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BF. WOFFOItIt, Attorney-sit-Ijiw.
• Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
Will practice in all the adjoining counties, and
give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
liis care. Collecting claims a specialty.
March 3d, 1877.
WILEY C. HOWARD. KOB'T S. HOWARD.
W. C. & R. 8. HOWARD,
attorneys and counsellors at
LA IV,
f24 Jefferson, Ga.
Law Card.
MV 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 ollice, 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,
feb24 Counsellor at Law, Jefferson, Ga.
Medical and Surgical Notice.
Die. W. A. WAX.SO A respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens of
Jefferson and surrounding country. Residence,
at the old “ Watson Homestead,” Sycamore st.
OtHce, in Col. J. H. Silman's law office. When
not professionally absent, can be found at one or
the other of the above places. Jan 27 ly
l)r. J. R. Pendergrass,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional ser
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. He can be found at his office, north end
of Pendergrass & Hancock's store, up-stairs, at
all times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th, 1877.
Die. w. s. Au:\A\i>i:i{.
SURGEON DENTIST.
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July 10th, 1875. Cm
J. a. b. mahaffey. w. s. m'carty.
AIAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
ILL A T T O R NEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga.,
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. OctHOly
DR. C. R. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of .Jefferson and vicinity. Can he found at
the oflicc recently occupied bv Col. Mahaffey.
Jan. 22, 1870 —tf
J. .1. FLOYD, I J. B. SILMAX.
Covington, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
IM.OVI) A NILH IA,
AT TORN E Y S-A T-L AW.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts ei
the counties of Jackson and Walton,
j une12—ly
Wl. PIKE, Attorney ;i law,
. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
Practices in all the Courts. State ami 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 B Maliaft'ey, G.
J. N. Wilson. J K Randolph, F. M. Bailey. Al
dermcn; H S Howard. Esq.. Clerk N Treasur
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Nlates €*<>vci*nment,
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President—Rutherford 15. Hayes, of Ohio, to
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SELECT MISCELLANY.
Wedding Fees.
The giving of the wedding fee to the clergy
man ought not to be embarrassing, one
would think, as it is not a public perform
ance. Rut the very privacy of it, and the at
tempt to do it slyly, and to seem entirely
unconcious of what botli clergj-man and
groom are most intensely concious of, makes
this part of the ceremony often the most
awkward of the whole. The wa3*s of doing
it are most infinitely various, and some of
them almost infinitely comical. Sometimes
there is a business-like frankness about the
affair which is refreshing. The bridegroom
himself, when he engages the minister, wants
to know “ what the charge is.” This is em
barrassing again to the minister, as there is
no standard charge, and the best lie can do
is to give the legal fee which a justice re
ceives, and he feels he ought to receive. Of
ten the bridegroom has an e3 r e to business
even then, and wants to know if less will not
do. Of course it must do. We read of a
Methodist preacher who replied to one who
asked as to how much was the customary fee,
that “liberal people would give twenty dol
lars ; some onl3 T gave ten, and once in a while
a stingy fellow would come and offer five dol
lars.” Another Methodist preacher, who had
received a one-dollar bill, wrote on the back
of it, “This dollar is all I received for mar*
rying such a couple,” giving their names, and
then set the bill circulating. One gentleman
paid a dollar, and blandty remarked, “I sup.
pose you would like all you could do of this
work.” As the recording would cost filly
cents, and the certificate twenty-five, the re
mark might have been intended as a piece of
grim humor, but it was not so intended. One
intensely practical youth stepped boldl}* for
ward at the conclusion of the ceremony, and
unfolding a roll of bills, demanded, in a clear
voice, “What’s the damage, parson? lie
was informed that lie must find the damages
out for himself, but the legal fee was so and
so. His new-made bride blushed as if .she
scarcely knew whether the question was com
plimentary or not. One day a man accosted
the minister in the street, and wanted him to
go at once and marry a couple. They had
been waiting ever since the day- before, and
had not been able to find a minister. Ti e
minister wished to go home and adjust his
toilet, but the stranger said “it would mal e
no difference, and the young people were get
ting nervous.” The minister then hinted at
a carriage, but the man said “it was not ne
cessary ; it was only a few steps, just across
the river.” So the3' went togther on foot,
“just across the river,” then “just down the
river a few steps,” until the3* had walked
about three miles. It was an intensel}- hot
day, still, sultry, and dusty. When they
reached the house, the parson was covered
with perspiration and dust, and almost as
much out of patience as the couple who had
waited so long for his clerical services. He
wasted no words in the ceremony, and there
was no superfluous sentiment, “uttered or
expressed,” in his manner. The services
ended, and “two waiting souls made.one;”
the “business agent” of the affair appeared
on the scene again, and wanted to know what
the charge was. He was told the amount of
the legal fee, but at once said that was too
much, but he wanted to do the liberal thing.
He then proceeded to count out into the min
ister’s hand one dollar and fifty-three cents,
handing it over as deliberately as if he was
paying for a sack of flour, or a beef roast.
Once in a while one strikes an economical
youth who wants “time”—or wants to “pay in
trade.” One asked when he came to make
the arrangements, if the minister could not
wait for his fee till “aftercorn husking,” and
then “after corn husking” he forgot it. An
other said his future wife was “a very fine
butter-maker, and he would like to pay the
fee in butter, if it was all the same.” The
coolest thing of the kind, however, was where
the bridegroom, who owned an ice-house,
“wanted to pay the fee in ice.” It was a
good, liberal fee, but the coolness of the thing
was quite refreshing. But perhaps the most
embarrassing way is where the bridegroom,
or his friend, holds the fee in the palm ofliis
hand, and slyly passes it into the parson’s
palm, as they bid each other good bye. The
effort of the minister to do two things at once,
secure his fee and at the same time give a
hearty shake of the hand, is a sure test of
his steadiness of nerve. A man who can
do these two things well, and at the same
time appear as if utterly unconcious of doing
anything, is a man fit to command an army,
or rule a State.
In conclusion, let mo add that he who can
devise an unobjectionable method of trans
ferring the wedding-fee, and make that meth
od known to all expectant bridegrooms, will
confer a favor on his race equal to the man
who makes “two spears of grass grow where
but one grew before.— Ex.
Sex of Eggs.
A correspondent of the Southern Farmer
tells how an old poultry raiser distinguishes
sex in eggs. It is related as follows : “ Eggs
with the air bladder on the sides will produce
pullets. The old man was so certain of the
truth of his dogma, and the poultry yard so
far confirmed it, that I determined to make
experiments upon it this year. I have done
so, carefully registering every ‘bladder verti
cle’ or bladder on one side, rejecting every
one in which it was not decidedly one way or
the other, as in some it was only slightly out
of the centre. The following is the result;
58 chickens hatched; 3 are dead; 11 too
young yet to decide upon their sex ; of the
remaining 44 every one has turned out true
to the old man’s theory. I tried it myself
and found it to be correct, and I think it to
be of great practical advantage. lam pleas
ed to give it my full endorsement.”
“Our Dear Departed Mother.”
The following verses published in the Sunday
Enquirer, of Columbus, and dedicated to the me
mory of a “departed mother” of that locality,
speaks the sad sentiment of manj' a bereaved
household, so vividly and truthfully that, with
melancholy pleasure, they are here re-published :
Angel mother, now you’ve left us,
For one where jo}* and happiness
Are j-ours forevermore.
Oh, happy lot, indeed, dear one,
For 3-011, whose cares are o'er,
But so hard for those 3-ou left
To have you here 110 more.
Yes, precious 011 c, T say ’tis hard
To part with one so dear;
To know that nevermore on earth
Your gentle voice we’ll hear.
No more we'll hear that footstep,
Which oft in da3 r s before
Resounded in that dear old home
Which you will cheer no more.
Oh mother, darling, can it be.
That though our hearts may 3'cnrn
To have you in our earthly home,
You'll never more return?
Yes, sweet, submissive mother,
To obey the All-wise God,
You’ve left your earthly dwelling
To sleep beneath the sod.
Beneath the dark and silent tomb
Your precious body lies;
But in your bright and heavenly home,
That spirit never dies.
80 farewell, angel mother—
And if we’d meet thee more,
Wc must forsake our sinful ways,
And God's mercy now implore.
So now, m v Heavenly Father,
Please guide us into right.
That we may meet in Heaven
Our angel mother bright.
The Loss of a Wife.
In comparison with the loss of a wife all
other bereavments are trifling. The wife!
she who fills so large a space in the domestic
hejwen ; she who busied herself so unwearied
ly for the precious ones around her; hitter is
the tear which falls on her cold clay. You
stand beside her coffin and think of the past.
It seems an amber colored pathway, where
the sun shone upon the beautiful flowers, or
the stars hung glitteringly overhead. Fain
would the soul linger there. No thorns are
remembered save those your hands have un
willingly planted. Iler noble, tender heart
lies open to 3-our inmost sight. You think
of her now as all gentleness, all purity, all
beauty* But she is dead. The head laid
upon a pillow of clay. The hands that have
ministered so'untiringty are folded beneath
the gloomy portal. The heart whose beat
measured an eternity of love lies under j’our
Icet. The flowers she bent over with smiles,
bend now over her with tears, shaking the
dew from their petals, that the verdure around
may be kept green and beautiful. There is
no white arm over your shoulder, no speaking
face to look up into the c3 T e of love, no trem
bling lips to murmur, “Oh, it is too sad.”
There is so strange a hush in every room ; no
light footsteps passing around ; no smile to
greet you at nightfall. And the old clock
ticks and strikes—it was such music when
she could hear it. Now it seems to knell on
the hours through which 3-011 watched the
shadow of death gathering on her sweet face.
And evety day the clock repeats that old
stor3\ Many other tale it telleth, too—of
beautiful words and deeds that are register
ed above. You feel—oh, how often—that
the grave cannot keep her—that she will live
again.
How a Woman Orders a Chest.
Ilohokus writes: During our married life
my wife has insisted that we could not keep
house properly without a large chest, for bed
clothes and odd traps. Last week I took
the dimensions from her, questioning as fol
lows :
“ llow long ?”
“Well, say ten feet.” and she held her
hands about a yard apart.
“llow wide?”
“ Well, pretty wide, say six feet,” measur
ing it on her apron.
“ llow deep ?”
“ Oh, have it deep. 1 guess eight feet will
be about right.”
Bridget arrived while we were at tea.—
“Sure, sir,’’ said she, “that Ryan, the store
keeper, is here wid a small barn on a stone
boat. lie's tore down both the gate-posts
drivin' in. I think it’s a chist he cells it, and
he says where’l yez have it ?”
I’ve succeeded in proving, by the original
memorandum of measurements, that there
was an error somewhere. The “chist” lias a
window in it, and contains the cow, calf and
one bale of ha}’. Wife says she is going to
Patterson this spring to find a man that knows
how to build a chest, and not make it large
enough for a cattle barn.
It is rumored that the New Haven post
master is going to resign. lie read the fol
lowing advertisement in a local paper:—
‘ An}’ person having five to fifty loads of ma
nure to dispose of will please send word or
drop it through the postoffice.’
Fair charmer (who thinks that she knows
everything about college affairs) —“ Is it pos
sible, Mr. Tompkins, that you are not ac
quainted with my brother at Harvard ? Why,
lie sings second base in the University base
ball crew.”
LP'A small tear relieves a great sorrow.
An Old Story With a Point.
In the days of Andrew Jackson, during a
hotly contested political conflict, in front of a
village store were gathered a squad of work
ers—the village wire pullers—men who were
spending their time and their breath for the
party, and who were looking for oflicc, erer3'
one of them, engaged in dnsctissing the pros
pects of the situation. While the3’ were thus
engaged in self confidence and jubilant, an
old stager of the opposition party, named
Sam Bellkoop, came up. Ordinary Sam
was reserved and mindful of his own business,
but in exciting times like the present, he could
he loquacious. The party of politicians, all
known to be hungry for government pap,
hailed Sam rather ironically, asked him how
went the battle on his side. Said Sam :
‘I don't know, gentleman, as I can give
you information on that subject, but 1
can tell 3*oll a bit of a stor3\”
‘Ah, that was just the thing : ‘Fire away,
Samuel—let us have it.’
Sam took a seat upon an empty nail keg,
and told as follows :
Once upon a time there was a great king
who had a philosopher in whose judgment
he always put the utmost confidence. On a
certain morning the king took it into his head
that he wanted to go out a hunting, and hav
ing summoned his nobles, and all the chief
men of his court, and made necessery prepar
ations, he called his philosopher and asked if
it would rain during the day. The philosopher
looked up at the clear sky, and said it would
not; so the king and his nobles, and all his
great men departed. Upon approaching the
forest, they met a countryman mounted upon
a jackass, who advised them to return, assur
ing them that it would very soon rain.
‘Ba’i!’cried the king. ‘Does this fellow
kno v more than my philosopher ? Let us
ride on.’
So on the3 T rode, and had just entered the
forest when the rain came down in torrents,
driving them to the nearest shelter, which
they reached, drenched to the skin, bitterly
lamenting that they had not taken the rustic’s
advice. When they returned to the palace,
the king sent for his philosopher, and having
soundly berated him for lelling himself be
outdone 1)3- a country rustic, dismissed him.—
Then he sent for the countryman, intending
to install him into the vacant office.
‘Tell me,'said the king, when the man
appeared before him, ‘ how 3-011 knew it would
rain.’
‘I did if t know, sir.’ replied the countryman ;
* m3' jackass told me.’
‘Mercj-!' cried the monarch, in great aston
ishment. ‘How did he tell 3-011 ?
‘ It’s a way he has, your majesty, of picking
np his ears and snuffing the air.’
And thereupon the king sent for the jack
ass, and allowed the countryman to go home
—and the jackass was installed in to the office
made vacant by the retirement of the philoso
pher.
‘Ah!’ concluded Sam, with a very woeful
shake ofthe head, ‘the poor king little dream
ed the calamity that simple act was to bring
upon his kingdom !'
‘How so ?’ demanded the auditors, eagerly.
1 O J
‘Why,’ replied Sam very gravely, ‘from
that da3* to this, every jackass is clamoring
for office!’
A Vicious Plaster.
A gentleman who had an acute pain in his
side, yesterday, put a mustard plaster of pow
erful drawing capacity over the affected re
gion, tied it on with a bandage, and started
for his place of business. When upon Main
Cross he was horrified to find that the plaster
had become loose, dropped many degrees be
low its original position, and had commenced
chawing the solid meatof his ham. lie thrust
his hand into his pocket to remedy the evil,
but could not choke the plaster off. It had
established a residence there, and lie could
feci the skin rising into a blubber under its
powerful suction. lie rushed into a business
house to retire up-stairs or somewhere where
he could fix things differently, but just as lie
entered he met a number of lady friends who
all seemed delighted to see him. They had
some kind of enterprise on hand and wanted
him to contribute. He said he’d sec them
again, and they said it was an old dodge, and
that he couldn’t play it that way. Then the\ r
went on to explain, and lie writhed in agony.
The plaster was getting at its work—pumping
the water from his system at every pore ; and
when he finally darted out of the store and
flew down an alley with his hair stadding on
end, those ladies raised their hands and said.
“Did } T ou ever! Who would have thought
that Mr. would have been so penurious.”
Madison Courier.
The wise daughter is the pride of her fa
ther, yea, her mother also doth delight in
her; but the foolish maiden bringeth sorrow.
She hangeth on the front gate, she tippeth
up hat over her left ear. Her eye is full of
the Old Nick. She glanceth over her shoul
der when she promenades on Dominick St.
Her handkerchief is also seen. Then the
dry goods clerk says. “Ila! ha!” He smil
eth to himself; he makes mistakes in the
measure of calico. —Rome Sentinel.
“What is it that causes the saltness of the
ocean ?” inquired a teacher. “The codfish.”
was the reply.
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GLEANINGS.
C-rtt-worms and grasshoppers are tforkinj*
tip the C6tton crops in southern Georgia.
Tainted milk recently killed ll? person*
in London. The fatal disorder was scarlet
fever.
The wheat product of California is estimat
ed at 20,000.000 bdshels, Only the half of last
year’s yield.
Cadet Henry O'. Clipper, colored, has beerr
assigned to the Tenth fteglmcttt of Cavalry,
vice Fuller, transfefred.
Two brothers-in-law in Kentucky, between
whom a family feud had long existed, had art
altercation Tuesday about a tract of land, inf
which both were killed.
A man at Pawlet, Vermont, recently lost
fourteen cows, which broke into his potato’
field and ate vines that had been anioivted
with kerosene to keep off bugs.
Mr. Samuel Smith, of Schley county, lost
two valuable mules recently, both btdng bit
by rattlesnakes, from the effects of which
they died in the course of forty minutes after
receiving the injury.
It is generally coiveeded that in case ex-
Governor Charles J. Jenkins declines to ac
cept the position. General A. I?. Lawton will
be chosen President of the Constitutional
Convention.
Prof. Ham further remarks that, it is less
dangerous to hit a man on the head with the
bottom than in the mouth with the top end of
a bottle. The latter has killed some good*
men.
Tight lacing killed a young girl in New
York the other day. The present fashionable
attire lor females is said to contract and dis
tort nearly every muscle of the body. Doc
tors will thrive while this folly exists.
Judge Peeples of the Atlanta circuit, who
died recently, was one of the bar who examin
ed Judge 11 ili ver for admission to the bar.
Judge Hi liver is now the immediate successor
to his honored friend.
We understand that Mr. .T. T. Willingham
will descend the steep side of Stone Mountain
and explore the cave on July 10th. It is a
dangerous feat but we trust Mr. Willingham’
will come out with a whole hide.— DeKalb'
Cos. News.
A boy while fishing in Lake Buttes dcs
Morte. Wis. the other day. felt a nibble, and
drew in a half-gallon fruit can. In it he found
a large catfish that had taken up his abode
and lived there until his increased dimensions
did not admit of egress.
The Indians in Idaho and Oregon are on'
the war-path. They have killed a large num
ber of white men. and made prisoners of the
women and children. They have thus far'
defeated every attempt to capture them. A
serious war is apprehended.
An independent Georgia journalist has
found time to make the following observa
tions : “We notice in the latest fashion
magazines that all of the most fashionably
dressed ladies carry a baby in their arms.
We hope the fashion will he followed as close
ly as other novelties usually are b}” our ladies.”
The President has issued a proclamation
ordering a public sale of lands at Harrison.
Arkansas, on Monday, Ist of October, 1877.
Similar proclamations will be issued for the
sale of public lands in Louisiana, Mississippi
and Florida, under the recent law restoring
them to the market.
Professor Callaway made ol bushels on
one acre, in Oxford. Mr. C. C. Epps'iff rc
ported as having made 7 o bushels on one
and a half acres. These are most extraordi
nary yields for this section ; but it shows what
can be done under proper culture and favor
able seasons. The wheat crop in this section
is the finest we have seen in years.—Coving
ton Star.
Illustrative of the re-establishment' of that
relic of barbarism, the whippingpost, comes
the following from Perry, Houston county :
“ An old negro pleaded to be allowed to save’
his son, who had been stealing, from the
ignominy of the chain gang by administering
to him a thrashing. Consent was given, and
the old man. using the soft side of a barrel'
stave, literally tore his heir into a frazzle.”
A Yankee traveller in England, occupying'
the same room with an English clergyman,
astonished his fellow lodger, on getting out
of bed in the morning, by a violent explosion
of profane language. The reverend gentle
man remonstrated at first, but was pacified
with this explanation: “Well. I calculate,
if you had lighted, as I did, on the business
end of a carpet tack, you would not have’
begun the day with the Lord’s prayer either.”'
On the outgoing steamers, conversation is
often of a cosmopolitan nature. A Boston
merchant on a recent trip was considerably
impressed by the earnestness of a German
passenger. “America,” said the returning
Teuton, “is der best coundry in der vorTri.
I haf lived dere more as don years, and fail
ed vive climes, and now I goes home to lif
mit a fortune and my vamily T r — Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
“We understand that Mrs. Jackson, the
wife of the man who murdered Mr. Jack
Thompson about Christmas, will begin suit to
recover the money that was taken from Jack
son’s house and returned to Mr. I. N. Nash,
the rightful owner. Mr. Nash loaned the
money, to Mr. Thompson, and Jackson rob
bed him. The money was found in Jackson’s
house, and the murdered man was found bu
ried about two hundred yards from Jackson's
house.”— DcKidb County Ncv:s „
Mr. George W. Adams, Clerk of the Ilotisc
of Representatives, has completed the list of
members that he will call to organize the
House at 12 m., October 15. The Demo
crats, according to the list, will have eight
majority. There are twelve contested cases
reported, and affidavits filed. Neither the
Democratic or Republican member from
Colorado will be placed on the roll. Neither
will lie place on the roll either Pacheco or
Y igginton, the California contestants, or
Metcalf and Frost, the Missouri contestants.
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