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THE FOREST NEWS. s B rT S. HOWARD,? editor and Publisher. $ iiME YI. msmzl ME TRADE ! I ,E AND COMPLETE STOCK OF ■lank books AND Stationery, Mgers, Mournals, LETTER BOOKS, WRITING PAPER, ENVELOPES, ■; IUCILAGE, INK STANDS, PENCILS, Etc. ■; '.fS and Ministers supplied with Books at Hats prices, by Fleming & burke, ■2 Athens, Ga. IfflltE HOME MANUFACTURES. Ifeysville Shoe Factory. ■ manufacture all kinds of shoes; mens’ H ' and Boots, ladies’ High and Low Quar ■ )es, childrens’ Shoes, HARNESS and ■F.S. We are prepared to make all kinds ■ iirk. We work the best material in the ■ pular styles, and Mr ant our Worh Equal to By (roods on the Marliet. ■re experienced workmen employed, for ■ arse and line work. As we defy competi ■ quality, prices and service, we hope to ■,e pleasure ofsupplying you with Boots and BROWN & RILEY. Maysville, Ga. 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McCLESKEY, oet 15 Athens, Ga. tlackson County. ■- the Uoad Commissioners appointed ‘ :er petition filed in this office, to review. • and report upon the public utility of , 'g the road in said county commencing •Nichols, on the Athens and Clarkes ; Sand running thence to the Hurricane : ■ one ot the public roads of the county, • c fheir report in favor of establishing ’ , ' as a public road— ..ti °ite all concerned that, unless good ' Uie contrary is shown on or before Tues :- a ]rday of November next, an order will "■ ' ra uted establishing said road as one of r oads of Jackson county. - OKlor ln y official signature, this October 11. W. BELL, Ord’v. kc£ CURE tM. The leading Scientist* of to-chiy agree that most diseases are caused by disordered Kid neys or Liver. If, therefore, the Kidneys and Liver are kept in perfect order, perfect health will be the result. This truth has only been known a short time and for years people suffered great agony without being able to tind relief. The dis covery of Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure marks anew era in the treatment of these troubles. Made from a simple tropical leaf of rare value, it contains just the elements necessary to nourish and invigorate both of these great organs, and safely restore and keep them in order. It is a POSITIVE Iteinedy for all the diseases that cause pains in the lower part of the body—for Torpid Liver—Headaches—Jaundice—Dizziness —Gravel—Fever, Ague—Malarial Fever, and all difficulties of the Kidneys, Liver and Urinary Or gans. It is an excellent and safe remedy for females during Pregnancy. It will control Menstruation and is invaluable for Leucorrhoea or Falling of the Womb. Asa Blood Purifier it is unequaled, for it cures the organs that make the blood. READ THE RECORD. “ It saved my life.” — E. B. 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Y T . tfOSTITTEife The accumulated evidence of nearly thirty years show that the Bitters is a certain remedy for malarial disease, as well as its surest preventive; that it eradicates dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint and nervousness, counteracts a ten dency' to gout, rheumatism, urinary and uterine disorders, that it imparts vigor to the feeble, and cheers the mind while it invigorates the body. For sale by' all Druggists and Dealers generally. SURE CUBE fob Cttehs, Colds, Sore Throat, Bron chitis, Asthma, Consumption, And All Dlneaaes of TIIKOAT and RUNGS. Put up in Quart-Size Bottles for Family Use. Scientifically prepared of Balsam Tolu, Crystallized Rock Candy, Old Rye, and other tonics. The formula is known to our be6t physicians, is highly commended by them, and the analysis of our most prominent chemist, Prof. G. A. MARiNER.in Chicago, is on the label of every bottle. It is well known to the medical profession that TOLU ROCK and RYE wili afford the greatest relief for Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Weak Lungs, also Consumption, in the in eipient and advanced stages. , Used as a BEVERAGE and APPETIZER.it makes a delightful tonic for family use. Is pleasant to tako; If weak or debilitated, it gives tone, activity and strength to the whole human frame. „ /CAUTION. “ ™p£?sSi E d!S\ I I \ the only medicated article made, the genuine hav- M \ing a GOVERNMENT STAMP on each bottle./ LAWRENCE A MARTIN, Proprietors, 111 Madison Street, Chicago. fF" Auk your Drugglat for It! rif* Ask your Grocer for It! f?T-Ask your Wlue Merchant for It ! Children, ask your Mamma for it! nr-Sold by DRUGGISTS, GROCERS and WISE MERCHANTS everywhere. Yourselves by making money I I J when a golden chance is otter ed, thereby always keeping poverty from your door. Those who always take advantage of the iT o od chances for making money that are ottered, generally become wealthy, while those who do not improve such chances remain m poverty. AN e want many men, women, boys and girls to work for us right in their own localities. The business will pav more than ten times ordinary wages. We furnish an expensive outfit and all that you need, free. No one who engages fails to make money very rapidly. You can devote your \\ hole time to the work, or only your spare moments. Full information and all that is needed sent free. Address Stinson & Cos., Portland, Maine. Vkm 'WVANv'NOs. THIS is to certifv that the Oconee Baptist Church, of Jackson county, Ga.. have been badly imposed upon by the so-called Minority and their friends, by trying to violently possess the church house. All persons arc hereby notified not to -o into said church house any more with out leave of the proper authority of said church Any and all persons violating this publication will be pushed to the fullest oct 23 Gh’n Prosecuting Committee. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 18S0. (From the Atlanta Constitution. Moral Reflections Indulged in by Wm. Arp. Extracting a Little Cold Comfort from the Late Elections — Mrs. Arp's Contempt for the Noble Art of Politics — Talrnage's Foolishness About Wives. Daniel Webster remarked there were but two classes of people who loved to go a fisli ing, gentlemen and vagabonds. lie’s not exactly that way about the radical party at the north, but it’s made up of the dependents and the independents, the rich and the poor. The middle classes who are just tolerable well off and make a comfortable living by industry and economy compose the Demo cratic party. The rich men have got most of the bonds and the money and they are afraid the Democrats would tax ’em or pay us for our niggers, or do something, and as they own nearly all the railroads and . facto- ries and workshops, they make the opera tive vote just as they want ’em. If they don’t vote to suit ’em they turn ’em off. Be sides this they send their money to other States to help carry the elections and it looks like we poor democrats never will get a show ing again. We haven’t got enough money to buy votes with, and I’m afraid we never will have, for we haven’t got any public treas ury to steal from. If we could only get in power once more there would be no difficulty in keeping in, for we know exactly how the thing is done. I believe in four years’ time our party could be educated up to their stand ard—with a little help. I don’t mean to say we would steal all the time, like they do, but then we would carry the keys, and even- four years we could draw on the treasury, in a pinch and put the money back again after the election. Now, there is Wm. E. Dodge & Cos., sending money down here to carry a congressional district, and enough money will do it, I reckon. They sent over money to Indiana from Boston, and New Y'ork. and Philadelphia, and beat us, for they’ had ten dollars to our one. Money is a very insinu ating thing. I’ve known men to bo bribed when they didn’t know it. Sometimes it just slips in on a poor fellow so gently he don’t perceive it—some apprehension of evil or some hope of good and the times are so hard and his family so poor. Maybe he can get a contract, or a situation, or a little office, or something. I’m always sorry for the sort, but I have a great contempt for these half pint or half a dollar bribes that a vagabond or a darkey takes for his vote. If a man feels constrained to sell himself, I want him to get something for himself—some thing that will do some good. It’s curious how we all get reconciled to corruption. Every State has got laws against getting votes by bribery —getting office by corruption, such as re peating and intimidation, but it’s done every where, and it looks like a man can’t getelec ed without some kind of trickery or decep tion. The highest men in the nation fur nish money to buy votes, and they call it in lluencing an election—just like they call steal ing money an embezzlement. I think it would be better to abolish the laws and license the business. Let a feller put up his sign over his door, and say “ licensed vote broker.” Then he could work round and find out how many he could sell to a candidate at a dollar a piece, and how many at two dollars, and five dollars, and ten dollars, and have their names all in a book, and get his commission ers like a cotton broker, and have a law passed to punish a voter if he went back on his contract. But T havent give it up yet—by no means —Haucock is going to be elected. My faith wouldent remove mountains, but its a great comfort to me. I had a letter yesterday from a friend in Indiana who voted for Por ter, but says he is going to vote for Hancock and he knows of lots of folks of the same mind. lie says he likes Porter better than Lander, for he is a whole-souled big hearted man and got many a vote outside of his par ty. llis opinion is that the democrats will have the next President, and the republi cans the majority in both houses of Congress. Maybe we will have to compromise on that. I don’t know. I’m going to he reconciled anyway and not give up the ship. Recon I can sta} r at home and make corn and cotton, and frolic with the children, and ruminate on the uncertainties oflife and bask in the sunshine of the family queen. She don’t care for politics—She don’t—nobody has ever been able to convince her that a north ern democrat ain’t a yankee, and she has about as much respect for one as the other.” “ But,” said I, “ m} r dear, the northern dem ocrats want to restore constitutional govern ment and —” “ Never mind the government,” said she ; “ let them restore my furniture and carpets and pay us for our negroes. The government don’t need restoring. It’s all a squabble for office.” “But then you know,” said I, “General Hancock might give me a little fat office that would—” “Take you away from home,” said she, “ and leave me and the children alone. Office is a poor tiling; when a man gets one, everybody is envious of him, and lie has to give away about half his salary to keep his popularity. We’ve got a good home and we are getting along in j’ears, and I think we had better stay here and be as happy as we can. Don’t you, John Anderson, my Joe?” and she placed her little soft hand so gently and lov ingly on ray frosty brow, my reverened head, that I haven’t thought about office since. I’m going to camp right here. Dr. Talmage has been preaching a sermon lately on mar ried folks and he says its the way the women do that drives their husbands off at night to the club houses and the stores and the loaf ing places about town, says they don’t sweet en upon ’em like they did before they was married, don't come to the door to meet ’em —don’t dress neat at home and set up straight—don’t play the piano, hut sorter give up and are always complaining about something or scolding the children or the servants. Well, maybe that’s so to some extent, hut my observation is that most of them fellers went to the club house and loaf ed around before they was married. I’ve knowed men to quit home and go up town or down town every night because they said they was in the way while the children were being washed and put to bed. My wife, FOR THE PEOPLE. Mrs. Arp, taught me a long time ago that a man could perform those little offices about as well as a woman, and if they are his chil dren he ought to be willing to do it. There the poor woman sits and sews and nurses the little chaps all the day long, tieing up the cut fingers and stumped toes, and doc toring the little tooth-ache, and leg-ache, and stomach-ache, and fixing ’em something to eat, and helping ’em in a thousand little ways—while the lord of the house is chat- ting with his customers or sitting in his office with his feet up on a table or against the mantle-piece, and another feller just like him is doing the same thing, and they talk, and swap lies, and laugh, and carry on and its “ ha, ha, ha” and “ he, he, he” and “ ho, ho. ho,”,and about dark he stretches and yawns and says, “ Well, I must go home; its about my supper time,” and BrotherTalmage wants his poor wife to be a watching at the window and when she secs him coming she must run out and meet him twist the house and the gate and kiss him on his old smoky lips and say, “Oh, my dear, my darling, I’m so glad you have come.” Well that’s all right. I reckon if a woman ain’t got nothing else to think about but fitting herself for heaven, but to my opinion a man ought to go home a little sooner than he does, and take a lit tle more interest in things, when lie gets there. Women are a heap better than men if they have half a chance. They were crea ted better. They begin the world better in their infancy'. Little girls don’t go round throwing rocks at birds and shooting sling shot at the chickens and running the calves all over the lot and setting the dogs on the barn cats and breaking up pigeons nests and all that. Never saw a boy that didn’t- want to shoot a gun and kill something. It’s a wonder to me that these kind, tender heart ed girls will have anything to do with ’em, but it seems like they will, and I reckon it’s all right, but if I was a young marry in’ wo man I would be mighty particular about mat ing with a feller round town who belonged to half a dozen societies of one sort or an other and was out every night. If I wanted a man all to myself I would look out for some farmer boy who would take me to the country where there ain’t no clubs or Mason ic lodge or Odd Fellows or Knights of Hon or or Pythias or Scylla or Charvbdis, or fire companies, or brass bands, or mardi gras, or paie defoi gras. I’d force him to love me whether he wanted to or not, for there wouldn’t be anything to distract his atten tion. But then, if a girl wants to fly round and be everybody’s gal, and have all sorts of a time, why then she'd better marry in town. It’s all a question of having one good man to love y-ou, or a dozen silly ones to ad mire. But as I ain’t a woman, I suppose it’s none of rny business. Yours. Bill Akp. A Great Invention, Which will Interest the People of the South. Cotton is still king in the south, and any thing which aids its culture or facilitates its transformation in fabrics, or economises the raw material, is of immense value to the people of this section. Perhaps the most important improvement recently made in this direction is the Osgood cotton gin, which is just now being introduced to the public by Mr. A. G. Jennings, of New York, the manufacturer or this excellent machine. Complimentary notices of the superiority of this gin have frequently’’ appeared, but a practical demon stration of it was given to the thousands of people who visited the North Georgia Fair last week. Mr. Osgood, the inventor, had in machin ery hall the original machine which he ex hibited in all the completeness of its median ism. Like all great inventions this is eminently simple. The principle .of the old style cotton gins is to pull the cotton from the seed. All the saw gms work on this principle and the most perfect of them are necessarily imperfect, for they have large quantities of cotton cling ing to the seed. An examination of seed from any ordinary gin will prove the truth of this assertion. Another defect is that they injure the staple. It is impossible to find a saw gin which does not more or less cut the staple. Toinvent a machine which would not waste or injure the staple in the least was the work which Mr. Osgood proposed to himself, and on which he spent long } r ears of arduous toil. His success has been wonderful. It will prove of great value to the people of the south. The operation of the gin which he has perfected will convince anyone of its great superiority. The cotton flics through the machinery, leaving the clean seed outside andjalling in a snowy mass, the perfection of tl:je staple. As the operator feeds the gin a swiftly-moving saw shoots hack and forth like a shuttle in a loom and takes away the seed with the greatest precision. To prove that the process does not hurt the cotton a sheet of paper may be run through the gin without being scratched or injured in any way. And then the operator is in no danger whatever. The horrible accidents which happen every season with the ordinary gins are impossible with the Osgood gin. The hand may he put right against the gin without being hurt. Indeed it, is impos sible to see how one could be at all injured by this machine. This is one of the many facts which will recommend it to very general use. This is the only machine which gin long staple cotton without cutting it. It will gin, it is claimed, three times as much long staple in a given time as any gin yet invented. It gets fully two ounces more cotton to the pound of seed cotton than any other gin. and the fact that it does not cut or injure the staple in the least recommends it so well to buyers that they are willing to give a much better price for either short or long staple cotton which has been ginned by this machine. Such superiorities as these are bound to be appreciated by the public and will make the Osgood gin speedily popular. Another remarkable superiority of the gin is its absolute safety from fire. It is so far from being in danger of fire that it is really a sort of fire extinguisher. Before a large crowd at the fair grounds a mass of cotton which was going through the gin was ignited. The flame flew up instantly but the cotton was swiftly drawn through the machinery and : fell into the mass of ginned cotton completely extinguished. It is remarkable that this great danger to gins which destroys thousands of dollars and hundreds of gin houses every year should have been so easily circumvented by the skill of the inventor. Among the many' other superiorities of the Osgood gin is the fact that it needs no con denser and thus economizes in space. There are many other valuable advantages in the machine which practical farmers will at once see and appreciate. All who witnessed its operations at the fair grounds admired its completeness and agreed that it was an admirable invention which would prove of great value to the people. The judges were very much pleased with the gin and will, we learn, recommend it for a special premium. They' awarded it the regular silver medal, but they felt that some more special tribute should be made to its excellence. It was one of the chief attrac tions of the machinery hall, and was one of the features of the fair. The Osgood gin will come into speedy popularity wherever it is seen, and its superiority will soon put it into use. Mr. Jennings will manufacture the gins very largely, as lie is confident of a very general demand for it. —Atlanta Constitution. The Northeastern Railroad. Through the kindness of Dr. 11. A. Low rar.ee, Secretary' of the road, wc have been allowed access to the reports which were made at the annual meeting of the stock holders, day before yesterday, and from them we extract such matter as will probably' in terest the readers of the Banner. SYNOPSIS OK PRESIDENT'S REPORT. President Childs, in his report, stated that the Directors had changed the ending of the fiscal year from October Ist. to August 31st, and therefore his report would be for eleven months. For this term, The. gross earnings are $17,0*0.71 Expenses 30,238.03 Warnings over expenses 17.432.02 Net earnings for September 2,250.00 Net earnings for 12 months $19,682.63 The increase of operating expenses will necessarily continue, as the cross-ties first placed on the road are fast wearing out. The extraordinary expenditures are accounted for in the purchase of anew passenger coach, which was absolutely' necessary, at a cost of §3,900. During the next few years the ex traordinary expenditures will increase, as the rolling stock will have to be repaired, and also added to, to do the increasing business ot the road. During the past four years §14.500 have been paid out of the earnings of the road for buildings, engines and cars, and during all that time the interest has always been met promptly as it become due. The road-bed, bridges, buildings, &c., are now in excellent condition. ESTIMATES OF COST. Since the last annual convention the Di rectors have had the lino of road from Lula to North Carolina lino permanently and defi nitely located. The profiles, estimates, &c., are now in the office of the company. Capt. J. C. Turner, the Civil Engineer who had this work in hand, estimates that the cost of grading, trestling, masonry, cross-ties, &c„ from Lula along the Air-Line road, to the point of leaving the same, (about 41, miles) will be §14,435.30; the same from the point of departure from the Air-Line road to Clarkesville, §70.040.70, making a total for tiie first twenty' miles of §85.070 ; and from Clarkesville to Rabun Gap, §275.000. Total from Lula to Rabun Gap, §300,082 —a dis tance of about 50 miles. The cost of the same work for the five miles from Rabun Gap to the North Carolina line, is §13.320. making the total from Lula to the North Carolina line §373.402. Leaving out cross ties, the .cost would be §310.402; average cost per mile, §6.189.13. These estimates, Capt. Turner say's, are liberal ; and contractors would take the work for less than these figures. AS TO TIIE EXTENSION. Under discretionary authority given by the Board of Directors, President Childs stated that he had taken steps to secure the rights of way along the entire line, and had also given instructions to solicit subscription of stock. lie advised against any action looking to the completion of the road, which contem plates a transfer of the control of the road from the present stockholders; and also against letting contracts for any portion of the extension except on the faith of bona fide subscriptions to pay for the work as done. In these views he had the unanimous sup port of the Board of Directors then in ollice. lie was satisfied, however, that somo steps should be taken at once to secure necessary stock subscription to grade and iron and operate the road, at least as far as Clarksville. If this is done, the road will not only secure ample business to justify the extension, hut it will then he in such position as will neces sitate making it a link in the trunk line from the west to the south Atlantic coast, when that line is ultimately completed. Every mile built and operated towards Knoxville renders it more certain that the road will be a part of the great trunk line which the com mercial needs of the south and west will demand, at no distant day. President Childs thought that the idea of foreign aid should be abandoned, and that earnest, persistent effort should be made to raise local subscription to grade the road at least to Clarksville, at once. When the superstructure has been done and paid for with the proceeds of stock subscription, there will he no difliculty in securing iron to equip the road. There would be no difliculty in having the road built by other parties, provided the present stockholders would sacrifice their own interest in the road to accomplish it; but to secure the fruits of the enteprise permanently to the city of Athens, the country contiguous to the road, and the present stockholders, it is absolutely essential that the control of the road be retained as at present. Any other course would prove suicidal to the interest of all who have given labor, money and time to constructing the present road. $ TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM, l SI.OO For Six Months. A surrey has been made of the line and * estimate made of the probable coat of ctn& necting this road with the Georgia railroad, nt the Athens depot. The estimates, profile* &c., of this survey are in the company’* I office. In conclusion the President paid a well ! deserved tribute to Col. Lyman Wells, the Superintendent. Col. Childs tendered his resignation, for the reasons stated in yesterday's Banner. TIIE SUPERINTENDENT’S report. Iho Superintendent’s report of the opera tions of the road, was substantially stated in the opening of the President’s report, and need not be repeated here. The net earnings for the past fiscal year show a net increase over those of the preced ing year of nearly two percent, notwithstand ing the extraordinary expenditures, as men tioned by tho President. The net earnings for September, 1880, show an increase of about eight per cent, over those of tho same month 1 ill 1870. The principal items of tho increaso In operating expenses have been incurred on account of pool balances, amounting to sl,- 550.00, and for cross-ties, $3,072.51. 1 lie track is in good safe running order, and the road-bed in good condition to with stand the coming winter season. The bridges and trestles needed some repairs, which have been made. Anew depot is being built at Nicholson station. The motive power is in sufficiently good condition to do the work of the present season, without any extraordinary repairs. Tho rolling stock needs some repairs, little or none having been made upon it heretofore. The road has been operated for the past eleven months without any accidents of a serious nature ; and tho employes of the com pany Imve been diligent and faithful in tho discharge of their duties.— Athens Banner. Long Engagements. A St. Louis young woman enters into somo interesting statistical and matrimonial con jectures. She figures out that she knows perhaps one hundred young men, in round nurfthers. Of* these she thinks she knows about thirty intimately, and of these thirty there arc not more than four whom sho would consent to marry for love or money on tho spur of the moment. It may not be a plea sant way of putting it, but what sho says Is that, taking one hundred young men as they come and go, only one out of every twenty five can be set down as unobjectionable and able to make a living for himself and wife. The St. Louis young lady goes on to nd vise her sisteriiood as sagoly as though she spoke from the pinnacle of experience. She tells therp : “ Now, that you are being court ed, you think, of course, it is all very well, and it will be nicer when you get married. But it won't. lie thinks he’s going to keep on this high pitch of love all the time. But he won’t. 110 doesn't know himself, and you don’t know him. It can’t last. It must cool down. When he secs you as many times a day as he wants to, and may be more; when he sees your head dono up every morning regularly in curl papers aud the bloom is all off the eye ; when your home contains a good deal of wash-tub, cradle and cook-stovo, ho won’t stand in front of the house for one hoar out in the cold, watching your light in your window. lie’ll he thinking rather of getting out of the house. Young woman, protract this courtship as long as you can. Let well enough alone. A courtship in hand is worth two marriages in the bush. Don’t marry till Christinas after next.” A Farmer’s Q/Iset. A “ hired man” who had been employed on a farm in this county for several months entered suit against his employer the other day for balance of wages, amount, as lie claimed, to $32. The suit was on trial in Justice Alley yesterday, and it looked at first as if the plaintiff had a clear case. lie gave dates and figures in a straightforward way, and seemed a very honest young man. When the farmer took the stand he said : ‘‘l claim an olfset for that $32. No man need sue me for what-1 honestly owe.” What is your offset?” asked the lawyer, “lie’s an unbeliever.” “In what?” “ W r hy. in tiie Bible.” “ W hat has that to do with yourowino p him AOO Oil J D ■ 102 r “It has a heap to do with it. I had six hands in my employ, and we were rushing things when I hired this man. He hadn’t been with us two days when they stopped tho reaper in the middle of the forenoon to dispute about Daniel and the lion’s den, and in three days we had a regular knock down over tho whale swallowing Jonah. The man who run the mower got to arguing about Samson and drove over a stump and damaged the machine to the tune of $lB, and the very next day my boy broke his leg while climbing a fence to hear and see the row which wa3 started over, the Children of Israel going through the Red Sea. It wasn’t a week before my wife said she didn’t believe Elijah was fed by the ravens, and hang me if I didn’t find myself growing weak on Noah and his flood. That’s my offset, sir; and if he was worth anything I’d sue him for a thousand dollars besides.” The court reserved his decision fortwonty four hours.— Detriot Free Press. The enormous apple crop in New England has been squeezed into so much cider that the price of the fluid has dropped to ninety cents a barrel. It is said that drunkenness is in consequence far more common than usual. A justice at Westfield, Mass'., whenever a cider drunkard is brought before him. lets the prisoner off on condition that he will go home immediately and knock the heads out of the cider barrels. NUMBER 22,