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.SON CO. PUB. COM’Y, \ y 0 proprietors. $ LpME V- Jjf fefos. KVKRY FIUDAY * If s HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, mKfSBSOXjACKSON CO ., GA. I , B. COR. PUBLIC .SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. m terws of subscription. I ,11 months *1.50 H ; ® 4 so H.I tt-rv Club of Ten subscribers, an ex y:; ft i,pP er wiu be s ivcn - RATES of ADVERTISING. I [htußpc square (often lines or less) ■ S ' r Vlfcrtion. and SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS Kubsequent insertion. _ ia ; e is a space of one inch, measured Jnwn the column. Kill xdvertiscmcnts sent without spccilica number of insertions marked thereon. K published TILL FORBID, and charged Kflmcss or Professional Cards, of six lines W stvi'N'Dollars per annum; and where Knot exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. ■ £egnf flitoerfeements. mjMkson Sheriff’s Sale . KlLLbesold, before the Court House door, ■ in the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, ■ fithin the legal hours of sale, on the first Kmv in February next, the following property, ■ that tract or parcel of land situate, lying ■bein* in the county aforesaid, on the road Kr from Jefferson to Athens, about four miles ■ former place, adjoining lands of Mrs. Ken. Strickland, Sarah Freeman and others, Kiev whereon James E. Hayes now resides, Kiting one hundred acres, more or less. There ■ibout sixtv acres of said tract cleared and in Hjrstion, balance of said land in old pine fields ■original forest. There is situated on said land Hod two-story framed building and necessary ■i/Ms. Said land levied on by virtue of and Kusfv ti. fa. issued from the County Court Kd county in favor of S. I\ Thurmond and Kl'. Rawson, Adm'rs, &c., vs. said James E. Bis. Written notice given to James E. Ilayes, ■defendant and the tenant in possession, as rc- Biltiylnw. Property pointed out by plaintiff Buiimment. T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh’ff. u Jackson Mortgage Sale. ■TILUie sold, before the Court House door, ■ in the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, ■ w.ihin the legal hours of sale, on the first ■say m February, ISSO, the following pro* ■tr. to-writ: One two horse wagon, one sorrel ■k nine years old ; one black marc mule, eight ■rsold; one dun milch cow. All levied on by ■ue of a mortgage fi. fa. issued from Jackson ■trior Court in favor of 11. Atkins A Cos., as ■ecofb. S. Duke, vs. Croff Duke, colored, ■erty pointed out and more fully described in B mortgage. T. A. McELIIANNON, Sheriff*. ■ l.hltM 1, .lacksou County. ■ ureas. Louisa Millsaps, Executrix of Mar ■c Miilsaps, late of said county, dec'd, repre- Bie the Court, by her petition duly filed, that ■ hasfully administered the estate of said de- Bfi in terms of the law, aud is entitled to a ■riurje [Fisuto cite all concerned, kindred and cred it l# *how cause, if auy they can, on the first ■by m April, ISSO, at the regular term of the ■n of Ordinary of said county, why Letters of <dion should not be granted the applicant. J lTfn under my official signature, this Decem |t, 1879. 11. W. HELL, Ord'v. 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Advertisers by addressing geo. p. rowell & CO., 10 Spruce St.. New York, can learn the exact cost of any proposed line of ADY ERTIS -ING in American Newspapers, jgjgy 1 '100-page Pamphlet, 10c. GUIDE to SUCCESS, WITH FOR rx BUSINESS FORMS SOCIETY is lIY FAR the best Business and Social Guide and Hand-Book ever published. Much the latest. It tells both sexes completely HOW TO OO EVERYTHING in the best way. How to be Your Own Lawyer, How to do Business Correct ly and Successfully, llow to Act in Society and in every part of life, and contains a gold mine of varied information indispensable to all classes for constant reference. AGENTS WANTED for all or spare time. To know why this book of REAL value and attractions sells better than any other, apply for terms to , H. B. SCAMMELL & CO., St. Louis, Mo. We pay all freight. dec 12 W . FLEMING. EMORY F. ANDERSON. FLEMING & ANDERSON (Successors to J. W. Burke and AY. Fleming.) BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, —AND— NEWSDEALERS. N,>v2B Athens, Ga. PENSi ON S . i„j E „;;7cv7„ ü by cident, or any disease, entitles a soldier of the late war to a pension. All pensions, by the law of January, 1879, began back at a date of discharge or death of a soldier. All entitled should apply at once. Thousands who are now drawing pen sion are entitled to an increase. Soldiers and widows of the war of 1812, and Mexican war, are entitled to pensions. Thousands are yet entitled to bounty but don’t know it. Fees in all cases only SIO.OO. Send two stamps for new laws, blanks and instructions to NAT. AVARD FITZ GERALD, U. S. Claim Attorney, Box SSS. Washington, D. C. jan2 JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 30. 1880. Finding "Girl” in the Bible. lIOW A MISSIONARY OBTAINED FREE BOARD AND LODGINGS. An Kngllsh town missionary, a short time ago, related a remarkable incident. There was a lodging bouse in his district which he had long desired to enter, but he was deter red from so doing by his friends who feared that his life would be endangered. He be came at length so uneasy that he determined to risk all consequences and try to gain ad mission. So one day he gave a somewhat timid knock to the door, in response to which a coarse roice roared out: “ Who’s there ?” and at the same moment a vicious looking woman opened the door and ordered the man of God away. “ Let him come in, and see who he is and what he wants,”’ growled out the same voice. The missionary walked in, and, bowing po litely to the rough looking man whom lie had just heard speak, said : “ I have been visiting most of the houses in this neighborhood, to read with and talk to the people about good things. I have passed your door as long as I felt I ought to, for I wish also to talk with you and your lodgers.” Are you what is called a town mission ary ?” “ I am, sir,” was the reply. “ Well, then,” said the fierce looking man, “ sit down and hear what I am going to say. I will ask you a question out of the Bible. If you answer me right you may call at this bouse and read and pray with us and our lodgers as you like; but if you do not an swer me right, we will tear your clothes off j r our back and tumble you neck and heels into the street. Now what do you say to that ? for I am a man of my word.” The missionary was perplexed, but at ength quietly said: “ I will take j’ou.” “ Well, then,” said the man, “ here goes. Is the word girl in any part of the Bible ? If so, where can it be found, and how often ? That is my question.” “ Well, sir, the word girl is in the Bilbe only once, and may be found in the words of the Prophet Joel, iii. 3. The words are: ‘And sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.’” “ Well,” replied the man. “ I am dead beat. I durst to have bet five pounds you could not have told.” “And I could not have told yesterday,” said the visitor. “ For several days I have been praying that the Lord would open me a way into this house, and this very morning, when reading the Scriptures in my family, I was surprised to find the word girl, and got the Concordance to see if it occurred again, and it did not. And now, sir, I believe that God did know and does know what will come to pass, and surely his hand is in this for my protection and your good.” The whole of the inmates were greatly sur prised. and the incident has been overruled to the conversion of the man, his wife and two of the lodgers. —American Wesleyan. Contentment. BY 808 BURDETTE. Be contented, ray son. You need not be satisfied with what you are; you don’t want to live without ambition ; so long as you live strive to be something better, and higher and stronger to-morrow than you are to day, but don’t worry ; don’t fret. AVear your ready made clothes with the air of a Prince, until you can do better ; cat your twenty-five cent dinner with the manner of a man who is ac customed to fare sumptuously every day on coarse dinners, and likes this sort of a thing for a change. Keep the sunshine in your heart and it will shine out of your face. The world is always grateful to a sunny-tempered man. just because he is good enough and gracious enough to live in it. Laugh, my son, if your stomach is so empty that you can not tell whether your pain is in 3'our liver or your back-bone ; wear your hat jauntily if it is so full of holes that you can’t see the grease and weather stains that cover it; speak cheerily, though you have to wear your over coat every time your shirt goes to the laun- dry. It won’t be an easy thing to do right along; the days will come when a good in dulgence in the “blues” would seem like para dise ; there will be hours wlieu you would rather swear than laugh, when you would rather growl and wail than look pleasant; there will be times when, in spite of your strength and manhood and good resolutions, you will go away by yourself and groan and bury your face in your hands and cry like a girl; I know it, son. But don’t make a habit of it, and don’t let any one see you do it. It is a dangerous luxury, and should only be indulged in at very long intervals and on rare occasions. Cultivate contentment; if you have no gloves, put your hands in your pock ets ; if your coat is out at the elbows, back up against the fence ; if you have no hat, 3’ou will not become bald. And when prosperity comes—not if, but when—you will be prouder of 3 T our good nature in the dark day's of ad versity, my son, than you can bc of all the honors, and all the fame and position that prosperity and success can bring you. Never worry', son ; don’t fret; it will make 3'our face thin and your hair turn gray. Cora Norwood’s Wax Doll. HOW' TIIE PRAYER OF A LITTLE MAINE GIRL WAS ANSYVERED BY EXPRESS. The United States Kxpress Company, on the night of December 17, carried over the Erie an express package destined from Chi cago, 111., to Bucksport, Me., which has a singular romantic history. A little girl who knits gloves wrote a note and placed it in one of the pairs of gloves before sending them off. It was as follows : “I am a little girl only eight years old. My name is Cora Norwood. I live in Bucks port, Me. I knit these gloves for 8 cents a pair. I wish the gentleman who buys them would send me a wax doll for a Christinas present, as I have none and want one very bad.” The note was found in the glove by a firm in Chicago, who had bought a quanta of them. They immediately purchased a splen did wax doll and forwarded it to her by the United States Express. The way bill was filled out in regular form as follows: “ Consignor, Keith Bros. & Cos., Chicago, 111.” “Address, Cora S. Norwood, Bucks port, Me.” “Collect—nothing.” “ Propaid with love.” Remarks : “Be happy.” Across the face of the way-bill was writ ten : “The letter pasted on this way-bill is a request found in a pair of gloves, and this box contains the desired wax doll, being the gift of the omployos of the firm selling the gloves. “ Please let this way-bill go through and be delivered withthedoll. Those who handle the wa3'-bill may endorse on the back their Happy New Y r ear. “ B. Sciiermeriiorn, Agent, “Chicago, 111.” “ December 16, 1879.” Across the back of the wa) r -bil! were writ ten the good wishes and Christmas con gratulations to Cora of those through whose hands the wax doll passed on its way to Bucksport. How Postage Stamps are Made. In printing, steel plates are used, on which two hundred stamps are engraved. Two men arc kept hard at work covering them with colored inks and passing them to a man and girl, who arc equally busy at printing them with large rolling hand presses. Threeoftheso little squads are employed all the time, although ten presses can be put into use in case of necessity. After the small sheets of paper upon which the two hundred stamps are engraved have dried enough, they arc sept into another room and gummed. The gum used for this purpose is a peculiar com position, made ofthepowderofdricd potatoes, and other vegetables mixed with water, which is better than any material, for instance, gum arabic which cracks the paper badly. This paper is also of a peculiar texture, some what similar to that used for bank notes. After having been again dried, this time put on little racks, which are fanned by steam power for about an hour, they are put in be tween sheets of paste board and pressed in hydraulic presses, capable of applying a weight of two thousand tons. The next thing is to cut the sheets in half; each sheet when cut, of course contains one hundred stamps. This is done by a girl with a large pair of shears, cutting by hand being preferred to that of machinery, which method would destroy too many stamps. They are then passed to two other squads, who in many operations, perforate the paper between the stamps. Next they arc pressed once more, and then labeled, and stowed away in an other room, preparatory to being put in mail bags for despatching to fill orders. If a single stamp is torn or in any way mutilated, the whole sheet of one hundred stamps is burned. Five hundred thousand are burned every week fron this cause. For the past twenty years not a single sheet has been lost, such care has been taken in counting them. During the process of manufacturing, the sheets are counted eleven times. Lucky Day®. It was deemed highly important among the Anglo-Saxons that a child should be born on a lucky day, on which the whole tenor of his life wa9 supposed to depend, for in their opinion each day had its peculiar influence upon the destiny of the newly-born. Thus the first day of the moon was preferred to all others for the arrival of the little stranger, for the3’ said “ a child born upon that day was sure to live and prosper.” The second da} r was not 90 fortunate as the first, as the child bern on that da}' “ would grow fast, but not live long.” If he were born on the fourth day of the moon, ho was destined to be a great politician; if on the tenth, a great traveler; and if on the twenty-first, a bold marauder. But of all the da}'s 0/ the week on which to be born, Sunday was by far the most lucky, and if it fell ou the new moon the child’s prosperity was destined to be un bounded. Friday was an unlucky birthday, not only because it was the day of the crucifixion of our Lord and Savior, but be cause, according to Anglo-Saxon calculations, Adam ate the forbidden fruit on a Friday, and was also expelled from Paradise, and died, and descended into bell on that day. A Swift Witness. Tom Gains was what you call a swift witne9#. When Tara wa* for a fellow he was for him all over, and he was so friendly anc confiding the Judge didn’t know what to do with him. Last court Lawyer Branham put Tom upon the stand to prove that a drinking man couldn’t remember what he did when he was drunk. Tom had taken about two drains that morning and was feeling splendid. He swore .straight out that he could not. The Judge didn’t like that. 110 didn’t like witnesses who were so willing and familiar, and so ho put a few questions to Tom from the bench. " Mr. Gains, weren’t you drunk yosterda}', (Sunday)?” “ Tlioy say I was, your Honor.” “ And you don’t remember it ?” “ It’B sorter like a dream, your Honor, but I do remember I was awfully sick last night.” “ llow are you now, Mr. Gains?” “ I am tolable well, I thank you, Judgo. how do you do, yourself?” and Tom bowed humbly, for he thought the Judge was kindly inquiring after his health. When the sheriff” had quictod the general hilarity, the Judgo said : “Mr. Gains, you were drunk yesterday, which was Sunday. Now, where did yon find your whiskey ?” “ In the jug Judge—right In the jug.” “ Well, sir, where was the jug ?” “ Under the fodder stack, Judgo ; I always keep it there, or in tho shuck pen ; and, if your honor ever passes that way, It’s a free thing to— “ Mr. Gains, )’on can retire, sir, I believe you are the same man. who, about thirty years ago, testified in this court house that Jim Wilkins bit his own ear off.” “They say I did, Judge, but yon know I was drunk, and of course I don’t romember it. You was defendin’ Jack Boozer for biting off Jitn Wilkins’ car, and you told me that in the scrimmage Jack shoved Jim up agin the sharp edge of the door and cut it off”; but I got drunk and forgot what you told me, and 1 ’sposc I did swear that Wilkins bit his ear off himself, and it wasn’t so onreasonable nohow, for lie had the awfullest mouth that ever was seed—didn’t he, Judge ?” “Mr. Gains, I told you to sit down, sir. Mr. Sheriff, givo mo the names of those gentlemen who are so hilarious ; I’ll sco if I can’t stop their merriment. Brother Branham, put up your next witness.” Severe Winters in Europe. Snow is recorded to have fallen in Rome during: forty days in the 396th year beforo the Christian era. Nearly eight centuries later the Black Sea was frozen ovor for three weeks. In 608 the vines are stated to have boen destroyed by frost over a large portion of France. There is a tradition, again, that in 860 snow and intense cold prevailed ovor Europe for six months, even the Adriatic be* ing frozen. In 574 the Bosphorus could be crossed by the ice on its surface. The same weather was followed bj r epidemics and famine, to which a third of the population of Franco is said to have succumbed. In 1163 the Po was frozen over, and wine congealed in the cellars. The winters of 1323 and 1408 were extremely cold. In the former year the ice-bound surface of the Baltic was used as a thoroughfare for six weeks, and in 1408 nearly all the bridges of Paris wore carried away by the blocks of ioo floating in the Seine. The Clerk of the Parliament of the day declared himself unable to register the decrees, owing to the ink freezing in his pen in spite of the large fires kept burning in his ofllco ! In 1468 the weather was so severe in Flanders that the frozen wine had to be cut with hatchets. Ten 3’ears previously a force of 41,000 men encamped on the Danube. In 1504 anti 1607 there were games and bon fires on the Thames at London ; and 1684 is memorable as the year of the great fair held on that river, which was covered with ice twelve inches thick. Thirty years later another fair was held on the same river in mid-winter, and yet another in 1740. The years 1766 and 1789 were notable for intense cold throughout Europe. Hard winters pre vailed in Europe in 1829, 1840, 1846 and 1849. Since that last date several very cold years have occurred. The Boomerang.! Jhe boomerang is a weapon of tho Austra lian aborigines, and in tho throwing of it they are very dexterous. It consists of a piece of hard wood, with the curl of a parabola, and is about two feet long, two and a half inches broad, one-third of an inch thick, and round ed at the extremities. One side is flat, the other is rounded, and it is brought to a blunt ish edge. It is discharged with the hand by one end. the convex edge being forward and the flat side upward. After advancing some distance, and ascending slowly in the air with a quick rotary motion, it begins to retrograde, and finally falls to the ground behind the thrower. A weapon of similar form, but wanting the return flight, has been found in use among savage tribes both in India and Africa. The surprising return-motion i3 pro duced by the bulged side of the missile. The air impinging thereon lifts the instrument in the air, precisely as by hitting the oblique bars in the wind-mill it forces it to go round. The Australians arc very expert in hitting birds with it, the animals, of course, bping behind them, and not aware that they are being shot at. • - ■ S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ( . SI.OO For Six Months. General News. Switzerland is this winter almost one mown* taiu of snow; trains, itoaroboata and graphs have been in a chronic state wf inter~ ruption. In a law suit at Rushville, Ind n involving a question of paternity, a baby was put in ovtr dence, in or*ler to show its resemblance to the alleged father. The Lancet recommends light colors for cold weather, as they do not part with heat easily, and says that this is why the polar bear has white fur. An Indian at Orleans Bar, Cal., killed . white man when frenzied with whiskey.. Some miners tied the murderer to a tree and used him as a target for rille shooting uutlk lie was dead. In Queensland, Australia, tho splendid! wheat crop lias had, in many cases, to be cut, for fodder by reason of the rains. Tho ooi onies are tlui9 distressingly sympathetic with, tho mother country. A one-legged man of Tallahatchie, routed eighteen acres of land last year aud. gathered forty bales of cotton from it. His: name is Thomas McCinney, ex-Trcasuror *f‘ the county, lie did nearly all the work him self. A Ht. Louis woman amused herself with a* revolver as she remarked to a companion,. “Give me a pinch of snuff or I’ll blow a hole clean through you.” The snuff was refused, and the hole was promptly made by a bullet, with almost fatal effect. Some of tho English slaveholders in Brazil* find themselves in a bad fix. They hare been holding slaves who ought, according to* law, to have been long since manumitted, and! the Brazilian Government decrees that thoy must give to each man wages for the wholo.- period of such detention. A submarine diver was In the Grant pro cession at Philadelphia. Me stood on a plat form wagon, wearing his huge brass helmot. rubber suit, and heavy leaden plates. The weight was very burdensomo in tlieair, though-, just the thing for water, and he lias sinco died from the effects of it. Tho unusual cold in tho north of Europe has sent southward immense flocks of wild' ducks, making for tho less inolement quarters, of tho Pontine marshes in Italy. They are seen and heard passing over Rome in the early morning, flying low, and have affordodt such abundant sport and spoil that they aro.. cried about tho streets in quantitica- A Chicago thief shaved off his moustaohe. after robbing a lady in tho strocts, and by that means made it impossible for her to, indontify him when lie was arrested ; but ho could not long resist the desire to look his. best, and three months lator, when the now moustache had grown like tho old one, she recognized him in a crowd, and ho has boon t convicted. A man had a tooth extracted by a Chicago, dentist, and expressed regret for the loss, A girl whose jaws were ovorcrowdcd with teeth, entered the office to hnvo two of them tak* out. Tho dentist suggested tho experiment of trnnsfering ono of these sound teeth to tho. vacancy of the man’* month, and the oper. tion was performed with enooese, the tooth growing fast and firm in ton day*. Absolute safety from Indian attaoks majr. be had in crossing tho prairies by taking ths mail coach. Indians have never been known, to molest or attack a mail coach unless when flrod upon by some foolhardy passenger. In, all the late Indian troubles the mails have passed regularly without interruption and, often right in sight of the red skins. Rod*, haired men are safe. They are regarded as, children of the sun, and it is said that none, was ever scalped bj r an Indian. Reuben Boyce, a Texas stage robber, was, in jail at Austin. His wife rode to the pris-_ on on a race horse, and asked if she could? take a basket of provisions into her cell. Permission was given. Tho jailer* when he thought her visit had lasted longj enough, opened the cell door and orderodj her out. Boyce came instead, brandishing! a revolver that had been carried to him the basket, and made his way to tho fast horse, on which lie rode away, Dennis Mehiggin was drunk in Springfield? on Saturday night. 11 is wife particularly, desired him to be at home and sober on Sun-, day, became there was to ho a family re?, union at dinner. She hit upon tho expedient of having him so that ho would bo. compelled to sober off iu a cell, and be liber., ated in the morning. Sho provided herself with money to pay a probablo fino, and waa at tho police court when it was opened ; but during tho night Dennis had hanged himselL Prince Milan of Servia. who entertains, as is well known, the most extavagant notions, about tho divine right of kings, became re cently greatly excited at a reunion at htß< palace, while advocatinnor the unlimited pre rogatives of his order, and addressing his. Prime Minister, Dr. Ristick, who to differ with him, exclaimed with much heat of manner i “Ristick, if I order you to jump, into the sea, von will certainly plunge, in, head foremost.” Dr. Ristick bowed respect-, fully, and moved towards the door. “Whith, er are you going. Ristick?” inquired his high ness, bending his brows in displeasure. “ Youij. Highness will pardon me..” replied the astute, statesman, “I am going to learn to swim.” The expense of a trip around the work! is. calculated by the Railway Age. ou the basis of 180 days at $849 for first class and S6O& for second class accommodation. Under first head are included these entries; Netf York to San Francisco. $129 ; sleeping cat $22 : meals on the road, $lB ; San Francisco, to Sidney, $200; expenses in Sidney, "S4O-; Sidney to Melbourne, $25 ; expenses in Mel bourne, S4O ; Melbourne to Adelaide, $25 ; expenses in Adelaide. S4O ; Adelaide to Lon don in sailing ship. $2-25 ; England to New. York. $75. It is admitted, however, that n little extra money will not come amiss. No allowance is for expenses in England. NUMBER 34.