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Jackson Sheriff ’s Sale.
W T ILLbe sold, before the Court House door,
P in the town of Jefferson, Jackson couiitj',
i, ; within the legal hours of sale, on the lirst
[today in January next, the following property,
tilths tract or parcel of land situate, lying
ndbeing on the Walnut Fork of the Oconee
(f r. in the county of Jackson, and known and
languished as the R. E. Oliver place, being the
tec whereon he resided at the time of his death,
idboundcd as follows, to-wit: on the north
, the lands of John S. Messer, on the west by
klands of Mrs. Cynthia Long, on the south by
klands of Mrs. Emily Niblack and Hardy, and
(the east by the lands of Neal Shockley and
tors, and containing three hundred acres, more
irks Levied on and to be soid for the purchase
lonev under and by virtue of a fi. fa. issued from
tebon Superior Court in favor of Thomas 11.
m less and Jane A. Loveless vs. Green S.
hke. Said Green S. Duke holds said lands
teer bond for titles, and said Thomas 11. Love
land Jane A. Loveless have made and filed
and hid recorded in the Clerk's office of Jackson
iuerior Court their deed for said land to Green
L Bake, as required, by law. Written notice
•ven tenant in possession, as the law directs.
Y'jxrtv pointed out by plaintiff's attorney.
T. A. McELHANNON, Sh’ff.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL he sold, before the Court- House door,
P in the town of Jefferson, Ga., within the
tfl hours of sale, on the lirst Tuesday in Janu
tr, the following property, to-wit: The
net of land i Jackson county, Ga., on which
Imauda M. Duke now resides, lying on the Wal
mt Fork of the Oconee river, adjoining lands of
teol Calvin Long. dec’d. the lands of Sims
ui. the dower of Elizabeth Howies ami
tors, containing three hundred and forty-three
jew. more or less. On said land is a good, com
'I 11 ' frame two-story building, an elegant
toned barn .and stables, corn cribs, &c., and
buil out-buildings; seventy-five acres of good
laud in a high state of cnltivation ;
•tck upland in cultivation ; good orchard of fruit
j place. Levied on as the property of said
M. Duke, by virtue of and to satisfy a
| ‘- utued from August term, 1878, Jackson
%rwr Court, in favor of J. E. Randolph, Ex
ntor of.l. U. Randolph, dec’d, vs. Green S.
w.principal. 11. It. Howard, A. M. Duke and
, ykims. securities. Written notice given to
Duke as the law requires. Property
l, o, tt by J. E. Randolph, Ex’r, plaintiff.
T. A. McELIIANNON. Sh’ff.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
U ! J b be sold, before the Court House door,
i J'.V- A ovva of JelWrson, Jackson county',
, • mi the legal hours of sale, on the first
ir n''' j. ; !! I,lar - v ' FBSO, to the highest and best
u 10 ''’'lowing property, to-wit:
Si?" 1 ' ' n the town of Jefferson, Ga.,
, ‘ ,c Square, known as the William S.
pen (!welling house. Said house is a two
lf |[ ' lm b r - w 'th eight rooms—tire place in
I;,;, '~ an< ' l' l ordinary condition ; kitchen
rrslrl ll .i' es on the lot. Said lot contains two
an,, ' t moro or less, part of which is in
.Tiii, ,'■ ,' Cll 0,1 :is the property of Wm.
t 0 Satis ty a li. fa. issued from
ffion n i r,l 'lV' rv °F Jackson county in favor
uardiin V A \i " "ham H. Lav and M. N. Duke,
rK: r^y J . Duke, vs. W. S. Thomp
-4 || 1 r l ' u aotice given W. S. Thompson, Sr.,
tin Au- Ol , nson ' tenant in possession, in terms
- U * Lay ’
__ T. A. McELHANNON, Sh'if.
J ,}p ksou Mortgage Sale.
M f before the Court House door,
' a,, sdav ;, H t OWu of Jefferson, Ga., on the first
fvtlf'.L l ! ?J luar y next, within the legal hours
One’tractSi?? P ro P crt 3’ to-wit:
' J!l 'irt iin i ■ ant * ln saa l county, containing one
Tie vm . u "‘"Jjfy acres, adjoining lands of 11.
r e Sn j‘.: A - U Yearwood and A. DeLapcr
i'o. i), llor , s ' an( l known as part of the Moore
V s . Pk'ice there is a log house, out-
' P art ’ n cultivation, part in woods
B.§ji ' P me - Levied on as the property of
th o sat 'sfy a mortgage ti. fa. obtained
lv orofr„^ >cri ® r L'ourt of Jackson county, in
snv t,„int , Sa E - Sta plcr vs. J. B. Silman. Pro
lr°ti to j ® ut by plaintiff's attorney. Notice
’tin •.oilman, and Thomas Bennett, ten
ssion, as the law directs.
A. McEIJIANNON, Sh'ff.
J V, JaekKon County.
i-
D u aurt °f Ordinary, December Term, 1579.
Mii s * J; e^ ar t VS. Henry D. Human, Ex'r of
{ ires, r" thwart, dec’d, and Sarah A. Mur
'tha.ii Georgia A. Stewart,
'"Tn hkir s b°m and her husband, W. E. Os-
Appficatj sa l a ' v ofMalissa E. Stewart, dec’d.
land ° n or t° cau se titles to be made
' o| ' the i n ® to t b° Court that Rutha J. Osborn,
I her hm.k° v j liarae d heirs at law and parties,
* State • V and ' Osborn, reside without
°f the ni 1S ’ therefore, ordered that legal no-
Parties K°, Vt a PpLcation be perfected upon
0r tu:/ Publication of this order, once a
r Publish ’ *y s : in l be Forest News, a pa
decs a lu Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
- H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
t . 1
J. J ark*on County.
.' 10 reas r -
r . n * for j’J.I amcs P°tts applies to me in proper
Thom/ (■ of Administration on the estate
ig t c late of said county, dec’d—
\ to sh aE concerned, kindred and cred
°n'lay in' t" cauS( N if any they can, on the first
* ( -°urt ( r at the regular term of
! tfcr s shr,, i , r< l*nary of said county, why said
Vi, ; ldno ‘ be granted.
r 3d. k>, rm y official signature, this Deccm-
U. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Ilu i their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Executors’ Sale.
A AGREEABr,! to an order of the Court of
TS7O C ;f,; n^ y ' thc December term,
bidder So ,u V ' T oDeison, Ga., to the highest
Tnnlm ’ th T m the le s al hours of sale on the Ist
to Wd J V t Ja T iar * v - 1880 i the Following property,
to-w it: 1 o tracts or parcels of land, in .Jack-
G Hunt ty, d G *''i bc^ nging t 0 the estatc of Sa®’ l
J r ’ CC V f ° nc of saifl tr acts contains
\ o hundred and hfty-nme acres, more or less
Parker l2 Irfu of D ’,?* Ly, c, M. C. House, Jesse
ihUA* ai i’r others .'. On said tract is a comfort
able dwelling stables, horse lot, corn cribs and
other out-buildings; from twenty-live to thirty
acres m cultivation ; sixty-five in old fields and
sixty-tiyc in woods or original forest. The other
ot said tracts contains fifty acres, more or less,
adjojjung lands ,ef Mrs. Austin Fulcher. J P
otewart and others * All of this fifty acre tract is
m original forest; no improvements. Terms--
cash - L. Y. HRADHUIiY,
Ex’r of Samuel G. Hunter, dec’d.
Administrators Sale.
\ GREEABLY to an order of the Court of Or
dinary of Jackson county, obtained at the
December term, JS79. 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 m January, ISSO, thc 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,
Da. All of the above shares belonging to estate
ot Samuel Smith, Sr., deceased, and the par value
of each share being one hundred dollars. Sold for
the purpose of distribution and paying debts,
terms cash. SAMUEL S. SMITH
T. S. SIIANKLE,
deco Adm'rs of Samuel Smith, Sr., dec’ll.
Jackson Mortgage Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Court House door.
in the town of Jellerson, Jackson county,
Ga., within the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in February', ISBO, the following pro*
pertv, to-wit: One two horse wagon, one sorrel
mule, nine years old ; one black marc mule, eight
years old ; one dun milch cow. All levied on by
virtue of a mortgage fi. fa. issued from Jackson
Superior Court in favor of 11. Atkins & Cos., as
signee of G. S. Duke, vs. Groff Duke, colored.
Property' pointed out and more fully described in
said mortgage.
T. A. McELHANNON, Sheriff.
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A Yellow-Fever Incident.
One dajf, when the fever was at its height
in New Orleans, a nicely-dressed, interesting
looking little fellow about 8 years old stepped
into the office of the Picayune with a little
slip of paper which he handed to one of the
editors. Opening it, the editor read a notice
of the death of Mrs. Allen and infant. He
looked inquiringly at thc child, who was
striving to choke his sobs.
“It’s my dear mother and my darling
little sister,” he said. “Oh, I can’t believe
they’ve gone ! And now Margaret’s got it.”
“ Who is Margaret ?” was asked.
“She’s my grown-up sister; she's 17, and
the prettiest and best girl in the world. It’s
awful to see her throwing her arms about,
and her cheeks arc so red, and her eyes shine
like stars. She don't know any of us, not
even papa, and she keeps calling out, ‘Mam
ma, mamma, why don’t you come to me ?’
Oh, Uin so scared about her J”
He turned without another word and
hurried down stairs.
The next morning, flushed, excited, pant
ing lor breath, the little fellow sprung up the
steps and burst into the office with another
slip of paper in his extended hand.
“It's Margaret now,” he faltered. Ilis
little frail form was convulsed with anguish,
but with wonderful self-restraint lie neither
wept nor sobbed. But the agony, the despair
in the soft brown eyes was ten times more
pathetic than a more noisy grief.
“Only 17,” commented the editor, musing
ly, as lie read the death-notice.
“Oh, she was so good, so kind !” thc child
cried ; “ she never said a cross word to me.
Oh Margaret, Margaret, what am I going to
do without my’ ownlivst sister ?” He cover
cd his poor little face with his hands and sat
there, his breath coining quickly, and in
convulsive gasps.
Several of thc employes of the paper were
m the room, and though, as a rule, printers
do not usually lind it in their line of bnsines*
to comfort the afflicted, yet these men did
what they could by petting the little fellow,
and bidding him he a man.
Such a little man as lie was already, with
sueli power of self-repression I It was un
natural, and one would have preferred seeine
tears, or any expression of childish grief.
At last in silence he rose, and walked
slowly and heavily’ down thc steps.
Two days elapsed, but on the third, the
well-known little step was heard on the
stairs, and, paler and frailer than before, the
child appeared, holding the- fatal slip in his
hand.
“It* brothers Edward and James, now,’*
he said, in a dreary, monotonous tone. You
aw he wm utterly stunned by the repeated
blows.
“They both died last night, and Edward
wa,s glad to die, for he said he saw mamma
and Margaret waiting for him ; but James,
lie screamed out and was in pain. Do people
go straight to heaven when they die ?” turn
mg his grave, brown eyes to the kind faces
around him. ** I wonder what takes ’em
there, when they’re so weak they can’t raise
their heads. They ain't strong enough to
tiv theirselves, is the}' ?”
The people in the office looked at each
other rather sheepishly. They were not
exactly prepared to .discuss questions from
a religious standpoint, but there were those
sad, imploring eyes fixed upon them. One
of the printers, a burly, good-natured-looking
man, had stepped in for some directions.
He answered the question :
“ I’ve heard preachers say, my little chap,
that the Saviour and the angels are always
at the death-beds of good people, and take
their souls to heaven.”
“Yes, I've heard my mamma say that,”
he answered, gravely, “ and I s’pose that’s
the way she was carried up. But I wish
they hadn't brought the buss for 'em.”
“The huss ?” asked one of the gentlemen.
“ Yes, the black carriage with silver things
on it that takes away the dead. It seems
always a-travelin', travelin* before me, and
I see it oven when I wake up in the night.
It’s an awful thing, ain’t it?”
Two days after, he was back again, and a
shudder ran through tho group in the office
when the terrible slip was handed in.
“ It's Uncle James this time,” he said, in
strange, low tones, “ and my papa went to
bed to-day. That makes six dead. I wonder
who’ll be the next.” His solemn eyes, sunk
deep in his pale, pinched little face, seemed
to be asking why he should suffer thus, and
what was to be the end of it all.
“ Why, this is Col. Allen's son,” said a
gentleman who entered the office. " I heard
that nearly all the family have died with the
fever, and the Colonel himself is very low
with it.”
“ Y'cs, there’s only him and me left, and
he’ll die, too. But, oh, sir,” clasping his
little hands imploringly, “ can’t you stop ’em
bringin’ that awful black huss forever to our
door? It’s always there.”
“ What does he moan?” asked the gentle-
O
man.
“It's the hearse,” was the answer. “It
seems to have made a terrible impression on
him. Pity so young a child (why, he’s
almost a baby) should be exposed to such
terrors. A wee chap, isn't he, to be a bird of
ill-omen? Yet. be has brought us six death
notices within a week. I declare. I shudder
when I see his poor little pale' face in the
door f”
It was three days before the child returned,
and then he stole in so slowly and so feebly
that no one heard his step on the stairs, nor
saw him until he stood in the room. lie was
like a ghost, a shadow, so weak and attenuated
he looked as he sank on thc nearest scat.
“ It's Auut Mary,” he said, “ but I dropped
the paper.” He held up his trembling hands,
and ft was easy to see they could not hold
a feather. *' That makes eight. I wonder
who’ll be next.”
“ No, you arc mistaken. It’s only seven.”
“ Did you count papa? He’s dead, you
know. No, I didn’t bring the notiee, for 1
was sick my'self.” lie spoke in a monotonous,
tired voice, and his pretty brown eyes were
bloodshot and heavy.
Thc child slowly' and painfully descended
the steps, but in a few minutes ho was heard
toiling up again.
“ Oh, dear, I can’t get past that man with
a buss,” he said, with a quick catch in his
breath, and his eyes wild with terror. “ He’s
pulled up right against the doorway’, and he
keeps looking at me, and savin’, ‘Who
next?’ ”
There was a universal chorus of indignant
exclamations. “ Wretch 1 monster !” “ Give
me that horse-whip,” said one of the men,
“and I’ll teach him to scare children.”
He descended the steps three at a time,
and ran to the door. No one was there.
“ lie's gone now, my boy,” lie said soothingly
to the child, who was feebly descending the
stops.
One quiok look, and the child covered his
ftee with his hands, and sank to the ground.
*'Don’t you see him?” lie shrieked. “There,
right across thc steps. lie’s coming up now.
Oil. save me. Don't let him take me.”
And then his voice sank into moans.
The people raised him from thc floor, and
as soon as they’ touched his parched hands
it wis discovered tlint ho was in a raging
fever. There was no one at. home to attend
to him, so he was carried to a fever hospital.
How long he had had the disease it was im
oossible to say\ for all were dead who knew
anything about it or him.
It was merely conjectured that the fever
vime upon him when his mint, the last mem
•>cr of the household, was on her death bed.
md in his delirium he had wandered to the
familiar office, lie died that uight. Avery
few minutes before hi death he foil into a
light dojee, and lay bo still and calm that the
nurc began to think the uncertain disease
had taken a favorable turn. The blue lines
■ibout liis ha lay mouth disappeared, and when
he suddenly opened his eyes the nurse almost
started at the radiance which seemed literally
to stream from their brown depths.
“ Mamma, mamma.” he cried in strong,
joyful tones, “so you’ve come for me at last,
you, and Margaret, and all of’em. Lift me
up, mamma, so thc buss man can’t catch me !
Lift me up higher, higher,” and with a laugh
of triumph the child was lifted up above time,
and pain, and all mortal ills.
1 do not think any one knew thc little
fellow’s Christian name, so thc notice of his
was only the tale of his sufferings.
M. B. Williams.
Never!
WELL, HARDLY EVER.
Never be too warm in your praises of a
lady friends. Friendship should be
encouraged, not discouraged.
Never say anything if you wouldn’t have
your words repeated. But. beg pardon,
perhaps you never did say much of anything.
Never try to equal the smartness of your
smart interlocutor. It is not his province to
recognize smartness in another, but to as
tonjsli with his own.
Never tell all you know to a stranger, even
if he regale you ever so copiously with his
affairs. Think you he would be more careful
of your reputation than he is of his own?
Never say, when retiring, “ I will get up
early to-morrow,” for doesn’t the Good Book
say all liars shall have their part, etc?
Nevor jam your finger in the door; for to
swear is neither brave, polite nor wise.
Never call a man a liar; for the eye is a
tender organ, and the sense of vision a precious
one.
Never ask a lady to play upon the piano
unless j’ou intend to be polite enough to listen
to her playing. After having talked inces
santly during her performance—
Never add hypocrisy to boorishness bv
seeming to be pleased with what you thought
more contemptible than your contemptible
prattle. Own up that yon only asked her to
play out of politeness, and failed to listen
out of impoliteness.
Never read your literary productions to an
other unless he press you to read them. Re
member the golden rule.
Never refuse the fruit when it is first passed
you, hoping that all will show their politeness
by taking the smaller, inferior apples and
pears, leaving the best for yourself thp next
time round. Not only is thi9 msan, but you
may overestimate the politeness of your
company.
Never look over the shoulder of a man who
is writing. Have mind upon your health;
he may forget himself.
Never put the mucilage brush in yonr
inkstand. True, the temptation is great:
but remember that cleanliness is next to
godliness.
Never attempt to write an original article
unless your scissors arc sharp. Everybody
likes an incisive writer.
Never talk of y’oursclf in a country where
forty-odd millions of people are bent on
talking of themselves.
Never ask a question unloss you intend
to pay attention to the answer. There is no
pleasure in life comparable to the joy of
airing our knowledge. Give your friend- a
chance to air his. He will love you with a
love surpassing that of a woman.
Never say that you have heard before
what your friend has evidently taken great
pleasure in telling you. Ilis delight at
finding you equally well informed with
himself may not be so great as you had
imagined.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
while the donor is present. After he is gone
it is a duty. The proper study for the
horseman is the horse.
Never ask for a second piece of pie, little
boy, unless 3 r ou are sure of getting it. It iss
best not to get people in the habit of refusing
yon things.
Never make any distinction in your horse
car gallantry in favor of youth and beauty—
if you can help it.
Never tell a secret to a woman. If you
can’t keep it j'ourself, why expect she will
he able to keep it to herself?
Never say dye to a barber. Let him alone
for starting that subject, or he is not the
barber we tako him for.
Never fret about to-morrow’s weather. If
to-day’s weather is pleasant, enjoy it. You
may be so fortunate as to oscape to-morrow’s
storm by getting smashed on the railroad or
blown up on the steamboat.
Never tell a falsehood when you may’ just
as well keep your mouth closed.
A Reckless Hackman.
A queer fish of a man arrived at the Brush
street depot, Detroit, recently, in company
with a sheep’s-gray ulster and a bulky satchel,
and when the hack-drivers went for him he
called one of them aside and said :
“ I’m a singular man. I’m worth over a
million of dollars, and when I take a notion
to a person I can afford to buy them a house
and lot.”
“Take you right op, it,” replied the
hack man.
‘‘Perhaps 3*oll will—perhaps so. Let me
tell you something. I landed in Toledo ton
years ago, got into a hack and drove up
town, and the hackman never said a word
about fare. lie seemed to take a liking to
me. In four weeks I presented him with a
team and a hack worth $1,200. Yes, I’m a
singular man.
“Get right into my carriage, sir,” said the
hackman as lie opened tlic door,, and the
stranger complied and was driven to a hotel.
As he got out lie said :
“ I guess I’ll take your name. I may
take a freak to present you with: a house
and lot.”
“ The fare is 50 cents, air I” replied the
driver.
“What! Didn’t I tell you I was a sin-i
gnlar man ?”
“You did, sir, and I’m another* I want
my fare.”
“ Look here !” whispered the man, as he
put up his pencil, “you have lost just
exactly $40,000. On the way up here I
determined to put you in my will for that
amount. Now PH be hanged if I do.”
“ I had rather have 103* 5Q oents now,
and I can’t wait here all day for it, oitlicr.”
“There it is,” growled the stranger, as he
fished up a half-dollar after a great deal of
trouble, “nhd now, ”
But the hackman didn’t wait. The sin
gular man watched him turn the corner, and
then entered the hotel, turned the blotter
wrong end up to register his name, and his
voice was heard saying ;
"If I can’t get a room looking out qn a
circus procession, I don’t want any at all I”
A Snake with Two Heads. —Mr, John J.
Birdsong brought to this city some days ago
one of the greatest natural curiosities we ever
saw. It was a white and red striped snake,
about seven or eight inches long, of the spe
cies commonly known as the king snake. It
was alive when captured, and exhibited all
the signs of life which belong to the snake
species. Both heads were of equal size, with
two distinct eyes, and while alive used both
of these heads in guiding its course on the
ground, and would eat with both months,
using one mouth for this purpose awhile and
then the other. It is reported that it experi
enced some difficulty in its movements, seem
ingly caused by its heads not being able to
agree as to direction, but as soon as an agree
ment of ideas could be reached it would move
on in the direction agreed upon. This won
derful natural curiosity was captured t*y spine
railroad men near Medina, Tennessee
Egress .
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
) SI.OO For Six Months.
General News.
A hard-working girl who was recently
married in Groton, N. ~ bought the groom's
wedding clothes, paid the marriage fee and
all other expenses.
Avery fine monument has been erected
at Dusscldorf-—next to Munich the chief art
centre of German' —to Cornelius, who is re
garded as the regenerator of German art.
The agent of a firm which is in the dog
skin trade at Bridgeport. Connecticut, lias
been in Raleigh, telling lhe~ ficoplc how to
skin a dog so that lie will give them §2.50
for the hide.
There are but thirteen grist mills now
running out of thirty costly ones that
Rochester once boasted of. Fifteen of them
arc now used as manufactories of machinery
and two arc burned.
One million hundred weight of steel blocks
have recently been sold in England for ship
ment to America. This the Times regards
as evidence that Europe is beginning to over
come the balance of trade recently so heavily
against it.
Fashionable society at Jacksonville, HI.,
is "all torn up,” as the local newspaper ex
presses it, in consequence of the marriage of
the wealthiest and handsomest young lady
of the place to a professional gambler and
blackleg.
On the first of January next the Republi
cans will have an equal number of ,State
Governors with the Democrats—nineteen
each—unless they are counted out by their
own frauds in Maine. The gains at the
recent elections were in the latter State, in
California, New York and Ohio.
Hog stealing in Paris, Ky.. has its dan
gers. A man named Wilson tied the feet
together of a freshly-dressed hog that he
proposed to steal, and 'putting his head
between the legs, carried the hog on his
shoulders. In climbing a fence, the hog fell
on one side and he on the other, and he was
found in the morning dead. The weight of
the animal had pressed his throat light,
against the fence and his feet could not,
touch the ground. He choked to death.
A woman calling herself the Queen of
Cure is doing an enormous business in tho
Southwest, particularly among the negroes
She rides in a discarded circus chariot,,
wearing velvet and spangles, and accompanied
by a band of music. She lias the reputation
among the credulous of possessing miracu
lous powers of healing, and multitudes flock
around her wherever she goes. She makc&
no charge for her services, but sells vast,
quantities of a liniment, to which she ascribes
marvellous curative qualities,
| It is estimated by the London Tiu*e that
the loss to England from the short harvest*
and to France from the short harvest amt
vintage, will equal six months of their re
spective revenues. The same paper states:
that the Aylesbury Dairy Company haa
discovered anew treatment for batter, by
which it can be preserved without salt. In
proof of this it says that batter treated by ths
new process was put into a keg on the 24tU
of July, and three months afterward it was
found to be as fresh as when first put i-
Samuel Shook got morried at Hillsboro*
Ohio, and took his bride to the home that lie
had prepared. Two rowdies of the neighbor
hood, desiring to, play what they conceived
to be a good joke on the husband, broke into*
the house that night while he was asleep and
carried off the wife, frightening her into,
silence by brandishing pistols. They hid her
for three days, and then returned her to the.
anxious Mr. Shook. They said they meant,
no liarm, but he refuses to regard the exploit*
as fun, and has had; them, arrested.
The Brunswick Advertiser tells of the sud
den death of Mr. Robert Goodhcad under
very peculiar circumstances. It says that
some days ago lie was taken with an af
fection of the throat, from whieh he died in
a few hours. Ilis sufferings were said to be,
intense. As soon as lie was taken hist
throat began to swell and his breathing be
came difficult. In his efforts to get breathy
lie paced the house from one part to another
frantically, and finallj’, unable longer to hold
up, yielded to the inevitable, and died from
actual inability to, force air into his lungs*
Wm. Rickerson, of Coffee count3*, died oq
the 24th of November, being at that tiroa
eighteen years old. It is doubtful if there is*
another person in the United States who at,
that age attained the weight of this remarks
able boy, He was known far and wide as thev
‘fat boy of Coffee county,’ and people came
from long distances to see him. At the time
of bis death he weighed five hundred and
fifty-six pounds, ami was apparently in good
health, The causo of his death was suflbca,
tion. 11 is father, the late Ivey Riokerson,
was a man of ordinary size, and his mother
—who is still living—is a lady of small
stature, It required a coffin three feet wide
and twonty-six inches in depth to hold tI)Q
body,— Berrien County Newa ,
A convict in the Wisconsin State prisoq
refused to go to his cell when ordered by tha
Warden to do so. The Warden held a wateft
in one hand and a pistol in the other, and
said : <* I will give you three minutes toobey t
and if you don’t I shall shoot yni).” The
convict doggedly folded his arras and stood
still. Minute after minute passed, the War
den counting them aloud. This was in tha
workshop, and all the prisoners were specta*.
tors of the soene, When the three mingtea
had expired, the Warden took deliberate aim
at the convict’s heart and said 5 “I’ll give
you two minutes more, and I swear I’ll kill
you then if you don’t go to your oell.” A
defiant curse was the only reply. At the end
of the extra two minutes the pistol was fired,
and the convict fell dead. The officer Is sus
tained bj f the higher prison authorities, whq
say that his course was perfeotlv proper un ?
der the circumstances; but tha Distfipt At
torney of the county will try him under ap
indictment for murder.
Number 30.