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II F. WOFFOBCI>, 4ttoruey*tif*liUW.
I). Harmony Drove, Jackson Cos., Da.
Will practice in all the adjoining counties, and
give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
his care. Collecting claims a specialty.
March 3d, 1877.
WILEY V. HOWARD. KOB’T S. HOWARD.
W. C. & R. S. HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT
LA W,
f24 Jefferson, Da.
Law Card.
MY term as Ordinary having expired, 1 am
devoting my time and energies entirely to
the practice of the law. Mr. Robert S. How
ard 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 to all business entrusted to us.
and to advising Executors, Administrators and
Guardians in the management of estates. Oflice,
up-stairs, over Hilly Thompson store-room.
WILEY C. HOWARD,
feb24 Counsellor at Law, Jefferson, Da.
Medical and Surgical Notice.
T tit. W. A. 4VATNO\ respectfully tenders
.1 f his professional services to the citizens of
Jefferson and surrounding country. Residence,
at the old “Watson Homestead,” Sycamore st.
Office, in Col. J. R. Silmau's law office. When
not professionally absent, can he found at one or
the other of the above places. Jan 27 lv
Dr. J. B. Pendergrass,
II ESPECTFCLLY tenders his professional scr
.lV vices to the citizens of Jefferson and surround
ing country ; and by strict attention to his studies
and profession, hopes to merit continued confi
dence. lie can be found at his office, one door
north of Pendergrass & Hancock's store, at all
times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th, 1877.
DU. W. S. AI.FXAAWKR.
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1575. 6m
J. A. 15. MAHAFFEY. W. S'. M'CARTY.
Mahaffey & McCarty,
IyJL A T T O R KEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. oct3oly
ML C, 1L 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, 1876—tf
J. J. FLOYD, [ J. B. SILMAN,
Covington, Da. | Jefferson, Da.
A SIMIIA
- ATTORNKYS-AT-LAW.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts oi
the counties of Jackson and Walton,
j une 12—ly
Wl. I'llii:, Attorney sit Ijut,
. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. OA.
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 1575
STANLEY & PINSON,
JE E FElt SOX. GA .,
DEALERS in Dry (ioods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June lit ly
JEFFERSON TOWN GOVERNMENT.
W. 1. Pike. Mayor; Col J. A 11 Mahattcy, G.
J. N. Wilson, J K Randolph, F. M. Bailey. Al
dcrnien; R S Howard, Esn., Clerk & Treasur
er ; 11 J Randolph, Jr, Marshal.
1 nile<l Mates Gorcrniuciit,
EXECUTIVE,
President—Rutherford B. llayes, of Ohio, to
March 4, 1881.
HEAPS OF DEPARTMENTS.
Sec'}* of State—William M. Evarts, of New York.
Sec'y of Treasury—John Sherman, of Ohio.
Sec'of W ar—Geo. IV . McCrary, of lowa.
J*'ec , y of the Navy—Richard Thompson, of Indiana
Secretary of Interior—Carl Schurz. of Missouri.
Att'y Gen'l—Chas. Devons, of Massachusetts.
Postmaster GcnM—David M. Key. of Tennessee.
legislative/
President of the Senate—William A. Wheeler,
of New York.
Secretary of Senate—George C. Gorham, of
California.
Speaker of Hoyisc 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.
Hon. Ward Hunt, of New York,
lion. Nithan Clifford, of Maine.
Hon. Noah 11. Swaync. of Ohio,
lion. Samuel F. Miller, of lowa.
Hon. David Davis, of Illinois.
Hon. Stephen J Field, of California.
Hon. Wm. >1 Strong, of Pennsylvania.
Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, of New Jersey.
The Supreme Court holds one session annually,
in Washington, beginning on the first Monday in
December.
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May 10, 1877. ly
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. JUNE 16. 1577.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
Gen. Toombs in Arkansas.
A SPEECH AT THE HOT SPRINGS —HAYES AND
HIS POLICY ENDORSED.
The following is an extract from a speech
recently made at the llot Springs by General
Robert Toombs:
“I do not like the principles of the pres
ent so-called Democratic party, but I like less
the principles and practices of the Republi
can party. The Democratic party have not
had recently any chance to have any prac
tices at all, and they took the best they could
get, and that was bad principles. Hayes got
in, not by his own acts —he is there by the
folh’ or incapacity of the present Democrat
ic party. Hayes is President de facto. I
paid little attention to his promises, but he
has taken his post and carried them out. He
has done all that Tilden could have done so
far as Louisiana and Souih Carolina are con
cerned. lie has given them back that heart
of great price, he has given back that jewel,
that life blood of good government, which
makes all else possible—State self-govern*
ment. lie has brought back the ark of the
government and placed it where it belongs.
He lias commenced civil service reform ; lie
has ordered his officers to turn out bad men
and turn out useless officials who feed upon
the people as drones in the hive; and 1 ap
plaud him for these things. I will approve
of whatever good he does and will condemn
whatever he does of evil. This is the duty
of every patriot. Is it not time that we should
sink the partisan into the patriot ? The South
never sought any pecuniary advantage from
the Government of the United States; she
ought to seek none now. I was in Congress
seventeen years, and in my own District in
Eastern Georgia, and I say to jtmi now, that
I never got a dollar out of the Treasury for
one single spot in that District. I was not
sent there to steal. Ever}’ dollar taken from
the Treasury for one particular locality is an
injustice to the rest of the countrj’, and I can
tell 3*oll, to the glory of my constituents, that
in the seventeen years of my public service
in Congress no man in Georgia asked me to
do it.”
“We have a grand country ourselves—a
goodly land, a magnificent heritage, all that
a good man needs in this world. We can be
quite prosperous and happy if we will stand
by the old landmarks and sustain good pro
gress. Let us hang our banners on the out
er walls, neither chagrined by defeat, dis
heartened by desertion, nor overawed by de
feat. Let us display a magnanimity as great
as the occasion, as prolonged as the conflict—
all then will be well for us and our children
and our children’s children, ‘till time shall
be no more.’”
We Ask for Information,
lias Chattanooga any widows and orphans
of deceased soldiers in her corporate limits
who have no homes and who are in want of
food and clothing? If she has. we will hon
or her more highly, if she furnishes them
with homes and feeds and clothes them, than
we possibly can if she lets them live out of
doors, or what is just as bad, live in board
shanties that are never comfortable at any
season, go hungry and naked while she
builds a towering monument to the memory
of their husbands and fathers, who gave their
lives a sacrifice on the altar of their country.
We notice that the corner-stone of the monu
ment dedicated to the Confederate dead at
Chattanooga was laid with imposing ceremo
nies a few days ago. We are glad to see the
people so ready to do honor to our heroic
dead, but we are sorry to see so much money
spent ostensibly to honor the dead, when it
is so plain that the true object is to honor the
man, the woman, the city or the State which
pays the tribute. If the ghost of one of the
Confederate soldiers, who sleeps at Chatta
nooga, could have rose up and spoke the sen
timents of his heart on that so called great
occasion, he would not, we imagine, have
said : “We dead, thank and honor you for
this pomp and display,” but rather “take
this mone} r you are wasting here, and go
feed and clothe my naked and hungry chil
dren, and comfort my weeping wife.”
But so the world goes. Men sacrifice their
honor, their integrity, their self-respect and
all that is ennobling for the sake of keeping
up customs which should have been forgotten
centuries ago. —Zealous Christian.
Pray Ox. —lt is easy to know the knock of
a beggar at one’s door. Low, timid, hestitating,
it seems to say : “ I have no claim on the
kindness of this house ; I may be told I come
too often ; I may be treated as a troublesome
and unworthy mendicaut; the door may be
flung in ray face by some surly servant.”
How different on bis return from school, the
loud knocking, the bounding step, the joyous
rush of the child to his father’s presence, and
as he climbs on his knee, and flings his arms
around his neck, the bold face and ready
tongue with which lie reminds his father of
some promised favor! Now, why are God’s
people bold ! To a Father in God, to an el
der brother in Christ, faith conducts our steps
in prayer: therefore, in an hour of need,
faith, bold of spirit raises her suppliant hands
and cries to God, ‘‘Oh that thou wouldst
rend the heavens and come down!”— Dr.
Guthrie.
| Volume 3d commences this issue.
Orchard Grass.
K> lu■ ii l p c r. r : '•
we were asked which of all the grass
'Gfl yj v><rPr? Jr*|f’
es 19 best for. small farmers, with the lights
before us., we should answer orchard grass,
.•. t \ t ' k
by ? We have no personal experience with
it, but numerqus thrifty, intelligent farmers
are almost daily writing, about it excellences,
and their testimony must be as good as ours
could be. They tell us that it is perennial—
that is, permanent, growing all the time, win
ter and summer. Few grasses will do that.
Think of the advantage of a perennial pasture
for your cattle. They tell us that it will
grow in the shade, and hence its name. Or
chards are shaded places in summer, and a
grrtsS was wanted to grow in that shaded sit
uation. A grass that will grow well in the
shade must be a thrifty plant, and they tell us
that it will grow in any kind of soil that is
not wet. This is a great advantage. Very
few grasses or other plants will do that.—
They tell us that it stands drouth better than
an}* other grass or clover—will bear heavier
stacking when harvested for hay, and comes
out very early. It also has very heavy,
fibrous roots, which are said to improve rather
than impoverish the soil. Now add other good
qualities that it is a nutrieious grass of which
all stock are very fond, and you have the rea
son in full why we would recommend every
farmer to make a beginning of orchard grass.
Try it.
The Clement Attachment.
If the claims of this atthaehment are what
they are represented, and we have no reason
to doubt it, a great revolution is at hand for
the cotton planter. The cost of one attach
ment, with royalty and machinery, is about
$4,000, requiring eight operatives, mostly
boys and girls. The attachment gins and
manufactures the cotton into the yarn, aver
aging about one pound per minute of seed cot
ton. In thus changing his seed cotton into
yarn the farmer must save very largely in
freight, in drayage, in weighing, hauling, sam
pling, wasting, commissions, compressing,
tr}Mng, bagging and stealage. Three attach
ments, costing about $9,000 with machinery,
would constitute a considerable manufactu
ring establisment for a neighborhood, and
give pleasant remunerative employment for
the women, girls and boys of the community.
"Where are our enterprising fanners ? These
attachments are running successfully in Mis
sissippi, and not one in Georgia that wc have
heard of.— Ex.
A Girl’s Composition on Boys.
Boys is strange things. Boys is of three
kind ; the baby boy, the little bo}’, and the
big boy. I don’t like the baby boy,’ cause
he squalls and kicks, and I have to rock him
with a cradle. But if the big boy or little boy
squalls and kicks I can rock him with stones.
I like the little boy best when he’s got candy
and gives me some. I like the big boy when
it snows ’cause he can haul me on his new
sled. A boy is a little man—if he behaves
hisself, and if he don’t he’s a little devil, that’s
what mother said brother Bob was t’other
day, when he told Miss Smith that mother
said she was a old bore. My pa[t>a said he
was a little boy once, but mother says she
wasn’t and she wishes papa was a little bov
once more. Sister Julia says saw her and
Tom Brown a setting in the same rocking
chair a Sunday night, she said she was trying
to squeeze the life out of him ’cause she
didn’t like him ; but I don’t think she was
hurting any place, for # he wouldn’t let her get
up. This is all 1 know about bo3 7 s and moth
er says she hopes I won’t never know more
about ’em.— Toledo Blade.
IdPTt is noteworthy that the two greatest
discoveries in medical science which have
been made in modern times do not deal with
the pound of cure, but with the ounce of pre
vention. They are vaccination, introduced
bj r Dr. Jenner, and artificial anmsthesia, of
which there seems to be as many discover
ers as Homer had birthplaces. We elsewhere
publish a graphic account of the tribulatons
of our American claimants to the honor of
discovering artificial anaesthesia, two or three
of whom were made insane by the neglect of
the public, and one of whom, Dr. Long—un
doubted ly the first man who employed sul
phuric ether in surgical operations, if Dr.
Sims’ data are correct —is now living, old and
poor, in Georgia. Dr. Sims proposes that
Congress shall appropriate a sum of money
for the relief of Dr. Long and the families of
his fellow-laborers. Certainly Congress has
“relieved” less meritorious persons.— N. Y.
World.
SdPSays the Baptist Banner of the 2d in
stant:—Brother John W. James, who a few
days since returned from a trip to Social
Circle, gives us the following recipe as a cure
for murrain, a disease that has been carrying
off a large number of cattle in that section as
well as this. He informs us that where
tried it has proved effectual. Here it is:
Give the sick cow what peach leaves she
will eat, (and most of cows are fond of them),
but if she refuses to eat the leaves take some
of the bark off of the roots of the peach tree
and put it in a common boiler or tea kettle
full of water and boil it, so as to make a
strong decoction, and drench the cow with it.
A young man kissed his intended's mother
by mistake who met him at the frontdoor in
stead of his darling as usual on a cold drea
ry night; the old lady cried murder, thieves,
Mary come here and all that, but the girl dy
ing with laughter was unable to explain.
Mr. Wimple Agrees to Let His Boy go to
"••the Circus.
“Pa,” said Mr. Wimple’s boy the other
day, pretending to hunt behind the counter
for his ball, while in reality he was stowing
his pockets full of peanuts, “ Pa, mayn’t I
go to the ciraus when it comes ? Say, pa,
mayn’t I?” ‘ 1
“Well, my son,” said the parent, with his
usual pomposity of manner and utterance,
“ if you are a duteous boy and persecute your
studies zealotly, I will consider the matter
favoritely.”
As the young scamp sidled out of the back
door to hide the bulge in hrs northerly pan
taloons pocket: 1 ""Mr. WirtffWPined toff
tie group of admiring customers and explained
his sentments :
“Yes, I’ll let ’im go, I guess. Bo\*s need
a little relaxitv once in a while, an beside
he'll be culturatin’ his mind there as well
as at school. Observin’ the animals’ll larn
’imsumthin’ of zoogon v, an’ rarin’ corns birds
from the far off condiments of Asia an’ Afrika
’ll give’m new idees ofornatetheology. The
incitin' feet of the Actorbats on the livin’
trapezium will larn ’im the capacious endur
ance of the human sistim and simulate ’is
taste for the study of phizvignominy. Then
again the woman with the iron jaw will re
mand ’im of his stepmother. (Mr. W— is
living with his second wife), and thus revive
his domestic infections and ’all the sweet
aflluanecs of the homo circlet. He’s a pretty
good boy, if he is a little pertinent to me an’
fugacious to other boys sumtimes ; so I think
I’ll let him make a Roman holiday of himself,
as the poet Byron icus says, an’ goto the cir
cus. Sum church members thinks it makes
bo3 T s worse to ’tend such places, but I find
there is no change to speak of about my boy
when he comes home from any kind of a show,
tho’ I offun give ’im a dime beside his ticket
money when he starts.” —Kansas City Times.
LsF’The Burlington Iluivkeye man is as well
as could be expected. He gave the baby
some paragoric tho other day and launched
out thus: “Death, while passing through
Des Moines county one day, met an lowa
tramp going to Burlington to beg his break
fast. ‘Ah!’ exclaimed the King of Terrors,
with a grim smile, ‘l’d give SI,OOO to get hold
of one of )*ou fellows.’ But the tramp only
laughed in a sardonical manner, and giving
Death a kick that made his anatom}* rattle
like a street car, passed on to his repast
while the King of Terrors sat down on the
hillside and cried with vexation.” And then
he immediately turned right around and did
thus: “A man on Fond street went down
to a New York bankrupt sale the other day
and bought a beautiful spring suit, imported
goods, worth SBS for $7.50. The first day he
wore it lie was caught in a drenching rain,
and then as he walked out in the sunshine
his new clothes began to shrink up around
his shoulders and pulled his arms out of joint,
and his trousers gathered themselves up like
a balk}* horse, picked the man up, walked him
along on his tip toes fora half a block, and
were just on the point of twisting him over a
garden fence, when his suspenders gave wa3’
and let them fly right over his head and he
never saw them again.”
the account of the late reception of
the Preident at New York, Gen. Sherman, in
reply to a toast to ‘The Army and Navy,’ is
reported as having indulged remarks to the
effect that, “ without an army the American
people would be a mob—that a government
cannot subsist without an army, and a good
one too.” The origin of this false and perni
cious idea no doubt was in the fact that Sher
man wants to remain commander-in-chief of
the standing army, and get his SIB,OOO annu
al salary. Nearly all the battles of the coun
try from the revolution to the present day,
were fought by the militia and vonlunteers.
Standing armies in the old world among kings
and despots may be necessary to prop up
their thrones and advance their conquest, but
no such an institution is needed in this coun
try and always has been utterly in conflict
with the principles of our government and re
pugnant to the people.
A humorous old gentleman, meeting once
with a young minister, was informed that he
would never reach heaven unless he was born
again. “I have experienced that change,”
added the minister, “and now feel no anxie
ty.” “And so you have been born again,”
said his companion, musingly. “Yes, I trust
I have.” “Well,” said the old gentleman, ey
ing him rather attentively ; “I don’t think it
would hurt you, young man, to be born once
more.”
America is ze queer country. I viseet one
fine house wiz a friend zat invite me. I say,
“Beg parzen, I bin mooch thirsty,” an* ze
peoples quickly go bring one beeg —very
beeg pitcher wiz glass and puts zem before
me, an’ smile an—oh !zo sweetly ! An* zat
waz not wine—no, no, zat waz all watzer!—
my gote !—I see nothinks zu smile ’bout in
zat watzer!
Thinking over it, we know of nothing neat
er in the way of decoration honors to the
dead soldier than to decorate his little orphan
girl with anew dress or his widofront door
with a load of wood.— Nasltville American.
$ TERMS. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
The sleeping car of the present weighs
Irom 24 to 34 tons. The'car of the future is*
to weigh 19 tons.
The Georgian states that the Air Line ha?*
joined the Georgia Railroad in its freight dis
criminations against Athens,
A little striped bug has destroyed a good
deal of cotton in some fields. They get on?
the leaf and suck the plant to death.—Cher
okee Georgian.
The first Texas flour of the season reached
New Orleans on the sth of June. The first
Augusta flour was ground on the 28th of
May.
Uyjudge Wright, the drunken negro Judge of
the Supreme Court of South Carolina, has
been impeached by the Legislature, and sus
pended from the duties of the office in the
interim of his trial.
The marine disasters during May to vessel*
belonging to or bound to or from United
Stales ports numbered 40, the value of the
vessels lost., exclusive of their cargoes, being
estimated at $1,770,000.
In the Academy for the Blind, situated at-
Macon, there are now fifty inmates, and the
total of a pay pupil, including tuition, board,
fuel, lights, &e., is only two hundred and
twenty dollars per annum.
The Columbia Register truthfully remarks
that with Mclver as Associate Justice and
Kershaw upon the Circuit Bench, it will in
deed seem that South Carolina has her own
way again.
The “ seventeen year” locust have appear
ed in New York and New Jersey with “ W’ r
on their backs. Opinions arc divided as to
whether this means the Russo-Turkish or a
railroad war.
The Constitution of Oregon was so framed
that it has been impossible for that State to
run in debt, as other States have done, ir
flush times, and the whole State is happy in
consequence.
At the recent meeting of the International
Typographical Union, at Louisville, resolu
tions were adopted sanctioning the sending
of a delegate to the expositton at Paris next
3’ear to represent the compositors of America,
Last week there died in Elberton a dog
that had lived longer than most of the canine
species. This dog was nearly 19 years old.
and was named “Ranse Wright” after Gen’!
A. R. Wright., who, at the time of the dog's
birth was in the zenith of his glory.
Rev. C. 11. Collyns is descended from a
long line of gouty ancesters, and has suffered
torture from the gout. He quit liquor and
abandoned meat. Result: a perfect cure.
If you have gout, join the Good Templars and
dine upon turnips and cold water.
A Putnam comity man is manufacturing
“shuck” soap. The corn shucks are fed to
the lye as long as it will eat them, and the
whole is boiled until it is saponified. No
grease is used in the process, and the soap is
said to be very good.
Gen. Toombs* formulation of the command
ment against stealing politically, in his Hot-
Springs speech, is said to have “ produced a
coolness in the assemblage.” Perhaps a
Hot Springs assemblage is not very high
toned.
The Cherokee Georgian of the 6th, says :
We cannot call to mind at this time, but one
serious case of sickness and death that lias oc
curred in the county since Christmas. The
exception alluded to was Mr. John Kinnett,
who has long been an invalid.
A negro named Austin Harris, being under
arrest at Jessup on a charge of larceny, at
tempted to commit suicide by cutting his
throat with a pen knife. The knife being
small and dull did not accomplish the death
of the darkey. It is rather an unusual oc
currence, the attempted suicide of a negro.
The New York National Exchange bank
was robbed of a package containing SIO,OOO,
Saturday afternoon. A young l>oy entered
the bank and made some enquiries of the
cashier, which necessitated the cashier’s open
ing a gate, and while his back was turned for
a moment, the boy got away with the money.
The locust which made its last appearance
in 1860 has now renewed his career. Some
days ago the New York World printed an ac
count of the first appearance of the locust in
Rensselaer county in that State. Within a
day or two they have appeared in great force
in New Jersey, within twenty miles of New
York city.
The Macon Telegraph says: “One day
last week, two young gentlemen from the
country came into town with a wagon load of
cherries, some fifteen or eighteen bushels.—
The fruit was disposed of at three dollars per
bushel in less than a half an hour, and before
they had made more than half the distance
around one square.”
A portion of the great meteor which pass
ed over northern Vermont a few weeks ago, is
reported found near the town of Jay. embed
ed about four feet in the earth. It is said to
have the appearance of iron-ore, and soap
stone, and to weigh about two tons. Report
says this is the largest aerolite ever discover
ed in this country.
The Methodists have had a long and wea
ry time with their new hymn book, and the
work is now said to be read}' for the printer.
About four hundred and fifty of the hymns
contained in the old book have been omitted
from the new one. This is well; for although
many of these hymns contained pious senti
ments, it was so clumsily expressed as to
make the hymns almost unfit for use.
And)' Rhodes, who was so well known by
the people of Cherokee county. Ga.. and who
went to Texas last winter, was recognized in
some town in that State by a son of Rev
Jeptha Smith, who was hang and shot near
Field’s Bridge, during the war. by a party
who it was supposed by young Smith, to con
sist of Rhodes and two or three others, and
with the assistance of a mob he was arrested
and hung on the spot.
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