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Jackson Postponed Deputy
Sheriff’s Sale.
ITT ILL be sold before the Court House door, in
\\ the town of JkdU'rson. within the legal hours
nf sale, ft> the highest bidder, on the first Tuesday
mApnLIHiS. the following property, to-wit
Kiehtv acres ofland, more r less, adjoining lands
of T. L. Ross, on the south : on the west by lands
of Wyatt Wood ; southwest by lands of W. M.
Puke, and hounded on the east and northeast by
the middle Oconee river. On said place is a dwel
ling-house and necessary out-buildings; forty-live
or more acres in cultivation, the remainder in
good, original forest. On the place is a good neach
and apple orchard. The place whereon K. H.
boon now resides. Levied on as the property of
A. U. Thompson, by virtue of a fi fa issued from
Jackson Superior Court. John H Newton vs A. C.
Thompson. Property pointed out by defendant.
Mot ice, in writing, given to K. 11. Hoon. tenant
in possession. pr fee s’
Also.at the same time and place, one tract or
parcel of land, lying in Jackson county, contain
ing fourteen or iifieen acres, whereon Jas Davis,
colored, now lives ; said land adjoins the lands of
Osment. Anglin and others, and is all woodland
except three or four acres. On the premises is a
tolerably good dwelling and ot her improvements.
Levied on as the property of Jas Davis, col’d. by
virtue of two ti. fas. issued from the Justice's
Court. 242d Dist.. (>. M.. Jackson Cos., in favor of
K. C. Cox, for purchase money of said land, Le
vv made and returned to me by T. 8. Smith, L C
Written notice served on Jas Davis, col. tenant
in possession. JOHN J. "WALLACE. Dep. Sh'fT
March 2, 1878 fee pd
Cl DOItUIA, Jackson County.
U
Whereas. W. F, A. Anderson applies to me in
proper form for Letters of Guardianship of the
persons and property of Malissa Maynard and
r.lias Maynard, minors of N. T. Maynard, dec’d.
and Elizabeth Maynard, dec’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.
1878, in the Court of Ordinary for said Countv,
why the leave prayed for by the said applicant
should not be granted. Given under my official
signature, this March Gth. IX7S.
11. \V. HELL. Ordinary.
( * umuwba, Jackson County.
Whereas, Simoon H. Cronic makes application
to me in proper form for Letters of Adminis
tration. with the will annexed, of Elizabeth May
nard. late of said county, deceased—
This is to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they can. on
the first Monday in April. 1878. at the regu
lar Term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
why said Letters should not be granted the appli
cant. Given under my official signature, this
March 6th. 1878 H. VV. BELL. Ordinary.
Adiainistrator’s Sale.
\\ T !LL he sold before the Court House door in
’ ' the town of Jefferson. Jackson coantv, Ga.
within the legal hours of sale, ©n the first Tues
day m May next, the following property, to-wit:—
jfixly acres of land, in said county, adjoining
lands of H. M. Xiblack's estate. Thos. Phillips.
Ih'Laperrierc and others; about ten acres of said
■and in cultivation—about four acres in original
forest, the balance infold Held. Sold as the prop
erty of Levi Philips, dec'd, for the purpose of
naying expenses of administration and lor distri
bution. Terms Cash.
THOMAS PHILLIPS. Ad'm'r
Dt bonis non of Levi Phillips, dec'd.
March Oth. 1878.
Sale.
will he sold, before the Court House door,
' in Jefferson. Jackson county. (Ja.. on the
nrst Tuesday in April. 1878. the followingproper
tj.towit —One Steam Engine, Boiler, Saw Mill
*d fixtures; property being at or near Jasper
noti*ps°n> in said county. Those desirous of
Purchasing can sec it there. Property sold as the
k'tate of Harden Haywood. Bankrupt.
VI&lilL A. COOPER. Assignee.
March 9th. IS7S.
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Jan 2tith, 1878. Att’v at Law.
Dr. H. J. LONG,
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WEST SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE ,
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I AS on hand, and will constantly add thereto.
* a full line of Drugs and Medicines. Paints.
'‘ s * sfnishes, Ac., Ac. A specialty made of the
most celebrated and thoroughly- tested
, MIXED P.ILVTS!
’ tudnum. Paregoric, Ac., put up in suitable
Quantities for country merchants.
lull stock of Lamps, Kerosene Oil, Lamp
icks, Ac.
Machine and Train Oil
ou hand constantly.
this establishment will be found a choice as-
Sc ’ r^, i l len t of Perfumery. Toilet Soaps, fine brands
j, ' , S* rs and Tobacco, Paint and Whitewash
rushes. Patent Medicines, and everything kept
a first-class Drug Store. Having made special
in the purchase of his stock. Dr.
L his goods Low for Cahh ! Pure
' •dicines. quick sales and small profits, is the
motto of this house. Call as above.
4*l.^rhysieiaus’ prescriptions filled by a careful
a ‘d thoroughly competent Druggist.
March 2tth. 1877.
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Souther Maufactures.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
A Girl’s Suicide.
A GIRL WHO SUICIDED THAT SHE MIGHT MEET
ANOTHER SUICIDE—TWO REMARKABLY
PLAYFUL LETTRItS FROM THE VICTIM.
Boonvillr, Ind., March 7.—The hell tolled
this morning announcing the death of Miss
Nancy Lee, aged 15. who committed suicide
last night by taking a teaspoonful of mor
phine, and died this morning at 8 o'clock.
Suicide must ho “catching.” for there must
have been no less than five in this county
within two months. Especially does it look
that wav in this case, as it appears to he caus
ed by the death by suicide of Fannie Dilling
ham. of which a full report was given in the
Journal at the time.
The act has caused much inquiry and ex
citement. for it is an almost unparalleled
case—that a girl as old as she. should be so
attached to one who was not a relative and
only a friend, that she should commit suicide
for the sole purpose of “going where that
friend is.” For several weeks the death
o r Mr. D.. this girl grieved very much, and
scarcely ate anything, and at one time asked
her mother whether she thought she would
go where Fannie was if she should die. This
soon wore away partially, and no signs of
anv rash net were given until about three
weeks ago when she asked for morphine at
one of the grocery stores. Yesterday even
ing she ate supper and appeared as lively as
usual. She was seen taking a tin of water
with her as she went to bed. No more was
heard of her until 12 o'clock, when a curious
noise awakened her father, who at once saw
that she was in a stupor, and sent for three
physicians, who worked hard until morning,
but without effect. The tin cup and some of
the powder was found on the bureau, and in
one of the drawers was found the following :
LETTER NO. 1.
“Well, in a. 3*ou and pa need not be fright
ened. for this is notning but morphine that
makes me sleep so good and sound forever
more ; and I will tell you, if I never wake up,
I want you to lay me in the new graveyard,
just right against Fannie’s grave, to stay with
her forevermore and eternally : for I am goin >
to see her and stay with her. and do you
reckon we will have as much fun as wo did
here together ? I hope we will, if not more
than here; and I guess that we will, if old
•Hack* Dillingham does not come and call
her away, like he did before, and if lie does
he had better not. for I do not, like him no
how. for he caused her death, and that is
enough for him, I think. Well, bury me at
the new graveyard ; put my grave right against
Fannie’s grave, and if ever von go to Terre
Haute call for Fannie and I. and then if you
s'e us together, and at the same t ime, von
may know that lam with her. Well, ask
Alice if she is mad. Tell her that lam no*
mad at her. and if she is mad I can’t help it,
and tell her that she wanted fokivw where I
was going the other day, when I told her that
I was {joins to see somebody that I had not
seen for a long time, and tell her that it is
Fannie, and that I like her. Well, now I
will give you my rings ma. and you must
wear them, and go out to aunt Mary’s and
stay as long as you was going to ; and be sure
to bury me at the new graveyard, and do not
leave room between me and Fannie to bury
‘Hack” Dillingham, her pa. her sister, her
aunt, or anybody, and take good care of her
things that I had and keep them in mv little
bucket, and keep it to remember me by forev
ermore. and. if Aunt Mary does write a letter
to me. put it in my bucket., and keep it too.”
Tied to her bed-post and supposed to have
been written after the drug was taken was
LETT HR NO 2.
“Oh ma. let me sleep this morning, for I
do not think that you can wake me. for I
f o*k a teaspoonful of morphine to go to rest
forevermore, and I do not want, you to disturb
me from mv nap. If von find my letters in
the safe drawer you must read them, and
keep them and mind them.”
No other causes than those in the letter
are known to anyone. She was a bright
young lady, but reason must have been part
ly dethroned. She wdl be buried according
to her request to-morrow forenoon. It is no*
known when- she got the poison.
A Queer Team.
A traveler in the Western district, wa
struck by the absence of the usual tessellated
language of a hullook driver, in the case of a
man on the road with a small team, which he
‘bus apostrophized : “C’ome hither. Baptist!
Wo-o-n! Piesbyterian.” etc. This mode of
address seemed so strange to the traveler
that he entered into conversation with the
man and asked him how these titles were
applicable to a bullock team. ‘‘Well. sir.
you see.” said he. “I calls this the 'clesias
tical team. You see that bullock on the ofl
side leading; I call him Baptist. We’ll be
crossing the creek presently, and he’ll be
bound to make for water. That one on the
near side, he’s ’Piscopnlian ’cause he holds
his head so worry high. That bullock on the
off side of the pole, the one with the crum
pled horn, I calls him Presbyterian. He is
the most ont-and-out knowing bullock of the
lot. The brindle in the same yoke with him.
he’s Wesleyan. He’s always a grunting and
a groaning, as if he was dragging the whole
load. Bless your life, sir, he’s not pulling
an ounce.”
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. MARCH 30,1878.
‘‘Only Five Minutes.”
“You’ve been stopping on the way again,
Tom.” said a poor widow to her son as he
gave her the article he had been sent for.—
“ Why don’t you come straight home, wheu
you know my time’s so precious?”
“I did so, mother, until I got to Mr. Gas
kill’s.” he replied; “and then I stayed to
have a look through the window for onl\* five
minutes.”
“Only five minutes,” responded the wid
ow, “ means a great deal when we come to
reckon them up.”
Tom Price looked at his mother as if he
had not understood her.
“Just reach down your slate,” added the
widow, “and then you’ll see what I mean.”
Tom had his slate on his knee in a twink
ling: “What am Ito put down, mother?”
“Well, begin with five, and then tell me
how many more minutes you waste in the
course of a day.”
Tom wrote the figures, scratched his head,
and looked into the fire.
“Would thirty be too many?” asked his
mother.
Tom did not think so.
“Very well, continued Mrs. Price, “there
are three hundred and sixty-five days in a
year, and a half an hour for each day gives
you a total of one hundred and eighty two
and a half hours, or nearly eight days’ time,
lost in twelve months.”
Tom Price put his pencil between his lips
and smarted at the sum before him.
“Suppose you put down two hours for
each day instead of thirty minutes,” added
his mother; “that will show a loss of more
than a month in the war.”
Tom Price was a sharp lad and soon proved
the truth of the widow’s statement.
“So it does mother,” lie said.
“ But when I send 3*oll for anything I want,
and you stay loitering in the street, mv time
has to be reckoned up as well as yours, hasn't
it ?”
Of course Tom could not deny that.
“Then try and remember.” said the widow,
‘•what a serious loss even five minutes are to
me. You know, m3* boy, how very hard I
have to work to pay rent, buy bread, and keep
you at school, so you should endeavor to
hoip rather than hinder vour poor mother.”
“I’ll run all the way the next time,” said
Torn.
“No. no; I don't want you to do that.—
I only want you to bear in mind that our
lives are made up of t hese same minutes and
that we cannot afford to throw them away
just as we please.”
Like a sensible little fellow. Torn Price
took his mother’s advice, and it was a long
time before he was again heard to use the
words, “Only five minutes.” —Young Reaper.
A Graceful Tribute.
11. G. Wright. Esq., who is corresponding
with the Chronicle JJ- Constitutionalist, from
Washington, in a late interesting letter, pays
the following noble and deserved compliment
to the wife of our distinguished Senator, Gen.
John B. Gordon :
There may be a few votes cast against
General Gordon at the approaching Senato
rial election in Georgia, but if the proposed
Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution
(allowing women to vote and hold office) was
in force, and Mrs. Gordon was a candidate
for the position, she would be returned bv a
unanimous vote. I know that la lies do not
like to have their names parided in print,
and it is not often that the Chronicle <s• Con
stitniiovalist offends in tins particular; but I
trust Mrs. Gordon will pardon in this letter
a very feeble tribute to her merits as a wife
and a woman. Asa wife she has been, in
deed. in the words of the good book, a help
meet to her husband, and he owes much to
her perfect love and untiring devotion. She
accompanied him during all the years of the
war. never leaving his side except when he
eceived a summons to battle. She endured
the hardships, the privations and : lie dangers
of the camp and t he march with the fortitude
and the nerve which invariably accompany
the possesion of good blood. Site has clung
to him just as closely in his political career
since the war. and, to my mind, has been of
as great assistance to him as was the wife of
another distinguished Georgian to her hus
band in the fierce party conflicts of ante hel
ium days. Her talent, her tact, the dignified
simplicity of her manners, above all. her gen
tleness and kindness of heart, win hosts of
friends for her and for him as well. To me
there is nothing which calls for higher admi
ration than a pure, good woman walking hand
in hand with the lord of her hea r t along the
flinty paths of life and aiding him in his
struggles with the world. Such is Mrs. Gor.
bm ; an*! it is impossible for one to be in her
society without, being made better for the
association. She is, indeed, a perfect wo
man. nobly planned, and if the good wishes
of others avail mortals, she should be also
the happiest woman that lives beneath the
stars.
Bad Memory.
“ Mary, ray love, do you remember the
text this morning ?”
“No, pa. I never can remember the text;
I have such a short memory.”
“ Bv the way. dear, did you notice Susan
Brown ?” joined in Mary’s mother.
"Oh. yes. what a fright! She had on her
last year’s bonnet,, done up. a pea-green silk,
a hlack mantilla, brown boots, an imitation
of Honiton collar, a lava bracelet, her old ear
rings and such a fan !”
“Well, my love, your memory is certainly
, bad.”
A Carpenter’s Terrible Death.
A Virginia City (Nev.) correspondent tells
the awful story of a man's death at the Sav
age carpenter shop in that city. The man,
whose name was Wm, Carpenter, was boring
a hole through a stick of hard wood about
three inches thick and eight feet long, and
was leaning his might against it. under the
impression that there was a gnage attached
to the machinery to prevent the block from
going further along the auger than the dis
tance required. Suddenly a workman near
1 Carpenter observed an indescribable look on
his face as his body shot forward and dou
bled over the terrible machine.
It’had passed, like a fencer's sword, thro’
his stomach, and was protruding at the back.
He was literally impaled upon the anger,
which was churning his intestines at the rate
of from 1.000 to 1.500 revolutions per min
ute. In the midst of this horrible agonv
Carpenter seems to have maintained his pre
sence of mind, for he cast himself backward
and got off the auger, falling to the floor as
he did so. The most terrible excitement
prevailed among his comrades in the shop,
and there was a rush to the prostrate man.
The sight must have almost paralyzed them.
Carpenter was lying on his hack, with his
clothes twisted and torn above the region of
the abdomen. Just above him the deadly
auger was still whizzing, and clinging to it
was a mass of intestines, the loose ends of
which spread out with the revolutions and
gave the auger the appearance of abuzz-saw.
He was t aken to a room and the physicians
who were summoned decided that he had
better die under the influence of chloroform.
Before the drug 'vas administered, he was
told that he would never come from under its
influence alive. He merely no lded, bade
those about him good bv, and in a feVr min
utes was unconscious. He lav in this state
as calmly as a sleeping child until a little
after four o'clock the next morning, when
the influence of the chloroform passed ofT and
he opened his eyes. He did not seem to
suffer much pain, and occasionally talked to
his attendants. lie died at five o’clock, and,
as those who saw him said, “Died like a
•nan.” His last words were, “I am passing
nto tile unknown.”
Fateh or no Patch.
“I would not goto Sabbath school with
that patch.” *aid a proud girl to her brother.
"I’d rather go with the patch than not go at
all." answered the bnv.
The street boys said. “Just as if I’d go to
that Sabbath school with a great patch on
rav knee.” “If 1 don’t go with mv patch, I
can’t go at all ; these be the best clothes I
got,” said the boy, stopping and looking
down over his trousers.
“Come.” said the street, boys who had not
such a good mother as this boy had. else
their trousers would have had patches instead
of rags, “come go fishing with us.” “No.”
said t‘ e boy. “a patch is no disgrace, and I
shall go to the Sabbath school ;” and he
walked sturdily off. He went to the Sabbat!'
school.
Patch or no patch, what did his teacher
•are. who had hunted him up in his lowly
home ? She thought most of the little boy’s
soul. What did the kind superintendent
care, who caught the boy's blue eye looking
straight at him as !m spoke and was please* l
to see. it? Patch or no patch, he sung “I
want to be an angel” as sweetly and heartily
as better lressed boys did. No scholar re
cited a better lesson or behaved more prop
erly in hi* class. P.ttch or no patch, God
*ook notice that he was there. Patch or no
patch, his Redeemer had died to save him.
and now said to him in tender accents. “Son,
rve me thv heart.” Patch or no patch the
Holy Spirit was hovering near to help him
remember his Creator in the days of thv
youth and choose this day the Lord for his
portion. Patch or no patch, heaven had
room for him.
A patch, you sec. is no matter at all.—
Instead o*’ being a disgrace, it is rather an
honor, because it shows a boy has a kind and
careful mother anxious to do her best with
the small means God ha* lent her. Never
be ashamed of a patch.— Baptist Banner.
Honest Boys.
A man in this County some years ago was
on his death bed. He owed a few dehts that
he wanted paid. He had two boys who were
twins, thirteen years old. and requested them
to hire themselves to work to pay his debts.
These boys worked several years until they
had paid the last cent, although many per
sons told them they were neither legally or
morally bound to do so. But God had im
planted honest principles in them. One of
them died for the Lost Cause, the other
returned safely from the war. After passing
through the rough mi>l of adversity he still
holds his head up—an honest man. He may
have, and doubtless has. some faults that are
injurious to none but himself. But such a
man stands a far better chance for happiness
in the world to come than the canting Preach
er. who does not pay his debts, preach as
much as he may about doctrines. &c.—Hurt
well Sun.
A. H. Brock. at the P. 0., keeps a fine
assortment of splendid Cigars.
Mr. Schell's Splendid Shot.
A WONDERFUL SNAKE STORY VOUCHED FOR
BY THE IION. ELI PERKINS.
As the fast express on the I.ake Shore
stopped at Berea yesterday to take water the
passengers saw in the corner of a rail fence,
I sunning itself, a large snake. When the en
gineer blew off a stream of hissing, hot steam
the snake suddenly coiled itself up as if to
jump at the braketnan. who stood with his
back toward the reptile. Col. Robert Downes,
who was in the parlor car. saw the dangerous
! position of the brakeman, and with a coo!
presence of mind leaped from the car, grasp
ed a fence rail and proceeded to strike at the
snake.
By this time the ladies in the car were
screaming and the other male passengers hari
jumped out to help the Colonel. The snake
dodged Col. Downe’s first blow by dipping
its head, and then suddenly, to the horror of
every one, sprang from its coil, head foremost,
upon the platform of the car, and, the door
being open, glided with fiery eves and dart
ing tongue straight into the centre of the
car. Several ladies nearly fainted, and the
screams of the frightened passengers brought
Superintendent Newell, who had a revolver,
from the rear car. Mr. Newell is a good
shot, having served through the Mexican
war ; but the screams of tho lady passengers
seemed nnerve him. and his first shot
missed the snake, which now coiled itself
up. with head erect, ready to spring in among
a half fainting group of ladies.
Luckily, as soon as Mr. Newell fired, and
before the snake could make a deadly spring,
Mr. Augustus Schell, of New York, drew a
revolver and shot the snake dead. Quivering
a moment, its head fell, and the dead body
lay lifeless on the carpet of tiic car.
On measuring the snake it was found to be
17 feet and 7 inches long, and had fourteen
rattles in its tail and four rattles around its
neck. It was a rare species of rattlesnake,
or vicus snakina. thought heretofore by natu
ralists to be an extinct species. Our readers
can place the largest credit to ibis account,
as we gained our information from one of the
passengers who saw the snake die and after
ward measured it. Mr. Kli Perkins is the
passenger. Cleu>'hmd Pla in dealer.
A Boy’s Composition on Girls.
Girls is a queer kind of a varmint. Girls
is the only thing that has their own way every
time. Girls is of several thousand different,
kinds, and sometimes one girl can bo like
several thousand other girls, if she wants you
to do anything. Girls is all alike they is all
like eats. If you rub them the wrong wav
or step on their fort they’ll claw you. So
long as yon let a girl have her own way, she*s
nice and sweet; but just cross her. and she'll
spit on von worse nor a cat. Girls is also
like mules ; they are headstrong. If a girl
don’t want to believe anything, you can't
make her. If she know’s it’s so, she won’t
sav so. Girls is little women if they are
good, and if they are not good then, nor
when they get grown, they are she devils.
That’s what father said mother was once,
when she fixed a hot. flat-iron into the chair
so he'd sit down on it, cause she was mad at
him. Brother Joe says he don’t like big
girls, but lie does little ones; and when I
saw him kissing Jennie Jones last Sunday,
and told him of it, said he was biting her be
cause he didn’t like her. I think lie hurt her,
cause there was a big red spot all oyer both
her jaws. This is all I know about girls and
father says the less I know about ’em the
better off I am.
Where He Was Stabbed.
'Gentlemen of the jury,’ Raid a Tuscarora
lawyer, ‘what kind of swearing has been
done in this case?’ Here we have a physi
cian, a man who, from his higl* and noble
calling, should Vie regarded as one who would
scorn to stain his soul with perjury or be
guilty of giving utterance to an untruth.—
But what did lie testify, gentlemen ? I put
the question to him plainly, as you all heard :
‘Where was this man stabbed?’ And what
was his reply ? Unblnshingly, his features
as cool and placid as though cut from mar
ble. he replied that the man was stabbed
about an inch and a half to the left of the
median line, and about an inch above the
umbilicus. And yet we have proved by
three unimpeachable witnesses that he was
stabbed just below the Young America hoist
ing works.’ —Elko ( Nev.) Post.
The Medicine of Sunshine.
The wo Id wants more sunshine in its dis
position. n its business, in its charities, in
its theology. For ten thousands of the aches
and pains and irritations of men and women
we commend sunshine. It soothes better
than morphine; it stimulates better than
champagne : it is the best plaster for all our
wounds. The Good Samaritan poured out
into the fallen traveller’s gash more of this
than of wine and oil. Florence Nightingale
used it on Crimean battlefields. Take it into
all the alleys, on board all the ships, bv all
the sickbeds; not a phial full, hut a soul
fu'l. It is good for spleen, for liver com
plaint. for neuralgia, for rheumatism, for fail
ing fortunes, for melancholy. We suspect
that heaven itself is only more sunshine.
“ Sally.” said a fellow to a girl who had
red hair. “ keep a wav from me or you’ll set
me on fire. ’ Don’t fear.’* she answered,
“ you’re too green to burn,”
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Of What c< IfJr is grass when covered with
snow ?—-Invisible green.
Experience may be a dear teacher, but she
isn’t any dearer than a pretty school-ma'am.
The pain from the sting of a wasp or bee
is relieved by applying lean, raw meat.
It is estimated that the white population o t
South Carolina has increased fifty‘five thou
sand during the past year.
A man who was fooled into buying a pinch
beck watch called it Faith because it was
without works and therefore dead.
“ M’iiat do you think of Russia ?” asked an
Englishman of General Grant at Cairo,
Egypt. *• I cannot conceive of n nation,”
was the answer, “that grows so much grain
without producing any whisky.”
A young man just engaged on a ranch in
Truskee. Cn!.. was set to driving a yoke of
oxen, and at noon when he wanted to feed
them, was observed trying to unscrew their
horns in order to get the yoke off the animals.
Kansas Teacher—" Where does all our
'rain produce go to ?” Boy—"It goes into
he hopper." Teacher—" Hopper? What
topper !” Boy (triumphantly)—•" Grasshoj: ♦-
per!’’
An exchange says ; "A woman will face a
frowning world and cling to the man she
loves through the most hitter adversity, hot
'lie wouldn't wear a hat three seasons behind'
she style to save a government.”
•* What is to be done with the devil?” asks
the Buffalo Express. And the Flmckeye re*
plies: "If he is through taking proofs, ht
him distribute brevier until it i9 time for him
to go for the mail.”
A man was earnestly looking in the bung
hole of a whisky barrel, as it in search of
something he could not find. " What, are
vou doing?’’ asked a bystander. "Why,
I'm seeking my reputation in the place I lost
it,” was the mournful reply.
A Kansas man purchased a revolver for
his wife, and insisted on target practice, so
that she could defend her house in his ab
sence. After tiie bullet was dug out of his
leg and the cow* buried, he said he guessed
she had better shoot with an axe.
" But, Paul, how can the spirit be in us
and we in the spirit at the same time ?” said
a young man to a venerable darkey. "Oh.
lar’s no puzzle ’bout dat. It’s like dat po
ker, I puts it in de fire and it gets red hot.
Now. de poker’s in de fire and de fire’s in de
poker.”
Some of our exchanges persist in bringing
out Bob Toombs for Governor. Tho news
papers should not forget that Bob Toombs is
the man who spoke of the "shirt-tail full of
type and a cross-roads newspaper.” We can
not support Robert for Governor. We want
a more temperate man.— Darien Gazette.
A gentleman married his servant. A short
time after their union they gave an evening
party. Conversation flagging, silence reign
ed. when one of the ladies said, "Awful 1
pause !” The lady of the house immediate
ly exclaimed. "Awful paws, indeed! So
would you have awful paws if you had done
the dirty work in your life that I have !”
It is such men as Alexander Stephens who
are more dangerous to republicanism than
vour Hookers. Hewitts and Hamburg But
lers. With all his seeming fairness and un
doubted good feeling ho admits no radical
principle for which we contended, confesses
to no radical error on his own side; he
throws a sort of misty glamour about the lost
cause, and clothes tho ghostly skeleton < f
secession in the mantle of statesmanship, and
draws over that loathsome “body of death.”
chattel slavery, royal drapery of State rights
and Divine rights. —Grace GrecmcooJ.
Miss Fannie Scruggs, of Norwood, like all
other young ladies, must go down to the train
last Saturday, to sec her intimate friends,
the Misses Bruckner, with the rest of the
family, leave for Craw ford ville, wliero they
have arranged to reside the present year. Of
course any father might expect his daughter
to stand near the platform, and take the last
parting kiss of those very dear companions.
And was it strange if a little over zeal in that
custom caused that daughter to happen on
the platform as the cars darted off? That
was about the way of it. What a pity ! No
chance to get off and a kind and affectionate
father left behind, well nigh bewildered as
the last coach sweeps out of sight with the
center of attraction at home. He dispatched
a messenger on a freight train that soon
comes up ; the messenger arrives in Craw
fordville and receives the intelligence that
Miss Fannie Scruggs is become Mrs. Bruck
ner. the better half of young Mr. Cliff Bruck
ner, a member of the removed family. Miss
Fannie was the daughter of Mr. James
Scruggs, near Norwood, m this county. Mr.
Bruckner was the Tate owner and proprietor
of the Norwood mills.— Warrenton Clipper.
Mrs. Hays, the President’s wife, is the gen
tlest and kindest of women. A Washington
correspondent tells this of her: “ The little
son of Representative Felton, of Georgia,
has been at the jmintof death for many weeks
in this city. He is the last and only child
left his parents, and sympathy was deep
among their friends. At the White House
where the littlo fellow was known—he is
about the age of little Scott—the mother
heart of Mrs. Hayes brimmed over with teu
derness. Two days ago. the fever, contrary
to all expectation, left the patient, and with
the first tidings there came a great basket of
the rarest flowers from the White Rouse.
Never a bud had been sent during the hours
of watching agony. How sensitive the wo
man's intuitions, that knew no leaf could
cheer the mother at that time; they wotild
have brought but a fresh stab, because the
beautiful in nature could so bloom on. while
human hearts were dark. But when danger
was passed—what ecstacy to study the vel
vet petals, and see the goodness of the Al
mighty penciled on every leaf. Then the
fragrance floated through the fever-fainted
room, a constant reminder of the thoughtful
: author.”—.f'ej- Chromr}*..
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