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Jackson Sheriff’s Sales.
WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in Octo
ber next, before the Court House door in the
town of Jefferson. Jackson county, Qa., within
the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
One tract or parcel of land in said county, on
the waters of the Walnut Fork of the Oconee
river, adjoining lands of Mrs. E. A. Niblack, Phil
lips and others, and known as part of the Head
land, containing one hundred and twenty-seven
acres, more or less. Said land is unimproved; about
forty acres in old field, balance original forest.
Levied on to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the Su
perior Court of said county in favor of YV. F. Peck
A Cos. vs. J. S. Messer and G. S. Duke as princi
pals, and G. R. Duke as security on appeal. Levi
ed on as the property of G. S. Duke, and pointed
out by said Duke. Written notice served upon
G. S. Duke, as the law requires.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold,
a tract of land in said county, containing sixty
eight and three-quarter acres, more or less, ad
joining lands of Watt McLester. colored, YVyatt
Hailey, C. 11. Turner and others, known as the
James I’harr place. About twenty-five acres of
said land in cultivation, balance in forest. Two
good tenant houses on the place. Levied on as
the property of J. C. Few, col'd, and Mary Carith
ers, col’d, to satisfy a ti. fa. for the purchase mo
ney of said land, issued from the Superior Court
of said county in favor of N. G. Trout vs. J. C.
Few, col'd, and Mary Carithers, col'd, as princi
pals, and Washington Carithers as security.
Property pointed out by plaintiff in fi. fa. Deed
lilcu in the Clerk’s office as the law directs. No
tice given to Mary Carithers, col'd, and Reese
Few, col’d. tenants in possession, and also to tin
maker and the holder of the bond for titles.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold,
a tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being
in the 257th District, G. M., on the waters of lit
tie Curry’s creek, adjoining lands of .Jno. M. Wil
hite, A. T. llennett and others, the same being
the place whercou S. G. Harnett now resides, con
taining three hundred and forty-two acres, more
or less. Levied on by virtue of and to satisfy afi
fa. issued from Clarke Superior Court in favor o;
James E. Randolph, Executor of Joshua 11. Ran
dolph, deceased, vs. John C. Lumpkin, principal.
G. M. Duke and S. G. Harnett, securities. Oi
said land there is a tolerably good dwelling house
and necessary out-buildings, and a good orchard ;
about forty or fifty acres of said land in a higl
atate of cultivation, the remainder in old field and
forest land. Property pointed out by G. S. Duke.
Administrator of G. M. Duke, deceased, co-de
fendant. Said fi. fa. controlled by said G. S. Duke.
Administrator aforesaid. Written notice given
S. G. Harnett, party now in possession, according
to law
aug 29 T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh’fT.
| H’ORtil.i, Jackou Outy.
Whereas, Nathaniel Rooks, Administrator of
Janies Davis, late of said county, deceased, ap
plies for leave to sell the dower land reverted to
said estate by the death of the widow of said de
ceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
leave should not be granted the applicant.
(liven under ray official signature, this August
26th, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord'y.
j J l OItGI A, Jackson County.
Whereas, C. W. Hood, Executor of Zilman S.
Hood, deceased, applies for leave to sell the land
belonging to said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can. on the first
Monday in October, 1879, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said
leave should not be granted the applicant.
(liven under ray official signature, this August
2Gth, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord'y-
I |EOKGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, Z. T. Suddeth, Administrator of S.
Cowan, late of said county, deceased, represents
to the Court, by his petition duly tiled, that he
has fully administered the estate of said deceased,
and is entitled to a discharge—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can. on the first
Monday in December, 1879, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Letters
•f Dismission should not be granted the applicant.
Civen under ray official siguature. this August
26th, 1879. 11. W. BELL. Ord'y.
| Jackson County.
Whereas, N. B. Cash, Administrator of Green
Nance, col'd, late of said county, dec'd, applies
for leave to sell the land belonging to the estate
of said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can. at the regu
lar terra of tho Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
leave should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
27th, 1579. 11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
Q.EORGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, Mrs. Malitta Saul, Administratrix on
the estate of G. W. Saul, late of said county, de
ceased, applies for leave to sell & portion of the
land belonging to said estate —
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
leave should not be granted the applicant.
Given under ray official signature, this August
‘26th, 1879. H. W. BELL, Crd'y.
LIGHT JOB WORK,
Executed promptly, at this office.
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Q.EORGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, J. B. Pendergrass. Administrator of
the estate of N. 11. Pendergrass, late of said conn,
ty, deceased, applies for leave to sell the real es
tate belonging to said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can. at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
leave should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
26th, 1879. 11. W. HELL, Ord'y.
Q.EORGIA, Jncloion County.
YN hereas, Mrs. Sallie S. Hancock, Administra
trix on the estate of It. J. Hancock, late of said
county, dec’d, applies for leave to sell the real
estate belonging to said estate—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
leave should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
•26th, 1879. H. YV. HELL, Ord'y.
Q_EOR(iilA, Jackson County.
YV hereas, Henry Merk, Administrator of Geo.
Merk. late of said county, deceased, applies for
leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of
said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the
tirst Monday in October, 1879, why said leave
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
26th. 1879. H. W. HELL, Ord’y.
Q.EOUGIA, .Vackson County.
Whereas, S. S. Smith and T. S. Shankle. Ad
ministrators of Samuel Smith, Sr., deceased, ap
plies for leave to sell the lands of said deceased
lying in said county—■
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, on the first Monday
in October. 1879, at the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should
not be granted the applicants.
Given under my official signature, this August
26th, 1879. H. YV. HELL, Ord’y.
\\ r hereas. Henry Merk and J. G. Dunahoo, Ex
ecutors of Samuel Garrison, late of said county,
deceased, applies for leave to sell a portion of the
lands belonging to said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors. to show cause, if any, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first
Monday in October, 1879, why said leave should
not be granted the applicants.
Given under my official signature, this August
26th, 1879. 11. YV. HELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, Thos. D. Scott makes application, in
proper form, for Letters of Administration on the
estate ot Columbus Long, col., late of said county,
leceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors. to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Cour of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said
letters should not be granted.
Given under my official signature, this August
26th, 1879. 11. YV. HELL. Ord’y.
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A Valuable Farm to Rent.
I WILL rent my farm, on Curry's creek, in this
county, for one or five years, to some good,
responsible farmer. Said place contains about
sixty or seventy-five acres of open land ; enough
for a three-horse crop. Terms reasonable. For
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PROGRAMMES, Circulars, Ac., for schools
and academies, printed at this office.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 5.1879.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
MISS DEXTER'S PUPIL.
“Teaching is a thankless calling,” said a
gentleman standing near me on the piazza of
a popular seaside hotel, last summer.
“That is true,” replied his companion,
“and so is the work of a superintending
school committee. This dealing with igno
rant and conceited parents who want to
dictate what their children shall study, who
often have some petty spite against the
teacher or committee to gratify, and who will
not stop to break up a school, could they
carry out their miserable schemes, is utterly
disagreeable. No, my friend, there is not
money enough to tempt me to have anything
to do with the management of the schools in
our good town of Marshton ;” and the two
men descended the piazza steps and walked
on toward the beach.
A lady near me, with whom I had formed
a pleasant little acquaintance, looked up and
smiled. “ The conscientious teacher who
loves her work,” she said, “ does not always
look for immediate fruition of all her work
and hopes. She is now sowing good seed,
knowing not just when or how the harvest
will succeed. I taught school many years,
and am far from calling it a ‘thankless calling.’
I meet my old scholars everjwhere, and the
thanks I have received from them, orally and
by letter, are the pleasantest spots in my
life experience.”
Just then the owner and proprietor of the
great hotel, Landlord Strong, passed by the
bluff before us, glanced up and smiled ami
raised his hat. Although be was a very
shrewd business man, with great executive
capacity, he was at the same time large
hearted, gentlemanly and courteous to every
one, and a universal favorite. I knew that
this charming woman, who had been known
in her teaching-days a3 Miss Dexter, had the
best room in the hotel, was waited upon with
extra attention, had the m >st stylish horses
and carriages at her bidding, and that the
landlord never passed her without raising his
lm f and bowing as if to a queen.
The gentle little woman by ray side re
turned the bow and smiled, and then turning
to roe again, said : 44 You are gathering
facts all the time; let me tell you a story
for your note book, to be used at some future
time—not here, of course.” I thanked her.
and she went on :
“ I began to teach when T was fifteen, with
a groat many enthusiastic ideas in my little
head, in regard to ray high and noble calling,
which I have kept with me till this present
hour. After teaching a number of terms, I
was employed here in this town to teach the
village school in the very same little building,
around the corner yonder, now repaired and
used for the primary scholars. I hoarded
at this bote , a very small establishment then
but well kept by the Widow Rngg.
Arm With Hammer, Brand
“The committee had hired rae entirelv
from my reputation as a teacher in an ad
joining town, and when they came to pee me
face to face, and noticed my youthful ap
pearance, they evidently had some misgivings
as to ray ability to ‘ manage’ the larger pupils
of the school, whom the}’ designated 4 a hard
set.’ ‘ Now, there is Tom Strong,’ said they.
4 we may as well tell you at the start that
you had better let him alone; get along with
him the best way you can. When you
cannot stand it with him any longer, let us
know and we will send him home. The boy
cannot be taught anything. We have had
conscientious, painstaking teachers, who de
clared that it was impossible to teach him to
count, spell, or write his own name, even.’
“ I found this lad to be tall and thin, blue
and pinched, with hardly life enough to do
anything in school but make grotesque face*
for the amusement of the children. I put an
end to that at once hy making a rule that
any scholar who laughed at Tom Strong’s
4 faces’ should sit with the dirty, ragged, un
kempt boy, and take lessons from him as a
facial contortionist, while the rest of the
school looked on.
“ It did seem as if the poor fellow could
not be made to remember anything; but I
said to myself, *He is not an idiot, and he
shall be taught to read and spell casj' words
at first, and to write his name.’ He had been
blundering along in an advanced reader,
with a class of live bright boys of his own
age and size. Not wishing to humiliate the
lad by putting him into the * infant class,
where he really belonged, I had him read by
himself from my pretty, red morocco-bound
Bible, beginning with the Sermon on the
Mount, and taking up the parables in good
time.
“ I sot biro easj* copies in writing. His
indolent and rebellious conduct over tills part
of ray labor with him attracted the attention
of one of the older girls, who said to me one
day at recess, * 1 don’t suppose Tom Strong
has strength enough to learn to write or to
apply himself to anything. His folks are
very poor and shiftless, and they never have
any meat to eat, nor any good, nutritious
food. He never brings any dinner or lunch
to eat at noon, and never runs and plays
with the boys. He is not strong enough,
! teacher.’
| " That gave roe the clew to tbe secret of
the strange, wistful, hungry look in the poor
boy’s eyes. I lay awake and thought about
it all that night, and in the morning resolved
to act* After breakfast I went down to the
kitchen and made Mrs. Rugg give me two or
three generous slices of roast beef and bread,
9ome doughnuts and cheese, wrapped up in
paper.
“Going early to the school-house, I found
Tom there, as usual, the first scholar to be
on hand always, although he lived the furthest
off. Calling him to me and giving him the
lunch. I said, * If you will try to do as well
as you can this term, and be a good, studious
boy, I will bring you a nice lunch ever}’ day.’
He looked at me wonderingly, at the same
time involuntarily reaching out his long,
skinny bands for the coveted package.
“ * I be awful bungay, scboolmarm,’ be
said, * and seein’ there lmint none er the
children roun’ ter larf at me. I’ll take it sure
enough, an’ eat it now. I haint never had
sich er great hunk er meat er cheese afore
in mer life,* and he straightway fell to de
vouring the food like a starved dog. After
it had all disappeared, even to the last crumb,
he gave a little grunt of satisfaction, and
looked up at me as if his appetite had only
been sharpened and that a further installment
of foo 1 would not come amiss.
“ That night I made a bargain with Mrs.
Rugg. Torn Strong was to come to her
kitchen every noon for a hearty, wholesome,
hot meat dinner, and I was to pay for it. I
was in straitened circumstances myself,
besides I was trying to pay my way through
Vassar, but I deeply commiserated the lad,
and then I was curious to see what good food,
and enough of it, would do for his mentt.l
elevation.
“‘The boy being to show his keeping,
said Mrs. Rugg to me at the end of the week ;
* but dear me ! hasn’t he an appetite ! It
takes a heap of victuals to fill him up!’
“Indeed, the metamorphosis, both physi
cal and mental, that had taken place in the
boy by the time the school-year had closed
was something wonderful. Although he re
fused to take his dinners at the hotel after
the first term at my expense, he continued
taking them there during the year, paying for
them by doing errands, pumping water, etc.
He grew plump and sleek, learned to read,
spell and write, and after a short time had
iittle or no difficulty with the four funda
mental processes of arithmetic. All his old
time nervousness, irritability and frequent
fits of apathy were gone. He readily fell
into studious ways and soon mastered what
ever he undertook. His doggen persistence
was remarkable. His deportment was also
exemplary ; he never gave me the least trouble,
and tried to serve me every way in bis
power.
"In due time I entered Vassar, and
.raduated. Subsequently I taught here and
there a year or two, and then married ray
iiusband, whom you have met here. Having
neard notiiing of Tom Strong, or from this
village for years, one day, just after I had
begun housekeeping, I was surprised to get
a letter with the familiar name of Marshton
upon it as the postmark; here it is, for I
brought it down with me this morning, having
determined to confide to you this, one of the
pleasantest episodes of my life, some time
during the day, were yon at leisure and wiliing
to grant me the opportunity.”
I took the letter in my hand. Its chi
rography was plain but handsome, and it
eafl :
Marshton, April 18, 18—.
Jlrs. Rev. Dr. Andrew Knowlton :
Dear Madam— l saw your marriage in the
lewspapers the other day, and that is ttie first
and only intelligence 1 have had of you since
you taught school in this village. Are you
really dear Miss Dexter, and do you remem
ber poor stupid Tom Strong? Well, I am
lie. In short, I want to thank j’ou for mak
ing a man of me. The first realization I ever
had that 1 was a human being like the other
boys of your school, with capabilities for self
improvement and future usefulness, came
through your labors in ray behalf in the
school-room, and your charitable provision
for my bodily wants at good Mrs. Rugg's
bountiful table. When you found ine I was
nearly starved, body and soul. I well re
member just how those dinners, meal by
meal, built me up. mentally as well as physi
cally. Those reading lessons in the New
Testament, too, built me up in a spiritual
way. in every sense of the word I was “ born
again” that memorable year under your kind
care. I kept on staying at the hotel, doing
chores for board and schooling. 1 crept up
and up, until Mre. Ilugg died, when I became
proprietor of the hotel inyself. Our pleasant
village here by the sea lias grown to lie quite
a famous summer resort. To keep pace with
the public demands, I have greatly enlarged
the hotel, and have added many modern im
provements. And now I beg leave to invite
you and your distinguished husband to come
and make uie a visit whenever it shall be
most convenient to you.
Yours, most gratefully,
Thomas H. Strong.
I handed back the letter to the sweet little
woman, the eyes of both of us suffused with
tears, while she said : “The July following
the receipt of this letter, when my husband's
annual vacation began, we accepted the invi
tation, and have been here every year since.
We have our old rooms newly furnished this
season, and we are proud to count as one of
onr beat friends our genial Landlord Strong.
who is a friend to the whole world, and who
will take off his hat when he meets roe, be
cause, he says : 44 1 made a man of him.”—
New England Journal o f Education.
Life in Silting Bull’s Camp.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune ,
who ha> lived for a year or two in the wig
wam of Little Knife, a chief of the Uncapa
pas, draws a roseate picture of life in the
camp of Sitting Bull. Among the virtues of
the Indian—the crafty and cruel Sioux—he
discovers “an enthusiastic fidelity to the
rules of hospitality ; an Indian’s lodge is the
property of his guest”—he feeds that guest
and goes hungry himself. The Sioux are. he
says, cheerful and given to fun rather than
fighting, and they show “a rosy disposition
to look upon the bright side of existence and
a Boheraiandike inclination to regard disas
ter as a joke.” Indians, he says, are popular
in their tribe, not because they are brave, but
because they are witty, and he leaves us to
infer that perhaps the crimson feathers, hith
erto regarded as the tally of scalps, are
merely so many badges of unusually good
jokes perpetrated. Jollity in camp is com
moner than gravity. “In domestic life the
Teton i9 a model. He will provide food
when he can. and when lie can’t will set a
brilliant example of cheerful abstinence.
There are no kinder husbands in the world,
and in his delicate attentions and courteous
treatment of his squaw the Indian has no
superior. His love for his children approach
es idolatry. I have seen an Indian, with an
appetite three days old, conceal the food he
has begged, and, hurrying to his lodge, cram
it down the throat of a three-year-old savage,
whose round stomach betrayed its familiarity
with gastronomic exercises.” Moreover, the
Indian “is always courteous and affable.”
They never blackguard each other. A blow
is unknown. “An Indian will never strike
his children or his wife ; which latter circum
stance has probably given foundation to the
impression that his civilization is impossible.”
lie is coarse, but not obscene, and there are
no words for profanity in the Sioux language.
“The Sioux Indian is an even tempered,
gentlemanly sort of fellow, fond of home and
family, constitutionally hungry and always
full of fun.”
An American Girl’s Fearlessness.
The Cornishman gives the following ac
count of the descent to the lowest depths of
Dolsoath of Miss Leila A. Noble, a young
lady of nineteen, of Rome, Ga. Accompa
nied by a friend and skilled miner, the plucky
explorer passed first to a depth of 1,560 feet
by the man engine, stepping from the small
platforms on the huge moving rod to the
fixed stages at the sides of the shaft with the
cool and ready step which takes away all
danger from the use of this friend to the
underground toiler. But this labor was little
compared with that which succeeded. One
hundred and thirty fathoms of further depth
had to be reached by the descent of a per
pendicular ladder. This safely done, the
lowest and richest parts of the mine were
explored. The miners were profuse in their
compliments. One of them said, 44 I’d rather
take the trouble to put her to the bottom of
Dolcoath than I wed a strange miner from
another bal; wusn’t thee, you ?” The trj’ing
ascent had now to be made. Handover
hand upright ladders, which would reach to
nearly twice the height of St. Paul's, had to
be climbed, 1.290 staves to be used. The
firm and skillful way in which she took hold
of the ladders caused a miner to ejaculate.
“I never seen a 3'oung laady klem with a
moor bowlder and shoorer step in my life.”
Turning to his comrade, he continued. “She
can klem, you. better’ll scores of men I’ve
seed down beer.” This 780 feet accomplish
ed, 1,550 had to he done by the man engine.
About seven o’clock p. m., the bold mineress
from the far west reached the surface, after
being under ground for four hours and a half
without signs of great fatigue.
A Flirt Cured.
Scene, a theatre. Seated in the orchestra
a lady and gentleman; the former much
enamored of the latter, in fact desirous of
winning him. The lad}', however, has flirting
tendencies, and indulges them with a hand
some party in the circle. The escort is not
unobservant of this little by play, and finally
asks smiling!}*: “Do you know that gentle
man with whom you are flirting?”
An embarrassing negative was the reply.
“Then excuse roe a moment.”
The escort immediately crossed the theatre,
and put a similar question to the other con
spirator: ‘‘Sir, are you acquainted with the
lady at whom j’ou have been smiling the last
hour r
“No!”
“Would you like to be ?”
Very much surprised, “Certainly.”
“ Then come with me.”
A moment later the escort introduces the
not altogether comfortable pair. Then the
mild expression leaves the insulted gentle-
face, and he says sternly :
•* Now, sir, yon may accompany this lady
home !**
With a bow he takes his leave, and the
woman who loves him never hears his voice
; again.
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO For Six Months.
GLEANINGS.
There is one woman at Saratoga who dresses
altogether in lacc.
T he wet weather ruined the coaching season
in England this year.
liiskey was used in a communion service
at Jamaica Plain, Mass., by the sexton’s
blunder.
There were four hundred and seventy-five
deaths from yellow fever at Havana during
the month of July.
Enough cloth can be woven in Massa
chusetts in sixty days to supply all the peoplo
in the United States with clothing.
There is often but a slight separation be
tween a woman’s love and her hate; her
keen teeth are dangerously near to her sweet
lips.
The marriage of King Alfonso will take
place in Madrid at the expiration of tho
period of mourning for the Infanta Maria
del Pilar.
The New Orleans mint is now turning out
silver dollars as fast as the coining machine
can be run. About 350.000 of the dollars
will be coined during this month.
hen John Dixon, a Savannah negro, sat
up in bed in the midst of It is own funeral
services, the assembled mourners ran yelling
from the house, some of them getting out
through the windows.
A phase of fashionable life at Newport is
shown hy the following advertisement in a
local paper : “ Miss Thompson, from New
York, shapes and polishes ladies’ finger nails
at their residence. Rate per visit one dollar,
etc.”
A Yorkshire vicar publicly protested
against some Methodist carpenters who took
a contract for building a church, because they
had “ no religious aeqmiaintancc with such
work.” He paid nearly S3OO damages into
court.
The French postal card offers a suggestion
which might he acted on with advantage by
the authorities in this country. It is so made
that a reply can he sent on the same card
without expense to the party to whom it is
first addressed.
A Russian Government official sent from
St. Petersburg to report on a miraculous hot
sping at Shalazgori was almost killed by the
infuriated villagers because lie declared the
spring not to be holy. Four of his assailants
have been sent to prison.
The Pope has recieved an anonymous letter
from Baltimore, warning him against attempts
to poison him. The letter contains so many
references to the Pope’s private life that it
is believed it was posted in America merely
as a blind. An investigation is in progress
It is not generally known, says the Spring
field Republican . that there are four profes
sional Irish ** keeners” in town, who are ii
great demand. These “ keeners” are women,
who, for pay, make it a business to weep for
the dead in the presence of the relatives and
friends.
And now it is proclaimed cotton i* no
longer king. The statistics for the eleven
months ending May 30 show that for the first
time in the history of the country the ex
portation of breadstuff's has exceeded in value
not only that of cotton, but of cotton and
tobacco combined.
A Michigan lady wants to know whether
or not it is honorable for a young roan to
stand idly hy and watch a girl pass out of
her teens into the twenties and so on down
to the shady side of forty still bearing her
maiden name. That depends upon what
number shoe she wears.
The conjuring materials taken from a Geor
gia negro consisted of goose quills filled with
broken needles, a vial of iron rust, the feath
ers of various birds, and a snake skin. The
negroes of his neighborhood had long be
lieved in and feared his power of working
mischief with charms.
Mary Iveesucker, one of the most enthusi
astic of the converts at a camp meeting at
Urbana, Ohio, fell into a trance while pray
ing. Her friends believed that her condition
was the result of a special blessing, and would
not permit a physician to do anything for
her. She lay unconscious several days, and
finally died of spinal meningetis.
The Republicans of North Carolina want
to send one of their number—a colored man
named Harris—to Ohio to take the stump
and follow up Governor Zeb Vance in his cam
paign in that State. Harris is said to ho
very glib with his tongue, and a riproaring
stump orator. The Republican committee
in Washington are willing that Harris should
go, but no response has vet been received
from the Republican managers in Ohio to
his request.
An asylum for aged domesticated animals
has just been opened by an inhabitant of
Gon esse, in France. It already contains a
cow thirty-five years of age. a pig aged twen
ty-five, and an eighteen-year-old goat. The
senior member of this happy family is, how
ever. a mule. He is forty years of age. Next
comes a sparrow, whose summers number
thirty-one; twenty-eight years of life have
been granted to a goldfish, and a guinea fowl
and a goose have respectively reached the
ages of twelve and thirty-seven years.
A gang of sharpers in Philadelphia have
for more than a year been swindling visitors
from the country in a novel way. They have
a stable ostensibly for the purchase and sale
of horses. When a countryman enters to
look at the stock, a practically valueless
horse is offered to him for $l5O. A hy
! stander offers S2OO, but the dealer angrily
says that he will not sell to this man at any
\ price, having had a previous quarrel with him.
The bystander draws the countryman aside
anand
take him off yonr hands at $200.” This seems
to offer a chance to make SSO without risk ;
but the victim, after paying the $l5O for the
| beast, does not sec any more of the promised
• purchaser with the S2OO.
NUMBER 13.