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THE FOREST NEWS. •, k SON CO. PUB. COM’Y, ) i u Proprietors. . $ IoLUME V. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. jfRT s HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, ga. N K COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. terms of months $1.50 ,i 3 “ 50 " r -very Club of Ten subscribers, an ex !*Trfth.PPrwiUbgiv.. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Art DOLLAR P cr square (often lines or less) c firs t insertion, and Seventy-five Cents ! c ,ch subsequent insertion. S nnare is a space of one men, measured Jd down the column. ■rill Advertisements sent without specifica *f the number of insertions marked thereon, ° lie published TILL FORBID, and charged 'rf-lJusiness or Professional Cards, of six lines Seven Dollars per annum; and where not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. £egnf libertisements. Jackson Sheriff’s Sale . UILL be sold, before the Court House door, IT jn the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, , within the legal hours of sale, on the first . t '„l a y in February next, the following property, pvit: til that tract or parcel of land situate, lying [| being in the county aforesaid, on the road sdingfrom Jefferson to Athens, about four miles „ n former place, adjoining lands of Mrs. ten, Strickland, Sarah Freeman and others, kplace whereon James E. Hayes now resides, miniingone hundred acres, more or less. There iabout sixty acres of said tract cleared and in itivation, balance of said land in old pine fields id original forest. There is situated on said land mud two-story framed building and necessary K-honsM. Said land levied on by virtue of and latisfy a fi. fa. issued from the County Court (aid county in favor of S. P. Thurmond and [tryF. Rawson, Adm'rs. Ac., vs. said James E. ive>. Written notice given to James K. Hayes, K'iefendant and the tenant in possession, as re mi by law. Property pointed out b\ r plaintiff alignment. T. A. McELII ANNON, Sh’fF. Jackson Mortgage Sale. PILL be sold, heforo the Court House door, i I in the town of Jefferson, Jackson county,' i„ within the legal hours of sale, on the first why in February, I SSO, the following pro irtr, to-wit : One two horse wagon, one sorrel lie, nine years old ; one black marc mule, eight mold; one dun milch cow. All levied on hv rtue of a mortgage fi. fa. issued from Jackson iperior Court in favor of 11. Atkins & Cos., ns peeoftj. S. Duke, vs. Croff Duke, colored, roperty pointed out and more fully described in lid mortgage. T. A. McELHANNON, Sheriff. JORGI t, .luuksOll L'oimlj. Louisa Millsaps, Executrix rf Mar >'ldlsaps. late of said county, dec'd, repre ■ ' to the Court, by her petition dill y filed, tliat i*has fully administered the estate of said de l m terms of the law, aud is entitled to a icharge— liii iito cite all concerned, kindred and crcd- Moihor cause, if any they' can, on the first tJ April, 18S0, at the regular term of the 1; ' Urd " ,ar y of said county, why' Letters of ' sm<mi should not he granted the applicant. ’!/' Ilni ‘ er >y official signature, this Deccm- II. W. HELL. Ord’y. 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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY. JANUARY 9. ISSO. Mr. Palmleaf’s Proposal. Mr bite and glistening, like a mammoth bridal veil, the December un lay over all the New Hampshire hills ; dark and delicate, like the tracery of lace work; the leafless woods held up their boughs against the dazzling winter sky—and the Reverend Peter 1 almleaf, studying over an embryo sermon in his own especial sanctum, glanced up where a blackbird was whistling in the casement, and thought to himself what a lovely world the Lord had made. M hen, all of a sudden, a shrill voice called through the entry: “ Peter, the horse Is ready.” “What horse?” asked the Rev. Mr. Palmleaf. ** ur horse ;to be sure !” said Miss Paulina, his sister. “ T hat for?” demanded the parson, staring through his near-sighted spectacles at the door. “ To take you to Mr. Darrow’s.” “ Why am I going to Mr. Darrow’s?” further questioned the man of theology. “ Well, I never !” said Miss Paulina, boun cing into the study', with a yellow pocket handkerchief tied around her head and her sleeves rolled in a business-like fashion up to her elbows, “ Peter, you grow more moony and absent minded every day of your life ! Have you forgotten our discussion at the break fast* table? Why', you are going to Mr. Darrow’s after a girl, to be sure !” “ A —girl !” repeated the young minister, dreamily'rubbing liis forehead. “Oh, I do recall something of the conversation. A hired girl.” “ \ os.” nodded the lady briskly'. “She is going to leave Mr. Harrow’s this morning, because the family is so large, and work so heavy’. She can’t find fault with our establish ment, I guess. Ask her bow much wages she wants, and how old she is, and ask her if she has any followers—-and be sure you bring her back, as I must have her or some person to help me before Philinda’s folks come from the city.” “ But suppose she won’t come,” said the young minister, dubiously, fitting on the lingers of his gloves. “Then you must make her come,” said Miss Paulina, hurriedly retreating, to look after a certain kettle, which was noisily boiling over, at the back of the house. And thus charged with his mission the Reverend Peter Palmleaf got into the one horse cutter and jingled merrily away. Mr. Harrow’s farmhouse nestled umlcr u hill, in the protecting shallow of a cluster of evergreens, with a green fence in front of it, and a red burn at the rear, and a colony of doveliouses at the sunny southern angle, and Mr. Darrow himself, a ruddy-faced elderly man with a fringe of white whiskers around li is chin, was shoveling away the pearly masses of snow in front of his door. “ Fli !” said Mr. Darrow, leaning on tiie handle of his spade, as the bells jingled up in front of his gate, and then stopped. How? Why, it’s the minister ! Good-moruing ! That there Sunday sermon of yours was a master piece. Me and Squire Scnnox—” “ Y'cs,” said Mr. Palmleaf, leisurely alight ing, and tying the horse to the post. 44 But I have called on business this morning.” For Mr. l’almleaf was emphatically a man of one idea. For the time being the 44 hired girl” has chased all theology out of his head. “Eh!” said Mr. Darrow ; “business?” “ I’ve come after a young woman,” said the minister. Mr. Darrow dropped his spade in the middle of a snow-drift. “Do you mean Dolly?” lie said. “If that’s her name—yes,” assorted the minister, solemnly. “ You don't mean that—it is to bo an engagement?” cried Mr. Darrow. “ Well, yes—that is, if we suit each other,’* said Mr. Palmleaf, mildly. “Jerusalem!” said Mr. Darrow, why, had always heard that Mr. Palmleaf. like most men of genius, was an “ eccentric,” but had never realized it before. “ Have you spoken to her?” “Certainly not!” answered Mr. Palmleaf. “Of course I shouldn’t think of such a thing without seeing 3-011 first.” “Very straightforward of you, I’m sure,’’ said the farmer. “ But, of course, I can have no objection, if Dolly herself is suited. Though,” and he smote one red-mitted hand upon his kuee, “ now I come to think of it, you’ve never seen Dolly.” "No !” said the minister, serenely. “ But that need mako no difference.” “ Jerusalem !” again uttered the farmer. “ It wasn’t the way I used to look at things when I was a j’oung man.” “Tastes differ,” said Mr. Palmleaf, a little impatient at this lengthened discussion. “Oh, of course you can see her,” said Mr. Darrow. “She’s in the dairy, skiraminw milk. “ Dolly 1” raising his voice to a wild bellow. “ Here’s the Reverend Mr. Palm leaf wants to see }'ou ! There’s the door just to the left, sir.” And, in his near-sighted way, the minister stumbled into farmer Darrow’s dair}-, where a rosy-ckceked girl, with jet black hair, brushed away from a low, olive-dark brow, and eyes like pools of sherry wine, was skim ming the cream from multitudinous milkpans into a huge stone pot. “ Young woman,” said Mr. Palmleaf, turn ing his spectacles upon her amazed face, “ do you want to engage yourself?” “ Sir?” said Dolly, her spoon coming to an abrupt standstill amid the wrinkly and leather-like folds of the cream on a particular pan. “ In other words,” explained Mr. Palmleaf, ” do you want a good home?” 44 Indeed, sir,” I never thought of such a thing!” said Dolly, all in a flurry. 44 How old are you?” questioned Mr. Palm leaf. 44 1 am eightoeon,” said Dolly', in some con fusion.” “ Have you any followers?” "Sir?” fluttered Dolly. 44 Beaux. I mean,” elaborately explained the clergy'rnan. 44 Of course I haven’t,” said Dolly, half inclined to laugh, half to be angry. "Then I think you’ll suit me,” said Mr. Palmleaf; 44 or, rather my sister. Our family is not large; the work is light, and Paulina is a most considerate mistress. Get y r our bundle.” “ M y—what!” said Dolly, in bewilder ment. “ Y our clothes. I am to take you back with me immediately,” said Mr. Palmleaf. “Paulina expects company. It is essential that we obtain help at once.” Dolly Harrow looked up with checks crimson like any' rose, eyes full of deep brown sparkles, and lips around which danced a perfect galaxy' of dimples. “ Wait a minute, please,” said she. “Certainly,” said Mr. Palmleaf. And lie sat down on a wooden stool in the corner, and fell to meditating on the “ thirdly” of his uncompleted sermon,while I)olly r sped up stairs, three steps at a time. " Father,” cried she, flying into the presence of her parents, “ the minister has mistaken me for Brideget!” "Eh?” said Mr. Harrow. “ You don’t tell me 1” said Mrs. Harrow. "And he wants to hire me,” said Dolly, her eyes gleaming with fun. "And I’m going. Quick —where’s my hat and shawl and my mufflers?” Mrs. Darrow rose up in the tnajosty of her fine black silk gown and gold watch-chain. " Dorothy Darrow,” said slie, ‘‘you’renever going to hire as a servant.” “Yes, I am,” said Dolly. “It's better than private theatricals, lie’s so nice and absent-minded, and Paulina is a jewel ! Oh, make haste or he’ll be tired of waiting I” And Dolly succeeded iu carrying her point. Fifteeu minutes later she hod got into the cutter, with a parcel, which Mr. Falmlcaf stowed snugly away under the sent, and the minister drove home with secret exultation. Miss Paulina was in the kitchen frying sausages for dinner, when Dorothy walked in, with cheeks like carnations, hair blown all over her face, and the bundle under her arm. “ Here I am, Miss Palmleaf,” said she. “The hired help, at your service !” Miss Paulina stared. “ Why, it’s Dorothy,” said sho. “ And I sent Peter after—” “ Yes, I know,” said Dolly, brightly. “ But Bridget was gone, and he mistook me for her, and he has engaged me to work here. And oh, Miss Paulina, please don’t undeceive him. Because I am a smart little house keeper, and I can help you just as much as any girl could. Just give me a trial, that’s all.” Miss Paulina had a shrewd appreciation of a joke; her hard features relaxed with a smile, as she stood looking down at the radiant little brunette. “ Well,” said she. “ I don’t mind if I do.” For one month Dorothy Darrow officiated as hired girl at the parsouage. Then she came to the clergyman one day : “Mr. Palmleaf,” said she, “ I am going to leave the place 1” Mr. Palmleaf looked up in amazement and dismay. “ I hope, Dolly,” said he, “ that neither my sister nor I have unwittingly offended }'ou?” “No !” said Dolly, patting her little foot on the staring green leaves in the study carpet, “ but, oh, Mr. Palmleaf, I have done wrong, and I earnestly beg your pardon !” “ Dolly !” crid out the Reverend Peter, in mild surprise. “ Because you are so good and truo,” sobbed the girl. “I am not a hired girl, and I only came here for a joke, and I can’t bear to think I’m de-de-deceiving you!” And Dolly began to cry piteously, behind the corner of her apron. “You came here for a joke, eh ?” said the minister. “ T-yes!” confessed Dolly, behind her apron. “Well, then,” said the minister, gently drawing her toward him, “ suppose you stay in earnest ?” “ Sir ?” faltered Dolly. “ My dear,” said Mr. Palmleaf, I have got used to you around the house. I should miss you terribly if you should leave us. Do you think I am too old to think of a blooming young wifo like you ?” "Not a bit!” cried Dolly, indignantly, 44 old—yon I” " Do you like mo a little bit ?” " A great deal, said Dolly, laughing and blushing. “ 1 hen you will stay with me always ?” And Dolly promised that she would. Everybody wondered how so bashfully a man as the Rev. Mr. Palmleaf ever mustered courage for a proposal; but everybody knew that the “ engagement” begun for a joke turned out in sober earnest. * A Lost Heart. A GHASTLY STORY OF NAPOLEON THE GREAT. At Plogastel, in Brittan}'. there is living an old English physician named Thomas Cartwell, aged 82 years, who tells travelers a strange stor3’, in which he says he figured as a principal actor. On the sth of Ma}', 1821, Napoleon the Great died at Longwood, St. Helena, after causing Sir Hudson Lowe so much unhappi ness that ho went crazy, and, returning to England, lost all his fortune in extravagant speculations in stocks. The Emperor's last .companions, Bertrand, Montbolon, Gourgaud and Las Cases, immediately made a demand for a physician expert in the science of em balming. Sir Hudson Lowe, who shrank from no expense, sent a physician, an Ital ian named Antomarchi, who had attended the Emperor when he was troubled with a styjin his eve. The doctor hastened to his work, but certain instruments were needed, lie required at least two assistants, etc. Sir Hudson Lowe made haste to supply all his demands, lie sent a boat to an English frigato, at anchor in the offing, with a request for two naval surgeons, supplied with every thing necessary for the embalming process. One of the two persons sent was a youth of 20 years, well educated and full of ambi tion, and he was received on the island as Assistant Surgeon Thomas Cartwell. lie and his comrade hastened to assist Dr. An tomarchi. About 4in the afternoon of May 6 the work was begun. The corpse of Na poleon I. was lifted from the little bed where ho had died, and placed on a l°ng marble topped table, which was still intact when, in 1858, Napoleon 111. bought, with Govern ment funds, the house in which had died the man whom ho persisted in making the public beliavo to have been his uncle. The em balming was begun ;when night came and interrupted it. Antomarchi and his assist ants agreed that the completion of it must be postponed until the next morning. They determined to go to bed, and resume their work at daybreak. First they oovorod the Emperor’s body with a white cloth, which they sprinkled and saturated with certain liquids to. avoid putrefaction. The various internal organs that had been removed were placed in metal cups on the operating table. Then the three operators went to their room and slept profoundly. They had hardly been asleep an hour when Marchand, the valet of the dead Emperor, knocked at Cartwell’s door calling out: “Come down, sir, quick 1 A great misfort une lias just happened.” “ What is it ?” said the young surgeon, appearing in his uniform. "Oh, sir, the Emperor’s heart has been eaten up by rats !” It was true. The island was infested with rat 9. They were as thick as the English. While Marchand was out of the room rats had rushed in, and finding the heart of the conqueror of Austerlitz in a basin, had made but a mouthful of it. The valet, on return ing to the room, saw them scamper away, and all he could do was to announce the ir reparable loss. What was now to be done ? The physi cians met and consulted. It was impossible to conceal the absence of the organ that had been eaten up, the operation of embalming having been begun before witnesses, who had seen it. To confess the accident was to ex pose Marchand to severe rebuke, and the poor fellow was already wretched enough. A happy thought occurred to Cartwell. “If we could only get a sheep’s heart,” he suggested to Antomarchi with excessive caution. All the four persons present looked at one another nervously, hesitated, and then began to laugh together like four Roman augurs. They uoderstool one another. Marchand ran to a neighboring farm, killed a sheep, and brought back its heart still warm and palpitating. On the next day, the 7th of May, Anto marchi and his assistants, in the presence of Gen. Bertrand and M. De Montholon, fin ished the embalming of the Emperor without any person among his suite in the least sus pecting the extraordinary performance of the night before. If the story is true, and if the old retired English ex-Surgeon of Plogastel is not a joker, the heart of the sheep of St. Helena has been resting for thirty-three years under the dome of the Invaiides!— Chicago Ledger. tlPEverything in the Book and Toy line at Fleming & Anderson’s. \ TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM, ) SI.OO For Six Months. Q-eneral News. Iho introduction ot American antbrnoitq into Switzerland has directed the attontiou of the Swiss to their own coal fields, which they believe may bo raado to supply their wants. A Boston magic healer has got ahead of competition in his lino of practice. Ho places his hands over a broken or dislocated bone, and it immediately readjusts itself—so he says. A St. Alban's wife, in reply to her lms band’s advertisement that he would pay no debts of her contracting, published a card expressing surprise that he had raised money enough to pay the advetising bill. Some Norwich drunkards got hold of i\ former companion who, for eight months, had kept a pledge of total abstinence, induced him to drink, and when he was helplessly intoxicated, paraded him through the streets, labelled “ A horrible example/’ Sporting guns are now made in England with the hammers concealed in the lock me, chan ism internally, so that persons who pre fer to handle their weapons from the muzzle in going through brush need not find death in the gun. The Grant family show, in their matrimo nial alliances, that they fully understand that money is a good thing to get. It is said that U. S. Grant, Jr., will marry, in Febuary x the daughter of the San Francisco million aire, J. G. h lood. I his kind of Flood, wheq taken, will lead U.S. Grant, Jr., on to fortune. A little more than forty years ago all the table cutlery used in the United States came from England. At present, out of an annual consumption of nearly $3,000,000 worth, England supplies but 8 per cent., aqd this country not only manufactures nearly all that is needed at home, but ships large quan, titios to South America, Australia and Eu-. rope. A Hartford joker wrote, in a letter to a friend in Bridgeport, “You had belter keep shady for a while and not attempt to nego tiate those bonds you stoic, as they arc all registered and the police arc watchful for. them.” The letter was opened by a wrong person, who gave it to the police, and the innocent man was kept under arrest until h$ could clear himself of suspicion. A society of cotton pickers (colored) of Williston, S. C., are governed by their own lawß in relation to theft. The sum of five dollars was recently stolen, and the culprit was immediately tried by a jury of six aiu( found guilty. He was sentenced to receive lift}' lashes on his back, and be expelled from the society; The sentence was executed tq the letter. At a performance of the cantata of “Ester’* at Dallas. Texas, Ahusaerus was advised by somebody in the audience not to “cut it toq fat.” The personater of the great Assyrian went to the footlight and said : “This is a religion show, and you’ll have to be daceuL I’m Ahasncrus just now. but after the show I’m Sam-Turner; aud if auy duffer would like to cut it fat then I'll give hiua a mighty lively welcome. Mr. Blennorhaßsett, M. P., for Kerry, Ire land, is to introduce next session a bill tq abolish the arbitrary marriage regulations; which compel marriages to be solemnized before noon. This has been a great incon venience, especially to the working classes, and was introduced to prevent bibulous bach elors from presenting themselves at the altar in an intoxicated state, a danger which has passed away. Pennsylvania may fairly claim to possess the stupidest man in the country. lie is a farm hand near Lebanon, and was hired tq plough a ten-acre field. Ilis boss, wishing to have him plough a strait furrow, directed liis attention to a cow grazing in an adjoin ing field, and told him to drive directly to ward her. On his return, half an hour later’ he found the cow had left her place and wasj walking about while the hired man, in per suit of her, was drawing a zig-zag furrow all over the field. Apex, a North Carolina town, has lately had a social sensation. Two colored persons having been joined in wedlock, a travelled darkey suggested that in good white society it was the custom to throw a shoe after the bride. The notion took immenselv, and the bride departed'amid a shower of shoes, one of which, hitting her on the head like a bolt from a fifteen-inch gun knocked her senseless in the wagon. The grooin thrashed the thrower, and Apex proahly now holds siiocs throwing lo be a cus tom more honored in the breach than in thq observance. The usually wide-awake drummer absent-minded sometimes, and then some thing like this happens, as related by the Rondout Freeman : “An agent for a New York house called on a merchant, and handed him a picture of his betrothed instead of his business card, saving he rep resented that establishment. The merchant examined it carefully, remarked that it was a fine establishment and returned it to tliQ astonished man, with a hope that he would soon be admitted into partnership. Bob Pharr, a South Carolina negro, held that no white man had a right to arrest him under any circumstances. lie was a thief, and that was the manner in which he con strued the meaning oftke Fifteenth Amend ment. Tree policemen surrounded his house, and he jumped from a window, shoot ing one of them as he escaped. lie got out of a jail bv snatching a pistol from the sheriff and shooting him with it. He killed a con stable who was endeavoring to recapture him. lie murdered his wife because he suspecteq her of intending to deliver him up. At length a party of police invaded his hiding place at Charlotte. They had not searched long before his head and a pistol were protruded from behind a bed. Officer Hill unhesitatingly sent a bullet through his brain, killing him instantly. NUMBER 31,