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Lrt S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher,
I ■tfFERSON, JACKSON CO ., GA.
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I NOTICE.
■ r ii,L he let to the lowest bidder, before the
B Court House door in Jefferson, Jackson
■ My.'i.a., on Saturday, October 30th, 18S0, the
■ v: rAr superintending, managing and caring
Inmates of the Poor House of said county,
B Jiity to furnish all provisions, clothing,
I li attention, !kc., necessary for the paupers,
■ person making the lowest bid, per month,
■ I service of superintending. &c., will be
■ 1 the contract, upon the following comli-
I The contractor will be required to do and
Irm all duties necessary for the comfort and
■"c of said paupers, and to control said in
■ with humanity, looking both fo their wel-
Ithe county’s interests; to plant and cul
■ , at his expense, a garden sufficient to sup
■ for the inmates of said Poor House ;
B.vill be required to give bond, with good se
■ in the sum of live hundred dollars, condi-
I ; for an lionest administration, respectful
■ inianc treatment of the paupers, and faith-
I uarge of all-duties thereto required; and
■ required to make monthly reports to the
■.ary. showing the number and condition of
■ 'incites, amount expended for provisions,
I :ng. medical attention. &c., during the
■fi. and the amount of provisions, Ac., on
lat the end of each month. Besides forfeit
■ uid bond, the.contractor will be subject to
H val by the Ordinary at any time upon a case
I for failure or refusal to comply with any of
■ conditions or regulations. The person to
said contract shall be awarded will be al
■ 1 the proceeds of the farm, cultivated at his
■ expense, to be taken as a part compensation
■ rviccs as Superintendent.
■ i. at the same time and place, will be let to
Bphysician who is the lowest bidder, the con
■ for rendering medical services to the inmates
Bm! Poor House per month, subject to like
B ations as to duty, monthly reports, Ac., as
B' u P cl 'ntendent.
■ r more definite specifications, apply at this
I H. W. BELL,
■ i.29,1880. Ord’y Jackson County.
Jackson bounty.
Rirt of Ordinary. Sitting for County Purposes.
October Ist, 1880.
Bkdkkkd, That five-tenths of one per cent, bo
■ "J and collected on the taxable property of
■wn..county, as. per Tax Digest of 1880, by
* fax ('ollector of sai<l county, as County Tax
I year ending September Ist, ISSI, for the
■ whig purposes, to-wit:
p and seven-tenths of one per cent.,
I pay expenses Superior Court $3,019.25
half of one-tenth of one per cent.,
pay for repairing and building
ridges BSB.OI
! eighty-one hundreths tenths of
-tenth of one per'cent.’, to pay the
- indebtedness of the county, due
to become due 3,190.85
■ in! of one-tenth of one per cent.,
y for the support of paupers 592.01
■ sixty-eight and half hundred
;>f one-tenth of one per cent., to
. die salary of County Treasurer... 300.00
and sixteen and half hundreds of
tenth of one per cent., for con
>ent fund 384.04
1 eh.hty-one and half hundred
of one-tenth of one per cent.,
lay jail fees 500.00
11. W. BELL, Ordinary.
?r! ie extract from the minutes of said Court.
H. W. BELL,
Ex-Officio Clerk Court of Ordinary.
[•Administrators Sale.
B KAULY to an order from the Court of
B r ;lmary of Jackson county, obtained at the
or term, ISSO. there will bo sold, before
' - House' door in the town of Jefferson.
H ; ‘first Tuesday in November, 1880,
I ■ t: ‘c legal hours of sale, the following dc
| : property of Anarchy llopson, colM, de
j • OMyit: One house and lot, situated in
V! > of Jefferson, Ga., on the Lawrenceville
11 , ining lots of Albert Shaw, Mrs. Han-
I ydie colored church, containing one acre,
I • less. The house is a simde. story framed.
B 1 rooms, in good repair. Sold for disffr-
I • a ‘‘d to pay the debts of said deceased.
" ca -'h. ' \Y. A. WATSON, Adm'r.
I • Idtninistrator’s Sale.
II , 7”p of an order from the Court of Ordinary
I™ ‘ hunett county, will be sola before the
. and y.so door in the town Lawrenceville. on
! uosdar in November. 18S0. during the
: urs of sale, the following described tract or
■ °f land, situated in Jackson county.
I and belonging to the estate of Jesse
■ ; ■ 'Lceased, to-wit: One hundred acres of
'• r,. or less, adjoining the lino between
7 and Gwinnett counties on the west, the
I V McMillan on the east, Martha Henson
■ ’°i th. and on the south by the road lead
■ I.awrcnefeville to Jefferson, and being
■ > c whereon Mr. Shcllnutnow resides. Sold
■ of distribution, and to carry out
I ‘ willot said Jesse Osborn, dec'd.
ROBERT 11. BRADFORD,
I Adm’r de bonis non.
V,..lacUsoii County.
1' a ( • -L 11. Maley applies to me, in proper
11 Letters of Administration on the estate
' i r) n Maley, late of said county, dec’d—
'!o cite yd 1 concerned, kindred and cred
cause, if any they can, on the first
i , ln November, 1880, at the regular term of
■ ol Ordinary of said county, why said
■ ''‘‘ould not be granted.
■ 1 eider my ollicial signature. Sept. 29th.
11. W. BELL. Ord’y.
* Idmiuistratiix’s Sale.
AGREEABLY to an order from the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county, thcro will be
soW, on the first Tuesday in November, 1880, be
mTc the uourt Housfjfcor in the town of JefFer
,son,.Jackson Ga., withm the usual hours
of sale, the following property of E. 11. Borders,
deceased, to-wit: A tract of land, situate and
lying in sairl county, and known as the E. 11. Bor
ders home place, lying on the waters of Turkey
creek and the North Oconee river, seven miles
from Jefferson, two miles from Harmony Grove,
on the Northeastern Railroad, and a quarter of a
mile from a good merchant mill; adjoining lands
of Dunson, Jstckson, Davis and others. Said tract
of land ha.i been divided up into three lots, and
each rot will be sold separately. Lot No. 1 con
tains forty-three acres of upland in cultivation,
fifteen acres in old field pine, and the balance, one
hundred arid sixteeffafires, in original forest. This
k>i opmaitts ait ot ho Wildings of the place, con*
listing of a good trip c;Vy . •b'iirig house, with ton
r c;ns, m good* repa* , ,r.ed kitchen and smoke
house, and all other necessary out-buildings, all
in first-class condition ; good well and spring:
excellent orchards of apples arid peaches. There
are four framed dwellings for tenants, also a good
gin house and packing screw in good condition.
All convenient to schools and churches.
Lot No. 2 contains fifteen acres of upland in
cultivation, fifty acres of first-class river,bottom
land in good state of cultivation, sixty acres of
original forest and seventy-three acres of old field
pine. No improvements on this lot.
Lot No. 3 contains fifteen acres of creek bottom
in cultivation, twenty acres in old field pine and
eightv-seven acres in original forest. No improve
ments on this lot.
All Of said land is good farming lands, and the
lots are conveniently arranged for making: settle
ments on the same.
Also, at the same time and place, another tract
of land, belonging to said estate, situated in said
county, on the waters of North Oconee river, six
miles from Jefferson and two miles from Nichol
son, on Northeastern Railroad, containing two
hundred and thirteen acres, more or less, adjoin
ing lands of Haynie, Potts, Gathright and others,
formerly known as the Clark Gathright place. On
said place is a good frame dwelling, good kitchen
and other necessary out-buildings, and good well
water and springs. Fifty acres in a high state of
cultivation, twenty-live acres in good river bot
toms, fifteen acres bottom land not in cultivation,
ten acres in pine field, the remainder in good
original forest. The place is in good repair. Any
one wishing to purchase a splendid farm, would
do well to look over before day of sale. Sold for
distribution. Terms cash.
E. A. BORDERS, Adm’x.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Uourt House door,
in the town of Jefferson, Ga., within the
legal hours of sale, on the first Tnseday in Novem
ber, 1880, the following property, to-wit: The
tract of land in Jackson county. Ga., on which
Amanda M. Duke now resides, lying on the Wal
nut York of the Oconee river, adjoining lands of
estate of Calvin Long, dec'll. the lands of Sims
and Martin, the dower of Elizabeth Bowles and
others, containing three hundred and forty-three
acres, more or less. On said land is a good, com
fortable, framed two-story building, and elegant
framed bam and stables, corn cribs, Ac., and
usual out-buildings; seventy-five acres of good
bottom land in a high state of cultivation ;
acres upland in cultivation ; good orchard of fruit
on said place. Levied on as the property of said
Amanda M. Duke, by virtue of and to satisfy a*
li. fa. issued from Jackson Superior Court, August
term, 1 STS. in favor of J. E. Randolph, Executor
of J. 11. Randolph, dec’d, vs. Green S. Duke,
principal, 11. It. Howard, A. M. Duke and E. C.
Adams, securities. Written notice given to
Amanda M. Duke as the law requires. Property
pointed out by J. E. Randolph, Ex’r. plaintiff.
‘ T. A. McE LU ANN ON, Sli’lf.
Administrators Sale.
BY virtue of an order granted by the Court of
Ordinary of Jackson county, Ga., at the Sep
tember term*, 1880, of said Court, to me as the
Administrator of the estate of Mary G. Simmons,
deceased, 1 will, on the first Tuesday in Novem
ber, 1880, by virtue of said order granted as afore
said, proceed to sell, before the Court House door,
in the town of Jefferson, in said county, within
the legal hours of sale, at public out-cry. to the
highest and best bidder, for cash, the following
real estate, situate and lying in the county of Jack
son, State of Georgia, to-wit: One tract of land,
consisting of two parcels ; one parcel containing
one hundred and twenty acres, and another parcel
containing ten acres ; both parcels adjoining each
other, and bounded on the north by lands of Hil
liard J. Randolph, on the.east by lands of J. P.
Doss, on the west by lands of Sarah Ann Stewart,
and on the South by lands of Rachel V. Simmons.
And also an undivided half interest in one hun
dred and twenty-six acres of land, more or less,
bounded on the north by lands of Mary G. Sim
mons, on cast by lands of J, P. Doss, on west by
lands of Sarah Ann Stewart, arid on the South by
lands of Rachel V. Simmons. All of said lands
unimproved; twenty acres old field and balance
original forest. S. P. HIGGINS, Adm r.
Administrator’s Sale.
■\I7ILL be sold, under an order of the Court of
> V Ordinary of Jackson county, Ga., granted
at the September term, 1880. of said Court, at
public out-cry, before the Court House door in
Jefferson, in said county, on the first i uesday in
November, 18S0, the following property, to-wit.
Seventy-six and one-half acres of land, lying in
about one-half mile of the town of Maysville, in
said county, adjoining lands of Atkins, Ellison
and others” There is on said land a gooci framed
dwelling house and all necessary out-buildings;
about fifty acres in cultivation, fifteen acres in
original forest and balance in old pine Helds.
\Go one dwelling house and lot, in said town of
Maysville. fronting the North Eastern Rail Road
fifty feet and running back one hundred feet, ad
joining P. P. Casey's lot. .
•Vlso at the same time and place, twelve shares
of Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company
soock The above propertysold as the property
of \ man da M. Loggins. dec'd, for the purpose of
pavin" the debts of said deceased and for distri
bution among the heirs-at-law. Terms cash.
Administrator of A. M. Loggins.
(H iX>KGrSA Jackson t'oiuily.
J
Whereas John F. Evans, Executor of the last
will and testament of David Evans, dec and. rep
resents to the court, by his petition duly hied
that he has fully administered the estate of said
deceased, and is infilled to a discharge—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and
creditors, to show cause, if any, on the first
Monday in November, ISSOat the regular term
of the court of Ordinary of said county why the
letters of Dismission should not be granted the
! ' P Slmder my official this A ug S t
3d, 1880. 11 • • ______
ncOK<j!l4, Jackson C ounty.
Whereas W. P. CosbyT Administrators on the
estate of Frances C. Cosby, late of said county,
deceased, applies for leave to sell the lanas )t
lomring to said estate — , , . , . , , ,
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
h. r term of the Court of Ordinary ol said county
on the first Monday in November, 1880, why said
leave should not be granted the applicants.
i? <i;vch under my bo P( t,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1SS0!
The Birth of an Iceberg.
In his sketches of Greenland. Dr. Hays re
lates the following i
During tho absence of the captain and
myself, tho artists had not been idle. They
landed near the glacier, and, with brush and
camera, had begun their work. The day was
warm, the mercury rising to sixty-eight de
grees in the shade, and the sun, coming round
to the south, blazed upon the cold wall of ice.
This must have produced some difference of
temperature between the ice touched by the
warm rays and that of the interior, which
was in all probability several degrees below
the freezing point; for towards noon there
was an incessant crackling along almost the
intire front. Small pieces were continually
splitting off with explosive violence, and,
falling into the sea, produced a fine effect
the spray spouted up from the spot where
they struck. Searcety a minute passed with
out a disturbance of this kind. It was like
a fusilade of artillery. Now and then a
mass of considerable size would break loose,
producing the impression upon the minds
of the most courageous that our situation
was one of great danger.
By one o’clock everybody had come abroad
for dinner; and for a while we all stood on
deck watching spectacles, and noting the
changes that took place, with intense eager
ness. It was uniformly observed, among
other curious phenomena, that, when the ice
broke off, the fractured surface was a deep
blue, and that, if any icc, as sometimes hap
pened, came up from beneath the water, it
bore tho same hue ; but after a short expo
sure to the sun, tho surface changed, be
coming an almost pure white, with a stain
luster.
Our situation for observation could not
have been bctttr chosen, and it is not likely
that such opportunity was ever enjoyed be
fore—since it is not likely that a vessel ever
rode to her anchor within a cable’s length of
a glacier.
After dinner the work was to have been
resumed. The photographers hastened ashore
hoping to catch an instantaneous view of
some of the falling fragments, Preparations
were making for weighing anchor ; steam was
already up, and we were about to move over
to tho north side of the fiord, when louder
and more startling reports than any wo had
heard pealed forth one after another in
quick succession. A number of large picoes
had broken off', tho falling of which disturbed
the sea to such an extent that tlio vessel roll
ed perceptibly, and waves broke with con
siderable force upon the shore. Then, with
out any warning, there came a report louder
than all combined. It was evident that some
extraordinary event was about to happen,
and a feeling of alarm spread through the
ship. The boat had landed tho photograph
party on the rock within thirty yards of the
glacier, and had shoved off. The captain
shouted to the coxswain to “ hurry up,” and
had given the order to “up anchor !” but it
was too late.
The glacier was in a violent state of com
motion ; it seemed to be literally going to
pieces. Its extreme point, at the center, was
undergoing disintegration. The form of the
glacier was particularly picturesque, and we
had never ceased to admire it, sketch it, and
photograph it. It exhibited a perfect forest
of gothic spires, which, originally ragged, had,
by the action of the weather, been converted
into something like regular shape, until it
bore the appearance of a vast edifice con
structed by the hands of man. At the base
of these spires there were numerous arches,
more or less perfect, which still further
strengthened the illusion that it might be of
human and not of natural formation.
At the very extreme point there was one
spire that stood out alone, towering above
the others. It could not have been ranch less
than two hundred feet high. The loud report
to which I have referred came from this spire,
which was going to pieces. It did not topple
over, but went down as if the foundations of
the earth were giving way and the spire was
disappearing into tiio depths below. The
effect was magnificent be}'ond description.
It did not sink instantaneously, but'lasted
for at least a quarterofaminute. The crumb
ling spiro was quickly enveloped in a great
cloud of spray, in the midst of which the
summit vanished, and was seen no more.
Meanwhile other portions of the glacier
were undergoing a similar transformation—
influenced, no doubt, by the shock which had
been communicated by this first disruption.
Other spires, less perfect in their form, went
down in the same manner; and great scales
from all parts of the front, where there were
no spires, split off, and fell with a prolonged
crash and hiss.
Out from the midst of this din—and at
length drowning it completely —came a peal,
compared to which the loudest thunders of
the heavens would be but a feeble sound.
The whole glacier was enveloped in a cloud,
which streamed up and along the icy wall as
one sees the mist rising from the abyss below
Niagara, and receiving the rays of the sun,
held a rainbow hovering over this vortex.
Out of this cloud rose a great white mass
—at first slowly, then with abound—and from
FOR THE PEOPLE.
out of the foam and mist a wave of vast
proportions rolled away in a widening semi
circle.
Until this moment' I had watohed orery
action of the glacier with close attention ;
but now the impulse d? curiosity was divided
with that of safety. The wave came down
upon us with the speed of the wind, and the
instinct of self-preservation drove me to seize
tho first firm object I could lay my hands
upon, and to grasp it with all my strength.
Tho wave occasioned by an earthquake only
can compare with it in magnitude and force.
It rolled beneath our ship, lifted her upon
its crest, tore her from her anchorage, and
hurled her, as if she had been the veriest toy,
UTvvard the rocks. I had not a doubt, as far
as there was time to think at all, that she
would be stove to pieces or landed high and
dry.
But there was little time for reflection.
While the vessel was almost on her beam
ends, and we were all clinging to something
or other for safety, a deluge of water fell
thundering upon the deck, and the ship was
half buried.
We escaped seemingly h}' a miracle. The
anchor had brought us up within two fathoms
of the abrupt shore, against which the huge
wave broke and rolled back upon us with a
blow that caused some injury, but did not
seriously hurt anybody.
Through the mercy of Providence we had
been save 1 ; but where were our comrades
who had just landed on the shore, and those
in the boat? This was our first thought.
The boat proved to be all right. She had got
head on the wave, and far enough from the
rocks to ride easily ; but the people on shore
could not escape the whole fury of the wa
ters. Seeing the wave, they had clambered
up the hill-side a3 far as they could ; and
finding they would be caught, they flung them
selves flat upon tho ground, and, clinging to
each other and to the rocks, they prevented
themselves from being carried off or seriously
hurt. One had been, however, lifted and
hurled with much violence against a rock ;
but with tho exception of a few bruises, he
was not injured, and with great fervor he
thanked Heaven that it was no worse. He
had. indeed, abundant cause. Had not the
party been favored by the rocks—which were
of such formation that they could readily
spring from ledge to ledge—thoy must inevi
tably have all perished. The wave, before it
reached them, had expended much of its force.
Had they been upon the beach, and received
the full force of the blow, they must have
been struck to death. Their implements—
bottles, bath3, plates, (fverything which thoy
had purposed using in their art, except their
camera, which had been, fortunately, perched
upon a hill and left there in the morning—
were either carried bodily away or mado a
wreck of.
Waves of considerable though not danger
ous magnitude followed, and it was quite half
an hour before the waters were at rest. And
there before us, floating in the sea, above
which its crest rose a hundred and forty feet,
was a glittering mass of blue—a lapis lazuli,
a quarter of a mile in diameter, set in chased
silver—for the sea was but a mass of foam.
And this was the monster that had made the
mischief. An iceberg had been born !
Thus had we not only seen an iceberg born,
but we had felt its terrible power when set in
motion from the parent glaciers, to tread the
blue waters of the doe}), and through many
years to come to cast into the sea, little by
little, tho chrystal drops of hardened snow
which have for ages lain upon the Greenland
hills.
Upon measuring this iceberg afterward I
found its crest to Do one hundred and forty
feet above the water; and since fresh ice<
floating freely in the sea. has seven parts of
its total deptli beneath the water, its total
depth must have been upwards of one thou
sand feet.
A Ball of Fire.
lIOW FIVE TONS OF lIED-IIOT METAL JARIIED
TIIE NERVES OF AN OHIO VILLAGE.
About midnight of Saturday, Caledonia,
Marion county, was visited by a terrific thum
derstorrn, 'accompanied by hail and the most
vivid lightning, flash following flash in quick
succession. There had been a political
meeting here that evening, and the people
from the neighboring villages and surround
ing country were detained bv the storm.
Suddenly the sky appeared as bright as noon
day, in fact fine print could easily have been
read, so great was the light, but strange to
say the light was steady, not flash after flash,
as it would have been had the,light been
caused by lightning. A deafening roar was
heard, continuing to become louder as the
light became brighter. Gradually the roaring
changed to a hissing, sparkling sound. It is
needless to say tire people were frightened,
and, upon running into the street, a ball of
seeming fife came moving through the air from
the northeast. The ball seemed to be at least
twenty-five feet in diameter. As it neared
the earth the heat could plainly be felt. The
body struck the earth just north of the village
and buried over onc-halfof itself in the ground.
Good judges estimate the weight at three to
five tons, but the heat is yet so great that it
is uncomfortable to go nearer than thirty or
forty feet. It looks like a mass of pig iron.
It was visited by hundreds yesterday. The
gentleman who owns the land on which it fell
j has been offered S3OO for it.—Cleveland
I Leader.
Nicodemus Dodge.
TKBEN FROM MARK TWAIN’s NEW BOOK, ** A
TRAMP ABROAD/’
When I was a boy in a printing-office in
Missouri, a loose-jointed, long-legged, tow
headed, jeans-i lad, countrified cub of about
sixteen came in one day, and without remov
ing his hands from his trousers’ pockets, or
taking ofF his faded ruin of a slouch hat,
whose broken rim hong limp and ragged
about his ears like a bug-eaten cabbage leaf,
he stared indifferently around, then leaning
his hip against the editor's table, crossed his
mighty brognns, aimed at a distant flv from
a crevice in his upper teeth, drowned it, and
said with composure:
“ Who's the boss?”
“ I am the boss,” said the editor,, follow
ing this curious bit of architecture tip to its
clock face with his eye.
” Don't want anybody for to learn the busi
ness,' taint likely?”
“ Well, I don't know. Would you like to
learn it?”
“ Pap's so po’ he can’t run me no’, so 1
want to git a show summers, if I can.’ taint
no difference what—l am strong and hearty,
and I don’t .turn my back on no kind of work,
hard nor soft,.”
“ Do you think you would like to learn
the printing business?”
“ Well, I don't really k'yer a durn what 1
do l'arn, so I make my way. I'd just as
soon learn printin’'s anything.”
“ Can you read?”
“ Yes, middlin’.”
“ Write?”
“ Well, I've seen people could lay over me
thar.” ' 1
” Cipher?”
“ Not good enough to keep store, I don't
reckon, but as fur a twelve times twelve, I
ain't no slouch.”
“ Where’s your home?”
“ I'm from old Shelby.”
“ What’s your father’s religious denomi
nation?”
“ Ilim? O. he’s a blacksmith.”
“ No, no—l don't mean his trade. What’s
his religious denomination?”
“ Oil, I didn't understand 3*oll befo’. lie’s
a Freemason.’
” No, no—l don’t mean that. What I
mean is, what church docs he belong to?”
“Now,you're talkin’. Couldn’t make out
what you was trying to get through your
head no way. belong to a church? Boss,
he’s been the pizenest kind of a Freewill
Baptist for i’ort3* years. They ain’t no piz
ener ones ’n he is. Mighty man, pap is.
everybody says that. If they said any dif
ferent, they wouldn’t said it where I was—
not much, they wouldn't.”
“ What’s your own religion ?’’
“ Well, boss, you've kind o’ got me thar—
and yet you hain’t got mo so mighty much
neither. I think that if a feller helps another
when he is in troublo, and don’t cuss and
swear and don’t do any' mean tiling, nor
nothin’ lie ain’t no business to do, and don’t
spell the Savior’s name with a little g, he
ain't running no risk.—he's ’bout as safe as
if lie b’longed to the church.”
“ But suppose he did spoil it with a little
, —what then ?”
“Well, if he don’tdo it a purpose, T reckoned
he wouldn't stand no chance—he oughtn’t to
have no chance, anyway I’m almost rotten
certain of that.”
“ What’s 3 r our name ?”
‘‘Nicodemus Dodge.”
“I think maybe j*ou’ll do. Nicodemus.
We'll give you a trial anyway.”
“ All right.”
“ When would you like to begin?”
“ Now.”
So within ten minutes after wo had first
glimpsed this nondescript, lie was one of 11s,
with his coat off and hard at it.
Beyond that end ofour establishment which
was furthest from the street was a deserted
garden, pathless, and thickly grown with
villainous looking jimpson weeds and its
common friend, the stately sunflower. In the
midst of this mournful spot was a decayed
and aged house, with but one room, one
window, and no ceiling ; it had been asmoke
house a generation before. Nicodemus was
given this lonely and ghostly den as a bed
chamber.
The village smarties recognized a treasure
in Nicodemus, right away—a butt to play
jokes on. It was easy to see that he was in
conceivably green and confiding. George
•Jones had the glory of perpetrating the first
joke on him. He gave-.him a cigar with a
fire cracker in it, and winked to the crowd to
come ; the thing exploded presently and swept
away the bulk of Nicodemus’ eyebrows. lie
simply said :
“ I consider them kind of seegyars dan
gersome,” and seemed to suspect nothing.
The nextevening Nicodemus waylaid -Tones
and poured a bucket of ice-water over him.
One day, while Nicodemus was in swim
ming, Tom McKlroy tied his clothes. Nicode
mus made a bonfire of Tom's, by way of
retaliation.
A third joke was played upon him a day
or two later —he walked up the middle aisle
of the village church Sunday night, with a
staring hand-bill pinned between his slum!
Uers.
The joker spent the remainder of the night,
after church, in the cellar of a deserted house,
and Nicodemus sat on the cellar-door till
toward creakfast time, to make sure that the
prisoner remembered that if an}’ noise was
made, some rough treatment wou!d“be the
consequence. The cellar had two feet of foul
water in it, and was bottomed with six inches
of soft mud.
But I wander from the point. It was the
subject of skeletons that brought this 1103-
back to my recollection. Before a long time
had elapsed, the village smarties began to
feel an uncomfortable consciousness of not
having made a very shining success out of
their attempts on the simpleton of old Shelby.
Experiments grew scarce and chary. Now
the young doctor came to the rescue.
There was delight and applause when he
proposed to them the plan of frightening
Nicodemus to death, and explained how he
proposed to do it.
He had a noble new skeleton—the skele-
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
( SI.OO For Six Months.
ton of the late and only celebrity, .jimmy
f inn, the village drunkard—a gristly piece*
of property ho had bought of Jimmy Ftojtf
himself, at auotion, for fifty dollars, uudetf
great competition, when Jimmy lay very sick}'
in the tan-yard a fort-nigtit before'his deaths
Tiie fifty dollars had goue promptly tor whisky
and had considerably hurried up the change'
of ownership in the skeleton. The doctor
would put Jimmy Finn's skeleton in Nicode
mils’ bed.
This was done a! 10111 half-past ten in the'
evening.
About NieodomuY usual bed time—mid-*
night—the village jokers came creeping,
stealthily along tiie jimpson weeds and sun-*
tiowers towards the lonely framed den. They
reached the window ad peeped in. There
sat the long-legged pauper on his lied in a*
very short shirt, and nothing more. He was
dangling his legs contentedly back and forth,-
and wheezing the mnsicof “Camptown Races”
out of a paper overlaid comb, which be was'
pressing against his mouth.
Bv him lay a now jewsliarp, anew top and
a solid India rubber ball, a handful of painted
marbles, five pounds of best of store candy,-
and a well gnawed slab of gingerbread as big
and thick as a column of sheet music.
He had sold the skeleton to a traveling
quack, and was enjoying the result.
Our Greatest Cities.
WHAT THE NEW CENSUS SHOWS.
Ten years ago there were but two cities in'
the country which had more than half a mil
lion inhabitants each, and but four which had 1
300,000 and upward- There are now four of
the former class, Chicago having found, after
much counting, that she just passes 500,000,
and there are seven cadi of whose population *
exceeds 300,000.
There have been several changes in the
relative position of the cities which stand at
Ihe head of the list. New York is first, Phil a-,
delphia second, and Brooklyn third, as im
1370. But Chicago passes St. Louis, and
becomes fourth ; Boston passes Baltimore,
and becomes sixth ; Cincinnati is eighth, as
before ; Pittsburgh, having taken in Alleg
hany, passes both San Francisco and New
Orleans, and is ninth ; San Francisco takes
tenth rank ; and New Orleans, which was
ninth, is crowded back to the eleventh posi
tion.
These eleven are all the cities in the United
States which have more than 200,000 inhabi
tants each. In 1870 the total population of
the eleven was 3.836,620 ; it is now almost .
exactly 5,100,000. This is an increase of
very nearly one-third, which is an enormous
ly heavy' rate. The highest rate of increase
was that of Chicago, tho lowest that of New
Orleans.
If the nverago rate of increase of these
eleven cities were maintained throughout tho.:
country, the population of the United States
would be about 52,000,000. This, however,
is largely in excess of tho fact. In accord
ance with a very ancient tendency of man,
which is always to be resisted as far as pos
sible, population flocks to tho cities, and their
growth is much more rapid than tho increase
of population in the rural districts.
In 1870, the eleven cities wc have named
contained very nearly one-tenth of the total
population of the country. In 1880 it will bo
found that they contain more than one-tenth.
If their growth should be equally great in tKo
next decado, they will in 1890 hold more than
one-ninth of the whole population.
There are just twenty' cities of tho United
States which report a population -of more
than 100,000. These arc —in addition to tho
eleven already named—Washington, Cleve-.
land, Milwaukee, Newark, Buffalo, Detroit,
Jersey' City 7, Louisville and Providence. No
country' of the globe has a larger number of
cities of this than the United States.
There are as many in Great Britain and Ire-,
land, fourteen in Germany, and nir.e only in
France.
New York State has three of these cities,
which is the largest number in any State of
the Union. There are two in New Jersey,
and the same number in Pennsylvania and in
Ohio, but no other State has more than one.
Fifteen of them are in the North and five in
the South, counting Washington as a South
ern city.
Inasmuch as the exact figures of popula-.
tion are interesting for reference, wc give the
returns, so far as they are now accessible,
from the first eleven cities. There will be
some changes yet, and two or three of the
cities are not accurately reported, but the re-,
suit is known approximately.
Population Population,
City . 1870. 1880.
1. New York 042,202 1.208,470,
2. Philadelphia 074,022 847,548
3. Brooklyn 200.009....: 554,091 '
4. Chicago..... 298.077 503,972.,
5. .St. Louis 310.804 375,003
6. Boston 250,520 352,345.
7. Baltimore 207,354 330.000'
8. Cincinnati 216,239 255,000
9. Pittsburgh 139.256 232,355
10. San Francisco 149,473 227,350!
11. New Orleans 191,418 215,239.
A Storrn of Flies on the Hudson.
A storm of flies was encountered on the.
Hudson river on Saturday afternoon, similar
to the one recorded in the London Telegraph,
as having been seen at Harve a week or two
ago. The steamer Marlin, bound south, en :
countered the fly storm between New Ham
burgh and Newburgh. It was seemingly, a.
great drift of black snow, and it reached)
southward from shore as far as the eye.
could reach. There were millions upon (
millions of the Hies, and they hurried north
ward as thick as snow-fiakes driven by a
strong wind. They lodged upon the cloth
ing of the passengers of the steamer, and
were minutely examined. They were long
and black and light wings, and the cloud
roust have been miles in length. The steam
er Mary Powell ran into the fly storm of
liarvestraw, and First Mate Bishop states
that in all his steamboating experience he
never suw such a sight.
NUMBER 19.