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I; K SON CO. PUB. COM’Y, ) M 0" proprietors. i ktJME V. Ik f ami sktks. v I ppBLISIIBD EVERY FRIDAY. I FRT S HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, WjgFFBRMX* JACKSON CO ., GA. 1 . K , COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. ■l(% ' terms of subscription. KWl'2 months $1.50 if n 3 “ 50 ■sylV every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex ■Jpy Of the paper will be given. rates of advertising. I. Hoi liAU per square (often lines or less) V,U first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents I ch insertion. Er v * , i uare is a space of one mch ’ measure o Kddovni the column ■JL yi Advertisements sent without specihca- Eofthe number of insertions marked thereon, K tie published TILL FORBID, and charged fc-Busnicss or Professional Cards, of six lines seven Dollars per annum; and where I '* i n ot exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. £epf Hilueitisements. [ Jackson Sheriff’s Sale. Brill be sold, before the Court House door. By ;n the town of .Jefferson, Jackson county, Bt within the legal hours of sale, on the first rm .January next, the following property, tract or P arcc l °F land situate, lying Bidbeing on the Walnut Fork of the Oconee Hjver. in the county of Jackson, and known and B'liiiionshed as the 11. E. Oliver place, being the whereon he resided at the time of his death, "Xl bounded as follows, to-wit: on the north the lands of John S. Messer, on the west by Brands of Mrs. Cynthia hong, on the south by Bif lands of Mrs. Kmily Xihlaek and Hardy, and B the east by the lands of Xval Shockley and Bt':>r<. and containing three hundred acres, more B*>-'. levied on and to be soid for tlie purchase under and by virtue of a fi. fa. issued from Bickson Superior Court in favor of Thomas 11. B" f eless and Jane A. Loveless vs. Green S. Hi!,,'. Said Green S. Duke holds sai<l lands finder bond for titles, and said Thomas 11. Love- B'-'au'l Jane A. Loveless have made and filed Bii' ' : 'l recorded in the Clerk's office of Jackson Court tludr deed for said land to Green B' ouW- as required by law. Written notice tenant in possession, as the law directs.. pointed out by plaintiff's attorney. | ’ T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh’ff. Jackson Sherij‘f's Sale. iHunih be sold, before the Court House door, Bn in the town of Jefferson, Ga., within the hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in Janu ■’}'. 1880, the following property, to-wit : The ■trui of land in Jackson county, Ga.. on which ■Amanda M. Duke now resides, lying on the YVal ■nut Fork of the Oconee river, adjoining lands of ■nUte of Calvin Long, dec'd. the lands of Sims ■trot Martin, the dower of Elizabeth Howies and ■others, containing three hundred and forty-three ■i ris, more or less. On said land is a good, com jßfuitablc, frame two-story building, an elegant barn and stables, corn cribs, &c., and Br ollt "'' u ildings ; seventy-five acres of good ■bottom land in a high state of cultivation ; ■cr<" upland in cultivation ; good orchard of fruit j| lon raid place. Levied on as the property of said ■ Amanda M. Duke, by virtue of and to satisfy a I 1 ' x issued from August term, 1878, .Jackson ■tapenorPourt, in favor of J. E. Randolph, Ex ■wtitorof.J.H. Randolph, dec’d, vs. Green S. ■ Dike, principal, H.R. Howard, A. M. Duke and ■ -A lams, securities. Written notice given to ■• ntamia M. Duke as the law requires. Property m "k'dout by .J. H. Randolph, Ex’r, plaintiff. I T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh'fT. I Jackson Sheriff's Sale. ■\\ ILL be sold, before the Court House door, U.. m the town of .Jefferson, Jackson county, ■ f v, ffalna the legal hours of sale, on the first ■/;,-’ 111 January, 1880, to the highest and best H ";i r the following property, to-wit: In/o ,! s< ; an< l J°t in the town of Jefferson, Ga.. Bt/ ,C Square, known as the William S. ■ house. Said house is a two Brfi H rooms—tire place in B ii i roo ' n — a ’id is in ordinary condition ; kitchen B™,° U . | oU ; Sc ‘ s on khe lot. Said lot contains two I Ltiii a! " ’ ,nore or less, part of which is in ■ ' j 'atma. Levied on as the property of Wm. B t . ' lo,u P son - Sr., to satisfy a ii. fa. issued from But t °J Ordinary of Jackson county in favor Bi,n,'/’ ’_ '*?• " ilbam 11. Lav and M. N. Duke, bir Mary J. Duke, vs. W. S. Thomp j - rittcn notice given W. S. Thompson, Sr.. f th"."i ' ■■'"hiison. tenant in possession, in terms one ft h" ' , !>rrt P or ty pointed out by W. 11. Lav. vne of the plaintiffs. T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh'ff. L: hl(, k*on Mortgage Sale. \\ M' he sold, before the Court House door, I Tues,] ,M - ■ c , towu °f Jefferson, Ga., on the first ~f. i I ' lU January next, within the legal hours hne trirt °f 1 |° Wi j P™Perty, to-wit: _ hun i,. i L j ot lan d ni said countj T ANARUS, containing one T i-■ " au( i ninety acres, adjoining lands of 11. t Ktl „ , Uian ; P* Vearwood and A. DeLaper p; a m ' ot hers. and known as part of the Moore H.jjijj n sai(l place there is a log house, out- I and -i fv n i P art hi cultivation, part in woods jjj !e 1 P'ne. Levied on as the property of f r ,n ln , an - t( ? satisfy a mortgage fi. fa. obtained I favorVct u P er ' or Eourt of Jackson county, in Dtrtv , • re , sa ®. Stapler vs. J. B. Silman. Pro iiien f o '! 1 u °, ut by plaintiff's attorrey. Notice ai.r j- '* , Oilman, and Thomas Bennett, ten- Pessession, as the law directs. | T. A. McELHANNON, Sh’ff. ( Jackson County. it 1n Lourt of Ordinary, December Term, 1879. I Jla'i; /,* Stewart vs. Henry D. Human, Ex'r of Phres l’ teW!lr ti dec’d, and Sarah A. Mur p,, t . ’ Stewart, Georgia A. Stewart, hom k• * ,s^orn and her husband, W, E. Os -I"'.rs at law of Malissa E. Stewart, dec'd. I iot; atlon for to cause titles to be made to the Court that Rutha J. Osborn, and hnr 1 Ve named heirs at law and parties, the Stat , aru k W. E. Osborn, reside without tice of r K ’ V" * S ' therefore, ordered that legal no ‘ . a hove application be perfected upon j r - y Publication of this order, once a Per D„n-U rt T ,la ys. in the Forkst News, a pa doV' J ls hed in Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga. ! H. W. BELL, Ord’y. ( j- ‘GiU-.I l, Jiukrou County. Cfff. James Potts applies to me in proper oP'm, ur betters of Administration on the estate ? <>m;is G. Potts, late of said county, dec'd— itorv t lh c ‘te all concerned, kindred and cred it'). °, • T w cause, if any they can, on the first the Con " l ’' ani ‘ary, 18S0, at the regular term of UtW , of or <l n ary of said county, why said not be granted, her n under my official signature, this Decem -31 ’ 18 79. 11. W. BELL, Ord'y. THE FOREST NEWS. The People tlieir own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. Executors’ Sale. \ AGREEABLY to an order of the Court of S', fl ante r a nd.. at the December term, i ■ jj’ w,l l be sold at Jeffeison, Ga., to the highest bidder, within the legal hours of sale, on the Ist I uesday in January, 1880, the following property, to-wit: Iwo tracts or parcels of land, in Jackl son county, Ga belonging to the estate of WI H . unt ® r ’ fee Dne. of said tracts contains o hundred and fifty-nine acres, more or less, adjoining lands of D. R. Lyle, M. C. House, Jesse 1 arker and others. On said tract is a comfort able dwelling, stables, horse lot, corn cribs and other out-builuings; from twenty-five to thirty acres in cultivation ; sixty-five in old fields and syrtjr-tiyc m woods or original forest. The other ot said tracts contains fifty acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Mrs. Austin Fulcher. J P Me wart and others. All of this fifty acre tract is in original forest; no improvements. Terms-- cash - L. Y. BRADBURY, F.x'r of Samuel G. Hunter, dec’d. Administrator’s Sale. A GREK ABLY to an order of the Court of Or dinary of Jackson county, obtained at the December term, 1879, will be sold to the highest bidder, before the Court House door in Jefferson within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tues day in January, 1880, the following property, to wit : Nine shares of stock of the Georgia' Rail Road and Banking Company and three shares of stock of the Bank of the University, at Athens, Ga. All of the above shares belonging to estate ofbamuel Smith, Sr., deceased, and the pur value of each share being one hundred dollars. Sold L>r the purpose of distribution and paying debts. Terms cash. SAMUEL S. SMITH T. S. SHANKLE. deco Adm'rs of Samuel Smith, Sr., dec’d. Jackson Mortgage Sale. WILL be sold, before the Court House door, in the town ol Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within the legal hours of sale, on the lirst Tuesday in February, 1880, the following pro* perty, to-wit: One two horse wagon, one sorrel mule, nine years old ; one black mare mule, eight years old ; one dun milch cow. All levied on by virtue of a mortgage ti. fa. issued from Jackson Superior Court in favor of 11. Atkins & Cos., as signee of G. S. Duke, vs. Crotf Duke, colored. Property pointed out and more fully described in said mortgage. T. A. McELIIANNON, Sheriff. Q_KOK<iJIA, Jackson County. C. M. W. Borders has applied for exemption of personalty and setting apart and valuation of homestead; and I will pass upon the same at 10 o’clock A. M., on the 20th day of December. attnyoflice. decs H. W. BELL, Ord’y. ]Dr. E. SI. DLXOIT* G-ainesville, Ga.. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in DR UGS and MEDICINES, PAINTS OILS, TOILET SOAPS, Trasses, Sponges, Toot! and Hair Brasles, Coins, BRANDIES Sr WHISKIES, AND ALL KINDS OF Druggists Sundries. The public will find my stock of MEDICINES complete, warranted GENUINE, and of the best quality. nov 21 •i-iie White —— . —— THE EASIEST SELLING, THE BEST SATISFYIH3 S&iilMaclii Its Introduction and World-renorvnM reputation was the death-blow to priced machines. THERE ARE NO SECONDHAND WHITE MACHINES IN THE MARKET. This is a very important matter, as It Isa well known and undisputed tact t*at many °L the . s “’ called first-class machines which are ottered to cheap now-a-days are those that have been re possessed (that Is. taken back from customers sfter use) and rebuilt and put upon the market aS THEWHITE IS THE PEER OF ANY SEWING ciVls OF IHE SI6Er HOWE J WEEO M i\ more to manufacture than FITMER OF THE AFORESAID MACHINES. ITS CONSTRUCTION IS SIMPLE, POSITIVE AND ° ITS WORKMANSHIP IS UNSURPASSED. Do not Buy any other before try ing the WHITE. Prices and Tens Maie Satisfactory. AGENTS WANTED ! White Sewing Machine Cos., CLEVELAND. 0. M. C. FEW, Sole Ageut for Jackson County, Ga. light job "sktoirik:, Executed promptly, at this office. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1879. REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONER—IB79. 50. Moore, R. D. 51. McElroy, W. W. 52. McElhannon. Julia P. 53. Newman, W. P. 54. Nauraann, Hermann. 55. Orr, 8. P. 56. Osborn, E. M. 57. Park, Mollie. 58. Pittman, S. P. 59. Phillips, A. K. 60. Pittman, J. J. 61. Parker, M. L. 62. Roe. D. P„ col. 63. Roberts. J. H. 64. Ray, li. W. 65. Ross, Olivia. 66. Strickland, A., col. 67. Sansom, D. H., col. 68. Turner, Milly, eel. 69. Willis, Rachel. 70. Wofford. B. F. 71. Witt, Emma, col. 72. Wilson, O. V. 73. Watson, I. J., col. 74. Weir, G. E. 75. Williams, Eugenia. 76. White, J. J. 77. White, S. J.. col. 78. Whitehead, Emma. 79. Young, W. M. J., col. All of which is most respectfully submitted to the people of Jackson county. Gr. J. N. WILSON, County School Commissioner. Mark Twain on Babies. A SPEECn WHICH OCCASIONED ROARS OF LAUGHTER IN CHICAGO. A feature of the banquet of the Army of the Tennessee in Chicago was the humorous response of Mark Twain to the toast of *‘ The Babies.” It was greeted on all sides with laughter, and caused considerable merriment. He said ; “ Babies as they comfort us in our sorrow, let us not forget them in our festivities, [Laughter.] We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies. [Laughter.] We haven't all been Generals or poets or statesmen, but when toats work down to babies, we stand ons common ground, for we have all been there, for we have all been babies. [Laughter and applause.] It is a shame that for thousands of years the world's banquets have utterly ignored the baby as if he didn’t amount to anything. If you gentlemen will stop and think a minute, if you will go back fifty or one hundred years to your early married life [laughter], and contemplate your first bubj’, you will remember that lie amounted to a good deal and even something over. You soldiers all know when that little fellow ar rived at family headquarters you had to hand in your resignation. [Laughter.] He took entire command, you became his lackey, his mere body servant, and you had to stand around too. lie was not a commander who made allowances for time, distance, weather or anything else. You had to execute his order whether it was possible or no [laughter], and there was only one form of marching in his manual of tactics, and that was double quick. He treated you with every sort of insolence and disrespect, and the bravest of you didn’t dare to say a word. You could face death at the storming of Donelson and Vicksburg, and give back blow for blow. [Applause.] But when he clawed your whiskers and pulled your hair, and twisted your nose you had to take it. [Laughter.] When the thunders of war were sounding in your ears you set your face toward batteries and advanced with steady tread, but when he turned on terrors of his war-whoops you ad vanced in the other direction [laughter], might}’ glad of the chance, too. When he called for soothing syrup did you venture to throw out any remarks about certain service being unbecoming an officer and a gentle man? [Laughter.] No, you got up and got it. If he ordered his pap bottle did you talk back? No, you went to work and warmed it. You even descended so far in your menial office as to take a snp at that warm, insipid stuff yourself to see if it was right; three parts water to one of milk, a touch of sugar to modify colic, and a drop of peppermint to kill the immortal hiccoughs. I can taste it yet. [Roars of laughter.] And how many things you learned as you went along. Sen timental young folks still take stock in that beautiful old saying that when a baby smiles in his sleep it i9 because angels are whispering to him. Very pretty, but too thin. [Laugh ter.] Simply wind on the stomaoh. My friends, if the baby proposed to take a walk at his usual hour at half past two in the morning, didn’t you rise up prompt and re- teachers. [concluded.] Teacher's Pro Rata. Teacher * Accounts. Monthly Com pen. Average Attendance. 52 27-65 4.50 235.86 106.1370 19 265 4.50 85.64 38.5380 16 43-65 4.50 74.97 33.7365 11 60-65 4.50 58.65 24.1425 24 1 13 4.50 108.34 48.7530 8 3-65 4.50 36.20 16.2900 18 17-65 4.50 82.17 36.9765 19 32-65 4.50 87.71 39.4695 13 1-65 4.50 58.56 26.3520 17 14-65 3.75 64.55 29.0475 58£ 4.50 263.25 118.4625 36 2-65 3.75 135.11 60.7995 32 7-65 4.50 144.48 65.0160 4 2-65 4.50 18.13 8.1585 15 4.50 67.50 30.3750 24 42-65 4.50 110.90 49.9050 38 58-65 4.50 175.01 78.7545 25 7-65 3.75 94.15 42.3675 13 11 65 4.50 59.26 26.6670 17 31-65 4.50 78.64 35.3880 25 11-G5 3.75 94.38 42.4710 5 51-15 4.50 26.03 11.7135 8 59 65 3.75 33.40 15.0300 4 11-65 4.50 18.76 8.4420 1 59-65 4.50 8.58 3.8610 22 47-65 4.50 102.25 46.0125 53 4.50 238.50 107.3250 7 40-65 4.50 34.26 15.4170 47 1-65 4.50 211.56 95.2020 1720 11-130 4.35 7490.83 3370.8700 mark, with a mental addition which wouldn’t improve a Sunday school book much, that it was the very thing you were about to propose yourself. Oh, yes. you were under good discipline, and yon went fluttering up and down the room in your undress uniform. You not only prattled undignified baby talk, but you turned up your martial voice and tried to sing ‘Rock-a-by baby in the treep top,’ for instance. What, n spectacle for the Army of the Tennessee [roars of laughter] ; and what affliction for neighbors, too, for it isn’t every body wit hi* a mile that likes military uasic at 3 o'clock in the morning. Whca yon had been keeping this sortofthing up two or three hours, and your little ‘velvet’ had intimated that nothing suited him like exercise and noise, ‘go on,’ did you say? He simply went on, till you dropped into the last ditch. [Great laughter.] The idea that a baby don’t amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and front yard by itself. If one baby can’t furnish more business than you and your whole interior department can attend to. He is most enterprising, irrepres sible, brimful of lawless activities. Do what you please, you can’t make him stay on his reservation. [Prolonged laughter.] Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don’t you ever pray for twins. [Roars of laughter and blushes by General Sheridan.] Twins amount to permanent insurrection. [Laughter.] It was high time foi the toast-master to recognize the importance of babies when I think what was in store for the present crop. Fifty years hence we 6hall all be dead. I trust, and then this flag, if it still survives, and let us hope it may, will be floating over a republic num bering 200,000,000. According to the settled laws of increase our present schooner of State will have grown into a political leviathan or Great Eastern, and the cradled babies of to day will be on deck. Let theaa he well trained, for we are going to leave a big con tract on their hands. [Applause.] Among the three or four millions now rocking in this land are aome which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are. In one of these cradles an unconscious Farragut of the future is at this moment teethiug ; think of it. If in an other a future renowned astronomer is blinking at the shining milky substanoe with but a languid interest in the poor little chap, and wondering what is to beoome of the other one they call a wet nurse. In another, a future great historian is lying, and doubtless he will continue to lie till his earthly mission is ended. [Laughter.] In another, a future President is busying himself with no profounder problem of State than that. What in the mischief has become of his hair? So early and in mighty array in other cradles there are some 60,000 future office-seekers getting ready to furnish him the occasion to grapple with that same old prohlem a second time. And still one more cradle ; somewhere under the flag the future illustrious Commander in-Chief of the American armies is so little burdened with his approaching grandeurs and responsibili ties as to be giving his whole strategic mind iat this moment to trying to find out some way to get his own big toe into his mouth.” The Sacred Dogs of Islam. No one who has lived in Turkey can fail to have been perplexed by the circumstance that hydrophobia seems but seldom to affect the dog of Islam, although millions of master less curs infest the streets of Moslem towns and villages. It appears, however, that an unusually long and hot summer season, at tended by drought, resulted, some weeks ago, in an outbreak of hydrophobia among the canine scavengers of Samsun, on the Black Sea coast. At first small notice of the ca lamities caused by the afflicted dogs was taken by the local authorities ; but by and by, as rabid Samsunites became daily more and more common in the town, a deputation of citizens waited upon the Vali to implore that some steps might be taken to save the rest of tlie inhabitants from the horrors of hydrophobia. His Excellency replied that “he would thiuk about it,” and a few days later promulgated a decree, of which the fol lowing is a literal translation : ‘‘ln consideration that the dogs of Sarasun are intrusted with the cleansing of our town, in virtue of which function they enjoy certain civil rights which cannot be contested by any sane person, the Governor deems it obliga tory upon him, ere he proceed to stringent measures condemned by his conscience, to submit this matter and tlie grave facts con nected with it to tlie superior religious au thorities in Stamboul.” This decree was tardily followed by a fetwah from the Shiek-ul-Islam, sentencing the dogs to life long exile from the town. Next day the offending scavengers were collected, bound, and conveyed under a strong escort to a tcharchembe some miles distant from Samaun. Delivered from their persecutors, the Samsunites breathed more freely, but not for long ! A daj’ or two later the banished dogs began to put in an appear ance, by twos and threes at a time, in their old familiar quarters; whereupon pious men exclaimed, “See tlie finger of Allah, who protects oppressed innocence!” and tlie persons subsequently bitten were comfortably regarded by the orthodox Vali as ‘‘phantasts and visionaries/’ —London Telegraph. What a Woman Can Do. Asa wife and mother she can make or mar the fortune and happiness of her hus band and children. By her thrift, prudence, and good management, she can secure to her partner and herself a competency in old age. By her tender care she can often re store him to good health. By her counsel and her love she can win him from bad company, if temptation, in an evil hour, has led him astray. She can do as much as man, perhaps even more, to degrade him, if she chooses to do it. Asa wife she can min her husband by extravagance and folly ; by want of affection she can make an out cast of a man who might otherwise have be come a good member of society. She can bring bickerings and strife into what has been a happy household. She can become an instrument of evil instead of an angel of good. Asa mother her words and her ways should be kind, loving, and good. If she reproves, her language should be choice and refined. The true mother rules by the laws of kindness; and to her children the word ‘‘mother” is synonymous with everything pure, swoet, and beautiful. Kissing. Girls take naturally to kissing—there's not tlie slightest doubt of it. A man slides as awkwardly into his first kiss as into his elder brother's tailcoat, and his vanity is equally great on both occasions. He consid ers them as steps up the ladder of life, and would have his promotions proclaimed from the housetops, and shouted from the church steeples, but such is his modesty in his family circle that when a younger brother quiety mentions them lie looks red and feels unfraternal. The female sex obtain their remarkable proficiency in kissing by perpet ual study and constant practice. They are early distinguished for their aptitude in the art, for what girl is not ready to kiss a baby at all hours and all seasons ? This sort of kiss eventually develops into the genuine love-kiss—pleasant to experience and con template. The strangest news coming to us from German}’ is that a learned doctor has dis covered a means of dyeing human eyes any color he likes, not only without injury to the delicate orbs, but, as he assorts, with positive advantage to the powers of sight, lie can not only give fair ladie9 eyes black as night, or blue as orient skies by day, but he can turn them out in hue of silver or of gold. He says golden eyes are exceedingly becom ing. Nothing goe9 down without a name; therefore the German doctor calls his dis covery ‘‘Ocular Transmutation.” He de clares himself quite ready to guarantee success and harmlcssness in tl:e operation. Official whippings are continued regularly at Newcastle. Delaware, and are regarded as a matter of course by the residents, though strangers are sometimes shocked by the sight. On the last whipping day five convicted thieves were punished. The first was a German, who was not seferlv lashed, and lie walked away smilingly. The second was a miserable tramp, who bore the ordeal with out flinching. Two negroes, who came next, writhed and muttered under the pain of severe blows. The fifth was a hoy of fifteen. Me was so frighten that it was necessary to force hi in to the post, and at the first stroke he desperately freed himself by pulling his hands out of the staples. A handkerchief was used to fasten him. but he got loose again before the prescribed twenty Mows were completed, and pathetically begged the Sheriff not to strike so hard. S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO For Six Months. G-eneral News. Blonds arc out of fashion in Paris, and dark brunettes are the rage. Of the 686 soldiers sent out bv Baltimore to the Mexican war, but 13 survive. Capt. 1 homas Simpson of Burnet, Texas, keeps the remains of his wife, recently deceased, in his parlor in an elegant metallic case. V itznau. the village at the foot of the Rigf r in Switzerland, is threatened with destruc tion. the wall of rock behind it showing signa of falling. German newspapers in the United State* are one-third more numerous than in the b atherland, where Bismark’s censorship keeps them in perpetual fearoffine and suspension. A shabbily dressed stranger is regarded with suspicion in Pulaski county. Ky.. be cause he is very profane, is well informed about the iate war, and deposits $5,000 in gold with ever}’ bank lie encounters. A goat took possession of the entrance to the Baptist church in Port Byron. N. V., on Sunday, and, rearing on its hind legs, butted at all comers so vigorously as to disperse the congregation. A California paper says : “ If anyone hn noticed a certain stiffness in the acting of the members of Baldwin's Theatre this week, they will please to take into consideration that Dr. Bishop vaccinated the entire company last week.” Sheffield, England, sends large quantities of steel blanks to Connecticut to be struck off into scissors. They are then returned to England, where the line finishing is done, and they take a final trip to America as. Sheffield ware. Rudolf Falk, the explorer, has written from San Francisco to German friends to inform them that a monument in Bolivia, much more ancient than the times of the Incas, has given him a clue to the origin and development of speech and writing. Under a South Carolina law which provides’ that money won at gambling shall, upon proof, he restored fonr-lbld, a firm of Charles ton lias entered suit for $711,000 against the' proprietors of two fashionable resorts, the. amount alleged as having been lost by young men in whom the firm was interested. Nellie Johnson, of St. Louis, is a diminutive? woman who weighs only fifty pounds. Never theless, being insulted by a young man in the street the other day, she whipped ont a pocket knife and plunged the blade into hif* breast. lie escaped with his life only because the blade was a small one. A man named Upton, in Ansonia, Con necticut, came homo drunk, and hurling a. lighted lamp at his wife, it fell in the cradle* of his child and set fire to the clothing whicle covered it. The mother endeavoring to* extinguish the flames was herself probably fatally burned. The child lived only a few. hours. Upton has been arrested. A recent railway collision in Missouri re leased two lions belonging to Howe's London Circus, and the animals are playing havoc in the vicinity of St. Louis. They have already* killed a German farmer and two little girls.. The neighborhood is greatly excited, the* public schools have been closed temporarily and a large number of men have gone out to, hunt the savage beasts. The hair of the Presidents from Washington to Pierce is preserved in the Patent Office at Washington. Washington’s is pure white, and fine in texture, Jefferson’s is a mixture of white and auburn and rather coarse, as. also is the hair of “Old Hickory.” The custom of preserving the Presidential locks, was abandoned in Buchanan’s time. Ilow it arose, and why the Patent Office was the re pository selected, it would be interesting to, know. In Berlin, last month, a horse ran awa t witli a cart in which there was a little girl.. A boy of 13 seeing the situation, rolled a. barrel into the midst of the road, which half' stopped the horse, who was about to dodge* the obstacle, when the' boy seized the bit, and contrived, with great agility, to swing; himself up and clasp his legs around the> animal’s neck, which very soon came to a stop. Then the brave little fellow slipped away unknown and unnoticed. It will he interesting to our army men toi learn the details just published of the rations, given the British soldier in the field. A pound of brea<i, a pound of fresh meat, half a pound of fresh vegetables. three-qrmriersi of a pound of dour, and,, at tl>e discretion of' the commanding offi-er and medical staff, a pint of porter or half a "ill of spirits form the, daily ration. As it is not always practicable to obtain 1 read, fresh meal, or fresh tables, three-qmrters of a pound of biscuit, flour, or rice aro to be considered equivalent to the ration of bread, a pound of salt meat, or three quarters of a pound of preserved meat may be substituted for the fresh meat ration, and t*vo ounces of preserved vege tables, one ounce of compressed vegetablesv or a quarter of a pound of onions or leeks* may take the place of the fresh vegetables. That the conflagration that is to consume the world has begun is believed by manv residents of Reading, Fa. While some gen tlemen were shooting on the farm of Henry Miller, near that citv. one of the party killed a partridge, which fell in an adjacent find. To the surprise of the gentleman his dog refused to fetch the bird, and ho went for it himself; but at the spot where the bird had fallen he suddenly sank several feet in abed of fire and ashes. The burning truck is a square in length and half a square m width. Miller says the fire l>ogan burning about t hree weeks ago, and travels several feet a dav it emits no smoke excepting now and then when a tnrf of grass is being consumed, or when trees are burning; hut the bent is j intense. The fire has exfen led into a green wheat field, which is gradually being de | stroyed. The roo*s of oak -trees burn otf, ; an 1 some trees two feet and a half in diara* I c-ter have fallen over. NUMBER 28.