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• 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. 8. HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT
LA IF,
f24 Jefferson, Ua.
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 be 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. Office,
up-stairs, over Hilly Thompson store-room.
WILEY C. HOWARD,
feb24 Counsellor at Law, Jefferson. Ca.
Medical and Surgical Notice.
Dll. 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 Col. J. B. 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. D. Pendergrass,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of J etferson and surround
ing country ; and ly strict attention to his studies
and profession, hopes to merit continued confi
dence. lie can he found at his oilice, north end
of Pendergrass <& Hancock's store, up-stairs, at
all times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th, 1877.
Dk. w. js. alkxa^dkk,
SIIRCEON DENTIST,
Harmony drove, Jackson Cos., da.
July 10th, 1875. dm
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY. \V. . M'CARTY.
MAHAFFEY & McCARTY,
lU A T T O 11NEYS AT LAW,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. da.,
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. * OctJOly
DR. C. R. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can he found at
the office recently occupied hv Col. Mahaffey.
Jan. 22, 1870—tf ~ '
J. J. FLOYD, I J. B. SIIAIAN,
Covington, da. | Jefferson, da.
17loyi) & wum,
. ATTORNE YS-AT-L A W.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts ©i
the counties of Jackson and Walton,
j une 12—ly
Wl. Pllitl, Atlornev at Law,
. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. dA.
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
STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFERSON , GA.,
DEALERS ill Dry doods and Family (Iroce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June 19 ly
Charles Corbett,
PLAIX $■ ORX'AMEXTAL
PAINTER,
OFFERS his services to the citizens of Jackson
and surrounding counties. He is prepared
to do all kinds of House-Painting, inside aim out
side—plain and ornamental. Special attention to
painting lluggics and vehicles of all descriptions.
Charges to suit the times. Address, CHARLES
CORBETT, Camp's Mills, dwinnett Cos., da.
May 26th, 1877.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in August
next, before the Court House door, in the
town of Jefferson, Jackson county, da., within
the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit :
One hundred and four acres of land, more or
less, lying and being in said county, on the North
eastern Railroad, beginning on a stake on Andrew
bailors' land, thence 837. E 19 chains, to sweet
gum ; thence N 53, W 58 chains to a chesnut
stump; thence N 37, E 19 chains to a stake;
thence 8 53. ESB chains to the beginning corner
and near the Nicholson Depot on the Railroad,
near the beginning corner. There is a small pine
pole cabin on said land, now occupied by Desde
mona Hill; said land adjoins the lands of Mrs Es
tes and others ; all in natural forest except about
three acres cut down. Property pointed out by
defendant in <i fa, Daniel Reidling. Notice served
on Daniel lieidling and Dsdeniona Hill, tenants in
possession. Levied on and returned to me bv
W J Porter, I. C.
july 7 $7 50 JOHN 8. HUNTER, Sheriff.
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1877.
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SELECT MISCELLANY.
Hanging by the Heels.
A Paris letter says : The authorities of
Soudan, near Chateaubriant, recently desired
to remove the rusty cock that surmounted the
church steeple. A slater was engagsd to do
the job. lie bad gone two thirds of the way
up, when, losing his balance as he threw the
rope which was to enable him to climb high
er, he began to slide down the lightning-rod
with fearful rapidity. lie was ninety feet
from the ground when he began to loose hold,
lie fell to the steeple's balustrade, bounded
on the church roof, rolled down it, and fell on
the ground. He got up with no bones or
skin broken, but so bruised and jostled he
could not think of again attempting to climb
the lightning-rod. Another slater took his
place. The second slater, after trying in
vain for half an hour to pull himself up to the
cock, in making a more violent effort, broke
one of his stirrups or supports, and fell hang
ing head downward, one loot resting in the
stirrup which still held good, lie was 120
feet from the ground when this accident hap
pened. He could be seen making desperate
efforts to recover hold of the knotted rope ;
arms and one leg made convulsive gestures
as he strove to release himself from his pain
ful and dangerous position. To add to the
horrors of the spectacle, the wind blew with
great violence, and the poor fellow swayed to
and fro, and was at times in danger of being
dashed to pieces against the steeple. At
length his strength became exhausted, and he
fell into a swoon. From the ground he seem
ed lifeless. A third slater went to his assist
ance. Time and again the third slater seem
ed on the eve of success, but time and again
the body of the second slater fell with all its
weight, fearfully straining the rope, and sway
ing in the air with dreadful oscillations. A r .
ter striving for forty-five minutes the third
slater was obliged to give up in despair ; his
strength was completely exhausted. A fourth
slater volunteered to attempt to rescue his
comrade. He climbed to the second slater,
secured a block and tackle, fastened a rope
around the second slater's body, cut the stir
rup rope, and at last lowered the second slr
ter to the ground. The latter had been three
hours in the air, dangling by one foot, head
downward.
The Course of True Love.
The Rome Sentinel illustrates the adage
about “true love” etc., by the following lively
story :
She came tripping from the church door,
her face Hushed with emotions awakened by
the just uttered discourse, and her eyes bright
with loving expectation. lie shivered on
the curbstone, where for an hour he had wait
ed impatiently with a burning heart fairly
palpitating in his throat, and frozen fingers
in his pockets. They linked arms and start
ed for the residence of her parents.
After a few moments’ hestitating silence,
he sail, “Jane, we have known each other
long. You must know just how I feel. You
must see that clear down at the bottom —Oh
Moses!"
He had slipped down on the ice with so
much force that his spine was driven up into
his hat, and his hat was tipped oves his nose.
But she was a tender hearted girl; she did
not laugh, but she carefully helped him to his
feet, and said :
“You were sa3 r ing, John, when } r ou slipped
that the foundation — Oh, goodness!" 1
She slipped herself that time, and saw little
stars come down to dance before her eyes,
but lie pulled her up in haste and went on.
“Yes. just as I said, clear down to the bot
tom of my heart is a fervent love, on which I
build my hopes. That love has helped me
stand face — Thunder /”
lie was down again, hut scrambled up be
fore she could stoop to help him, and she said
breathlessly :
“Yes, yes, John. You remumber you just
said a love which helped you stand and face
thunder. And that you founded your hopes
on —This pesky ice!”
There she sat. John grasped the loose
part of her sacque, between the shoulders,
with one hand, and raised her to her feet, as
one would lift a kitten from a pail of water by
the back of the neck. Then he said with
increased earnestness :
“Of course, darling, and I have longed for
an opportunity to tell my love, and to hear
those sweet lips whisper — v.'lioop!”
Somehow John’s feet had slipped from un
der him, and he had come down like a capital
Y with his head and feet pointing skyward.
She twined her taper fingers in his curling
locks, and raised him to the stature of a man.
set his hat firmly over his eyes with both
hands and cried in breathless haste :
“I understand, and let me assure }’ou, John,
that if it is in my powerto lighten your cares
and make brighter }’our journey through life
to— Jerusalem!
John stood alone and said with breathless
vehemence :
“Oh, my precions, and thus it shall be my
life-long pleasure to lift you from the rude
assaults of earth, and surround you with the
loving atmosphere of— Texas!”
And there they both sat together. They
had nearly reached the gate, and with hearts
overflowing with bliss of young love’s first
confession, they crept along on their knee*
up the front steps and were soon forgetful
of their bumps on the softest cushion of the
parlor —Sam Slick.
GPTkink about marriage as we please,
there is no pleasanter sight than a newly
wedded couple walking home froM) church on
the first Sunday, with the bride’s mother in
the rear thoughtfully adjusting the bustle and
back bows of the happy daughter.
Professing Religion.
A gentleman has written to us, says the
Golden Rule, that Ire is a Christian by the
persuasion of his heart, but has not as vet
made public profession of his condition, and
that hedoubts if he shall. He wishes to know
what our opinion is of the matter, and asks
that we advise him as to his duty. We do so
the%iore readily because we have a very de
cided opinion concerning his duty, and the
duty of all those who stand in the same con
nection with the Christ. There is, as we think,
something radically defective, friend, in a
piety that shrinks from the light of acknowl
edgment. A man who follows Christ so far
off as to refuse to be known as his follower,
can do little good, and must do much hurt, to
his cause. If one of your children was never
seen in its mother’s arms, never stood in your
family circle, never been in your house, never
been called by your name, who would suppose
it to be your child ? And so, if a man never
calls himself a Christian, is never seen amid
God’s children, or at the family-table, or in
the household of faith, who would suppose
that he is a Christian at all ? The happy, the
honored children, are those who bear the fath
er's name, and stand acknowledged in his
presence. For them provision is made.—
Theirgrowth is duly ministered unto. They
receive full benefit of the family connection.
They become useful. Non-membership is
also a kind of denial of Christ. It is one
form of opposition. The son that does not
acknowledge the father when the occasion
demands acknowledgment, denies the father.
Every refusal to bear testimony for Christ is
a denial of Christ. It is Peter's sin over
again—a sin to be repented of bitterly', with
tears.
“Whosoever confesses me before men, him
will I also confess before my Father who is in
heaven : and whoso denieth me before men,
him will I also deny before my Father who is
in heaven.”
The Bettered Race.
The Philadelphia Record, referring in gen
eral commendatory terms to the late speech
of Fred. Douglas at St. Michael’s. Md., takes
exception to his remark about “the wrongs
inflicted on his race for two hundred years.”
It reminds him that his race in this country,
even while in bondage, was much more blessed
than their brethren in Africa, who have been
killing, enslaving, and in some parts eating
each other from time immemorial, from which
condition that portion of the race brought
to this country and their descendants were
saved by American slavery. The chief ground
of complaint they have against Southern men
is that they tried to prevent the British Gov
ernment from bringing them from Africa to
this country. Being here, however, the white
people made their condition a good deal bet
ter and happier than it had been in Africa.
Now that they are free and have all the pri
vileges enjoyed by the rest of the world they
should not waste time in complaining of the
weariness of the journey from Egypt to the
promised land, but act upon the order given
to the children of Israel when emerging from
vassalage to independence, to “go forward.”
When Fred Douglass and the leaders of
his race indulge in reproaches against the
whites for “the wrongs inflicted on the race”
they should not forget to discriminate between
their enslavers and their protectors ; between
those who stole them from their country and
savage barbarism, and those who reared,
instructed, enlightened and christianized—
them. They should not forget that while
New England was engaged, a hundred years
ago, in the African slave trade, bringing
cargoes from Africa by the middle passage
and distributing them among the colonies as
slaves. Georgia was the first and only free
colony in which no slaves existed and whose
people refused to receive African slaves
within their borders until forced to do so by
the British Trustees at the instance of the
New England slave traders. If slavery was
a wrong inflicted on the African race. Fred
Douglass should bear in mind that New Eng
land was chiefly instrumental in inflicting it
—that New England made fortunes in the
slave trade, continued it until forced by the
South to abandon it, and made the least
pecuniary sacrifice for the abolition of slavery.
— Sav. Nev.'s.
CW We do not remember to have ever
before seen President Andrew Jackson's
tribute to his wife which is also engraved
upon her tombstone. It is this :
“Here lie the remains of Mrs. Rachel
Jackson, wife of President Jackson, who died
the 22d of December, 1828; aged 61. Iler
face was fair, her person pleasing, her temper
amiable, her heart kind. She delighted in
relieving the wants of her fellow-creatures,
and cultivated that divine pleasure by the
most liberal and unpretending methods. To
the poor she was a benefactor, to the rich an
example, to the wretched a comforter, to the
prosperous an ornament. Her piety went
hand in hand with her benevolence, and she
thanked her Creator for being permitted to
do good. A being so gentle and yet so vir
tuous, slander might wound but could not
dishonor. Even death, when he took her
from the arms of her husband, could but
transport her to the bosom of her God.”
Jackson was a plain man, and not much
of a scholar; lint wliat poet, romancer or
philosopher, could hope to surpass, if equal,
that obituary ?
There is a natural curiosity in Miller coun
ty, nine miles south of Camilla, Ga., known
as the “Blowing Cave,” so called because it
draws the air in in the forenoon and blows it
out in the afternoon, thus there is a perpetu
al alternate blowing of wind inward and out
ward. The scientific summer tourist should
1 investigate this phenomenon.
Synopsis of the Speech of Ex-Governor
Chas. J. Jenkins, on taking the Chair as
President of the Constitutional Conv’n.
Governor Jenkins’ name was received with
the greatest enthusiasm. He was elected by
a unanimous vote and ascended the Presi
dent’s stand amid loud applause. The newly
elected President made a short address to the
Convention in acknowledgement of the honor
that had been conferred upon him in so flat
tering a manner. He said that the Conven
tion was assembled to execute a most impor
tant trust which had been confided bv a noble
constituency. Government Ims been found
essential to all people and exists in various
forms. In an absolute monarchy the will of
the potentate is the law ; for in him abides
sovereignty, excluding limitation or division.
With us—in a Republican form of government
the people are sovereign and govern by dele
gating their powers and dividing and limiting
the law into constitutional and statutory.
Constitutional law, emenating directly from
the people, is abiding and stable; yet the
wisest people in the process of time must
pause and receive and utilize . new truths.
The time has come when Georgians must
make a change in their organic law. The
circumstances under which the present Con
stitution was framed and other reasons render
the instrument unfit for the State and its peo
ple. lie could not now sketch the Constitu
tion to be framed. The delegates must enter
upon this great work as they should think
necessary; should compare views, receive
hints, harmonize opinions and digest results,
lie, however, begged leave emphatically to
make a few remarks, which he hoped would be
kindly received. The great interest of the
people of Georgia in the Convention must be
made paramount to the views of individual
glory, for the latter conflicting may imperil
and defeat other interests. The distinction
between constitutional and statutory law—
should be carefulty noted. Great principles
are inherent. Matters of law involving no
fundamental principles are temporary and
dependent, requiring abrogation and amend
ment. Whenever experience exposes the
error of a law, modification should be prompt,
easy and inexpensive. Omission to legislate
for lack of command, as well as commission
for lack of prohibition, alike entail serious
results. It is true we live in a progressive
age, but progression is sometimes too rapid
and under private interests too much accel
erated. We must look, too, to conflicting
clauses in the State and in the Federal Con
stitution, as the first must not he in violation
of the latter. Fast Legislatures had made
heavy drafts on the finances of the State and
enterprises were projected without there being
adequate means for their completion. For
merly prohibition in this direction was use
less ;in these days it is essential. The credit
system has been dangerousty inflated, and
private and municipal corporations and St ate
governments were involved to an alarming
extent. Cities, counties and States are so
embarrassed that the highest taxss fail to
ameliorate their condition. These are serious
considerations, and the Legislature should be
deprived of the power to follow dangerous
precedents. The subject of popular educa
tion is of vast importance. Objectionable
measures and men are often proposed to
illiterate and unenlightened men who act
blindly upon them. In such cases votes de
clare no principle, being cast according to
personal or popular prejudice. It is contend
ed that leading minds in every age control the
people, but if we admit it and accept tills
proposition we repudiate popular sovereignty-
Our unfortunate fellow citizens unable to un
derstand why they cast their ballots are illy
qualified to exercise sovereignty. But if in
fluence lies in great minds must they not be
cultivated, embodying grasp of thought, stores
of knowledge and do they not come from
higher schools and universities ? It is the
duty, then, of every sovereign State to endow
such institutions, else whence can leaders
come ? Will our 3 011th go to othei States
where exists the danger of different political
teachings ? If Georgia has no institutions
she remains under the pupilage of other
sovereigns. Is this compatible with the dig
nity” or consistent with the honor of the Em
pire State of the South ? Common school and
University education must be perfected. It
is true there are embarrassments and difficul
ties in the way, but systems may be devised
which will gradually and assuredly accom
plish these objects. Georgia abides by her
obligations and relations to the Federal Un
ion, but she has her sovereignty and a govern
ment to maintain. Let 11s apply ourselves to
these attainments, keeping in view, as a polar
star, the enlightenment of the people and the
development of our resources, and make such
a Constitution that posterit}' may rejoice in it
as the palladium of liberty, and which will
give assurance of speedy prosperity to the
people who live under it.
In his address. Governor Jcnkens also
said: “It is unnessary to caution yen
against doing an3’thing that would infringe
upon the rights of the negro race.” This
was received with applause.
lie thanked the Convention for the unani
mity and cordial it} 7 with which the honor of
his election had been conferred, lie would
be happy if at the end of the session no fault
should be found in him. lie entered upon
the discharge of his duties determined to be
impartial, just and courteous. The Conven
tion would oblige the Chair by conforming to
the rulesjand condensing views and arguments.
A sketch of Murphy, the temperance
agitator, by the Cincinnati Enquirer, in res
ponse to a request by a correspondent: “He
is a son of Mrs. Murphy, and in early life
was a small Murphy and few in a hill. Af
terward he took to hard drinking, and this
was tiie making of him, lor if he had never
drank he would never have reformed. How
ever, it was not wholly his drinking that made
him, but his present eminence is also partly
owing to the fact that he afterward stopped
as violenth' as he had before drank.”
A Bartow county planter sold his wheat
crop, 1,200 to 1,500 bushels, in Rome, last
Saturday, at $1 45. It was amber wheat and
raised on the Etowah River.
S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS.
GLEANINGS.
A Chicago dispatch srtys the French GoY'
eminent is secretly buying large -quantities
of army supplies in the West.
At the late funeral of Mrs. Francis F. Blaif
five grandsons of the deceased acted as poll'
bearers.
Mr. Jos. Jackson, of Talbot county, ha*
from his orchard a pear Hmb two feet long ,
having on it sixty-six well grown pears.
A young man in the lower edge of t>e'
Kalb county, aged nineteen, was married to
a lady aged forty-three not long ago. He
got a cow and calf to boot in the trade.
A bale of new cotton, the first of this sea'
son, was received on the 11th, in New Or'
leans, from Brownsville, Texas, its weight
was 475 pounds.
A lot of land about five miles from Cal'
houn, within a mile and a half of the
containing one hundred and fifty acres, well
timbered and situated, sold at Sheriffs sale’
on last sale day, for ninety-three dollars.
All the United States troops stationed irt
Atlanta, except two companies of the IStti
Infantry, have left for Oregon via San Fran'
cisco. California. They calculate to reach
that seat of war in twenty days after theif
departure.
Sometime since, four parties in Alabama
and Tennessee were arrested for dealing in
counterfeit 11101103'. Fending the trial four of
the witnesses against them have been l'nitr--
dered, and a fifth has just been putolitofthC
wav' with poison.
The Liberian Committee at Charleston, re'
ports 45.000 South Carolina negroes ready
to go to Africa. They may be “readv,” but
we predict that not 400 of them will evef
cross the brine. It takes money to trans*
port 45.000 men.
A report comes from Washington that the
Cabinet has virtually decided r,o recognize
Diaz as President of the Mexican Republic,
and that in return for this favor that usurper
lias agreed to settle the disputed Mexican
claims and put a stop to the border raids.
The ent ire Jewish population In this cofin'
try is estimated at two hundred drtkf fifty
thousand, and the value of all the
and congregational property at less than six
millions of dollars. There are three hundred
and forty-one congregations.
At Flushing, N. Y., on the trial of Gaff,
Fleiehman & Cos., indicted at the instance of
Henry Bergh, for cruelty to animals in keep--
ing cattle in what arc known as swill milk
stables in Queen’s county, the jury brought
in a verdict of not guilty, lsst week.
A colored man arraigned for forgery in the
Superior Court of Richmond Cos., last week,
declined to take a colored man for a jnror
in his case, though the Solicitor-General had!
accepted him. There was not much- color
line in this.
A large concourse of colored’ people met
at Fayetteville, Ga„ on the 4th of July, to*
take into consideration the subject of emigra
tion, and after several’ eloquent speeches it
was agreed unanimously that the colored?
population would move 1 to Africa next fall.
During the lifetime of Mr. Joe Knox he
raised on bis lot in Lexington a potato that
weighed seventeen pounds. Tt was sent
from this place to Augusta and" thence to
New York, where it remained on exhibition
for some time.— Echo.
Barry Sullivan, the actor, has recently sub
mitted to the painful process of haring his
e3 r e-ball cut open. It had troubled him ever'
since he was wounded by a sword in Drury
Lane Theatre, and it was found that tim*
sword point had thrust in an eye-lash- Thia
was successfully extracted.
The two negroes, David Pieree and George-
Stevens, who murdered and robbed Mr. Ed
dings in May last, near Charleston, were
hnng last Friday, at the jail m that city-
They made a full confession to the Catholic
prfest who rendered them spiritual consola
tion in their last moments-
A gentleman of Augusta, Ga., has received 1
lately, several letters of inquiry from a
prominent Polish’exile in Washington City,
stating that 21)3 families m Russian Poland,
with an average of SI,OOO to the family, were
desirous of emigrating to the United States,
and asking information in regard to land, cli
mate, productions, etc., irr Georgia-
The accumulations of dirt and dust for
quarter of a century upon the roof of the Uni
ted States Mint in Philadelphia, amounting"
to one hundred and seventy-three pounds,
have been removed and were found tocontaii*
forty-two ounces of gold and ninety-six ami
a half of silver, the total valve being eight
hundred and fifty dollars. Minute partieles
of metal come up in the smoke from the fur
naces and lodge on the asphalt of which, the
roof is composed.
A Newton count}' doctor reports a strange
case. There is a young girl he has been at
tending who believes she is a baby, am! who
has not spoken a word in three years, al
though she was a good conversationalist be
fore she took up the foolish idea of being an
infant. She reads the Bible and writes let
ters. yet will not utter a word. The doctor
tells ns that there is nothing the matter with
her. She eats heartily and rests well at
night. This is no sensation or falsehood,
and we only withhold names by reqnest of
the doctor. —Covington Enterprise.
It is related that when Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher make his recent visit to the White
House the President introduced him to an
ex-Representative from North Carolina nam
ed Smith. “Beecher, Beecher,” said Smith;
“not Henry Ward Beecher V “The self
same,” was the reply. “ Well, Ido declare !”
said Smith. “I am glad to sec yon. I have
never saw you before, but I have road all
about yon know I named my most promising
Jersey bull after you ?” This announcement
created an effect which even the usual gravi
ty of t,lie Preside nt cauld not overcome.— New
York Evening Post.
NUMBER 6.