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1) F. lVOFI'OHB), .itt<>rnev-sit-I/,i>v.
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March 3d, 1877.
fILKY C. HOWARD. ROIi'T S. HOWARD.
W. C. tV 11. S. HOWARD,
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(24 Jefferson, Ga.
Law Card.
!\fV term as Ordinary having expired, 1 am
JI devoting my time and energies entirely to
the practice of the law. Mr. Robert S. IIow
; vim 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
tion will be given to all business entrusted to us,
mil to advising Executors, Administrators and
Guardians in the management of estates. Office,
up-stairs, over Billy Thompson store-room.
WILEY C. HOWARD,
fi'b'24 Counsellor at Law, Jefferson. Ga.
Medical and Surgical Notice.
DIC. IV. A. WATSOA 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. IL Silman’s law office. When
not professionally absent, can be found at one or
the other of the above places. Jan 27 Iy
HR. J. It. PENDERGRASS
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of JetFerson and surround-
B ng country ; and by strict attention to his studies
K ml profession, hopes to merit continued confi
■ uence. He can be found at his office, one door
I north of Pendergrass & Hancock's store, at all
times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th, 1877.
Dlt. W. S. ALEVANDI’it,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. Gm
I J. A. 15. MAHAFFEY. VV. S. M'CARTY.
I MAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
1 JI A T T 0 R NEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
f ill practice anywhere for money. Prompt at-
I tention given to all business entrusted to their
fare. Patronage solicited. Oct3oly
m e. R. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the office recently occupied by Col. Mahaffey.
Jan. 22, 187G—tf
I. J. FLOYD, [ J. B. SILMAN,
Covingtan, Ga. | JetFerson, Ga.
FI-OVO A NUBIAN,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
'Till practice together in the Superior Courts ©i
| die counties of Jackson and Walton.
junel2— ly
Wl. PIliE, Attorney s*t *4>v,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
Practices in all the Courts, State and Federal.
Frompt and thorough attention given to all
'duds of legal business in Jackson and adjoining
bounties. June 12 1875
STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFERSOX, GA.,
DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 19 lv
JEFFERSON TOWN GOVERN WENT.
W. 1. Pike, Mayor; Col J. A B Mahatfev, G.
J. N. Wilson. Jfi Randolph, F. M. Bailey. Al
<Jennen; R S Howard, Esq., Clerk & Treasur
er ; H J Randolph, Jr. Marshal.
I nitiMl States Covernmcnt,
EXECUTIVE.
President—Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, to
March 4, 1881.
HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS.
Bec'y of State —William M. Evarts, of New York.
Sec'y of Treasury—John Sherman, of Ohio.
Sec'of War—. Geo. W. McCrary, of Towa.
Sec'y of the Navy—-Richard Thompson, of Indiana
Secretary of Interior—Carl Schurz, of Missouri.
Att’y Gcn’l—Chaa. Devens, of Massachusetts.
Postmaster Gon’l—David M. Key. of Tennessee.
LEGISLATIVE.
President of the Senate—William A. Wheeler,
of New York.
Secretary of Senate—-George C. Gorham, of
California.
Sneaker of House of Representatives—Samuel
J. Randall, of Penn.
Clerk—Geo. M Adams, of Kentucky,
U. S, SUPREME COURT.
Chief Justice—Hon. M R Waite, of Ohio,
Associate Justices.
lion. Ward Hunt, of New York^
Hon. Nathan Clifford, of Maine.
Hon. Noah 11. Swayne, of Ohio.
Hon. Samuel F. Miller, of lowa,
Hon. David Davis, of Illinois.
Hon. Stephen J Field, of California.
Hon. Wm. M Strong, of Pennsylvania,
lion. Joseph P. Bradley, of New Jersey.
The Supreme Court holds one session annually,
,n Washington, beginning on the first Monday in
December,
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LOCATION —No, 3, Granite Row, south side Broad Street, ATHENS, GA.
May 19, 1877. ly
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. MAY 26, 1577.
’ THE CONVENTION.
For the Forest News,
Gainesville,. G a., May 14th, 1877.
Mu. Kditor :—Believing, some three or
four weeks back, that the subject of a Con
vention to form anew Constitution was be
ginning to agitate the public mind, I conclud
ed, for my own satisfaction, and to show to
others the necessary alterations that I thought
should be made in the present Constitution,
to draw up a Constitution entire, which I
have done ; the manuscript of which, being
at least eighteen pages of foolscap, precludes
its publication in an ordinary weekly news
paper, unless in detached parts—-which would
occupy too much time. I have therefore
thought it not amiss to furnish you, for pifb
lieation, the principal alterations that 1 think
necessary should be made.
The first change I make is, I reduce the
House of Representatives to eighty-eight
members: two from each Senatorial district
as now established. The Legislature to
change the districts so as to equalize the
population, but in no event to increase the
aggregate number of either house, but by an
amendment of the Constitution. I then
change the sessions from annual to biannual ;
I drop the word “canvassed” from the oath
of the members; I deny the right to vote to
all persons convicted of felony, arson, per
jury, forgery or larceny ; and define the word
“ larceny” to be the stealing of anything, no
matter how small the value. I have given
to the Legislature the power to alter and
regulate the Judicial Circuits of the State,
so as to equalize the labor among the Judges ;
but in no event shall anew or additional
circuit be formed. I have taken from the
Legislature the power to grant corporate
powers to churches, academics or camp
grounds, or to make or change election pre
cincts, or to establish bridges or ferries, or
to change the names of persons, or to author
ize persons to peddle without a license, or
to practice medicine or law; but they may
prescribe by law, the manner in which such
powers shall be exercised throughout the
State by the Courts. I have said that the
Legislature shall pass no law making the
State a stockholder in any corporate compa
ny, nor shall the credit of the State ever be
loaned or granted to aid or foster such com
pany. I have put the pay of the members
of the Legislature at four dollars per day,
and mileage; and reduced the sessions to
thirty days. 1 have reduced the Governor’s
term of office to two years, and prohibited
his granting pardons to any one charged
with an offense against the State, until after
conviction. I have left blanks where neces-
sary, to be filled up by the Convention, mak
ing permanent by the Constitution, the sal
ary of Governor, Judges of Supreme and
Superior Courts, Attorney and Solicitor Gen
erals, and all State-house officers. I have
reduced the term of office of the Judges of
the Supreme Court to six years, and those
of the Superior Courts to four years. 1 have
restored appeals from one jury to another in
the Superior Courts, the trial by jur} r in Jus
tices Courts, made all jure? to be drawn and
impanneled as heretofore, under the Judici
ary act of 1799, and all jurors serving in Su
perior Courts to be paid $2.00 per day, and
no one to serve on a who cannot read
and write ; I have given to Sheriffs through
out the State, two dollars per day extra for
every day that they serve at a Superior Court;
I have taken from the Governor and given to
the General Assembly the power to appoint
the Judges of the Supreme and Superior
Courts, the Attorney and Solicitor Generals ;
I make all public roads to be worked by tax
ation—the Legislature to pass laws regulat
ing the same so as to give all persons liable
to work roads the choice to pay their road
tax in money or work. I have reduced the
legal interest, per annum, to six per cent.,
and the Homestead to six hundred dollars.
These are the principal alterations that I
thought necessary to make, and while I do
not pretend to claim that it is the best Con
stitution that can be made, still it will show
something near what should be done ; eause
our people to think, and should a Convention
be called, might act as a guide to facilitate
and lessen the labors of that body, as it can
be easily added to, taken from or amended,
all of which, if required, will be at the ser
vice of an}' member. I have not said any
thing of the removal of the seat of Govern
ment, for obvious reasons; it might become
a bone of contention sufficient to defeat the
ratification of the Constitution should one
be adopted. I do not think therefore that
the Convention should have a word to say
about it, but it should be left to a vote of the
people, where a majority of the people
say have it, there have it; and then make it
permanent by an amendment to the Consti
tution. Very respectfully, &c.,
John I. Cheatham.
N. B.—ln ray communication of week be
fore last, there is an erratum ; in the twenty
eighth iine from the bottom, I am made to
say, then send those and some others, when
it should read, then send those and none
others.
After all what the women of this are long
for as much as anything is a bonnet that will
make them look young.
Maj. J. J. J. Sheppard, of Banks.
Editor News:—As has been announced
in your paper, Maj. J. J. Sheppard is being
put forward by the people of Banks county
as a suitable candidate for the Constitutional
Convention. It was understood in Banks,
that a District Convention would meet on the
12th inst., past, at Gillsville, and a number
of her citizens met there on that day; but
Jackson and Hall were not represented, and
consequently there was no convention and
no nominations. However, wc are informed
those citizens of Banks who did meet, were
almost unanimously in favor of Maj. Shep
pard as their choice ; therefore, Maj. S. is not
entirely running on the “independent” line,
but is being put forward by the people. And
that the voters of our sister counties may
understand this to be the case, we herewith
append a recommendation, gotton up and
signed by some of his friends in Banks, and
also by some of the citizens of Jackson, who
are well acquainted with the Major, as he
lives near the line of Banks and Jackson.
We believe that lie will ably arid faithfully
serve his constituents, if elected.
Citizens.
GEORGlA—ltaiilt’i ('oiiiity.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN :
The undersigned, being personally and
well acquainted with Maj. J. J. J. Sheppard,
would respectfully recommend his name to
the Voters of the 33d Senatorial District, as
altogether worthy of their support in the ap
proaching election of Delegates to the State
Constitutional Convention. lie is a man of
fine natural abilities, well acquainted with
the laws of the country and with general po
litical economy—having had considerable
experience and practice in legal matters.
None other would more scrupulously regard
the interests of his constituents than he.
Respectfully submitted,
Rev. W. T. M. Brock,
J II Sewell. M D ; W B J Hardeman, M
D ; Wilborn Weldin, C O Brock, G S Mar
tin, M D ; Rev D C Oliver, M M Wilbanks.
W C Oliver, J 1) Martin, W J Burgess, C T
Burgess, J R Ray, J E Wilson, J 1 J ; L J
Matthows, R S Cheney, W T Harbor, S M
Shankle, J W Sewell, M 1) ; J O Wood, M
II Thomas, T C Crow, W T Nunn, J II Crow,
D S McWhorter, E F Martin, W J Goss, R
C Wilhite, G M Langford, S Segar, G W IJ
llarher, W S Edwards, Eli Crow, D M Nix,
W C llood, John Mize, A C Moss, R J D}’-
ar, J T Quillain, W A Quillain, II C Daniel.
LN Turk, G B Telford, J N Telford, Win
MeCroy, J F Duncan, J N Hitchens. A M
Brown, W J Mize, W C Thomas, B F Wof
ford, C W Hood, Rev W R Goss. L M Shan
kle, E M Ingram, J S Richey, E II Borders,
J W Glenn, S P Orr, C W Crow, T V Bra
zelton, A W Henderson, N J Langston, Joel
Thomas, J N Prickett, J W Prickett, F A
Prickett, W M Shankle, Rev F Sewell, V II
Deadwyler, M D ; P II Wright, Thos Paine,
Benton Morgan, L Ragsdale, N S Brown, J
E Straynge, W D Fuller, L C Iloulbrook, A
D Chenault, INI I); D R Parks, J A Pinks
ton, C W Meadors, D P Casey, F F Menders.
Effects of the War in Europe.
Col. Styles, in his paper (the Gainesville
Eagle,) of the 11th. in speaking of the war
between the Turks and Russians, presents
one of the “main features'’ in which we, as
a people are interested, in the following for
cible and pointed language :
* * * * All this may be true, but
whether we are familiar with the countries or
not, speculators in breadstuff's make the
effects of the war felt in both hemispheres;
and the rich grow richer and the poor poorer,
while the carnage is carried on. We may
never learn correctly the geography of the
countries immediately involved, but the wave
of misery put in motion at the centre will be
felt on the remotest shores of civilization.
In America the greed of gain will make the
war in Europe a source of sorrow and anx
iety to the poor.
For the guidance of those on that line, we
here plant a finger post, accurate and immu
table. We commend it to the observation of
all on the journey of life, who buy and sell
flour and corn. The way is so plain t hat the
wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err
therein.
I have been young.: lie that withholdeth
and now am old ; yet corn, the people shall
have I not seen the curse him ; but bless
righteous forsaken nor ing shall be upon the
his seed begging.— head of him that sell-
Cast thy bread upon eth it. Thou hast
the waters, for thou withholden bread from
©halt find it after many the hungry ; therefore
days. But if a man snares are round about
he just, and do that thee, and sudden fear
which is lawful and troubleth thee. Thy
right—and hath not wickedness is great,
oppressed any, but This is the portion of
hath given his bread a wicked man with
to the hungry—he is God. his offspring
just—he shall surely shall not be satisfied
live, saith the Lord with bread.
God. 1
A Vigorous Appetite for a Condemned
Man. —John E. Singleton was recently hung
at Beeville, Taxas, for the murder of John
Dwyer. The following is a copy of the bill
of fare for dinner, made out by his own hand
on the morning of execution. The Sheriff
supplied every article : “ One baked chicken,
one peach pie, one egg custard, one fruit pud
ding, one large pound cake and two bottles
of wine. The above is a list of what I wish
prepared for mv dinner on the 27th day of
April, A. D. 1877.”
New York, May 17. —The heat in the city
to-day has been intense. At half-past3,p.m.,
the thermometer registered 90 in the shade.
Several persons were prostrated by the heat.
At 5 o’clock quite a heavy shower passed
over the city, which had the effect of cooling
the atmosphere, but at this hour, midnight,
tho heat is oppressive.
A Noble Daughter.
Miss Cornelia Chi slow. Killed in the Missis
sippi Tragedy-Heroic Defense of Her Fa
ther Who Was Shot by Ruffians—AnExam
ple of Tenderness and Courage Unprecedent*■
ed in the History of Womanhood.
Meridian, Miss., May IG. The following
is a graphic account of the Kemper county
tragedy, in which Miss Cornelia Chislom
while defending her father, was severely
wounded. She has since died from those
wounds:
The lock was broken off with axes plied
by the mob. hile the blows were falling
upon it Cornelia implored the two remaining
guards, Overstreet and Wall, to fire through
the grating upon the mob pressing up the
stairs, but they refused. She then carried
the guns left by the other guards to her fa*
ther. After the lock yielded, the two guards
tried to hold the door, and a second son of the
Judge, a boy of thirteen, in aiding them, was
shot in the wrist. The mob pushed the
guards aside, and the men advanced, gained
the upper landing, fired and killed the poor
wounded boy, who was clinging to his father.
There was a lull for a few minutes ; then
the crowd outside began to veil. “Fire the
jail ; burn them out!” Afterward they shout
ed. “The jail is on fire!” It was a strata
gem. Judge Chislom, believing that the
wooden building was already in flames, de
termined to fight his way out and sell his life
as dearly as he could, lie came down the
stairs with his wife and three surviving chil
dren.
The dead bodies of Joliny Chislom and of
I)r. llosser had previously been carried out by
Overstreet and Wall, who left; the jail to cot
out of harm's way. At the foot of the stairs
the hunted family found the hall full of armed
men. One man stuck his gun through the gra
ting in the door, against the breast of the
Judge, but Cornelia thrust it aside. A vol
ley of shots was fired against the door. The
Judge pushed it open and got into the hall.
Mrs. Chislom fired both barrels of a shot-gun
and wounded one of the assailants in the face.
Ihe murderous mob closed in around their
victim. 11 is daughter clung to his neck with
one hand and with the other thrust away the
guns aimed at him. Her hand was shattered
by a ball and five shots struck one of her legs.
Judge Chislom fell wounded in eleven places.
Ihe mob, believing they had accomplished
their purpose, left the jail.
The wife and son of the Judge, aided by a
citizen, who, for a wonder, showed a spark
of humanity, carried the wounded man to his
home, a few hundred yards across the com
mons. A body of men then stopped them
on the way and were about to fire at the
Judge, when Miss Cornelia, with the remark
able courage and self-posession she had show
ed throughout the whole tragedy, assured
them that her father was dead, that he had
died in her arms in the jail, and psrsuaded
them not to mutilate a dead body. The
bleeding and nnconcious man was then got
within the shelter of his house. Toward
evening the murderers rode out of town.
The surgeon says that he never saw a wo
man with such a nerve as Miss Chislom, and
that she bore the severe pain of extracting
the shot from her hand without a groan. She
has a sweet, intelligent face, dark brown hair,
and a pair of large, resolute blue eyes.
HpTofind tyrants, do not go away off to
so-called heathen lands to find them. Do not
trouble yourself to ransack the history of by
gone ages to learn their character. Sec
there ! Look at that man—the greater brute
of the two—beating that horse. There is ty
ranny, there is cruelty, there is cowardice
all combined and embodied in the shape of a
man! .See there! how with that whip lie
first lashes the legs, the sides and back of the
poor trembling animal, then turns the stock
of the whip and beats him over the head !
Talk of tyrants! Where will you find a
greater tyrant than he ? Talk of brutal na
ture ! There is ten times more of real bru
tal nature in that man than in the poor, un
offending horse he is abusing! Why is he
doing so? Just because he is mad! The
horse has done no harm—is doing as well as
he can—doing his very best to draw a load
that is bej’ond his strength ; and because he
does not what he is realij’ unable to do, he is
thus cruell}’, shamefully abused—beaten, and
that great iron bit jerked till the blood is run
ning from his torn mouth, yet that creature
—that brute in human shape—calls himself
a civilized and Christian man ! Oh, for very
shame, spare us such an application of those
terms!
UiFTt is a strange thing that a man can be
warmed and fed by the merchant; instructed
and amused by the editor ; the tender minds
of his offspring cultivated by the teacher; his
life prolonged and saved by the doctor ; his
soul made to rejoice by glad tidings from the
preacher, and yet, when the bills are present
ed for the same, express his deep regret of
utter inability to pa}’, but can “ fork over” his
last ten cents for whiskey. A commentary
on the times.— Franklin Cos. Register.
If our people shall take no more general
intrestin the Constitutional Convention, than
was manifested in the amendment killing the
Bullock fraudulent bonds, the result will bor
der upon doubt.
s TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
Two men travelfing'on foot through the 1
it i neon ad a Valley, Cal., on the 3'oth ult, attr
same wild parsley and died in an hour.
The negro who outraged and' murdered Mrs.-
Caraway in Sumter county, Ga.. was huntin'
Americas on Friday of Fast week.
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The oldest living minister of the fresbyte--
rian church is said to be Rev. Noah M. Wells,
of Erie, Mich., who will be Do next July.
A writer in the Southern Christum Advo
cate points to the fact, that “out of 10,000*
Methodist families in North Georgia, only
1260 infants were baptized last year/’
Twenty-five hundred enlisted 1 men in the
United States’army will be discharged by
July Ist. Cause—lack of sufficient appro
priations for army expenses.
Dr. J. Marion Sims has Written a work es
tablishing the claim of Dr. Crawford W Long,
of Georgia, to the first discovery of amesthe
tics.
An exchange says, that it is thought that
the time will yet come when members of the*
choir will be expected to behave during di
vine service, just as well as other folks. °
United States Marshal Sinythe, of Georgia,
has addressed a letter to Attorney General
De\ ( ns. denying certain charges made against
him, and demanding an investigation.
The postal commission are preparing to
complete their investigation in the southern
states by a trip over the Air-Line to Atlanta*-
They start on the 24th. Postmaster General
Ivey accompanies them.
I he Atlanta Constitution relates this very
unusual occurrence: “Six foxes attacked ’:*
stray call in Monroe county the other dav<
and only desisted when one of their number'
was killed.”
Columbia. K. C., May 18.—lion. Henry
Me Ivor, ol Cheraw, was unanimously elect--
ed Associate Justice of South Carolina in joint
session to-day. lie was voted for by every
Republican as well as by every Democrat.
On Friday last, Mr. Forest Morgan, of Til’-
ton, V hit fie 1 and county, was driving an ox fceanv
down a declivity. The wagon, which was in
rapid motion, struck a tree, throwing Mr.
Morgan out and breaking his neck, from whicls
he died almost instantly.
The Savannah News has this to say of
Senator Hill’s markmanship : “Hon. 13. 11.
Ilili was a guest of the Savannah Rifle asso
ciation at their regular practice at the Her
mitage yesterday afternoon, and made a scorer
of 13 out of a possible 15.”
It is a curious fact that an eighty -year old
boy can t sit for five minutes on a cane-seat'
chair without getting the backache, but he*
will walk right out and sit on the top of a
hitehing-post for half an hour, and feel like
peaches over it.
Chislom, who was killed in Kemper conn
ty. Miss., in a bloody affray, which resulted
in the subsequent death of his daughter, wa
a Georgian and ex-Confederate, He was a
desperate man and turned over to Radical
ism soon after the war,
The Missouri Legislature has passed a law"
by which all able-bodied male persons be
tween twelve and sixty years of age are to be
drafted for two days in each week during ther
spring months of the year to fight grasshop
pers.
The Secretary of War has issued an order
notifying disbursing officers that after the Ist
of July there will be no funds to buy supplies
for the army, and prescribes rules by which
articles indispensable may be purchased by
means of vouchers.
The State of Georgia has sold the labor of
the convicts in its State prison for $25,000 a
year, which is at the rate of about sll a year
for each convict. The State appears to haver
been badly swindled, as the contractors arc
now successfully sub letting” the convicts l
at S6O a } ear apiece.
Mrs. Zilphin Rountree, living in S waffles
boro, Emanuel county, will be ninety-fiver
years old next fall. She has been a strict
member of the Primitive Baptist church for
sixty-five years, joining the church at Hebron,
the oldest church in the county, in the year
1812.
Up to April 16, the Book agent of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, had re
ceived from the churches in the several Con
ferences a total of $21,318- 88 for the rel ief of
the Publishing 1 loose at Nashville, Tenn,
Dr. Bedford, the agent, calls for $60,000,
About one-third of the charges have respond
ed.
There are about 40.000,000 of people i'nf
the United States. Allowing that each per
son wears out three pairs of boots or shoes
in a year, it requires the production of 120,-
000.000 shoes every year to keep them sup
plied, In other words, about seven and &
half old shoes are being flung into (lie back
yard every second.
Clumsy legislation has left Tennessee with
out any law against horse stealing, larceny
from the person, house or bridge burning, or
house-breaking with intent to commit rob
bery. The old laws against these crimes
were so severe that the last Legislature re
pealed them, but forgot to restore the old law
or enact anew one,
A terrible drought prevails in parts of Aus
tralia. Nearly every sheep station in New
South Wales has lost from 1,000 to 5.000
head of sheep. The total loss is estimated
at over 1,000,000 sheep. A traveler writes
that in riding seventy miles not a blade of
grass appeared, where in former seasons flocks
were accustomed to roam,
Pickens connty has reinforced the peniten
tiary gang with three notable prisoners—
William Forrester, who killed Jeff. Yonng ;
Joseph P. Arwood, who killed S, N. Bozeman
a few weeks since, and Amzella Ilambride,
one of the parties indicated for the killing of
Narcissa Cowart, alias Fowler, at a party
some months since. The first for six and the
other two for two years each.
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