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/tllOltCil t. Jackson County.
\ T
, Wltereas, Wlt A Boyd, adm'r of \\ II Boyd.
<lecM. represents to the Court, in his petition duly
that lie lias fully and completely adniiiiister
el the estate af said deceased, and asks the Court
to grant him betters of Dismission from the same :
This is therefore, to cite and admonish all per
sons concerned, the next of kin, to show cause, if
*m they can. on the tirst Monday in July,
IS7S, in the Court of Ordinary for said County,
hv the leave prayed for by the said applicant
should not be granted, and lie receive Letters Dis
missory, as asked for in his petition.
(liven under my official signature, this March
■J7th, 1878. 11. W. BELL, Ordinary.
( 1 I.OItGBA, Jackson Coiinlv.
l.r
C. A. LILLY & CO. 'j Mortgage, &c. In
rs. > Jackson Superior
CAROLINE 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
by service of said Rule, or by publication, as re
quired by law ; and it also appearing that the de
fendant does not reside within said county ; It is,
therefore, ordered that the defendant do show
cause, at the next term of this Court, if any exist,
why judgment of foreclosure should not bo had in
this case, and that she he served by a copy of this
order, by publication thereof id Thk Forest
News, a public gazette published in said county,
once a month for four months prior to the next
term of this Court. G. 11. PRIOR,
Feb. 2Uth, 1878. Plaintiff’s Attorney,
(irauted :
GEO. I). RICE, -JiuTg" S. C.
A true copy from the minutes of Jackson Su
perior Court, February Term, 187S.
April ao. I. 11. XI BLACK. Clerk.
| A, .lackxioii County.
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\l, late of said county, dec'd—
This is to cite all persons concerned and the
next of kin, to show cause, ifany they can, on the
first Monday in June, 1878. at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, why the ap
plicant should not be granted said Letters of
(.Juardianship.
(liven under my official signature, this April
24th, 1878. ap27 11. \V. BELL, Ord'y.
Q.EOBCtlllt Jit*l*©n County.
(>. li. Edge has applied to me for exemption
anil valuation of personalty ; and 1 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
ESl\ IBLTSIIMEJs 'T.
J. F. WILSON,
[ | P-Sl AIRS. over Reaves & Neholson's, broad
street, Athens, Ga., has established anew
"lsiness in his line, and is prepared to furnish all
kinds of
FURNITURE.
COFFINS,
BURIAL CASES. &c.,
A t reasonable prices.
hepairing all kinds of Furniture a specialty,
an ’l satisfaction guaranteed.
Having a supply of Mouldings on hand, he will
‘ , Iratne pictures at short notice, in superior
style.
t all and examine his stock and prices.
January oth. IS7S. 3mpd
M. % YOUNG,
(Formerly Mill. I.ikum A Ware.)
Merchant Tailor,
TASjijst opened a large Stock of Imported
A t n-simercs, Cloths and Doeskins, at prices
to Kiut the times.
attention paid to Cutting in latest
s . f -' ~s ; One door below Long's Drug Store.
ATHENS, C. A. ° Ap (3. 1878.
Dr. W. P. DeLaperrierc
his thanks for the confidence of the
,* * public, manifested bv the liberal patronage
j'estowed during his past course of practice, and
by attentiveness, care and success, and a
‘ UMant guarding of every possible interest of
patients, to still merit the favor and esteem of
community. Will endeavor to prac-
Y* Medicineion true scientific principles, in all
" ,ra uchcs. and will treat diseases with the
'■'■'•st and most approved remedies. Having as
* c,: ited with him Dr. Benj. F. Brasklton. who
> a competent young physician, and having pur
-1 lasc< * a pure, select stock of new medical drugs,
( au say he is much better prepared to do justice
!' unnself and patients than ever before. One of
w other of us can always he found at the office,
' J. ei ' " ot professionally engaged. M ill receive a
j 1 "•■uy distance, from reliable parties. 1.0-',
', miles North-west of Jefferson, at Dr.
"" • (L’Laperriere's old stand.
■ ukoial attention given to surgical opera
)."'s and diseases of children and females.
-lareus P. ().. Ga.. April 13, 1878. tf
For Sale!
V *'OOD, serviceable One Horse Wagon, and
ji_ P air *ww Harness and Traces. A good Sad-
An excellent new Feed Cutter. Simple,
- : does it* work well. All will he sold at a bar
for C as h. Applvto
3 T li!7 M. STAFFORD.
THE FOREST NEWS.
1 lie People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Executrix’ Sale.
WILL be sold, under an order of the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county, before the
t'ourt House door in Jefferson, on the tirst Tues
day in June. IS7S. the land belonging to the es
tate of Marville Mill saps, deceased, lying in said
county, known as the Yiney Millsaps tract, ad
joining lands of John Sikes. Furgerson and others,
containing three hundred and sixty-six acres.
There is on said place three settlements of good
log cabbins, stables, Ac. About two hundred
acres in the woods, one hundred and tifteen acres
m old pine fields. Twenty-five acres fresh bottom
land, on Barber's creek, in high state of cultiva
tion-all now in corn ; about twenty-seven acres
good un-land, twenty-two of which is now in cot
ton and five in wheat; all rented the present year;
rent tor corn one-third, cotton one-fourth, and
wheat cue-third. Purchaser to get the rent.
I erms of sale : Sold on time until Ist day of No
vember. 1878. purchaser to give note for purchase
money and receive title bond. Sold for the pur
pose of distribution.
mayll LOUISA T. MILLSAPS, Ex'trix.
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To the Citizens of Jackson Cos.
I RESPECTFULLY submit a few facts for your
kind consideration, and should you He in need
of a Carriage, Buggy or pleasure wagon, it will
give me pleasure to show you my stock now on
hand and daily arriving. •
I am a practical mechanic, but not any better
than 10,000 others. The work I sell is manufac
tured partly by Southern mechanics. All work
sold with a guarantee, is backed by men of means
and not of gas. The blacksmith’s work is all done
substantial, and no new-fangled ideas about it,
nor is there any parts steel-plated, to catch the
unwearv. The wood work is made by experi
enced men. that work for a living, and do not
waste their time in growling about sustaining
home enterprises. The painting is done in a neat,
substantial manner—more for durability than
show. The trimming is done by men of common
sense.
The manufacturer has been in business twenty
seven years, and has manufactured and sold over
30.000 vehicles, and pays for every article lie buys,
and pays his hands every dollar they earn. And,
by strict attention to business and manufacturing,
l can assure you that I can sell as g< >d a carriage
or buggy as any made in Georgia for 40 per cent,
less than any other house.
Do not listen to prejudiced competitors, who re
sort to other than fair means to sell their work,
but come and examine for yourselves, and 1 will
make good what I say. Meat is now GJe. per lb.,
corn JOc. per bushel, and carriages and buggies
must be sold in proportion. 1 have sold twenty
six in the last seven weeks in Gainesville.
ST. CLAIR FECHNER,
Piedmont Sale. Exchange and Livery Stables.
Also. Carriage Repository, and Agents for Geor
gia for I). W . Miller A Sons, Wholesale Carriage
Manufacturers. mavl 1 3t
Warwick Wilson
To the Front AGAIN !
FZ EEPS constantly on hand, a complete stock
COFFINS
AND BURIAL CASES.
From the smallest to the largest. ALL STYLES,
“"prices to suit
THE TIMES!
Everybody, and all classes, can be accom
modated at his
Furniture Emporium,
Jefferson, Ga. Feb. 23. 1877.
BEEF CATTLE WANTED!
V\7Ewant to buy twenty-five head good, fat
t t beef cattle, of all kinds, either by weight or
I head. Also, fifty Spring Lambs ; also, twenty
five fat weathers ; also, twenty-five goats; also,
twenty-five hogs. Bring them in, and get the
, highest market price in cash.
FECHNER & SHUGART,
mavll 3t Gainesville, Ga.
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. JUNE b 1878:
SELECT MISCELLANY.
HOW HE PROPOSED.
BY KB E N K . KESFORD.
"Confound it.” exclaimed BachelorCrig t
“I wish I wasn’t such a fool."
After which wise wish he elevated his feet
on the table and thought desperately for some
time.
" Now, I’ve seen as many as a dozen wo
men I would like to marry, and who would
have been willing to marry me, I’m safe in
saying, and I never dared ask one of them to
have inc. I don’t see why I need be such a
fool as to be afraid of a woman, but I am !
I need a wife, and I know it. Everything
goes wrong. I don’t live since Jane married
and went away ; I just drag out an existence.
I wish I could muster up enough courage to
propose to this widow, if I like her, and she
likes me. lint then ! I know I couldn’t!”
"This widow” was a lady who was coming
to visit his sister, who lived in the city. They
had written to him about her, and invited him
to come down and stay a week or two.
“ If I only couhl screw m3’ courage to the
sticking point and propose. I could get along
after that, I guess.” he said, dolefully. •• But
it won’t stick. Confound it! llow could I
manage a proposal, I’d like to know ? I’d
faint, I know I would !”
The bare thought of asking the awful qnes
tion gave him queer sensations. If he ever
got far enough along to begin to ask it. he
felt confident that it would stick in histhro.it
and choke him to death.
“I'll go down, anyway,” he concluded.
“May be”—but the wa}’ in which lie said the
word had a very big doubt in it— “maybe 1
can muster np courage, if I like her. But I
ma}’ not take a fancy to her, when I come to
see her,” and the possibility of disliking her
really afforded him some relief.
Accordingly, with valise in hand, Mr. Crain
sallied forth next morning, en route for his
sister’s. When he got on board the train, he
saw with dismay that there were no vacant
seats.
He finally’ found a seat which a lady, had
possession of, and, as he rather liked her
looks, lie wished she would let him sit there
with her, but didn’t dare propose any such
thing. While he was casting about in bis
mind for some plan by which he could secure
the place without asking her for it in so many
words, she looked up, and, seeing the pre
dicament he was in, moved along and told
him he was welcome to sit there.
Mr. Craig sat down, looking somewhat
pleased and very bashful. lie knew he ought
to thank her, but the words stuck fast before
they got out, and he grew red in the face, and
said nothing, llis companion, however, was
inclined to talk, and hadn't any difficulty in
doing it, and gradually lie thawed out of his
reserve, and succeeded in overcoming his
bashfulness to such a degree that in an hour
or two lie felt quite at ease.
Suddenly thero was a crash, and the next
thing Mr. Craig knew lie was sitting serenely
in the middle of a clirty little puddle of water,
and the companion of his journey was pulling
weeds and grass out of her hair, close by.
“ I declare,” ejaculated Mr. Craig. “ It's a
mercy we ain’t dead ! Alvira’d be half scared
to death if she knew what had happened?”
“Are you Alvira Bowen’s brother?” asked
the lad}’, fishing up a false curl from some
mysterious recess in the depths of the pond
with one hand, and pulling a long piece of
weed from her mouth with the other, after the
fashion of a conjurer drawing ribbons from
bis mouth. “I thought there was something
familiar in } r our looks.”
“ Yes, I’m her brother,” answered M r. Craig.
“I wonder if you're the w-woman she wrote
about ?”
‘•Quite likely,” answered she. “My name’s
Stafford, Mr. Craig. It’s a queer kind of a
place for an introduction, isn’t it?” and then
she laughed in a way that completely won
Mr. Craig’s heart. -Now. if you’ll be so
kind as to help me out of this puddle, and
fish out that traveling-bag you sec floating
about over there. I’ll be ever so much obliged
to you.”
All of which Mr. Craig proceeded to do.
It was late at night before they reached
Alvira’s. Of course she was delighted to see
them, and frightened almost out of her senses
to think how near they had come to being
killed, and cried over her brother, who’d come
within one of being an angel at that identical
moment.
“ A miss is as good as a mile, Alvira,” said
Mr. Craig, tersely.
-I don’t know what I should have done if
it hadn’t been for your brother,” said Mrs.
Stafford, bestowing such a bewitching smile
on Mr. Craig that he felt warm all over in
stantly*. “ He was so kind and thoughtful.”
“I’m satisfied if you are,” said Mr. Craig.
‘•l’m sure I didn’t mind the bother anv.”
After which clumsy attempt to be comoli
raentary he blushed up to the roots of his hair,
but wisely refrained from attempting to ex
plain, as in such a case he always made a bad
matter worse.
A week went by, and Mr. Craig acknowl
edged to himself that he had never began to
be so deeply in love before. He begun to
cast about iii bis own mind for some new
method of proposing which wouldn't require
such an awful amount of courage as the old
way demanded. lie knew that courage was
the very thing be lacked. It wasn’t inclina
tion by any means. But be felt that he
couldn't ask her, in so man}’ words, to marry
him. It made him turn pale to think of it.
At the end of a week she got a dispatch
from her sister asking her to come home at
once, to attend to a matter of business.
” lou’ll surely come back and finish your
visit, won t you, now ?” said Mr. Bowen.
And Mrs. Stafford promised to comeback in
a few days and stay a week longer.
Mr. Craig wanted to find out how be stood
in her estimation before she went away. He
might Util, be there when she catne back. It
was with a vague idea of proposing to her
that he volunteered to take her down to. the
depot, on the morning of her departure. Two
or three times, before they reached the sta-
tion, he tried to say what he wanted to, but
the words stuck in bis throat, as lie had
known they would, and choked him till lie
was purple in the face, and made him feel
sure that he resembled nothing else in the
world quite as much as he did one of Alvira’s
purple cabbages.
Three times, while they stood on the plat
form waiting for the train, he made desperate
efforts to say what he wanted to, but lie
•otildn't.
At Inst the train came in sight.
Mrs. Stafford, I wish you’d tell me some
thing before you go,” be began, pale as n
ihost. and then stopped, with his tongue
cleaving to the roof of his mouth.
” Welt, what is it?” she asked.
” I—l've been waiting to tell you for some
time, he stammered, blowing his nose and
coughing terribly in a vain effort to hide his
embarrassment.
•Well, burry, then,” said the widow. “I’ll
be left if you don’t.”
Poor Craig opened his mouth to speak the
terrible words. The bell rang, as be stood
there with glaring eyes and finally burst out:
“ You’ll be left if you don’t hurry !”
With a look of disgust, the widow gathered
her skirts about her and left him without
deigning to say good-bye.
“ I declare, if you ain’t a little the biggest
fool, Joshua Craig, of any I ever heard of!”
he told himself as lie drove back. “ You’ve
put your foot in it this time !”
He couldn’t go home, for all he was
ashamed to face the widow. So he stayed,
and she came back, and bewitched him more
than ever, and lie vowed he would propose, or
die in the attempt. He felt quite sure it
would bo die.
One night he was out pretty late. When
became home he didn’t stop to get a light,
but felt his way to what he supposed was his
bedroom.
lie sat down to pull off his boots. Sud
denly his hand came in contact with a pair of
ladies’ gaiters on the floor.
“ Goodness !” cried Mr. Craig ; “ who’s put
these here ?”
A sound of life from the direction of the
bed. Something white rose up and confronted
him.
“ Who’s there ?” demanded he, half fright
ened to death.
“ Why, Mr. Craig !” cried the voice of the
widow. “ How dare you come into my room
at this time of night ? I thought you were a
gentleman. Dear ! dear !” and then the wid
ow began to cr}'.
Mr. Craig’s hair rose np like “quills upon
the fretful porcupine.” lie could actually
feel how pale he was.
“ Mercy on me !” he managed to ejaculate.
“I—l didn’t know that I was in anybody’s
room but my own. I didn’t! I declare, by
all that’s good and great, that I didn’t!”
•• I don’t know whether to believe that or
not,” answered the widow, with smothered
sobs. " Men don’t often make such mistakes
unintentionally. I thought 1 could trust you,
and that you were too honorable to take ad
vantage of my unprotected situation. Dear
me ! what icould people say if they knew of
this? I’m going to call your sister! I'm
going to let the world know what a wretch
you are ?”
“Oh don't!" cried Mr. Craig, with a world
of entreaty in his tones. A desperate thought
flashed across his brain. Before he stopped
to consider what the consequences might be,
he had given it utterance. It was his last re
sort—his forlorn hope.
“ I—l came to— propose to you !” he de
clared explosively. “ I didn’t dare to ask
you by d—daylight, and I took this way !’’
“ I don’t know whether to put any depend
ence in what you say or not,” said the wid
ow. pausing in her sobs. “ You men deceive
us so! I’m afraid you’re taking this way of
getting rid of being exposed. If I thought
3'ou were—”
‘*l aint!" stoutly asserted Mr. Craig, be
ginning to feel a slight increase of courage.
I—l’ve wanted to—to ask you to h—have me
for some time, but I d—dassen’t. I—l’ll
marry you any time you say, if you won’t
mention this. I will, really, if you w—want
me to.”
** If I could be sure you were in earnest,”
said the widow waveringly.
”lam ! I hope to die this blessed minute
if I ain’t !” declared the poor man. “ Say
yes. quick, if you’re going to. I—l want to
go and see a man.”
“ Well, then—yes !” said the widow, and
Mr. Craig bolted for the door, an engaged
man !
“There, you old fool,” he apostrophized
himself, as he reached his own room at last.
“ you’ve done it, haven’t you? You’ve put
your foot in it this time, and I hope you’re
satisfied !’*
lie didn’t sleep any that night. He won
dered if all men felt as he did when they were
first engaged ? lie was dreading the morn
ing, and the widow.
lie went down to breakfast with a quaking
heart. He saw the widow come into the
room, all smiles and blushes, and looked
about in a vain longing to hide. He felt an
awful sinking at his heart when she came and
sat down beside him. and bis sister rose up
and came toward them. He felt what was
coining.
“ I’m so glad.” said Alvira, kissing Hie
widow. “ When is it to be, brother?”
“ \5 -what ?" asked the poor man, beginning
to realize how helpless lie was to avert im
pending doom.
“ Why, the wedding, of course,” said Al
vira. “Of course you won’t put it off longer
than two weeks. We can have everything
ready by that time.”
“ T-’tnint for me to say,” he said, meekly.
“ If it s got to lie done, the sooner the better,”
and then lie wiped his face and wondered if
he would be living two weeks from that day.
Two years have gone, and lie still lives.
He is just forming the acquaintance of little
Craig, and lie congratulates himself daily on
the mistake which made a married man of
him.
PICKED UP IN MID-OCEAN.
An Escaped Convict Rescued by an American
Vessel's Crew—Floating on a Frail Raft
and Full iced by a School of Sharks—Ten
Days Afloat —Two Companions Lost and
He Ready to Perish.
Monday, the 11th of February, was a dark,
rainy day in the South Atlantic Ocean. The
schooner Carrie E. Long, of Stockton, Me.,
on her voyage from Buenos Ayres to New
York, had reached a [mint just south of the
equator and about two hundred miles from
the Brazilian coast. Nothing was to be seen
in any direction, when all at once the look
out shouted out, “A sail!” At the same
instant a husky cry was heard by the seamen
on the deck. All looked in the direction
whence the cry came, and laughed at the look
out for his announcement that a sail was in
sight. All that was to be seen was an un
even mass of bamboo, not ten feet square, in
the middle of which a half-naked black man
was kneeling upon a box. The only sail vis
ible w r as a shirt discolored with sea water,
which was flying from aslendor bamboo pole.
Besides the man was a rusty kerosene can ;
in his hand a rude paddle which he used to
support his feeble body as lie raised himself
to shout for help. The raft was so narrow and
so low in the water that every light wave
rolled over it from stem to stern. The man
shouted incessantly, but now and then the
sound died away in his throat, and the hear
ers only knew that he bad shouted by the
convulsive actions of bis mouth and chin.
A boat was lowered from the Carrie E.
Long and made its way toward the raft. The
man continued to shout, although rescue was
so nigh. His cries were not intelligible, hut
it could be distinguished that he used no Eng
lish. As the boat neared the raft one of the
sailors pushed off again with an exclamation.
The man on the raft uttered a scream of de
spair. “What did you do that for?*’ the
mate asked. The offending sailor made no
reply, but pointed under the raft. Following
his finger, the others saw three or four im
mense sharks swimming leisurely there.—
Now and then one would thrust his nose be
tween the light bamboos as if to pry them
apart. More than once the open mouth of
one could be seen raising itself over the top
of the raft within a yard of the occupant's
feet. When this happened the man on the
raft ceased to shout and seemed to become
dumb with terror.
Again approaching the raft, the rescuers
this time secured it to the boat and transfer,
red its single passenger to their own craft.
No sooner had he touched the ship's deck
than his strength, sprung from excitement
and the instinct of self-preservation, abandon
ed him, and he fell unconscious. As he lav
on the deck it could be seen that the sores on
his body had been made by the continued wet
ting with salt water. Crystals of the salt
were visible on the raw edges of the wounds.
The body was emaciated, and the bones at
the joints seemed as if about to thrust them
selves through the skin. The ordinary black
hue of his skin was turned a dirty drab. His
tongue, swollen to unnatural size, hum* half
out of his mouth, and the wonder was that he
could have uttered a single sound. After he
was aroused, he could only gasp inarticulate
moans and point to his mouth for water.
It was nearly a week before bis appetite,
and with it Lis strength, returned so that he
could be questioned. There was not a Fort
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ugese scholar on board tlie Cafrie E. Long,
although one of the crew knew a little Span*
ish. It was more'by jesture than by word
that lie told his story, lie said that his name
was Emmanuel Francisco, and that he had
been at sea ten days alien rescued. Origi
nail}* there were three on the raft, bht one
bad been Washed overboard and devoured by
sharks before his eyes before they were two
days out. The second died from exhaustion
on the fourth day. He threw his bodvtothe
sharks, thinking, in that way. to cause thertf
to quit, following the raft, but after they |ia<?
torn his comrades to pieces they only follbW
ed him the more intently. He dared not
sleep, for fear of walking offilie raft intethcrir
open jaws. \\ ater gave out on the sixth day,
and thirst was added to the loss of sleep.
His only food was bread, which had become
musty from long confinement in the kerosene
can, and the eating of which consequently
only added to his thirst without satisfying
his hunger. His sufferings became so intense
that lie was about to cast himself tod he Sharks
when the Carrie E. Long hove in .fight.
M here did he come from and what was he do
ing on the raft ? Francisco failed to answer
this question satisfactorily. He insisted*
that lie had originally sailed from the Brazil
ian coast, but took advantage of his question
er's ignorance of the language to avoid ex
plaining why he had put to sea on so frail a
ora ft. The contents of a black bottle found
|on the raft in a measure answered the ques
tion. and accounted for his Unwillingness to'
|he more definite. In it was a magfstrate’s'
commitment of a felon, presumably Francisco,
j t° eight year’s penal servitude for some small
theft. The date of the commitment showed
that the prisoner had served three years.—
The Brazilian penal island of Fernando No
ronha, situated three degrees below the equa
tor and about four hundred miles from the
main coast, was in a few hundred miles from
where Francisco was picked up. and it was
conjectured that he had escaped from there.
This conjecture was c< nfirmed when the Carrie
E. Long arrived at Matanzas and the customs
officer came on hoard. As soon as the aecentsof
the Spanish tongue fell on his ear, Franciscnr
ran below and evinced great fear of recapture/
On hearing his story and reading the commit
ment. the Brazilian agent at the port wanted to’
hold I* rancisco until the Governor of Fernando’
Noronhu had been communicated with. But
Capt. Park put his foot down at this and de-'
dared that Francisco should not he removed’
from the vessel. The agent did not press his’
claim and Francisco arrived in this city on 1
the Carrie E. Long on Monday night. On 1
the voyage ho made himself useful serving as
a seaman. The sailors called him Monday,
because ho was rescued on that day.
M hen the writer saw him yesterday he saw
a stout, healthy man, with nothing iri his
smiling lace to indicate the horrors he had*
passed through. lie is a thorough bliicfr,
with the crisp, curling hair, peetVliar to the
inhabitants of hot countries. He seemS" In
tel lige Jit. and rather ashamed that he ran'
speak no language but what he calls “ Bra
zilian.”
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A fair wiH lie held in Gainesville next fall/
There is a place in Mississippi called Wet
Water.
They are eating biscuit from new flour in
Thomasvme.
Down in MonrOc cotliifv they measure corn
by the yard.
Gaines .ille wants a railroad to Daldonega
and another by Way of Jefferson to Social
Circle.
The Mclntosh Grand Trrfy recommend the
adoption of the M-offet Dell punch and the
taxing of dogs.
The mayor of Austin' has fined a woman
$25 for unmercifully beating a horse.
A young white man who is a dlsgrabo to his
sex, eloped last week from Quitman with a
notoriously bad negro woman.
Rev. Lovick Fierce. I). D„ was born on the
very da}' that Methodism was organized in
America. He is now 1)4 years old.
Ihe Dallas Herald places the wheat crop
in Northern Texas at 5,000,000 bushels. The
balance of the State may produce a million
bushels.
A temperance meeting in Texas was post,
ported on account of rain. Too much water
made the’Murphy men mad.
Dick Dawson and Moses Green are to be
hung on the sth of July in Upson county, the
former publicly, at his own request—the lat-’
ter privately.
Mile. Leonide Leblanc, one of tire actresses
in Dumas' new play, wears a white Satin
dress in one of the acts trimmed with $60,000*
worth of diamonds and $40,000 of pearls.
Mrs. Riley, of Tayter comity, an aged lady,,
ninety years of age, has very recently cut her
third set of teeth; and now bn* a full set.
Mr. Thomas C. Tveese. a young gentleman
of Columbus, was perhaps fatally injured h
few days ago by being dashed to the ground;
by a runaway horse.
Dr. H. D. Freeman, near Csrnesville. has
preserved in spirits a snake with two perfect:
heads, a scorpion with a forked tail, and a
large bug with more legs than any brig in the
United States.
Jefferson Davis has been acting as umpire
for two Mississippi men who disagreed in.
politics and applied abusive epithets to each,
other. He decided that both ought’ to apol
ogize, and they did so.
Jest now a great deal of sickness is preva
lent in Augusta, a natural 'consequence* of
spring, hut every effort is put forth by the
authorities to improve the sanitary condition
of the city. —Evening .Yc ws.-
A grand wedding was to be held’ in the
Roman Catholic Church in Westfield, Mass.,
but the large assembly, after waiting two
hours, dispersed without witnessing an}* cere
mony. The bride was ready, but the bride
groom had been convinced hy his mother thnt
he had made a mistake-in-bis choice.
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