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| lIOItLIt, Jackson ('oiinly.
• Whereas. W R A Boyd, adin’r of W II Boyd.
ili'C 'l. represents to the Court, in his petition duly
tH I. 'that he lias fully and completely administef
(.,(the estate af said deceased, and asks the Court
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This is therefore, to cite and admonish all per
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iuiv they can- on the first Monday in July,
ISIS, in the Court of Ordinary for said County,
why' the leave prayed for by the said applicant
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C. A. LILLY it CO. | Mortgage. Ac. In
rs. [ Jackson Superior
CAItOLINK TRIBLE. j Court.
It appearing to the Court that a Rule Nisi hav
ing been duly granted in the above stated case, at
the last term of said Court.; and it further appear
ing that the defendant lias not as yet. been served
bv service of said Rule, or by publication, as re
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fendant docs not reside within said county 7; It is,
therefore, ordered that the defendant do show
cause, al the next term of this Court, if any exist,
why judgment of foreclosure should not be had in
this ease, and that she be served by a copy of this
order, by publication thereof in The Forest
News, a public gazette published in said county,
once a month for four months prior to the next
terra of this Court. G. 11. PRIOR,
Fch.‘26th, 1878. Plaintiff's Attorney’.
Granted:
UEO. I). RICE, Judge S. C.
A true copy from the minutes of Jackson Su
perior Court, February Term, 1878.
April2o. T. 11. XIBLACK, Clerk.
r|KOK(iilA, Jiu'Kmoii ('ounly,
Whereas, Benjamin Nash, col'd, applies to me
for Letters of Guardianship of the persons and
property of the minor children of Mitchell Hard
man, col'd, late of said county, dec’d—
This is to cite all persons concerned and the
next of kin, to show cause, if any they can. on the
first Monday in June, 1878, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of snid county, why the ap
plicant should not he granted said Letters of
Guardianship.
Given under my official signature, this April
21th. 1878. ap27 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson ( oinity.
G. 11. Edge has applied to me for exemption
iwd valuation of personalty ; and I will pass upon
the same at 10 o'clock A. M., on the loth day of
May, 1878, at my office.
April 27th. 11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
NEW FURNITURE
ES T. WELSHMEN! 1 .
j. f.~w°Tlson,
[ TP-STAIRS, over Reaves A Ncholson's, broad
j , street, Athens, Ga., has established anew
business in his line, and is prepared to furnish all
kinds of
FURNITURE,
COFFINS.
BURIAL CASES. &c„
At reasonable prices.
Repairing all kinds of Furniture a specialty.
anu satisfaction guaranteed.
Having a supply of Mouldings on hand, he will
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kt?* Call and examine his stock and prices,
•lanuary sth, IS7B. 3mpil
M. E. YOUNG,
(Formerly with I.ueas A Mnre.)
Merchant Tailor,
LI AS just opened a large Stock of Imported
1 A Cassimeres. Cloths and Doeskins, at prices
s uit the times.
SiCSnecial attention paid to Cutting in latest
Cue door below Long’s 1 >rStore.
AMIENS, GA. ° ApO. 1878.
Hr. W. P. DeLaperrierc
({FFI UNS his thanks for the confidence of the
; ' public, manifested by the liberal patronage
’ostowed during his past course of practice, and
n 'l ll ‘s. by attentiveness, care and success, and a
1 °nstant guarding of every possible interest of
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t com niunity. Will endeavor to prac
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'atest and most approved remedies. Having as
sociated with him Dr. Bexj, F. Braseltox. who
b ft competent young physician, and having pur
c Used a pure, select stock of new medical drugs,
'an say he is much better prepared to do justice
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u ,' en bot profgsstonally engaged. AY ill receive a
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Special attention given to surgical opera
l(,nsand diseases of chiluren and females.
-Marcus I\ <)., Ga., April 13, IS7S. tf
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give me pleasure to show you my stock now on
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I am a practical mechanic, but not any better
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and not of gas. The blacksmith’s work is all done
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Jefferson. Ga. Feb. 23. 1877.
"beef cattle wantedT
YV7 E want to buy twenty-five head good, fat
; H beef cattle, of all kinds, either by' weight or
| head. Also, fifty Spring Lambs ; also, twenty
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mayll 3t Gainesville, Ga.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. MAY 25,1878.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
Mrs. Southern’s Jealousy,
SPRINGING UPON HER RIVAL TN THE SWIFT
WHIRL OF A DANCE.
The Murder Trial that has Excited such In
tense Interest in Georgia—Will the State
Authorities Hang this Wife imd Mother ?
Atlanta, Ga., May 4. —That “truth is
stranger than fiction” has just received a ter
rible exemplification in a tragedy that culmi
nated yesterday in a conviction for murder
in Pickens county.
Living for a long time near Jasper, a little
country town, was an old farmer named Ilam
brick. He was a respectable, well-to-do fel
low, with a handsome daughter that was the
apple of his eye. The girl, Kate, was the
picture of a country belle. Swift, supple,
strong, rosy, full of health and spirit, she was
the queen of all the hillsides. She had, of
course, a number of rough lovers, hut her
heart seems to have been set, with a singular
intensity, from her early' girlhood, on Robert
Southern, a youth of rather loose habits, and
with a handsome form, a pleasant face, and
a good heart. Southern was himselfa favor
ite. and Kate had to encounter many rivals
in her contest for his love. The chief among
these was a Miss Narcissa Fowler, who had
been married to one Conort, and had been
divorced from him. She was a very en' r a fT ini f
•- r- r> r*
woman, being of the plump, robust lmild that
takes the rural eye. She was lively, good
natured, and, it was said, was exceedingly
fond ot Southern. He was at, any rate very
attentive to both women, and they were, of
course, very bitter toward each other. They
had several quarrels, and were often on the
point of going to worse than words. The
feeling between them was not improved, nor
was their rivalry ended when Southern at last
married Kate llanibriok.
Southern's wife soon began to hear that her
husband and her old-time rival were seeking
each other’s company, and her high spirit be
came almost uncontrollable under the* influ
ence of her jealous suspicions. At length
some youths started out for a frolic in the
house of a Mr. Ilays, Miss Fowler being of
the party. It was discovered after the party
was made up that Mr. Hays’ house could not
be used, and Mr. Ilambriek’s house was se
lected as a substitute. Miss Fowler at first
refused to go to the house of her successful
rival, but at last consented. When Mrs.
Southern saw her enter the house she at once
told her husband that he must not dance with
her. He disregarded her request, and once
or twice he sought Miss Fowler’s hand for a
dance, but his wife interfered. At last lie led
Miss Fowler out for a set, and his wife ap
peared and said he should not dance that set
with her. Miss Fowler said that she intend
ed to dance the set with Southern, making
some remark about having known him before
Mrs. Southern did. The wife, evident!}' an
noyed, stepped away, and the set proceeded,
the husband and Miss Fowler dancing to
gether.
Mrs. Southern sat down on a couch and
watched the dance through. She then called
her husband to Her, and they had a whispered
but animated conversation. While they were
talking Miss Fowler passed them three or
four times. At length Mrs. Southern hurried
out of the room, and asked her father to lend
her his knife. He noticed something strange
in her manner, and refused to let her have it.
She insisted, and he finally gave it to her.
Without saying a word she re-entered the
room, and hurried across the room to where
Miss Fowler was standing. She sprang upon
her rival like a tigress, exclaiming, “You
have danced enough !”
It is supposed that Miss Fowler made a
reply, for instantly Mrs. Southern screamed,
“All right! all right! all right!” with each
exclamation stabbing her fearfully with the
knife.
Miss Fowler was cut to the floor. She did
not speak after her infuriated rival first
clutched her throat. She died instantly, even
before her rival had loosened her clutch upon
her prostrate form.
The first wound was a cut and a stab, the
knife entering the fleshy shoulder, severing
an artery, and being dragged up to its hilt
through the bosom to the upper side of the
heart. The next wound was across the bosom,
a fearful gash, opening clear into the vitals.
'Fhe third wound, made after the victim had
fallen and the murderess had thrown herself
upon the body, was across the abdomen, the
knife having been forced through the dress
and other clothing into the abdomen. Either
of the wounds would probably have been
fatal. It is said that when the artery on the
neck or shoulder was first cut the blood
spurted for several feet out into the room.
The killing was done so quickly that it was
not at first known who did it. Someone
asked who did it, and Mrs. Southern, raisins
her white, beautiful face from the dead and
bloody body of her rival, said: “I did it:
l I’ve been intending to do it for along time.”
A movement was at once made to close the
doors and prevent Mrs. Southern's escape,
but her husband, drawing his pistol, put his
hand on his wife's shoulder, and, starting to
ward the door, said : “Bv God, we are going
to shoot our way through if necessary, for we
are going to leave this house !’*
Owing to the difficulty in raising a posse,
the fugitives had several hours in which to
arrange for escaping from the country, and
they improved them well. By daylight they
were out of the county, plunging through the
woods toward North Carolina, the read}' re
sources of the husband throwing off the or
ganized pursuit, and his strong arm, com
bined with the help of his brothers and his
father, who accompanied him, enabling him
to defy an}* interference. Backed by his
father and brothers, he took his wife to Macon
county, North Carolina. The couple lived in
this county for several months, a child being
born to them while they were resting on the
fjmsr. Sirs. Southern says those were the
happiest months of her life. At length, how
ever, it was thought necessary to push on to
the great West, and they packed tip and
started. It was either fate or chance that, on
the very day of their start from their farm a
party of men from Georgia, who had discov
ered their whereabouts, rode down to the
farm to capture them. The pursuers and pur
sued passed each other on the road just at
dusk. The pursuers lost a day and a half at
the farm before they discovered the flight.
It is possible that with this start the fugitives
might have escaped had it not been for a dif
ficulty they had with a toll-gate keeper. This
delayed them for some time, and they final I}-
oroke away without settling with him. He
at once went into the neighboring town of
Franklin to lodge a complaint against them.
By either fate or chance lie found at the Mar
shal's office the party of Georgians, who were
looking for the Southerns.
Mr. Findley, tlie Sheriff of Hail county,
pressed on eagerly, his own force being re
enforced by the posse summoned by the irate
toll-gate keeper. They came upon the fugi
tives at about 10 o'clock, encamped in the
woods. It was a dark and rainy night, and
sometime was spent in getting the pursuing
party together. The Southerns had their
camp guarded, one of the boys keeping
“ watch” while the others slept. The arrange
ments being completed, and the camp ap
proached a second time, it was discovered
that the fugitives, taking alarm at something,
had hastily hitched up and moved out. The
pursuit was once more pressed ahead. At
about o o'clock in the morning the wagon
was overtaken. Owing to the rain the men
were all huddled inside. By a rapid move
ment the wagon was surrounded, an 1 half a
dozen muskets were poked under the flap of
the wagon cover. The toll-gate keeper then
demanded an instant surrender. For an in
stant all was as still as death in the wagon,
and then the voice of Bob Southern steadily
replied, “ Well, d——-n it, what do you want ?”
At the same time he lifted the canvas of the
wagon, and the whole party were exposed.
There was Mrs. Southern, half undressed,
white and haggard, clasping her tiny baby to
her breast, and shivering in the cold. The
men were huddled in the straw. They sup
posed, of course, that the arrest was made
solely by the North Carolina authorities, and
solely on account of the difficulty at the toll
gate. The whole truth was discovered when
Sheriff Findley stepped forward, and, throw
ing the light full on his face, said to Mrs.
Southern, “ Do you know me ?”
Mrs. Southern said she had nothing to be
ashamed of. and was not afraid to go back to
Georgia; that she had done right in killing
the woman who had tried to step between her
husband and herself, and was glad she had
done it, and that she didn't care what became
of her if they didn’t separate her from her
husband. On the way back to Georgia those
of the Southerns who were not held in cus
tody made a desperate attempt to rescue Boh
and his wife, but were met with such prompt
and determined resistance that they failed.
As an evidence of the pluck of these men, it
may be said that they made the attempt at
rescue with only two pistols, the third boy
being armed simply with a hickory club.
Upon arriving in Jasper, Mrs. Southern
begged that her husband and her child might
be placed in the same cell with her. Her re
quest was granted, and the family held the
main cell in the county jail.
The trial created great excitement. The
feeling was very intense, and almost every
one in the county was arrayed on one side or
the other. The prevailing feeling was against
hanging the woman. A number of lawyers
were engaged by both sides, and the largest,
multitude ever collected in Jasper assembled
to see the case tried. Mrs. Southern herself
was the centre of attraction. She was per
fectly tranquil, and sat nursing her baby (just
six months old) and watching the drift of the
testimony. Imprisonment had robbed her of
none of her beauty. The babe lay in her lap
day after day, cooing and playing and laugh
ing. “Bob” Southern was in the courtroom
every day in consultation with the lawyers.
The father and two brothers of the slain wo
man were constant in their attendance, sit
ting opposite the prisoner. It was noticed
! that their sternness melted very perceptibly
: during the trial, and when the sentence was
i finally passed they wept freely.
' The defence did not deny the killing, but
introduced two witnesses who swore that they
believed Mrs. Southern was insane when she
committed the murder. They showed that
she was suffering from a morbid jealousy,
was provoked by very aggravating circum
stances, and being in the nervous and excita
ble condition attendant upon advanced preg
nancy, was literally irresponsible for her ac
tions at the time of the killing. The trial
lasted five days. The jury, after several hours
of consultation, found a verdict of guilty.
At the announcement of the verdict, Mrs.
Southern lost her fortitude for the first time,
and gave way to violent weeping. The scene
during the delivery of the sentence by the
Judge was very affecting. Sobs and moans
were heard from all parts of tlie room, and the
Judge himself could scarcely utter the words
he was called upon to speak. He fixed the
21st of June as the date of the hanging.
It is hard to say what will be the final issue
of the trial. Of course a bill of exceptions
will be made. It appears that the judgment
is technically perfect, and it is not believed
possible that the Supreme Court will inter
fere.
Just here arises a horrible complication.
Mrs. Southern is pregnant, and will be deliv
ered of a child in November if she lives.
The sentiment against hanging a woman
is so strong in Georgia, and will be made so
especially strong in this case, that the Go
vernor must be of more than Spartan firm
ness if lie does not interfere. Avery decided
feeling against the verdict has already been
aroused, and there is no telling to what
heights it will go as the real day of the hang
ing draws near.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
Privilege of Prayer.
Prayer is not a consultation with the high
est wisdom which this world can supply. It
is not intercourse with an angel or a spirit
ma le perfect. But it is an approach to the
living God. It is access to the High and
Holy One who inhahiteth eternity. It is de
tailing in the ear of Divine sympathy even
sorrow. It is consulting with Divine Wis
dom on every difficulty. It is asking from
Divine resources the supply of every want.
And this not once in a lifetime, or a few mo
ments on a stated day of each year, but at
any moment, at every time of need. What
ever be the day of your distress, it is a day
when prayer is allowable. Whatever be the
time of your calamity, it is a time when pray
er is available. However early in the morn
ing you seek the gate of access, yon find it
already open ; and however deep the mid*
night moment when you find yourself in the
sudden arms of death, the winged prayer can
bring an instant Saviour near. And this
wherever you are. It needs not that you
should ascend some special Pisgah or Mori
ah. It needs not that you should enter some
awful shrine, or put off your shoes on some
holy ground. Could a memento be rearedjon
every spot from which an acceptable prayer
has passed away, and on which a prompt an
swer has come down, we should find Jehovah
shammar—“the Lord hath been here— ’’ in
scribed on many a cottage hearth-and many
a dungeon floor. We should find it not only
in Jerusalem’s proud temple and David’s
cedar galleries, but in the fisherman’s cottage
by the brink of Gennesaret and in the upper
chamber where Pentecost began.— Hamilton.
The Young Heir.
She had invited him to stop to supper, and
he was trying to appear easy and unconcern
ed, while she was on her prettieet behavior.
“ Have you used the sugar, John ?” inquir
ed the mother in a winning manner.
“John don’t want no sugar,” ejaculated
the young heir, abruptly.
“Why not?” inquired the father, curious
ly, while John, in his surprise, swallowed a
bit of toasted crust, and nearly cut his throat
open.
“ Cos he don’t,” explained the heir in an
artful manner. “ I beared him tell Mary last
night—.” •
“Y'ou keep still,” interrupted Mary, in a
hysterical manner, while the young man
caught his breath in dismay.
“ I heard him sav,” persisted the heir with
great eagerness, “ that she was so sweet he
wouldn’t never use any more—and then he
kisser! her, an’ I said I’d tell—an’ ”
The young heir was lifted out of the room
by liis ear, and the supper was finished in
moody silence. —Pittsburg Gazette.
The Mystery of the Seven Skeletons.
A cave has been discovered on the farm of
Mr. Henry O’Brien, of Lyon county, Ken
tucky. The cave is in the high bluffs that
overlook the Tennessee river. Mr. O'Brien
and his neighbors explored it the other day,
and they were horrified to find seven skele
tons tenanting the darkness. Judging from
their surroundings, and the fact that the
mouth of the room in which they were found
had been almost entirely obstructed by de
bris, which must have been many years in
accumulating, it is probable that the bones
are those of some early aborigines ofthe Ohio
and Tennessee valleys. The appearance of
one of the skeletons would indicate that a
fearful tragedy has been enacted in the gloomy
recesses of this subterranean cavern, for one
of them lies across the other, and the bony
fingers of each hand yet clutch the throat of
the victim. The walls of the room in which
the skeletons were discovered are as smooth
as if they had been cut with a chisel. Out
side of the bones, not a vestige of anything
that would indicate that the cave had ever
been occupied b)* human' beings remains.—
Paducah {Ky.) Sun.
) TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
/ SI.OO For Six Months.
Scissored Far&graptis.
The winter watering places of Florida have
not been doing well.
Judge W'illiiw Beverly, of Nr aeon cnßfity,
was to the front with new wheat.
| A Prussian officer was recently lust in the
; crater of Vesuvius.
A N\ bitfield county hen hatched fifteen
chickens from twelve oasis.
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The German Fnsilfers, of Charleston, arc
j on a visit to Savannah.
The two chambers of the Belgian parlia
ment have been connected by telephones.
“ Sum met thunder’’ is what the New’ York
I Herald styles the communistic agitation.
There are thirteen avowed candidates in
| Missouri for the United States Sefiatorship,
(longterm.)
Flic father of twins at Peoria. 111., has
named the helpless children Jim Blaine and
Bob Ingersoll.
1 he first bar of steel ever manufactured in
the South was rolled last week at a mill in
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Bishop Elliott of Texas is trying to effect
a repeal of the law under which bull fighting
is licensed in that State,
Col. J, W. II ay good, of the town of Ogle
thorpe, in an attempt to shoot a dog. shot
himself through two fingers of his left hand.
The South Australian Government Ims of
fered a bonus of $50,000 for the discovery of
a coal field within the limits of the province.
There are more than eleven thousand lady
telegraph operators employed in Great Brit
ain. Their wages range from $4.50 to $11.75
a week.
Professor Baird expects to stock all the
muddy-bottomed inland waters of the United
States with carp, which is a hardy fish. ftmf
always remains in the place wher6 raised.
The birth rate in Georgia since 1865 Ims
been a little more than thirty per cent, among
the whites, and among the blacks a little
more than fifty.
A picture of the crowd on memorial day,
at the laying of the cornerstone in Macon,
will appear in Frank Leslie's Illustrated pa
per.
Mr. James McCrtrfry. of McDuffie county,
expects a yield of from sixty to seventy bush
els of oats per acre from his crop.
Georgia' has already begun to send cucum
bers to our market. What have we done that
a sister State should thus attempt to cramp
Charlotte Gbseroer.
The number of new houses now being built
in Columbus, is greater than at any time
within ten years past. None of them are
large, but all look snug and comfortable.
imst Monday at the sale of the property of
the estate of G. W. Center, ninety shares of
the capital stock of the Georgia railroad
brought an average of about $56, per share.-
The inhabitants of Mill Kiver Valley and
Williamsburg, Massachusetts, are in con
stant apprehension of a bursting of the Go
shen reservoir and another terrible flood.
Texas publishes three Baptist, two Chris
tian. dhe Presbyterian, one Methodist, one
spiritual and one hundred and seventy Dem
ocratic papers.
Arnold negro fiddler of Cuthbert “ got re
ligion” a few days ago. Whereupon he shiv
ered his fiddle on the door step, saving : “No
man kin hab religion an’ be a fiddler.”
Russia preserves eight croWns of provin
ces conquered at various t unes and joined to
the empire—Siberia, the Crimea itiew, As
trakan, Kasan, Finland, Poland,- Krussinin.
A servant girl in Dayton. Ohio, ttafe'b&en'
pronounced an irresponsible kleptomaniac by
a Judge. This ease is the first one that lips'
come under our attention in which the vic
tim was poor.
There is a factory in Davenport, lowa, for
making sugar from Indian corn. The pro
duct somewhat resembles maple sugar, and
st:lls readily in the neighborhood. The ynip
is especially liked.
A Southern gentleman, whose name is not'
given, had fifteen hundred dollars taken from •
tinder his pillow, in a sleeping car; route.
from Washington to New York, Thursday
night.
Mrs. Jackson, the widow of *• Stonewall"
Jackson, of Charlotte, Ya.. has asked the
appenHax court at Baltimore to strike otT
State taxes on $8,700 Baltimore city stock
held by her, under the decision that non-res
idents of Maryland arc not liable for State
taxes on city bonds or stock held by them.
While Minnie Saundfers, of Bullet county,
Ivy., was at work in her father's chicken
house, the other day, a large game cock at
tacked her. driving his spur through the side
of her head into the brain. The girl, who is
but eleven, hss since been paralyzed, and is
dying grad nail}*.
In the yard of Capt. W. Ik Patterson, on'
Broughton street, near Drayton, is growings
very peculiar tree, literally covered with fra
grant j’ellow blossoms, which are scattered'
like a shower of gold or? the ground’by evert
strong breeze, lie is unable to ascertain the
name or species of the tree, which within the
past few years has grown to large proportions
from a little bush.
At the Baltimore dog. show. Mr. Whitman,
of Chicago, will exhibit his famous .Scotch
deer hound, which he imported from the ken
nel of Queen Victoria. She is of the pure
Sir Walter Scott strain, and' is valued at fifty
thousand dollars. She wears a collar of gold,
surmounted by silver crowns.
It is said that a woman who declare* she
is the lawful wife of the late W. S. O.’Bnen,
of the bonanza firm in San Francisco, will
contest his will, demanding half Ms estate.
She asserts that O'Brien, two years ago. set
tled $250,000 on her, and six months age * of.
fered to*compromise for an kddithmst *5500,-
000! which sbe refused.
NUMBER 50.