
out his own plate in both hands, saying,
“ Please, papa, pray on my plate, too.”—
Christian at Work.
Little drops of water, little grains of corn,
make the festive Bourbon and the morning
horn.
POET’S CORNER.
Farm Life.
Saw ye the farmer at his plow,
As ye were riding by ?
Or wearied 'neatli the noonday toil.
When summer suns were high ?
And thought you that his lot was hard,
And did you thank your God
That you and yours were not condemned
Thus like a slave to plod ?
Come, see him at his harvest home,
When garden, field and tree
Conspire with bowing store to fill
His barn and granary;
Ilis beautiful children gaily sport
Amid the new-mown hay,
Or proudly aid with vigorous arm
Ilis task as best they may.
The Harvest-Giver is his friend,
The Maker of the soil,
And earth, the mother, gives them bread,
And cheers their patient toil;
Come join them around their winter hearth*
The heartfelt pleasure see—
And you can better judge how blest
The farmer’s life may be.
; —Mrs. Sigourney.
s TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNtJM.
l SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
Atlanta has two hundred lawyers.
George Clark, recently acquitted of the*
murder of young Tolbert, in Atlanta, will ber
sent to the asylum.
The Conventions of the two wings of tho
Protestant Methodist Churches at Baltimore"
are preparing to fuse.
The General Council of Reformed Episco
palians at Philadelphia report fraternal rela'
t.ions with the Free Church of England.
King Alfonso, of Spain, recently washed
the feet of twelve aged paupers. A band and
200 people were present during the ceremony.
Wheat importations into the United King
,'lorn ot Great llritian. for the 15 months end-'
j ing March 31, was 100.000.000 bushels.
The corn crop of IST'G was thirteen hundred
millions bushels. It is bettered thattheconu
ing crop will he two hundred millions larger.
Two men and a horse were bitten by a mad
eat in New York, and died in great agony
from hydrophobia.
The Abbeville Medium thinks that empty
whisky barrels tell a plainer tide of poverty
than all the cotton bales and guano sacks in
the countrv.
New Orleans, May 10.-—ln response to the"
proclamation o( Goy. Nicholls, Thanksgiving
Day was celebrated by services in the church
es and a military displaj\
A Newberry fowler set two hens on nine
teen eggs each —size of liens not mentioned—
from which were hatched thirty-eight chicks,
not one egg being lost.
Hon. B. 11. Hill lias been invited by the
Texas Slate Fair Association to deliver the
annual address at Houston the latter part of
this month.
Notable among the large premiums offered
by the State Fair Association are those for
granges and comity societies, embracing in
all six hundred dollars.
At Providence, Carrol) parish, La., ThtirS'
day night, a man charged with burglary was
taken from jail by a party of disguised rneif
and shot dead.
It is thought that the majority for the ratifU
cation of the constitution amendment forever
barring the payment of the Bullock fraudulent
bonds will reach about forty thousand.
A correspondent of the American Art Jour'
ual says that the girls of Cashmere make
shawls worth §30,000, and will show threw
hundred distinct colors or shades which we
cannot make or even distinguish.
The pastors of the various churches frr
Nashville have issued an address protesting
against extravagant funerals. They especial'
ly advise bereaved families to provide no
hacks except for their own accomodation.
P. F. Smith, Esq., the leading attornej r ii?
the case of Brinkley, thcNewnarv wife-nuir'
derer, has a petition in circulation to Gov,
Colquitt for the commutation of the sentence
of Brinkley to imprisonment for life.
Judge Lochrane, with many others, is fit
favor of anew paper being started in Atlanta,
favorable in tone to President Hayes, so long
as lie carries out his announced policy toward
the South.
A chicken in Pike county has just been
hatched out with the following notable char
acteristics : It has a double head, two dis
tinct backs and three eyes, one of the eye*
being in front where the two heads join.
The Northeastern Railroad, which has becij
operating not quite twelve months, can, up
to this time, show better business receipt*
than any other forty miles of road ever built,
in Georgia could during the first jear of it*
existence.
Mr. James B. Edwards, who settled &t
Sparta in 181 G, tells the Times and Planter
that in those days merchants went to Phila
delphia for goods, rilling one horse and lead'
ing another, winch had the specie for the
purchase money packed on bis back.
The newspapers nil promise n heavy neacli
crop this year everywhere, .South and North,
In the great peach regions of Maryland atuf
Delaware the trees are all full, and grower*
are now actively making their arrangement*
for the distribution and sale of the crop,
California is rejoicing oarer an orange growr?
by Mrs. Brewster, of Paradis# valley, wind?
while growing had to he suspended in a net;
bag, in which it is 3’et shown. The two* cir>
cumferences, cutting each other at right an'
gles, measure respectively 24| inches antf 23|
inches, while the weight is 4£ pounds.
The Attoney-General has informed Cniter!
States Marshals that the appropriation* for
for expenses of United States Court* for the
present fiscal }*ear is nearty exhausted, ami
no further expenditures can be made before
the Ist of July, when the appropriation! for
the ensuing fiscal year becomes at'ailaMev
The annual convention of the Georgia
Teachers’ Association will take place in Au
gust, and will probably meet in the beautiful
littletown ofToecoa. Professor Mttfton visit
ed that place last week for the purpose of
ascertaining if the necessar)' accomrm>daliens
could be secured upon terms agreeable to all
parties, and the citizens have taken the mat
ter in hand.
A negro of Bueklin, Mo., was a H Voudou,”
according to the superstitions belief of his
neighbors. An entire family died in one week,
and he was accused of killing them by witch
craft. A mob took him out of his cabin at
night, hanged him. and buried his body twen
ty feet deep under huge stones. This was
done to prevent his getting out and harming
his murderers.
The complete failure of the administration
to secure the faintest hope of organizing the
next House is constantly receiving new proof.
Charley Foster of Ohio, was rel'ed on to help
carry out this scheme, and last week Foster
wrote to a friend in this city as follows : “ I
think the chances are In favor of Randall's
success, and that in any event the Democrats
are likely to organize the House.”
NUMBER 49.