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Jackson Deputy Sheriff’’s Sale.
\V ||.L he sold, before the Court House door.
\\ m tin- town of Jefferson, within the legal
,„iirs of sale, to the highest bidder, on the lirst
I’uesday in December next, the following proper
v. to-wit:
line tract or parcel of land lying in said county
Jackson. State of Ccorgia, on the waters of the
tl.ilLerivuiid Walnut Fork of the Oconee river.
~ilk . jfstli 1 )i.->t. C M. of said county of -Jackson,
place wli i con 1 i Vcai, dec’d. resided at the
hmii - dc.itli. contadimg one hundred and tif
,n a< res. more or L-.s.s. Said place reason ably
i !1 lunrovc ! and in a good state of cultivation ;
li,l before t ,e levy was made and for the purpose
I'liu diiT t!i ■ levy, a deed vas made, tiled and
: x 1 1.1 the Clerk’s office m the Superior Court
, i miii coiuty. from Erastus Shankle to ,1 II
r . adtii'r "f ibe estate of B F Veal, deceased.
tract or parcel of land levied on by virtue of
ifi fa issued from Jackson Superior Court, Au
ustTeriii. 1577. Erastus Shankle vs. J II Cronic
. administrator of the estate of said B F Veal,
creased. Levied upon to satisfy the above stat
dti fa. Nov. Ist. 1877. Xot : ce given to the de
•mlant in fi fa and the tenant in possession of the
realises. (pr fee $8)
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold.
m*i olacs. oor>e nudes, i> or 10 years old, one
inndretl and fifty bushels of corn, and fourteen
iundred pounds of im: r.-rt.it, levied on as the
iroperty of \\m 1) ilit'io on. to satisfy one ti fa
ued from Jackson Su> or or Court, William
’attman vs. Win I) Ia r o • Property pointed
ut hv Sl* Thurmond, no tf’s attorney,
nov.f Ui W. ,\. V SHAM, DepShff.
> Debtors.
ii, person-; i:nUbt • he undersigned are
V ar iotly. ■,<•! resp -etinily requested to come
•rward ml >:-U’e :ti nee. All notes aifd ac
"- its in'Cttli-i oil * h November, will be
beer! in lie lan !> .> i>i • icer for collection.
OHN S. MESSER.
F'irk, <ia.. Oct. 27. 1877.
Administrator’s Sale.
l\’ ILL be sold, before the Court House door in
' the town of .Jefferson. Jackson county, Oa.,
‘ ‘thin tin* legal hours of sale, on the Ist Tuesday
ii December next, the following property, to-wit :
fne undivided half interest in and to the tract of
uni. in said county, whereon John Nixon now
p'ies. adjoining lands of James M. Varnum, —.
I'iif. containing one hundred and sixty (ICO) acres,
lire or less; to or 70 acres well improved—good
'l l lings, orchard, Ac. The other undivided halt
'terest is the property of John Nixon, or his wife.
i tlie property of Sarah Ann Cheely, dcc’d,
l * ie purpose of paying expenses of administra
i'. and for distribution. Terms, cash.
W.M. E. CHEELY, Adm’r.
j EOR6IA, Jackson County.
• K howc vs. \V. J. Rowe. Libel for Divorce,
in Jackson Superior Court.
1 appearing to the Court that the defendant in
i "ue stated case resides without the limits of
‘"on county, and it also appearing that said
1 !ant resides without the limits of the State
r Georgia—
/ therefore, ordered that service upou the
! }} • ’*• lio " c. he perfected by publica
-1 10 roitßsT News once a month for four
■ previous to the next term of this Court.
,r.mted: J> B * S,LMAN ’ Puff’s AtCy.
I,K °- !>• RICK, .Judge S. C.
ruy extract from the minutes of Jackson Su-
S ° Urt ’ Au o ust Term. 1877.
T. H. NI BLACK, Clerk.
bargains !
1
Xo\\ o{. (. HR 1 XUt for sale a large lot of
, 1 o-niade HOOTS and SHOES, which 1 will
ca ' , " 1 :i 'h. \\ heat. Corn, Peas, Sorghum
i"• ail, l ain prepared to lit up all ages and
•at short notice.
1 n,ake a s iw*cialtv.
h 11 G. K. DEAD WYLER.
HOK out, TAX-PAYERS!
t],, ( ’} x P'trest for 1577 is now in the hands of
v.,,;; " I,octor - and he most respectfully urges
' T P r s >ni pt in the discharge of tliis
*' miist i 1 u t ' ,llc * s limited in which the busi
■hentav,. ' Oansactcd. The fall is the time
fr '•nle ;,r ' ar °. ox Pcted to he paid ; therefore, the
<t ct> win urged to he prompt. The pre
f ' Printed'handluJir fUrthcr notice ’
I Res Peetfully. £ C> .
1 1 • WILLIAMSON, T. C. J. C.
■cUourt H K every Saturday*. at
H 1 '- wlu Tl . * >e ’ to " 0,1 those who do not see
1 1 ‘ sep29
It EORG| A 'avkMin County.
I H "Wet"Vb ""’If 0 *"™:
B n 0f,.,.!,. lt ’ rcv| ewcrs appointed upon the pc
■ rt u n ,.. ,l , ln c, tizen.s to review, mark out and
H a Public r i ? uh !! c utility of the establishment
B r ' , m rout , 1 °ading from the Athens and Jef
■ havo • !" ar ‘‘ E. Johnson’s, to S. S. Smith’s
q,7“, r ' Purted favorably to said road, it is
■ within ibir! 11 . 1 V s * s v: ?hd legal objections is offer
■ passed •' from this date, an order will
die. and making said road
HDi. js-i'' r "*.v official signature, this October
" rtl J 11. W. HELL, Ord’y.
1 ( >in.- in,...,
Unrdis with name,
■ -V v y,;, |’ ost i ,a 'and. L. JONES A CO., Nas-
THE FOREST NEWS.
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The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, deuce, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
iltli'erlisciitcuts.
Jackson County.
To all ichom it may concern:
Whereas, the reviewers appointed, upon the pe
tition of certain citizens, to review, mark out and
report upon the public utility of the changes in
the Athens and Clarkesville road, made necessary
by the grading of the Northeastern Railroad, said
changes commencing on Mrs. Moon’s land, below
her shop, and then taking the old road to a point
opposite J. C. Jarrett’s residence, thence the right
of-way of the N. E. R. R. Cos. to the west corner
of Whitson Jarrett’s fence, thence in N. W. direc
tion through W. Jarrett’s and C. 11. Chandler’s
lands to the Colt’s Mill road, thence said road to
the R. R. crossing, the same to the South side,
thence the right-of-way to the old road, thence the
old road to Milton Matthews’, thence the right-of
way in front of U. W. Matthews' to said old road,
thence said old road to the hollow below Smith’s
old store, then the right-of-way of said R. R. Cos.
in front of T. L. Smith’s and *J. W. Renton’s resi
dence to said old road, thence the old load to the
flat above Whitson Jarrett’s house, thence the
right-of-way of said R. If. Cos. to Sandv Creek
church, there crossing the said R. R. and taking
the line of old road to Boyd Tuek’s, thence leav
ing the old road and running about with the land
line of Mosely and Cash to R. R.. thence across
said R. R.. thence following the land line dividing
the lands of J. A. Renton and W. W. Davis to
the old road in front of Mrs. Highlands. Said re
viewers having reported the above changes in said
road of public utility. Ac.. It is ordered that, un
less valid legal objections is offered within thirty
days from this date, an order will be passed es
tablishing the road as above marked out. and mak
ing the same public.
Given under my official signature, October 19th,
1877. oct 2o 11. W. HELL. Ord’y.
Notice to Debtors.
VLB persons indebted to the linn of IMvNDER
- GRASS & HANCOCK are respectfully re
quested to come forward and make payment at
once, as 1 am compelled to wind up all the busi
ness of the late linn. Your notes and accounts
will be found at the old stand. Any person wish
ing to make payment, will be waited on by Mr.
F. L. Pendergrass. N. H. PENDERGRASS,
Oct <! Surviving Copartner.
<|Mcßsiimul it Dusiuess Curds.
EARLY ROGERS,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
Near South-East Corner Public Square,
- Georgia.
Photographs, Ferrotypes, etc./etc., put up as
at and life-like ns can be had anywhere. Makes
-pecialty of COPY IN Gaud ENLARGING OLD
Cl i it ivS. Picture Frames (any size). Cord,
h always on hand. Re sure to call and
Hie when you come to town. oct27-Jm
I- rneva w,
-• . .i v ovi.. Jackson Cos.. Ga.
i ci nJ.iC son ami a oiuing counties.
. . ai'iii . oi . , it all hu iness entrusted
C l ! >t i . !<>u. .John D. Stewart, Griffin,
i. ->. 1 . oii'ii • . Jonesboro’, Ga. oclG
£-?, j W. S. MORRIS,
a. ! Jefferson, Ga.
li,l a MORRIS.
ATS AT LA I r,
i ■ will practice in Superior,
inary’s and Justices’ Courts. Office in
.uigwitii Col. Sihnan, UP-STAIRS. aug2s
.1. 31. DU HNS
< AVIN G resumed the practice of Medicine,
i oo’er.-. i- professional services to the public,
re fill for all past patronage, he solicits a lib
ral share in the future. The Dr. can be found at
:is residence, three miles east of Jefferson, when
mt professionally engaged.
Aug 11 JOHN M. BURNS, M. D.
1> V. MOI'TOIll), Attorney-atJiaw.
Y. Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
Will practice in all tlie 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. €. & R. S. HOWARD,
ATTORNEY'S AND COINSELLORS AT
LA IP,
fo t Jefferson, Ga.
3ledical and Surgical Notice.
Dlt. W. A. W A ISO A respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens ot
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 he found at one or
the other of the above places. Jan 27 Iv
Dr. J. B. Pendergrass,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Jefferson and surround
ing country ; and by strict attention to his studies
and profession, hopes to merit continued confi
dence. iie 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.
J. A. U. MAIIAFFKY. W. S. M’CARTY.
\IAHAFFEY & McCARTY, f
J 1 ATTORNE Y S A I LAM,
Jefferson, Jackson Cos. Ga..
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to' all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. Oct3o 1 y
HR. C. R. GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can he found at
the oflice recently occupied by Col. Mahaftey.
Jan. 22. 1870 —tf
I. J. FLOYD, 1 J- 1J - SILMAN,
Covington, Ga. i Jefferson, Ga.
LM.OYI) & SHJIAY.
V ATTORNEYS-A T-LAM .
Will practice together in the Superior Courts oi
the counties of Jackson and M alton.
junel2—l3 r
Wl. (>IUE. Attorney sit Lsnv,
. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
Practices in all the Courts. State and Federal.
Prompt and thorough attention given to all
kinds of legal business in Jackson and adjoining
counties. " June 12 1875
Dk. w. s. ALEXAADER.
SURGEON DENTIST,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
July loth, 1875. * 6m
STANLEY A PINSON,
JEFFERS OX, GA.,
DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries New supplies constantly received.
i Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
! June 19 ly
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, NOV’R 10, 1577.
The Capital Question.
LETTER FROM JUDGE WM. M. REESE.
Atlanta or Milledgeville.
Eds. Chronicle <s• Constitutionalist : —
Having been asked by many persons why
I am opposed, under present circumstances,
to the removal of the capital from Atlanta to
Milledgeville, I will, with your permission
through your paper, answer all these inquiries
at once.
I am opposed to the removal now on ac- 1
count of the great loss which the state will
sustain thereby, one tcliich ice are poorly able
to endure. Ido not under this head, count
the expenses of removal and the expenses of
an extra session of the Legislature this win
ter, which 'must be called to provide, for the
expense of such a removal, amounting to a
considerable sum. probably fifty thousand dol
lars. I shall only count up losses in public
property, sufficiently great in my judgment,
to deter prudent men from voting for remov
al at this time. The state has paid for the
present capitol in Atlanta $250,000 in gold
bonds, which have all been and are now re
cognized as valid, and the city of Atlanta has
paid for the same capitol $170,000. making
the cost to the state and city of Atlanta $429,-
000. This amount paid by the city of Atlan
ta was paid on the condition that Atlanta
should remain the capital, and will have to be
refunded as soon as it is removed. It will
not do to say that Atlanta has acted in bad
faith about the capital, and therefore we will
not regard her claim to indemnity full and
complete. The late convention, by a com
mittee of some of its very best men. reported
to the convention, to which report no objec
tion was offered, after full research into ail
the facts that Atlanta had acted in the ut
most good faith and paid every dollar that
she agreed to pay. that the city authorities,
besides closing this, had paid off a mortgage
judgment of $79,000, which was a valid lein
on the capitol building. The claim of Atlan
ta for compensation will be made and can not
be resisted, and by removal we at once lose
$179,000. This sum is now as much as ti e
capitol will bring if sold, and the loss, if made,
carries with it as a matter of course the loss
of $250,000 paid by the state. This, howev
er, is not the only loss from removal, as the
executive mansion, costing the state SIOO.-
000 in gold bonds, now a part of the public
debt, must also be sold, and will not bring
more than $50,000. so that there is another
loss of $50,000 to be added to the other loss
es. making up a sum total of $479,000.
Another loss consequent upon a removal
is the loss of a splendid offer of the city of
Atlanta to subscribe toward the building of
anew capitol, the very choicest building lot
in the whole city, and also (t sum of money suffi
cient to build a capitol as good, us the one at
Milled grille, which ivill be at the lowest calcu
lation $65,000.
This proposition of the city of Atlanta,
which has not been equalled and cannot be
equalled by that of any other city or town in
the state, it Is said is an electioneering trick,
a fraud not intended to be executed, etc., that
it cannot be carried out according to the new
constitution, etc. To which objection I re
ply that as Atlanta has hitherto acted in the
best faith, not only icitli the state but with her
creditors, it is unjust and wrong to make such
accusations. She has not flinched or failed
or refused to meet her promises or debts. In
the lexicon of the people of Atlanta there is
no such word as " fail." The constitution of
1877. if adopted, provides in itself for the
acceptance and execution of this offer of the city
o f Atlanta, so there is no difficulty from want
of power to carry out her promise by the city
of Atlanta.
There is one other view on this offer of the
citv of Atlanta, which I deem perfectly con
clusive. and that is we have the means in our
own power of forcing Atlanta to comply with
her offer by amending at any time the consti
tution so as to remove the capital, and noth
ing would be easier to do or more certain to
be done should Atlanta act in bad faith.—
Add the loss of not accepting this offer to the
other loss not above enumerated and we have
losses by removal $779,000, nearly one mil
lion of dollars.
What is the loss by remaining in Atlanta?
The capitol and mansion in Milledgeville are
estimated by good judges as worth $85,000.
which is all we would save by removing to
Milledgeville. If. however, it is necessary to
remove from Atlanta to secure honest legis
lation, I, for one. sav let us make any and all
sacrifices. Is it necessary, and will such
legislation he secured by a removal to Mil
ledgeville ? What says the history of the
past on this subject? This history says that
three millions and a half of dollars of present
public debt arising from state aids to worth
less railroads was created in Milledgeville.
while the portion of said debt incurred, for
the same purpose in Atlanta does not amount
to three hundred thousand dollars. This
history savs further that through the old Cen
tral bank by the worst and most corrupt
legislation at Milledgeville. one-half million
of dollars of public money was wasted on par
tisans and favorites. This history says fur
ther, in Milledgeville in 1866 was set the pre
cedent of paying members of the legislature
nine dollars per diem and their clerks, from
their doorkeepers and messengers, nine dol
lars per diem. To show how little place has
to do with the purity of legislation I refer to
the fact that the Democratic legislature which
sat in Atlanta exposed the Bullock frauds.
repudiated his dishonest administration, his
state aid schemes, and denounced the fraud
ulent bonds ; that the democratic legislature
of 1875 and 1876. which was in Atlanta, pro
posed the amendment to the constitution re
pudiating the bogus bonds ; that the legisla
ture of 1877. which sat in Atlanta, called the
constitutional convention ; that the conven
tion of 1877 was held in Atlanta: wherefore
1 think it may he safely concluded that the
place of holding the legislature has little or
nothing to do with the proceedings of the
general assembly. The purity and honesty
of legislation depends on the constitution of
the state, and the men sent to the legislature.
Some persons may argue, no matter what
it cost, let us rebuke the fraud of removal
from Milledgeville to Atlanta. To this I say,
that has been fully rebuked by the action of
the convention in submitting the locating of
the capital to the people. Its location now.
under this action, depends on the reasons for
and against removal, to be considered and
acted on by a free people. If Atlanta is re
tained as the capital, fraud will be removed
and the location will be fixed by the votes of
the people. Again, on this head ; I would
sav that when the constitution of 1868 fixing
Atlanta as the capital was submitted to the
voters of the state, the unterrifled people of
Atlanta surrounded with soldiers, and living
under the hardest and severest military con
trol, voted against removal to Atlanta,
In view of these facts, what good man in
the State will say that the people of Atlanta
are promise-breakers, and have concocted a
great fraud to deceive the people of Georgia ?
It is not necessary to incur the losses above
stated, because Atlanta is not accessible to
the people of the State, for she is accessible
to more people of the State than any other
city or town in it. It is not necessary to
make the losses above enumerated because
living is so expensive in Atlanta, as no city
or town in the State can afford to provide
and does provide for Legislators and visitors
so cheaply and substantially as Atlanta.—
If we throw out of the calculation the $25C.-
000 paid by the State on the Capitol, and the
$50,000 paid for the executive mansion, over
and above its value, on the ground, that the
loss would be estimated only on the present
value of the property, not counting as worth
anything the prospect of a great increase in
the value of the public property in Atlanta
from the growth of that wonderful city, then
the loss by the removal of the Capital from
Atlanta to Milledgeville would be fully $450.-
000. What then is the wisest solution o!
the Capital question ? In mv opinion it i
to retain the Capital at Atlanta, accept the
offer of the city, require Atlanta to make a
deed to the city hall square, deposit in the
State Treasury the amount promised by ber.
and then with this money and the proceeds of
the sale of the Capitol building in Atlanta
build a convenient and comfortable State
house. This sum of money will be ample for
the purpose, and we will have disposed of the
whole matter without costing the State any
thing. Very respectfully,
W. M. Reese.
Washington, Ga., October 27.
ATLANTA’S PROPOSITION
TO FURNISH TIIE GROUND AND BUILD THE
CAPITOL FOII THE STATE OF GEORGIA,
AND FACTS RELATING THERETO.
Below will be found the proposition made
by the city of Atlanta to the people of the
State, which is a renewal of the offer made to
the Constitutional Convention :
City Clerk’s Office.
Atlanta, September 19, 1877.
At a called meeting of the Mayor and
Council of the city of Atlanta, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted, and the
same was unanimously concurred in by the
Aldermanic board—viz :
Whereas, The enemies of Atlanta are rep
resenting that Atlanta’s proposition to the
Convention was not made in good faith ; and,
Whereas, It was made in the utmost good
faith,
Resolved, That we do hereby repeat the
same, and now declare that if Atlanta is se
lected as the Capital of the State by the peo
ple in December next, the city of Atlanta
will convey to the State of Georgia any ten
acres of land in or near the city of Atlanta
now unoccupied, or the square in the heart
of said city, known as the city hall lot, con
taining five acres of land, and hounded by a
street on every side, on which to locate and
build a capitol for the State.
Resolved further, That the city of Atlanta
will build for the State of Georgia, on the
location selected, a Capitol building as good
as the old Capitol building in Milledgeville.
Resolve 1 further. That a copy of this ac
tion signed by the Mayor and certified to by
the Clerk of Council under the seal of his
office, shall be deposited with the Governor
of this State, and be published for the infor
mat ion of the people.
N. L. Angier. Mayor.
I certify that the above is a true and cor
rect copy from the minutes of the Mayor and
Council of the city of Atlanta. Georgia.
Frank T. Ryan,
| Seal, j Clcrk '
Executive Department,
Atlanta. Ga.. .September 19, 1877.
I hereby certify that the original of which
the ’oregoing is a copy signed by the Mayor
md city clerk, and having the corporate seal
attached, has been this dav deposited in the
Executive ofTlce and placed on file.
C i J. W. Warren,
Seal. Sec. Ex. Dep’t.
Authority is given by the now Constitution
to the city of Atlanta to earn* out this propo
sition, as will be seen by the following para
graph inserted in the Constitution at the in
stance of Col. N. J. Ilammond, of Fulton
county, for the special purpose of meeting
this case. It will he found in the new Con
stitution, article seven, section six, para
graph 1.
If any municipal corporation shall offer to
the State any property for locating or build
ing a Capitol, and the State accepts such
offer, the corporation may comply with such
offer.
To show that the city will faithfully com
ply with this proposition, she refers to her
conduct in her former transactions with the
State. Her good faith and honest intentions
in this matter are fully evidenced thereby.
A majority of a committee of the Conven
tion to whom the question of the location of
the Capital was referred, consisting of Hon.
\Y. S. Wallace, of Taylor county, lion. Fran
cis Fontaine, of Muscogee, Hon. Samuel
Hawkins, of Chattooga. Hon. Pope Barrow,
of Clarke, and Hon. John Collier, of Fulton,
stated in their report ou that question :
“After a patient and careful investigation,
we are satisfied that'the city of Atlanta has
acted in the utmost good faith, and that they
have paid every dollar that they have agreed
to pay toward the pnrchrtsc of the Capitol
building.”
And further;
“It gives us pleasure here to state what
wc lia<l heretofore doubted, that in all things,
as far as we can ascertain after a careful
investigation, that the city authorities have
not only paid all that they ever agreed to pay
toward the Capitol, but that they have taken
up, in addition thereto, which they still hold,
the mortgage, judgment and fi fa previously
referred to.”
Atlanta is fully able, financial!}', to comply
with her proposition. She lias within ber
limits twenty million dollars worth of taxable
property. Her bonds rate higher in the
market than any southern city. She lias not
a dollar of past due obligations. Her growth
is steady and regular. Upon this question
the people of the State need not Fear.
From the above it is clear, therefore, that
Atlanta has made the proposition to the
State; that she lias the legal authority to
carry it out; that she will in good faith, com
ply with it. and that she is amply abletodoso.
The facts above written are such as to con
vince unprejudiced minds that Atlanta has
heretofore complied fally and faithfully with
every obligation she has given to friend or
foe. She will never prove untrue to herself
or to the record which she lias so carefully
made in the past.
A Wonderful Better-Half.
We had been out to the graveyard to bury
Mrs. Pidgeon. and were riding home in the
carriage with the bereaved widower. While
he sopped his eyes with his handkerchief lie
told us about her :
“In one respect never saw her equal. She
was a manager ! I’ve knowed that woman
that’s laying out there in the tomb, to take
an old pair of m3' trousers and cut them up
for the boys. She’d make a splendid suit of
clothes for both of them out of them old
pants, get out stuff enough for a coat for the
baby and a cap for Johnny, and have some
left over for a rag carpet, besides making
handkerchiefs out of the pockets and a bustle
for herself out of the other linings. Give her
any old garment, and it was as good as a gold
mine. Why, she’d take a worn out sock and
make a brand new overcoat out of it. I be
lieve. She had a turn for that kind of econ
omy. There’s one of my shirts that I bought,
in 1874, still going about making itself use
ful as winder curtains and pantalettes, and
plenty of other things. Only last July our
gridiron give out, and she took it apart, and
in two hours it was rigged on the side of the
house as a splendid lightning rod, all except
what she had made into a poker and ice pick.
Ingenious? Why, she kept our family in
buttons out of the ham bones she saved, and
made fifteen princely chicken coops from her
old hoop skirts and a pig pen out of her
used-up corset bones. She never wasted a
solitary thing. Let a cat die around our
house, and the first thing you knew Mrs.
Jane’d have a muff and a set of furs, and I’d
begin to find mince pies on the dinner table.
She’d stuff a feather bed with the feathers
she got off’n a little bit of a rooster, and
she'd even utilize the roaches in the kitchen
so's they’d run the churn—had a machine
she invented for the purpose. I've seen her
cook potatoes so’s you'd think they were
canvassed-back duck, and she had a way of
doctering up shavings so that the pig'd eat
'em and grow fat on 'em. I believe that wo
man could a hilt a four story hotel if you’d a
given her a single pine board or a steamboat
out of a washbiler, and the last thing she
said to me was to bury her in the garden so’s
she'd he useful down below there, helping to
shove up the cabbages. I'll never see her
like again.”
We do not believe he will, either.
One on Jones.
“This morning,” remarked Jones in a
crowd atGuesnard'scorner,. “ I laid an egg—”
“The devil you did?” interupted the Co
lonel.
“You didn't wait until I got through,” re
plied Jones, reddening, as lie observed the
broad smiles upon the faces of the bystand
ers. “ I laid an egg—”
“Jones, that’s too thin. The idea of an
old rooster like you laying an egg is prepos
torous,” put in the Major.
“ Well, and and it all, can't you wait till a
fellow has his saj\ before you put in your con
founded interruption ! I said I laid an egg,
this morning—”
“ Precisely,” said the Captain, “you said
you laid an egg this morning, and I don’t be
lieve a word of it.”
“D n it, I laid an egg on the mantle
piece—”
“On the mantlepiece,” Smith chimed in.
“Thunder and lightning !” shouted Jones,
now thoroughly exasperated. You and n
fools. I laid an egg on the mantlepiece this
morning, and it fell off and didn't break !”
And the poor fellow darted off down the
street between a trot and a gallop, lie hasn’t
been at Guesnard’s corner since.
An ovarian tumor weighing a hundred
pounds, was removed from a woman by a
Louisville physician. Wednesday.
S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM/
( si,oo FOR SIX MONTHS;
Scissored Paragraphs,
An American platform lecturer solemnly
said one evening before liis auditors : “Pa- 1 '
rents, you have children, or if ridi; yoifr datrgh
ters may have.”
ft is stated that Governor Williams of In
diana, will appoint Dan Voorhees to fill the
vacancy in the Senate occasioned by the
death of Senator Morton.
•
A St. Louis artesian well has readied the
depth of thirty-eight hundred feet. She is
bound to have water if she Ims to go to Cld*
na for it.
'Phe widow Wan Cott declares that to save
one soul in Athol. Mass., requires labour
enough to save a hundred in any other placo*
in which she has ever had any expedience.
lion. Mr. Ennies, of Rhode island, wants
postage on letters reduced 1 to two cents. Ilis
bill provides that the reform be anew years'
gift to tiie people. Send it on.
‘“That's our family tree,” said an Arkansas
youth, as he pointed to a vigorous hemlock,
and added: “A good many of our folks have'
been hung on that tree, for borrowin’ horses
after dark/'
Hon. Madison Hell, who is well known as
the Comptroller-General of Georgia during
Hulloek’s administration, has made an argu
ment against the new constitution, in a letter
to the Atlanta Constitution.
A cotton seed oil factory is one of the new 1
manufacturing enterprises of Augusta. The'
factory is being erected by the Dixie Oil Com
pany of Nashville, Tenn., on the site of the'
old Paragon mills.
(Jen. Hob Toombs says that President
Hayes and Mrs. Hayes look more like a first
class lady and gentleman than any couple
that has occupied the White House for the
last twenty-five }'ears.
A citizen of Augusta, going out to' rrdfk
his cow in fhe'dark of the early morning, got
into the wrong pen and undertook to milk rt
mule. He does’nt remember which side of*
the stable he went oflt &i, but expects his
bucket down in a few days.
Speaking of the University, the Thomas
ville Times says: “Let us educate our boj's
in the State in which they arc to be citizens
and where they will form associations and
acquaintances with the youth among Whom as
men, they arc to live and labor.”
Wc are informed that in one neighborhood
in Milton county, five families have brokeiV
up by the separation of husbands and wives
in the last few months. In one case the par
ties had been married thirty years.— Gwiiw
nett Herald.
A bill introduced in the Senate, to amend
the law in regard to the transportation of lira
stock, forbids them being confined in railroad 1
car. boat or vessel, longer than twenty-four*
hours, without unloading for rest, water and*
food for not less than seven hours.
The Vermont courts have recently decided
that “the fruit growing on the limbs of a tree
overhanging lands of one man, while the
roots are on the premises of another, belongs*
to the latter; but the person over whose’*
lands the limbs project, may. if he see 9 fit,
‘saw them off, even to the line.”
Doc Kent, a professional bird hunter, acci
dentally shot himself, while hunting, near
Peachtree road, just outside the city of Atlati-'
ta, last Thursday. The load of one barrel
entered his breast while he was loading the
other barrel. lie died, after several hours of
great pain.
Denton, Texas, has a desperado of Afri
can descent, named Joe Faust, whoseTaeticW
are rather peculiar. Cocking a pistol on a
divine, he made him get down on liis hands
and feet, bleat like a sheep, and compelled
him to butt an oak tree until lie made tho
acorns fall.
The Dallas (Texas) Herald tells of a man,-
■ Howard Davis, being bitten by a skunk re
cently, in Tarrant count}', and of the excru*-
ciating pain suffered by the man in conse
quence. Twelve hours later, large drops of
perspiration appeared on Howard’s face, and’
a white froth on his lips, in which condition 1
he died.
Indianapolis. November I.—Senator Mor>
ton died at half-past five o’clock this after--
noon. For several days past, it has been 1
evident that he was sinking, and although at
times lie would seem to revive, no hope was
entertained of his recovery. Lingering all
through yesterday morning, he retained his
consciousness, and at times was able to talk,,
giving directions to his attendants.
The Franklin Register man after going to'
see the fellow that swallow* swords for a liv
ing, raises the following admonitory cry:—
“It would be well for our people to weigh
well the matter of being caught bv swindlers.
The country is full of them, all trying to
make a living without resorting to honest
toil. Don’t be caught by chaff or deluded by;
clap-trap demonstrations.”
President Hayes has appointed Thursday,
the 29th day of November next, as a day of'
National thanksgiving and prayer. It is
earnestly hoped that no Governor will take it
into his head to appoint another day, but that
our State and city authorities will unite in l
recommending the same for general observ
ance.
President' Haves was enthusiastically re
ceived at Richmond, Va.. on Tuesday, and
his southern policy endorsed in a manner
which will cansc patriots everywhere to re
joice. Tt is pretty well demonstrated'that he
seeks to be President of the people, and that
matters of party enter into bis administra
tion only incidentally.
Mayor Ely, of New York, was present at a 1
dinner party the other evening. He had the
honor to take the hostess in to dinner. “ T
don’t know, Mr. Mayor,” said the lady,,
“whether 3 T ou are at all afraid of the measles,,
but tn\ r little children have them, and I my
self have a slight attack.” The nrnyor' rose
to the occasion: “Madam,” he said, “I
should be only too delighted to tako'anj’thing.
from so charming a source.”
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