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JACKSON CO. PUB. COM’Y, ( Proprietors. i VOLUME Y. s!s IPot^si PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. ROBERT S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, JEFFERSON , JACKSON CO GL4. )mCK, K. E. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STATES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Oue copy 12 months $1.50 “ “ 6 “ 1.00 ** “ 3 “ 50 •flTFor every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RITES OF ADVERTISING. One. Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) for the tirst insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. A square, is a space of one inch, measured up and down the column. MiT All Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL forbid, and charged -ordingly. JW*Business or Professional Cards, of six lines •r less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. £ept’ Hibertiscments. 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. THE FOREST NEWS. The People tlieir own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. 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. USE THIS BRAND. 99 25-100 Chemically Pure. Best in the World. And better than any Saleratns. One teaspoonful of this Soda used with soui milk equals Four teaspoonfuls of the best Baking Powder, saving Twenty Times its cost. See package for valuable information. If the teaspoonful is too large and docs not produce good results at first, use less afterwards. mar‘2l IVANHOOdTTowToST, HOW RESTORED! ffßh. Just published, anew edi- of I>r. CulvcrwcllN Kxsny on the radical cure (without medicine) of Spermatok rhoea or Seminal Weakness. Involuntary Semi nal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical In capacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also. Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, Ac. in a scaled envelope, only six cents. The 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 w ithout 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 condition may be. may cure himself cheaply, privately and radically. |ytg“This Lecture should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any ad dress, post-paid, on receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Address the Publishers. THE CCLVER WELL MEDICAL CO.. 41 Ann St.. New York ; P. O. Box, 4586. August 3d. 1878 —lv PATENTS. F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American and Foreign Patents, Washington, D. C. All busi ness connected with Patents, whether before the Patent Office or the Courts, promptly attended to. No charge made unless a patent is secured. Send for circular. oct 19 —tf 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 further information, apply to Charles W. Shackle ford, who joins said place, or T. J. SHACKLEFORD, aug 8 Gainesville, Ga. 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.