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Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
■ W"' 1 ' *’ e before the Court House door, in
■ VV the town of -Jefferson, Jackson County, (la.,
I w jthin the legal hours of sale, on the first Tues
■ Jay in November next, to the highest bidder, the
I following property, to-wit :
I The remainder interest, subject to the life estate
lof Benjamin Atkins, in a tract of land in said
I county, containing four hundred acres, more or
■ less, known as the Elizabeth Buchanan place, on
■ the waters of the Pond Fork of the Oconee riv
■ er. adjoining lands of Jason Harrison, Jack Ad-
I dington and the Minor Lipscomb place. About
I forty or fifty acres of said place under cultivation,
I balance old field, with the exception of twenty
I icres of woods. Tolerably fair residence and out-
I buildings on the place. Sold as the property' of
I Elizabeth Buchanan, deceased, to satisfy a li fa.
I in favor of Benjamin Atkins vs. 11. C. Appleby,
I Fxecutor of Elizabeth Buchanan, deceased. Prop-
I trtv pointed out by the plaintiff and tenant in pos-
I rasion. scp‘2B JOHN S. HUNTER, Sh’Jf.
Administrator’s Sale.
: A (iRKKABLY to an order of the Court ofOrdi-
I A. narv of Jackson county, will be sold, before
I the Court House door, m Jefferson, in said county,
on the first Tuesday in November next, wltnhi the
legal hours of sale, one hundred and eighty-two
acres of land, more or less, lying in said county',
on the waters of Little Sandy Creek, adjoining
lands of J. M. Pittman, J. 11. Boggs, Geo. Strick
land and others; the place whereon \V. S. Smith,
late of said county, deceased, resided at the time
of his death, and whereon the Administrator, -J.
A. Smith, now resides. Said place is well im
proved; about sixty-five acres are cleared ; there
is about twenty-live acres bottom land, twenty in
original forest, balance in old fields. Sold for the
purpose of making distribution among the heirs
if said deceased. Terms, cash.
J. A. SMITH,
*ep‘2B Adm’r NY. S. Smith, dcc’d.
Executor’s Sale.
AGREEABLY to an order of the Court of Ordi
nary of Jackson county, Ga., will be sold,
on the first Tuesday in November, 187$, before
th? Court House door, in Jefferson, Jackson coun
ty. to the highest bidder, during the legal hours of
wlc, the followingproperty,.to-wit: One hundred
ntl tifty acres of land, lying in said county,.on the
waters of the Walnut Fork Oconee river, adjoin
ing lands of <f. if. Puke. Mrs. bong, W IF. Bridges
and Mrs. Bowles; knowu as the James Rodgers
kome nlace. There is about sixty or seventy acres
•f sain place first-class bottom, mostly in cultiva
tion ; about thirty acres upland, well adapted to
rotton ; balance in forestand old pine field. Three
wttlements of pretty good buildings on said place,
and the same is well watered. Sold as the prop
erty of Janies Rogers, late of said county, deceas
'd, for the purpose of paying debts and distribu
tion. Terms—one-third cash, remainder due in
twelve months from day of sale, purchaser to give
Mtes, and receive titles when all the purchase
money is paid. L. J. JOHNSON*,
sep2s Executor James Rodgers, dec'd.
Q.EORCHA, Jackson County.
Whereas, 11. M. and T. M. YVilbauks, Admin
istrators on the estate of Abijah Wilbanks, late
said county, deceased, rhakc application so me
lor leave to sell the land in said countv belonging
to said estate—
-1 h>s is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
•r term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
to he held on the first Monday in November, IS7S,
w hy said leave should not be granted,
hiven under my otticial signature. Sept. 24th,
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j. . Bains in the Back, Sides and Loins arc posi
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o>t Vl g°r, no matter of how long standing the
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r it-is rcaly a specific, and never fails. It is
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thousands of cases that have been considered
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M V' S bidorsed bv the regular physicians and
■ , Ua * Societies throughput the country'. Sold
"i *ottles at Two Dollars each. or three battles,
w '"' h is enough to cure the most aggravatedimse.
£ ( "t to any address on receipt of Five Dollars.
7 1 , * tr ' a l bottles One Dollar each. All orders
to be addressed to
GRANT’S REMEDY MANUFACTURING CO.,
Mi Main Si., W orcester, Mass.
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VALUABLE
Land FOR SALE !
piIF, undersigned otters for sale his plantation.
sit W ", ere b® now resides, in Jackson county,
j, " ate d on North Oconee river, five miles from
initony Grove, on Northeastern Railroad, and
• v >ame distance from Jefferson, the count
j n ainin K two hundred and fifteen acres, more 01
ln NS \ COl * s ' s ting of splendid bottom and fair upland
orV ' 1 Btate °f cultivation and improvement.
e | * llia ' forest and pine fields. On the place is an
built eight-room house, located in a
grove, with all necessary out-buddings,
' l it . orchards of Apple and Peach Trees ;
iti* 1 Rost Dttice, with daily mail facil
.n?f' .t convenient to good milk churches
uU . °°* s - Terms easy. For further partic
rs ’ a Pply in person, or address
W. J. COLQUITT,
july-i” Valley P. 0., Jackson Cos., Ga.
THE FOREST NEWS.
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The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Sometking New!!
Dr. J. B. PENDERGRASS’
NEW DRUG STORE,
Jefferson, Qa.
THE undersigned has just opened, in his office.
up-stairs, over Pendergrass, Son & CoJs
Store, a Drug Store, where he has, and will keep
constantly on hand
ALL KINDS
. OF DRUGS , MEDICINES, PAINTS,
OILS, VARNISH, sc.
PATENT MEDICINES, FRESH PER.
HJMERY, IIAIR OILS, PAINT
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sence. professionally, customers will be served by
a competent Druggist and Chemist.
Prices to Suit the Times !
February '23, IS7S.
MANHOOD; HOW LOST, HOW RESTOREDI
Just published, anew edi
tion of 3>i*. 4'nlvcrwHlS
y£(r r ’ xHif (Vlcliralcd on the
radical cure (without medicine) of Spermator
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Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by
self-indulgence or sexual extravagance. &c.
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I he celebrated author, in this admirable Essay,
clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years’ success
ful practice, that the alarming consequences of
self-abuse may be radically cured without the
dangerous use of internal medicine or the applica
tion of the knife; pointing out a mode of cure at
once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of
which every sufferer, no matter what his condi
tion may he. may cure himself cheaply, privately,
and radically,
1 his Lecture should be in the hands of
every youth and every'man in the land.
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dress, post-paid, on receipt of six cents or two
postage stamps.
Address the Publishers.
THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO.,
41 Ann St.. New York ; P. O. Box, 4580.
August 3d, 1878—ly
NEW FURNITURE
EST. 113LISHMENT.
J. F. WILSON,
UP-STAIRS, over Reaves & Neholson’s, broad
street, Athens, da., 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,
and satisfaction guaranteed.
Having a supply of Mouldings on hand, he will
also frame pictures at short notice, in superior
style.
Stey Call and examine his stock and prices.
January sth, 1878. 3mpd
Mewing Tobacco
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acter of nceetening and flavoring. The best tobacco
ever niadc. As our blue strip trado-mnrk is closely
imitated on inferior Roods, fee Hint Jack ton > llest is
on every plnfr. Sold by nil dcnl-r. Pend for sample,
free, to C. A. Jackso.n A Cos., Mfrs., l’ctersburg, Va.
Chroiuo ('artK (perfect beauties) with
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Cos., Ashland, Mass.
PIANO Beantiful Square Grand Pianos, price
4VOO, only $273. Magnificent Up
right Pianos, price SI,OOO, only $275 Elegant Up
right Pianos, price SSOO, only $175. Pianos, 7
octave, $125, 7£ $135, New Styles. Organs $35.
Organs,!)stops, $57.50. Church (VfflJ 4 V 10
stops, price $390, only slls. Ele
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Parlor Organ, price $340, only $95. “ Fraud Ex
posed, SSOO reward. Read “ Traps for the Un
wary” and Newspaper about cost of Pianos and
Organs: sent free. Pleafce addresS'DlNlEL F BE
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TO ADVERTISERS
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Many persons suppose this list to be composed
of Cl IF A I*, low-priced newspapers. The fact is
quite otherwise. The Catalogue states exactly
what the papers are. When the name of a paper
is printed in FI LL FACE TYPE it is in every in
stance the BEST paper in the place. When print
ed in CAPITALS it is the ONLY paper in the
place. When printed in Roman letters it is neither
the best nor the only paper, but is usually' a very
good one, notwithstanding. The list gives the
population of every town and the circulation of
every paper. IT IS NOT A CO-OPFRATIYE
LIST. IT IS NOT A CHEAP LIST. At the foot of the
Catalogue for each State the important towns
which are not covered bv the list are enumerated.
IT IS AN HONEST LIST.. T lie rates charged for ad
vertising are barely ONE-FIFTH the publishers’
schedule. The price for one inch four weeks in
the entire list is $635. The regular rates of the
papers for the same space and time arc $3,136.35.
The list includes 970 newspapers, of which 163 are
issued DAILY and 807 WEEKLY,. They are located
in 825 different cities and towns, of which 22 are
State Capitals. 328 places of ever 5 000 population,
and 444 County Seats. LISTS SENT ON AP
PLICATION. Address GEO. P. ROWELL &
CO’S NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING BUREAU
10 Spruce St. (Printing House Sq.), New York.
State. School and County Taxes!
rpHE Tax Digest for 1878 is now in my hands for
-L collection. My orders are positive, from both
State and county. Tax-payers will, therefore,
please come forward and settle up promptly be
fore the books will have to be closed. For the
convenience of those who may fail to meet me at
the precincts, I will be at the county cite every
Saturday, office in the Court House. I will visit
the precinct in each Militia District. See posted
notices. J. L. 5\ ILLTAMSON,
sept2l Tax Collector J. C.
m T^ijnnc lfyou want to make
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ta, Georgia. June 8
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA j SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5,1878.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The Mysterious Plague.
The history of the world from the begin
ning is one treasendous record of horrors.—
What myriads have perished in war ud what
desolation has not the ambition of the great
brought upon the lowly ! The breath of fam
ine has extinguished millions, for ages, and
even now courittess numbers of human be
ings are dying of hunger in China, and, last
year, 5,000,000 Hindoos perished while Brit
ish soldiers guarded the rice fields from des
perate hordes in order that British ships
might carry it to England. By the British
tbade in opium, which the Chinese Emperor
desired to suppress, thousands of men and
women annually destroy their souls and
bodies. All around us there is want, misery,
destruction and despair, and life is one ter
rific warfare from the cradle to the grave.—
The fever that now desolates the Mississippi
Valley is horrible enough, but bears no com
parison with the mortality that obtains in
other countries. The East has for centuries
been the hot-bed of scourges, sometimes chol
era, sometimes typhus, and, now and then, a
mysterious plague which baffles the boasted
science of man to determine. A Western
contemporary chronicles the ravages of the
Black Death, an importation from China
which swept over Europe between 1348 and
2351, much more extended and frightful than
those of the London plague. The disease is
regarded by some modern authors as akin to
the plague of the East, while others hold it to
have been typhus fever of the most malig
nant type. It spread from Turkey to Scan
dinavia, and even crossed into Africa, having
previously killed 13,000,000 persons in China,
and 24,000,000 in others countries of the East.
In fifteen European cities an aggregate of
300,000 deaths occurred ; in London alone
100,000 died ; half the population of Italy per
ished, while Germany is said to have lost 1,-
244,434 of its inhabitants. It swept bevond
the coasts, and ships drifted about the sea,
their decks and cabins filled with corpses.—
Universal consternation prevailed. There
was no time to lmry the dead, and they were
filing into rivers which had been previously
consecrated. The sick were forsaken by
their nearest relatives, who fled to the
churches and then joined religious tramps,
who flogged themselves in the hope of saving
their own and others’ souls, if not their lives.
Stories of poisoned wells were circulated and
believed, and next the unhappy Jews were
accused of the crime. In M aye nee alone.
12,000 of them were murdered, while in other
places they killed themselves to escape their
persecutors. In Naples, in 1665, 20,000 are
said to have died of the plague in a single
day.
Various are the reasons assigned for these
frightful visitations. Some speculative phi
losophers think they are necessary for the
purpose of weeding out an overburdened pop
ulation. Others contend that they are pun
ishment for sins. Others again affirm that
they are simply the natural results of violat
ed laws, such as cleanliness and temperance.
None of these theories can be said to “ hold
water.” Objections fatal to each and every'
one of them are easily adduced. And so,
the masses of men are inclined to ascribe
them to some mysterious source. It is cer
tain that human knowledge has done much
to circumscribe these plagues,*if not to de
termine their origin, just as human inven
tions, such as railways, make famine impossi
ble in any civilized land, unless indeed, tbe
whole country should be depopulated, or tlie
greed of man prove the most powerful ally of
the scourge, as it proved in India and Ire
land, tempered only by tbe charity of better
people. As an antidote has been found for
small-pox, one may also be found for yellow
fever.
Dr. J. R. Davidson, a reputable New Or
leans physician, is of the opinion that when
the conditions are favorable anywhere yellow
fever, if introduced germinally-, will grow into
an epidemic. lie says :
An elevated and prolonged elevation of so
lar heat may have something to do in con
tributing to the production of this peculiar
atmospheric constitution, but it is not alone
sufficient, for we have had hotter summers
than tliose in which the fever prevailed, nor
has it ever appeared in Madras, Calcutta,
Constantinople, and many other places where
the solar heat is far greater than here, and all
the other factors, of filth, squalid populations
&c., abound far more than any affected city 7
in America. Elevation locality does not
prevent the existence of the disease. Cortez
found it in Mexico seven or eight thousand
feet above the level of the ocean. It has been
borne across the Andes, and it has prevailed
epidemically 7 on the rock of Gibralter. There
are many r extraordinary- circumstances con
nected with the origin and propagation of the
disease which I have not time to discuss.—
For the enlightenment of your friends who
contend for the contagiousness of yellow fe
ver, let me cite two facts only, which ought to
dispel undue fears on that score, and which
throws some light on the circumstances men
tioned above essential to the propagation of
the disease. In the memorial and very- ma
liguant epidemic of 1853, three hundred per-
sons fled from New Orleans and took refuge
in Memphis. Of this number over seventy
died in private houses, hotels and hospitals,
but not one venulent of Memphis contracted
the fever. The necessary' conditions or at
mosphere, “epidemical influence,” “atmos
pheric constitution,” call it what you will*
clearly i not exist there, essential to aid
tbe growth and maintenance of the special
cause, “living organisms,” “ spores,”
“ pacteria” or whatever else is the proximate
“ special cause.”
Dr. Davidson predicts that in years to
come—just when, who can say ?—this epi
demical influence will prevail over an extend
ed region,as was the case in 1820, and we
shall see this terrible pestilence ravaging
many a city now supposed to he exempt on
the score of elevation, cleanliness, etc. Here
tofore,” he says, “ the disease has followed
the water course in its dissemination ; this
year it has traveled by rail, and the fear is
that rapid intercommunication hereafter may
be a fruitful source of its reaching distant
communities,” — Chronicle $ Constitutional
ist.
Sutro.
TIIE MAN AND IIIS TUNNEL.
It is about ten years since Adolph Sutro,
a broker of San Francisco, began his great
work, now known as the Sutro tunnel. The
project had been agitated by him for a con
siderable time, but it enlisted very little in
terest either here or among the miners on the
Comstock lode. Sutro appeared for a time
to work single handed, and against prodigious
odds. He was thoroughly saturated, so to
speak, with his scheme. Believing in its en
tire feasibility himself, lie had little patience
with those who did not lend him an attentive
ear, and did not, at least, admit that his plan
was perfectly feasible and would be ultimate
ly crowned with success. The Bulletin was
the first journal here to give him a hearing
and to publish a pretty full outline of his pro
ject. Sutro was the most persistent of men.
His will power was something which utterly
ignored the contingency of a failure. The
more opposition Sutro met, the stronger his
faith in ultimate success. He was the most
übiquitous of men. It is related of him that
be once invaded the New York Tribune office,
when Horace Greeley was its master spirit.
“ What do you want ?” said the great jour
nalist. “ I want to talk with you a few min
utes,” said Sutro. “ You can’t,” said Gree
ley, in a pet, turning to his work. “Mr.
Greeley,” said Sutro, “I will talk with you.”
And he did, laj-ing before him the project of
the Sutro tunnel with all the force and vehe
mence of a man whose \yill could brook no ob
stacle. The result was that Greeley wrote
a long editorial article for the Tribune, com
mending the project. Sutro conquered his
man, as he did everywhere, in a sort of hand
to-hand contest. When he came into the Bul
letin office, his explosive energy forced a hear
ing. You might set him down and his tun
nel as a dreadful bore, but he kept boring
away, caring little that he sometimes exhaust
ed the patience of men.
The remarkable fact which comes out later
is that this man, who had conceived one of
the greatest projects of the age in connection
with mining, a project apparently born in his
own brains, has been enabled to carry it
through, in ten years after the work had fair
ly commenced, to the first stage of success.
He lias bored a tunnel 22,000 feet long, chief
ly for the ventilation and drainage of the
Comstock mines, and within the pa9t week
has reached some of the oldest mines at a
depth of two thousand feet or so. and will
soon have lateral tunnels run to other great
mines. Sutro’s idea was that deep mining
could not much longer be carried on at profit
on the Comstock lode unless a tunnel was con
structed to Brain the mines of a depth of
about two thousand feet. He assumed that
a royalty of $2 a ton the ore raised from the
mines drained by r the tunnel would pay- fair
interest on the investment. Some of the min
ing companies agreed to this and the others
stood out. Sutro sought to enforce his lien
by an act of Congress, and became as well
known to many 7 members of that body- as lie
had been to capitalists and journalists. llis
plan was to compel all mining companies ,011
the Comstock lode to take out patents for
their mine, and to have the $2 clause insert
ed in the patent. The fight was a long and
bitter one, aqd the plan, we believe, was only
partially-successful. Congress. Legislatures,
Courts, capitalists and newspapers were a
part of the machinery which Sutro had to
utilize, and it must be said that lie never
failed to employ any- available instrument
which for the time promised to be helpful to
him.
The capital employed in the construction
of the tunnel lias probably exceeded four mil
lion dollars, although the nominal capital is
much greater. The money has principally
been drawn from Germany, the bonds having
been sold to capitalists there whom he had
inspired with confidence in the success of his
great undertaking. It is remarkable tfrat at
no time did the project command the confi
dence of mine owners on the Comstock lode
to such an extent that they were willing to
invest capital in it, although if this under-
taking were to result in success, they of all
others were the ones who ought to own the
tunnel. And so German capitalists furnish
ed the four or five millions required while the
tunnel was gradually creeping up to mines,
two of which have produced a hundred mil
lions. It is a remarkable grouping of facts.
Tile man and his enterprise Begun ten years
ago ; the obstacles which he overcame ; the
almost superhuman will power with which he
forced men to listen to him and accept his
conclusions; the machinery he used, from
Congress down to the little journal which he
established at the mouth of the tunnel; his
drawing of a steady' stream of capital from
Germany in aid of his project, when he could
not get a dollar from any mine-owner on the
Comstock lode; and his filial blast, which
blew a hole into the Savage mine, and was
the practical culmination of his great work.
Whether the tunnel is ever to become a
paying investment is one of those questions
which can be safely left with Mr. Sutro to
solve. With such a man it would be difficult
to set any limit to his possibilities. It is evi
dent that both he ami the German bondhold
ers believe that the enterprise will pay a fair
interest on the investment. It is also appa
rent that the tunnel has recently won a de
gree of confidence among old miners which
was not accorded to the enterprise in its
earlier stages. It is the most natural thing
in the world that they should now take him
by the hand and offer hearty congratulations
on his success.— Sun, Francisco Bulletin.
[From the Atlanta Constitution.
Bill Arp’s Sunday Chat.
Bad Omens in (he Family—The Owl and thd
Raven, and the Rabbit Crossing the Street
—Domestic Episodes—A 1 Vot'd About Mr.
Stephens and His Skillet.
The screech owl is sitting on the gate post
singing a funeral dirge. It’s a bird of bad
omen, and I would shoot him, but my wife
says an old African witch told her grand
mother there would be a death in the family
if you killed one of ’em, shore. It always
seemed to me that in.the fitness of things
they belonged to a graveyard, or a haunted
house, or a dismal swamp, or a country meet
in’ house that the hogs slept under and no
body preached in. I don’t like ’em, especially
at this juncture of home concerns, for my wife
saw the last new moon through a brushy tree
top right over her left shoulder, which she
dident mean to do by no means. Things
don’t move on serenely, and the old horse
shoe over the kitehen door has lost its influ
ence. I havent seen a pin on the floor that
didn’t pint away from me, and the other day
a rabbit run across the road ri<dit before me,
and sooti after I come to a snak'c track, which
they say is mighty bad if you don't rub it out
with your face towards the snake, but I
couldant tell whether the snake that made the
track was going north or coming back, and
so had to rub out by guess, and now while
I’m a writin’ Mrs. Arp has got a hunnnin’ in
her right ear, and she aays it sounds like an
Eolean harp or a musketer away off, and
thats another funeral sign—and last night a
black pet ebjeken came in the family room
while we was at supper and went to roost on
top of a picture that hung over the clock on
the mantle piece, and nobody knowd it until
we had put the light out and went to bed,
when it chuckled a little, and Mrs. Arp
chuckled a good deal until I struck a light,
and mow she says Sir. Poe had a raven that
done the same thing and he died soon after.
It seems to be one of those peculiar spells
That sometimes comes along when most every
thing goes wrong and nobody is to blame for
it. On Monday two of my pigs, just littered,
got drowned in the branch; Tuesday my
shoats got into my potato patch ; Wednesday
a nigger was found strutten around town with
ray equestrian walking cane, which was a
present, and which I dident know was lost,
and j'esterday morning, while Mrs. Arp was
away, 1 thought it a good time to cut little
Jessie’s hair off, for it was continually giltin
down over her eyes, like any other country
gal’s, and so I shingled it all over after a
fashion of my own, and when her mother
came home I dident know at first but what
she had took the highstcrics, but I soon found
out better without much assistance, if any.
and all that, day I had right smart bisness
away from the house. I gently suggested
that it was all owjn to the way she looked at
the moon, but that dident screen anything,
for you see she was countin on showin off the
child at the fair, and now she can’t. I am
hopeful, however, that when the ambrosial
locks grow out again our conjugial life will
once fnore be calm and screen. Husbands!
fathers ! martyrs to wedded bliss—don’t cut
your little girl’s hair off without permission—
don’t.
Somehow, or somehow else, the little do
mestic episodes archil fernenst us. and when
I take up a newspaper to find some comfort,
there aint any, for its mighty nigh half full of
the dreadful scourge which continues to feed
on human flesh, and don’t get any better, and
that takes away a man’s appetite and gives
him the sad colored bines—and the rest of
the paper is filled np with fires and mnrdcrs
and robberies and shipwrecks and horrible
accidents and runaway cashiers and dishar-
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
I $l.OO For Six Months.
monions conventions and independent candi
dates, and it, I woks like at the very time the
Radicals are weaknin’ all over the N<yth
Democrats are splifetin' up all over the South,
and the next thing-we hear this third party
will openly announce itself and play the devil
generally before the time comes.
W hat does it all mean ? I know it’s pos
sible that a man may be honest in leaving his
party in peril and takin up some side isshu,
like greenbackers and labor roformers and
communcrs and anti-conventioners, but if he
does there is a screw loose in his head some
where. It looks to me like he was a luniac.
Why can’t he wait until after the big fight and
help whip it, and then blow bis bugle horn
over his pet idees. If they are right they'll
be adopted by the Democratic party, and if
they aint they wont —that’s all. What in the
dickens arc they in such a hurry about? Its
just like little Alek was during the war—at a
time when the nation’s life was a liangin on
the impending battle of the Wilderness ho
was a settin away back in Liberty Ilall a
tooting of his horn and a crying at the top of
his voice: “ Hold on—stop—pause—desist
—halt—stack arms, everybody, and wait—
wait I say ’till wo settle this great question
of habeas corpus,” and now the folks who
dident fight go around and call him a philoso
pher—a statesman, a commoner—Lord help
us—when will the truth of history Jim written ?
The little dictator ain’t content with totin’
his own skillet, but he wants to run the whole
State and Federal raasheen, and lie’s a playin’
all around the circle—tax in’ the compass—
runnin’ with the rabbit and barkin’ with the
hounds, and in every possible wav keepin r
his name before the people. If lie’s sick, if
he’s well, if he's better, if lie’s worse, if he
speaks or writes a letter, or talks or grunts,
or takes a dose of medicine, the telegraph
git sit some way. Well, let him slide on—
that’s what keeps him alive, I reckon, and I
wish these patent medicine fellers would put
his name on every rock and plank fence from
Maine to California, if it will do him any good
—only I don't hanker after secin’ it in my
tiaborhood to any great extent. I’m tired.
I woulden’t give one George Lester for a hun
dred of him in Congress or out of it—in war
or in peace—at home or abroad—and it will
lie glory enough for the Democracy of the
Seventh District if the}’ triumph over him and
his independent followers and the Radicals
and the soreheads. Talk about Stephens and
Toombs ami Judge Wright and Zach Har
grove being for Felton ! Why don’t you tell
who Colquitt and Gordon, and Avery and
Gardner, and Towers and Tige Anderson,
and Lufftnnn and all such are for ? If yon
want to take the black spirits and white, as
Shakspear says, we'll take the blue Spirits and
grey—the soldier boys North and South—
they are the ones to rely on when trouble
comes, ain’t they ? Yours,
Hill A nr.
Lumpkin and Dawson.
Dawsoxville, Ga., Sep. I), 1878,
E<htors CfuinsviUe Eugie: —l met our reg
ularly nominated Democratic candidate at
Daliloncga, on last Thursday, when he ad
dressed the people of Lumpkin counts'. Up
to that time many of the most substantial
and influential men of that county had not
fully made up their minds as to their duty in
the present canvass. Rut after hearing Col,
Billups, who made.a strong, practical, con
vincing speech, they, with great unanimity,
announced their determination to vote for
him and stand by the Democratic party which
has done so much for our State and the whole
country. There can be no douht that Lump
kin county will give the nominated candi
date a handsome majority on the fifth of No
| vember.
Col. Billups came to Dawson county with
me on Friday, and since that time he has met
many of our people. lie is so gentlemanly
and polite in his treatment to all, that the peo
ple are greatly pleased with him. I have no
I doubt about the vote of Dawson, but the im
pression made on our citizens both in his pri
vate intercourse with them, and by his able
and satisfactory speech here to-day. is so
strong and favorable that our best informed
citizens concur with me that we will give him
a good majority when the election comes
off. John Hockkxiiull.
Cere for Ear Ac iie. —Take ten drops oT
sweet oil and five drops of laudanum, and
mix them together, and make the mixture
milk warm and pour it into the ear, and if
the ear is not easier in fifteen minutes, repeat
the dose, and it will complete the cure. I
have been affected in one of rav ears all of
my life, more especially during the war. Jn
18G.J I applied this remedy, and have not
been troubled with ear ache since, and my
hearing is much better than before. A short
time afterwards I had a child suffering from
it and I applied the same remedy to it, and
on the second trial it gave relief and the child
has never been troubled since with ear ache.
A story is told of a little miss of five or six
summers, who unconsciously perpetrated one
of the best jokes of the season. Wine was
being passed around and she was invited to
take some, but declined.
“ Why do you not take wine with your din
ner, Minnie V asked a gentleman who sat
near her.
‘•'Pause I doesn’t like it/’
“But take a little then, my child, for yonr
stomach’s 9ake,” he urged.
“ I ain’t got no tomrnitk’s ache V indig
nantly responded the little miss in the most
emphatic manner. As both question and an
swer were distinctly heard by those around,
every one burst into laughter, which so fright
-1 ened the little maid that she cried.
NUMBER 17.