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ffijflf Jiiluertiscninits.
Jackson Deputy Sheriff’s Sale.
\\ril.l. be sold, before the Court House door.
IT in the town of Jefferson, within the legal
Lmrs of sale, to the highest bidder, on the first
Tuesday in December next, the following proper
ty, to-wit:
due tract or parcel of land lying in said county
of Jackson, State of Georgia, on the waters of the
Mulberry and Walnut Fork of the Oconee river,
in the 2 IStli I list. G M. of said county of Jackson,
the {dace whereon II F Veal, dec’d, resided at the
nine of his death, containing one hundred and fif
teen acres, more or less. Said place reasonably
well improved and in a good state of cultivation ;
and before the levy was made and for the purpose
>f making the levy, a deed was made, filed and
: •wiled in the < Terk’s office of the Superior Court
.4 Jackson county, from Erastus Shanklc to J II
('runic, adni'r of the estate of B F Veal, deceased.
Snd tract or parcel of land levied on b v virtue of
iti fa issued from Jackson Superior Court, Au
gust Term, 1577. Erastus Shankle vs. J If Cronic
as administrator of the estate of said II F Veal,
dreeased. Levied upon to satisfy the above stat
eltifa. Nov. Ist. 1577. Notice given to the dc-
Ciidaut in li fa and the tenant in possession of the
premises. (pr fee £S)
Also, at the same time and place, will he sold,
two black, horse mules, Dor 10 years old. one
hundred and fifty bushels of corn, and fourteen
hundred pom ids of lint cotton, levied on as the
property of \\ m D Harrison, to satisfy one li fa
lulled from Jackson Superior Court. William
Pittman vs. Win l> Harrison. Property pointed,
■nit lv S I’ Thurmond, plaintiffs attorney,
nofjtf W. A. WORSHAM. Dcp Stiff*.
Special Notice to Debtors.
I 1.1, persons indebted to the undersigned are
■*V earnestly, yet respectfully requested to come
lurward and settle at once. All notes and ac
• amts unsettled on the I.lth November, will he
placed in the hands of an officer for collection.
JOHN S. MESSER.
Fond Fork, Ga.. Oct. *27. 1577.
Administrator’s Sale.
Tin u. be sold, before the Court House door in
; the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga..
'■thin the legal hours of sale, on the Ist Tuesday
in Ihvemhcr next, the following property, to-wit :
! undivided half interest in and to the tract of
vi I. in said county, whereon John Nixon now
'• adjoining lands of James M. Varnuin, —.
‘ ’’k containing one hundred and sixty (1 GO) acres,
inure °r less; 40 or .*0 acres well improved—good
"‘“dings, orchard, Ac. The other undivided hall
1 ," rpsl ' s the property of John Nixon, or his wife,
■is the property of Sarah Ann Cheely, dec’d.
‘i* purpose of paying expenses of administra
t!"". and for distribution. Terms, cash.
WM. E. CHEELY, Adm’r.
(|FORGIff, Jackson County.
i I Kowc vs. AN .J. Rowe. Libel for Divorce,
in Jackson Superior Court.
■ appearing to the Court that the defendant in
Y mve s tated case resides without the limits of
1. M . UI p °unty, and it also appearing that said
‘ anl re 'ides without the limits of the State
01 beorgia—
h is. therefore, ordered that service upon the
a ’.'b M. J. Rowe, he perfected by publica
fcanu - K ' • >R, ”' ST News onee a month for four
l> Parlous to the next term of this Court.
Granted : J * SILMAN, Pl'ttf’s AtCy.
I,FIU - *>. RICE, Judge S. C.
r ' ‘ " ''tract from the minutes of Jackson Su
* * ° Urt - Au Sst Term. 1877.
(jTQRGH, Jdfit—a <'oll nly.
{t ""'a ronrenc
t l u “ reviewers appointed upon the pe
r : , r t u 1 ta| ii citizens to review, mark out and
. • i ’ ,lc public utility of the establishment
" r " :, d leading from the Athens and Jef-
MII 1 ‘ ' ,U;,r *L 1.. Johnson’s, to S. S. Smith’s
• r, 1,. r 'l,! ' l ‘'ported favorably to said road, it is
' I within l'*/" ,ln^‘ss V:, lid legal objections is olfer
' on 1 ur, - v ~! ys from tfiis date, an order will
I'iblio L v?, tabli.shing and making said road
I HI, "y official signature, this October
V bi’itr ,7, :
A 'j l persons holding demands
c 1,,! Estate of George Merk. 'ate of
' ’ll. ~r '.'-deceased, are notified to present
’'l'iebu'l 111,1 \ su,t hcntjcated : and all persons
'D"'teil tu 1 . °l s: ‘id deceased, are re-
N., v i| )t | , ,1' "dniediate payment.
‘ Ks “- HENRY MERK, Adm’r.
\ :
I hert’l* > a whom it mat/ Concern :
"'br. to 1,,.!*' oo, isent for my wife. I*. I*. I.an
-1 ''late v ' luo _ a , roc Dealer from and after
iiot K)‘ *^ uv * <th, 1877.
N. AV. LANCASTER.
r -Jackson County.
hereas Af’li i
! ,l to f,,r . T-cjrjc, colored, has applied
n -'apart-in,V X^,l | l l' t '? n °f personalty and set
lil">n tin. V* llatlon °f the same; and I will
V' at p> ,| S '"! ll '" n the JOth dav of November,
•V lij. ck 51 -. ' ray "fflee.
/ ' —— jI * NV ‘ B ELL, Ord’y.
f i,;„„ <
o *’tu nat , .
?• °°J,’J- J ,as applied for exemp
' J Will p,| s ' f‘ ,r ai,, J v aluation of personalty.
v ho ihv Af°v the samc at 12 o’clock, M.,
Vn- 1„ ' j °t -November, at my office.
1 )R(m v M 11, W * KELL, Ordinary.
" n, l acaji i,!!* * ifculars. Ac., for schools
“ R tnies, printed at this office.
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THE FOREST NEWS.
1 lie People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
_ £egof Jiilpcrfeeiiicnfs.
Jackson County.
To all rrltout it mat/ roncer/i:
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
b> 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
ot \\ hitson Jarrett’s fence, thence in N. W.direc
tion through AV. 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
wav in front off. AV. Matthews' to said old road,
thence said old road to the hollow below Smith’s
old store, then flic right-of-way of said R. R. Cos.
m front of 1. L. Smith sand J. AA . Renton’s resi
dence to said old road, thence the old load to the
Hat above Whitson Jarrett’s house, thence the
right-of-way of said R. R. Cos. to Sandy Creek
church, there crossing the said R. R. anil taking
tfie line of old road to l>oyd I uck’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 ami AN*. 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. Au.. 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. BELL, Ord’y.
To Debtors.
4 LL persons indebted to the firm of PENDER
GRASS it 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 firm. A our notes and accounts
will be found at the old stand. Any person wish
ing to make pavmcnt. will be waited on lv Mr.
F. L. Pendergrass. N. 11. PENDERGRASS.
Oct ( Surviving Copartner.
|)rofcßßiimnf & Jimsiiicss (Tunis.
EARLY ROGERS,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
Near South-East Corner Public Square,
Gainesville. - Georgia.
Photographs, Ferrotypes, etc., etc., put up as
neat ami life-like as can be bad anywhere. Makes
a specialtv of COPYING and ENLARGING OLD
PICTURES. Picture Frames (any size). Cord.
Nabs, etc., always on band. Re sure to call and
sec me when 3*oll come to town. oct27-3m
H'S’. ABCSAIS, .4 I Jorsioy-m-B.uvv,
• Harmony Gijovk. Jackson Cos.. Ga.
A\ ill practice in Jacl son and adjoining counties.
Prompt attention given to all business entrusted
to him. Refers to Hon. John 5). Stewart, Griffin,
and Hon. J. T. Spence, Jonesboro*. Ga. octfj
EMORY SPEER, W. S- MORRIS.
Athens, Ga. | Jefferson, Ga.
SPEFit Ac MORRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
.lefl’crsou, <:., will practice in Superior,
Ordinary’s and Justices* Courts. ERty'Onice in
building with Col. Silman, CP-STAIRS. aug’io
Dr. J. M. BURNS”
HAYING resinned the practice of Medicine,
offers his professional services to the public,
Thankful for all past patronage, he solicits a lib
eral share in the future. The Dr. can be found at
his residence, three miles east of Jefferson, when
not professional!v engaged.
Aug 11 JOHN M. BURNS, M. I>.
Bl’. WOri OKII. Alloiney.aM.aw.
• Harmony Grovk. Jackson Cos., Ga.
AVill practice in all the adjoining counties, and
give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
his care. Collecting claims a specialty.
March 3d, 1877.
WILKY C. HOWARD. ROB*T S. HOWARD.
W. C. k R. S. HOWARD,
A TTOIiXE VS A XJ) COIXSELLOUS AT
LA IF,
f24 Jkffkrson, Ga.
3ledical and Surgical Notice.
Die. \\ . A. AVA'i’SHA 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. AVhen
not professionally absent, can be found at one or
the other of the above places. Jan 27 1 3'
Dr. J. B. Pendergrass,
RESPECTFULLY tenders bis professional ser
vices to the citizens of Jefferson and surround
ing country ; and by strict attention to bis studies
and profession, hopes to merit continued confi
dence. He can be found at bis office, north end
of Pendergrass & Hancock's store, up-stairs, at
all times, when not professionally absent.
January 13th, 1577.
.r. a. 11. At AHA KT'KY . 'V. S. M'CAKTY.
\IAHAFFEY & McCARTY, ri , ,
i>l ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
JKK PERSON. J.U’KSOX C. da.,
Will practice anywhere for money. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to their
care. Patronage solicited. OctJftly
I>R. C. IS- RILES
OFFERS bis professional services to the citizens
_ of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the office recently occupied Col. Mabafley.
Jan. 22, IS7( —tf
J. .1. KLOYI>, I J- N* SILMAX.
Covington. Ga. | Jefferson, da.
IAIiOVE> A StIAHA
i ATTORN EYS- A T-T . A AY.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts oi
the counties of Jackson and \\ alton.
juneUi—ly
WI. IMllill. Attorney :it 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 1-! IS ( .>
Du. w. s. JLUEXAIVmSK.
SURGEON DENTIST.
Harmony drove. Jackson Cos., da.
July 10th. 1H75. * 0m
STANLEY & PINSON,
JEFFERSON , 0.4..
DEALERS in Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
| Junc 19 ly
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. NOV’R 24, 1877.
That Settles It.
From the Atlanta Constitution, Nov. 11.
HON. ROBERT TOOMBS ON THE CAPITAL
LOCATION.
Sentiment Clusters Around Atlanta—Econo
my Resides in Atlanta—Accommodations
Can be Found in Atlanta—And Patriotism
Loves to Dv:ell Upon the Deeds of Atlanta
When the Plunderers' Hands Held Georgia
Down.
Atlanta, Nov. 10, 1877.
To Messrs. J. \V. English, A. Murphy, B.
h. Crane, Frank Rice atul others—Gentle
men : A our favor asking an expression of my
views upon the question of the proper loca
tion of the capital of Georgia was received by
due course of mail, but my continuous en
gagements in the courts, since my return
from the North have prevented a sooner re
sponse.
AN IMPORTANT QTKSTIOX.
I he question upon which you seek my views
is one of undoubted importance, to every good
citizen of our commonwealth, and deserves
from each a sincere judgment.; based upon
nothing beyond plain facts and considera
tions of wise public policy. I have always
felt it my duty, when called upon, to give inv
candid >nd honest judgment upon all ques
tions affecting the welfare of my people, and
important to the public interest. I do not.
therefore, hesitate fo make answer to your re
quest.
ALREADY ON RECORD.
At the outset I may remark that T am al
ready on record in favor of the city of Atlan
ta. Tll my letter to lion. L. N. Trammell, of
Whitfield, written in early summer, and in
advocacy of the calling of the Constitutional
Convention, T stated that when the people o<’
Georgia had framed a good Constitution, it
mattered little where the capital might be lo
cated ; that the capital question, indeed, then
became merely one of comfort and conven
ience to the representatives of the people. I
still hold this opinion, for I now see nothing
in the question to cause me to believe other
wise. The questions of honest and economi
cal government are beyond complication wit h
this issue, and are fully assured in the now
Constitution.
RFA SONS FOR IIIS BELIEF.
Atlanta is the commercial and popular
capital of the State of Georgia. Her energy,
enterprise and public spirit, have conquered
all opposition, and it would be in my judg
ment, the purest, folly for the people, from aii3*
sentiment, to put the political capital else
where.
My reasons may pe briefly stated here, be
cause it is inv purpose to elaborate and dis
cuss them before my fellow-citizens between
this date and the date of election.
If the capital should be removed to Mi],
ledgcville, the public treasury would have to
be drawn upon, not alone to repair and refit
the public buildings now there, in order to
render them fitted to the use of th 1 govern
ment, but, indeed, to enlarge and to add to
them, until the result would be the State’s un
dertaking to build a city. The public offices
could not be either comfortably or adequate
ly accommodated, and the increased expense
of furnishing buildings and conveniences,
such as are indispensable, would prove an
enormous tax upon the people. Other expen
ses, such as care, improvement and insu
rance, would be largely increased.
ATLANTA IS CENTRAL.
Atlanta is central to the great bulk of the
population of the State, ller railroad con
nections are easil3 T accessible to three-fourths
of the people of the State, from all directions,
leaving nothing to be desired upon the
question of convenience. Whenever it is
desired to assemble the representatives of
any of the great interests of the State, the
common judgment selects Atlanta as the
point, and these affairs conclude the ques
tion of centrality and convenience in her
favor.
ATLANTA IS NOT CORRUPT.
So far as the charges of corruption in le
gislation and governmental administration
at Atlanta arc concerned, I feel authorized
to declare that Atlanta was in no wise, con
nected with the doings of the Bullock legis
lators or administrations. I have been for
years since, the volunteer counsel of the State,
without compensation, investigating and pur
suing the rogues who preyed upon my peo
ple and robbed them of their treasure ; and
having been thus engaged, and, therefore, fa
miliar with the entire history of the nefari
ous schemes. I do declare that I have found
nothing in them to impugn the honesty, in
tegrity or patriotism of the citizens of Atlan
ta. I know that the men who represented
Atlanta in the making of the Constitution
which sheltered the plunderers—Dr. Miller.
Capt, John 11. Flynn and Mayor Angier—
were men who stood by the right, and upon
whose garments can be traced none of the
filth by which they were encompassed. Ido
not know an Atlanta man of t hat period who
was connected with the corruption and ras
eality. of which the people then, and always
ma}% justly complain. When other sections
of our State cast this suspicion upon Atlanta,
it would be well for them to remember, that
the rogues who held carnival in Atlanta, were
all imported ; that Macon furnished her quota,
Augusta her quota, Columbus her quota and
| Savannah her quota—and Atlanta furnished
not a man to swell the table. Augusta, in
1 my own district, furnished thet-wogrand chief
rogues in robbing the commonwealth—Bul
lock and Blodgett. Atlanta, 1 again declare,
had no part or lot in it.
A SENSELESS CLAMOR.
Therefore, the whole clamor against At
lanta is senseless. It is plainly senseless,
when the people say, that because these great,
wrongs were perpetrated in Atlanta, it is not
a fit place for the capital. Why, sirs, these
rogues would have gone anywhere that the
public treasury was open to the inroads of
marauders. The plunderers would have gone
anywhere, as they* came from everywhere, to
accomplish their villainies, and nothing but
a safe lock of law upon the treasury, requir
ing the voice of the people to open it. will ev
er save communities and commonwealths from
such robberies. The radical Constitution
left the treasury open to lobbyists, swindlers,
railroad schemers, and thieves in general, and
they found it easy to get whatever their greed
and avarice prompted them to seek.
There was in that Constitution, no limita
tion upon legislative powers; the treasury
was accessible, exemptions from taxation
were possible, subsidies obtainable, and every
species of fraud safe and unlimited. But, in
further vindication of Atlanta, I say here,
that she was one of the chief sufferers from
these schemes of public pillage. She never
reaped a cent of benefit from the lavish out
pourings of the people’s dollars in her pub
lic improvements, but was mulcted in com
mon with the people of the State. She lost
her share as a part of the people, and sacrificed
her municipal subscriptions to hundreds of
thousands of dollars in addition. Of all the
millions of the people’s money given away by
their dishonest agents to scheming railroad
enterprises, in the State of Georgia, not a
dollar went in the name of a road starting
from or ending in Atlanta ; although, she was
at that very period nursing into full cxis
tcnce two of the most important railroad en
terprises ever projected in the history of the
State.
ATLANTA TO THE RESCUE.
Not only that, but when the public rob
bery had become open and flagrant, and the
people stood appalled and defenseless, at my
instance upon a notable occasion, the people
of Atlanta arose en masse and through a com
mittee of safety, seized the books of the State
road, removed them from the custody of
faithless officials, preserved them in honest
hands, and thereby saved thousands of dol
lars to the poor and honest people of the no
ble old commonwealth. For this act, if she
had no other to her credit, the city is enti
tled to the grateful regard of this whole peo
ple. A QUESTION OF PUBLIC POLICY.
This is not a question of place, but of pub
lic policy—a question not of the past, but of
the present and for the future. Atlanta is a
• ity self-built. Her losses have been those of
bad government, and fully in proportion with
those of the entire State. She has st ruggled,
labored and thrived. She complied with all
her promises to tho State in the past, and in
her proposition, again made, to relieve the
people from expense in locating their capital,
will be found faithful. Her proposition is
perfectly legal, and I pronounce it
MORE OKNEROrs THAN WISE.
Because the capital should be in Atlanta,
without the incentive of this proposition. It
is not only perfectly legal, lmt. it is perfectly
constitutional, and can be enforced. She is
bound by it. She is able to comply with any
thing she promises, and not more able than
willing, ller ability is unbounded. She is
financially guarded in her charter, but she
sought, and the representatives of the peo
ple granted her a constitutional provision to
allow the making and fulfillment of her mag
nificent proposition.
In truthful contrast with the advantages
and inducements of Atlanta, it is self-evident
that the State, with her increased population,
enlarged judicial tribunals, and added de
partments cannot lie accommo latod at Mil
ledgeville. The State cannot afford them
there, and private enterprise does not assure
them. If the people should vote for Milledge
ville, the Legislature would adjourn to Atlan
ta inside of thirty days, it may well be fear
ed, for lack of accommodations and the means
of comfortable existence. Seriously*, it would
be necessary to remove back to Atlanta with
in a year, or to spend an amount of the peo
ple’s money which the passionate and preju
diced would pronounce ridiculous if mention
ed here.
The people, induced to remove the govern
ment to Milledgeville upon promises of econ
omy and immediate reduction of current ex
penses, would clamor more loudly at the evils
they had flown to, than those they had fled
from ; and so the capital question would not
have reached a settlement by any means. A
new agitation of the question would at
once spring up; new competitors enter the
field, and the people become involved in yet
another expensive, unpatriotic and partisan
contest over the matter. It is, therefore, bet
ter, wiser, cheaper and more in keeping with
our pride of Mate to remain in Atlanta.
NOTHING AGAINST MILLEDGEVILLE.
I repeat, this is not a question of places. I
like Milledgeville. Eight years of my pub
lic life and service were spent there, and I
have nothing but pleasant memories of the
place. I like the people and the town, and
I do not know that I have an enemy there.—
But. upon this question, as upon all others, I
speak to my fellow-citizens and advise them
what I honestly* think is best for them, and
the great interests of the commonwealth, dear
always to her considerate sons.
ATLANTA’S FUTURE.
In conclusion, I indulge the expression of
a thought which has often occupied me. At
lanta is not only the central city—the metro
polis—of G eorgia, but of the South. She is
central to the commerce, trade, travel, popu
lation and progress of this entire section of
the Union. As she was the strategic point
of armies in battle—assailed by* numbers be
yond those that marched against the capital
of the short-lived republic itself—so is she
now entitled to be considered the strategic
center of the population, commerce and pro
gress of the southern empire, an empire whose
possibilities and splendid future are not y*et
recognized by* any one of us, but which are
certain of realization. I predict, in a day not
far distant. With great respect,
Y’our friend, R. Toombs.
Some medical students in one of the col
leges of Cincinnati, dissecting a female sub
ject a few days ago, found what is called in
doctors’ parlance a “corset liver.” When
tight lacing has been practiced through sever
al years, a permanent dent or hollow is pro
duced in the liver, which may be seen very
plainly after the woman is dead, and her liver
dissected out. This kind of liver occurs so
frequently in women that physicians have
given it the name of “corset liver.” In the
subject mentioned the hollow in the liver was
large enough for tL*e wrist of a grown man to
be laid in it. Young ladies who don’t want
their lives put into the newspapers and made
an awful example of after they are dead had
better take warning.
Dot Daby Oft Mine.
BY CHARLES F. ADAMS.
Mine gracious ! Mine gracions ! sliust look here
und see
A Dcutsoher so happy as happy can be.
Der peoples .all dink flat no banns t hnf got,
Vas grazy mit tinking, somedink like dot;
Id vasn’t because I trinks lager and vine.
It vas all on aggount of dot baby of mine.
Dotschiriall lccdle vellow I tells you was queer.
Not mooch pigger roundt as a goot glass of beer,
Mit a bare-footed bed. and nose but a schpeck
A mout dot goes most to der pack off his neck,
Und his leedle pink toes mit der rest all combine
To gife soocli a charm to dot baby off mine.
T dells 3*ou dot baby was von off der boys.
1 nd beats leedle Yawcob for making a noise ;
lie shust has pecun to slipcak goot English, too,
Says “mama,” und “papa,” und soincdiines
“ ah goo!”
\ on don’d find a baby den dimes out of nine
Dot vos quite so schmart as dot bab3* off’ mine.
ITe grawls der vloor ofer. und drows dings aboudt
Und poots efry ding he can find in his mout;
lie durables der shtairs down, und falls from his
chair,
Und gifes mine Katrina von derriblc sclinre :
My hair shtands like shquills on a mat porcupine,
A en I dinks off dose pranks off dot baby of mine.
Derc vas someding, you pet, I don'd likes pootv
veil:
To hear in der nighdt dimes dot voting Deutscher
yell.
1 nd dravel der ped room midout mana* clo’es
Vhilc der chills down der shpinc of mine back
quickly goes ;
Dose leedle shimnasdic dricks vasn’t so fine.
Dot I cuts oop at nighdt mit dot baby ©ft’mine.
\ ell. dose leedle schafers vas goin’ to pe men,
1 nd nil off dose drouble vill peen ofer den ;
Dev vill vear a vliite shirt vront inshted off a bib,
Und vouldn’t got tucked oop at night in deir
crib
Veil ! \ ell ! von I’m fecple und in life’s decline.
May mine oldt age pe cheered by dose baby off
mine.
above poem has been “on file” for a
week or two, but, by force of circumstances, was
crowded out for want of room. It is worth,
at least, a half year’s subscription. By the au
thor of “Leedle Yawcob Strauss.”
The Wages of Sin.
Encamped in a shallow ravine upon the
plains, near the lonely place known as Buffa
lo station, on the Kansas Pacific railroad, on
September 26, were Sheriff Bradsley. of Ellis
county, Kansas, and thirteen United States
soldiers. Late in the afternoon came riding
slowly across the plain two Texas “cow boys.”
Between their horses walked a pony* laden
with something that, while not bulky, seemed
to try its strength. The Sheriff started in
pursuit with the soldiers, and soon overtook
the travelers, who, although seeing that they
were pursued, made no attempt at escape.
T’lie Sheriff said : “I have a description of
some train robbers which answers well to
your appearance. I want you and your
partner to return with me to the stat ion. You
need fear nothing if you are innocent, and if
you are the men I want, then I am SIO,OOO
better off.” “ You are mistaken in your men.”
one of the riders said. “ but of course we will
go back and have the mistake explained.”
They then turned their tired horses toward
the station, but bad not gone far when the
man who bad answered the Sheriff said to
his companion. “ Pard. if we are to die, we
might as well die game.” He then drew a
revolver, and his companion did likewise, but
before either could fire, the soldiers had rid
dled them witli bullets and both were killed.
Tied up like a pair of old trousers, on the
pony’s back, were $25,000 in S2O gold pieces
—part of the $60,000 in gold taken by the
men who robbed the Union Pacific railroad
train at Big Springs, Nebraska, September
10. The man who replied to the Sheriff was
the leader of the robbers.
A Tramp’s Maxim’s.
In the hip pocket of an old vagrant, pulled
in by the police the other night, was a mem
orandum book full of his own writing with
pencil, and some of his philosophy is good
enough to be preserved. His first paragraph
reads:
“Drinking bad whiskey because offered
free is like getting in the way of bullets pur
chased by an enemy.”
A second reads:
“Honesty is the best policy, but some folks
are satisfied with second best. It is hard to
be honest on an empty stomach.”
A third runs :
“A dry plank under a rain proof shed is
better than a feather bed in jail, and one isn’t
annoyed by the jailer bringing in a square
breakfast.”
A fourth says:
“Pay as 3*oll go. If you haven't anything
to pay with, don’t go. If 3*oll are forced to
go, record every indebtedness and let j’our
heirs settle the bills.”
The fifth explains:
“We should have charity for all. When
the winter winds blow cold and drear we vags
should pity the poor fellows in India who
are having red hot weather.”
A sixth is recorded :
“Politeness costs nothing, but is not ex
pected that you will wake a man up at mid
night to ask permission to go through his hen
house. It is more courteous to let him en
jo3* his needed repose.”
A Touching Incident.
The Memphis Avalanche, of November Ist,
tells a touching story in relation to the fune
ral of Gen. Forrest: “Before the cortege had
yet formed, groups of ladies one after another
slipped softty into the room where the dead
General lay, in the residence of the last sur
vivor of the Forrest brothers, Colonel .Jesse
Forrest. Each lady stooped to gaze for a
last time on the face of the dead, and, depos
iting her tribute of snowy flowers, passed out.
One little bunch of flowers, not beautifully
arranged, nor made up of rare flowers, had a
little liistor3* to tell. As the train of Tuesday
was passing Wheeler Station, near Courtland,
Alabama, a little girl, scarcely 13 3’ears of
age, came forward to the platform, holding
in her hand these simple flowers. Handing
them to a passenger, she said : ‘Take these
to Memphis and place them on General For
rest’s grave. They are sent because Gener
al Joseph Wheeler s daughter loved him. ”
) TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM/
( SIOO FOR SIX MONTHS/
ANOTHER HALF MIL*
LION!
HOW REMOVAL WILL LOSE IT T(j THE
PEOPLE.
Read What is Said About the Effect of Rr>
moving (he Capital, Upon the Caine of the
State Road.
Much has been said and written about the
losses which will accrue to the people by the
removal of the Capital from Atlanta to* Mil
ledgeville. The amount has aJready reached
the astonishing aggregate, according to Judgd
" m. M. Reese, of over three quarters of a
million dollars. This startling estimate docs'
not include
AN ENORMOUS ITEM
That has thus far escaped mention, and tlitffc
was suggested yesterday by a railroad official
of much note,- whose name we do not feel
authorized here to produce, but who is not
connected in the remotest with any Georgia
road. Ills views are those of an impartial
observer and are based upon long experience
in studying causes and effects pertaining to
railway and public affairs.
‘ ONE GRIEVOUS LOSS,”
lie said, ‘‘which the. people of your State dr/
not seem to recognize as yet, but which is
certain and unavoidable, in the event of tho
removal ol the Capital from Atlanta, is appa
rent to me and will be painfully manifest to
the tax-payers of the State?”
** Tray, what is that T 1
‘‘lt is this: lhe \\ estern & Atlantic
railroad is the property of the people of the
State, and is of very great value to them, ei
ther as an investment or ns a property upon
which to realize at will. I understand Hint
a large number of persons in the late Con
vention, and throughout the State, favor the’
sale of the road, and the application of the
proceeds to the extinguishment of a part of
your public debt.”
“Such was the declared sense of the Con
vention.”
“ "'ell, do the people suppose that the road
has a fixed value, independent of the trade,-
progress and importance of its termini ? Dr/
they presume that the road would not depre
ciate in proportion as the growth and busi
ness development of Atlanta are retarded
and property values in the city reduced ? A
railroad may be valuable on account of its
connections and its place in a chain of trans
portation routes, but these cannot, never
have and never will render the road inde
pendent of the fluxes and refluxes of commer
cial and material progress to which its termi--
nal cities may be subjected.”
“That proceeds upon the idea that Atlanta?
would suffer by the loss of the Capital ?”
“Certainly, and to argue that it would not
is simply to controvert the unbroken tes(U
mony wrought out from the experiences of
other cities.”
*■ How much do you estimate the difference'
in the value of the road with the Capital'
here, and then in Milledgeville ?”
A HALF MILLION !
“I should say not less than SIOO,OOO in fa'
vor of the road witli the Capital remaining in
Atlanta. Probably—yes, very likely—the
sum would reach a haif million dollars. My
candid judgment is that a company of railway
investors would make that difference in their
biddings at this time. And, I may add, fhc
longer the sale is dela3*ed and the larger ifrttl
more important arc grown the commercial
interests of Atlanta, the greater worvld grow
the sum representing the loss by the removal
of the Capital.”
The gentleman continued to discuss this
new and important item in all its bearings
and to show the correctness of his idea, by
showing the results elsewhere of removing
just such adjuncts to the prestige, attractions
and character of a city as is the State Capita*
to Atlanta.
His views above given arc commended to*
the careful consideration of the people, for"
should such a shrinkage in the value of the’
road occur the deficit created must be made
up to the treasury from the pockets of the'
hard-run tax-payers. —Atlanta Constitution,
Too Well Proved.
A lawyer had a case on the docket, in
which, among other things, lie wished to prove
that his client had no money, and to this end
he cross-examined one of the opponent’s
witnesses as follows:
“ on asked m3* client for mone3 r , ( Bd you
not ?”
“Well—3*cs sir.”
“ Answer promptly, sir. Let us have no
hesitation. \on asked him for mone3* —now
what was his answer?”
“ I don’t know as I can tell von.”
“ But surely yon remember?”
“ Yes, sir.”
“ Then out with it.”'
“I’d rather not tell.”
“ Ho ! ho ! You are on that track, are yon ?
You won't tell?
“ I should rather not, sir.”
“ But I should rather you would ! So,
if you don’t answer my question promptly
and truthfulty, I’ll call on the court to com-*
mit you for contempt.”
“Well, if I must tell tales out> of school’
here yon have it. I asked him yesterday if
he couldn’t lend me a half a dollar, amt he
said lie could not.”
“And yon believed him. did you not.”'
“ Yes * sir ; f( ** he said you had robbed hint l
of every cent of his ready money, and if her
didn t get out of 3*onr hands prett3 r soon, his*
wife and little ones would come to want.”
I hat will do, sir. You can step down of?
the stand.”
A 3*oung lad3*, residing in a border town,
was heard to remark in regard to her father's
snoring, that “ the neighbors all set out their
washtubs, thinking that a thunder storm was
coming up.”
Don’t carry your hymn book in your hand
when you go to the house of worship and 1
your ledger in your liead. The Lord can see
through your skull.
Don’t, when in church, chew tobacco and
spit over the floor. You would not do that in :
your own house.
NUMBER 24.