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Jackson Deputy Sheriff’s Mort
gage Sale.
\\J ILL he sold, on the first Tuesday in Febru
\ t ary, IS7D. before the Court House door, in
die town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., with
in the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
One tract of land in said county, known as the
Pharr place, containing one hundred and twenty
seven acres, more or less, the same being the place
whereon John 8. Messer resided on the 10th of
March, 1877, bounded as follows: by C. M.
.Shockley, (J. S. Duke. James Rogers, estate of
John Long, dec'd, and I*, it. Kinninghatn, dec’d;
all in said State and county. Levied on by virtue
of and to satify a mortgage fi. fa. issued from Jack
son Superior Court, returnable to February Term,
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, in favor of
Moore, Marsh & Cos., vs. said John S. Messer, as
the property of said John S. Messer, said land
being described and conveyed in a certain indent
ure of mortgage bearing date on the 1 Otl day of
March, in the year of our Lord, cightteen hundred
and seventy-seven. On said place is a good fram
ed and ceiled dwelliug house, kitchen and out
houses; splendid well of water; some fifty or six
ty acres in a good state of cultivation ; conven
ient to gins, church, &o. Written notice given
John 8. Messer, defendant in fi. fa. and tenant in
possession, in terms of law.
janll .). J. WALLIS, Dep’y Sh’if.
| 1 DOKCIA, Jackson roimly.
Whereas, Hugh A. Carithers. Administrator
•It i>nis non of ft. 'l'. Carithers. late of said coun
ty. deceased, represents to the Court, in his peti
tion duly tiled, that he bus fully and completely
administered the estate of said deceased, and asks
tlu Court to grant him Letters of Dismission from
the same —
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors. to show cause, if any they can, on (lie first
Monday in March, 1871), in the Court of Ordinary
for said county, why Letters of Dismission from
said estate should not be granted.
Liven under my official signature. December 4,
IS7S. dee7 11. W. DELL, Ord’y.
| | KOIMiI t, .Ineksoii County.
Whereas, Jas, S. W. McDaniel and Thos. N.
Daniel applies to me in proper form for Letters of
Administration on the estate of William Mc-
Daniel, late of said county, deceased—
This is to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any, on the first
Monday in February, 1879, at regular term of the
Court of Ordinary of said county, why said Let
ters should not be granted the applicants.
Liven under my hand officially, December2oth,
1878. jau3 H. W. HELL, Ord’y.
EORCal.i, Jackson Coiiuiy.
Whereas, J. R. Draselton applies to me in
proper form for Letters of Guardianship on the
person and property of Johnson Cowan and Helen
Cowan, minors of Steven Cowan, late of said
county, deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred, &c., to
show cause, if any. why said Letters should not
be granted the applicant on the first Monday in
February, 1879, at regular term of the Court of
Ordinary of said county.
Liven under my otlicial signature, December
20th, 1878. jan3 H. W. HELL, Ord'y.
Notice.
XTOTICE is hereby given that application has
-1A been made to February Term, 1879, of -Jack
son Superior Court, by’ John Phillips, to be re
lieved from the disabilities imposed by’ reason of
a divorce —a vinculo matrimonii —having been
granted to his wife, Emma Phillips, at February
Term, 1877, of Jackson Superior Court, and that
said application stands for trial and hearing at said
February Term, 1879, of Jackson Superior Court.
JOHN PHILLIPS. Petitioner.
PIKE & McCARTY, Att’ys for Pct'r.
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SELECT MISCELLANY.
Words of Comfort.
A KIND WORD FOR WOMEN WHO ARE NOT
HANDSOME.
Beauty gets plenty of praise. Poets sing
of it, romancers furnish it in abundance to
their heroines, dramatists use it as the mo
tives of their most stirring plays, painters and
sculptors delight to portrait it, all the world
worship it—and yet there is something to be
said about the noble qualities of ugly women.
There is often more charm in an ugly little
woman than a half a dozen tall, queenly beau
ties, who have been on the watch all the time
to pose well and make their points effective,
riieria have been men in the world who
thought it a fine tiling to sav that “an ugly
woman has no place in the economy" of na
ture.” But if the records of the world were
intelligibly written, it would be found that
ugly little women have been the heroines, the
helpmates of the heroes. It is the function
of beauty to get man into trouble. Helen of
Troy, Cleopatra, Mary, Queen of Scots, and
many others, wherever they came they brought
calamity. Beauty and anguish have walked
hand in hand the downward slope to death,
and whenever the poet dreams of fair women
he is sure to dream of something doleful. If
he were to have a dream of an ugly little wo
man it would be full of brightness, loyalty, de
votion, sincerity, fortitude and all those oth
er lovable female qualities that make some
one happy. Tall Beauty is epic ; Little Ugly
is lyric, homelike. Just think what a deep
seated compliment is involved in calling ir
regularity of features homeliness. It means
that she is not for the ball room, but for the
home, for the friendships that cluster around
the hearth, for the merry little sociable, the
pic-nic or the off-hand game, or for the dark
ened sick room, where she brings rest and
comfort. “ Pretty is as pretty does,” is an
old maxim, whose truth is only half appreci
ated. For in the plainness of feature and in
significance of person of homely women there
is often found an earnestness, a whole-souled
sweetness and sympathetic expression that
win love far quicker than mere beauty. The
world could far more easily afford to lose its
supplies of beauty than to give up its pre
cious stores of ugly little women. The beau
tiful wait to be loved ; the others delight in
loving. —Baltimore Ever;/ Saturday.
Crooked Tracks.
M hat was Alice thinking about, as she
stood gazing over the broad expanse of snowy
meadow, across the river, and to the distant
mountain-tops in the yellow sunset of that
still New Year’s Eve ? The boys were skat
ing merrily on the little cleared ice patch
above the dam, but the days had passed when
such a sight had attractions for her ; nor had
those yet come when she could live over again
in another generation the joys of her own re
cent childhood. Yet, to some extent, her
thoughts were with the boys, or rather with
the crooked tracks they had made with their
sleds over the pure and otherwise unruffled
surface of the snow.
Just like my life, she thought. One year
ago—can it be a year ! —I stood at this same
window, looking out over the new year, with
its twelve unsullied months as pure and beau
tiful as this untrodden snow. How beautiful
and pure I intended them to be ! How good
I meant to be, how useful, how efficient, how
deserving of praise ! I meant to study so
faithfully, to attend to every home duty, to be
the support of mother, the light of father’s
eyes; such a true friend, such au example to
Sabbath-School scholars and companions. I
meant to live and do and be more than any
girl had ever lived and done and been before,
and to leave such shining “footprints on the
sands of time and now, as I look backward,
oh, what crooked tracks !
Iler first efforts had been directed to the
education of her younger brothers and sisters ;
but the lessons had come to grief in a few
weeks, since the little folks positively refused
to submit to a delegate 1 authority, which,
failing to control its own temper, could not
command their respect. Household duties
had been essayed, but Alice's careless for
getfulness so annoyed her house-wifely moth
er that after several reprimands, received with
no very good grace, that lady resumed, with
a sigh, that part of her burdens which she had
looked ferward so anxiously to sharing with
her daughter.
Then the care of her father's books, papers
and accounts fell into Alice’s hands, but mat
ters were still worse here. The reading clubs,
the sewing society, the Sabbath-School, etc.,
each in its turn claimed her attention ; but
the same difficulties followed her here. In
clination rather than duty impelled her choice ;
an uncontrolled temper brought her constant
ly into collision with others, while careless
ness and neglect spoiled every piece of work
which she undertook. She meant to be very
religious, too. but there were very crooked
lines along the paths of prayer and Bible
reading which she had marked out; nor, in
spite of her resolutions and intentions, could
she find anything to help her keep back the
sharp word and angry thought till it was too
late.
So there she stood looking out over the
snow, thinking her own thoughts of the dis-
appointing past, and adding to them hopeless
forel>odings of the future.
For how was she, taught her own weakness
by bitter experience, to enter upon the new
year with her new load of care—the house,
the children, her father’s comfort, and the
charge of her invalid mother—and expect
success where only failure had been before.
So far as she could see, the tracks must con
tinue to be crooked for all coming time.
But as she looked, a loud, cheery halloo
was heard, which called the boys back from
the pond, and round the corner of the house
came the man-of-all-work mounted on the
Wood sled, to which was attached old Hannah,
the nfare. “Corue boys!" he shouted, “.the
road's got to be broken ; to-morrow is New
Year’s Day, and I like to finish off all the old
jobs with the old year.” Soon all were at
work, anil the steady old horse, guided by
the steady old man, marched directly on to
ward the gate. The boys followed, tramping
down the snow and beating it hard, till just
before the shadows hid the outside landscape
completely from her view, where the crooked
tracks lay before, Alice could trace a broad,
level road, straight as an arrow. Then, as
she turned from the window, many things she
had learned and heard before flashed with
new meaning upon her memory ; and before
she went to see to tea, call in the children,
welcome her father and make her mother
comfortable for the night, she knelt alone in
her room, and in the quiet stillness of the win
ter twilight put her hand, by prayer and faith,
into the blessed Hand which has promised to
lead aright, and implored that heavenly Guide
to so strenghten her in following closely in
the footsteps of steady’ old fashioned duty’, as
that henceforth every crooked thing in her
life should be made straight.
Friends, as you look back along your home
life records of 1878, do you see any crooked
tracks ? As you look forward over the fair,
untrodden fields of 1871), would you like to
reproduce them ? In answer to the yes and
no which I am sure these questions will elicit,
I say : Do as Alice did, and your path will
he straight as that which leadeth directly tq
the perfect day.—S. S. Times.
Hampton’s Opinions.
A correspondent of the Columbia Register
lias visited Gov. Hampton, and elicited from
him certain opinions of great public ques
tions.
Personally the Governor is getting along
very well, and expects to be quite well by the
22d of February, when he hopes to go to
Charleston and aid in the celebration of the
day.
As to political matters, the Governor is
frank and explicit. lie wants a bottom in
vestigation of all alleged outrages sought for
by the Teller Committee, because, as he says,
“ no good citizen, no wise man, no good pa
triot can afford to cloak and cover up fraud
or corruption in elections. It goes to the
root of our institutions, and it destroys the
fruitioD of liberty itself. But we have a right
to ask that the Teller Committee shall tell
the whole story and not the half of it. What
ever comfort there is in it, and I confess it is
a very poor one, due and honest investigation
will discover as much irregularity on the Re
publican side of our household as the Demo
cratic. And this much I may say’, that so
far as intimidation is concerned, there was
literally none whatever on our side, whilst on
the Republican side there are the most un
questionable evidences of gross intimida
tion.” Acknowledging the irregularities on
the Democratic side in South Carolina, he at
tributed them more to the accursed condition
of affairs left by Radicalism than anything
else, the worst of it, however, being that it
was entirely superfluous in the last elections.
But he does not see what go >d investigation
will do, if one-sided. It must include Massa
chusetts as well as South Carolina, Pennsyl
vania as well as Louisiana.
On the currency question, Hampton said
lie was a hard-money man, and did not com
prehend the greenback philosophy at all. He
favors sticking to resumption, and not at
tempting to repeal or hamper it.
11 is Democracy, he said, was that of Jack
son, the true policy of which “is to disen
tangle the business transactions of the coun
try from the legitimate financial conduct of
government affairs. To mix the two things
is unwarranted by the Constitution and dan
gerous to the last degree. Why’, docs not
everybody see, from what has transpired be
fore us, that the moment the Government be
comes involved in its financial operations
with those of the country at large, the mo
neyed men of the country and the great in
dustrial classes become involved in "an irre
pressible conflict,’ even more terrible than
that which the great New York politician of
former days pressed upon the attention of
the country.”
As to the campaign of 1880. Hampton fa
vored dropping the financial issue as a lead
ing element, and adopt that which embraces
the highest patriotism. “ A constitutional
rule, self-government and no sectionalism
should be the sum and substance of our plat
form, fitted to good, honorable, trusted and
tried standard-bearers, it matters not whether
they be from tike Hast or West. 1 have no
patience with an Eastern Democracy and
Western Democracy, a Northern Democracy
and the Southern Democracy. It is no De
mocracy at all that is not as wide as the
whole country.” lie believed the sober
second thought of the people of this great
country will go back to the constitution of
our fathers with one consent, and find in its
wide bosom what we all want, with the ex
ception of a class of wicked mischief makers
— peace, blessed heaven-burn peace!
He was convinced that the love and praj*-
ers of the people saved his life, and closed
with this thrilling narrative :
“Whilst I was lying here a| the point of
deatli and had become uttAiy indifferent as
to whether I lived or died, I got a letter from
an old Methodist preacher, one of m3' old
friends. He wrote me word informing me of
the deep and devout petitions put, up in be
half of my restoration the Methodist Con
ference then in session at Newberry. He
then urged upon me to exercise m3’ will to
live in response to the supplications of the
people of the whole State, who are praying
for me night and day in every household in
the State. M) r sister, who had tremblingly
brought the letter to m} r bedside and read it
to me. then urged me to listen to the kind,
loving words of the man of God, and to rouse
my will to live ; and I promised her to do so.
I fell into a deep sleep that night, and the
most vivid dream I ever experienced in 1113’
life crossed my slumbers. I dreampt I was
in a spacious room, and that in it I was
moved to all parts of the State, so that I met
my assembled friends everywhere. I remem
ber most distinctly of all old Beaufort, where
l had last been. It seemed there were im
mense assemblages, and as I looked down
upon them a grave personage approached me
and touched me on the shoulder and said to
me : ‘These people arc all praying for you.
Live, live, live!’ I never realized anything
like it before. It seemed a vision. I woke
l-lie next morning feeling the life bloo 1 creep
ing through mv veins, and I told my family
the crisis was passed and I would get bet
te
L ke our own Stephens, Governor Hamp
ton sietns to !e under the special protection
of a High Power, destined to escape miracu
lously m iny snares to life, for the greater
good of in inkind and of personally manifest
ing the reign, even on earth, of the Lord of
Glory.— Chronicle A Constitutionalist.
The Colorado Desert.
A night trip by rail takes you across the
Colorado desert, which may be properly term
ed the Sahara of the Pacific const. Upon a
clear, full moon-light night the traveler may
form some idea of the sterility and loneli.
ness of the Pacific Sahara. You pass this
particular section about midnight, and at the
very sterility of the scene a feeling of awe
takes possession of the soul. Unlike the
greater portion of the desert, whose monotony
is disturbed by mountains, lulls, lagoons,
creeks and a variety of animal and vegetable
life, the eye wan lers in all directions and
encounters but a vast level surface of a fine,
white sand ; not an elevation, hardly, nor a
decline of the feeblest nature present; the
inesquite, the meschal and the cacti have en
tirely disappeared, and not a bush nor a blade
of grass remains; no living thing, not even
a bird or an insect is to be seen. A death
like stillness seems to pervade the scene and
an awful unbroken quiet prevails. In this
particular locality, it is said, rain never des
cends : no dew ever falls—no delicious ex
halations of the evening ever touch the fevered
lace o! nature, which diurnaily quivers under
the scorching rays of the fiery monarch of
light. It is true tiiat a passing cloud, over
freighted with moisture, sometimes bursts,
or is dashed by a driving wind against some
distant mountain-top, and is made to dis
charge its voluminous contents with distinc
tive force all over the desert; but the blaz
ing orb quickly transforms such visitations
into the merest evidences of perspiration,
and the whole snrface soon after assumes its
natural state of incandescence. Cowpcr’s
beautiful thought:
“God moves in a m3 T sterious way.” etc.,
is felt witli all that sublime force and ecstacy
of expression which must have controlled
the gifted poet in its production.—Son Fran
cisco Bulletin.
Put Them in Chancery.
In Smithland, some 3'ears ago, when the
venerable Judge Fowler was on the bench, a
man was arrested for carrying “brass knuc
les,“ and the terrible weapons were confis
cated. The statute in force at that time pro
vided that articles of that kind should be
taken by the sheriff and placed where they
would “never be found any more."’ The
court instructed the sheriff as to the law, at
which the oflicer demurred, saying that he
did not know of any such place. A half tipsy
lawyer, whom every body supposed to be
asleep, suddenly arose to his feet, with the
remark, “May it please the court, as the
sheriff seems to be at a loss where to place
the knuckles so that they will never be found
ai>3' more, I move that the court instruct him
to place tliem at the foot of the chancery
docket. Once there, they never will be heard
of again.”— Paducah Sun ,
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Railroading In the Snow.
A PARTY OK SEVENTY PASSENGERS IMPRISON*
Kl> AT SANDY GREEK KOI! EIGHT DAYS —HOW
THEY KILLED TIME.
Mr. U. M. Stearns, a commercial traveled
arrived in Syracuse from Sandy Creek Ifist
night, coming by way of Rome; Mr. Stearns
left this city for Watertown just one week
a S° yesterday. The train reached Sandy
Creek and could proceed no further on nc*
count of the heavy snow storm. There were
some seventy gentlemen and ladies in the
same dilemma arriving at that station some
time during the same day. And there the
crowd has been compelled to remain for eight
days, being utvable to commnnicat#? with the
outside world save by telegraph. Various
expedients were resorted to to make the time
pass pleasantly. Sleighing parties were im
provised and euchre was kept running night
and day. Most of the passengers put up at
the hotels, and some few of them remained
the entire time on the train. Conductor Jack:
Ilebron kindly running the same down to
the hotel when his passengers wanted to take
their meals.
Among those present were gentlemen from
San Francisco and New York. One ymirtg
man from California was on his Way to Civil
vencur, St. Lawrence county, where lie was td
be married. “What shall I do?*’ was the
young man's agonized query. “Do ?” repeat
ed they; “why, telegraph your situation!”
And he telegraphed, and the answer cainc
back, “We are all ready and waiting for
you?” Then the agonized young man shriek
ed : “Well, they ain't waiting any worse than
I am?” Among the snow-bound was Rev.
S. A. Haight, of the First Presbyterian Church,
V atertown. He couldn't play euchre very
well, but bo could smoke and preach, and lie
did the latter with great acceptance last Sun
day in the Congregational Church in the vil
lage. All the passengers who could do so
turned out to swell the congregation. Dr.
A. Pendrick, of New York, was going to
attend the funeral of his father at Ogdens
burg. While waiting lie received the sad
announcement of the death of his mother.
Still another gentleman from New York, Dr.
Richmond, received a telegram of the illness
of his child. Of course, such news made the mf
all the more anxious to have the blockade
raised. At Ilanchett's Crossing, three and
one-half miles above Sandy creek, two engines
and a snow plow were fast in a snow bank
for a week, the engineers and firemen walking
a mile to a farmer’s to board. Friday last,
having used all their fuel, they were obliged
to leave their engines on the track.
Yesterday evening a train got through
from the south, and started hack with man/
of the imprisoned passengers. Between Sandy
Creek and Richland the locomotives’ wefC
again caught in the immense snow drifts, but
finalty managed to reach Richland, where an
other locomotive was put on. and Rome was
finally sighted. The snow drifts are all the
way from six to fifteen feet deep. Yesterday,
all along the line from .San’Jy Creek to Within
a few miles of Rome, the snow came down-in
perfect sheds, the passengers declaring they
had never before experienced siVch a storm.
Last .Sunday the imprison cl passengers show
ed their appreciation* of the efforts of Conduc
tor Hebron by presenting him-with-thirty-five
dollars and a set of resolutions of th finks.
The conductor certainly carnted both the
thanks and tiie 11101103’.
A dispatch from Watertown fads night says
the snow blockade was raised all alon:/ t!hc‘
main line and trains will lie running all righ&
to-da3’. —Syracuse Standard, 31 st utt.
The Dead Coming to Life
A course SHOWING SIGN’S OF ANIMATION I)L'-
IIINO Till: FUNKUAL SEUVICi:.
Cincinnati, January 14.—A funeral at‘
Fort Wayne, this morning, was interrupted
in a somewhat remarkable’ manner. Rose
Miller, a girl of fifteen years of age, died, as
was supposed, on Sunday morning, after a
short illness. This morning an audience as
sembled at St. Paul’s German Church Ur
witness the obsequies. The services were'
nearly through and the relatives and friends
had assembled about Urn coffin when indica
tions of life were noticed in the corpse. The
face and lips moved considerably and the
body was found to l>e warm. A scene of
excitement followed. Fattier Koenig dis
missed the audience, sent the hearse’ and
carriages away and orderedthe body removed
to the school building adjoining. A number
of physicians were summoned, wlw>; after the
severest tests, pronounced the girl quitedead.
They declared, however, that the appearance’
of the body was remarkable, and the relatives
and Father Koenig would not permit the
burial. This evening the hinty was removed
to St. Joseph Hospital, where an effort is mak
ing to revive animation. It is firmly be
lieved by the people who saw the rcreiiinstbisr
afternoon that the girl is not dead. She wif!
be kept where she is until all possible doubt;
is removed. A report, which obtained cur
rency during the afternoon, that she hfid !
come to life in church, drew thousands of
people to the spot, and throngs gazed curi-
at the body until it was removed fnmf
the school room.— l I)is[>atch tv the
Times.
A Georgia man changed his residence
eight times in 11 months, and the last tin
his wile said she didn't even care to go to
heaven, for about the time she got fixed! up
and learned where the water wi7s and every,
thing, her husband would Want to move.
NUMBEItSS.