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IbBKT S'.' HOWARD, ) I Editor and Publisher. \ I)[,(JMR VI. runLisnKlf KVihiV Fitfc> aY. Lrt S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, I ■tfFERSON, JACKSON CO ., GA. 1 s. E. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. H■v 12 months * .$1.50 I G “ r ,, 1.00 i ' 8 “■* 50 Club of Tey subscribers, an ex- V .y of the paper will be given. RMIS OF ADVERIISiSG. - j m Mid-ARpcr square (of tc.. or loss) ■ i- -eriion, and Seventy-five Cents I ;ib sequent insertion. sqiutre s a space of one inch, measured i down the column. BL-\il Advertisements sent without specilica- BVtiu 1 number of insertions marked thereon, ■ published TILL FORBID, and charged B linglf* B dusiiiftsfi or Professional Cards, of six lines 8... Seven Dollars per annum; and where Bin not exceed ten lines, Tex Dollars. £epf ililucctisemciits. 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.