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J) Harmony Grove, -Jackson Cos., Ga.
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 C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
W. C. & R. S. HOWARD,
attorneys and COUNSELLORS at
LA W,
f24 Jefferson, Ga.
Law Card.
MY term as Ordinary having expired, l am
devoting my time and energies entirely to
the practice of the law. Mr. Robert 8. How
ard is associated with me. Either or both of us
can always be found at our ollicc, 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. Office,
up-stairs, over Hilly Thompson store-room.
WILEY C. HOWARD,
fch'24 Counsellor at Law, Jefferson. Ga.
Medical and Surgical Notice.
Dlt. W. A. WATSON respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of
Jefferson and surrounding country. Residence,
at the old “ Watson Homestead,” Sycamore st.
Office, in Cot. -I. B. Silman's law office. When
not professionally absent, can be found at one or
the other of the above places. Jan *27 Ty
Dr* J. B. Pendergrass,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of J efferson and surround
ing country ; and by strict attention to his studies
and profession, hopes to merit continued confi
dence. ILe can he found at his oflicc, north end
of Pendergrass & Hancock’s store, up-stairs, at
all times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th, 1877.
DIC. W. S. AMJXA WKR,
SURGEON DENTIST.
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. Gm
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY. W. S. M’CARTY.
\f AHAFFEY & McCARTY,
Itl a t t o r nets 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
DR. C. R. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the otlice recently occupied by Col. Mahatfey.
J an. 22, 187G—tf
J. J. FIX) YD, I J. B. SI EM AX.
Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
IM.OIO V NIVjYKAX,
ATTOR N E YS- A T-L A AY.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts ot
the counties of Jackson and Walton,
june 12 —ly
Wl. MICK, iftorner at
• 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 1873
STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFERS OX, GA.,
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ries. New supplies constantly received.
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June 19 ly
JEFFERSON TOWN GOVERNMENT.
AY. 1. Pike. Mayor; Col J. A R Mahatfey, G.
J. N. Wilson, J R Randolph, F. M. Hailey. Al
dermen ; R S Howard, Esn., Clerk & Treasur
er; H J Randolph. Jr. M: rshal.
I'm ted Slates Government,
EXECUTIVE.
President—Rutherford B. llayes, of Ohio, to
March 4, 1881.
HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS.
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TUTTjS_PILLS
A Noted Divine says
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READ WHAT HE SAYS:
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They are worth their weight in gold.
Rev. R. L. SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky.
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It is a plant that grows In the South, and is spe
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Entering at once into the blood, expelling all scrof
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1877.
Dr. Tutt has been en
gaged in the practice of
medicine thirty years, and
for a long time was demon,
strator of anatomy in the
Medical College of Geor
gia, hence persons using
his Pills have the guaran
tee that they are prepared
on scientific principles,
andare free from all
quackery.
He has sncceeded in
combining in them the
heretofore antagonistic
qualities of a strengthen
tug,purgative,ana a pur
ijytng tonic.
Their first apparent ef
fect is to increase the ap
petite by causing the food
to properly assimilate.
Thus the system is nour
ished, and by their tonic
action on the digestive or
gans, regular and healthy
evacuations are produced.
The rapidity with which
persons take on flesh,
while under the influence
of these pills, ol itself in
dicates their adaptability
to nourish the body, ana
hence their efficacy in cur
ing nervous debility, mel
ancholy, dyspepsia, wast
ing of the muscles, slug
gishness of the liver,
chronic constipation, and
SELECT MISCELLANY.
Osculation.
It is an art. There is no doubt about it.
lie who wastes his whole heart on her perfect
lips is well aware of the fact. The hurried os
culation, a meet by chance, then flash awav,
is worthless, except as an incentive of a thirst
for more. It requires intelligence of the high
er grade to appreciate osculation in its rap
turous bliss. Coarser natures know nothing
of rapturous ecstasy in which the true and
loving revel, when heart to heart beats re
sponsive, and the soul is breathed forth in a
caress. It is a happiness that is exultant be
cause of brains having a capacity to enjoy
and send a thrill of blissful emotion to every
nerve of the body. It is the perfection of
sensual and mental enjo\ r ment, and when the
beautiful one withdraws, “blushing all over
noble shame,” one finds that angels do not
only visit him in dreams.
The only animal that knows how to kiss is
man. Even women have to be taught the
lesson. At first their performance is very
crude and irregular. When thoroughly train
ed it is made the elysium of delights. They
are apt scholars under the tutilage of an in
structor of artistic perceptions. Dogs lick
their masters, and bears their cubs, cats their
kittens, while donkeys and flic Esquimaux
rub noses, cows and horses fondle each oth
ers’ necks and heads, pigeons and other birds
nestle together. Only human beings kiss,
and civilized man is the master of this divine
sensation. All these facts taken together
show that the enjoyment of kissing is an ac-
tual evidence of intellect and enlightenment,
which is not only a delicious idea, but a good
reason why such a delightful practice should
be continued.
Too much kissing at a time cloys. It is
too much sugar or exhiliarating champayne.
The true connoiscur whose tastes have been
cultivated to the charm of artistic delight, is
well aware of the proper quantity of heaven
he requires at a time. He enjoys as he does
the perfume of sweet bloom, or the boquet of
the sunny vintages of France—inhaling just
enough of the luxurious as to richly content
the soul and senses.
An experienced writer gives capital advice
on the subject: “Don't kiss all over as grass
hoppers walk. Don't kiss everybody, inclu
ding nasty little dogs, mule and female.—
Don’t sit down in it; stand up. You need
not be anxious to get in a crowd. Two per-
sons are plenty to corner and catch a kiss.
More persons spoil the sport. Stand firm.—
It won't hurt after you are used to it. Don’t
be in a hurry—Providence will give you
strength for the ordeal. Don’t jab down on
a beautiful mouth as if spearing for frogs.—
Don’t grab and yank the lad} T as if she was
a struggling colt. Don’t muss her hair,
scrunch down her collar, bite her cheeks,
squizzle her rich ribbons, and leave her
mussed and rumpled. Take good aim—the
lips meet, the eyes close, the heart opens be
fore j'ou and—the ait of kissing is learned.”
A hand in j’otirs, aid an arm gently around
the waist and drawing the yielding form soft
ly to you, adds to tht exquisite charm. The
head will naturally lit thrown back, and then
taste the rich, ripe lips.
Tennyson thus describes a pretty scene.—
A wounded knight is being nursed by the
Princess Ida. lie waves from delirium and
says:
li If you be, what I thinl you, some sweet dream,
1 would but ask you to fillil yourself:
But if you he that Ida wioni 1 know,
l ask you nothing; only i’a dream.
Sweet dream, be perfect. T shall die to-night,
Stoop down and seem to kiss me ere I die.”
“ I could no more, but la} like one in trance.
That hears his burial talkid of by his friends.
And cannot speak, nor nuve, nor make one sign,
But lies and dreads his doim. She turned; she
paused ;
She stooped : and out of laigour leaped a cry;
Leapt fiery Passion from the brink of death;
And I believed that in the iving world
My spirit closed with Ida at the lips;
Till 1 fell back, and from nine arms she rose
Glowing all over noble shanc; and all
Her falser self slipt from bet like a robe
And left her woman, lovelitr in hermood,
Than in her mould that othflr, when she came
From barren deeps to conquer all with love.”
These oscillatory operations have been the
theme of poets during He ages, but only
true artists appreciate the enjoyment in the
best and fondest typo. N.P. AVillis tells a
nice story of a lady quite handsome who
found a youth, a guest, aseep in a shady
nook. He was so attractivi that she kissed
him. He awoke, glanced around, then mur
mured, ‘‘l thought the angiis only visited us
in dreams—until now.” Then the lady
thought she had kissed a viry nice young
man.
Young men, cultivate artistic sense until
the opportunity arises, then jo in for enjoy
ment.—Sunday Enq.
correspondent in oie of our State
“exchanges” makes the following inquiry:—
“I wish to submit some legal questions and
desire somebody to give to tb public a cor
rect answer to the same. Th< questions arc
these : “If C. sells D. a piea of land, and
D. takes C.’s bond for titles—would it be
right for D. to pay the tax onsaid land, and
thus pay tax on his own indebtedness, and
at tlic same time make C. pay tax on C.’s
note? In such a case, is tlr land double
taxed or not ?”
Climate of Georgia Peculiarly Adapted to
the Hog.
It has been shown that the temperature of
Georgia, as indicated by r isothermal lines, cor
respond with that of those countries from
which the small, early maturing breeds orig
inated, and in which they were found in their
wild state.
We are exempt from the extremes of heat
and cold, which are so trying to animal health,
the range of mean temperature between the
northern and southern limits of the State be
ing only 16 deg. The productions of the
State are as well suited to the sustenance of
the hog, as the climate is congenial to his
health and comfort. The average of the
monthly rain-fall, for the four most impor
tant months for the growth of crops. May,
June, July and August, for five years’ from
1871 to 1875 inclusive, was 4.73 inches per
year; the average monthly fall for these four
months, during the five years, ranging from
3.42 inches, the lowest, to 6.35, inches the
highest. It will thus be seen that there is
sufficient moisture, during the most impor
tant seasons, for the growth of crops, to in
sure a supply of food for man and beast.
In much of the larger portion of the State
the ground seldom freezes, and when it does,
it extends only an inch or two in depth, and
rarely continues so during the day. The
hog is furnished by the Creator with a snout
formed for the purpose of turning up the soil,
in search of his food, both animal and vege
table. There are few days in the year when
the ground is not in a condition to be pene
trated by this snout, in search of food.
The great facility with which the edible
roots, and tubers, especially the sweet pota
to, and various ground nuts, such as ground
peas, goobers, and ehufas, grow in our genial
climate, and pliable soil, enable the far
mer to supply his hogs with an abundance
of wholesome and nutritious food, during the
fall and winter months, without even the ex
pense of gathering the crops, the hog supply
ing the labor for gathering, and the ground
the storehouse for preserving the crop for his
use. Again, our winters are so mild that the
rye, or barley, sown early in the fall, furnish,
•luring the winter months, the green food so
necessary for health and thrift. While the
farmer of the frozen, or snow-covered North,
is feeding his hogs, in costly houses, from his
garnered stores of grain, for six months of
of the year, ours require only simple shelters,
well supplied with pine straw, or leaves from
the woods—always accessible, and costing
nothing but the hauling—as a bed for the
night, while they luxuriate in the green pas
tures of rye, or barley, or in gathering rich
nuts from the fragrant, upturned soil during
the daj r . Notwithstanding the facts that
Georgia was, in 1860, so largely a planting
State, she ranked seventh in the numder of
hogs owned, and, even in 1870, after the
losses of the war, she ranked ninth, notwith
standing the most flagrant neglect on the
part of the farmers, under the paralyzing influ
ence of their losses, occasioned by the re
sults of the war, and the complete disorgani
zation of our entire labor system. With the
same care and attention bestowed now, that
was given to raising hogs in 1860, Georgia
need not purchase a pound of pork from oth
er States. Indeed, it can be clearh' demon
strated that pork can be raised as cheaply in
Georgia as any State in the Union. This
subject will be fully discussed under the next
head. Even under the present neglectful
system, the average cost per*pound of pork
raised in Georgia—it was reported 8{- cents
in 1875 —is several cents per pound less than
it costs our farmers to purchase from the
West, besides being of decidedly better qual
ity.—Dr. Janes' Manual on the Hoy.
Moderate Drinking.
The “ Colonel” was warming his coat-tail
by the stove in a prominent Main street sa
loon. llis nose bore evidence of successful
culture, and glowed with that rich ruby hue
which only a steady and prolonged worship
at the shrine of Bacchus can produce to per
fection. There was a “ dr}'” look about the
corners of his mouth, which was readily no
ticed by the sympathizing bar keeper, who
good-naturedly asked the Colonel if he would
not like a little stimulant. “Certainly, cer
tainly sir,” replied the Colonel promptly, as
lie briskly stepped up to the bar. Pouring
out a tumbler level full of the fluid he tossed
it off, and as soon as he could regain his breath
he assumed a deprecatory tone and thus ad
dressed the barkeeper: “This, sir, is my
sixty-fourth drink to-day. I must put on the
brakes or the first thing I know I shall de
generate into excess. Moderation, sir, mod
eration, the grand secret of health, has been
the rule of my life. If I had but one more
drink at this moment Richard would be him
self again.” The subsequent remarks of the
bar-keeper indicated that, for all he cared.
Richard might remain impersonal till the day
of judgment. —Austin (Nev .) Reveille.
New York City has seven daily prayer
meetings, four of them distinctively for busi
ness men. Of the latter class, the oldest,
and of world-wide fame, is the Fulton Street
meeting, established nearly twenty years
ago, which has never been once omitted.
Speedy Fulfillment of a Presentiment.
Mr. W. T. A a well-known and highly
respected citizen of Okolona, called at onr
sanctum last Thursday, and, in the course of
conversation, said :
On the 21st of July, 1871, I was in Chero
kee, Ala. It was a sultry day, and I left my
work for a while to lie down in the cool shade
of a large leafy tree. I had been there but a
few moments when something seemed to strike
me over my heart. It was a quick, queer
blow, and I sprang to my feet, when right
before me—scarcely six feet distant—l saw
nay little boy, then about nine montus of age
—saw him as distinctly as I do yon now,
though I knew he was at home with l-iis mother,
at Rienzi, Miss, at the time. I was stricken
dumb with fear, bewilderment and awe. lie
stood there for a full minute, looking as life
like as'he did when I kissed him goodbye at
the garden-gate in Rienzi one little week be
fore. lie stood there for a full minute, look
ing me straight in the eyes, and then he van
ished from mv sight. The moment he was
gone I felt a presentiment that lie was dead
or would die before I could get home. I
hurried with swift feet to the telegraph office
and dispatched the following message to my
wife :
Cherokee, Ala., July 21, 1871.
Mrs. S. C. A . Cherokee. Ala :
How is Jimmy ? Is he well ? My love to
you and the babies.
W. T. A. .
I received the following message in reply,
from a friend, who was looking after the wel
fare of my family while I was absent:
Rienzi, Miss.. July 21, 1871.
Mr. W. T. , Cherokee*, Ala :
All well to-day at eleven o'clock.
M. R Arm Kit.
Later in the day the following dispatch
came to hand :
Riknzt, Miss., July 21, 1871.
Mr. W. T. A . Chorokee, Ala:
Come home. Your child was choked to
death this evening at four o’clock.
M. R. Armer.
Several different persons heard me relate
the fact of having seen the vision, felt the
persentiment, and predicted the death of my
boy before I received the second telegram.
Mr. A closed this singular narrative
with the remark that we were at liberty to
lay it before our readers, and that Mr. James
Polk, the telegraph operator, and other good
citizens of Cherokee, Ala., would verify every
word of it.— Okolona {Miss.) Southern States.
How a Ten Dollar Bill Paid Ninety Dollar’s
Debt.
Mr. Brown kept boarders. Around his
table sat Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Andrews, the vil
li age milliner; Mr. Black, the baker; Mr.
Jordan, a carpenter, and Mr. Iladley, a flour,
feed and lumber merchant.
Mr. Brown took out of his pocket-book a
ten dollar note, and handed it to Mrs. Brown,
saying.
‘ Here, my dear, are ten dollars toward the
twenty I promised you.’
Mrs. Brown handed it to Mrs. Andrews,
the milliner, saying:
‘ That pays for my new bonnet.’
Mrs. Andrews said to Mr. Jordan, as she
handed him the note :
‘That will pa}' for your work on my coun
ter.’
Mr. Jordan handed it to Mr. Hadley, the
flour, feed and lumber merchant, requesting
his lumber bill.
Mr. Hadley gave the note back to Mr.
Brown, saying:
‘That pays ten dollars on board.’
Mr. Brown passed it to his wile with the
remark that that paid her twenty dallars he
promised. She in turn paid it to Mr. Black
to settle her bread and pastry account, who
handed it to Mr. Hadly, wishing credit for the
amount on his flour bill, he again returning it
to Mr. Brown with the remark that it settled
for that month’s board. Whereupon Mr.
Brown put it back into his pocket-book, ex
claiming ‘that he never thought a ten dollar
bill would go so far.’
Thus a ten-dollar greenback was made to
pay ninety dollars indebtness inside of five
minutes.
—
Invaluable Remedy.
This is the season for cholera morbus,
looseness, and stomach pains. Below is a
never-failing recipe for a mixture, which, if
taken in time, will afford instant relief:
Tincture opium.
Tincture camphor.
Tincture peppermint.
Tincture rhubarb.
Tincture capsicum.
Equal quantities of each in a two ounce
phial. Shake well before taking. Dose for
an adult, a teaspoonful, in a third of a glass
of water; swallow it down and be relieved.
This is known on the Ohio river as Dr. Pad
dock’s cholera mixture, and will slay even
that dread king, if applied in his incipiency.
‘•Papa,” said a little Western boy, “why
don't women have whiskers ? “ Because, my
boy,” was the reply, “their jaws are never
still long enough for them to grow.”
Did you ever notice the expression of a
man’s face under the influence of a first bite
of a blackberry pie which the cook had for
gotten to sweeten 't
V TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
I SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
The National Mifilfa.
According to the latest published return af
at the oflfiee of the Adjutant-General at Wash
ington the militia force of the tinifed States
consists of HA general ofßcers. 80") general
staff officers. 1,175 regimental, fieid and staff
officers, 4,356 company officers, funking a
total of 6,541 commissioned officers. The
number of non-commissioned officers, musi
cians, privates, etc., is 85,827, and the whole
number of men available for military duty,
now unorganized, is 2,875.469. By States
the following is the apportionment: Maine,
78,376; New Hampshire, 36,394: Vermont,
30.112; Massachusetts. 247,495 ; Rhode Is
land. 40,839: Connecticut, 61, 302: New
York, 483. 183 : New Jersey, 134,257 ; Penn
sylvania, 356.383 ; Delaware, no report; Mary
land. 88 244; Virginia. West Virginia, and'
North Carolina, no report; South Carolina,
77.040; Georgia, Florida and Alabama, no'
report; Mississippi. 136.178; Louisiana, 112.
209 ; Texas. 74.458 ; Arkansas, 95,165 ; Ken-*
tuck v, 217.044; Tennesee, no report; Ohio,-
229.725; Indiana, Michigan, Illinois. Mis
souri. Wisconsin and Minnesota, no report;'
lowa, 169.118; Nebraska. 46.000; Kansas,
90.000; Nevada and Oregon, no report; Cal
ifornia. 101.937. Though no report, has been*
made from this State it is safe to assume that
Georgia has a hundred and fifty thousand men 1
subject to militia duty. On a thirty days call
the Government could probably raise an army
of three millions of men.— Chron. # Const.
A Big Election bet.
The New York Sun tells the following story'
about the way Louisiana was carried for Yolk
in 184 4 :
In 1844 ever}* citizen of Louisiana had the*
right to vote in any and every parish of the'
State in which lie owned land. Mr. John
Slidell, a Democratic politician of celebrity,
afterward a Senator of t he United States, and
still later sent to Europe along with John M.
Mason, of Virginia, as a Representative of
the Confederate Government, bet $20,000 with 1
Dr. Duncan, of Natchez, Mississippi, that
Clay would be defeated, and Polk elected.
He then bought at a trifling price, a trace of
swamp land in Plaquemines parish, selected
his men, and gave each of them a deed to a
piece of this swamp land, so that each was
made a land-holder, and thus became entitled 1
to vote in Plaquemines, in addition to his
right to vote in New Orleans. Then Mr.
Slidell hired a steamboat; and on the day of
the election, after they had all voted in New
Orleans, the men were taken on this boat and
carried to Plaquemines, where they voted
again, as the law gave them a right to do;
and the State was so evenly divided between
the two parties that the addition of these 697
new landholders to the regular voters of the
parish carried Louisiana for Polk. The vot
ing was contrary to the usuage in most States,
but it was in accord with the law and usages
of Louisiana. It was a sharp political trick,
having its expenses paid by the money won
from Dr Duncan ; but was not illegal, and
cannot be correctly described as an act of
fraud. Besides, Polk would have been elect
ed without it.
Clothes Moths.
Although, seemingly, of little importance,
in a general point of view, yet, at this parti
cular time of year, the following may prove
of benefit to some, if not a good many, who*
may read it:
Clotiies-Motiis. —Clothcs-moths are al
ways worse in the summer, writes the Rev..
J. G. Wood, than in any other period of the
year; but there is one plan by which they
may be baffled. It is simple, but useful from*
its very simplicity, and may be expressed in
two words—“ brown paper.” There is no*
such protection against the clothes-moth as
brown paper. Years ago I purchased an enor
mous rug of white-wolf-skin, which has been
an inestimable benefit to the whole family.
Every summer I wrap it up in brown paper,,
and not a moth has attacked it. Why the
clothes-moth should have so great an aversion
to brown paper I cannot tell, but such is the
case. I find that professional furriers employ
the same plan, but do not disclose that very
simple secret. Annually thousands of valua
ble seal-skin jackets and other furs are han
ded over to the dealers for preservation dur
ing the summer, and nothing is done except
wrapping them up in brown paper and letting
them be until the dawning of autumn. There
are of course instances where furs and other
similar articles must of necessity be left ex
posed during the summer time. Let ever}'
piece of these he violently shaken every morn
ing, and not a clothes-moth will harbor with
in it.—“ An Old Housekeeper" in>Geirmantom*
Telegraph..
Sunday Schools.— “ The Methodists, in*
their recent unification convention at Balti
more, adopted a resolution making it the du
ty of a pastor to establish a Sunday school!
in his congregation. The neglect may he a
bar to passage of delinquent pastors’ official 1
character at the ensuing annual Conference,,
and a sufficient cause for removal from the
church.:’
Our Methodist brethren seem to understand
the value and importance of Sunday Schools
thoroughly. Every intelligent pastor must
appreciate the good influence of such an
auxiliary to his church, and feel its powerful
influence. We arc glad tosee such a powerful
organization as the one represented in Balti
more taking hold of the matter with a firm*
hand—the effect of such a measure can not
!>e otherwise than salutary upon religious,
progress.-— Ch.. Index.
“ lie is a man after my own heart* Pa,”'
said Julia, reverting to her Charles Augustus.
“ Nonsense,” replied old Practical; “heis a
man after the money your uncle left yott„”
And then all was quiet.
At open doors dogs come in..
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