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jugof Jldocciisemeiits.
Jackson Postponed Deputy
Sheriff’s Sale.
\\7TLL he sold before the Court House door, in
YY the town of Jefferson, within the legal hours
of sale, to the highest bidder, on the first Tuesday
in April, 1878. the following property, to-wit:—
Eightv acres ofl&nd, more **r less, adjoining lands
of T. L. Boss, on the south; on the west hy lands
of Wyatt Wood ; southwest by lands ofW.M.
Duke, and bounded on the east and northeast by
the midtile Oconee river. On said place is a dwel
ling-house and necessary out-buildings; forty-five
or more acres in cultivation, the remainder in
lo<vl, original forest. (hi the place is a good peach
and apple orchard. The place whereon K. 11.
Dunn now resides. Levied on as the property of
A. C. Thompson, by virtue of a fi fa issued from
Jacktion Superior Court, John 11. Newton vs A. C.
Thompson. Property pointed out by defendant.
Notice, in writing, given to K. If. Boon, tenant
iu possession. pr fee $5
Also, at the same time and place, one tract or
parcel of land, lying in Jackson county, contain
ing fourteen or fifteen acres, whereon Jas Davis,
colored, now lives ; said land adjoins the lands of
Uiment, Anglin and others, and is all woodland
except three or four acres. On the premises is a
tolerably good dwelling and other improvements.
I,e\ietl on as the property of Jas Davis, ced'd, by
virtue of two ti. fas. issued from the Justice’s
Court, 24*2d l)ist.. G. M., Jackson Cos., in favor of
K. 0. Cox, for purchase money of said land. Le
vy made ami returned to me bv T. 8. Smith, I> C
Written notice served on Jas Davis, col. tenant
in possession. JOHN J. WA LLACE. Dcp. Sh'tf
March 2, IS7S fee pd
( j IOIU-lA. .la<*kon C'oimly.
Whereas. \V. F. A, Anderson applies to me i)i
proper furm for Letters of Guardianship of the
i rsons and property of Malissa Maynard and
Vhas Maynard, minors of N. T. Maynard, dec'd.
ami Klizabeth Maynard, <lcc’d —
This is therefore, to cite and admonish all per
sons concerned, the next of kin. to show cause, if
any they can. on the first Monday in April.
W*. in the Court of Ordinary for said County,
why the leave prayed tor hy the said applicant
should not he granted, (liven under my official
signature, tins March 6th, 1878.
If. W. HELL. Ordinary.
| Oioitui t, Jackson Countv.
Whereas, Simeon 11. Cronie makes application
to me in proper form for Letters ot Adminis
tration, with the will annexed, of Elizabeth May
nard. late of said county, deceased—•
Ihisistoeite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they' can. on
th* first Monday in April. 1878. at the regu
ar Term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
w hy aid Letters should not he granted the appli
cunst. Given under my official signature, this
March 6tW. 1878 11. \V. BELL, Ordinary.
Administrator's Sale.
\\ ILL he sola before the Court House door in
T the town of Jelfcrson, .Jackson coanty, Ga.
'thin the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuc-s
--,n May next, the following property, to-wit:—
‘ IX D acres of land, in said county, adjoining
andsoflj. M. Xi black's estate, Thos. Phillips,
,‘ ‘ and others; about ten acres of said
•'nd in cultivation—about four acres in original
"yrst. the balance in’old Held. Sold sis the prop
trt.v ot Levi Philips, dec'd, for the purpose of
jiaymg expenses of administration and tor distri
bution. Terms Cash.
THOMAS PHILLIPS. Ad'm'r
~ Df bonis non of Levi Phillips, dec'd.
March Otli. 1878.
Assignee’s Sale.
u he sold, before the Court House door.
in Jetrerson, Jackson county. Ga.. on the
( ‘[ st Tuesday in April. 1878. the following proper
>oi wit—One Steam Engine. Boiler. Saw Mill
•'l* fixtures; property being at or near Jasper
1 io, npson sin said county. Those desirous of
t‘ lr > J'ing can see it there. Property sold as the
•'Ute of Harden Haywood. Bankrupt.
VIRGIL A. COOPER, Assignee.
March Pth. 1878.
Take Notice !
T‘n i u ' n .‘ unt , s due the FOREST NEWS OF*
, f l°r Subscriptions and Advertisements'
A " the 12th in.st,, are in my hands for eollec*
1 ‘- Debtors, take notice ! Come and settle*
Without another word. W. S. McCARTV.
• > 26th, IS7B. Att’y at Law.
Dr. H. J. LONG,
—DEALER IN—
Medicines, Paints, Oils, &c
side of public square,
Gainesville, Ga.,
JJ AS on hand, and will constantly add thereto,
hl *d line of Drugs and Medicines. Paints.
'■ ar n*hes. Ac.. Ac, A specialty made of the
11 ,v celebrated and thoroughly tested
. mixed PAINTS!
.... ‘ • !‘ Um * Paregoric. Ac., put up in suitable
"Ijties for country merchants.
Wi y. sto ®k of Lamps, Kerosene Oil, Lamp
*>u and Train Oil
u ha ni } constantly.
Mir*! l ' l ' s o<sta *disfiment will be found a choice as
of ot Perfumery. Toilet Soaps, fine brands
H r 'f ars , tT, d Tobacco, Paint and Whitewash
'a t*V C *' aten t Medicines, and everything kept
arr#t Drug Store. Having made special
Lo\p <in^ Uts 'V I" ,rc base of his stock. Dr.
Biedio’ <> " ew K°°ds Low FOK Cash ! Pure
9 u ick sales and small profits. is the
house. Call as above.
a <hl prescriptions tilled by a careful
. "’roughly competent Druggist.
,: "' b 21th. Is;;. * c
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement In Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
fWessiamif & JWucss (lards.
Dr. YV. S. Alexander,
SCRGE< >N I >F,NTIBT,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
\\ r ILL be at Jefferson on the first Monday and
Tuesday in each month, and will continue
his stay from time to time as circumstances tnnv
justify. Terms LOW, FOjR CASH, and work
done in a superior manner.
July 10 th, tS7f>.
WILL. I. PIKE. \V, 8. M'CARTY.
PIKE A NeCAKTY,
Attorneys at Law,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO.. GA.
W ill give pfnafyt and thorough attention to all
kinds of legal business in Jackson and adjoining
counties. One or both, always in the office, ex
cept when professionally absent. feb*2
\\ r 11. SDIE'KIAX
YY . • Attorney at Law,
Asso dated with J. B. SI I.MAN. Esq., Jeffer
son. Ga.
attention given to the collection of
claims. January f)th, 187S.
K'l". AELIIS, Altorn<*j*nil.aw,
>• Harmony Grove. Jackson Cos.. Ga.
Will practice in Jacl son and adjoining counties.
Prompt attention given to all business entrusted
to him. Refers to Hon. John J). Stewart, Griffin,
and Hon. J. T. Spence, Jonesboro’. Ga. oetG
EMORY SPEER, j W. S- MORRIS.
Athens, Ga. j Jefierson, Ga.
SPEER k MORRIS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
•IcllVrson, Ga., will practice in Superior,
Ordinary’s amf Justices’ Courts. JBta-P’Oiiice in
building with Col. Silman, UP-STAIRS. aug2o
I) !■'. WOl'FOItl), lHorneyuiblaiw.
1 J* Harmony Grove. Jackson Cos., Ga.
Will practice in all the adjoining counties, and
give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
his care. Collecting claims a specialty.
March 3d, 1877.
WILEY C. HOWARD. ROB’T S. HOWARD.
W. C. & R. S. HOWARD,
ATTORNEYS AND CULNSELLORS AT
LA W,
f24 Jefferson. Ga.
r. J. FLOYD, J J. B. SILMAN,
Covingt.m, Ga. { Jefferson, Ga.
IJLOYI> At SIIAIAA,
. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Will practice together in the Superior Courts oi
the counties of Jackson and Walton,
juneli—ly
STIN LEY A PINSON,
JEFFERSON , GA.,
DEALERS ill Dry Goods and Family Groce
ries. New supplies constantly received.
Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock.
June ID ly
D?i (’. RT GILES
OFFERS his professional services to the citizens
of Jefferson and vicinity. Can be found at
the office recently occupied by Col. Mahatley.
Jan. 22, 1870—tf
Dr. 4. M. BURNS
HAVING resumed 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 professionally engaged.
Aug 11 ' JOHN M. BURNS, M. D.
Charles Corbett,
PLAIN AM) GRAINING
PAINTER,
OFFERS his services to the citizens of Jackson
and surrounding counties. He is prepared
to do all kinds of House-Painting, inside and out
side—plain and ornamental. Special attention to
tainting Buggies and vehicles of all descriptions.
Charges to suit the times. Address. CHARLES
CORBETT, Catnp's Mills, Gwinnett Cos., Ga.
May 26th, 1877.
'MARTIN INSTITUTE.
The Spring Term of 1878 y
\\7TLL open on the 24th January,
n BOARD and TUITION for term of 24
weeks, from .87.”*.00 to &56.00.
For particulars, apply to JNO. M. (IT.FINN.
Principal, or J. E. RANDOLPH.
Jan a Ot Sec-'y Board Trustees.
Jackson County Mortgage She
riff's Sale.
\\7 ILL he sold before the Court House door, in
H the town of Jefferson, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder, on the first
Tuesday in April, 187S, the following proper
ty, to-wit:—One mouse-colored Mule, one two
! horse wagon and two cows ; levied on by virtue
| of a mortgage !i fa. issued from Jackson Superior
; Court. J. F. Lilly *fc Son vs. John vS. Wilson.—
! Property pointed out in said ti fa.
• fob 2 JOHN S. HUNTER, Sheriff.
I I.I’M BEK, AND SH!N(7IES,
At Short Notice. Figures Low.
I PROPOSE to furnish shingles and lumber, in
any quantity wanted. 1 warrant them to be
made out of as good timber as grows in Georgia :
and will be pleased to make this good in their sale.
Feb 2, 1878. JAMES R. THURMOND.
! M
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ZrQ' ffvL
mm
&. Best.
' Agents Wanted
tO^No ;i77 W.4-Sl
CINCINNATI,O.
L. C. N FBI NO FT?. Manager
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. MARCH 23, 187S.
! SELECT MISCELLANY.
First Things.
Envelopes were first used in 1839.
The first air pump was made in 1630.
The first steel pen was made in 1830.
The first lucifer match was made in 1829.
The first iron steamship was built in 1830.
Ships were first “copper-bottomed" in 1783.
Coaches were first used in England in
1569.
The first horse railroad was built in 1826-7.
Gold was first discovered in California in
1848.
The first steamboat plied the Hudson in
1807.
Omnibuses were introduced iu New York
in 1830.
The first watches were made at Nuremberg
in 1477.
I he first newspaper advertisement appear
ed in 1652.
Kerosene was first used for lighting pur
poses in 1826.
The first copper cent was coined in New
Haven in 1687.
The first telescope was probably used in
England in 1608.
The first saw-maker’s anvil was brought to
America in 1819.
The first use of the locomotive in this
country was in 1829.
The first almanac was printed by George
Von Purbacli. in 1460.
The first chimneys were introduced into
Rome from Padua in 15C8.
'The first printing press in the United States
was introduced 1629.
The first steam engine on this continent
was brought from England in 1753.
Glass windows were first introduced into
England in the eighth century.
The first complete sewing machine was
patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846.
Glass was early discovered. Glass beads
were found on mummies over 3,000 years
old.
The first algebra originated with Diophan
tus, in either the fourth or sixth century.
Gas was first used as an illuminating agent
in 1702. Its first use in New York was in
1827.
The first attempt to mnnufnuturc pins in
this country was made soon after the war of
1812.
Organs are said to have been first intro
duced into churches by Pope Vitalianus,
about A. I). 1070.
The first temperance society in this coun
try was organized in Saratoga county, N. Y..
in March, 1808.
T'he first enmnass was used in France in
1150. tholigh the Chinese are said to have
employed the loadstone earlier.
The first telegraph instrument was success
fully operated by S. F. B. Morse, the invent
or, in 1835. though its utility was not demon
strated to the world until 1844.
The first daily newspaper appeared in 1702.
The first religions newspaper, the Boston
Record, was established in 1815.
The first Union flag was unfurled on the
Ist of January, 1776, over the camp at Cam
bridge. It had thirteen stripes of white and
red. and retained the English cross in one
corner. —Star Spangled Banner.
Masonry’s Twelve Apostles.
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE MORGAN EXCITEMENT
FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS A MASON.
Mr. Wait T. Huntington resigned his posi
tion in the New York Post Office, last week,
in order that he might spend the rest of his
days in peaceful retirement. Mr. Hunting
ton was born on May 9, 1798, in Tolland
county, Conn., and became a Free Mason in
May. 1821. The charter o f Eagle Lodge.
No. G 9, in which Mr. Huntington was initiat
ed, bears the signature of De Witt Clinton.
Grand Master, and its shrivelled and black
ened parchment, gives evidence of the rage
that animated the anti-Mnsonic multitude
during the excitement that followed the alleg
ed abduction of Morgan. While other Ma
sons shrank from the fury of the mob, and
sneaked to the lodge through the lanes and
by-ways, Mr. Huntington went boldly in at
the front door, indifferent alike to sneers ami
execrations. He stood hy the lodge as long
as enough members remained to do the work'
and when it became necessary, at length, to
close it he rescued the charter from the de
struction that overtook the records.
Among others who remained faithful in
those dark days for Masonry, were twelve
members of Fidelity Lodge, No. 51, of Tru
manshurg, known in Masonic annals as the
Twelve Apostles. Their names were Elias
J. Ayres. Uriel Turner. J. W. Hart. 11. Tay
lor, James McClellan, Milo Van Dusen. Phi
lemon 11. Thompson, Nicoll Halsey, Nathan
iel Ayres, Lyman Strobridge, Daniel K. Mc-
Clellan and John Cregue. These twelve
pledged themselves that, whatever should
happen, they would maintain the organization
of the lodge, meet at stated times, elect offi
cers, and pay their dues. They kept their
pledge. In 1847, learning that it was intend
ed to revive Eagle Lodge, of Ithaca, the
twelve proposed to Mr. Huntington, that Fi
delity, No. 51, be transferred from Truraans
burg to Ithaca. This was done, and Mr.
Huntington was elected the First Master of
the lodge in Ithaca. The lodge is now one
of the most prosperous in the State, and has
refused to accept any dues from Mr. Hun
tington. on the ground of his services and
devotion to Masonry. Mr. Huntington is
also an honorary member of Eagle Chapter.
No. 58. of Ithaca, having been initiated in
the Chapter in 1822.— N. Y. Sun.
L3P“So you like your second wife better
than your first?” “ Yes,” he said enthusias
tically, “ She always puts enough starch in
my shirts to save me from scratching my
back.*’
The Press and the Plow.
We envy not the princely man,
In city or in town,
M ho wonders whether punkin vines
Turn \ip the hill or down.
We care not for his marble halls,
Nor yet his heaps of gold ;
Wc would notown his sordid heart
For all his wealth twice told.
W e are the favored ones of earth,
W e breathe pure air each morn,
V e sow, we reap the golden grain,
We gather in the corn.
W e toil—we live on what we earn,
And more than this we do—
We hear of starving millions round,
And gladly feed them too.
The lawyer lives on princely fees,
Yet drags a weary life,
lie never knows a peaceful hour,
His atmosphere is strife.
A merchant thumbs his yardstick o'er,
Grows haggard at his toil,
He’s not the man God meant him for,
Why don’t he till the soil?
The doctor plods through storm and rain ;
Plods at his patient's will;
When dead and gone he plods again
To get his lengthy bill.
The printer—bless his noble soul t
He grasps the mighty earth.
And stamps it on our daily sheet
To cheer the laborers’ hearth.
We sing the honor of the Plow,
And honor to the Press—
Two noble instruments of toil,
Each with a power to bless.
The hone, the nerve of this fast age,
True wealth of human kind ;
One tills the ever faithful earth,
The other tills the mind.
California Farmer.
Wade and Toombs.
A RICH ANECDOTE.
Wade one day replied to Toombs, of Geor
gia, and to all appearance used language
which would compel Toombs to challenge
him. Several friends went to Wade and beg
ged him to desist, but the old man grew more
and more violent, until Toombs indicated his
intention of calling Wade to account for the
language he was using, when Wade quietly
sat down, seemingly having accomplished his
object. The Southern men looked at each
other in surprise, and it was manifest to all
that Wade had deliberately sought a quarrel
with Toombs. That night a friend of the
Southern Senator called on Mr. Wade to
know if lie would retract the offensive words
he had used.
“ No. I won’t take back a word,” was
Wade’s emphatic reply.
“Then." said the friend of Mr. Toombs.
“It will be necessary for Senator Toombs to
challenge you to mortal combat."
“That is just, what. I want, and we might
have got to this point without all this palav
er,” said Wade.
“You surely cannot lie in earnest, Mr.
Wade,” said the Southerner.
“Why, oT course I am. You sec, sir, we
Northern men don’t like to fight. Now, lam
oppose 1 to the code, and so are my constitu
ents : but, you fellows have broke Sumners
head, and we must spunk up a little, or you
will break all our heads. The shortest wav
to end the matter is to kill off a few of you,
and I have picked upon old Toombs as my
man ; he will have to challenge me. Then,
of course, I will have the choice of weapons,
and I will take my old rifle and me if I
don’t bring him down the first crack.”
When Toombs heard of what Wade said,
lie replied: ‘ I can’t challenge him. if I do he
will kill me.” It appears that Toombs and
Wade had been out together, shooting with a
rifle several times, and, while Toombs could
shoot well with a pistol, he was a poor rifle
shot. Wade was an old hunter, and, at a dis
tance of a hundred yards, could hit a dollar
almost every shot.
Mr. Wade afterward said to the writer:—
“If old Toombs had challenged me that time,
as I expected he would, I would have made
him put a patch on his coat, the size of a dob
lar, over his heart, and the old fellow would
have got demoralized when he saw me draw
ing a bead on it. and missed me, while, while,
me if I wouldn’t have cut the patch !”
Not anly did Toombs refuse to challenge
Wade, but no Southern member could ever
be induced to send him a challenge, no mat
ter what he might say.
The Code in Missouri.
Some days ago a long, hungry-looking son
of Ham by the name of Li'je Pyle was arrest
ed for discharging his pistol within the city
limits. Since then it lias developed that he
and another colored individual, Sam Huston,
became involved in aquarrel regarding a cer
tain dusky damsel, and concluded to settle
the affair aecordingto the rules “ob de code,
sail.” Each was the possessor of an old re
volver. and stepping out in the yard in the
rear of the Commercial Hotel, they measured
off ten paces and stood for a few moments
facing each other. Then Lige said :
“Is you prepared, sah. for dc wnst ?”
“I am most assuredly, sah,” replied Sam.
“One, two, three, fire,” says Lige, and
both pistols cracked simultaneously.
Nobody was hurt, and a couple more shots
were exchanged, this time without ceremony
and with the same result as the first. By
this time both were getting hadlv frightened,
as the bullets sang closer to their heads than
was healthy, and they signed a treaty of
j>ence. A few minutes thereafter Lige was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Lupton. aud land
ed in the cooler, from which he managed to
escape by sawing off a staple to his cell door,
half an inch thick, with an old knife, wlrch
he procured in some unknown manner.—
Joplin News.
llP*lnjure not another’s reputation or bu
siness.
“The Last Witness."
AN INTERVIEW WITII THE ONLY PERSON NOW
living Wiio saw triE book of mormon
delivered.
The only one of the three witnesses to the
Book of Mormon, resides at Richmond. Mo.
His name is David Whitmet*. and he is known
among the Latter Day Saints as the “last
witness.” A correspondent, who is one of the
"Saints," interviewed “the last witness" re
cent!}’. Whitmer is described as seventy-five
years of age. five feet ten inches in height,
well proportioned, and possesses good physi
cal abilities. I found him, writes this cor
respondent., in a pleasant mood and very
communicative on various Jopics. In replv
to a question by me as to his present views
as a witness to the plates of the Book of Mor
mon, he said : “ I was plowing in my field,
when I heard a voice saying ; 4 Blessed is the
name of the Lord and those that keep his
commandments.’ After I had plowed one
more round, the prophet and Oliver Cowderv
came along and said : 4 Come and be one of
the witnesses.’ We passed through a clear
ing ami saton a log. While there, a light
appeared, which grew brighter, Until an angel
stood before them with tlie plates and other
things. The angel turned the leaves so that,
we could see the engravings, etc. We then
heard a voice saving that those things were
true, and that the translation was correct.
This was about 11 o’clock, a. m." Mr. Whit
mer also showed me the original manuscript
of the Book of Mormon, written by Martin
Harris. Oliver Cowderv. Emma Smith ami
Christian Whitmer. This fell into the pre
sent owner’s hands at the death of Oliver
Cowderv. and is now held as a choice relic.
Mr. Cowderv died at the residence of Mr.
Whitmer, in Richmond. Rnv county. Mo.
The Proof Coming.
STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS CONCERNING THE
rlt ESI DEN TI AI. FRAU I>.
In a conspicuous editorial paragraph in
the Washington Post on Saturday, it was
stated that the envelope containing the re
turns from I)e Soto parish. La., for 1876, was
broken open in the New Orleans post-office,
and the bogus protest,—which was afterward
explained by Mr. E. W. Stoughton as a cler
ical error—then inserted. The Post charges
that this crime was committed 44 with the pri
vity of a deputy postmaster and also of two
visiting statesmen, who were not only privy
to the crime, but advised and counselled it.
and promised immunity and reward to the
person who committed the felony." If our
Washington contemporary is on the right
track, and very likely it is. let it give the
names of the visiting statesmen who advised
the perpetration of this fraud. Perhaps there
is some law that can reach them, ns Ander
son has already been reached.— Phil. Times.
The dicta?es of courtesy prompt ns to in
form our esteemed contemporary that the
'egal proof which we declared to exist in sup
port of* our allegations, is now in documenta
ry form in the hands of a gentleman who has
been at work for more than a year ferreting
out. the processes of the fraud by which Mr.
Haves became de. facto President. The
proofs which this gentleman has collected,
and which he will soon promulgate in an
effective manner, are sufficient to send John
Sherman and Edwin XV. Stoughton to the
penitentiary, provided they can be arraigned
before any unprejudiced and unpurchaseable
jury. We may add that, we have seen the
documents to which we refer, and that when
promulgated they will strike the public as the
fruits of perhaps the most remarkable labor
in the detection of crime ever produced in
this country.— Wash. Pont.
Miss Maria J. Mclntosh.
DEATH OF A GEORGIA AUTHORESS IN NEW
YORK.
Her death deprives literary and social life
in this country of a writer whose influence
was always on tfie side of lettered refinement,
sectional justice and the purest of morals.—
A daughter of the late General Lachlan Me*
intnsh. of Knnburj', Georgia. She came to
New York when she was just past her thir
tieth 3’ear, and since 1835 has been the best
native novelist of the Appletons. Rumor
has not failed in its time to assign an early
romance, ended by the death of its hero, as
the pathetic cause of the lady’s voluntary
exile from her Southern home and subsequent
exclusive devotion to a mental career; but
tiiere was no morbid element in any of her
numerous books to justify the idea. From
the appearance of “Blind Alice,” nearly forty
years ago, to that of “The Two Pictures,” in
1803, her stories were always unexceptiona
ble in taste, dignified in tone, and dramati
cally interesting. Many of them had great
sales. “The Lofty and the Lowly,’’ following
closely upon Mrs. Stowe’s famous “Uncle
Tom,” finding wide acceptance as the tempe
rate obverse to that work’s argument.—
“Charms and Countercharms.” and the last
of her more ambitious efforts, “Violet,” also
ran through several editions. In society
here. Miss Mclntosh expected and command
ed the place due to the daughter of one of
Washington’s Generals and the grand-daugh
ter of the Scottish John Moore Mclntosh,
who, with a whole clan of Highlanders, help
ed Oglethorpe to settle Georgia. She came
of a long-lived family, her own and her
father’s lives forming a period far back into
the colonial history of the country.— N. Y.
Letter to the Baltimore Sun.
a small boy with a prejudice
against yellow dogs, observes an ouster can
in a condition of inactivity, he at once begins
debating the question whether it was created
to point a moral or adorn a dog’s tail. The
dog gets the first news of the decision.
OFThe greatest truths are the simplest—
feo afe the greatest men.
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Scissored Paragraphs*
Oebrge Washington Wasn't always first
even in war or peace. He married a widow.
Why do not printers succeed to the same
extent as brewers ? liecau.se printers work
for the head, brewers for the stomach; and
Where twenty men have stomachs but one
has brains. — Printer's Register.
A Chicago clergyman has preached a ser
mon against the sin of ladies permitting shoe
tore clerks to button their shoes for them.—
As any clerk in the hardware trade will agree
that it isn't right.
At a Sunday-school, a teacher asked a lit
tle boy if he knew what the exprsssion “sow
ing fares” meant. “Oourth I do."’ said he,
pulling a part of his trowsers around ih front,
“there Is a tare my nm sewed up, i fared it
sliding down hill."
The original bill of sale of a negro man
and woman by the Rev. Jonathan Kdwards,
of Northampton. Mass., in 17fi5. to the grand
father of John O. Pettihone. was among the
curiosities found in the house of the late John
O. Pettihone, of Simsbury, Conn.
Bill Shute was a member of the 2ft.h. While
the boys crowded around the old flag at a re
cent reunion. Bill, with an irreprcssiblo hu
mor. cal ted out“ Boys, I am no speaker
but there's a blamed sight more of yon than f
ever saw in a fight.’*
You can always tell when a buzz saw is
going or not by simply feeling of it. but it
generally takes about as long to find the end
of your fingers as it would to have gone and
asked the foreman of the shop if thing was
in motion.
The administration starts on the second
year of its race with a rattling escort of ene
mies and a slim and discouraged following of
friends. Its chief consolation seems to be
that the latter squad cflft’lhe much smaller.-*-
:V. Y. Tribunei
“ I am requested,’* said the Clerk of the
Lower Illinois House, the other day. "to an*
tiounce that the Rev. I)r. Macfarland will lec
ture in the hall this evening on the ‘Educa
tion of Idiots.’ Members of the Legislature
are invited to attend.”
The general end of Old and New Tier tv
ments are one, the only difference between
them being this, that the Old made wise by
teaching salvation through Christ that should
come, and the New by teaching that Christ
our Saviour is come.— Hooker.
The other day, a man walked into a Skow.
began ( Maine) drug store and asked for tooth
brushes. A basket containing several dozen
was passed to him. and after examining them
some time, he selected one. took out his false
teeth, and after cleaning them, threw it back
in the basket and walked out.
A Harvard student was called to account
for having styled the professor of Hebrew
“ a fir9t-class mule.” He admitted having
made the remark, but said he intended it as
a compliment. “ Explain yourself,” said the
professor. “Why, a first-class mule Is ne
cessarily a good Hebra ist.”— Nol. Pros.
The temperance move is sweeping over
lowa from one end to the other. .Saloons are
crumbling to the ground and their owners are
flying to the Black Hills. Yet many a good
house-wife in that state is obliged to smell of
one of the two little brown jugs which sit in
the cupboard before she can tell which con
tains the molasses.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, the widow of the
late President Lincoln, is living a secluded
life in an interior town of France, and de
clines to return to America lest she may
again be placed in a lunatic asjdmn. It is
said, that in France, she still indulges, to a
moderate extent, in her propensity for buy
ing things for which she has no use, and fill
ing closets with articles wholly unnecessary.
This is the New York World's latest fable :
A Temperance Reformer, having heedlessly
set foot upon a Rattlesnake, sped to a saloon
and quaffed a Quart of Whisky at a draught,
which observing, the bystanders jeered him
for his inconsistent conduct. “Nay, nay.
Fellows.” quoth he, “yon overlook ,n essen
tial Point of Difference between us—while I
drink because I have seen a Snake, you see
Snakes because you have drunk.” Moral—
What's one Snake’s Poison is another Man’s
Drink.
Escaping from Jail.— On Wednesday
night Peter McGuire escaped from jail at
Sunbury. Pa. lie stripped himself and soap
ed his body, and then forced himself through
the narrow iron space—four inches wide and
eighteen inches long—used to admit light
into the cell. A fellow prisoner and cell mate
named Dawer also made the attempt, biff be
fore lie got half wav through he stuck fa9t,
and could neither move backward nor for
ward. and in that condition he remained sev
en hours until rescued by the turnkey. A
blacksmith had to chip off some of the edges
of the iron frarr e before the prisoner’s release
was effected. McGuire, the larger man of
the two. after trying in vain for two hours to
pull his partner through the narrow aperture,
scaled the outside wall and escaped.— York
Daily. 0
A Maylavan Ourang-Outaxg.— What
interested me most was a full-grown ourang
outang. I looked at him with wonder and
awe, and he at me with calm indifference.—
After all my failures to make other natives
of this Malay region understand me, l did
not think it worth while to make any attempt
in his case. He is a mighty rujah in his na
tive island, its master from time immemorial
until the introduction of the fatal fire arms.
He took a basin of water to his month and
drank it off. or poured it into his month and
held a portion of it there, as if he would thtotr
it out at me. but he did not. His fingernails
were not the eighth part of the length of a
Chinese mandarin’s, and better proportion
ed. He is a huge beast, strong enough to 1
tear open the jaws of an alligator, and sever
the folds of a python, but as to all human
characteristics, they are not there. If in the
course of evolution he ever waa on the route
to make a man of himself, he switched the'
track long ago.— Sail Francisco Bulletin,
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