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March 3d, 1877.
WILEY C. HOWARIi ROB'T S. HOWARD.
W. C. & a. S. HOWARD,
attorneys md counsellors at
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f24 Jefferson, Ha.
Law Card.
MV term as Ordinary having expired, 1 am
devoting my tine and energies entirely to
the practice of the law*. Mr. Robert S. ifow-
AKi) is associated with me. Either or both of us
can always he found at our office, except when
absent on business Special and careful atten
tion will be given t< all business entrusted to us.
and to advising Executors, Administrators and
Guardians in the management of estates. Office,
up-stairs, over Bill v Thompson store-room.
WILEY C. HOWARD,
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Medical and Surgical Notice.
Dlt. W. A. WATSON respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of
JeStetson and surrounding country. Residence,
at the old “Watson Homestead,” Sycamore st.
Office, in Col. J. ib Silman's law* office. When
not professionally absent, can be found at one or
the other of the above places. Jan 27 Iy
Dr. J. B. Pendergrass,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Jefferson and surround
ing country ; and by strict attention to his studies
wi profession, lopes to merit continued confi
dence. He can le found at his office, one door
north of Pendergrass <& Hancock's store, at all
times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th, 1877.
Die. W. S. ATitiXA^fllEß,
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1873. 6m
J- A. 15. MAHAFFEY. W. S. M*CARTY.
\IAHAFFEY & MeCARTY,
J 1 A T 0 R KEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
" ill practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
fare. Patronage solicited. Oct3o ly
R. C. It. 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, 187(1—tf
J-J. FLOVn, I J. B. SILMAN,
Covingtan, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
a SII/VIAA.
1 AT TOR NE YS-A T-L AW.
'"ill practice together in the Superior Courts ei
the counties of Jackson and Walton,
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WI. I*3l*ll. Attorney at Ijim,
• 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
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JEFFERSON TOWN GOVERNMENT.
W. 1. Pike, Mayor; Col J. A It MahatFey, G.
•1. N. Wilson. •! E Randolph, F. M. ltailcy. Al
dermen; It S Howard, Esq., Clerk & Treasur
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March 4, 1881.
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1877.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
Crowner’s Quest in South Carolina.
A strange survival of African superstition
has clothed itself in South Carolina with the
garb of Anglo-Saxon law; and it may serve,
says the Baltimore Gazette, as an indication
of the fitness of what wa9 recently the ruling
class in that State for the exercise of the du
ties of American citizenship. One of the
ineradicable creeds of the negro race is “con
juring.” Even considerable education often
fails to rid the colored man of the belief that
another can “conjure” him—i. e., casta spell
or blight on him, so that he will fall sick,
wither and die. In Africa the imyangcr, or
witch doctor, corresponds somewhat with the
medicine man of our Indians, but is a far more
bloody and beastly personage. The traditions
of the imyanger or conjurer still affright the
souls of the American citizens of African
descent. The South Carolina case is as fol
lows : A negro man named Adam Snipe
died of consumption near Port Royal. When
he was dying he accused Dago Ilagood of
having conjured him and given him the cough
of which lie was wasting away. He recalled
to his friends the fact that Dago had about
six months before come up behind him, and
putting a hand on each shoulder asked “ Who
is it ?” This was the charm, and the cough
was its magical working. All of the friends
of the dying man accepted this as proof
positive of the guilt of Dago. They, there
fore, sent for the Coroner, as though a murder
had been committed. The Coroner, for the
sake of preserving the peace, and possibly
with the hope of disabusing them of their
delusion, went and empaneled a jury. That
jury, in spite of all the instructions and char
ges of the Coroner, Mr. Carleton, persisted
in rendering a verdict of murder against Ila
good. The Charleston Neivs and Courier
publishes a literal copy of the finding of the
Coroner's jury, which is a curiosity in its wa\\
It is as follows: “That Adam Snipe came
to his death at Coosaw Island, in Beaufort
county, on the 11th da3 r of April, 1877, and
that his death was caused through one Dago
Ilagood, lie having some time previously put
his hands around deceased’s neck, producing
a cough, poisoning said Adam Snipe, thereby
wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously causing
the death of the said Adam Snipe, contrary to
the peace and dignity of said State.” The
Port Royal Advertiser states that Ilagood is
now in jail. As it seems now to be a neces
sity that he shall be tried for murder, the ques
tion arises what will be his chances before a
jury of his peers ? No charge of the Judge
could save him from a verdict of guilty. The
pardoning power of Gov. Hampton is, per
haps, the only certain safeguard that lie has
against the scaffold. Things are almost as
bad among the negroes of South Carolina as
the}’ were among the New England Puritan
witch-burners some two hundred years ago.
A Town Without Winter.
There is a place near Bradford, Penn.,
where they have had no winter this year. It
is on the Bruce Rogers farm. In drilling a
well they struck a vein of gas at a depth of
800 feet. The flow was so powerful that
work had to be stopped. The gas was light
ed, and from October until February it illu
minated the country around. The jets were
from twenty-five to forty feet high, and were
seen twenty miles away. The heat generated
by the burning gas so affected the tempera
ture of the locality that flowers, berries and
all kinds of vegetation natural to the soil
flourished up to the day that the gas was
shut off. Cows browsed around the burning
wells, and “garden truck” was raised. The
gas is now being brought in pipes to Brad
ford to furnish fuel for machine shops and
foundaries, and it will be eventually used to
light, the town. The roar of thp well can be
heard at nfght at Bradford.
Georgia Negroes in Carolina-
The Douglass Infantry (colored) a finely
drilled company from Augusta, Ga.. held
their annual pic-nic at Coker Spring on Mon
day last. As they paraded the streets, keep
ing time to the music, their splendid uniform
and shining arms excited’the envy and aston
ishment of the nickle whisky citizens of
Curve street, one of them remarking “datde
Aiken boys neber had such a chance to do
like dat.” He was replied to by a sable Au
gustian. “Of course vu have had de same
chance. Y'ou was freed de same time we wuz.
If you had dun less deblement an’ stuck to
de white people you wud have been just as
well off as we. We hurrahed for Colquitt in
Georgy, we did.” The day was passed in
the harmless amusement of target shooting
for prizes, gold medal, etc., and in riding
around the town, all hehaving themselves in
a very orderly and becoming manner.—Ai
ken Courier Journal.
UiPThe next time you go to church take
off your hat as you pass in at the door, and do
not put it on again until you pass out. The
house of God should be reverenced, as well
as He to whose worship it was dedicated. A
man is wanting in proper training, when lie
is seen with his hat on his head until he reach
es his seat in church.
If you would save your cabbage plants
from cut worms, place a chip beside each
plant, and in the early morning raise them
up and there you will find the worms. This
is said to be infallible.
Wonderful Surgical Operation.
The following from the Pittsfield (Mass.)
Sun will be read with the greatest interest
by medical men:
On Thursday of last week, Dr. Wade, the
distinguished Albany surgeon, operated in
that city upon Elihn B. Whittlesey for can
cer, removing his entire tongue. Mr. Whit
tlesey is a distant relative of Theodore Pome
roy, of Pittsfield, and has been for many
years his confidential clerk. In the war he
served upon Gen. Briggs’ staff. Dr. Paddock,
of Pittsfield, and twenty other surgeons wit
nessed the operation. The cancer is said to
have been caused by smoking, and the ope
ration was the only means of saving his life.
A lew lines have been received on a postal
citfd from Mr. W. by his man}’ friends in
town, announcing that he is getting along
finely, while the Monday Albany Argus re
ported a reasonable prospect of his recovery.
This paper contains tiie following account
of the operation : “This operation always
involves great risk of life from hemorrhage.
To lessen this danger both lingual arteries
were ligated, which, from their deep situation
in the neck, among important blood vessels
and nerves, require a thorough anatomical
knowledge and a steady, skillful hand. The
operation necessary for the tying of these
vessels was sufficiently formidable to have
terminated here. But this was only the first
step. The lower lip was then divided to a
point below the chin and the flaps turned
back sufficiently to expose the lower jaw,
which was sawed through at the chin, and
fillets cast about their severed edges, that
the tongue, through which a ligature had been
previously passed, might be drawn forward
and out of the mouth as far as practicable,
to allow the galvanic cautery to be applied.
After the galvanic cautery had been properly
adjusted and connected with the battery, the
tongue was amputated entire, without the
loss of a drop of blood from this organ, sim
plyfying throughout, one of the most formi
dable and dangerous operations in modern
scientific surgery, hemorrhage being an im
portant factor. Holes were then drilled
through the bones of the chin which had been
sawn apart, and wired together again. The
other wounds were dressed in the usual man
ner. The patient, being under the influence
of ether, suffered no pain, thus ending a bold,
darimg operation, splendidly performed.”
The v Way the Chinese Stop an Ass Braying.
In 1840(says the Abble Hue) we were once
making a journey in a wagon in the province
of Pekin. Our equipage was under the guid
ance of an old schoolmaster, mounted upon a
magnificent ass, so full of ardor and agility
that the two mules that completed our team
had all the difficulty in the world to keep up
with him. This ass, however, was so filled
with a sense of his own superiority, and so
proud of it, that whenever he became aware of
the presence of any of his brethren, he never
failed to commence boasting of it in such
loud, sonorous and harsh tones that his folly
became quite insupportable.
When he got to an inn, instead of trying to
rest himself, the beast passed the whole night
practicing music, setting all the donkeys in
the neighborhood to singing the same tune,
so that it was impossible to sleep.
One evening we said to the schoolmaster :
“Your donkey is an abominable brute; it
prevents my getting a wink of sleep.”
“Why did you not tell me so before ?” said
the schoomaster. “ I would soon have stop
ped his singing.”
As the old pedagogue was somewhat of a
wag, and indulged sometimes in a small joke,
we took little notice of his reply, hut that
night we slept quite soundly.
“ Well, did the ass make a noise last night?”
he asked, when we met in the morning.
“ Perhaps not,” said we ; “ at all events we
did not hear him.”
“ No, I think not,” said he ; “ I saw to that
before I went to bed. Y r ou must have noticed,”
he continued, “that when an ass is going to
bray, he alwa3'S begins-by raising his tail,
and he keeps it extended horizontally as long
as his song lasts. To insure his silence, you
have only to tie a large stone to the end of
his tail, so that he cannot raise it.”
We smiled without reply, thinking this was
onlfanother piece of pleasantry ; but he cried :
*• Come, now, and see ; you can easily con
vince yourself.”
And accordingly we followed him to the
court-yard, where we beheld, sure enough, the
poor ass with a large stone attached to his
tail, and with the air of having lost his ac
customed spirits. His eyes were fixed on the
ground, his ears hung down, his whole appear
ance denoting humility and dejection. Feel
ing quite compassionate towards him, we
now begged his master to untie the stone
directly; and as soon as ever he felt the
musical appendage at liberty, the creature
raised first his head, then his ears, then his
tail, and at last began to bray with all his
wonted energy.
old hymn, “Rock of Ages Cleft
for Me.” was written by Rev. Augustus Mon
tague Toplady about one hundred years ago.
During these hundred years it has found its
way into almost every land and every tongue.
Seme time ago an American elergyman at
tended an Armenian church in Constantino
ple, and heard a hymn which in a foreign
tongue seemed to produce a powerful impres
sion upon the congregation. As he left the
house what was his surprise to learn that this
affeeting hymn was none other than “ Rock
of Ages Cleft for Me.”
An old bachelor having been laughed at by
a party of prett3 T girls, told them “you are
small potatoes.” “We may be small pota
toes,” said one of them, “but we arc sweet
potatoes.”
HUMOROUS COLUMN.
A rich man can be as big an idimt as a poof
roan, but people won’t tell him so half so quick.
A Nevada paper says of a man who has
sued it for libel, that “he pertitions the courts
to stitch a golden patch over his rent reputa
tion.”
Schoolmistress-**Johny. I’m ashamed of
you ; when I was }*onr age I could read as
well as I can now.” Johny—“ Aw, but you’d
a different teacher, to what we’ve got.”
A Frenchman has invented a little ma
chine, which, being wound up once a month
and attached to the tail feathers of a hen, re
cords the number of eggs which she lays.
No doubt it will be a source of gratifica
tion to every little boy to know that about
the time the strawberry crop gives out the
June bug will be ripe.
If a beggar asks you for twenty-five cents,
to get something to eat, tell him to go to work
—then go and buy a cigar, two pounds of can
dy and go to see “ her.”
A man always gets through his ice cream
first, and looks around with a fawn like smile.
But if his girl really loves him she will gent
ly push her plate away from her. and say,
“Won’t you take a spoonfull of mine ?”
“Now Patrick,” said the Judge, “what have
you to say to the charge, are you guilty or
not guilty ?” “Faith!” answered Patrick,
“but that is difficult for yer honor to tell, let
alone meself. Wait till I hear the evidence.”
On his return from India. Brown was ask
ed how he liked tiger hunting. “It is very
good sport as you hunt the tiger,” he replied ;
“but if hard pressed, the tiger takes it into
his head to hunt you, then it has its draw
backs.”
Last Sabbath morning a minister was earn
estly disconrging about Peter and Paul, and
said they were a “good pair.” “Good hand !”
sleepily murmured a half-awakened sport in
the back pew. “Take the pot; nothing's
here but ace high.”
The man with a slouched hat, ragged
clothes, weather-beaten boots and a dissipa
ted-looking nose is now observed sitting
along the rural streams, on a log projecting
from the bank, patiently wondering “why in
the thunder they won't bite.”
The Mexican name for a kiss is telenamc
quizel; and when a pair of Mexicn lovers are
caught telenamequizeling over the front gate
at night, they appear not a bit more confused
than if a kiss was spelled with only one s}d
lable.
It is a wonderful consolation to think that
Summer will come and go this year without
a deluge of “ Centennial” things. Never
mind the grasshoppers and the rain, We
ought to be able to endure anj’thing in pa
tience.
A Kansas editor rejoices in the wisdom
and mercy of Providence because the black
birds are eating the grasshoppers. Provi
dence ? Good land, because there isn’t any
thing else ijp Kansas for them to eat. If the
grasshoppers were only big enough they'd
eat the blackbirds, under the same compul
sion.
The following story is told by a Hartford
clcrg3 r man : On his way home from church he
found himself behind three ladies engaged in
a lively discourse over the music of the ser
vice, one condemning the soprano and anoth
er the tenor, while the third stoutly defended
both. As the discussion became warm, the
third lady sought to flour oil on the troubled
waters, and, in the words of the clergyman,
“did so to perfection by a judicious and truth
ful remark, to which all of them at once as
sented ; she simply said, ‘Well, it was a mis
erable sermon any how!’”
The Latest Snake Story.
A correspondent from Sanford, Orange
county, Florida, sends us the following snake
story which, from his known character, we
believe to be exactly as stated. Those who
are unacquainted with either the habits of a
scared lizzard or a hungry coach whip snake
may doubt it, but we do not. He says : “Mr.
English, quite an old gentleman, who lives
in this county, was out hoeing one day, when
he saw a coach whip snake chasing a lizzard.
The scared lizzard ran towards the old man
and went up his pants leg, through the waist
band of his breeches and out of his shirt bo
som. The snake pursued, went also up the
old man’s pants, got to the waistband, where
he was prevented from making the trip the
lizzard did; but, as the next best strategic
movement, fell back and went up on the out
side of the pants, got on the man’s sdoulder,
saw the lizzard make his exit, and jumped
down and caught it. It was all done so
quickly that Mr. English hadn’t time to get
scared.”— Sav. Nev:s.
An Illinois clergyman is reported to have
said the other day at the laying of the corner
stone of anew meetinghouse : “If the boys
and girls do their sparking in church, I say
amen to it. I have a daughter whom I cher
ish as the apple of my eye. When she is of
suitable age, I would rather she should be
courted in the house of God than in a thea
tre.”
Two men went bathing in a hot spring near
Austin. Texas, on the 29th ult., and one, Da
vid J. Richards, well known as “Dave Red,”
was drowned. The body, when it was recov
ered, five hours afterward, was almost par
boiled, the skin peeling off in large flakes.
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GLEANINGS.
Smyth has been re-appointed Marshal for
Georgia.
The War Department has adopted a sum
mary policy against Mexican depredations.
•• day laborers work in Dooly county
fo&Jhirty cents a day and their feed.
The pay of a Russian colonel is said to be
only S4OO a year.
In Sweden beggars arc arrested and made
to work.
A convention of patrons of husbandry is
called to meet in Columbus on the 15th day
of June.
Mr. Jno. Ilailey. of Floyd conntv, commit
ted suicide recently, by hanging himself in
a stable.
The Southern General Assembly which
convened at New Orleans, by rote, condemn
ed dancing.
M. Renou. a French meteorologist, has
made researches which prove that last winter
was the mildest known in France since 1719,
The vote on the bond amendment was :—■
hor ratification, 20,376; against ratification,
265.
Mr. Green Arnold, an old citizen of Twiggs,
was killed on the 14th ult., by having admin
istered to him by mistake a large dose of
morphine.
Baptist State Missions.— Wc regret 'to
learn that it is probable that Rev. J. G. Gib
son will not accept the position of Corres
ponding Secretary. —Christum Index.
The Free Church of Scotland has now
more than one thousand ministers. It start
ed with under five hundred, so that in thirt}'-
four years it has doubled itself.
Gov. St one has written a letter stating
that all is quiet in Kemper county, Missis
sippi, and that offenders will be speedily
brought to justice.
Jas. Williams, four years since, killed
young Marshall, in Wilkes county and fled
to Texas. He has now returned to Wash
ington. remorseful and conscience-stricken,
and will stand ids trial.
A\ e understand that a movement is or>
foot among the University of Georgia Trus
tees to recall Dr. Wm. Leroy Brown, now at
Vanderbilt University, to Athens. We sin
cerely trust it will succeed.
Immense quantities of mackerel are being
caught off Long Island, and New York i
glutted with them. They are retailing five
for a quarter of a dollar. Shad are quite a
drug in the market.
The Board of Aldermen elected in Wi’-
mington, N. C., last March, took charge of
the city on the Ist. It consists of six Dem
ocrats and four Republicans. This is the
first time the city has been under Democratic
control since negro suffrage was established,
Mr. Wm. T. Patman reports a snake at his
mill-pond, in Oglethorpe county, whose trail
measures ten inches, and in passing through
a fence shakes five panels. The hissing of
tins reptile, it is said, sounds like letting off
steam from a locomotive.
Union Point boasts of a singular phenom
enon in the shape of an apple tree, which,
in 1875 bore June apples, in 1876 horse
apples, and this year is hearing Maj’ apples !
And all this without any grafting! Trot
out 3 r our apple trees !
The Toccoa llcrald says: “Dr. 11. D.
Aderhold, of Carnesville, has the finest grow
ing wheat crop we ever saw in Georgia. The
Doctor hasn't planted a cotton seed for sev
eral 3'ears, is out of debt, makes his own
supplies, and is, consequently independent.’’’
The President favors what he calls the
Jeffersonian system in diplomacy, that there
should be changes every four years. The
President does not consider that a tenure of
eight or ten years creates a claim for contin
uance in office.
A Stockton. Cal., man claims that paper of
several varieties and of superior qualify can
be manufactured from the leaf of common
flag. The Stockton Independent says that
the flag is prepared simply by being boiTert
with lime. The inventor is building a paper
mill to make flag paper.
The strawberry and green-pea- trade at
Memphis is a rushing one while iit lasts-
One planter gathered last season (and pro
bably will equal it this) 100,000 quarts of
strawberries from his patches. One day last
week he sold 1,440 quarts in Memphis, and
shipped to Chicago, Louisville and: St. Louis
5,400 quarts.
Rev. A. M. Newman, a colored Baptist
minister, occupied a seat in the Southern
Baptist Convention, and when the report on
missions among the colored people was un
der consideration he was invited to speak.
His speech was sensible and well received.
Indeed, it produced a real sensation; and
when his time expired, he was, by a united
vote, requested to go on with his address.
The death, at fifty-four, lately occurred, of
an Englishman known as the Norfolk giant,
lie was a farmer, and often loaded his own
wagon by carrying four bushels of wheat un
der each arm at a time. When in great
haste to get his farm work done, he has been
known to harness himself to one of his own
harrows. His weight was 336 pounds, height
six feet six inches, width, from shoulder to
shoulder across the back, twenty inches.
Workmen in silver-plating establishments
are not allowed to keep their old clothes after
they are worn out. An old tattered vest is
valued at S2O. Silver volatilizes when heat
ed intensel}', and much passes off in vapor
and condenses again in a pure state. In Go
vernment assay offices the smelting of the
crude metal throws off silver vapors, which
rise and solidify in the soot in the chimney.
A silver plating concern in New Haven, Con
necticut. in removing to Meriden, took up the
floor of the plating room, burned it, and ana
lyzed the ashes, obtaining $9Bl in pure silver.
NUMBER 52.